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Google also seems to be one of the few entities in the world capable of building kick-ass web apps.

• _huayra_ 5y ago
  The one exception being any sort of chat app. Now they're going from crusty old Hangouts to Chat while plenty of other chat apps have been far more polished for a long time
• jaimex2 5y ago
  Google also seems to be one of the few entities in the world capable of buying kick-ass startups. Fixed it for you.
  • quaintdev 5y ago
    But to buy those kick ass startups you originally have to be kick ass.
    • pydry 5y ago
      Yay for google being kick ass in 2004?
• dmitriid 5y ago
  I've yet to see a single kick ass web app from Google. All of them are barely functioning slow-as-molasses slugs (or I'm jaded by the entire GCP experience).
  • na85 5y ago
    The early (invite-only) versions of gmail were fantastic, especially given the narrower pipes we were all surfing with in those days. It seems lately that Google has just become Yet Another Large Software Firm, with everything that that implies.
  • cobertos 5y ago
    I think this is somewhat of a more recent occurance, and possibly only GCP related. I've only had a couple GCP interactions now but all of them have gotten me to stay away from that specific portion of Google.
  • ithkuil 5y ago
    I recently tried https://deps.dev https://deps.dev and was surprised by the speed. But then I realized I was no longer used to things being that fast, and it used to be normal EDIT: typo
    • dmitriid 5y ago
      > But the I realized I was no longer used to things being that fast, and it used to be normal This. This right here.