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This title seems clickbaity to me. Didn't the author lose about 5 minutes of work they did 12 years ago, and not the effort resulting from continual work over 1
by lozaning 8y ago
This title seems clickbaity to me. Didn't the author lose about 5 minutes of work they did 12 years ago, and not the effort resulting from continual work over 12 years?
- jetrink 8y agoHe's referring to the collective work of everyone who created a portfolio during the feature's 12-year existence.
- IkmoIkmo 8y agoYes, but the author isn't the only user. There's millions of users in 12 years, their cumulative work is gone.
- giarc 8y agoYou're correct. Author added some stocks into their hypothetical portfolio and went back to check to see how it was doing. I wonder if Google sent emails to uses notifying them that the service was going to be discontinued.
- bacon_waffle 8y agoI had a portfolio there, just to see what the feature was about. There was a notification on the site a while back (months ago, can't remember exactly when), but I don't think they sent an email announcement.
- slededit 8y agoAt times I’m annoyed they don’t update it. But given the modern idea of “updating” is to remove functionality and add white space I’m thankful.
- captain_perl 8y ago"The author" is a millionaire early web pioneer whose opinion is at least as valuable as anybody else's, if not more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Greenspun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Greenspun