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by delroth 10y ago
I spend 10-20% of my time at Google (depending on the needs) developing and maintaining an internal tool that is used by 100-1000 engineers across 10-100 teams (not including my current team). Not only have my last 3 managers been extremely
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by delroth 10y ago
Piper is not built on top of Mercurial.
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Dolphin Emulator Progress Report – January 2017(dolphin-emu.org)
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by delroth 10y ago
And median salary is only part of the equation at these large companies. After ~3 years at Google, 30-40% on top of this with yearly bonus + stock is fairly common. I doubt the situation is the same at Infosys and Tata.
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by delroth 10y ago
If I remember correctly, the system design interview at Google is for software engineers candidates of all levels, not only the more senior ones. I was definitely asked one of these problems when I interviewed as a newgrad.
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by delroth 10y ago
My Thinkpad keyboard still has the function keys grouping (Esc-F1-F2-F3-F4 F5-F6-F7-F8 F9-F10-F11-F12 Home-End-Insert-Delete). I think it's only the first generation of chiclet keyboards (the one used in T430) that didn't have it,
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by delroth 10y ago
I can't really start or contribute to a little side-project when I'm standing in a tram, sitting in a train for 15min, or waiting at the gate / before liftoff during a flight. I can read my company email from my phone during
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by delroth 10y ago
> Is your private life SO boring, you need to do something that many of us do not even like doing during office hours? Yes. Or rather, what happens at work is so interesting that it usually beats refreshing reddit for the 5th time in 10m
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by delroth 10y ago
Chrome telemetry is one example I know of: https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/rappor
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by delroth 10y ago
$200K buys you a gTLD, it does not translate to any "power held over the internet". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_dom... And the "Don't be Evil" slogan has never been
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by delroth 10y ago
How did the homebrew hackers help in the creation of the Gateway 3DS?
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by delroth 10y ago
Yeah right. The homebrew scene on 3DS was literally kickstarted by piggy-backing on a special cartridge made exclusively for piracy purpose (which was exploiting a 3DS firmware vulnerability). People developed the exploits for piracy first
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by delroth 10y ago
Storing and persisting is the easy part. Generating useful aggregations, doing decimation on the data to avoid having an unbounded set of data while keeping some historical values, and all this kind of work is why people use GA and other an
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by delroth 10y ago
He mentioned this already: > the only method of texture warping is INDTEXMTX, which was only used for the heat effects in Dragon Roost Cavern
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by delroth 10y ago
No Googler will come and tell you that since "Don't be evil" are literally the first 3 words of the published Google code of conduct: https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct.html I&#x2
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by delroth 10y ago
The SafetyNet API returns multiple booleans. The stricter version of the detection enforces that the system is an Android CTS-compliant device, but there are several levels below that. Apps using SafetyNet can decide how much they enforce.
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by delroth 10y ago
> You can't learn about someone's capabilities by putting them on the spot with trivia questions. But that's not the point of these questions. These questions are a 5-10min phone pre-screen before getting to the actual i
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by delroth 10y ago
> Then why ask about the nitty gritty details required by maintenance personnel as part of the screening process I'm not sure what "nitty gritty details" you're talking about here. As much as some people here think it
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by delroth 10y ago
Google Photos (launched in May 2015) reportedly had 200M 30DA a year after its official launch [1]. Sure, it's not a billion, but how many products do you know that reached 1B 30DA in their first 3 years? I can't think of a single
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by delroth 10y ago
I think you don't see as many men "hounded out of our industry" because that's a property of how sensitive the person is and how much they're looking for drama, not really how many death threats they receive. I have
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by delroth 10y ago
Nintendo is also known for distributing "pirate dumps" of their NES games as Virtual Console titles. http://forums.nesdev.com/viewtopic.php?t=4412
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by delroth 10y ago
If you sacrifice synchronization you can also hit some pretty good performance with an interpreter. Until fairly recently CEMU was interpreter-only and they managed to hit 100% speed in a few games. The trick: they were running 50K instruct
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by delroth 10y ago
I think the claim of "using stolen code" is a bit strong. Do you have any evidence of that? I'm completely willing to believe that they asm2c'd quite a lot of system libraries instead of properly reimplementing them. And
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by delroth 10y ago
> it is not their fault I don't understand this line of reasoning. It's not like DDoS attacks are some kind of 0-day failure mode that nobody has seen before. Would you also say "it is not their fault" if their uplink
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by delroth 10y ago
https://google.com/+PierreBourdon
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by delroth 10y ago
To add yet another data point: Hex-Rays refused to sell IDA to me at first (I quote: "Please contact us from your corporate email address for verification. We do not deliver to free email accounts."). I had to use my @google.com a
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by delroth 10y ago
Most airlines I have taken even forbid you from stowing bags under the seat if you're sitting on the emergency exit row. Only in the overhead compartments.
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by delroth 10y ago
> The accidents detailed in the Google reports are all from California. You could have opened the first report[1] on that page and notice this is wrong. > June 6, 2016: A Google prototype autonomous vehicle (Google AV) was traveling
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by delroth 10y ago
I'm just quoting the EFF's opinion really: > They did a great job of informing users that the privacy policy had been changed through emails and notifications
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by delroth 10y ago
The article seems to imply that this is a recent addition to the privacy policy. Google keeps archived versions of their privacy policies ( https://www.google.de/intl/en/policies/privacy/archive/ ), a

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