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Re:Sundar Pichai warns of threats to internet freedom by threatofrain on Sunday July 11, 2021 @11:49PM (#27806806)
Google also seems to be one of the few entities in the world capable of building kick-ass web apps.
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Re:Sundar Pichai warns of threats to internet freedom by jaimex2 on Monday July 12, 2021 @01:07AM (#27807226)
Google also seems to be one of the few entities in the world capable of buying kick-ass startups.

Fixed it for you.

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Re:Sundar Pichai warns of threats to internet freedom by quaintdev on Monday July 12, 2021 @02:48AM (#27807768)
But to buy those kick ass startups you originally have to be kick ass.
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Re:Sundar Pichai warns of threats to internet freedom by pydry on Monday July 12, 2021 @05:33AM (#27808565)
Yay for google being kick ass in 2004?
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Re:Sundar Pichai warns of threats to internet freedom by dmitriid on Monday July 12, 2021 @01:18AM (#27807285)
I've yet to see a single kick ass web app from Google. All of them are barely functioning slow-as-molasses slugs (or I'm jaded by the entire GCP experience).
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Re:Sundar Pichai warns of threats to internet freedom by ithkuil on Monday July 12, 2021 @02:30AM (#27807675)
I recently tried https://deps.dev and was surprised by the speed. But then I realized I was no longer used to things being that fast, and it used to be normal

EDIT: typo

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Re:Sundar Pichai warns of threats to internet freedom by dmitriid on Monday July 12, 2021 @03:23AM (#27807918)
> But the I realized I was no longer used to things being that fast, and it used to be normal

This. This right here.

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Re:Sundar Pichai warns of threats to internet freedom by cobertos on Monday July 12, 2021 @01:41AM (#27807410)
I think this is somewhat of a more recent occurance, and possibly only GCP related. I've only had a couple GCP interactions now but all of them have gotten me to stay away from that specific portion of Google.
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Re:Sundar Pichai warns of threats to internet freedom by na85 on Monday July 12, 2021 @01:30AM (#27807347)
The early (invite-only) versions of gmail were fantastic, especially given the narrower pipes we were all surfing with in those days.

It seems lately that Google has just become Yet Another Large Software Firm, with everything that that implies.

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Re:Sundar Pichai warns of threats to internet freedom by _huayra_ on Monday July 12, 2021 @12:35AM (#27807087)
The one exception being any sort of chat app. Now they're going from crusty old Hangouts to Chat while plenty of other chat apps have been far more polished for a long time
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