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Re: Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish?

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Post by jinushaun »

pvinis wrote: post #133
rayvy wrote: post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As someone who works at a company similar to Google (not FAANG, but just below), this is hilariously accurate. > You cannot get promoted beyond a certain level in this place unless you... YES! It's soooo not about smarts/(true) impact/anything truly relevant - it's about racing to the bottom via launches, and crazy ways to generate revenue. I find is so funny looking back, that pre-undergrad-graduation, I thought pro…

Which big company starts with "N"? I can only think of Nintendo..

The N in FAANG stands for Netflix, because people needed an N and FAAG would be awkward.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish?

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Post by dingaling »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #73
esotericn wrote: post #37

I don't use Gmail, but Google Maps seems to be getting slower and slower all the time for me on some of my older boxes. I imagine that it's just the classic case of developers having good machines, and the market share factor meaning they just don't really have to care. I develop on a 12 core processor. If I make something user facing, I have to go out of my way to ensure that it's performant on other hardware; it's…

>I imagine that it's just the classic case of developers having good machines. But, like, that's ridiculous! Developers should be testing the performance of their stuff, either by looking at system resources or by keeping some "crappy" testing machines around. Preferably both. I wonder what the environmental impact is of users upgrading their hardware in order to run completely unoptimized stuff like this?

> or by keeping some "crappy" testing machines around.

We used to do that at ${BIGCORP} until the CTO moved us to an equipment leasing policy in place of buy-and-depreciate. Instead of being able to retain the old machines for testing they went back to the lessor every three or five years.

It used to be that most devs had a couple of old PCs under their desks for hacking around on stuff, but that was no longer tolerated. The policy seemed like a minor financial tweak to the C-suits but was actually quite destructive to innovation.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish?

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Post by Const-me »

socratesque wrote: post #110
geggam wrote: post #81

I use gmail over IMAP, performance on IMAP hasnt changed a bit.

I'm surprised they still support IMAP.

Probably because in some places, iOS is more than 50% of mobile users.

And globally, mobile devices have already overtaken PCs/laptops, years ago.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish?

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Post by jinushaun »

tfehring wrote: post #99
throwaway140 wrote: post #54

Am a googler (hence throwaway account) & I can easily tell you why this shit keeps happening! Google featureless ZERO penalties for fucking shit up! Zero! Do you know what the people who wasted two years on Allo got after it was canned? Nothing! Some of them actually got promoted! Google GREATLY encourages "launches" - releasing something publicly. And keep in mind - no penalties if the shit is half baked, not workin…

Reminds me of this account: https://mtlynch.io/why-i-quit-google/

OMG! This!! Why have I not seen this before? So depressingly true.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish?

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Post by lgregg »

throwaway140 wrote: post #54

Am a googler (hence throwaway account) & I can easily tell you why this shit keeps happening! Google featureless ZERO penalties for fucking shit up! Zero! Do you know what the people who wasted two years on Allo got after it was canned? Nothing! Some of them actually got promoted! Google GREATLY encourages "launches" - releasing something publicly. And keep in mind - no penalties if the shit is half baked, not workin…

I just got my first non-gmail email account a few weeks ago, been slowly switching over. Zero, performance issues with ProtonMail.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish?

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Post by bisanthe »

yesterday i was writing email with my new bluetooth keyboard and i realised that, words are appearing on screen after 5 seconds delay. first i blamed new keyboard and replaced batteries. then blamed chrome and checked memory/cpu usage all was fine. then i wrote email in vi and paste into gmail, even select old text and paste was extremely slow. thanks i saw this post, you are right it is almost unusable.

Re: Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish?

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Post by pvinis »

jinushaun wrote: post #141
pvinis wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which big company starts with "N"? I can only think of Nintendo..

The N in FAANG stands for Netflix, because people needed an N and FAAG would be awkward.

Thanks for the answer and the jokey comment. :)

Re: Ask HN: Anyone else find the new Gmail interface sluggish?

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Post by mehrdada »

throwaway140 wrote: post #54

Am a googler (hence throwaway account) & I can easily tell you why this shit keeps happening! Google featureless ZERO penalties for fucking shit up! Zero! Do you know what the people who wasted two years on Allo got after it was canned? Nothing! Some of them actually got promoted! Google GREATLY encourages "launches" - releasing something publicly. And keep in mind - no penalties if the shit is half baked, not workin…

Xoogler here.

The most fun thing was the time when the lazy-ass billionaires who manage the place and are completely out of touch with the realities of the world (and randomly boast things like "don't be promo focused"--just slave out for us at our mercy while we collect our hundreds of millions[1] and give some as severance pay[2] to sexually-harassing buddies) decided to "fix" the problem by issuing a memo promoting "landings" and not "launches".

Guess what? Tada! Nothing, of course--with the exception that everyone now simply does 's/launch/landing/g' in their performance reviews.

[1]: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-23/google-ce...

[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/25/technology/google-sexual-...

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