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by jsolson 13y ago
That actually stutters rather a lot on my Chromebook Pixel :(
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by jsolson 13y ago
> and basically no bars serve those in Seattle, only fancy restaurants. I suppose this depends on what you mean by "bar". I've got some friends who are mostly abstainers, and they've had some delicious mocktails at Vi
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by jsolson 13y ago
... or that they clicked on a link from the search results to a non-https website about backpacks or pressure cookers. Say, I don't know, Amazon, where even if you try to visit it as https it redirects you to http. * edit: On second
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by jsolson 13y ago
Not speaking for Google, but in general, auth cookies (rather than identity cookies) will only be sent over HTTPS using the "Secure" cookie attribute. This is something done at the browser level, so short of using a very badly beh
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by jsolson 13y ago
That may have been some people's expectation, but as his public G+ page says[0], he still works at Google. Sergey called his piece a 'night-time aid'[1]. Also Steve's take on it [2]. That said, the OP was talking about h
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by jsolson 13y ago
I mean, you know, other than Google itself. We do pretty well with a more or less entirely Google Apps workflow.
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by jsolson 13y ago
Including, in my estimation, most of software engineering.
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by jsolson 13y ago
Not in my experience, no. If nothing else, almost everyone I work with is on their second or third career. I'm possibly the youngest guy on my team, and I'm 30. That said, I work out of the Seattle office. Lots of Amazon and Micro
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by jsolson 13y ago
... and completely failing to capitalize on more or less all of them, because they didn't even try.
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by jsolson 13y ago
I went and took a look at the walkthrough for GAE[0] and Azure[1]. Azure offers the ability to push to, say, GitHub and have that result in an Azure deployment. For some users that might be a really nice feature, as it ensures they don&#x27
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by jsolson 13y ago
That was sort of my point: those apps require sizable teams and a huge amount of cooperation from dependencies. If you're operating in secret, cooperation is going to be a hard commodity to come by. I also feel like a sizable team of
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by jsolson 13y ago
> 3. Google's infrastructure changes. You can't just install a gateway to the NSA and expect it to continue working for a long time. It's not as if user-data was stored in simple text-files. I think this was the biggest bu
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by jsolson 13y ago
> Considering how many horror stories we've seen, I wonder why anybody would waste their time developing apps for that weird company. Money? An enormous and dedicated user base? Users who expect high quality UX and are willing to pa
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by jsolson 13y ago
Ok, but the barrier to putting other apps on an Android device is a good deal lower than on iOS. Typically just changing a setting. Hell, as Amazon has demonstrated, you can release entire other App Stores in this manner.
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by jsolson 13y ago
> US engineering (except houses) uses metric, even though the public uses imperial. I don't know that I'd make this claim, in general. Everything from bikes to American cars can still be found with imperial nuts and bolts. Even
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by jsolson 13y ago
They're providing transaction processing, inventory tracking, and in some cases (e.g., http://www.amazon.in/gp/product/9380349300 selected at random from the gateway) fulfillment services. Given the scope of their 3P seller business in ot
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by jsolson 13y ago
I use it exclusively in Chrome OS, but I'm sort of cheating :). If nothing else, I work at Google (although nowhere near Chrome or Chrome OS), and a lot of our non-coding workflows already favor browser-based tools. The vast majority of my
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by jsolson 13y ago
Ah, right, yes. It's miserable here. Six months of hellish rain and steel grey skies. Don't let anyone fool you. Never move here. Worst mistake of my life.
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by jsolson 13y ago
Work: Chromebook Pixel Hobby: 11" MacBook Air; Early 2011-ish?
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by jsolson 13y ago
Yes, I can highly recommend Seattle. This poll more or less confirmed for me that I'm living well above where I (likely) would be in SV by staying there.
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by jsolson 13y ago
Perhaps Mr. Shipley?
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by jsolson 13y ago
Many of them you could probably say at some level that I "need them", in that it'd be faster to find the tab among the open ones then to find the content again. Usually they end up clustered into groups around particular topics. For example
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by jsolson 13y ago
> What's infuriating is when it's all the mundane stuff, because management took the exciting parts and made them political favors. Yeah, that would be awful. Thankfully Google isn't that sort of place.
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by jsolson 13y ago
For me, bookmarks are a hole where content goes to die. Beyond about 5 of them which will get used more or less daily, I'm more likely to just search for content again than to think to check my bookmarks. Unfortunately this usually leads to
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by jsolson 13y ago
For what it's worth, this can go both ways. Since starting at Google I've managed to lose a good amount of weight due to increased availability of healthy(ish) snacks (free bananas and mandarins in the MK!) and the buffet style lunches. &#6
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by jsolson 13y ago
Really? Not so much in Seattle, but in MTV people seemed to raid the MKs on their way out of the office. It felt like some sort of communal effort to ensure that the next day's stock would all be fresh.
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by jsolson 13y ago
I've recently done the same thing, although coming from the perspective of "you can have my MacBook Air when you pry it from my cold dead hands". It turns out that when all of your development has to happen on your Linux desktop anyway, whi
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by jsolson 13y ago
If you know anyone internal who's familiar with your work, have them write up a referral for you. That can give the recruiters a lot more context.
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by jsolson 13y ago
> Another reason for the quality gap is that that we've been having trouble keeping talented people. Google and other large Seattle-area companies keep poaching our best, most experienced developers, and we hire youths straight from col
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by jsolson 13y ago
No. See the status page for the issue: http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&ts=13...

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