babycakes

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by babycakes 14y ago
In my experience, yes. It's not that they don't look for things with practical results. It's just that there's no incentive to continue beyond the point where you demonstrate the contribution.
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by babycakes 15y ago
Google Data Center Security video from 2011: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SCZzgfdTBo It's probably not going to stop heavily armed invaders, but nobody's going to sneak onto the data center floor.
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by babycakes 15y ago
It can be objectively measured. Tubes tend to produce even harmonics, which are pleasing to the human ear. The even harmonics sound like octaves of the original pitch, creating a rich sound. Solid state tends towards a mix of even and od
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by babycakes 15y ago
I grew up in Mississippi playing Peavey gear dreaming of designing it. Now, I have a PhD in electrical and computer engineering. I don't do audio electronics, but I might not have even considered EE if not for this man.
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by babycakes 15y ago
So, they replaced the plastic bottle of water with a plastic bottle of flavored water-like beverage. Sounds like an environmental win to me.
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by babycakes 15y ago
I purchased my Civic hybrid as insurance. At the time, gas was $4.65/gal, so I decided to take the chance. Turns out that it was the peak in 2008. You win some, you lose some. The Civic is still a nice low maintenance car with a 10 year
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by babycakes 16y ago
Maybe I'm getting old, picky, arrogant, or some other malady, but I am simply uninterested in working at a company that asks these types of riddles. There are many more practical ways to gauge people's thought processes, and I'd like to th
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by babycakes 16y ago
While I appreciate the inductive nature of this problem, this problem is more likely to demonstrate that the candidate has done a Google search for interview questions ( http://www.google.com/search?q=google+interview+questions ) than an un
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by babycakes 16y ago
Cyberspace: I'd purchase the last 20 songs I bookmarked on Pandora.com. Meatspace: I'd go play skeeball with my wife.
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by babycakes 16y ago
It is unnecessary to work that hard at it to enjoy it. SC2 matches you against players of equivalent skill level. It may be an ego bruise to be in the bronze level instead of platinum or diamond, but you can still have fun with it. /silve
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by babycakes 16y ago
No, it is not a myth, but you have to take the initiative.
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by babycakes 16y ago
Fallout 3 had no sense of moral ambiguity and limited dialogue options. More importantly, it didn't have an ending that you create for yourself. I felt robbed when it showed what I had done instead of what happened to the world after I le
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by babycakes 16y ago
[citation needed]
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by babycakes 16y ago
> buy a bigger memory chip per unit, adding one dollar to the cost -> charge $1 extra for your $300 unit Devices containing little enough memory where techniques like this are useful rarely cost $300 per unit.
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by babycakes 16y ago
177 x 50 terminal window + ssh + GNU screen + side-by-side emacs (C-x 3, M-x ansi-term) I use a MacBook Pro with a persistent screen session on my Linux desktop. I could use my Linux desktop, but I'm a bit of an OS X snob. When I context
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by babycakes 16y ago
I also find this a sensitive subject. I always thought that the learning process was held up by the need to constantly reinforce things I learned a long time ago. For example, electrical circuits classes at Purdue do not allow you to use c
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by babycakes 16y ago
> Who wants to go to the suburbs!? People who like space between them and their sociopathic neighbors? I had a passive-aggressive downstairs neighbor who would never tell me if I was disturbing her; she went straight to the apartment of
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by babycakes 16y ago
Among my team within Google, the people with kids live in the South or East Bay. Those without live in San Francisco. The only ones I know living on the peninsula just moved to the area and haven't migrated to the extremes, yet.
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by babycakes 17y ago
Sometimes they don't even bother having you sign up. I had a bottle of this crap show up in my mailbox about a year ago indicating that I had two weeks to cancel my subscription before they started charging me. However, I had never even h
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by babycakes 17y ago
From http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2010/02/22/googl... “These fuel cells aren’t powering any off-site data centers,” said a Google spokesperson. “Instead, Bloom fuel cells are powering a portion of Google’s energy needs at o
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by babycakes 17y ago
They did. The guy who wrote moderator originally works on data center power management, so they recently hired somebody else to clean it up for public consumption.
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by babycakes 17y ago
Google doesn't ask questions like these. In fact, they train interviewers to _not_ ask questions like these.
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by babycakes 17y ago
They have me a copy of that book during my orientation at Google, along with a series of other books on the core languages used within Google. Obviously, it's up to every engineer to put that to good use, but the company is making an effor
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by babycakes 17y ago
I'm unaware of a truly great basic circuits book, but if you get one, choose one for electrical engineers. Physicists flip the direction of current flow, which is mathematically equivalent but confusing. Once you learn basic circuits, Sed
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by babycakes 17y ago
I went from the University of Arkansas (sub-top 100, electrical engineering) into the direct Ph.D. program at Purdue University (top 10, electrical and computer engineering) with a three-year fellowship. Among my classmates were students f
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by babycakes 17y ago
Sounds just like our situation. I've been playing guitar for 15 years now. My 30 year-old wife just picked up the guitar. She's doing quite well. I spend about 15 minutes per day helping her with her technique and giving her a new exerci
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by babycakes 17y ago
I did that during an interview for a power company in 2002. I had decided already that I had zero interest in working for them, so I figured I might as well have fun with it. There was nervous laughter from his side of the table.
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by babycakes 17y ago
No. Scores remain secret, even if you are hired.
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by babycakes 17y ago
> I go to a "name brand" college (Carnegie Mellon, you can disagree if you'd like) and there are LOTS of CS majors who don't know anything. That was my impression of ECE at Purdue University (a top 10 graduate school at the time, unsure
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by babycakes 17y ago
> But if anything, I feel superior for having accomplished what I have with graduating from a "no-name-brand" school. I am motivated to try harder at work because I feel like I'm fighting for all smaller school graduates in a company fu

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