I just keep hearing how "evil" Google is becoming... but they do stuff like this when nobody else seems to. These types of projects are the kinds of things an idealistic socialist government would do... yet here's a capitalist organisation doing them.

Does Apple or Microsoft do stuff like this? How about Oracle? If they don't why not?

am glad that thing is extinct.

The way my wife shops I think we completely exceed at least two of those criteria on each trip.

1. We commonly travel round-trip around 30 miles shopping.
2. We typically visit at least three stores approximately 5 miles apart before large purchases often cycling back to the first store before buying.
3. When we *do* buy online we typically save up a large number of purchases to the same online retailer before buying even with free shipping

Ironically, the "Shop Savvy" Android app means we now head out find an item, find it cheaper online then put it in a "buy queue" for later meaning we still drove but didn't buy.

I shall reconsider our shopping habits.

This is why we need trench digging and maintaining nano-bots.

... but you don't see me complaining here on /. do you?

Interesting point. There might be such a thing as too small and too thin. Hard to believe we've already gotten there.

And yet this attitude won't get you promoted.

I've had the same experience. It is far more valuable to exercise, eat right, go to sleep on time, etc. You spend less time creating WTF in your code. The net effect is a single delivery may take longer but the whole system has lower WTF count and thusly comes together faster, better, stronger.

Okay. I'm doing something wrong. Where the hell do you work and how can I get a job there?

Don't bother me with details. I have an inciteful story to not read and make wild assumptions about!

Exactly. I would have said "insightful" otherwise. Slashdot often rewards inciteful over insightful.

Don't take it personally, you posted AC so I was having fun. I rarely let loose like that. It was cathartic.

My logic is this:

• working is hard
• someone's boss asked them to do it
• the same boss threw the work away
• workers should be pissed

As I said, "I don't know who wrote TrueType" but I was under the impressions that:

• TrueType works on Mac
• Someone chose not to use it
• The people who wrote TrueType on Mac just had their work wasted

This all is predicated on the idea that people wish their work to be:

• valuable
• useful
• not thrown away

Granted this argument does not hold if people do not value their work, care if it is used, or care if it is thrown away.

Based on your lack of understanding I presume one of the following is true about you:

• you do not value your own work
• you do not value yourself
• you do not invest yourself in your work
• you do not think of other people's work as being valuable
• you do not care about other people

While you may not follow my logic I follow yours perfectly. This indicates that either

• my logic does not make sense
• I am smarter than you

I can accept either outcome.

+1 inciteful