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I'd like to believe it's an accident, but it seems like if I demoed Google with my logo slapped on it and accidentally forgot to mention that someone else wrote
by swombat 17y ago
I'd like to believe it's an accident, but it seems like if I demoed Google with my logo slapped on it and accidentally forgot to mention that someone else wrote the search engine.
Perhaps I'm blind, but I didn't see his logo on there.
What I did see was a TED video being streamed over that square.
So, a more apt analogy would be: it's as if I took a laptop with a wireless connection to a part of the world that doesn't know about Google (let's call it Grahamia), and I said, "Look what we can do with this! We just type 'Grahamia' in there, and within seconds we get all these awesome bits of information about Grahamia. That's great, isn't it? Oh, my 2 minutes are over. Thanks everyone, hope this helped!"
If you have 2 minutes to get a cool piece of tech across and you decide to spend it talking about what technologies it relies on, I don't want to see your demos..
- hmlmz 17y agoI see your point and how it's somewhat in-between but would argue that my metaphor is closer. The TED stage has a well-known role that's clearly understood by everyone there. I would never get ask to go up on stage to demo Google. Larry and Sergey would. If I got asked to demo someone else's work, it wouldn't slip my mind. While it sounds short, 2 mins is a pretty long time. As I mentioned, just my opinion. But I do think someone's got to stick up for the developers who wrote the sw.
- anc2020 17y agoErm, no. Here you go: > I'd like to believe it's an accident, but it seems like if I demoed Google with the TED logo slapped on it and accidentally forgot to mention that someone else wrote the search engine.