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Unfortunately that's the Google of a decade or two ago. Today's Google is very focused on cost-cutting and I can't imagine them investing in new future-focused
by lemoncucumber 2y ago
Unfortunately that's the Google of a decade or two ago. Today's Google is very focused on cost-cutting and I can't imagine them investing in new future-focused projects like those which are not under pressure to turn a profit any time soon.
- ASalazarMX 2y agoIt's the circle of life, companies eventually get captured by accountants and lose their initial spark. Even companies like Microsoft had an era of exciting innovation.
- potsandpans 2y agoI might argue that Microsoft had two distinct eras of innovation
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- fuzztester 2y agoYes. Less and even less.
- ASalazarMX 2y agoYou joke, but upgrading from Windows For Workgroups to Windows 95 felt like entering the future. Its hardware discovery was years ahead of Linux. It was an amazing innovation, which IMO peaked with Windows 2000, and then commercial/political goals started dominating over technical goals.
- fuzztester 2y agointeresting. yes it was just a joke, wordplay, really. I barely used windows for workgroups. but I did use windows from XP or 95 onwards. actually I used both. and yeah I remember a bit about the hardware discovery. it was called plug and play, iirc. I remember reading how badly windows Vista turned out. and then there was 8, which I didn't check out much, but remember reading it was somewhat of a flop, because they tried to make everything mobile oriented, even on desktops. haven't used windows much since, except for 7, which was okay for me.
- novia 2y agoThe paper on transformers come out in 2017. Less than a decade ago.
- ozim 2y ago7 years is basically rounding error from a decade ago.
- novia 2y agohttps://research.google/pubs/?& https://research.google/pubs/?& Go look at the breakdown of the number of research papers coming out of Google. In 2023 there were 744, in 2017 there were 637. Two decades ago, there were half as many.
- lrem 2y agoNo no, the new research does not have a proven track record of industry success, so it doesn’t count ;)
- LarsDu88 2y agoJust like cough Bell Labs maybe?
- fuzztester 2y agomumble clayton mumble christensen mumble business cycles mumble corporate cycles mumble evolution
- fuzztester 2y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Innovator%27s_Dilemma https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton_Christensen https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clayton_Christensen
- fuzztester 2y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40999480 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40999480