Are Googlers Too Smart For Their Own Good? 307
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?"
Yes (Score:5, Funny)
Whatever happened to simple interfaces, like:
"Would you like to play Global Thermonuclear War? [YES|NO]"
Re:Huh? (Score:5, Funny)
We didn't have a Google story for over two hours, so we had to post what was available.
Re:Hint: "For Developers" Means "For Developers" (Score:5, Funny)
Coding is hard! Let's go shopping!
Re:Hint: "For Developers" Means "For Developers" (Score:5, Funny)
I hope I don't sound like a Google fanboy but this is a nontrivial task and I would defend the API they have produced.
Heck, I had the exact same reaction to this article, and I haven't even looked at the API! My reaction was based solely on the wording theodp's atrocious post.
Re:Hint: "For Developers" Means "For Developers" (Score:1, Funny)
uh, i just looked a little at the code and the documentation and it seems easy to use, really can't see what is so complicated there... more simple than that is oversimplifying in my opinion
well, java is doing that to world programmers i guess.
Are you one of those types (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.
Re:Meanwhile, slashdot editors too dumb for own go (Score:3, Funny)
You could just set your filter for "mere mortal" appropriately and you won't see these things anymore.
Re:If everyone was supposed to understand it... (Score:5, Funny)
The da Vinci Code begs to differ.
Re:API is not a UI (Score:5, Funny)
Do you think anyone who would conflate API with UI will know what conflate means?
Re:Hint: "For Developers" Means "For Developers" (Score:3, Funny)
Re:If everyone was supposed to understand it... (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?
As a mad, sweaty, bald man once screamed on stage (Score:2, Funny)
Or in other words: (Score:4, Funny)
Are you just simply way too “dumb”* for the 21st-fuckin-century?
I know I’m (sadly) a minority here. And I know that I will probably get modded to into oblivion. But except from the stupid overengineering... come on!
How about for a change actually learning something, when it is useful for you?
* I’m not even really saying that people are too dumb. It’s just that most people grew up in a culture, where it made more sense, to complain and feel entitled, to getting spoon-fed, than to understand it themselves. Where intelligent people get hate, and dumb people get special treatment (e.g. it not being allowed to point out that fact about their mental performance).
So naturally, they choose the more efficient way.
But the thing is, that we all are very much capable of grasping those complex concepts that we always say we were too dumb for. It’s just an excuse. And the more it is used, the more mental growth we miss. So after some time, we really have a hard time using our brains. Just like with a muscle. Just like we all are born with the ability to some day run for hours, every day, in the heat.
So, no, they are not too smart. We’re just used to being lazy as hell.
Re:Hint: "For Developers" Means "For Developers" (Score:5, Funny)
Perhaps the OP would enjoy a line of work that involves shovels and dirt.
Yeah, but shovels are too complicated an unintuitive. I mean it would probably take theodp hours to figure out which end he is supposed to hold and which end goes into the dirt.
Re:Hint: "For Developers" Means "For Developers" (Score:5, Funny)
To the shopmobile!
Re:Hint: "For Developers" Means "For Developers" (Score:5, Funny)
What? Shopping is way more difficult than coding!
AOL? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Yes (Score:3, Funny)
Whatever happened to simple interfaces, like:
"Would you like to play Global Thermonuclear War? [YES|NO]"
Today, only president's suitcases have such a simple interface. Everyone else is supposed to find their way in Vista's redesigned Control Panel.
Re:If everyone was supposed to understand it... (Score:3, Funny)
I've never programmed in da Vinci, but are you saying it only supports integer arithmetic?