jsolson

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by jsolson 6y ago
I'd add Microsoft and drop Facebook, personally, but... yeah, the first part is kinda fair. That said, the second part is wrong. It was no trouble at all to jump from Amazon to Google Seattle when I felt the time was right. My desk at
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by jsolson 6y ago
Despite my reservations about Amazon after having worked there, I think you're wrong here, _particularly_ with respect to Bezos. With some random director or VP? Sure. With Jeff you don't get the impression that he's a snob a
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by jsolson 6y ago
I debated calling this out and decided against because I knew you all would do it for me. This, right here, is precisely why this issue is important. We have gendered pronouns that are so ingrained we try to pretend they're not gendere
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by jsolson 6y ago
Unlike buddy, it's an inaccurate generic reference. It's a little more typing, but replacing "guy" with "person" or in this case "engineer" would be more precise (and inclusive).
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by jsolson 6y ago
Blaze itself runs locally, reading BUILD files from citc. The build actions mostly execute remotely.
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by jsolson 6y ago
Google automates it away, to the extent that if you run our "rebuild if anything changes" tool it will automatically run the BUILD cleaning tool if any layering violations happen or if any dependencies are absent.
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by jsolson 6y ago
I'm curious what you consider "insane" to be -- and I mean this genuinely. Google has what I think most would consider to be a large monorepo, but also provides developer desktops with ample RAM. I've noticed blaze'
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by jsolson 6y ago
I assume that's supposed to be state/local income tax -- Nevada is one of the few states other than Washington without one. For much of Amazon's early history, the sales tax in Washington was only relevant if you happened to
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by jsolson 6y ago
Realistically, you'd use the FPGA as your NIC.
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by jsolson 6y ago
> FWIW it's also done for ICs at Google where you have to get promoted to senior by some time or you're let go. I don't know what the story is for managers. Google explicitly changed the policy from expecting that all eng
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by jsolson 6y ago
Compute Engine isn't really a separate thing so much as it's another thing built on the same infra. All the way down to the individual VMs, it runs on Google's production infrastructure and is scheduled by Borg (onto dedicate
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by jsolson 6y ago
Perhaps it is only upon leaving Google that one achieves transcendence? (Source: I work at Google, yet still see life as often confusing and sometimes terrifying)
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by jsolson 6y ago
I have access to my (Google) building to allow me to get to the hardware lab there, but it's somewhat discouraged to do so. Equipment is not to leave the lab, but we are encouraged to set things up to allow as much to happen remotely a
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by jsolson 6y ago
Beth Gibbons is not a name I usually see called out as a solo artist -- to be honest, until today I didn't know she had done any solo work, despite Portishead's Dummy being in my most played albums every year since software starte
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by jsolson 6y ago
Xcode on OS X has been doing this for at least one decade.
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by jsolson 6y ago
Mind pinging me internally? Username in profile. I have... an idea.
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by jsolson 6y ago
Right. It does a similar (albeit smaller scale) thing for Anathem.
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by jsolson 6y ago
Abeula. (and it was glorious) That episode is a mighty study in contrasts!
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by jsolson 6y ago
Cryptonomicon and Anathem get endings of a sort... later :)
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by jsolson 6y ago
Who doesn't love 40 pages (more?) of winding a clock as a hook? :) Agreed, though, that it picks up a tad more after the clock winding and other front matter.
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by jsolson 6y ago
Interesting. I've loved most of Stephenson's books and Cryptonomicon easily holds the title of most re-read book in my collection. Seveneves, on the other hand, I absolutely loathed in basically every regard. My loathing for it
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by jsolson 6y ago
Ah, that's where it all went wrong, moving beyond Netscape 4!
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by jsolson 6y ago
I need to send this to the people who designed the website for one of my favorite local pizza places, Dino's ( https://www.dinostomatopie.com/ ) -- they did _really_ well, generally, but no matter how hard you try, some
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by jsolson 6y ago
Alright, that's looking like the start of a syllabus, although I may need a guest writer for binary translation (less of that these days, but a friend and colleague was the first employee at VMware, so I'll bug him and see if he w
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by jsolson 6y ago
The virtual CPU is (typically) represented as a single OS thread. Depending on how you've configured the virtualization hardware, it may look like a thread that's always runnable, or it may block whenever the guest kernel halts th
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by jsolson 6y ago
I'd be curious what topics people would find most interesting. The whole COVID lockdown has left me with an abundance of "free" time, and I work professionally in this space (on virtualization for Google Compute Engine). I&#x
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by jsolson 6y ago
For any analog engineers in the audience: how would this chip differ if designed and fabricated today (if at all)?
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by jsolson 7y ago
Miles, I can't tell if you're messing with me or just stating what actually happened :)
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by jsolson 7y ago
Right, but Snowmobile is packaged as a shipping container because it has a small datacenter inside, so unless you can fit the assembled 45ft container in the plane, I don't think this works? Those are big fucking planes, so maybe you c
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by jsolson 7y ago
Pretty good idea on #3 (and for much much much larger links), and a decent idea for #1. If I had 1-10 PB to move I could totally see most people using FedEx to ship JBODs around. For small transfers it makes sense, and we also have a produc

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