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I'd imagine they'll still get some good wave time in. They'll have to spend some time on support and such, but it's not like they'll be working on new features, looking for acquisition, or doing any of that.

Also, if support becomes too much of a burden, I could see google having them train 1 or 2 google employees to do a lot of it.

These guys are some of the best real-time web programmers in the world. Google just spend "low eight figures" and tried to kill their product immediately. They clearly want them to spend as much time on wave as possible, so they'll find a way to make that happen.

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>> "These guys are some of the best real-time web programmers in the world."

WHAT? Come on. Do you not think other programmers do real-time web things, and have been for years? sigh

just because others have been doing it doesnt mean they arent some of the best, etherpad ranks quite a bit above most other real time web stuff.

Of course, not taking anything away from them - most people around here are 'some of the best'. But real-time/comet/etc isn't hard.

Would you say that building Etherpad isn't hard?

Saying that real-time/comet/AJAX/[technology name] isn't hard is meaningless. I can easily say, for example, that "programming in C" isn't hard. I just don't see what your point is.

My original point was that "These guys are some of the best real-time web programmers in the world." is pretty silly. For one, 'real-time web' isn't hard, and secondly, there are people who have been doing it for years.

I hate this trend of coming up with fantastic buzz words and making people believe they're something new/hard/fantastic.

1. you are pretending that all real time applications are equally hard, they arent, etherpad has a level of complexity beyond most things people do.

2. because people have been doing it for a long time means it isnt hard? there isnt any way to read that that makes any sense, brain surgeons have been around a while, its still pretty hard.

like most people who complain about buzzwords you are actually putting more emphasis on the 'buzzwords' than the actual point.

You're probably right. Maybe I'll take a break from commenting on HN.

I find the recent trends in the industry to be extremely depressing.

Would Google have paid low eight figures in a talent acquisition if they weren't?

In particular, they probably are the best people to join the Wave team because not only have they been doing real-time, they've been doing a real-time app that is very similar to wave, since they're both essentially documents (though wave is a little more like a series of sometimes-nested documents, but it's all the basically the same).

I have no idea. My point though is:

  1. "Real-time" is nothing new
  2. There are people who have been working in 'real time' web apps for years

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