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Indeed they are recompiling Chromium but that doesn't make it any more exciting tbh.

This is genuinely scary. Photos, Yale locks, Fi, WiFi and Nest thermostat can all be poof gone because I made a silly YouTube comment? How is this not regulated?

Google photos also 'helpfully' offers to delete your uploaded photos with 'some guarantee'!!!

If this isn't an indication of a giant shitty monopoly that doesn't care about its customers at all, I don't what is.

They have some AI ML fucking crap but can't figure basic user trust because that won't get anyone promoted nor grow some Director-level person's headcount.

Large promo-manufacturing teams that casually handle all your data. Pray to God that some L4 didn't get promoted doing some impactful work because they sure ain't gonna do maintenance work protecting your shit. Their motivations are not users, product nor team: manipulate some metrics to get promoted and move out. Horrible.

The level of respect that someone like Andrej Karpathy is jarring: he should publicly apologize instead of being all saintly (oh look ma, I built a toy with 6 cameras, I am so proud of myself) while talking about deep learning or whatever crackpot stuff they are cooking over thinking they are solving world's "problems".

Pick your "heroes" properly HN crowd.

This is getting a bit ridiculous. Silicon Valley mindset being applied to critical safety focused products is really bad. I hope they regulate the crap out of Tesla and God I hope comma.ai whose founder seems even more batshit crazy.

* Always be learning and doing. Never be stagnant. Even if you are in a very boring team you can still learn and supplement your skills / knowledge on the side. This may or may not help immediately but definitely helps long term.

* Really practice open/active listening and critical thinking: there are very smart people and it's really good to assume good intent when they talk. Critical thinking and question is more around 'where is the disconnect? How do I try and actively move towards and see their point of view'.

* Questioning authority and being able to say no.

* Don't use code reviews as a debate forum but instead as a learning forum. Granted time is of essence, so a timely resolution may be necessary but learning and actively listening through reviews helps your skills as a coder.

* Cut through heirarchy and organizational politics to achieve the larger goals for the team, the project and ultimately for Google.