3 ms·
I wonder if Google is applying their own guidelines here. Avoid words like "crush", "kill", "scale", "network effect", "market power", "market share", or even "
by dudeinjapan 5y ago
I wonder if Google is applying their own guidelines here. Avoid words like "crush", "kill", "scale", "network effect", "market power", "market share", or even "market".
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/7016657-Five-Rules-of-Thumb-for-Written-Communications.html https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/7016657-Five-Rules-o...
- smegma2 5y agoIs this some kind of gotcha? What's bad about telling employees not to use these words when they give an impression of being anti competitive?
- WaffleIronMaker 5y agoIt makes sense in that context, but when people start coming at developers for having documentation that refers to "killing a process", blacklisting language starts to seem a bit silly. Automated tools tend to ignore important context.
- dudeinjapan 5y agoIt's not a gotcha. Perhaps Google can/should use their new Google docs feature to police these words internally as per corporate policy. Whether or not Google is "being evil" by using language to obfuscate it's own anti-competitive practices is a separate discussion.
- smegma2 5y agoGot it. Sorry, I think I am too used to sarcasm on HN.