Comments on: Google Code: Ugliness is not just skin deep

By: This Is Just Great

This Is Just Great — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 23:44:32 +0000

““Menu items and options are scattered about like goat pebbleturds on a mountain.”

Holyshit. That is one of the funniest fucking things I’ve ever read.”

Can’t stop laughing!!!! OMFG – this must be the comparison of the year

By: Matthew Cruickshank

Matthew Cruickshank — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 01:35:57 +0000

You can’t change the software licence either… I recently relicenced Docvert from LGPL to GPLv3 and there’s no way to change that in Google Code. Bah!

By: Kris Kristoffersson

Kris Kristoffersson — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:45:35 +0000

I can’t seem to be able to download Sistas Fucking ApacheCocksuckersUpTheAss With BigBlackDildos-DivX-preview.avi. Please help.

By: Rick Hightower

Rick Hightower — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 22:46:09 +0000

Actually, Hani’s best line was when someone threatened to beat him up by proxy at Java One a couple of years ago.

By: Sergey Brin

Sergey Brin — Sat, 30 Jun 2007 06:19:45 +0000

You’re just trying not to come off as a google-fetisjist (after your falling in love with guice), so you bile their most irrelevant product.

By: Luci Sandor

Luci Sandor — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 16:55:45 +0000

Grendel is mistaken, the fuss about Gmail is not in its usability, the way it is not in the open standards they preached and crippled at the same time. The fuss was about storage and it was well maintained because Google has the marketing tools to maintain it. How can you call accessible a thing that has commands as regular HTML drop-downs, regular HTML links, and a DHTML/Javascript dropdown? Some commands have Undo, mostly they don’t, which is bad, because you have the Mac OS paradigm, one-click commands instead of one-click-plus-mandatory-OK-button two-clicks way of doing things, so when you click the wrong thing, there you go, your emails are gone, (e.g. Delete all supposed spam), and only CIA has the backup copy.

By: babu nenu vunna

babu nenu vunna — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 10:26:11 +0000

HAHAHA HAHAHA

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 20:37:33 +0000

How about they just give us a hosted copy of TRAC. That would blow google-code away but damn, none of their “apps” “engineers” would have anything to do I guess. Just a minimal amount of work to integrate it with groups and wah-lah, you have the one thing that trac is missing, a decent forum. Oh, but it’s only one level. Oh well, that’s g-groups, suck it up.

By: ramsinb

ramsinb — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 07:11:59 +0000

“Do you really think Google’s standards are higher than most software companies? I mean, search, gmail, and maps are pretty cool, but what else? Google reader? Froogle? Google checkout?”

Totally agree! Even with maps they bought it from another company so really the only good thing google has developed (that i use anyway) is search and gmail. Thats again because the rest are just crap.

By: Zarar Siddiqi

Zarar Siddiqi — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 17:09:21 +0000

What does Bob Lee think about this?

By: Geoffrey Wiseman

Geoffrey Wiseman — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 13:35:45 +0000

This space is funny. SourceForge is only ‘the best’ because the alternatives are so, so much worse. It’s like nobody in this space has any idea how to build web application that’s actually pleasing to use.

Google Code is awkward (more so than I realized). dev.java.net is pretty fugly as well. Codehaus just integrates good products from elsewhere, possibly a better approach, but not quite the same.

By: Ivan

Ivan — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 04:45:16 +0000

“Menu items and options are scattered about like goat pebbleturds on a mountain.”

This is probably one of the most clever lines of all time.

By: edovale

edovale — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 02:42:21 +0000

“Who gives a flying fuck about your clever svn backend?”
I don’t know how clever it is; I do know how slow it is!! sometimes I have to try 2 or 3 times before I can get a mere 3 files change set up to google code…

By: Luigi R. Viggiano

Luigi R. Viggiano — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 23:27:32 +0000

Well :)

I like google code, and download delete is available (you are wrong) even if that functionality is hidden enough to make dumb guys impossible to find it.
Click on “Summary + Labels” then from the download details, you go on the toolbar (under the tabs) and find the delete.

Pros:
You get free svn access over ssl, so that, you can easily make some commits behind damn company firewalls.
Text areas, to define custom labels, are innovative. How many idiot analyst would have a table for every fucking select control in a webapp? store it in a textarea, and let people to input freely (select become comboboxes)

Cons:
I got technical errors while using the wiki.
Simple no-frills issue management. (even if more control over posts could be nice to have)

I would just suggest google to provide free JSP+Servlet hosting. And some CI platform too.

By: Dustin

Dustin — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 22:35:36 +0000

“So why don’t you fix it motherfucker instead of just criticize?”

I’m not sure whether the author has the capacity to fix google’s code hosting, but it does seem fundamentally flawed to me.

The who concept seems to be centered around the implementation of a subversion repository. And, IMO, that’s the biggest flaw. Google’s business is built on distributed tools, and this service they provide to users is based on a centralized revision control system. They had an opportunity to differentiate, but so far it’s just, “dude, check out our svn repository.” I don’t believe that subversion (or any other centralized revision control tool) is appropriate for open source projects.

By: Remember Objective

Remember Objective — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:38:48 +0000

“Delivering a rushed project with many bugs and missing features is one thing, remaining that state a year on is a level of incompetence and idiocy that’s usually unacceptable in the real world. Those poor fuckers wouldn’t last a day if they had a real job in a real company.”

So if you don’t have the instinct, or can’t follow it anymore for various reasons, to find this “real world” with the “real company”, leaving behind all the shit code that is beneath you to work on for some other loser, you have to develop skills for being surrounded by incompetence.

So why don’t you fix it motherfucker instead of just criticize?

By: Thiago HP

Thiago HP — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:33:24 +0000

SourceForge anyone? java.net? JavaForge?

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 20:20:37 +0000

Good to see we didn’t have to wait for another JavaOne for more reading material… :-)

By: grendel

grendel — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:02:54 +0000

“It isn’t just bad by Google standards, it’s bad by any standard.”

Do you really think Google’s standards are higher than most software companies? I mean, search, gmail, and maps are pretty cool, but what else? Google reader? Froogle? Google checkout?

By: Goat PebbleTurd

Goat PebbleTurd — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 18:37:38 +0000

“Menu items and options are scattered about like goat pebbleturds on a mountain.”

Holyshit. That is one of the funniest fucking things I’ve ever read.