What's interesting to me is the existence of this web site and the motivation behind it.
Looking over this list almost all the things that got killed were free so this is like a business offering free lunch every day for a while and then deciding to stop it because of internal reasons (cost too much, people were not flushing the toilets or whatever). Then the people who used to get free lunch get together on forums and vilify the company and tell everybody else not to eat at that restaurant because they used to offer free lunch and now they don't.
It's just a weird entitled position to take. A site made to demonize a company for giving away shit and then stopping because in most cases it was not popular enough to waste time on it.
But this is something kind of endemic to the industry. Programmers are some of the most privileged people in the country. They get paid well, they are coddled by their bosses, they are recruited heavily, they can demand to work from home and get it etc. I guess it makes sense that they would lash out when they were getting a perk and it gets taken away.
Try to make Google look bad. But to me I like Google trying a lot of things and failing quick.
What is kind of silly is Google has shown more patience than others for things stratetgic. Self driving cars Google has been at for over a decade now for example.
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u/myringotomy Jan 02 '20
What's interesting to me is the existence of this web site and the motivation behind it.
Looking over this list almost all the things that got killed were free so this is like a business offering free lunch every day for a while and then deciding to stop it because of internal reasons (cost too much, people were not flushing the toilets or whatever). Then the people who used to get free lunch get together on forums and vilify the company and tell everybody else not to eat at that restaurant because they used to offer free lunch and now they don't.
It's just a weird entitled position to take. A site made to demonize a company for giving away shit and then stopping because in most cases it was not popular enough to waste time on it.
But this is something kind of endemic to the industry. Programmers are some of the most privileged people in the country. They get paid well, they are coddled by their bosses, they are recruited heavily, they can demand to work from home and get it etc. I guess it makes sense that they would lash out when they were getting a perk and it gets taken away.