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We're five members of a sub-team of a sub-team of a large corporation whose recent products are used solely due to the critical mass of users built around the previous generation of our company's developers' products. Herein we will pay lip service to a barely innovative also-ran office product that happens to use a lot of complex JavaScript (which is fashionable), answering any questions posed with vague responses w…
I kid, but it's sad that reddit is still so unreliable. It had a pretty good run lately. I wonder how they're coming with the transition off Amazon EBS.
We're five members of a sub-team of a sub-team of a large corporation whose recent products are used solely due to the critical mass of users built around the previous generation of our company's developers' products. Herein we will pay lip service to a barely innovative also-ran office product that happens to use a lot of complex JavaScript (which is fashionable), answering any questions posed with vague responses w…
Wow. Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. If you bothered to actually look through some of the thread, it's actually a pretty nice read. A good chunk of upcoming features and design decisions were revealed, they took note of a number of feature requests, and some nice personal questions were answered as well, putting a nice human face on some of the invisible hands working on one of the world's…
I don't particularly consider this kind of endless, banal content centered around a handful of behemoth companies and trendy news topics interesting, especially with legitimately insightful articles buried in the new queue and receiving hardly a click (example: https://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2011/06/09/09climatewire-this-... ).
If I tire day in, day out of reading the same rhetoric on Hacker News that I can find covered on the BBC (e.g. the ~5 articles they currently have dedicated to LulzSec on their technology home page, kids finding SQL injections really classifies as content for a boutique technical news site?), and can't respond with a little sarcasm, then perhaps HN isn't worth my time.
Useless opinion: Not to throw in my lot with the most downvoted (and barely visible) of comments here, but seriously, these "Ask us anything about our product!" AMAs from big companies are uniformly marketing chaff. Total yawnfest since no one dares answer challenging questions for fear of running afoul of their legal team (or, in fact, the legal system down the road when their words can be used against the company).
This rigidness makes this sort of "community outreach" exceedingly boring. In my terrible, stupid opinion, companies worth asking questions of never have time to get a bunch of managers, a PR/marketing person and a single engineer together to answer only the most sycophantic or safe questions (again, I don't blame them for being concerned with self protection).
Give me email responses from Gabe Newell to completely random gamers any day over this sort of canned interaction.
Well, it seems the HN bump is enough to bring down reddit... I kid, but it's sad that reddit is still so unreliable. It had a pretty good run lately. I wonder how they're coming with the transition off Amazon EBS.
Sad I didn't see this earlier. Would love to see a couple issues addressed in spreadsheets. Namely conditional formatting based on a formula and merging of cells vertically.
Well, it seems the HN bump is enough to bring down reddit... I kid, but it's sad that reddit is still so unreliable. It had a pretty good run lately. I wonder how they're coming with the transition off Amazon EBS.
http://redditincident.com/
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Wow. Someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed this morning. If you bothered to actually look through some of the thread, it's actually a pretty nice read. A good chunk of upcoming features and design decisions were revealed, they took note of a number of feature requests, and some nice personal questions were answered as well, putting a nice human face on some of the invisible hands working on one of the world's…
I'll admit to being in a slightly bad mood, but there are literally multitudes of blogs dedicated to news about Google and preaching its praises. I don't particularly consider this kind of endless, banal content centered around a handful of behemoth companies and trendy news topics interesting, especially with legitimately insightful articles buried in the new queue and receiving hardly a click (example: https://www.…
Valuable morsel: Ctrl-F "ergobiblio" and just keep reading his replies. They're the only ones worth bothering with. Useless opinion: Not to throw in my lot with the most downvoted (and barely visible) of comments here, but seriously, these "Ask us anything about our product!" AMAs from big companies are uniformly marketing chaff. Total yawnfest since no one dares answer challenging questions for fear of running afoul…
So you could think of it as marketing chaff, or think of it as a product team listening to their users. I'm an optimist so I choose the latter. :)