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Or even better: a calculated decision to create a culture where people who are not executives can approve a release that ultimately functions as a PR stunt, without requiring everyone involved to necessarily see it that way. It scales much better
I have a difficult time believing this didn't go through multiple layers of review.
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As a google employee I’m glad the culture of doing fun things perseveres from the early days, despite our massive growth.
I have to say that I'm impressed that at the scale of google they have the ability, and the desire, to approve and turn around small fun things like this so quickly. I assume there must still be a fairly deep process to get approval to do something like this, but, one which must be hyper-efficient and streamlined. If google took even 24 or 48 hours to approve a change like this the moment would be gone. I'm very curi…
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I'll be the cynical one this time and say that I'd rather carefully calculated PR stunts didnt have an affect of making corporations seem more fun and human. Sociopaths wear all kinds of convincing masks
As a google employee I’m glad the culture of doing fun things perseveres from the early days, despite our massive growth.
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As a google employee I’m glad the culture of doing fun things perseveres from the early days, despite our massive growth.
I still don't consent you tracking me on web properties all around the world. Crazy how people justify doing these things at the time everyone needs to question themselves. No means no ib this context as well.
No, you have no right to demand that so it does not.
In all reasonable jurisdictions I have the right to server logs and to share those as I feel reasonable. Protect your own privacy, don't intrude on my right to journal.
Whatever our criticisms of Google, it's part of our internet culture in sometimes weird and wonderful ways. This seems kind of like a little happy dance for the world after so much hand wringing and legitimate worry.
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I wonder how much maintenance and testing these things add. Sure it would be trivial to get it working now, but they must have to do so many checks to see its not breaking on other browsers and then that it doesn't cause issues in the future.
In this case, it's a div full of ship emojis separated by and a css animation, so no javascript. You can change the speed in the js console... $('div.resultMarquee').style.animationDuration='120s';
Gee I’m glad to see their real issue backlog is now empty so they have time to do this kind of bandwidth-wasting, cycle-sucking garbage.
Barely bandwidth wasting since they're using the official ship emoji vs shipping an image.