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Re:Fuckin' user interface design, I swear by edbob on Tuesday March 09, 2021 @04:02PM (#26404203)
> Implicit here is the claim that giant companies do hilariously dumb things a greater fraction of times than small companies, but I have seen absolutely zero evidence of that.

I don't think that's necessarily what is implied. Small companies make decisions with many orders of magnitude less resources applied to making those decisions, so we expect the outcomes to be significantly worse on average. If Google spends 100,000 times the resources on its decisions but the outcome is only 10x better than the output of a random small company, that is notable.

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Re:Fuckin' user interface design, I swear by sosborn on Wednesday March 10, 2021 @02:25PM (#26415059)
The real problem is that small companies assume that Google must know what’s it’s doing and that even though google is trying to solve different problems, the only right thing to do is try to copy them.
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