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	[quote name="IPB"][quote name="Google delenda est"][quote name="IPB"]Google remains very engineer-driven, more likely to tell customers why they’re wrong to prefer a particular approach to a business problem than to listen to the customers and try to solve it for them.[/quote]This is a perfect profile of every bad programmer. "You're doing it wrong", well guess what asshole? You're NOT the client and NOT the end-user. Try <i>engineering</i> a another solution, genius. [/quote] Hacker News as customer support is a ring of hell. [quote name="Google delenda est"] The Stadia Question appears ripe for a new CALTROPS long (medium?) bet.[/quote] I'm going to throw out that it will be kept on life support for at least 2 years from when they started it. [quote][quote]It takes a certain savvy to go from Indian poverty to CEO and turn a snotty Silicon Valley offer into power. I get the sense Sundar is a lot more aware and critical of the dynamics at Google than he lets on.[/quote]Yeah, he's a shark. No way he just happens to end up the face of the company. [/quote][/quote] He hasn't shown much teeth while the money has been flowing and Social Justice gripped the campus. Ad revenue is going to drop hard, the feds are going after them, and employees are going to be working from home a lot. It's a favorable time to start cutting back some of the worst excesses of company culture. We'll see what he does or who he hires to do it for him.[/quote]