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I think it's really cool that Google is so motivated about creating and releasing educational content that anyone can use to become a great developer. Their tec

I think it's really cool that Google is so motivated about creating and releasing educational content that anyone can use to become a great developer. Their tech dev guide is also pretty helpful (although in fairness, their cloud education does focus on GCP pretty heavily).

pm90 7y ago
Google's play seems to be to encourage more and more folks to learn CS and be interested in learning programming and AI. Google Research, GSoC, PhD research grants, publishing their results in leading journals, and their OSS contributions all point to a company that is a friend of programmers and academics. For these very reasons, the company is viewed very positively outside of SV. On the contrary, I don't see a similar desire to contribute back from Amazon, Apple, Facebook or Netflix (although the last 2 do contribute a ton to OSS).
- codingslave 7y ago
  Most of googles evangelization of tech and AI is a marketing and adoption strategy for google compute engine. Which is fine, but it should be seen for what it is
  - cameronbrown 7y ago
    Disclaimer: I am personally benefiting from a long-term Google educational programme. My response to this is: so what? Of course they're going to encourage new developers to use their products - it's only natural they'd teach their own stuff and not AWS/Azure. Developers aren't really influencers (sadly) in the purchasing for cloud infra so I'm not sure that it's a straight up marketing campaign.
  - xiphias2 7y ago
    Google was publishing very important distributed computing papers and other research even when they didn’t have cloud offering in mind. It’t a great hiring strategy, as many researchers prefer to work at a company where they can get recognition from publishing academic papers.
- rficcaglia 7y ago
  30 seconds googling yields....Amazon (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/amazons-own-machine-learning-university-now-available-to-all-developers/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/amazons-own-ma...), Apple (https://opensource.apple.com/ https://opensource.apple.com/, https://github.com/apple/turicreate https://github.com/apple/turicreate)

pm90 7y ago

Google's play seems to be to encourage more and more folks to learn CS and be interested in learning programming and AI. Google Research, GSoC, PhD research grants, publishing their results in leading journals, and their OSS contributions all point to a company that is a friend of programmers and academics. For these very reasons, the company is viewed very positively outside of SV. On the contrary, I don't see a similar desire to contribute back from Amazon, Apple, Facebook or Netflix (although the last 2 do contribute a ton to OSS).

codingslave 7y ago
Most of googles evangelization of tech and AI is a marketing and adoption strategy for google compute engine. Which is fine, but it should be seen for what it is
- cameronbrown 7y ago
  Disclaimer: I am personally benefiting from a long-term Google educational programme. My response to this is: so what? Of course they're going to encourage new developers to use their products - it's only natural they'd teach their own stuff and not AWS/Azure. Developers aren't really influencers (sadly) in the purchasing for cloud infra so I'm not sure that it's a straight up marketing campaign.
- xiphias2 7y ago
  Google was publishing very important distributed computing papers and other research even when they didn’t have cloud offering in mind. It’t a great hiring strategy, as many researchers prefer to work at a company where they can get recognition from publishing academic papers.
rficcaglia 7y ago
30 seconds googling yields....Amazon (https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/amazons-own-machine-learning-university-now-available-to-all-developers/ https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/machine-learning/amazons-own-ma...), Apple (https://opensource.apple.com/ https://opensource.apple.com/, https://github.com/apple/turicreate https://github.com/apple/turicreate)