Hacker News: fuck_google

New comment by fuck_google in "ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format"

fuck_google — Fri, 22 Dec 2023 00:55:15 +0000

One can also view PDF pages side by side, which works pretty well with a 4K monitor.

New comment by fuck_google in "Negotiations Failed: How Oracle Killed Java EE"

fuck_google — Sat, 04 May 2019 18:05:51 +0000

Windows based EC2 instances represent maybe 10 % of all EC2 instances.

New comment by fuck_google in "Apple Buys Shazam to Boost Apple Music"

fuck_google — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 21:04:19 +0000

Building the service is not usually the hard part, but building the ecosystem around it is. There were/are countless services similar to Facebook or Twitter, but only a few of them can be really successful because of herd mentality.

New comment by fuck_google in "Aerospike: Architecture of a Real-Time Operational DBMS (2016) [pdf]"

fuck_google — Sat, 21 Jan 2017 09:21:57 +0000

Is it possible that the feature is only used by enterprises because no one else can afford it? Why would anyone contribute to an open source project without compensation?

I can imagine that anyone using cheap VPS hosting at multiple locations for better reliability/accessibility/latency could have use for cross-datacenter replication.

New comment by fuck_google in "Why Are People into Event Sourcing?"

fuck_google — Tue, 04 Oct 2016 03:03:47 +0000

"The hard part [...] is done in the analysis phase..." smells like big design up front that is usually more likely to fail than not, especially so for complex systems.

New comment by fuck_google in "Todoman: A simple CalDav-based todo manager"

fuck_google — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 07:23:59 +0000

It's sad how Google, Apple et al. have mostly abandoned the use of open standards in favor of locking users to their own closed, craptastic, proprietary services. Lack of interoperability severely limits the usability of cloud based services. Sadly these vendors seem unable to produce decent tools that work well together, so users are left with their data scattered across crappy services (e.g. Google Apps/Drive/Docs/Calendar etc.).

Lack of interoperability, vendor lock-in, poor usability of many web based apps and crappy touch based UIs makes me feel like we are living in the dark ages of the information society. It's almost as if people have forgotten how powerful tools we had 20 years ago compared to the current web app bloatware and how efficient keyboard + mouse is compared to most touch based UIs.

New comment by fuck_google in "How long since Google said a Google Drive Linux client is coming?"

fuck_google — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 18:16:15 +0000

It's interesting how Microsoft is starting to feel like the lesser evil compared to Google. I wonder how many good services/companies have been killed by Google offering an inferior service for free, only to abandon the service later on.

New comment by fuck_google in "How long since Google said a Google Drive Linux client is coming?"

fuck_google — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 18:02:32 +0000

Pretty much everything about Google is either hilarious or sad, depending on one's point of view.

New comment by fuck_google in "How long since Google said a Google Drive Linux client is coming?"

fuck_google — Fri, 24 Apr 2015 17:58:07 +0000

Yes. Googlers only like their own standards.

New comment by fuck_google in "The 'SimCity' Empire Has Fallen and 'Skylines' Is Picking Up the Pieces"

fuck_google — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 15:08:32 +0000

It's a good thing that EA botched the new Sim City as it gave small game developers an opportunity to make their mark.

New comment by fuck_google in "OpenStreetMap is now navigation-ready"

fuck_google — Tue, 20 May 2014 10:35:07 +0000

Why should OSM even try to attract users that don't bring in any value by contributing?

New comment by fuck_google in "Oracle wins appeal re Java API copyrightability [pdf]"

fuck_google — Mon, 12 May 2014 10:54:29 +0000

Your example seems to prove just the opposite, i.e. only in trivial applications such as web search client API is the API design trivial compared to the implementation. In complex systems, such as programming languages, IDEs, operating systems and scalable search engines, good API design is paramount to managing complexity.

Some good discussion on API design: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3720 http://www.infoq.com/articles/API-Design-Joshua-Bloch

New comment by fuck_google in "Oracle wins appeal re Java API copyrightability [pdf]"

fuck_google — Sat, 10 May 2014 01:10:46 +0000

I would argue that designing a good API is harder than making a good implementation of the API. The idea vs. execution juxtaposiion seems more apt to software patents that tend to express obvious ideas of low utility as ambiguously as possible.

New comment by fuck_google in "How Munich switched 15,000 PCs from Windows to Linux"

fuck_google — Fri, 09 May 2014 23:28:52 +0000

It's pretty much certain, if you take taxation, need for continuos development, and long-term competence/competitiveness etc. into account. Especially with the public sector one should look at the big picture, which bean counters sadly seem to be incapable of doing.

New comment by fuck_google in "My experience at a YC startup"

fuck_google — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 09:19:27 +0000

> Being good at engineering doesn't in any way qualify you for being good at managing product.

You must be talking about the Google style engineering.

New comment by fuck_google in "Google to Microsoft: Remove your YouTube App from the Windows Phone Store"

fuck_google — Thu, 16 May 2013 06:48:47 +0000

Googlers and Google fanboys are still living in denial. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%BCbler-Ross_model

New comment by fuck_google in "Google going its own way, forking WebKit rendering engine"

fuck_google — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 11:50:29 +0000

A Short Translation from Bullshit to English of Selected Portions of the Google Chrome Blink Developer FAQ: http://prng.net/blink-faq.html

New comment by fuck_google in "Google: Do what you want with Reader, but don't kill CalDAV"

fuck_google — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 07:40:42 +0000

Nomen est omen.

New comment by fuck_google in "Revenge of the Nerds – Engineers Have Never Had it Better [pdf]"

fuck_google — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 14:26:24 +0000

That makes one wonder what is the outcome of a dogfight where you only have aces. Clusterfuck?

Somehow that reminds me of the smart asses of Enron... http://www.gladwell.com/2002/2002_07_22_a_talent.htm

New comment by fuck_google in "Revenge of the Nerds – Engineers Have Never Had it Better [pdf]"

fuck_google — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 14:11:10 +0000

Perhaps that explains why Google and other companies obsessed about hiring "the best of the best" seem to struggle getting the basic stuff done. The "A players" only want to work on the interesting stuff and nobody is interested in doing the "grunt work" and giving the users what they actually want.

For instance Google Docs still doesn't have decent table editing, header/footer handling or heading numbering, but for some reason they gave all kinds of useless stuff higher priority over the stuff that the users actually need. For instance automatic OCR + translation for scanned PDF docs somehow doesn't seem like the most useful feature for a word processor that is still missing much of the basic functionality.