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by telltruth 6y ago
This behavior is typically because management at the top is technically detached and focused only on financial aspects. This means actual technical strategy gets distributed to large number of desperate managers as opposed to getting system
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by telltruth 6y ago
I really appreciate @dang for such an attentive hard work. He definitely deserves kudos. But here's the rub. You will not see this post. I have been secretely ghosted out so all my comments goes to bottom no matter how thoughful or inf
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by telltruth 7y ago
I don't understand all these protests against defence contracts, China, CBP work. Guess what? These needs to be done by someone and if its not Google, it would be Palantir or Microsoft or Oracle or IBM. Google is not what used but at
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by telltruth 7y ago
On a bigger picture, it is concerning that all big tech is now growing by squeezing their existing assets as opposed to by gaining more users. For example, Microsoft Windows used to cost me $20/yr in licensing cost, no wait coasts $100
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by telltruth 7y ago
For those you don’t know: Brad Smith was the chief legal officer who got Microsoft out of Antitrust with a slap on the hand. For this marvelous achievement, he has since been given promotions all the way to the position of the President.
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by telltruth 7y ago
On more selfish note... I'm hoping to apply and work at Google. How much can this affect me? What could be the possible timeframe when penalties would go in effect? The antitrust thing had been going on for a decade and Google had mana
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by telltruth 7y ago
This has now become a pattern. Google throws resources on some execs whims, kills off competitors and after a while exec cashes out, thanks to their rewards system. The left over bunch then figures out that the thing is not as profitable so
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by telltruth 7y ago
Pretty much every journalist outlet is trashy these days, even NYT. That’s not the point. The Gawker’s article on him was expose which he couldn’t stomach. This is the guy who paints himself as torch bearer of ultra-freedom and libertarian
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by telltruth 7y ago
Thiel has switched his allegiance to New Zealand from USA so I don’t understand his talks of treason. He is founder of Plantir which has mission for spying on American citizens and using tech for military without any concerns to ethics what
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by telltruth 7y ago
These days it is very politically incorrect to say that someone is 10X. The LinkedIn is full of profiles with people whose job titles with words like “leader”, “mentor”, “coach”, “team player”. The only thing that is usually missing in thei
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by telltruth 7y ago
> (2) Means that a person who emigrated illegally should be able to exist outside the shadows. This doesn’t make much sense to me. You are saying people who win the lottery of illegally getting in to a country without detection should be
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by telltruth 7y ago
Seriously want to understand: what exactly is wrong with equipping cops with better tech to catch people who blatantly violate laws? I am not talking about tech that itself violates constitution/laws but rather the tech that works with
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by telltruth 7y ago
I don’t work there but have heard from people who used to be there... that team is full of program managers who call themselves designers and live in delusion that Steve Jobs have possessed them. This is why you see funcky UX which pretends
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by telltruth 7y ago
A lot of things have changed in this team since its long gone golden days. Previously it was run by Marissa Mayer and she was given essentially a blank check (being ex-girlfriend of founder also didn't hurt). She went out in massive sp
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by telltruth 7y ago
Tesla seems to be desperate for cash flow, any cash flow. First they shutdown stores and now they are trying to squeeze out existing customers. Looks like Musk called meeting with top leaders and charged them to find any way whatsoever to
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by telltruth 7y ago
I also noticed they seem to shutdown products when the main guy behind it leaves. Typically no one has interest in taking over because it was niche stuff with little chance to go big. Also, original guy would have already milked out credits
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by telltruth 7y ago
> where "success" for Google is defined as "billions of users" Why? This how old Microsoft thought and it’s unbelievable that Google is taking their place while they have renewed to “new Microsoft”. I see tons of smal
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by telltruth 7y ago
Then sell it to Google, you retire rich, they kill it again.., cycle goes on. PS: happened with Picasa.
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by telltruth 7y ago
This is so eerily similar to killing of Picasa. They killed a great functional popular app and forced everyone to mediocre half assed website. Not sure what is going on at Google. Is there anyone in charge here?
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by telltruth 7y ago
With Eric Schmidt leaving, the hanging sword has finally came down. He knew how to play lobbyist network in DC even with unfavorable administration if you had almost unlimited money supply. Breitbart publishing recent video leaks on Google
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by telltruth 7y ago
> It's no wonder the substantial portion of people who care about their employer's ethics are turned off Nope. People who I know have turned down FB offer was purely because they see them as less stable company and have doubts
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by telltruth 7y ago
Most of the things demoed existed before in Translate app. I have used it and as far as I know someone good hearted at Google did this in his/her 20% time. The speaker, who seems to be some sort of executive, pretended that this is new
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by telltruth 7y ago
I'm having hard to time to share your enthusiasm. Google has been leveraging its monopoly more than ever and myself as customer feels our arm getting twisted all the time. They shut down products arbitrarily, most of the time with FU o
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by telltruth 7y ago
Correct. If you had bought Windows Phone, it still works today. It's unbelievable that they have kept the whole thing running for may be 10,000 people out there.
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by telltruth 7y ago
I realize this is Google's moment of "Plays for Sure".
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by telltruth 7y ago
1800 is big number. When you piss off these many people, they talk, they let their friends know, they tweet. It's a world of instant information that spreads like wild fire. You are easily talking about turning away 18000 or even mil
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by telltruth 7y ago
Nest is actually far from great thermostate, definitely not "iPhone" of thermostate. It doesn't allow lots of manual settings and it doesn't handle anything more than simple systems well. There is lot of marketing that
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by telltruth 7y ago
At Google, no one wants to work on existing things. You must create new product/feature to get promoted. Then you move on and thing gets shutdown. This is direct consequences of their internal incentive structure.
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by telltruth 7y ago
What other options do you use?
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by telltruth 7y ago
TLDR; Revenue increased by 19% which didn't met the growth expectations because same quarter last year revenue growth was 26%. If you don't take fines in to account margin is improved and paid clicks are increased by 39% but the c

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