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It only works right on chrome, and you have to sometimes pay attention to memory leaks on all their sites. I built myself a workstation with 32GB of overclocke

It only works right on chrome, and you have to sometimes pay attention to memory leaks on all their sites. I built myself a workstation with 32GB of overclocked ram... A few times I left it on overnight with a google site open (adwords or gmail), the machine became unresponsive, using all 32GB of RAM and then freezing after running out of swap... I only found out what was happening on a day I was particularly patient and let windows trash for 20 minutes to open the task manager and let me see the ridiculous ram usage coming from browsers (I use both chrome and firefox on that machine... I wanted to use only firefox but as I said earlier chrome is needed to avoid the "infinite spinning bars" bug on adswords, also some types of ad editors straight up shows blank on firefox).

buboard 7y ago
I AM using chrome! Let me try again: Opening adsense: 6 seconds to load a useless dashboards with 3 extra boxes "we thought you might find this card interesting" I want a sites report Clicking on "reports"... after 5 seconds the left menu loads, while the report on the right still loads... I click "sites" on the menu... The report on the right loads, but it is the default report, not the sites report. I have to click the sites report again and wait. This happens every day , every time. By the time i get there, i forgot what i was looking for. This is just a sad state Oh, they say my website has mobile access issues? But it is a bootstrap website optimized for mobile. Clicking on fix issue .... checking live version ... your site is mobile ready... yet it still says i have to fix 3 errors. I pressed validate fix 4 days ago and it's still there. Hmmm i guess i don't get their level of AI. And dont get me started on adwords campaigns. Can't set up a simple campaign without going through some extremely difficult to parse terminology. Wanted to limit my ads to desktop - turns out they removed that simple option - you have to do tricks with bidding. I just don't get why
- dna_polymerase 7y ago
  > Oh, they say my website has mobile access issues? But it is a bootstrap website optimized for mobile. Clicking on fix issue .... checking live version ... your site is mobile ready.. Same here. That a company with that amount of brainpower fails to deliver the very basic tools to partake in their market really baffles me.
  - ajford 7y ago
    From talking to a few ex-googlers, a lot of issues come from heavy incentives (and upwards momentum in employment level/compensation) tied to shipping a product/tool, while very little is tied to the maintenance/improvement of something existing. When combined with the ease of lateral movement (jumping from one team to another) means that a product gets shipped, then a lot of the team members jump onto the next shiny thing while that product now gets stagnant/buggy since it now has a vastly reduced team.
    - ladzoppelin 7y ago
      Ha, and now they need companies to invest in GCP.
- robk 7y ago
  We used to look at this sort of response time as a big negative in adsense front end eng land. Guess that's changed...

buboard 7y ago

I AM using chrome! Let me try again: Opening adsense: 6 seconds to load a useless dashboards with 3 extra boxes "we thought you might find this card interesting" I want a sites report Clicking on "reports"... after 5 seconds the left menu loads, while the report on the right still loads... I click "sites" on the menu... The report on the right loads, but it is the default report, not the sites report. I have to click the sites report again and wait. This happens every day , every time. By the time i get there, i forgot what i was looking for. This is just a sad state Oh, they say my website has mobile access issues? But it is a bootstrap website optimized for mobile. Clicking on fix issue .... checking live version ... your site is mobile ready... yet it still says i have to fix 3 errors. I pressed validate fix 4 days ago and it's still there. Hmmm i guess i don't get their level of AI. And dont get me started on adwords campaigns. Can't set up a simple campaign without going through some extremely difficult to parse terminology. Wanted to limit my ads to desktop - turns out they removed that simple option - you have to do tricks with bidding. I just don't get why

dna_polymerase 7y ago
> Oh, they say my website has mobile access issues? But it is a bootstrap website optimized for mobile. Clicking on fix issue .... checking live version ... your site is mobile ready.. Same here. That a company with that amount of brainpower fails to deliver the very basic tools to partake in their market really baffles me.
- ajford 7y ago
  From talking to a few ex-googlers, a lot of issues come from heavy incentives (and upwards momentum in employment level/compensation) tied to shipping a product/tool, while very little is tied to the maintenance/improvement of something existing. When combined with the ease of lateral movement (jumping from one team to another) means that a product gets shipped, then a lot of the team members jump onto the next shiny thing while that product now gets stagnant/buggy since it now has a vastly reduced team.
  - ladzoppelin 7y ago
    Ha, and now they need companies to invest in GCP.
robk 7y ago
We used to look at this sort of response time as a big negative in adsense front end eng land. Guess that's changed...