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Google has been evil for years now, I would say, ever since the guy that came up with the mantra quit.
The privacy issues are the worst. The terms for their services are pretty bad, even worse than facebook. The two matters that came out in the news was the buzz fiasco and the recent terms merger.
Google can also be quite annoying in how they connect their services to each other, not unlike what microsoft did and was punished for with IE-bundling in the 90s. Buzz was automatically connected to GMail, and now Google+ is connected to almost every Google service. You can do video chat i GMail, but if you want a conference, you must .. wait for it .. "upgrade" to Google+.
They also misuse they position as search monopoly (not really a monopoly, but windows wasn't either - wikipedia defined a monopoly as something different before the open source nerds came in and changed gradually. Apparently they weren't too happy when I linked to the old definition i discussions. I still like open source though). Google has favored their own services over others. It's weird that they can do this until EU comes in, and then change it slighty when the EU/FTC gives them a second chance. Never heard of Microsoft and Intel getting a second chance.
Google really hates Microsoft. I don't think most of the employees do, but the leadership does. It seems that Schmidt, Brin and Page has a personal vendetta against MS. That's why they silently deprecate support for services, protocols and formats made by Microsoft - even if they are standards. The stuff I remember is that they recently removed some support (export?) for Office 2003 formats in Docs/Apps, even though lots of people complained about it. They are also removing exchange (ActiveSync) support in GMail, so that Windows Phones can't connect to it anymore. MS got a month to solve the problem. Now, WP users get a lesser good alternative, IMAP :S
Another case is the youtube blocking. Youtube employees actually wants youtube to be on all platforms that has millions or more users. They were going to help MS solve the problem until Google execs put the foot down.
Just recently they blocked GMaps on Windows Phone aswell, saying; Maps is optimized for WebKit browsers. Now that's evil right there -> Programming their own services that are the most popular to use non-standard WebKit extensions.
You see, Google doesn't want Windows Phone to gain any market share, and that's fine, really, but their methods are a bit suspicious. Their arguments for dropping this and that are quite horrible in my opinion, but the arguments still seems plausible somehow to the Google fanbois. - "If it's in the name of being "open", then it's fine, because MS is the worst company in the world."
Microsoft specific: They are also not going to develop any native apps for WP, and the only for RT/8 is Modern Chrome and a search app. If I were a major shareholder, I'd want Google to get on both platforms, because they have millions of users. 1.7 billion devices were sold last year, and WP has 2.6-3% of this market (at least). If we go by 2.6%, that's equated to 44 million WP devices (if I got the US billion definition right). Win 8 has now sold 60 mill licenses.
To make Microsoft even more irrelevant, Schmidt has come up with the idea of a "gang of four" group in tech. When asked why MS wasn't on the list, he actually said it was deliberate. In case you wondered who's on the list and why, it's Google, Apple, Amazon, and Facebook because they have built platforms that are driving today’s consumer revolution in technology.
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Technically, Google can do lots of bad things and still "do no evil."
Corporations aren't evil, they're amoral. They are willing--even obligated--to do bad things at times, but only out of self-interest and normally not out of malice.
So, yeah, "do no evil" sounds nice, but it's meaningless. Corporations in general aren't evil, but that doesn't make them good.
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Well, Google is a bussines, and regardless of their motto, they can do whatever they want with their tools, you can complain, however they're not obligated to help you (nor to hear you), because, guess what?, you are not their customer, you're just a product for their advertisers, and products don't complain  .
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I detest the way Google handles PICASA links by routing them to Google Plus and totally screwing them up! I use PICASA for a reason; the great layout. Google Plus is not anywhere near the same and really causes confusion at the receivers' end.
This is definitely a BAD thing!
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When I work at the office I like to have a full plan. But at other times I am not afraid to be a cowboy coder. I have opened up an IDE with a vague idea of what I am going to write and just went to town, coming up with something amazing. Perhaps it is inspired by something I saw someone else do. Maybe I wanted to see how something worked and plunked a function down and tried to wire it up to some test code. Either way, I think every programmer needs to do a little bit of hacking to keep their mind sharp and open to new ideas. “This is how it must be done” vs. "What happens when I do this?"
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Not every code is refractored. There are some decompilers for .Net apps to. Even if the decompiled ones do not compile, they give you an overview of classes and concepts used. 
Many cool web apps uses javascipt and invariably their reference is present in the html form and typing javascipt with site address loads the source file itself.
I dont hack, I use these common sense knowledge when I am struck
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This post/program (as I’m writing it in literate style) is a continuation of my previous posts about functional programming in C++. I promise I’m not going to post about doing it in assembly language (I think). I came to like the simplicity of C very much and got interested in how you could write functional code in it.... So, in summary, this post is about how you can write functional code in C, perhaps with some gcc extensions and certainly with some macro tricks. Let’s call it funkyC (thanks Ian ). I’m going to show how to use it first. A very opinionated piece. I like it.
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Luca Bolognese's introduction to F#[^] is probably one of the funniest technical videos I've seen.
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In languages whose syntax is derived from C (e.g.: C ← C++ ← Java ← JavaScript), two brace styles are most common: Allman style and 1TBS. In JavaScript, you should use... Pro tip: when someone pays you to write code for them, use whatever style they prefer.
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Yes, but those are both wrong.
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Indeed, symetrical bracing is the only way to go, and for gods sake use tabs instead of 4-spaces - super way to bloat your code files...
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TABs  look horrible in Notepad or when typed to the command line or for code I copy to OpenVMS. SPACEs always look right.
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Fair enough if you're a programmer that actually does code in differeent environments...but if you only ever code in VS (and/or use a Notepad replacement like Notepad++) then space-spacing is awful.
TBH - I always code with whitespace showing and I a bit anal about extraneous whitespace - I hate it, it's untidy
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I use SPACEs in VS too and they're great.
Kyudos wrote: I hate it, it's untidy
I lurve whitespace. Yum yum yum. ![Jig | [Dance]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/jig.gif)
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I like whitespace, just not unecessary whitespace. Nothing is more irksome than a blank line with whitespace on it...
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Oh, sure, so my editor trims when it loads and saves.
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PIEBALDconsult wrote: but those are both wrong
There is no right or wrong when it comes to opinions.
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You're wrong, in my opinion. 
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I’m a full visually-able user and I love looking at websites. I know though, that not everyone experiences websites in the same way. Browsing websites at different screen sizes is a hot topic at the moment, but lets not forget that it’s not just mobile users that experience websites differently, blind users experience them in a way you might not even realise. So I started using a screen reader to see (I suppose I should say “experience”) how a blind user navigates a website. In the country of the blind, the Lynx-compliant site is king.
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"I think we’ve got a moral obligation however to help blind users navigate the web"
That's an interesting comment - but the reality is that this isn't just a moral obligation, in some countries this is also a legal obligation. Here, in the UK, this is covered by the Disability Discrimination Act.
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Yes, but as far as I'm aware nobody has yet been prosecuted for failing to comply with this on a website.
I've tried arguing for this at a couple of previous employers, but their attitude is its not worth the hassle as there's little chance of prosecution.
Morally objectionable, but seems to be standard business practice.
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Rob Grainger wrote: Morally objectionable, but seems to be standard business practice.
Indeed, but the RNIB is beginning to make moves on this here in the UK.
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I'm really glad to hear that.
Interestingly, good accessible web design often overlaps with good web design anyway - not only do you improve accessibility, but as a side effect your site is easier to search, more adaptive to browser differences, ...
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In this post I use ScriptCraft, Minecraft, and L-systems to create fun in-game fractals and discuss how you can too. ScriptCraft is a Minecraft mod that allows you to run JavaScript inside the game using the Java Rhino library. L-systems were originally created by a Hungarian botanist named Aristid Lindenmayer who was interested in modeling plant growth. You can model arboreal growth, brush and shrubs, and also roots (by changing the modeling environment a bit to bring about different tropisms). You can do more than model trees though – there are tons of interesting fractals to make... Pro tip: make you sure experiment with lava and water for cool 2D fractals turned 3D.
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