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Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead
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Re: Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead
#192I believe it's their corporate culture. Google just hires problem solvers, good engineers. It's a sort of dual of Apple, that prioritizes design and marketing.
The result is you get things that Just work (and nothing else). While Apple gets you things that Just works.
I don't see real vision in their products those days. None of them have real vision (Apple is too design centric and afraid to try new things, Google lacks creativity).
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#193No kidding. Early adopter of gsuite for domains (work and personal email). The google home devices CANNOT get your calendar from your google calendar. My Alexa device can easily. The thing of stuff just stagnating and no care to scrub the rough corners is crazy. They have some things they keep on improving. I think youtube is there (after the dumped plus thank goodness). Chrome seems to be moving along nicely. I used…
> Instead i keep hearing that google engineers are going on "strike" (ie, getting company paid days off).
This is totally unnecessary. Striking is a serious matter and not just getting company paid days off for some lazy egineers.
Re: Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead
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Re: Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead
#195No kidding. Early adopter of gsuite for domains (work and personal email). The google home devices CANNOT get your calendar from your google calendar. My Alexa device can easily. The thing of stuff just stagnating and no care to scrub the rough corners is crazy. They have some things they keep on improving. I think youtube is there (after the dumped plus thank goodness). Chrome seems to be moving along nicely. I used…
> The thing of stuff just stagnating and no care to scrub the rough corners is crazy. On the outset, you might think with such ridiculously high compensation there would be an expectation of quality, but I think that's an error. Google operates as an ad-company that happens to employ ridiculous amounts of exhorbitantly compensated individuals to engage in market and technological research, particularly to open or exp…
mail, docs, drive et al ... they created them to _open a new market_ for advertising
This seems obviously false. Google clearly monetizes gsuite as a paid service, and "everyone uses the same service at home that they do at work" has clear advantages, whether or not there is advertising in your gmail. Advertising in (consumer) gmail came long after paid gsuite (or "google apps for domains", as they called it then - horrible).
Re: Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead
#196It is well known the incentives at Google are aligned at working on new features than maintaining them and keeping users happy. May be this is just a natural outcome of that. This is one of the most damaging things Google and the people it influenced did to programming profession. There is a generation of programmers now who can do very well on leetcode, but god help those who maintain that code after them - I know t…
All organizations that grow rapidly face an "Alexander bias" where the sort of incentivizes, perspectives and people that allowed them to rapidly capture territory cause them to value capturing new territory even when it is no longer possible or in their organizational interest to do so. Even when organizations identify the problem, evolving from the cult of the new to the cult of incremental improvement is always ha…
This may be true, but there have been articles in public since 2010s if not longer, that show general contempt for having clean code and code maintenance, like having clean code is what lesser engineers worry about. I’m saying that thinking seeped into universities where smart kids, who generally imitate the smart professionals in their profession first. Google may not be the only company guilty of it, there are places like Uber where backend code is held by so much duct tape , 3m shares rose up as a result.
Re: Google Blew a Ten-Year Lead
#197The mobile Google results page is so cluttered that I switched my iPhone’s default search to DuckDuckGo. The results are a tad worse, but I’m never doing heavy-duty searches on the go. And now I don’t have to scroll past 6 ads to get the first result. I use DDG as default search on my phone and it's measurably worse than google for the majority of searches I do and there are absolutely ads on ddg. I inevitably switch…
I use Firefox with uBlockOrigin on my phone to avoid all the ads. It works great.
I assume you're on Android. Is there a way to use uBO on iOS? Last I checked there wasn't.
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#198There's a strange cognitive dissonance in how Google is both the most prestigious company that can employ you, and a maker of crappy, second-rate software. It seems like they can't both be simultaneously true.
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#199Earlier quoted context omitted.
No. you are wildly misunderstanding me. I mean I can't devote more time to contributing to open street maps or other open source projects because of the worry.
Oh I see, I'm sorry to hear that. I hope things will improve for you soon. It's understandable you would be focused on more important things. Lately I have been wondering if more people would get into open source if they didn't have bigger things to worry about like poverty and climate change. I suppose I am privileged enough to do OSM contributions in my spare time. I'm not sure how to feel about that...
> I suppose I am privileged enough to do OSM contributions in my spare time. I'm not sure how to feel about that...
You should feel proud and good imo. At least, I am proud of you that you choose to spend time contributing to something valuable.
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#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
The article rings completely true to me. One simple example: folders in Google Drive. * It's a constant struggle to keep documents in folders so that you can find them easily. * Yeah I get that I can do google search and find docs wherever they live. But I can't find docs if I don't know that they exist. * Moreover, I can't ensure that important documents are reliably stored in folders where everyone else can find th…
I don't really understand this sentiment, here's how my drive looks: https://i.imgur.com/UUUboTd.png does your drive look significantly different from this?
I have the same problem, but I suspect the true cause is sharing a folder structure with other people, without defining/enforcing any conventions on organization.