On Tuesday, December 3, 2013 7:13:03 AM UTC+5:30, Roy Smith wrote: > Michael Torrie wrote: > > I wish Google hadn't bought a lot of things. Seems like they bye up a > > lot of cool, nerd-centric apps and companies and then turned them into > > apps that do less and do it poorly, but in a slick way that appeals to > > the unwashed masses. And add "social" to it. Great for their bottom > > line, but horrible for those of us that actually use things as tools. > And this is surprising, why?
Something floating around here (was it Ben Finney's footer??) went something like: We must expect it; else we would be surprised Put differently: One evidence of being awake (and not in dreamland) is surprise A directly related piece by Nicholas Carr http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/306868/ Relevant at a deeper level is his "IT doesn't matter" http://www.roughtype.com/?p=644 We software professionals cannot agree with this and keep our self-respect/sanity/identity. However its true; so denial remains the only option. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
