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		kace91 on Dec 11, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Stories Well, that's the complain isn't it? That the technical skills are being wasted on glorified marketing companies. If you hire Frank Lloyd Wright to design your bathroom, you can't use the fact that you end up looking at a toilet as proof that he's not great.

cambalache on Dec 11, 2020 [–]

Well, they did come up with that "innovation", didnt they?

kace91 on Dec 11, 2020 | [–]

Not really, I don't think anyone's claiming that Google's managers and product owners are the geniuses the world is missing out on. It's the engineering skills that are considered wasted.

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