Thursday, July 31
I wonder why gmail Contacts feature is so slow.
It used to be fast. But then some gmail programmer did a "fancy version" with ajaxy stuff (oh so 2008) and yet, as is the case with most software, this "fancy stuff" actually deteriorated the software performance (and thus usability).
Given how obsessed Google is with performance monitoring, it makes me wonder what about the gmail team lets that bad programmer get away with such a crappy rewrite?
I would not be surprised if there were something dysfunctional about the gmail engineering team which allowed that programmer to get away with this. Perhaps the Contacts coder has a Big Title (/arrogance) and is left alone by a weak manager.
Wdyt?¶4:42 AM
It used to be fast. But then some gmail programmer did a "fancy version" with ajaxy stuff (oh so 2008) and yet, as is the case with most software, this "fancy stuff" actually deteriorated the software performance (and thus usability).
Given how obsessed Google is with performance monitoring, it makes me wonder what about the gmail team lets that bad programmer get away with such a crappy rewrite?
I would not be surprised if there were something dysfunctional about the gmail engineering team which allowed that programmer to get away with this. Perhaps the Contacts coder has a Big Title (/arrogance) and is left alone by a weak manager.
Wdyt?¶4:42 AM
