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NB: the nonsense phrase when operating "at web scale" doesn't appear anywhere on the linked page.
by innes 15y ago
NB: the nonsense phrase when operating "at web scale" doesn't appear anywhere on the linked page.
- saurik 15y agoGiven that I wrote both the article in question (on a medium, Google+, that has no title field) and the title of this post, I think it is fully in my right to assign the title the way I want to ;P. For context, though, that phrase is there to point out that when you are dealing with a worldwide audience of tens to hundreds of millions of people, you cannot make silly assumptions (see patio11's set of "myths") regarding names. As for using that /specific/ wording, that is how Google themselves often describes the state of operating with that large, and that diverse, of a userbase, making it anything but "nonsense" and in fact fully "apropos". (Also... what is "NB" supposed to mean?)
- innes 15y agoImplication of "NB" in this context: don't blame the author of the piece for the cheesy buzzword in the HN posting. I twig now that the author and the HN poster are one and the same internet celeb. So... sorry about that :)