It's always annoying to have to examine the teeth of a gift horse, but if somebody is basically dominant in their area, or one of a very few dominant players and you are essentially forced to interact with them, then it's game on. Lately Google's non-search products have been driving me more and more to despair. Perpetual beta is not an excuse for producing poorly behaving services and not having a proper bug reporting system in place.

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Topics: software/design, technology/Google

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Maureen Johnson, who writes on of the "just for fun" blogs I read and is definitely not a tech blogger, recently went on a tour of Google's New York offices. And thus we find out:

...the creepy part is that they have all these long memos on debugging and testing code in the stalls of the women’s room. They make you work hard there to get all the free food and the scooters. They even make you work while you pee.

Topics: technology/Google

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