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Are Googlers Too Smart For Their Own Good?

Posted by kdawson on from the keep-it-complicated-smarty dept.

theodp writes "If you're a mere mortal, don't be surprised if your first reaction to Google Storage for Developers is 'WTF?!' Offering the kind of 'user-friendly' API one might expect from a bunch of computer science Ph.D.s, Google Storage even manages to overcomplicate the simple act of copying files. Which raises the question: Are Googlers with 'world-class programming skills' capable of producing straightforward, simple-to-use programming interfaces for ordinary humans?"

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  1. Re:Huh? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    We didn't have a Google story for over two hours, so we had to post what was available.

  2. Re:Hint: "For Developers" Means "For Developers" by mondoterrifico · · Score: 5, Funny

    Coding is hard! Let's go shopping!

  3. Are you one of those types by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    who flood developer-boards with questions that typically look like

    " Sir Sir please help sir I have project due sir I need full workking code by tomorrow sir" ??

    If so, you would expect everything to be point and click, I guess.

  4. Re:If everyone was supposed to understand it... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The da Vinci Code begs to differ.

    I still don't understand why anyone would want to read it. Does that count?