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by hcnews 8y ago
The cost of a SWE is nowhere close to the promotions and incentives rolled out to millions of users (imagine something simple like 5$ per user per month). SWEs are paid a lot in Bay Area but at least in top companies they are very well wort
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by hcnews 8y ago
I can totally anticipate this happening in SF.
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by hcnews 8y ago
Ouch and sorry.
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by hcnews 8y ago
Is it usual for a Developer Advocate to publish strategy decisions? My default expectation is that an exec should post such decisions.
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by hcnews 8y ago
All variables in Go are function-scoped. They are just being consistent with the overall design in this case.
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by hcnews 8y ago
This version of statement I can agree with (since its just facts). The original statement didn't read anything close to this imho :-)
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by hcnews 8y ago
So if Google paid more taxes than necessary (legal loopholes), there would be no fines (for bad privacy etc.)? That sounds wrong. I don't support the legal tax loopholes but don't think there should be much relation between legal
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by hcnews 8y ago
> When you think there are simple answers to big problems it's generally because you don't actually understand the problem. Funny. Most complex problems have simple solutions. It takes lot more effort to do it, but the simple s
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by hcnews 8y ago
Sundar is neither a founder nor has been a practicing Engineer. That's gotta hurt a company like Google which is mostly Engineering driven. I guess Google at this point just keep churning through systems because Engineers are incentivi
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by hcnews 8y ago
"Unfortunately, we do multiple operations on Bigtable in one request to our api and we rely on strong consistency between those operations." I feel like "strong consistency" is misused here. Strongly consistent is releva
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by hcnews 8y ago
I have been a life-long vegetarian. Since, I never used to eat meat, I don't have a meat craving which people sometimes do when leaving meat behind. I think I may have tried a meat imitation product once but didn't like it very mu
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by hcnews 8y ago
Shouldn't this involve lots of penalties? This has the potential to change/ruin lives drastically. A prudent consumer never trusts what the companies say nowadays. However, that shouldn't absolve the company of falsely claimi
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by hcnews 8y ago
If the title of the original webpage wasn't what you suggested another alternative would be to use the oxford comma: "We wasted $50K on Google Search Ads, and the insights we got on the way"
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by hcnews 8y ago
Dragonfly is a complex topic. The good part about it is that Google is still having a conversation about it and hasn't launched the product once it was publicly known. Note that I was born in India and have different views than America
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by hcnews 8y ago
Say what you want about Google, its one of the few companies with a moral compass.
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by hcnews 8y ago
It's Gandhi and not Ghandi. (Couldn't resist correcting, sorry).
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by hcnews 8y ago
It's because Google's culture is engineering focussed while pretending to be product focussed. As a result, Google breeds great engineers but not great product people. Also, their promotion process shamelessly promotes peer cannib
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by hcnews 8y ago
Masayoshi Son is happy to lend you billions of dollars if you have a working SDC implementation.
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by hcnews 8y ago
How do you buy Xiaomi phones in US?
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by hcnews 8y ago
It seems like a copy-paste mistake. The wsj page has US just before the title. Someone should edit this title.
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by hcnews 8y ago
Nice, I hope US can do the same one day. DST changes twice a year are an unnecessary burden. I am also not too hopeful about US changing considering its federal-state model. In EU, multiple countries can agree on a decision, but US states a
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by hcnews 8y ago
That just depends on the delta between civilizations. They might've advanced way beyond us and they don't have the means to fallback to human method of communicating.
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by hcnews 8y ago
Amazon has historically been evaluated against their revenue instead of income.
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by hcnews 8y ago
I am not onboard with the idea that humans need to be happy 100% of the time. I am going to be unhappy, even frustrated trying to improve things or create new things (as an artist or engineer). Healthy unhappiness, as I see it, is required
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by hcnews 8y ago
I am fine with doing nothing even as a non-user. Recently things have been getting boring but I find it pretty hard to take the initiative and get to know more people. Its the same process all over again (meeting a new person; finding commo
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by hcnews 8y ago
The pause was because human players disconnected. They covered that in the post match session. Looks like no one heard that.
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by hcnews 8y ago
Thanks a lot. I was afraid that I was going to be stuck on the canvas mode. Sometimes, my curiosity gets the best of me :(
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by hcnews 8y ago
Number of fatalities per million miles driven is only one of the metrics. Hours spent per lifetime driving is arguably a more important metric. I can't wait for everything (cities, highways etc.) to be redesigned for self-driving cars
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by hcnews 8y ago
I always scoff a bit when I see Python and Optimization/Fast/Efficiency in one statement. IMHO Python should only be used for non-complex scripts. For other things, just use better suited languages.
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by hcnews 8y ago
In most of your reply you have failed to account for the third world (and frankly a decent chunk of first world). It seems to me you don't have an understanding of your user base. Please dig into how many people are actually on HD-capa

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