It's a fucking sad story that this is what people consider to be a "strong start" to the year. Or at least strong enough to tweet about it. [edit] OK. In retrospect I see I knee jerked a bit here...
It's a fucking sad story that this is what people consider to be a "strong start" to the year. Or at least strong enough to tweet about it.
[edit] OK. In retrospect I see I knee jerked a bit here and got hung up on the removal part instead of the "replacement" part. Maybe it is an accomplishment and I'm just dumb. Sorry.
Building a decent analytics package for your own company at Basecamp scale is no small feat, and for a lot of companies, leadership wouldn't even approve such a direction because Google analytics...
Building a decent analytics package for your own company at Basecamp scale is no small feat, and for a lot of companies, leadership wouldn't even approve such a direction because Google analytics works "just fine".
This sort of commentary is IMO disrespectful to the engineers who worked on such a feature by diminishing the value of their work, and shows disdain for the companies that are trying to make a difference in the world of big data. Be a force for good and show praise for companies that execute like Basecamp.
Not everything has to be an endlessly negative take.
I don't see it as all that big a deal either, but celebrating the accomplishments of the people who work for you seems like good management? It's just a tweet.
I don't see it as all that big a deal either, but celebrating the accomplishments of the people who work for you seems like good management? It's just a tweet.
They ended up making an actual blog post about this, so I've edited the link/title to point to that now instead of the tweet.
Awesome thank you.
It's a fucking sad story that this is what people consider to be a "strong start" to the year. Or at least strong enough to tweet about it.
[edit] OK. In retrospect I see I knee jerked a bit here and got hung up on the removal part instead of the "replacement" part. Maybe it is an accomplishment and I'm just dumb. Sorry.
Building a decent analytics package for your own company at Basecamp scale is no small feat, and for a lot of companies, leadership wouldn't even approve such a direction because Google analytics works "just fine".
This sort of commentary is IMO disrespectful to the engineers who worked on such a feature by diminishing the value of their work, and shows disdain for the companies that are trying to make a difference in the world of big data. Be a force for good and show praise for companies that execute like Basecamp.
Not everything has to be an endlessly negative take.
It’s not that it’s hard to remove analytics, it’s just that a lot of jobs rely on that data - marketing and product design for example.
Yeah. My bad. See edit to top level comment.
I don't see it as all that big a deal either, but celebrating the accomplishments of the people who work for you seems like good management? It's just a tweet.
You're right. I removed my comment, see edit to the top level one.