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Only on HN. Virtually none of the "problems" described on HN at the intersection of tech and society are seen as problems out in the real world.
by x86_64Ubuntu 5y ago
Only on HN. Virtually none of the "problems" described on HN at the intersection of tech and society are seen as problems out in the real world.
- userbinator 5y agoI know quite a few highly-non-technical people who have been talking about how Google's results are frequently omitting words from their queries for a few years now.
- 1_player 5y agoI disagree. There is bound to be more than a non-tech person that notices that Google has gone downhill, and is confused because it _feels_ like they were getting better results 10 years ago, but has no way and knowledge to confirm that. Regular people were using Google during its golden age in the 2000s already.
- pixl97 5y agoOh, they are all the time, but they are posted here 5 to 10 years before we see them crop up in the world outside of here. "DRM bad" was common here long before the days people were figuring out that getting their blue ray player working with their TV was going to be a pain in the ass. Just wait and a few more years and it will be mainstream that Google actually sucks.
- mrkramer 5y agoThx I laughed. But nobody thought BlackBerry phone sucked except Jobs and his team that's why Apple is multi-trillion dollar company today. The same thing can be said for Gates, Page, Zuckerberg and other computer tech people who rejected conformism and status quo. This phenomena is called Innovator's Dilemma.