>This isn’t about gentrification, as some people are making it. It’s about how pissed people are a Google.

Above statement is false, no matter how much author or submitter want it to be true. The author insinuates he left because of rent, but more digging reveals another cause.

People aren't smashing bus windows because of NSA revelations or other privacy violations, it's because they are being hit hard in the wallet and the buses are a visible source of it.

funny how the anti gentrification activists are all white where are the latino and black people who have been gentrified or where they gentrified out a generation ago so they dont count any more?

>the talentless ex-programers they hand paychecks to every other week will go find other things to do with their lives.

Someone seems bitter.

(I don't work at Google)

Yeah, it's hard to parse out his good points from the obvious bitterness :/

It's all a part of being a self fulfilling media node :-) surprised that no one has rebooted Nathan Barley yet.

"To video chat use WebRTC" - maybe the poster might actually want to consider putting as much energy into usable suggestions as he did to ripping on google.

WebRTC in and of itself is a set of APIs for enabling assorted communication activities. It is not a service.

Even funnier, WebRTC was originally open sourced by Google [0].

[0] - http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webrtc/2011May/00...

WebRTC is still in the process of standardization both in the IETF and W3C. That said, my understanding is recent versions of chrome and Firefox have inter operating versions.

A technology is not a service. User discovery, nat traversal, signaling and others may be needed depending on the service.

Why this is the only SF problem? Google offices are everywhere but only in SF we have such attackers, huge rent prices etc. Maybe there something wrong with city itself, with local authorities, local laws?

Except that they also attacked Apple busses.