Great rant from a Google employee on G+

[kallistixf]

Steve Yegge of Google wrote an excellent rant on G+'s issue.  He's since taken it down, but copies are available -- for example on Hacker News.  Worth reading.

What's interesting is that he intended it for internal use, but instead posted it publicly.  Oops.   Yet another great example of how Circles don't necessarily solve all privacy problems. 
 

Comments

[kallistixf]

Very true. When I do have multiple accounts on a site I use different browsers and (where possible) different color schemes and fonts to give myself cues about where I am ... but at Google they probably use Chrome for everything.

[puzzlement]

It would make sense for Google to make sure it is styled differently at this point, if they haven't already, I suppose. They seem to have decided that Yegge's post is basically recruitment material ("look at our robust internal debate") but it seems from eg In the Plex (and just plain old SEC regulations) that if he'd leaked financials that way it would have gone badly for him.