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by dmazzoni 3y ago
I was at Google then too. I had the same questions when I was asked to work on the team or even just collaborate with the team on Chrome support. I think it would have been fine to just throw the Android runtime in a container. That wouldn&
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> This was clearly intended to eventually replace Android and ChromeOS I worked at Google (on the Chrome team) for years while Fuchsia was getting started. Replacing Android and Chrome OS would have made so much sense, but they were defi
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
I worked at Google (on the Chrome team) at the time Fuchsia was started and for many years after that. The team had some of Google's most brilliant engineers working on it. Technically, they had some really impressive stuff. However, I
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
You seem to think WebAssembly is a "toy" and nobody's really found a good use for it, but actually it's being used in some really successful and high-profile web apps, but it's so seamless that you probably don&#x27
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
What you're describing already exists today, that's exactly what Blazor is: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/en-us/apps/aspnet/web-apps/blaz... Blazor lets you build web apps using C#. It achieves
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
It's an SDK for an entire OS, plus the emulator (basically the whole OS in a VM), developer tools and more. It's not much different in size than the SDKs for macOS or Windows and it's much more cohesive.
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
In the early days of Google Chrome, I was tasked with making it work with Windows screen readers. Now, accessibility APIs on Windows were documented, but web browsers used a bunch of additional APIs that were poorly documented. Chrome'
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
If you ask it to generate an image of Taylor Swift, it refuses. But if you ask it to generate an image of a popular celebrity singer performing the song "Blank Space", it generates an image that looks exactly like Taylor Swift som
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
I think that all makes sense. Things would have played out very differently if the board was more experienced and thoughtful. Their hearts might have been in the right place, but their actions were reckless and ultimately backfired.
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
What about the non-salary part of comp? For most employees, their OpenAI stock would have been worth even more than their salary at its current valuation, and it has the potential to potentially be worth quite a bit more in the future. Repl
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
LLM vision is surprisingly human-like. Point an actual human at a blank canvas and I'll bet many would hallucinate things that aren't there.
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
Chrome isn't using all that RAM. The web pages you visit are.
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
Did it really? Because browsers got good, the web got orders of magnitude more complex. If you try loading a modern web page in an old version of Chrome, you'll see just how much faster Chrome has gotten. Or alternatively, try viewing
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
> No amount of the original Chrome team being excellent, well-intentioned, skilled, thoughtful makers can stop today's Chrome from cornering the market into an effective monopoly and leveraging that to try and benefit Google's
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
I worked at Google for 15 years and I was lucky enough to work with Ian a few times. I might quibble about a few things, but I largely agree with his overall conclusions. In the early days Google really was an amazing place to work. I agree
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
Honestly everything about Cruise seemed awesome until they pushed to start offering driverless rides at the same time as Waymo, when obviously they weren't as far along. Whose decision was that? I'm really curious if there were in
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
This doesn't seem like a good way to keep their best employees, at a time when they really need them.
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
Would you consider Audacity another example? (I'm one of the original authors.) It survived for ~20 years as a community-supported project - it was popular but clunky and limited in many ways. Since being acquired by Muse the UI has be
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
Not all religious parents who homeschool will have bad outcomes, but it's by far the largest demographic of people who fail to actually educate their children. As for your last statement: in most states there's no oversight. Sure,
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
Are you comparing the best public schools to the best homeschools? Or the worst to the worst? Or the average to the average? I suspect that the education kids get at the worst 20% of public schools in the country is still way better than th
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
This sucks. What sucks even more is that T-Mobile is STILL the least evil of the only three nationwide wireless carriers in the U.S.
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
Overall, Google has a tendency to under-level on hire. If they need a leader for a small engineering team and they're not sure the candidate has L6 experience, they'll hire at L5 and let them get promoted if they exceed expectatio
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
eBay posts are littered with typos, though. How well does eBay do at filtering out Xaiomi, Xoiami or Xiaoim phones?
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
In case it wasn't clear - a jury awarded Sonos $32.5 million, but the judge just threw that out. Sonos gets nothing. It's quite possible that both sides spent far more than $32.5 million on lawyers, but it made sense to fight. Son
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
If your code never needs to handle Arabic, Hindi, or Thai, and you're 100% sure that a user will never paste an Emoji into your text box, then sure - go ahead and use unicode code points. Seriously, just try inserting an emoji into you
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
You'd prefer instead that there's a separate code point for every possible permutation of base characters and modifiers (like accents)? So would you add z̃ as a character even though it isn't actually used in any known langua
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
Can you talk about your tech stack? One of the biggest complaints about Jira is how slow it is. While I'm really interested in potential alternatives, I'm curious if you think PHP might be a bottleneck. If I follow a direct link t
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
You're against HTTP/3 because it makes security mandatory? Have you been completely asleep at the wheel over the past 20 years as ISPs around the world have started injecting ads in people's unencrypted HTTP traffic? That&#x2
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
I'm not sure I understand concerns about not wanting to support anything based on Chromium. Chromium is 100% open-source, and there are Chromium committers from Microsoft, Opera, Samsung, Igalia, Electron, and dozens of other companies
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by dmazzoni 3y ago
This is a regional thing. In many west coast states, escrow companies are the norm and nobody hires a lawyer. In many east coast states, both sides hire a real estate lawyer (and you'd be crazy not to). Most people who've only liv

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