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721.
by Drbble 15y ago
A terminal masters degree by itself is a signal for the ability to write a pair of $20K checks. The requirements for a masters are far less rigorous than the requirements for a bachelors at the same institution.
722.
by Drbble 15y ago
Google is an inclusive, supportive environment, and though. The vast majority of hires (but perhaps not no-hires, of which there are more voices) say Google is the best job they ever had. Google employees and management aren't perfect, but
723.
by Drbble 15y ago
I haven't seen Google worse than similar companies on that front. Interviewing is stressful for everyone. Remember that Google hires engineers and makes them interview. It doesn't hire people for interviewing talent. (But they probably shou
724.
by Drbble 15y ago
What does metaprogramming have to do with that complaint though? It is trivial to generate lawsuit without regard to feedback. Watch: Does Google have family leave? --6 weeks, paid. Did I get the job? --No Because I plan to have kids??? Se
725.
by Drbble 15y ago
My company's was sued by a candidate because we offered him coffee and he glommed onto that as religious discrimination. There is no legal exposure from giving feedback. Some people will sue if they want, and some people will discriminate (
726.
by Drbble 15y ago
Eh, Google went evil, Facebook was chartered evil, Msft overflowed and is back to good.
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by Drbble 15y ago
Brooks oversimplified a bit. In a large organization, more PMs and subdivindings into groups are necessary. Hierarchy isn't.
728.
by Drbble 15y ago
I realize my comment is redundant because you already said "infographic", but that image is garbage. The salary numbers are incredibly misleading, since they ignore stock or are an arbitrary sample.
729.
by Drbble 15y ago
Without mobile ad analytics, prices are inefficient and therefore ads are biased to the most profitable buyers, not the highest quality. Do you have any reason to suspect that quality is more profitable?
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by Drbble 15y ago
FYI your cutoff idea is what Google actually does. Ad quality is a problem Google works on. The main complaint people have is that Google doesn't do a good enough job of overruling users "for their own good" when those users are consistentl
731.
by Drbble 15y ago
Aka the real world. Google ads stink? Turn on kiosk mode and load wikipedia before letting your kid on the computer. Or just download some quality content and unplug the network cable, which is probably the best idea anyway.
732.
by Drbble 15y ago
Interesting question: for younger folks who weren't aware of the Altria name change, does anyone think Altria is not a criminal enterprise?
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by Drbble 15y ago
Google's ads are the single easiest-to-block set of ads in the history of mankind, online or meatspace. The simple fact that most folks don't bother to block then show that either they aren't too negative, or people are so dumb and lazy tha
734.
by Drbble 15y ago
Not pedantic, it's the core of the issue. Also, it is not obvious how much much of Google's ad profit is extraction (via being the monopolistic intermediary running an auction) vs creating genuinely novel introductions between buyers and se
735.
by Drbble 15y ago
Fun fact: Amazon and Microsoft have done "devops" since before the word was invented. Google and Microsoft do not. As usual, the correct answer is "don't hire idiots" and "do have clear policies, tools, and audits", not "don't allow person
736.
by Drbble 15y ago
You think PCI law can tell the difference between a developer and a sysadmin?
737.
by Drbble 15y ago
The lack of rigor in your explanation undermines the point you are trying to make. You have definitions in your head that you are not expressing in a meaningful way. Ungrounded intuition just doesn't help when reasoning about infinity. The
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by Drbble 15y ago
What user would ever care what a status code means? For users, there are two status codes: "200 OK" and "^200 Not OK and the webmaster has been notified"
739.
by Drbble 15y ago
The more my IDE does, the more I am expected to do above and beyond what the IDE does.
740.
by Drbble 15y ago
Parent is talking about beautiful schema, not a beautiful query planner. If you are capable of understanding the concept of abstraction and encapsulation, you can design a good system knowing the performance characteristics of your componen
741.
by Drbble 15y ago
You cleverly designed a system to con your way into a job you knew you would hate? Congratulations....?
742.
by Drbble 15y ago
Some of us are looking for grad school eggheads, and pay a lot for it.
743.
by Drbble 15y ago
Bitterness is extremely easy to detect and is one of thered flag culture-fit no-hire reasons at my office. Passion is passion. Bad pay is bad pay. They are orthogonal.
744.
by Drbble 15y ago
"low paid googlers" is an interesting phrase. Took me a moment to get it, and disambiguate from "high-paid Googlers"
745.
by Drbble 15y ago
Have they seen clicked and fixed the broken android app yet?
746.
by Drbble 15y ago
How do you keep yourself from rifling through the deck to find the Aces when you play solitaire?
747.
by Drbble 15y ago
If you like this, you may enjoy the ICFP 2006 Cult of the Bound Variable puzzle http://www.boundvariable.org/task.shtml
748.
by Drbble 15y ago
The competition was "Teach Stripe the fundamentals of computer security". Resource quotas is one of those fundamentals.
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by Drbble 15y ago
Are you sure that job offer would be open in a year or few down the road? Why not bank the Plan B security money first before launching a startup?
750.
by Drbble 15y ago
But don't confuse money (which can be inflated an has no inherent unit of conversion to the material world or labor) with material wealth. If everyone had, say, a Star Trek 3-D printer and power/atom supply, we'd all be pretty well off.

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