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It's funny how you could take "Google" out of that slide and put "Apple" in it and it would be almost word-for-word applicable. Or maybe it's not funny. Too,
by jfb 16y ago
It's funny how you could take "Google" out of that slide and put "Apple" in it and it would be almost word-for-word applicable. Or maybe it's not funny.
Too, I recognize that this author of this presentation spent time to make it public, and sharing this sort of information is always welcome, so moaning about the format might seem a little rich. But in the glorious tradition of the internet, I'ma gonna bitch about it anyway. I really really hate this new fad of posting these Powerpoint-style slide decks. I would always prefer to read prose, even inexpert prose, than <next> through yet another comically inept link on scribd or google docs.
Moaning off. Thanks again to the author.
- piaw 16y agoSorry, the slide deck was there as a presentation to Facebook's VP of engineering. I wasn't about to transcribe my own talk.
- jfb 16y agoLike I said, I appreciate that you took the time. I was just being J. Random Internet Asshole. (But I really do hate slide decks.)
- piaw 16y agoThe slide deck was part of a blog post. It's not my fault that news.ycombinator.com only linked to the slide deck and did not provide context: http://piaw.blogspot.com/2010/10/facebook-and-google.html http://piaw.blogspot.com/2010/10/facebook-and-google.html
- jfb 16y agoVery true, and the added context is really helpful. Thanks for responding civilly to my not-very-civil bitchery.
- afterburner 16y agoHonestly, this sounds like the problems at any largish engineering company. At least the nice thing about Google is that they're openly discussing it, and sort of scientifically at that. At other companies, you just resign yourself to politics being more than 50% of the equation, and the company slowly goes to hell in between increasingly rare and brief spurts of innovation.
- piaw 16y agoI don't think Google openly discusses it. At least, certainly if there was such discussion I wasn't privvy to it. I only felt free to post these thoughts post Google.
- afterburner 16y agoAh, well then same as everywhere then. :) I suspect the large proportion of very smart and/or very competitive employees might also result in more gaming of the system than elsewhere.