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This is depressing to read. This is so close to being the amazing story we all want to hear about. A veteran, suffering from PTSD, falls on hard times and end

This is depressing to read. This is so close to being the amazing story we all want to hear about. A veteran, suffering from PTSD, falls on hard times and ends up homeless. Despite his hard situation, he strives to help those who are even worse off. He learns how to program and uses these skills to build something to improve the lives of those are severely disadvantaged. He spends years working on this project and ends up building something really cool and useful. So useful in fact that his dedication pays off and one of the biggest software companies in the world is inspired and brings him on to scale up this technology to help improve the lives of millions. Except of course that doesn't end up happening. Instead, we're left reminded that life can be cruel.

rpbo 3y ago
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rootkea 3y ago
> life can be cruel. We can be more specific here. "Some people can be cruel". (Of course, I'm talking about the one who took all the notes from Oz then instead of giving him the credits ghosted him completely and later co-authored the blog post announcing the "inspired" project. https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-project-gameface https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-project-gameface)
- paul7986 3y ago
  Ummm it's not the employee it's Google and it's culture of thievery as it ... - Copied iOS and created Android - Worked with Sonos then stole from Sonos; Sonos 10 years later wins a victory in court https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/26/23739273/google-sonos-smart-speaker-patent-lawsuit-ruling https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/26/23739273/google-sonos-sma... - To inviting a MIT student out for an interview who demoed her tech & they patented it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18566929 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18566929 To many other examples ... it's not the employees it's the company!
  - doloputer 3y ago
    > Copied iOS and created Android Android existed since before the iPhone was even announced. Google did buy the company making it to compete with iOS though. (or maybe sybian/windows phone. depending on who you want to believe)
    - paul7986 3y ago
      I would bet 99 percent Android iOS never looked like iOS until iOS was released. How much you want to bet :)
      - taskforcegemini 3y ago
        are you trying to defend apple, or are you trying to shame google? just curious because I understand the latter, but the former wouldn't make sense since apple is not any better in their behaviour
      - ianlevesque 3y ago
        There's really no need to bet. It was a blackberry clone and then pivoted the moment the iPhone was announced. The early Android SDK still had affordances for navigating around the UI using joystick style buttons to select UI elements and physical keyboard use. Apple moved the state of the art to touchscreens with little to no physical controls and Google followed.
        doloputer 3y ago
        A bunch of android still works like that for navagating around the UI. (from my limited experience dealing with cheap android devices via keyboard/remote control) Probably not as well supported in third party apps using non-native UI bits.
  - sebasvisser 3y ago
    It’s always people. People press buttons. Culture might be a reason to WHY people do stuff. But still, people DO stuff. Shifting the blame away to entities that can’t act, or change, actually stops the people from changing their behaviours and attitudes..and as such keeps the culture alive!

rpbo 3y ago

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rootkea 3y ago

> life can be cruel. We can be more specific here. "Some people can be cruel". (Of course, I'm talking about the one who took all the notes from Oz then instead of giving him the credits ghosted him completely and later co-authored the blog post announcing the "inspired" project. https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-project-gameface https://blog.google/technology/ai/google-project-gameface)

paul7986 3y ago
Ummm it's not the employee it's Google and it's culture of thievery as it ... - Copied iOS and created Android - Worked with Sonos then stole from Sonos; Sonos 10 years later wins a victory in court https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/26/23739273/google-sonos-smart-speaker-patent-lawsuit-ruling https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/26/23739273/google-sonos-sma... - To inviting a MIT student out for an interview who demoed her tech & they patented it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18566929 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18566929 To many other examples ... it's not the employees it's the company!
- doloputer 3y ago
  > Copied iOS and created Android Android existed since before the iPhone was even announced. Google did buy the company making it to compete with iOS though. (or maybe sybian/windows phone. depending on who you want to believe)
  - paul7986 3y ago
    I would bet 99 percent Android iOS never looked like iOS until iOS was released. How much you want to bet :)
    - taskforcegemini 3y ago
      are you trying to defend apple, or are you trying to shame google? just curious because I understand the latter, but the former wouldn't make sense since apple is not any better in their behaviour
    - ianlevesque 3y ago
      There's really no need to bet. It was a blackberry clone and then pivoted the moment the iPhone was announced. The early Android SDK still had affordances for navigating around the UI using joystick style buttons to select UI elements and physical keyboard use. Apple moved the state of the art to touchscreens with little to no physical controls and Google followed.
      - doloputer 3y ago
        A bunch of android still works like that for navagating around the UI. (from my limited experience dealing with cheap android devices via keyboard/remote control) Probably not as well supported in third party apps using non-native UI bits.
- sebasvisser 3y ago
  It’s always people. People press buttons. Culture might be a reason to WHY people do stuff. But still, people DO stuff. Shifting the blame away to entities that can’t act, or change, actually stops the people from changing their behaviours and attitudes..and as such keeps the culture alive!