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Looks like a very cool project but aren't we passed the phase where something like "developed by a former Google employee" needs to be added to add some faux pr
by krelian 15y ago
Looks like a very cool project but aren't we passed the phase where something like "developed by a former Google employee" needs to be added to add some faux prestige to the project?
- tete 15y agoI thought the same when I wrote this and had it removed for a while. The reason is that I wanted to make clear that this isn't a project by someone who knows Lua, because he plays World of Warcraft or something like that. There are just lots of operating system projects by people who don't really know what an operating system is.
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- oconnore 15y agoThere are also a lot of people at Google who aren't OS experts.
- tete 15y agoI didn't call him an expert though. ;) But criticism accepted. Next time I will take care to choose a better title. :)
- Arelius 15y agoEven though he's a Google employee, we still don't know that he just knows lua because he plays World of Warcraft, or is otherwise a suitable operating system designer. I figure it's best to just let the project stand on it's own ground.
- forgotusername 15y agoIt's a reliable heuristic for filtering links that usually do not stand on their own technical merit. The same applies more generally, e.g. to fancy domains, university affiliations, site designs, random fashionable buzzword dropping, ... You could call it the I Automatically Do Not Care Rule(tm).
- Someone 15y ago"X who worked at Google on Y" would be a good heuristic, if Y is a good product, but just "worked at Google"? I think Google is too large nowadays for that to be a good heuristic. As an extreme example, are you implying that people who get fired from Google are likely to make good products?
- scott_s 15y agoI think you did not finish reading his first sentence. (I did not the first time I read his comment.)
- TazeTSchnitzel 15y agoPretty much. Who says that they didn't work as a janitor?
- zobzu 15y agoWhat about reading the links and clicking on the code BEFORE upvoting? Oh wait, that's way too hard.. its like critical thinking and all that - requires thinking! And it's wayyyy too accurate too! Much better to read random "awesome" "next big thing" "former google employe" "you name it"
- evan_ 15y agoUnfortunately it was developed by former Google cleaning staff, not Google engineers.