"He [Lewandowski] also said it was common practice to share work files via Dropbox"
Always interesting seeing company employees not using their company's products. Shows that what some view as a monolith is a bunch of smaller bands of people.
Always interesting seeing company employees not using their company's products. Shows that what some view as a monolith is a bunch of smaller bands of people.
(Or that's how it was when I worked there until 2016.)
Does that make it feel more like he was intentionally storing company files in a personal account?
The only thing I know google uses google docs for is coding interviews. Which is just sad.
For example, I don't think I've printed a document in a decade, except when dealing with dinosaurs like govt or banks, which my team didn't deal with.
At the very least it implies that they're naively unaware of a lot of their user stories.
Google executives don't care about formatting; the vast majority of them are technical, and culturally Google basically has a "don't care about superficial stuff, you have bigger problems to worry about" attitude. And the idea that you might want to print something out is a terrible anachronism; the whole reason we have multi-exabyte datacenters is so you never have to deal with paper again.
It's not naivete, it's arrogance. Basically Google wants to see you move into the 21st century, and if you don't, that's your problem, you'll eventually be forced to because the rest of Google's feature set is so good. Same reason IE support is pretty shitty on a lot of their products.
The only two real gaffes I can think of that really were naivete were the sound on the PacMan doodle, and the lack of privacy controls on Google Buzz. It basically never occurred to Googlers that you might get in trouble for having sound blaring out of your work computer (this, BTW, is my fault, I did the code review for the sound on the Pacman doodle), or that you might get in trouble because your boss knows about stuff you do on your personal time.
...but yeah, it would never have occurred to me that people would get in trouble for the mic drop April Fools joke. It's a different culture in tech, in Silicon Valley, and particularly at Google. I remember being told by a senior engineer that as long as I continued to do my work, there was basically nothing I could say to a senior executive that would get me fired.
re tab-aligned things, are you using explicit tab stops or not?
That seems fishy to me.
I used LaTeX for a while, but that randomly has tiny little issues that are seemingly impossible to solve. Try coloring the background of a table cell. It will cut off 1 pixel of the cell border on the top and left of the cell, regardless of the zoom level. If you zoom out enough, the border disappears. If you zoom in enough, its almost impossible to notice. It's infuriating. And the most commonly accepted answer online? Get rid of your cell borders, your table will look better.
Word is Word. Haven't used it seriously in so long I can't properly critique it.
Unfortunately there are some things you still have to print for (or at least convert to pdf). Most of the time, you can't turn in a google doc. For most companies, they don't want you emailing them a google doc. I don't need a ton of features, I just need consistent presentation of content.
The issue with the tabs is that the length of non-tab content changes a tiny bit when you change zoom levels. If that change goes past the start of a tab, suddenly a tiny change turns into an entire tab. Explicit tabs would probably fix that, but there's no point in trying, considering many tiny little issues like that there are.
It seems I'm wrong about them dogfooding. Apparently they just don't give a shit about these issues.