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Re:Google dusts off the failed Google+ playbook to fight Cha... by gfuwhsbfrtwgs on Thursday March 09, 2023 @10:33PM (#35090067)
(burner account)

I was at Google watching the tech all hands with my boss when they announced that "social multiplier" (bonuses tied to success of G+) was going to apply to everyone in the company.

I turned to my boss and said, shit, our bonuses are going to be fucked because G+ is going to flop.

My boss told me not to worry, since "they are never going to be able to admit that this was a failure".

Sure enough, management tried to bullshit everyone on how successful G+ was and we ended up getting a high multiplier for the "success".

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Re:Google dusts off the failed Google+ playbook to fight Cha... by oo00oo00o on Thursday March 09, 2023 @10:34PM (#35090072)
boq though
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Re:Google dusts off the failed Google+ playbook to fight Cha... by hyperhopper on Thursday March 09, 2023 @11:21PM (#35090344)
Easy to succeed when you transitively infect the entire codebase due to conformance and the way build dependencies are set up.
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Re:Google dusts off the failed Google+ playbook to fight Cha... by diceduckmonk on Friday March 10, 2023 @01:33AM (#35091134)
What framework would you have preferred be endemic instead of Boq?
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Re:Google dusts off the failed Google+ playbook to fight Cha... by marmee on Friday March 10, 2023 @02:07AM (#35091357)
pod? boq acts as if it gives you modularity but try attaching C++ code to Java
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Re:Google dusts off the failed Google+ playbook to fight Cha... by zodiakzz on Friday March 10, 2023 @02:23AM (#35091466)
What are boq and pod..? (curious non-Googler here, Google search didn't help).
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Re:Google dusts off the failed Google+ playbook to fight Cha... by xnx on Friday March 10, 2023 @05:10AM (#35092589)
Some info here: https://www.teamblind.com/post/Googles-Boq-Wiz-Soy-framework...
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Re:Google dusts off the failed Google+ playbook to fight Cha... by marmee on Friday March 10, 2023 @06:41AM (#35093169)
Both are infrastructure frameworks used to run servers
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Re:Google dusts off the failed Google+ playbook to fight Cha... by 003304 on Friday March 10, 2023 @12:32PM (#35097811)
Boq sells itself the wrong way. The real point of Boq is to just run your stuff, and as a consequence you have to use its annoying code framework for reasons I'll never understand.

Pod seems fine on paper, but it's awful. Every little thing you want to do is a huge codelab, and it's less supported. So people default to Boq instead.

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Re:Google dusts off the failed Google+ playbook to fight Cha... by m3drano on Friday March 10, 2023 @01:53AM (#35091264)
I see what you did there ;)
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Re:Google dusts off the failed Google+ playbook to fight Cha... by zamnos on Friday March 10, 2023 @01:58AM (#35091297)
fuckin' pod people
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