<story><title>Google Timer is gone</title><url>https://www.google.com/search?q=6+minute+timer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>From that thread, a viable replacement that managed to survive the Google onslaught:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.online-stopwatch.com&amp;#x2F;timer&amp;#x2F;1hour&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.online-stopwatch.com&amp;#x2F;timer&amp;#x2F;1hour&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also from that thread, a Google engineer saying (out of context:) &amp;quot;We want our users be able to depend on our features and services, and if you can&amp;#x27;t do that, we&amp;#x27;re letting you down.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;How long before Google realizes that these casual shut-downs of side projects are harming their image tremendously?</text></item><item><author>tyingq</author><text>Since this post is recording its death, here&amp;#x27;s the HN post that recorded its birth:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=6429564&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=6429564&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Another blog post from someone that noticed it: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;googlesystem.blogspot.com&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;google-timer.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;googlesystem.blogspot.com&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;google-timer.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joezydeco</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not even side projects!&lt;p&gt;The Google i18n font repo (&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;googlei18n&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;github.com&amp;#x2F;googlei18n&lt;/a&gt;) went private all of a sudden in the last few weeks and it broke my Yocto build (and hey boot2Qt team, if you&amp;#x27;re listening, you&amp;#x27;re broken too).&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve been steadfast in not adopting &lt;i&gt;any&lt;/i&gt; of the Google toy side-projects (e.g. Brillo, Weave, Things, etc etc) but now I&amp;#x27;m expanding that rule to anything and everything from them at all, including AOSP.  It&amp;#x27;s all quicksand.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google Timer is gone</title><url>https://www.google.com/search?q=6+minute+timer</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jacquesm</author><text>From that thread, a viable replacement that managed to survive the Google onslaught:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.online-stopwatch.com&amp;#x2F;timer&amp;#x2F;1hour&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.online-stopwatch.com&amp;#x2F;timer&amp;#x2F;1hour&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also from that thread, a Google engineer saying (out of context:) &amp;quot;We want our users be able to depend on our features and services, and if you can&amp;#x27;t do that, we&amp;#x27;re letting you down.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;How long before Google realizes that these casual shut-downs of side projects are harming their image tremendously?</text></item><item><author>tyingq</author><text>Since this post is recording its death, here&amp;#x27;s the HN post that recorded its birth:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=6429564&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&amp;#x2F;item?id=6429564&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Edit: Another blog post from someone that noticed it: &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;googlesystem.blogspot.com&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;google-timer.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;googlesystem.blogspot.com&amp;#x2F;2013&amp;#x2F;08&amp;#x2F;google-timer.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>johnebgd</author><text>When they have lost revenue enough quarters in a row that they have to shuffle and start doing business differently.&lt;p&gt;Until something big changes they reap record profits off our data and people continue to be the product while their customers continue to be the advertisers.</text></comment>