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Google to Grab: One Year Later (Steve Yegge) (medium.com/steve.yegge)
3 points by 9nGQluzmnq3M on May 20, 2019 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



Dragging out a disabled Muslim woman, as she cries at the founder's feet? Crikey.

I could interpret this as a change of company, change of pace, reinvigoration of life, working on a hard problem in a new space .. or as the beginnings of a mental breakdown, guy who thinks he's in a Hollywood action film - hurrying through a bustling foreign megacity, working all hours, feeling on a mission to save the world, papered over with a thin rationalization about how amazing an ad and food delivery mobile app is.

Maybe I just don't /get/ platforms enough.


I’ve enjoyed Yegge’s posts before but this felt a little.... manic.


Indeed, since raw numbers seem to tell a different story:

https://www.thestar.com.my/tech/tech-news/2019/03/27/grab-us...




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