Are Googlers Too Smart For Their Own Good?

theodp writes "If you're a mere mortal, don't be surprised if your first reaction to Google Storage for Developers is 'WTF?!' Offering the kind of 'user-friendly' API one might expect from a bunch of computer science Ph.D.s, Google Storage even manages to overcomplicate the simple act of copying files. Which raises the question: Are Googlers with 'world-class programming skills' capable of producing straightforward, simple-to-use programming interfaces for ordinary humans?"pa href="http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fdevelopers.slashdot.org% 2Fstory%2F10%2F05%2F21%2F1427245%2FAre-Googlers-Too-Smart-For-Their-Own-Good" target="_blank" title="Share on Facebook"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png"/a a href="http://twitter.com/home?status=Are+Googlers+Too+Smart+For+Their+Own+G ood%3F%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FduK9cR" target="_blank" title="Share on Twitter"img src="http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png"/a/ppa href="http://developers.slashdot.org/story/10/05/21/1427245/Are-Googlers-Too-Smart-For-Their-Own-Good?from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./ppa href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/psUyFaLVn3PYW-N1mBkW0hP6dxA/0/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/psUyFaLVn3PYW-N1mBkW0hP6dxA/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/abr/a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/psUyFaLVn3PYW-N1mBkW0hP6dxA/1/da"img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~at/psUyFaLVn3PYW-N1mBkW0hP6dxA/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotDevelopers/~4/Uu3Tje7a7WQ" height="1" width="1"/

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