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I do love my self driving car
What's your point? It's not useful because you don't have one?
I look forward to the day I can say I do have one though.
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Or you can just go to MDN once, right click on the search box, choose "Add a Keyword (...)" and then use "mdn foo" in the URL bar. Bang syntax seems such a small feature to change search engines.
How is that different from searching "mdn foo" right now?
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/me straightens DuckDuckGo independent evangelist hat and nervously rings doorbell "Judging from your comment, you sound like the perfect user for Duck Duck Go! If you set DDG as the default browser for chrome/ff, you can search mdn with just '!mdn foo'. Also at your fingertips is searching !jquery (and hundreds of other search shortcuts) DuckDuckGo is great and makes searching super productive!" /me smiles eagerly
I'm using DDG, well, sometimes, and I really, really want to like it. But its reliability and performance -- just in producing search results let alone relevant ones, has been sorely lacking for the past 3-4 months.
It could be some sort of personal bias, but I search the same term in both engines and get (in some cases) wildly different results, rarely in favor of DDG.
This really sucks for me because it means I'll have to see experts-exchange results again. Why is Google shutting every secondary project/feature down right now? Reader, labs, blocked sites, code search... Any engineers able to weigh in on how this is affecting innovation or the 80/20 policy?
I'm an engineer at Google. 20% time is alive and well, but you have to be careful when thinking that 20% time is going to magically result in fully-polished new products. How much code can you write in one day a week? How much legacy code can you maintain in one day a week? The fact that programming is hard puts an upper bound on what you can effectively accomplish in your 20% time. Effective 20% projects, in my opin…
If you think it is hard you are either doing it wrong, or it's the wrong job for your personality.
It can sometimes be a challenge, but that is the fun part, not the hard part.
However this explains why Google seems so abrasive... they think it's hard!
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I still see it sometimes. Meanwhile, Quora is in the works to become next EE...
I don't understand this comment. Quora doesn't show up in results bc they're not in the index, it's a private site. Unless that's changed?
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Well I had all those sites that scrape StackOverflow added to my list. I love that SO uses a CC license but it does have some unintended consequences.
Is there a public list of such site? I think I'd find it quite useful (for my own blocking).
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I agree that Jobs' advice was a mismatch for Google. Trying a million things and seeing what sticks, like an incubator, is a better idea for Google. The problem is when that turns into Microsoft-esque trend chasing. But that only happens when upper management focuses on trend chasing. Otherwise they just end up as passing experiments.
The corollary of the spaghetti strategy is that if something doesn't stick, you kill it. Taking Jobs' advice is really just setting a higher bar for sticking.
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I'm an engineer at Google. 20% time is alive and well, but you have to be careful when thinking that 20% time is going to magically result in fully-polished new products. How much code can you write in one day a week? How much legacy code can you maintain in one day a week? The fact that programming is hard puts an upper bound on what you can effectively accomplish in your 20% time. Effective 20% projects, in my opin…
Programming, maintenance, scaling, etc, is not hard. If you think it is hard you are either doing it wrong, or it's the wrong job for your personality. It can sometimes be a challenge, but that is the fun part, not the hard part. However this explains why Google seems so abrasive... they think it's hard!
You're replying to jrockway. Perhaps you could curb your arrogance. Programming is indeed an extremely hard topic filled with compromises and tradeoffs that are often unattractive.
Picking the correct solution that fulfills time, effort, complexity constraints is why some people are paid so well.
What disturbs me is how it's okay for Google to allow this "for Chrome users only" but it's a $700m fine for Microsoft for bundling Internet Explorer into the OS. Is Microsoft really more of a monopoly than Google? Of course not. It's ridiculous that MSFT gets fined such high amounts but no one questions Google's ethics or says, "Hey, wait a minute..."
Comparisons to Microsoft aside, it's not true that no one questions Google. The EU antitrust authorities have been examining them for two years now, they just haven't reached a conclusion yet: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/22/eu-google-idUSL6N0...