Slashdot.org was plagued by people posting "first post" to every story, so they implemented an automatic "first post" comment to each article, that was removed as soon as other comments appeared. Maybe this comment ("Google will shut this down like so many other products") should be similarly posted automatically to Hacker News on every Google story?

Could add the same logic for the inevitable "self host it" when Github is down, or the "but we did it first!" comment from Gitlab whenever Github announces a feature.

Perhaps this listing service would get more goodwill from users and business if they were to pay sellers a commission when a listed item sells. Google's extractive (no, it's actually not 'free') business model has become quite tiresome, and they seem to have wasted their first-mover advantage over the past decade.

It's ironic how my least favorite genre of posts are posts that complain about other posts.

HN could also offer you the option to hide the automatic "Google will shut this down" post, and all its replies.

Woooosh ;)

It's ironic how my least favorite genre of comments are about people discussing the correct usage of the word "ironic".

Alternatively Google could just grow a spine and stop reinventing the same app year after year. The worst part is that they go all pikachu face when people react with wtf.

I am not sure if that's relevant given that google shopping has been around for almost two decades now.

The list is misleading. Angular.js was superseded by Angular 2. Google hangouts was superseded by Google Meet...

I’d agree on angular but for most the others including hangouts the problem is that it isn’t just an update - it’s an entirely new app/service. Meet isnt superseding hangouts - google is killing hangouts and offering a new app in its place. Can you imagine if Apple killed off iMessage, didn’t offer a way for people to transfer data and then just offered half the functionality to people in a new app? Google is an absolute shitshow these days.

Dude, who cares?

Anyone that tries to establish a livelihood based upon the service?

I hope you're diversifying and trying more than one service to sell your goods? Especially one that doesn't charge you anything?

when will we stop being fooled by Google? I still miss gtalk by the way :(

When will we stop being fooled by Microsoft, Apple, Sony, Tesla, etc?

That was my first thought. This will be gone in a year or two.

"companies don't try new things" - HN

"Google kills products" - HN

99% of the people here would gladly work at Google. But what's the next best thing .. downplay the company you couldn't get into :) Carry on !

I wouldn't gladly work for Google. I hope I'm not in the 1%.

Google isn’t trying new things they are re-releasing the same apps with less functionality while simultaneously killing off user bases. This isn’t some esoteric engineer criticism - it’s mainstream at this point.

Again no, we use ECS, a managed container orchestration solution with far less operational overhead than K8s. Try again.

Lol "nobody good wants to work with you". Keep telling yourself that. Done engaging here.

I was trying to get into Google 3 times in my life. Results so far:

- some (all? one?) interview failure (no feedback), rejection

- interviews passed, no degree in CS (which was known to them prior of the interviews), rejection

- interviews passed, this time missing CS degree is not a problem, no cultural fit, rejection

I think I am done. You are assumption is without merit though.

There are many many people without CS degrees at Google.

I wonder how 100K of engineers made it in