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by endtime 4y ago
Back in the day, Google Apps was pitched as a personal/family thing for custom domains. My email address - and those of, over time, dozens of family members - are hosted in this way.
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by endtime 4y ago
> the prevalent wisdom was that the average consumer has too much money because of low rates I'm sure it was all the low rates, and not at all due to printing 40% of the money supply in two years and mailing people checks.
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by endtime 4y ago
> This Google Account isn’t supported > Bard does not currently support Google Workspace accounts or when our systems indicate you may be under 18. Learn more Google: 15 years of punishment for being a loyal Dasher/ Google Apps&#
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by endtime 4y ago
http://astralcodexten.substack.com does links posts like this once a month. Here's this month's: https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/links-for-march-2023
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by endtime 4y ago
This is impossible at Google. Can probably be done at Meta, or at least could several years ago. I wouldn't paint with too broad a brush here.
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by endtime 4y ago
> Why do so many banking/financial crisis's keep occurring ? This one, AFAICT, happened because the government greatly restricted what banks could do with their funds. One of the only options available in large volumes is a gov
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by endtime 4y ago
A lot of startups probably didn't get founded. And CS enrollment has probably been up (haven't checked).
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by endtime 4y ago
Do you have a link where I can read more about this? I'm surprised kids find third-person difficult. My eight-year-olds and their friends are all starting the Harry Potter books, and I haven't heard this complaint.
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by endtime 4y ago
I don't think so? My current employer has a #xoogler Slack channel, so named because that's what people will look for. You can say it's uncool if you like, but that's the word people use.
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by endtime 4y ago
Definitely not Norm. Norm would (and did!) say he loved transgender people, and would leave ambiguous whether he was being candid. (Or he'd pretend to struggle with his love for transgenderism versus his distaste for "psychosexua
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by endtime 4y ago
I have a very different perspective. I have more than a decade of experience submitting code at Google, and I recently wrote my first PR in a new language. My reviewer knew that language well and his PR was full of nitpicks, and it was gr
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by endtime 4y ago
Assume that's $1m/year after taxes. With 3 kids in college and a nice house and a nice vacation a year, you're surely still comfortable but you're not buying a plane.
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by endtime 4y ago
I've used JSON Schema for specifying YAML config schemas.
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by endtime 4y ago
That's awesome,.I'm glad it worked out for you. But if you could have had a challenge and a strong team and more comp, why not?
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by endtime 4y ago
> hire top talent in strategic... don't make insane offers How does this work? I left Google after ten years last year, when the market was still competitive, and I had multiple strong offers. I wasn't going to leave...lets cal
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by endtime 4y ago
Manhattan is only one of five boroughs of NYC, and it's the wealthiest of the five.
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by endtime 4y ago
I don't know what will happen to it as a public consumer product, but Google's internal browser-based hosted VS Code (Cider V) is great.
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by endtime 4y ago
I was responding to a specific point to which your response seems irrelevant. If my kids, or their kids, or their kids, etc. ever wanted me to die in order to "bestow" them with something...well, too bad. I wish my grandparents,
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by endtime 4y ago
> Whom do you think I am speaking for? I think you're speaking for "adults", given your next sentence. > "I want everything" is a youthful perspective that adults grow out of... Also: > > "I don&#x2
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by endtime 4y ago
> Brute forcing through everything-there-is-to-experience is not an enticing vision for the future at all, it's a grind. Speak for yourself, but please don't confuse that for a good argument for the death of others with a diffe
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by endtime 4y ago
This is what being a supervillain feels like from the inside.
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by endtime 4y ago
If aging is cured then the elderly could be fully productive.
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by endtime 4y ago
It was for a pretty senior role. Having joined, it was clearly not a red flag in hindsight; it didn't hunt at any actual dysfunction AFAICT.
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by endtime 4y ago
I don't use Twitter so maybe this is just wrong, but isn't part of the appeal of Twitter that regular users can interact with celebrities?
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by endtime 4y ago
I started a new job in April. The hiring process was quite slow and disorganized, but included in that were three separate "interviews" with my now-manager. I thought this was great - I felt like I really understood who I'd b
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by endtime 4y ago
All fair points. It probably depends a lot on the size of the company. At some stages you need to take risks; at others, you need to prioritize avoiding bad hires.
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by endtime 4y ago
People complain when layoffs don't touch execs and ask where the accountability is. Maybe this is that? (That doesn't preclude it being worrying for the business.)
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by endtime 4y ago
> And almost everyone is hiring by committee now. Because if the committee hires the wrong person, nobody hires the wrong person. At least in some cases, it's a reaction to some managers having made hiring decisions perceived by lea
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by endtime 4y ago
My eight-year-olds have gotten quite good at detecting when I'm pulling their legs. I never deceive them about anything serious, but I want them to learn to think critically about what authority figures tell them. My five-year-old is
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by endtime 4y ago
Why would they spend money on that? This severe vulnerability isn't going to hurt their bottom line, even if it "should". (I'm not endorsing this perspective, to be clear, just recognizing that it exists.)

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