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by eitally 2y ago
My guess is that the M4 and M3 are functionally almost identical so there's no real reason for them to restrict the iPad M4 launch until they get the chip into the MacBook / Air.
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by eitally 2y ago
My brother-in-law is a veterinarian who primarily practices in Virginia but is licensed to practice in Colorado, Wyoming and California, too. He spent the first 10 years or so of his career as an emergency vet, first with full-time employm
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by eitally 2y ago
Fwiw, when they launched the M3 MacBook they also compared it primarily to the M1 rather than the M2... same reasons.
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by eitally 2y ago
You're right, but it's a little misleading to through around stuff like this without basically calling out that it's only big law and investment banking that behave this way. I don't think any other industries are the
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by eitally 2y ago
Probably similarly to how, when they decided to go full remote during covid, 25% of incoming freshmen deferred. It's been a topsy turvy few years in higher ed.
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by eitally 2y ago
I could, but I'm not going to post anything publicly.
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by eitally 2y ago
To be fair, though, even if the culture isn't the same as ten years ago, the perks (and pay) generally are. For people who want to work in a technical role and who may be in traditional enterprise IT, looking up to big tech (including
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by eitally 2y ago
If you read the bio of the head of Google's Quantum Computing (now "Quantum AI") org, you can connect the dots: https://www.xprize.org/about/people/hartmut-neven
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by eitally 2y ago
Not particularly, but there really isn't much difference between a generic drug plant and a branded factory. Same machines, same kinds of people, basically all the same.
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by eitally 2y ago
fwiw, there are approximately 25,000 FTEs reporting up to Thomas Kurian, and I'm not sure how many thousands of TVCs. That's just for Cloud, and doesn't include the massive numbers of additional, relevant employees directly
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by eitally 2y ago
Apple spends >$2b/yr with Google to host iCloud data on Google Cloud.
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by eitally 2y ago
Moreover, it's increasingly easy each year for companies to support BYOD and let employees procure whatever they want that meets IT requirements. My current employer gave all non-tech staff $2000 to buy themselves a laptop, which was
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by eitally 2y ago
The reality is that this firehose of money is what allowed those core problems to grow & fester. That and the practice of using TVCs for as much as possible, to the point where nearly every process that's documented is outsourced,
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by eitally 2y ago
I was there from 2015-2023 and, although I didn't work in Search, I remember a lot of the bigger initiatives designed at improving Search for users, like the project to add cards for the top 500 most commonly searched medical terms&#x2
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by eitally 2y ago
When I joined Google in 2015, one of my work buddies / teammates was someone who had transferred in from having spent nearly ten years on the Ads side, from a GCAS (Global Clients & Agency Solutions). This org doesn't exist i
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by eitally 2y ago
I wouldn't say there's a technical knowledge gap insomuch as there are regulatory and political issues in the cities that need more time to resolve than building a line through farm country & desert do.
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by eitally 2y ago
The ultimate plan is LA->SJ, which is a reasonable compromise and avoids a lot of the reasons why connecting to SF directly via HSR is impractical (it would essentially require a complete reworking of Caltrain to accommodate HSR trains,
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by eitally 2y ago
Watching region-locked content is a compelling use case.
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by eitally 2y ago
We did the same thing (but with Android) for my mother-in-law, who is starting to suffer from dementia (and literally clicks on everything). It's the same way I manage my kids' phones and it works pretty well.
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by eitally 2y ago
Two reasons: 1. Large class sizes are only effective if the instructional method is rote memorization. Otherwise, the teacher ends of having all the same kinds of issues corporate managers have. 2. Teachers literally go through years of fo
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by eitally 2y ago
I'm glad you called out Google in your post. I joined Google in 2015 having been a managing director of a global software engineering team at a non-tech F500, where I had teams in Brazil, India, China and Mexico, and folks scattered a
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by eitally 2y ago
No, there isn't a cultural difference. 1. If you want to discuss work items in a group setting with 22 people, it's an inefficient use of time. 2. If a manager has 22 direct reports, it becomes nearly impossible for them to do any
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by eitally 2y ago
I always found it really interesting at Google that OKRs generally seemed to make sense at the CEO & PA level, but massively broke down somewhere between VP->Dir->Team level, to the extent that for the majority of teams it was nea
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by eitally 2y ago
Yeah, no. Well, perhaps if the role is just to manage it becomes somewhat relevant, but I have personally never experienced this in any interview (and have been in people manager roles for the past twenty years, at companies including F5
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by eitally 3y ago
The Google Cloud CEO's office is in SVL, not NYC (just fyi), so he wasn't there. Additionally, in Google's SVL offices, you can't operate the elevators without a badge (or even get into the elevator lobby without first
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by eitally 3y ago
Indeed! That is the preferred route for basically everyone in the eastern half of Virginia, especially south of Richmond/Charlottesville (I grew up in Lynchburg, went to school at UVA, and my bro-in-law lives in VA Beach). It's
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by eitally 3y ago
My take as someone who worked in Cloud, closely with the AI product teams on GTM strategy, is that it was primarily the former: Google was always extremely risk averse when it came to AI, to the point that until Andrew Moore was pushed out,
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by eitally 3y ago
I have several Brazilian friends (mostly in/around Campinas) in SP state who refuse to fly in/out of Congonhas because of that risk. Thankfully now Viracopa is even more convenient and nicer. Honestly, the irritating thing for Am
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by eitally 3y ago
I assume you're in the US? If so, a noise disclosure was one of the required seller disclosures when transacting a house. We received this in both NC & CA when purchasing (and took it seriously).
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by eitally 3y ago
That would be fantastic. I'm almost salivating thinking about how appealing that would be in Manhattan (or DC, or even SF).

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