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Doesn't seem to actually be by Google. Perhaps the title could be changed to "by a Google Engineer"?
by Rifu 11y ago
Doesn't seem to actually be by Google. Perhaps the title could be changed to "by a Google Engineer"?
- hosay123 11y agoThey probably have rights to the project under the respective contracts they have with the employees. That aside, having "<new project> by ((Google(|rs))|<$big_corp>)" in the title has generally been a reliable filter for projects that do not stand on their own merit, and this one seems to be no exception.
- justthistime_ 11y agoExactly. Everyone should ask himself/herself "would this be newsworthy if they didn't name-drop Google?".
- insin 11y agoAs an experiment, I deliberately avoided adding "by Google" or similar when first submitting FOAM to HN while it was being tweeted about after yesterday's EmpireJS talk: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9442943 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9442943 Over on /r/javascript, my plain titled link has 2 points/23 comments while the "from Google" submission has 44 points/65 comments. Not of much use for direct comparison purposes (GitHub repo links vs. project site links, different times of day, weekend vs. weekday etc.) but mildly interesting.
- tomdale 11y agoI was at EmpireJS where this was announced and they said they had a team of Googlers working on it, and showed a few production Google apps built using it.
- ahochhaus 11y agoInteresting. Can you offer any details on which production Google apps were presented?
- Bahamut 11y agoCheck the COPYRIGHT file in the repo.
- kgr 11y agoFOAM is built by five Google engineers who are paid by Google to work on it full time. It is a Google "project" but not a Google "product". I lead the FOAM team at Google.