Is this viral advertising from Google? It starts off with such paeans to Google (for letting the poster post this on G+) that one would think this was a rant against Google but actually most of the rant is against Amazon. I didn’t read every word after the first 1000 words or so, but it really didn’t seem to be something for this site.
No. Steve Yegge is just famously long-winded and doesn’t get around to his actual point until later. (Namely, Google doesn’t get platforms nearly as well as it’s competitors.) This was originally intended as an internal-only post for Googlers, but Yegge accidentally published it to the world.
(2011)
Is this viral advertising from Google? It starts off with such paeans to Google (for letting the poster post this on G+) that one would think this was a rant against Google but actually most of the rant is against Amazon. I didn’t read every word after the first 1000 words or so, but it really didn’t seem to be something for this site.
No. Steve Yegge is just famously long-winded and doesn’t get around to his actual point until later. (Namely, Google doesn’t get platforms nearly as well as it’s competitors.) This was originally intended as an internal-only post for Googlers, but Yegge accidentally published it to the world.