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I've got to say, I was reading through this article, and I thought all this context introducing characters and databases and competitors and requirements were w

I've got to say, I was reading through this article, and I thought all this context introducing characters and databases and competitors and requirements were was going to lead to some big dramatic crescendo tying all those elements together, like the new managers insisting on a database that created a limitation which lead to the crisis response team ending up using ArcGIS, or a lesson about product strategy and why Google isn't trying to compete with ArcGIS. So I was surprised when article ended up saying user-imported data sometimes can't be parsed so we put a red triangle by it, and that was the end. You never realise how similarly structured a lot of articles are, until you read one without the same structure :)

oblio 4y ago
> You never realise how similarly structured a lot of articles are, until you read one without the same structure :) That's because 99% of those articles are hidden ads, submarine articles (http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html). > "Do jeans help you lose weight?" > 5000 words later... based no information from <<Levi's executive Ala Bala>>... yes, they might help you, but don't forget to eat your salad. or: > How we set up a billion dollar processing system by adopting MiracleLang > 5000 words of challenges successfully overcome. Not a peep 24 months later to find out if the maintenance burden killed the company, because the principal engineer that pushed MiracleLang is not at CompetingCorp, pitching MiracleLang for another project. This one is an actual unfiltered article, I think, no survivor bias, i.e. not an article only listing wins. The star is kind of example. It's a half baked and frankly dumb reference no PR-reviewed article would <<ever>> put in there.
paganel 4y ago
Found it more interesting because of that, also quite useful. I use MyMaps quite extensively, but I import my data using a .kml file that I've created beforehand via a quick Python script. I saw that they had the .csv option for the imports, but never tested it out and never knew that it could do all those cool things. Also, on the slight chance that a MyMaps developer reads these comments, it would be real nice if the feature would be available on my phone's Safari browser. For some reason you can only access MyMaps through the browser if you're using a PC/laptop (maybe Android, too? I haven't tested in there).
- AlbertCory 4y ago
  Thank you. I have no idea who works on that nowadays, and, being Google, they're probably going to kill the feature.
AlbertCory 4y ago
wow, interesting. Thanks.

oblio 4y ago

> You never realise how similarly structured a lot of articles are, until you read one without the same structure :) That's because 99% of those articles are hidden ads, submarine articles (http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html). > "Do jeans help you lose weight?" > 5000 words later... based no information from <<Levi's executive Ala Bala>>... yes, they might help you, but don't forget to eat your salad. or: > How we set up a billion dollar processing system by adopting MiracleLang > 5000 words of challenges successfully overcome. Not a peep 24 months later to find out if the maintenance burden killed the company, because the principal engineer that pushed MiracleLang is not at CompetingCorp, pitching MiracleLang for another project. This one is an actual unfiltered article, I think, no survivor bias, i.e. not an article only listing wins. The star is kind of example. It's a half baked and frankly dumb reference no PR-reviewed article would <<ever>> put in there.

paganel 4y ago

Found it more interesting because of that, also quite useful. I use MyMaps quite extensively, but I import my data using a .kml file that I've created beforehand via a quick Python script. I saw that they had the .csv option for the imports, but never tested it out and never knew that it could do all those cool things. Also, on the slight chance that a MyMaps developer reads these comments, it would be real nice if the feature would be available on my phone's Safari browser. For some reason you can only access MyMaps through the browser if you're using a PC/laptop (maybe Android, too? I haven't tested in there).

AlbertCory 4y ago
Thank you. I have no idea who works on that nowadays, and, being Google, they're probably going to kill the feature.

AlbertCory 4y ago

wow, interesting. Thanks.