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    Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc 15 Aug 2018
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    Patrick Collison Retweeted Patrick McKenzie

    Google Docs is a great product saddled with a series of rather baffling product decisions, from below to visibility of physical paper page breaks(?!) to comically user-hostile URLs.https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1029650192629256192?s=21 …

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    Patrick McKenzie @patio11
    I do not think I have ever been so flabbergasted at a product decision as Google Doc's constant attempts to convince me that I am not literate at the English language. In today's entry: it flagged "neither" with the dreaded spellcheck squiggle of doom. Drumroll please: pic.twitter.com/zZVvqqzYUB
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    • Nick Candito 🌥 Charrua Rebel Ryan Lackey PJ A Atul Acharya Katia Damer, PhD Jason Leo Carvalho Benjamin Encz Misbah Ashraf 🤷‍♂️
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      2. Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc 15 Aug 2018
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        Favorite example remains Google merrily switching your search results to Icelandic (or whatever) when you travel, despite your account and session being profiled, cookied, and tracked seventeen ways to Sunday. The world’s most advanced tracking engine!

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      3. Patrick Collison‏Verified account @patrickc 15 Aug 2018
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        But the people at Google are very smart. So I think this mostly just reflects how oddly hard making good software products remains. What feedback loops have we yet to devise? Field is still young…

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      2. tylercowen‏Verified account @tylercowen 15 Aug 2018
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        Those physical page breaks are how I derive my feeling of accomplishment!

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      3. Renee DiResta‏Verified account @noUpside 15 Aug 2018
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        Replying to @tylercowen @patrickc

        (Try Dropbox paper!)

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      2. Jori Lallo‏ @jorilallo 15 Aug 2018
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        Replying to @patrickc

        They could do so much more with the dashboard; actually surface documents, recent activity/comments

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      3. Utkarsh Sengar‏ @utsengar 15 Aug 2018
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        That’s where @usefyi is useful.

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      1. Jorge Camargo‏ @jcmrgo 15 Aug 2018
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        For me the more perplexing issue is how bad the search is in Google Drive (slow & inaccurate). I guess "To organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful" doesn't include my docs & spreadsheets 🤷‍♂️

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      2. Simon Willison‏Verified account @simonw 15 Aug 2018
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        Google appear to have a strong internal cultural bias against good URLs (see most of their products - although the best example is Google Wave which didn't have linkable content at all!) - utterly bizarre for a search engine company

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      3. Peter Higgins‏ @phiggins 15 Aug 2018
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        Hangouts uses typable urls if you know the room name ...

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      1. Andy Cook‏ @AndyGCook 15 Aug 2018
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        Would love for you to checkout http://Tettra.co , Patrick. Working on ironing out some of the obvious flaws with shared document tools like Google Docs, and a whole lot more. Similar to Stripe Home but for every company. We’re loyal Stripe customers too.

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