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		marcinzm on June 2, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Cloud Is Down Isn't it also that promotions at Google are based on creating new products/projects rather than maintaining existing ones? So engineers have a negative incentive to maintain things since it costs them promotions.

xkcd-sucks on June 3, 2019 [–]

That explains the proliferation of chat services and why they all get actively worse over time until they're replaced

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