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Google faults exposed in employee memo

There are 3 kinds of software:

1) Me-ware. Software you write for your own personal use. The best software in the world despite of the fact that it's undocumented, unuseable (for everyone but you), unstable (when not used exactly as intended), and undeployable.

2) Us-ware. Software developed in-house for in-house use. Written for youself, and people you respect and work with. Documented just enough for them to understand it, useable just enough for them to use, reasonably stable, and deployable.

3) They-ware. Software developed for somebody else. Software that makes money and pays your bills. Professionally documented, useable, stable, and deployable. You never use it yourself, and you might even disapprove its use & despise its users (military, modern gonzo finance, online gambling, Facebook, gaming, etc).

Google+ is, of course, they-ware, a platform useless for its own developers. Eating your own dog food is therefore about as smart as getting high on your own supply here.

Facebook and friends are no longer merely recreational sites. When G+ jumped into this space, they knew they were trying to make a general purpose communication tool. That's why they designed circles the way they did -- it's not just one big frat party like Facebook was at the time. So they should be using G+ for their own communications, so they find out what it needs.

Yegge is a smart guy. He's the author of Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns. He has his own reasons for bringing this down.

Yegge is a smart guy. He's the author of Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns, for example (TR won't let me add a link to that post in its amnesiac commenting system). Yegge has his own reasons for starting this little uproar.

Well they could start by telling Yegge, with justification, that a public platform was not the place to begin his criticism - but maybe he had voiced his concerns to his bosses in private, we wouldn't know, would we? Then they could behave like real grown-ups and ask him (and others) to give his views in a reasoned, calm, evidence-based manner, and address the issues he raises. Google can't have got where it is without listening to the clever people it employs.

From what I've observed and even experienced what happens is the end of your career at a company. It's not usually overt, as in a direct firing over the incident. Public acknowledgement is at best limited and may be nonexistent. Instead, offended managers marginalize the employee, given them junk projects, no real work or surefire failures. They look for ways to subtly harass the employee with 'random' drug tests, moving them to the worst location in the office, increasing useless status reporting, making them work with a known bully or jackhole, etc, etc. Any little thing that goes wrong during this harrasment process can be used as the 'real' justification to fire the offending employee, provided the employee isn't made so uncomfortable that they leave on their own accord.

Maybe Google isn't like this but, underneath all that Vulcan-like left-brain think they're still human and emotional so Yegge should be prepared for retaliation, particularly served cold.

The employee comment box was full.. No other choice

Looks like everything he said is coming to fruition. Google + is going to be an also ran. Which is a shame cause facebook could stand a little bit of humble pie. http://www.pennystockstrategy.com