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		RamenJunkie_ on Nov 19, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google reverses its ‘digital death sentence’ for P... It's more Google really isn't good at this "people" thing. They see people as an issue and try to genericize everything into an algorithm then wonder why it doesn't get popular or run well.

cuu508 on Nov 19, 2016 | [–]

Maybe they're good at recognizing this "people" problem is not worth their time.

ethbro on Nov 19, 2016 | [–]

laughs I'd never really thought about it that way, but it does seem to be a good analogy.

Google as the brilliant software developer whose only flaw is that they're completely unwilling to ever write a single-use function.

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