Those times were shitty, but that doesn't stop google being evil. I guess that's my pessimistic side showing though.
Google wasn't the first maths based search engine, but the others were dire and you could spend 3 hours digging for what you wanted. And the tiny text adverts were pure heaven compared to banners that took up one third of your monitor, and moved with you. Oh my gosh, and prior to Firefox pop up adverts that would autospawn up to 50 copies, no joke. Normally rude stuff too, but not good rude stuff. Really trashy stuff nobody wanted and they just resorted to browser exploits.
Oh yeah. Click on the wrong one by accident... Installs .exe without asking which is trojan thingy that dials thailand and you suddenly owe 500 pounds for going on the internet normally.
Google were like an angel from the sky. Once.
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All companies turn evil when they get to a certain size, some of them also start off evil and hone their skills over time (Microsoft).
You mean like Openpandora?
Stating the obvious but friendship of the team went downhill. Evil is a measurement of resent to blame. If you didn't do anything but be nice, and get bad treatment that's the evil stage.
[doublepost=1526697509][/doublepost]People think I'm evil for telling the truth, so here's the deal.
Craig is liable to either punch or hug me if we ever bumped into each other in the street. My instinct is he'll probably get stressed, stop for a moment then force me to hug him. And then start rambling about some new scheme.
Thing is, I was merely the spokesperson for a bunch of cowards. The main top devs here slated it on getting the unit. I gave a balanced account based on requests issued. Craig literally asked me to fib, like hey Firefox runs at a million fps type thing. I said it could probably be optimised over say three years. But they needed quick cash, and maybe this would have worked if... Enough people fibbed for Craig for three years. So unlikely. I did the best I could to aid the sinking ship. We're still here. Team members stated suicidal feelings. I may have made it worse. People could have died over this machine! I would be in court explaining why this wasn't manslaughter. Eeek. It isn't worth dying over a bloody keyboard fliptop toy. Maybe why Craig would hug me. Saved his life maybe. Very emo person like that. Anyhow, moving on.
