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Oh, completely ignoring anything anyone from Google ever writes again? This is akin to the cancel culture which we all know is how society should work. /s


> Oh, completely ignoring anything anyone from Google ever writes again? This is akin to the cancel culture which we all know is how society should work. /s

Maybe if Google focused on doing actual work instead of writing feel good engineering pieces, they wouldn’t have the Google graveyard and an unstable cloud offering that may spontaneously delete multi-billion dollar accounts.


Alphabet has 2T market cap, get your head out of your sitting place, lol.


> Alphabet has 2T market cap, get your head out of your sitting place, lol.

That same sort of thinking is what led to the downfall of yahoo.


The fall of yahoo was caused by out of touch C suite not engineering handbooks.


> The fall of yahoo was caused by out of touch C suite not engineering handbooks.

Are you saying Google’s c suite isn’t out of touch?


Are you saying Google engineering books are excellent?


Maybe. Times are different now.


> Maybe. Times are different now.

Are they?


Are they not?




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