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People just love misinterpreting products, comparing them to completely unrelated things and just making noise. That's right. Making noise is the goal. All else
by ashu 19y ago
People just love misinterpreting products, comparing them to completely unrelated things and just making noise. That's right. Making noise is the goal. All else is secondary.
Can't people just say "Hey look, here's a new product which IS USEFUL to somebody out there on earth and a damn nifty one at that." That somebody in Google App Engine's case is a hacker who wants to quickly try out his hobbies without worrying about all the mess that comes with managing a web host.
But no. We must compare. And we must make noise. Lots of it.
Perhaps it gives us a way to figure out which blogs / sites to NEVER visit.
- randomhack 19y agoPerhaps. But OTOH the author is pissed off about the amount of noise being generated in favor of Google App Engine as if it were completely revolutionary when, according to the author, currently its only a nicely packaged free webhost with many drawbacks. The operative word here is of course "currently". edit : The article that the author links to is clearly over the top too so I think this post is partly a very angry reaction to that article.
- ashu 19y agoTrue. Although, the noise in favor of it is also due to complete misinterpretations. People don't realize that the "X of Y" metaphors are rarely very deep; they provide an approximate introduction to a new product, but not much beyond that.
- mechanical_fish 19y agothe author is pissed off about the amount of noise being generated in favor of Google App Engine as if it were completely revolutionary... I just had a thought. Suppose that, hypothetically, several months ago a service very much like the Google App Engine had been released by a small YC company. And suppose that, hypothetically, that product was nearly out of beta and was already hosting apps on a scalable platform with a standard set of open-source APIs and minimal sysadmin hassle? What level of press hysteria would this product be getting, do you think, relative to this semi-complete beta from Google that doesn't yet have a clear pricing or scaling model? Would anyone on the Heroku team be willing to comment on the record? ;) [Note: I haven't used Heroku enough to really compare it to Google App Engine. However, nobody has used Google App Engine enough to really compare it to Heroku...]