Periodic

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by Periodic 10y ago
The cloud is all about scale and only having to rent resources when you need them. If you have your home server you have to buy and maintain and pay for those resources at all times. When you make a quick cloud request you only "pay&
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by Periodic 10y ago
Thank you for pointing this out! I glossed over it in the title, but it is bears special attention to avoid falling into any traps of rhetoric. There definitely seems to be a trend in diet right now to search for the "natural" cu
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by Periodic 10y ago
Part of the problem is that they want to change the backends too. Hangouts had a lot of problems. Allo is their way of trying to create a clean slate and break away from the legacy of Hangouts. They can still keep Hangouts for some thing
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by Periodic 10y ago
I remember my grandparents trying to make sure they got all their evening chores done so they could sit down age watch Wheel of Fortune when it came on. They didn't have a lot of free time on weeknights, but it was because of how they
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by Periodic 10y ago
Can you say more? What makes the difference between correct and incorrect instrumentation? What are the powerful features that it has that the others don't? In short, how do we make a Jira install into something powerful and useful?
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by Periodic 10y ago
What I find most illuminating about the deep software theory is it helps me understand why things are best practices. There are a lot of things that are good to do, but understanding deeply how the compiler things and how the languages a
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by Periodic 10y ago
Just a year ago I was on a project that involved building a tree of data and we wanted the ability to try adding a few things and backtrack to multiple different points if it didn't work out, so there was a lot of shared data in the tr
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by Periodic 10y ago
If the problem is that you can't get a job if you're not in the club, why not join the club? I used to work at Google and I did a lot of interviews. I loved when we finally got an experienced engineer in to interview. I could st
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by Periodic 10y ago
Exactly, that confused me too. It would be like saying all the schools cost the same because the interest rate for student loans is the same regardless of amount. There is a huge difference between paying 5% on $1,000 and 5% on $100,000.
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by Periodic 11y ago
I had associated it with survivors/metaphysical guilt. It's similar to the guilt that survivors feel when an accident happens and injures/kills others but not them. It's not that we did anything wrong to be ashamed of,
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by Periodic 11y ago
Perhaps you work in a different part of Google than I do, but I've been here for four years and I see many good engineers getting pushed into management roles to advance their careers. Their job title is still that of an engineer, but
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by Periodic 11y ago
I'm in the process of moving to Sacramento from San Jose. My wife and I sat down and looked at what made us happy and we decided that living in Silicon Valley was not high on our list. I'm tired of the costs and crowding. The co
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by Periodic 11y ago
They still push Microsoft products pretty heavily in universities. I was very happy when I went off to university to be able to easily get keys for products like Windows, Office and Visual Studio. Our CS department had something set up an
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by Periodic 11y ago
As someone who has worked at Google for a few years, I can't agree with the author's characterization of tech behemoths. While they have embraced the start-up mode of doing things for some new projects and are very free with thei
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by Periodic 11y ago
It could have had better supporting arguments and evidence, but I couldn't find enough of it and just skimmed to the end to make sure I wasn't missing it.
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by Periodic 11y ago
Those countries are getting wealthier and the economics of the world are slowly shifting. We have maybe 1-2B people online with capable devices and abundant bandwidth. That leaves 5B yet to connect and another 3B who will want to connect
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by Periodic 11y ago
Another scary thought: What if the person thinks this is clever and admirable code? I think many of us spend a lot of time in our ecosystems and we might lose sight of what's outside. If someone spent all their days writing complicate
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by Periodic 11y ago
Isn't that basically what we did with doctypes? HTML has a lot of similar issues and it has slowly managed to move forward. The real benefit was not having to mix old and new code and getting rid of all the quirks by requiring you sp
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by Periodic 11y ago
For me it's all about stress. Typically I can't get myself to fall asleep before 1am. Whenever I go to bed it just takes 1-2 hours to fall asleep. I just can't get my mind to shut off. I struggle to get up at 9:30am and n
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by Periodic 11y ago
What really stood out to me was the idea that the current climate of shooting for an acquisition as a primary exit strategy is due to the threat of the entrenched goliaths of the industry and the concentration of power they have in terms of
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by Periodic 11y ago
I just realized that when I want to use drive I open a new tab and type "drive" and let auto-complete do the rest. Since Google has hidden the other properties behind the grid icon I've completely forgotten they were there.
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by Periodic 11y ago
The biggest difference between Android and Chrome OS for me as a user is how it handles user multi-tasking. I've tried using an Android tablet for work. It's nigh impossible, even with a keyboard because it doesn't support m
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by Periodic 11y ago
Losing your PIN generator would actually be a lot easier with the government than with companies like Google. Most government already have a branch in every major town (post office or DMV). We already have a pretty simple system for distr
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by Periodic 11y ago
I don't think the graph says which request types are more or less common. The ordering could be arbitrary. It would be interesting to know why some are slower. Perhaps they require very little processing and so the time becomes domin
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by Periodic 11y ago
It really shows what an investment they are willing to make in the language. They aren't just training up internal engineers, they're bringing in some of the best in the community. I'm hugely excited that Facebook is making
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by Periodic 12y ago
I made the mistake of moving 18 miles (San Jose) from where I work (Mountain View). Two years ago traffic wasn't bad but I swear it's getting worse. If I leave the house at 9:00 it takes 45-60 minutes to get to work. If there&#
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by Periodic 12y ago
As an engineer at Google a key difference from some other companies is how few meetings I have. I have less then 10 hours of meetings per week, and they are all scheduled between 11am and 4pm. There's also plenty of less-formal meetin
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by Periodic 12y ago
I dislike this strongly. It is attempting to demean a group of people without really giving them a fair chance. It exaggerates and vilifies the "enterprise programmer" while lionizing the young-but-inexperienced smart programmer
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by Periodic 12y ago
I did my undergraduate in Physics and Mathematics about ten years ago now. When I started the program I wanted to be a researcher and delve into the secrets of the universe. I quickly discovered that it wasn't for me and moved into C
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by Periodic 12y ago
What I think is the future for workstations and laptops is a web-integrated OS. Take Chrome OS as an example. These devices become more and more powerful as more and more of our data moves into the cloud. I don't think anyone actual

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