alt Hacker NewsEvery single time any story has the words "Google developers" in it, they're behaving like arrogant, disconnected, anti-consumer jerks. From constant GCP breakage, to not acknowledging obvious Android bugs, to intentionally braking Chrome. It's a stark contrast to behind the scenes interactions with them.
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lII1lIlI11ll • today at 9:20 AM
Yeah, my favorite one is how Chrome users are not smart enough to handle case-aware web-page search toggle. Although to be fair their Chrome team is very arrogant even by Google standards.
nikanj • today at 9:19 PM
Exhibit A: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/40093420
Decades of people desperate for a fix, utter stonewall from Google
Some PM somewhere decided that autocomplete belongs on all your fields, and who are you, the poor site developer, to disagree?
If I didn't word it like that (I'm the author) the "reddit mob" would have exploded the thread. That's the last thing I want. I want valuable feedback there, for now its somehwat working.
Most of the users who saw the post on reddit didn't even open the blog post anyways, according to analytics.