I don't know, I don't view Google as having the same level of perfection as, say, Apple. I know when I use Google products, almost infinitely in beta, there's going to be some things lacking and unpolished. Helpful yet unfinished, you take what you get.
Perfection is one thing. But this is a page on their website trying to help them recruit for engineers? Shouldn't that have a bit of a higher standard?
all of these comments about non trivial matters are bike shedding. even this comment, its only increasing entropy, your missing the forest for the trees.
Off-topic, but I always thought it was "can't see the forest through the trees" not "forest for the trees".
Meaning someone can't see passed what is in front of them (trees/treeline) to see the bigger picture (forest).
@rockdiesel, it's definitely "for" the trees, where "for" means "because of". You can't see the forest (big picture) because you're paying too much attention to the individual trees (details).
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That makes sense. Thank you for your explanation.
Trivial, not non trivial.
If you look at the page now, it's been changed. JavaScript is now one word, university is no longer in caps, the "learn AI" bullet now has been formatted properly, and they've now properly capitalized GitHub. Looks like Google is listening to the suggestions made above (in parent post).
Why is so much importance to written language? Why not practice casual writing like casual speaking. I think many of these expectations put lot of pressure on the people who wants to communicate in writing but that language to be written is not mother tongue or might not even gone to high school.
The expectations are higher when it comes from a major company like Google, especially when it's speaking from a position of authority on a topic like what to do with your life.
Casual sepaking is heard once. Published writing is read many times, and is easy to point edit, so it it worth investing a bit more in correctness.
With casual speaking, you place emphasis and pauses, naturally... With writing, nobody can read your body language... hear your pauses... notice your _emphasis_... unless you s.p.e.l.l. it out...