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Re:A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to ... by kuschku on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @05:59AM (#14356980)
Funnily, I was working on cloning a particular piece of Firebase functionality, and inquired if they could help me with that (or if they had that particular piece in open source), and got more replies from them for that than apparently this paying user ever got.

Very typical from Google.

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Re:A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to ... by GFischer on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @07:53AM (#14357525)
Some individual Google employees are very helpful and open.

Unfortunately Google as a company and their corporate practices are nothing like that.

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Re:A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to ... by solomatov on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @10:13AM (#14358575)
Some of their teams, for example tensorflow, are very very helpful.
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Re:A startup’s Firebase bill suddenly increased from $25 to ... by dchichkov on Wednesday May 17, 2017 @06:49PM (#14363481)
Yes. They are in the "Embrace" phase of the "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish". Sure they are helpful. Have to be (considering the API drift between the Tensorflow releases and how late they were - Theano is the same exact idea and great implementation, only first released in 2009-ish).

But it's pretty easy to look a bit into the future, and predict what we would see during "Extend and Extinguish" phases of TensorFlow project.

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