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Maybe instead of constantly having to disclose working for Google, all you Google Compute engineers could just try not bragging about it so much every time there is a discussion thread on it, and just let the community figure it out for themselves what cloud provider they prefer.

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I actually enjoy the extra information they give, and the clear excitement about what they work on. I've seen how the sausage is made at AWS and the people I've met that worked on it were extremely detached. This very much shows in the product.

GCP is behind on features, but I find the features work very well and are super nice to work with.

Seems like parent merely stated a pretty uncontroversial fact. And they are part of this community as much as anyone else is -- I at least appreciate the stakeholder participation and honest disclosure.

> Seems like parent merely stated a pretty uncontroversial fact.

Exactly. Here's one scenario:

> "I think this is a really fun movie, and I thought the ending was very smart (disclosure, I did some FX on the sequences with the Shnorp, and I have an affair with the producer's sister)"

here's another:

> "You are both right, actually: the running time for the US release is 94 minutes, whereas the Swedish contains the Shnorp nipple scenes which increase the total length to 96 minutes. (full disclosure, I was a roadie on the set)"

Guess what I find obnoxious and see many discussions filled with?

If it's in a dictionary, thanks for the fact, no I don't care who you work for or how "excited" you are and how "awesome" your team is and whatnot. It's so incredibly needy and tacky and seems the norm now; where the person calling it out actually gets piled on, while BS like this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15342721 is fine. It is what it is.

Circle the wagons and just clap it out.

This is not bragging, it is an important piece of the information that informs you if someone commenting can be biased or self-promoting in a news, that their company is featured in.

We disclose our employer to be clear that while we are super excited about these releases, we're also trying to be as open and clear that our opinions come with a natural bias that others seem to rarely disclose.

There's no coordination or conniving to this, people just like rad stuff.

Also, I /wish/ I was a Compute Engineer.

I don't really have a problem with it. So long as they're on topic and relevant (i.e. not trying to sell GSuite in an AWS thread), it's fine. Certainly better than not hearing from them at all.

(disclosure: I also work for Google Cloud.)

I think put the disclosure upfront just make things clearer that we are not dragging. You already know where our butts sit and you can judge our words from pure-technical perspective.

Otherwise, people may say Google hire a bunch of ghost accounts just for promotion purpose.

I personally prefer the former.

I personally prefer to weave the fact that I work at Google right in the middle of the point that I am trying to make.

There are eleven words in your post to the left of 'Google', but thirteen to the right(like this post) so your post is lies.

my plot's been revealed!

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