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by jfasi 8y ago
I'm disappointed I had to go this far down into the comments to read an actual sensible rebuttal. I stand by my calling it a disorganized mess, but you'll notice I never actually say this strategy isn't paying off for the com
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by jfasi 8y ago
I'm pretty sure the hope is that this will lead to the development of a parallel track of game developers who make games that would otherwise be too difficult or expensive to make on old platforms. It makes sense on paper: latency isn&
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by jfasi 8y ago
Maybe from the outside it seemed that way, but from the inside just about everyone except Vic Gundotra and his org, no one considered it a serious contender. Just about everyone I know knew Google+ was misguided and orthogonal to the busine
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by jfasi 8y ago
I can’t share with you how much GCP is making in revenue, but I can assure you it’s enough that it won’t get dropped, ever. I’ll put my money where my mouth is: I’m now preparing to expand my own team’s operations into GCP and away from AWS
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by jfasi 8y ago
I don’t want to speculate too much on the legals of the situation, so I won’t talk about anticompetitive matters. As for why not do this in indexing, of course they’re doing that. They’ve been doing that for a very long time, but that app
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by jfasi 8y ago
To be perfectly honest I don’t know the answer to the chat app case in particular. That’s possible, and if one were to investigate and find each app was made by a team rolling up into a different director then I’d say that’s what happened.
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by jfasi 8y ago
Ehh, I disagree with your assessment, and to illustrate why I think you need to focus on asblockers. AMP serves a critical strategic purpose: it severely disincentivizes crappy, JS-heavy websites on search results and as a result makes peop
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by jfasi 8y ago
The metric you need to keep in mind here is revenue per employee. Keeping one product up and running necessarily means withholding engineers from another. As an extreme example, ads engineers make Google many times their salary, benefits, a
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by jfasi 8y ago
Warning: Personal opinion ahead To understand why this keeps happening, you need to understand the product and engineering culture at Google. As a group, Google engineers and PMs are obsessed with promotion. At the heart of every conversa
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by jfasi 8y ago
> How to check if a linked list has a loop? Does one N-dimensional box fit into another N-dimensional box? Can you swap two variables without a third one? How to find the shortest distance between two moving ships? Find all permutations
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by jfasi 8y ago
Call me biased, but I’m not about to lend credence to a blockbuster medical story published exclusively by a site called “healthfoodis” uploaded by a user whose account is one day old.
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by jfasi 8y ago
While I'm happy to see Facebook doing this, I feel like it's already burnt the goodwill and trust it would have needed for the public to trust it. This isn't something you do retroactively, you're either proactive about
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by jfasi 8y ago
This post made me look up the Philip Glass opera to see if the 2016 ENO production has ENO ally released a DVD, and it looks like they’re coming to NYC! https://operawire.com/a-philip-glass-opera-confirmed-for-met...
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by jfasi 8y ago
Serious question, because I see this view all the time: how are the algorithms design, architecture, and coding questions asked by Google and friends brain teasers?
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by jfasi 8y ago
> It's a list of companies that don't do brain teasers Facebook, Google, Apple, LinkedIn, Netflix, etc don't do brain teasers and they're not on this list. EDIT: whoops, Netflix is on this list, my bad
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by jfasi 8y ago
Whenever I’m anxious about something, my thoughts immediately go to the worst case “what if” scenario. I obsess over it, I lose sleep, and I’m generally miserable until the situation resolves. Lately I’ve started instituting a practice wher
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by jfasi 8y ago
The E/M/F/R tunnels are already some of the most congested, most delayed, least pleasant segments in the entire city. As much as I welcome Amazon's move, I don't envy the poor suckers who have to ride in and out of
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by jfasi 8y ago
A bit orthogonal to the point of this interview but: > When we follow “right to be forgotten” laws, we are censoring search results because we’re complying with the law. I’m committed to serving users in China. Whatever form it takes, I
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Google Interview Questions Deconstructed: Knight's Dailer(medium.com)
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by jfasi 8y ago
There seems to be some philosophical disagreement here: what obligation is there beyond the letter of the law? If the tax code and labor regulations permit a legal maneuver, and that something is generally accepted as being legal, how is ta
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by jfasi 8y ago
Warning: raw personal opinion ahead. You're welcome to downvote, but I'd prefer it if you left a response so I can learn something. Europe in general but France in particular seems completely unprepared for the changes technolog
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by jfasi 8y ago
I don’t have firsthand experience but my understanding is that Facebook shares a similar culture. No idea about others though.
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by jfasi 8y ago
Here's my personal experience: In 2012 I graduated from college and was deciding pretty much exactly this. I interviewed at Google and got an offer, and had to decide between that and the startup life. I ended up going with Google. My
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by jfasi 8y ago
I've been mentally drafting a blog post on exactly this topic, so while that percolates in my mind I'll answer with: it totally is a filtering problem. For a small company whose culture is in flux and needs the right person, it&
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by jfasi 8y ago
Interviewers write up questions asked, candidate solutions, and their commentary and hiring recommendation. Those writeups are sent to a hiring committee which reviews all the candidate's feedback and makes a hire/no hire recommen
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by jfasi 8y ago
As someone who does both a lot of interviewing (at Google) and gives a lot of advice on interviewing to people just starting out, this rhymes with my intuition about why some people get into interviews: even without the use of brainteasers
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by jfasi 8y ago
> Despite tremendous financial security, success and personal comfort, these men gained a reputation for being petty and ungenerous whenever possible. They don’t exemplify very many personality traits we associate with a good person. I r
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by jfasi 8y ago
> As an interviewer I've intentionally given people problems that would take more time than they have What are your experiences with this? I've thought about doing this but decided against it because I figure the candidate&#x27
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by jfasi 8y ago
> I'm honestly aghast at the utter elitism coming out of Google and Facebook I presume it's Google and Facebook's extremely high hiring bar that you're attributing to elitism? Let me attempt to reframe that for you in
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by jfasi 8y ago
This is a fair point, even tough it doesn’t answer my question. When I interview I split up the coding and the algorithms assessments: if someone quickly and correctly implements the naive solution, I consider myself justified in grading th

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