Android Dev, Gamer, Dad
Update:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/platner-sat-lengthy-interview-antisemitic-075439570.html
Platner sat for lengthy interview with antisemitic conspiracy theorist, said he was ‘longtime fan’ of his show
Matthew Kassel Fri, February 27, 2026 at 11:54 PM PST 4 min read
From CNN or the summary in the post?
Hardly, the use of based this way is cringe.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/based
(Internet slang, originally 4chan slang) Admirable for rejecting political correctness or socially progressive values. Synonym: unwoke based and redpilled My last account got banned for being too based.
That they don’t care wouldn’t be my take, but it may be true for some.
It is true it is hard to get the incentives right, especially if your goal is to make things that don’t get abandoned.
They do a lot of experimentation though, trying to see what works.
I think “what works” and “what users want” are two similar, intersecting but not at all identical sets. Some users like new and broken, others want things that will never work.
I am curious what kind of people do you try to hire, and what do you screen for? I mainly just try to gauge someone’s experience in the field, and ability to to fit a specific role. (I have mostly been involved in Android app dev or related interviews).
I ask things like “how do you solve this common problem”. A goal for me is to try to give basically the same interview over and over again, to make it easier to compare candidates. But over the years it changes of course.
Sometimes Google seems so obsessed with open standards that they not only don’t favor their other projects, their projects often simply won’t support each other.
I blame the many Google buzz plus chat clients. Google also suffers from a lot of success, they can be complacent about things other companies obsess about.
Options!
The antipathy is real
So violence, military coup or heart failure?
Just like in the practice cages