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by Spoom 5y ago
> If you connect your Android phone to your corporate Google account, you will be required to install the corp monitoring software suite, which (among other things) includes both location tracking and nuke-from-orbit features. My underst
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by Spoom 6y ago
If you see this (a quoted precise query that doesn't search as precise, without a disclaimer at the top), can you send me the query? I'd like to look into it if it's not just returning zero results and falling back to a non-
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by Spoom 6y ago
A small but growing handful of my team hired last year are Canadian and waiting for COVID to abate before moving to the US. I myself moved to the US from Canada a decade ago. The brain drain is real. If you're open to a move, good co
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by Spoom 6y ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Precise+queries+also+no+l... Maybe you meant something different?
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by Spoom 6y ago
Chrome will let you select multiple tabs; click on the one on the right, shift-click on the leftmost you want to close, Ctrl-W. Not quite the same thing, I know.
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by Spoom 6y ago
Because the fact that it's (in theory) anonymous means that most people think that it also cannot be regulated by laws. People just don't outright say that though because it might sound like enabling fraud, tax evasion, and other
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by Spoom 6y ago
I haven't worked there, but isn't Apple famously siloed, even internally? My impression was that there were many areas that could not tell even other Apple employees what they were working on.
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by Spoom 6y ago
There are scenarios where there is not a clear cause that is within the person's control. Granted, I think your suggestions are great places to start, and helpful for many. That said, some cases of depression cannot be effectively tr
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by Spoom 6y ago
As others have said, this means different things at different companies, but in general: Junior to Mid: Become independently and predictably productive. Mid to Senior: Mentor Juniors and Mids, and lead projects competently.
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by Spoom 6y ago
These exist, but they're quite a bit more expensive. They're really nice to have though, and one reason I sometimes miss the office. https://meetingdevices.withgoogle.com/ I bet there is similar hardware the works
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by Spoom 6y ago
Fun fact, they did this with luggage locks. Long story short, TSA master keys are readily available on the internet.
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by Spoom 6y ago
I hit the plateau but managed to break into FAANG, which doesn't seem to have the same plateau. In Cleveland, the plateau seemed to hover around $100K - $120K. I think FAANG or certain unicorn startups avoid the ceiling that most com
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by Spoom 6y ago
My first present to my wife was a Sudoku generator (written in PHP) that she could use at work, since other entertainment websites were blocked.
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by Spoom 6y ago
Nowadays, at least on Android (though I think iOS has something similar now?), one can have a work profile, and the employer can only control activity in / monitor / wipe that profile. Most employers have switched to that for per
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by Spoom 6y ago
One thought is that gift cards could have a one day delay before they can be spent. I'd imagine that 90% of gift cards are intended as presents anyway and thus would be unaffected, but the delay would still grant a cancellation window
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by Spoom 6y ago
I don't know but I call it "the stack". If the stack gets big enough, it can get overwhelming. Maybe it would make sense to have a todo list organized like a hierarchical bullet point list for things like these... where you
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by Spoom 7y ago
Having added a few work accounts to my phone over the years, the verbiage that the phone gives you is at least very specific (at least on Android) as to what power the employer has with your phone. At one point, a prior employer tried to
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by Spoom 7y ago
Have you attempted the normal account recovery flow? https://accounts.google.com/signin/recovery If so, please let me know what happened.
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by Spoom 7y ago
Probably immediately since it's likely driven by a bot. They likely don't actually claim to own the copyright, just that you haven't negotiated a license for the image with them (they probably avoid mentioning that you don&#
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by Spoom 7y ago
I believe comments, posts, and votes are placed into a queue and later (seconds usually) committed to the database. They're not visible to the public until they're committed (but they make the UI act like it's already there f
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by Spoom 7y ago
I'm convinced they're going to pull a Twitter and privatize their APIs, disabling third party apps.
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by Spoom 7y ago
Could one make the case that this client library enabled interoperability, since it allows one to use Instagram services on a previously unsupported device (e.g. a computer)?
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by Spoom 7y ago
The fact that that office exists was a major reason I was able to consider them as an employer. I'd already looked at SF / NYC as options and basically priced myself out because I'd be moving with my family, and I wanted a ho
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by Spoom 7y ago
FWIW as a Pittsburgh Googler, I haven't experienced the air issues personally. That said, I don't live near the office. It seems like the issues are a lot more obvious to those who live near Bakery Square.
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by Spoom 7y ago
Fun fact: The CAW tried to unionize a call center I worked at once. At the time, I was pretty confused.
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by Spoom 7y ago
I think it's very likely that they wanted you to question the ethics there. I don't know what your interview was like though. Googler, opinions are my own.
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by Spoom 7y ago
They do. You can turn it off entirely in most (all?) cases.
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by Spoom 7y ago
FWIW in both my interview loops at Google, I've had a call with the recruiter before any kind of tech screen. I think that's standard practice. May vary when considering interns / new grads, I'm not sure.
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by Spoom 7y ago
Google uses Federated Learning to ensure your privacy while being able to use machine learning to e.g. improve suggestions. 1. Federated learning paper as relates to keyboard [PDF]: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.02903.pdf
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by Spoom 7y ago
Seems like they're finding the path.

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