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Comment by skybrian

5 days ago

Most commenters on Hacker News hated Google’s plan and hoped it would fail. Were they wrong?

It seems like damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don’t.

That stemmed from “dammit Google now every SaaS developer has to work nights to meet your arbitrary deadline”; here we’re caring more about the impact as consumers. It’s ok to think about things in two ways.

source: a developer who actually did have to do this (and did it, and now didn’t have to, but it’s done)