Susan Wojcicki has died • Hacker News Board

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by nextlevelwizard » Fri, Aug 16, 2024, 6:11 AM UTC

rajup wrote: post #429

nextlevelwizard wrote: post #330

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Few years ago “long burn” story telling was hot and we are still feeling the effects. Take any show on Netflix and it will be 8 45min episodes from which first 3 are absolutely garbage filler. Youtube learned the wrong lesson and started to optimize the algorithm for retention and length. It is annoying to click for a review of some product that looks like a lengthy one with probably tests and what not only to see pa…

I beg to disagree. I don’t watch movies to “get information”. I watch movies (and long form YouTube videos) to be entertained. Why travel places? You can look up photos and videos online and get the same “information”.

I don't get the strawman you are trying to construct here. Most of Youtube is not movies

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by redeuxx » Mon, Aug 19, 2024, 7:06 PM UTC

constantban wrote: post #343

paxys wrote: post #199

People of course associate her with YouTube, but Susan Wojcicki has had an overall fascinating career. Page and Brin started Google in her garage. She was employee #16 at the company. She was behind the Google logo, Google Doodles, Image Search, AdSense, then all of advertising, and ultimately YouTube. Safe to say Google would not be where it is today without her role. RIP.

> Safe to say Google would not be where it is today without her role. RIP. So she made some of the most user-hostile, internet-ruining products and created one of the most evil companies currently active? Great obituary going on there. With apologies to the people grieving her, she is basically 2024 Thomas Midgley Jr.

Thank you for your opinion.

Re: Susan Wojcicki has died

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Post by cpncrunch » Thu, Aug 22, 2024, 3:57 AM UTC

theshackleford wrote: post #515

cpncrunch wrote: post #252

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She starts exercising at 530 and goes to bed at 10. Im assuming she wakes up 30 mins before, and it takes her an hour to get to sleep.

Why would you assume an hour? That’s considered to be quite a long sleep latency. Your average individual is at like between 10-20 minutes.

Yes, me too. I was just referring to the time between entering the bedroom and actually sleeping.