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by kenhwang 8y ago
It just depends on which provider you have an enterprise relationship with. They all have a bunch of closed alpha/betas that you simply need to ask your account manager to join.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
I work for one of those listed "key enterprises". Google Cloud spend is <1/10000th of what we spend on AWS. Google Cloud is used to pressure AWS to build features and negotiate pricing. Nothing critical runs on there, just
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by kenhwang 8y ago
I work in adtech and we went into code freeze about 2 weeks ago because the holidays are crazy.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
The "Google is the new Oracle" phrase sure rings more true with this change.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Hell, people even have a hard time correctly implementing the handful of provably correct consensus algorithms that already exist. Just look through the issues section of every raft implementation.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
We have a really old account, we still create instances in classic to this day. Every now and then we get some really bizarre problems that could be attributed to "account is ancient".
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by kenhwang 8y ago
I think that fits into 4 more than 8. You have good enough people skill to recognize that you're different than the interviewer, and then putting up an facade to convince them you're like them. People with poor people skills incid
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by kenhwang 8y ago
> 8. That having decent people skills makes my technical skills suspect, in the eyes of some. I'm questioning how true this is, especially in today's world of whiteboard interviews and open office spaces. My personal experience
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Might be related to: https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/cloud-networking/18... Also in LA, had intermittent issues with google.com and Spotify all morning. edit: linked to wrong issue
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Los Angeles here, Google.com and Spotify have been intermittent/down all morning.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
I believe there was a multi-hour global YouTube/Bigtable/Cloud SQL/Datastore outage in October. Then there was the global load balancer outage in July. Looking though the incident history, there were essentially monthly multi
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by kenhwang 8y ago
The thing about API and platforms is, stability matters, and it matters a lot. Google can't stop fiddling with things, their products and their APIs and legal terms; they just keep changing things constantly. It makes it incredibly ann
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by kenhwang 8y ago
I'd work for Google if they'd offered me a Rust job :) Too bad the odds are 10000:1 that I get stuck doing Java/Go instead.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Maybe it's just me, but faster compile times really isn't anywhere near the top of ask list. Mentally I just bucket compile times in seconds, minutes, hours. Almost nothing compiles in seconds, which I consider the minimum to be n
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Jeez, you weren't kidding. ~2.5MB on Chrome and ~5.5MB on FF transferred, which uncompresses to >20MB and takes around 20 seconds to become responsive.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
As someone working in advertising, I wonder how many of these apps and advertisers are in violation of COPPA. We have so much annoying code scrubbing so much information from users we suspect or discover to be children. We really don't
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by kenhwang 8y ago
I eventually got something working, and it was stupid stupid fast, but it definitely took a lot longer to write than I would've liked. Just waiting for the features and APIs to finalize and async/await for the ergonomics improveme
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by kenhwang 8y ago
async/await is the big one :)
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Oof, I got burned by the tokio/futures ecosystem too. It's definitely a frustrating experience. Thank god it was only a pet project with no deadline pressure, cause it's been 6months now and I'm still waiting for stabili
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Google has excellent marketing. They're very good at getting people to use their products and talk positively about it. PR on the other hand, I think to be more of a mixed bag. They've always used marketing to deflect away from po
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Straight from their announcement https://www.blog.google/technology/safety-security/project-s... > We made Google+ with privacy in mind and therefore keep this API’s log data for only two weeks. That means we c
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by kenhwang 8y ago
> merely an unexploited vulnerability The footnote there is, unexploited in the last 2 weeks they had logs for. They have no way of knowing if it was exploited earlier than that.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Google's hubris is believing engineering brilliance alone can solve everything. They are consistently bogglingly bad at human interaction -- communications, PR, management, UX, customer service. There always seems to be a lack of well-
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by kenhwang 8y ago
The more infuriating part is that it doesn't even work on mobile FF. So the few times I accidentally click on a G+ link from my Google assistant feed, I don't even get the benefit of seeing a post with just a link to the real cont
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by kenhwang 8y ago
That's more like Excel. I'm thinking something more like Heroku, but standardized/OSS.
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by kenhwang 8y ago
You've hit the on the head here. Kubernetes is like Java of cloud infrastructure if interfacing directly with every vendor could be seen as C. I'd very much like a Ruby/Python/Rust of cloud infrastructure to come along a
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by kenhwang 8y ago
Add in the tendency to consolidate and standardize technologies as the company grows for maintainability just means even little changes quickly ripple through the system. It's like microservices, but with systems of people and business
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by kenhwang 8y ago
I'd say it's mostly regulation, risk-aversion, and company size. When you're small, it's easy to avoid regulatory attention and whatever slap-on-the-wrist fine you may get isn't a lot of money. The change and risk a
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by kenhwang 8y ago
That's the story of the startup I work for as well. It survived long enough to find it's niche product and then stabilized. Everyone had decent pay and great hours. Eventually an exit opportunity came around and we all made some
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by kenhwang 8y ago
The Q8 is just a rounder body on the Q7/Touareg platform with the Audi engine with the Porsche turbo from the Cayenne instead of an Audi supercharger. The Bentayga is also a Touareg derivative but with a Bentley W12 or Cayenne Turbo V8

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