I'm sorry I thought you started it, when you claimed that I was too stupid to understand you.
> He mentioned how impressive it was that it was still alive given how starved for resources it had been.
Everyone's pet-project is understaffed. That's how passionate people will always describe their favorite projects.
If you divide man-hours by revenue, you'll note that Google Reader was getting pretty close to infinite resources.
> rather than starving it.
Most, if not all, RSS aggregators don't DREAM of having the software tooling, crawling and storage resources, DevOps, and visibility that Google Reader had.
I say again, I wish I had your crystal ball for the correct amount of resources, and the correct amount of time to spend on a project.
> He mentioned how impressive it was that it was still alive given how starved for resources it had been.
Everyone's pet-project is understaffed. That's how passionate people will always describe their favorite projects.
If you divide man-hours by revenue, you'll note that Google Reader was getting pretty close to infinite resources.
> rather than starving it.
Most, if not all, RSS aggregators don't DREAM of having the software tooling, crawling and storage resources, DevOps, and visibility that Google Reader had.
I say again, I wish I had your crystal ball for the correct amount of resources, and the correct amount of time to spend on a project.
It's pretty easy to armchair quarterback, though.