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by kyrra 4y ago
Google side: from maybe a business idea, you could have it work. But from a technical perspective, it would be near impossible without years of engineering effort. Google has a ton of core internal infra that is shared between all the busi
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It's not just cars. Other places I've seen this is large home appliances, with recent examples being inwall ovens and washer/dryer. On the oven front, the high end GE ones[0] have a display. It looks fine from pictures, but
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While i agree with you on the taxes front, one hard thing is that not everyone pays it. Depending on what's being sold and who the buyer is, the buyer may have tax exempt status, which may not be known until checkout.
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by kyrra 4y ago
> Debian's packages can be quite far behind, for example the current version of Boost is 1.74 where the offical release 1.81 You can always run Debian testing or sid if you don't need rock solid stability. If you don't wan
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by kyrra 4y ago
There is a wide sidewalk that runs under a four-lane road right next to my office. During COVID that underpass became a homeless camp and bike chop shop. When they reopen the office, I could sit and watch out the window as people were bring
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by kyrra 4y ago
This is called chrome custom tabs, and there are a number of reasons they are better than webview. https://developer.chrome.com/docs/android/custom-tabs/
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This project was launched in 2015. https://spectrum.ieee.org/google-introduces-project-sunroof
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by kyrra 4y ago
The SWE ladder goes from L3 - L9. L5 is a place most average software engineers will stay. Getting above L6 as an individual contributor makes you a very special person.
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by kyrra 4y ago
We likely need full coverage of the "tricks" documented on https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/SliceTricks into a generics package as well. Yes, https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x&#x
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Funny that I saw a similar piece in WSJ commentary section 2 days ago: https://www.wsj.com/articles/sadness-and-static-as-am-statio... https://archive.is/xTwGc
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NetApp to Cut Work Force by 8% Amid More Conservative IT Spending(barrons.com)
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Go had an FAQ entry for this because it happens so frequently. https://go.dev/doc/faq#virus
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It is risk aversion by both parties. You never know how a jury trial will go, so if both parties can negotiate a settlement they are willing to live with, it makes both parties happy without having to deal with the extreme consequence on ei
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by kyrra 4y ago
Googler, opinions are my own. I work on payments, and have dealt with our credit card processing a bunch. As far as I know, we've never lost control of credit card numbers and had them leaked. We actually work very hard to make sure
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My Firewall Made My Application 10x Slower(jwendel.net)
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Circa 2006 I saw a friend who was a manager do exactly this. There wasn't stack ranking. He just kept a low performer on his team to sacrifice to the RIFs when they came through.
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by kyrra 4y ago
There is https://blog.google/technology/ai/lamda/ , but sadly it's not consumer facing yet.
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They were found because they carried their cellphones to each substations and the robbery. They were then confirmed because they used their own car and it was matched to video surveillance. They were pretty bad at what they were doing.
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by kyrra 4y ago
It's in Google's 10-Q filing with the SEC btw. https://abc.xyz/investor/
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by kyrra 4y ago
It's worth stating that Google has been hiring like crazy for years. In their Q3 earnings[0], their year-over-year number of employees increased by 36,751. [0] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/165
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by kyrra 4y ago
See the Fed's own theory on this topic: https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/money_12856.htm > For example, when interest rates go down, it becomes cheaper to borrow, so households are more willing to buy goods
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Stadia Bluetooth Mode(stadia.google.com)
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Blogspam? The WSJ article is the source here https://www.wsj.com/articles/google-says-supreme-court-rulin... https://archive.ph/LZfa8
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by kyrra 4y ago
Googler opinions are my own. (I know nothing about search). Google has LaMDA, which I could see them putting the answers from it into the knowledge box at the top of searches. There is no reason they have to be mutually exclusive, a search
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May I ask why they are not even in the same data center?
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I'm in a layer that just gathers chargeback signals and passes them off to other teams. I have effectively no insight to how the signals are used for your payment profile and your Google account overall. I mainly just pay attention to
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by kyrra 4y ago
This tends to be a terrible idea, unless you really just want to nuke your Google account. (Googler, opinions are my own. I work on payments.)
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Btw, here's the line on github: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/fbf763fd1d6be3c162ea5ff3c8...
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100%. My last layoff was in 2011, but at that time they closed the entire office I was in at the time (50 of us laid off). We helped eachother find places to interview and met up once a week to have lunch. I ended up working remotely wit
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Why not link to the top level story? I have the top reply on that story, that links to some support links explaining it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28632012 To add, I believe they have since turned that future dow

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