This ethos doesn't gel with the old ethos and that's where the disconnect comes from.
At one point Google was there to build cool shit and enable people to do it; not extract maximal amount of value and "being Evil" by the values of its time.
At one point Google was there to build cool shit and enable people to do it; not extract maximal amount of value and "being Evil" by the values of its time.
Judging by the screenshot of the repo, I think most people who download this would think that it's official Google software.
It says "This is not an officially supported Google product" because it's a DevRel sample/experiment, just like dozens of other Google repositories made by Google employees as part of their job.
Even some other tools in github.com/google have as much: https://github.com/google/python-fire / https://github.com/google/pytype/blob/main/docs/index.md / https://github.com/google/dopamine / https://github.com/google/go-tika
I would have been fired from every employer I've ever worked for of any size for doing something like that - including Google circa 2018.
What happens when your thing
or nothing close to your thing
will ever see the light of day?
2. If google said no this goes against our goals for the product, don't release it if you want to keep working for google?
This is in a Google-owned organization, with several other similar repositories, a lot of them using the same API.
given that Google was creating an official thing
quite close to his thing
at the same time?
(And why are we writing like this?)
Just link to it.
the official google thing,
was quite a lot worse
than his thing.
(I’m quite into the whole “Posting in free verse” idea)
in a house?
Would you like them
with a mouse?
Sam AI am ...
My program made green eggs and ham ...
I don’t think that’s how APIs work at all.
Upon reflection, the only thing this guy did wrong was put his name on the thing…
By all reasonable measures, they did.
Especially that he's an "engineer" not a "Googler" or "a person."
God what a fall from grace.
“Actions have consequences”