Does it have to be indicative of those things? To me, it indicates a data driven personality instead of an emotionally or socially driven one. Are they really divorced from a sense of civic responsibility? Don't they pay taxes and serve on juries? And, at the risk of placing data above my easily manipulated emotional state, where's your data?
I think it's obvious what "this" I was referring too. However, I do include myself and my post in that comment (which is why I said "we"). I have pointed out some ways in which our world is changing and has changed, but I certainly can't predict the future. Looking back from the perspective of the year 2040 there will no doubt be many trends that in retrospect are blindingly obvious but are not apparent to me.
I don't think anybody, including Leap, thinks the keyboard and mouse are going anywhere. Also, this isn't minority report. If leap can deliver on the sensitivity of the input, then small, precise gestures can be made without moving your hands from the keyboard. That makes it useful in cases where switching from the keyboard to a mouse isn't fast enough for my taste.
I can envision opening certain applications with a gesture (save you from typing the name into quicksilver or finding and double clicking on the icon). Tasks that you repeat over and over could be assigned to a gesture with great effect, like swiping a finger left and right to change windows.
3D editing could be interesting, where you move an invisible object in 3 dimensions with your hand. Anybody who's done 3d modeling or game development in unity can attest that a mouse and keyboard are limited in 3 dimensions.
Why is that? I worked with exactly one good product manager in the last 5 years, and she used to be a manufacturing engineer. I think the reason is a lack of respect for the product they're developing (or maybe just the coders making it).
I work for one of Zynga's competitors. We have the same culture of product managers running the show. None of them understand how software development works or how to get the best work out of their engineers. Maybe I just need to realize that building the actual product is only 5% of running a business. But I'm having a real hard time believing that.
I used to believe "that building the actual product is only 5% of running a business". Because if you don't have good sales people the product won't get sold. If you don't have good managers, resources will be wasted. If you don't have a good HR dept, good employees will be lost.
But I think the product has to be good. You need it all, but a software company needs its product to be good. Doesn't have to be the best or even great but at least good. Pulling a number out of my *ss I'd say the product is about 75% of running a business.
As for the culture of product managers, we have the same. And I loathe them.
Am I missing something here? This post makes it look like the conversation is surrounding the increase in negative comments vs the decrease of positive reinforcement. I don't think that's the crux of the issue at all. I come here for an interesting conversation. Lately, I haven't been getting it. Replacing overwhelmingly negative but unconstructive comments with overwhelmingly positive but unconstructive comments isn't the way forward. That's just trading one kind of troll for another. And to clear up any misconception - I don't think anybody's explicitly saying "say nicer things, no matter what!" But I think a focus on the positivity vs the constructiveness of a comment will take people down that road anyway.
Most of the discussion here is focused on skill vs luck. Those are far from the only two variables is success, however. There's Networking, the ability to sell yourself and the ability to target a specific niche (which in art, means not being too different, but not being exactly the same as everybody else, either). These factors influence success more than skill and luck combined.
