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Google: "So ... we're loosing search ... and people don't trust our email ... and we killed Reader ... Android is falling to bits ... but we have money, and we

Google: "So ... we're loosing search ... and people don't trust our email ... and we killed Reader ... Android is falling to bits ... but we have money, and we need a new business ... ... lets get into FPGAs!"

tasty_freeze 5y ago
I down-voted you and I want to explain why. First, the authors of the article are from Antmicro, not Google. They partnered with google in this effort. But more importantly, your comment is easy cynicism and doesn't offer any new information or insight. I'm guilty of it myself, and when I recognize it in myself I try to resist. All language is open to interpretation, especially written language. Dialog is more productive if one tries to assume the most charitable reading instead of the worst.
- JaimeThompson 5y ago
  With each passing month it gets hard to assume the most charitable read from things coming out of Google when the negative things keep coming. They really need to stop penny pinching when it comes to their customers.
- drpixie 5y ago
  Fair enough - it was quick cynicism - apologies for my quick reaction. Not really up to Hacker News standards. For some perspective, I've been around long enough to have seen many many similar things before ... generally not for the better. I saw Google appear, and do very well, all the while acknowledging that their world is complex and their business had the potential for terrible consequences. Remember "Don't be Evil." That could have been enough - do great, useful, interesting stuff, and profit from it. But Google (like most of the others) has been subsumed by new managerialism and short-term goals. Search and Maps have both morphed and look more like low-end advertising directories. Android hasn't learnt much from Windows; is driven by "feature tick-boxism" and becomes more bloated and confused (for users and programmers) with each release. And short-term profit-driven decisions have written-off or endangered products like Reader, Drive, and Gmail. So when I see "Google" and "FPGA" I was primed for warning flags. And flags-a-plenty there are. I'm afraid I distrust the basic model: pick an open source tool (nextptr) and "extend" it (which locks users into the new tool). Create an "alliance", bundle, and add bits and pieces. It looks (deliberately or not) like an attempt to dominate an environment - reminds me of the Android development environment, and not in a good way.

tasty_freeze 5y ago

I down-voted you and I want to explain why. First, the authors of the article are from Antmicro, not Google. They partnered with google in this effort. But more importantly, your comment is easy cynicism and doesn't offer any new information or insight. I'm guilty of it myself, and when I recognize it in myself I try to resist. All language is open to interpretation, especially written language. Dialog is more productive if one tries to assume the most charitable reading instead of the worst.

JaimeThompson 5y ago
With each passing month it gets hard to assume the most charitable read from things coming out of Google when the negative things keep coming. They really need to stop penny pinching when it comes to their customers.
drpixie 5y ago
Fair enough - it was quick cynicism - apologies for my quick reaction. Not really up to Hacker News standards. For some perspective, I've been around long enough to have seen many many similar things before ... generally not for the better. I saw Google appear, and do very well, all the while acknowledging that their world is complex and their business had the potential for terrible consequences. Remember "Don't be Evil." That could have been enough - do great, useful, interesting stuff, and profit from it. But Google (like most of the others) has been subsumed by new managerialism and short-term goals. Search and Maps have both morphed and look more like low-end advertising directories. Android hasn't learnt much from Windows; is driven by "feature tick-boxism" and becomes more bloated and confused (for users and programmers) with each release. And short-term profit-driven decisions have written-off or endangered products like Reader, Drive, and Gmail. So when I see "Google" and "FPGA" I was primed for warning flags. And flags-a-plenty there are. I'm afraid I distrust the basic model: pick an open source tool (nextptr) and "extend" it (which locks users into the new tool). Create an "alliance", bundle, and add bits and pieces. It looks (deliberately or not) like an attempt to dominate an environment - reminds me of the Android development environment, and not in a good way.