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G+ wasn't a bad product, but it's hard for me to conceive of a worse rollout plan.
There was no reason for the average user to switch from Facebook. Arguably, it was worse than Facebook due to poor UI: I could never make my wife understand the value of circles, it was simply not the way she thinks about her contacts.
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If the CEO thought process used in a megacorp was appropriate for a four engineer startup, then he is a fucking idiot and you are better off out of that impending cluster fuck.
Often those who’ve only worked at small companies don’t grock how much organizational bloat is needed to run a large enterprise. Alignment cannot be done in a 50k employee company by having everyone hash it out over beers. Large companies also tend to have sociopaths become the VPs, who only care about their career progression and not the actual company direction.
“Grok” is from Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land. It was a super important word to me as a kid. I’ve recently started hearing it again used by people who never read the book and find it interesting.
Do you remember where you first heard this word? I assume you heard it as it’s such a memorable word and difficult to misspell.
So maybe 1000-2000 staff worth of space? A lot, but maybe not alot for G.
500-1000 square feet per employee sounds way too high.
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Don't you have fire departments in USA? In Italy they can be called, or just randomly do an inspection and they can just say "this entire building is closed until you adhere to regulations". I work in sweden now and this doesn't seem to be a thing either. Lots of things that in italy would get you shut down happen here. For example doors requiring 2 hands to be opened from the inside. In Italy they have to be hands f…
they do, thats why I said fire code. Here they show up, say fix this shit. and come back and check a week or 2 later. They came by and we moved around the same time.... the inspections are generally scheduled. It was only that crazy for about 3 weeks. longer and they would have probbably had a different fix.
Found your problem right there.
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>What happened to being a forward thinking and innovative company? Google went public is what happened. You literally cannot make good decisions when you have to base everything around what will make the most profit for the shareholders this quarter.
I'm sort of amazed how often I see this dumb take on HN. just because it's a US tech-world cultural norm for companies to mostly be run in fucking stupid short term ways, it doesn't mean it's actually required. especially in the case of Google, where 1) Eric, Larry and Sergey have stiched up the entire board's voting power, 2) doesn't need to raise cash via bonds or stock at all and 3) it's a magic money tree, so inv…
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I worked at a startup with just 2 other engineers. They hired a guy from Google with a decade less experience than me. When I arrived I was taking my time to understand the culture, company, needs, etc. before making any suggestions. One example, they did Agile with sprints and I think KANBAN works better. But, I didn’t see it as an important issue to spend time on. So the Google guy comes in and from day 1 began mak…
On the flip side, Xooglers are expected to do that. That's mostly the reason they are hired for. If they ever suggested just hosting a static page with 0.01 QPS on an existing API server, they'd be deemed as failed Googlers. Everyone expects them to be building Kubernetes, Terraform, and other useless bullshit that a startup with a total critical traffic of 10QPS absolutely doesn't need. We've also had ex-Facebookers…
2. Terraform isn't a Google product. It's by Hashicorp
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Often those who’ve only worked at small companies don’t grock how much organizational bloat is needed to run a large enterprise. Alignment cannot be done in a 50k employee company by having everyone hash it out over beers. Large companies also tend to have sociopaths become the VPs, who only care about their career progression and not the actual company direction.
> grock “Grok” is from Heinlein’s Stranger in a Strange Land. It was a super important word to me as a kid. I’ve recently started hearing it again used by people who never read the book and find it interesting. Do you remember where you first heard this word? I assume you heard it as it’s such a memorable word and difficult to misspell.
I heard about it from graybeards and HN, hence why there might be a resurgence now that HN is mainstream.