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Interesting how the article gloss over the fact that, according to Google, the four fired employees were actually stalking other Google employees to check if th
by baud147258 7y ago
Interesting how the article gloss over the fact that, according to Google, the four fired employees were actually stalking other Google employees to check if they were working on projects they didn’t like – namely, an in-development cloud services for US border cops. Now that the politics are getting involved, it will get worse before it gets any better.
- mav3rick 7y agoWatch HN gloss over it too. No one discusses this.
- advisedwang 7y agoI think you forgot to say "According to Google". Of course Google says they did nothing wrong.
- baud147258 7y agoTrue. I added that to my comment, thank you.
- koheripbal 7y agoAs more and more teenagers flood Reddit, more and more young adults flood HN. ...and so the cycle of quality boom-bust of the threads continues and we see more knee-jerk emotional content like this. Where is everyone going next so I can stay ahead of the game?
- fred_is_fred 7y agoI've read your comment several time and have yet to make actual sense of this. Is your assertion that the parent comment is bad because it's made by a "young adult"?
- koheripbal 7y agoSomewhat. My assertion is that HN quality has dropped significantly in the last year. This post is an advocacy post - it lacks objectivity and rigor. My additional assertion is that this is happening more on HN because the demographic of HN is changing to a younger crowd - and my final theory is that that is happening because more young adults are coming here in an effort to escape the further demographic changes on Reddit.
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- baud147258 7y agoJoke's on you, I first started browsing HN 7 years ago (used another account for a few years), before I even discovered Reddit (and I've never spent much time there)
- KuhlMensch 7y agoHow can you "stalk" and observe someone's sentiment toward a project at Facebook Inc?
- Lammy 7y agoIf I may try to read between the lines of that statement, looking at another employee's work "to check if they were working on projects they didn’t like" might be the only way to find out a project exists at all if management wants it to be secretive. There is zero doubt in my mind their next 'Project Dragonfly' equivalent, for example, will happen behind as many closed doors as possible.