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Isn't this more or less what Google does with all their profitless projects? Giving senior engineers something to play with so that they don't leave for the com
by blub 8y ago
Isn't this more or less what Google does with all their profitless projects? Giving senior engineers something to play with so that they don't leave for the competition or create new competition.
I guess it's nice for the devs at first, but creates a lot of waste. They're basically spamming the world with programming languages, libraries and products only to wind them down and start again.
- marmaduke 8y ago> They're basically spamming the world with programming languages, libraries and products only to wind them down and start again Replace libraries, languages and products with statistics, hypotheses and figures and you have described scientific research. The point is that each iteration learns from the last, in principle, even if they aren’t backwards or forwards compatible.
- TelmoMenezes 8y agoReplace statistics, hypotheses and figures with bread, donuts and cake and you have described a bakery. Hmmm cake... How can you not like cake?
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- marmaduke 8y agoI do like cake. But I think baked goods are somewhat solved problem.
- pjc50 8y ago> Replace libraries, languages and products with statistics, hypotheses and figures and you have described scientific research. Well, yes - and the inability to build on previous research code because people don't publish it results in a colossal waste of (usually) public money. Nonreproducibility in science, and Google's abandoning of products, are phenomena that resemble one another somewhat.
- fuckyah 8y agoI guess it will be waste either way, only if it’s going to be gold, google owns it