This is more than just an updated .gif, this is Google committing itself to its product. Good to see.
Gmail is out of beta
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Re: Gmail is out of beta
#22This seems totally reckless to me. Google is out of control!
You guys have no sense of humor.
Re: Gmail is out of beta
#23Out of beta? More importantly, who do I call if I have a problem with my Gmail account?
The person / company you paid to use Gmail.
Re: Gmail is out of beta
#24This seems totally reckless to me. Google is out of control!
You guys have no sense of humor.
Alright. Feed me the bad karma. I still think its funny.
Here's the joke, in case you didn't get it: "Releasing from beta after many years could not possibly be reckless, therefore saying that it is in an alarming manner is a HA HA funny time joke."
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
You guys have no sense of humor.
Alright. Feed me the bad karma. I still think its funny. Here's the joke, in case you didn't get it: "Releasing from beta after many years could not possibly be reckless, therefore saying that it is in an alarming manner is a HA HA funny time joke."
It may be funny, but it doesn't add much of anything to the conversation.
It's a rare joke that gets upmodded around here, but if it happens, it happens because it's also insightful and reveals something novel. There's nothing "novel" about "Google takes a long time to take things out of beta", which is why it's neither a good joke nor a good HN comment. In contrast, Paul Graham says a lot of funny things without even consciously trying because his essays are usually insightful enough to stumble across some surprising truths.
Also, complaints about being downmodded are usually, in turn, downmodded themselves. It's like a bottomless pit of negative karma for narcissists who care too much about the value of some integer on the YC webserver :)
EDIT: I'm not exceptionally interested in debating this. You seemed to not understand why you were modded down, and I explained.I don't really know you and have nothing against you, so I'm sorry if this seemed personal or hurtful.
Re: Gmail is out of beta
#26The right answer to "why" is "because they couldn't get corporations and organizations to pay for Google Apps with a beta tag attached to any of the core offerings of the suite offering".
Re: Gmail is out of beta
#27It's almost like they just wanted to ruin palsecam's argument: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=691365
Yeah, funny timing. I'm actually happy they ruined my argument :-)
Re: Gmail is out of beta
#28Earlier quoted context omitted.
Alright. Feed me the bad karma. I still think its funny. Here's the joke, in case you didn't get it: "Releasing from beta after many years could not possibly be reckless, therefore saying that it is in an alarming manner is a HA HA funny time joke."
It may be funny, but it doesn't add much of anything to the conversation. It's a rare joke that gets upmodded around here, but if it happens, it happens because it's also insightful and reveals something novel. There's nothing "novel" about "Google takes a long time to take things out of beta", which is why it's neither a good joke nor a good HN comment. In contrast, Paul Graham says a lot of funny things without eve…
As to jokes: I disagree fundamentally. This is a silly little article anyway. I come out about even on jokes karma wise. You know whats worse than a bad joke though? PG ass kissing ;)
Anyway, of course I knew I'd get more bad karma. I tend to enjoy it once in a while.
Re: Gmail is out of beta
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Re: Gmail is out of beta
#30One more thing for those who still like the look of "beta", we've made it easy to re-enable the beta label for Gmail from the Labs tab under Settings. This is silly and undermines the whole concept of a "beta" version. It makes it look like a fashion accessory more than anything, not an actual indication of product stability and completion.
It's a self-deprecating joke.