MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE by Michael Wolraich Order today at Barnes & Noble / Amazon / Books-A-Million / Bookshop |
[Steve's rant to other IT folk] I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.
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But there's one thing they do really really well that pretty much makes up for ALL of their political, philosophical and technical screw-ups.
Comments
Wow, thanks for this Donal. This probably doesn't apply to most people here at dagblog, but I found this incredibly interesting and useful.
by Verified Atheist on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 10:19am
As a former IT platform user, some of it is a bit over my head, but as a platform creator (architectural documents), and to a lesser extent a platform maintainer (dag), it is fascinating.
by Donal on Fri, 10/14/2011 - 10:29am