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by kyrra 7y ago
Yup,thanks for calling it out. I'm Googler, opinions are my own (and I have no idea about how youtube operates).
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by kyrra 7y ago
I think it depends on how "the Service" is defined. As "Service" is capitalized, it is likely defined in the TOS, and may only apply to Youtube (not Google as a whole). So I believe you (and the redditor) are reading th
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by kyrra 7y ago
Telecoms can't block calls. They are not legally allowed to do it.
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by kyrra 7y ago
Two of Google's big internal databases don't use foreign keys (Spanner[0] and F1 [1]), rather they use hierarchies (parent/child tables). It definitely limits you a lot more than foreign keys, but seems to make sharding easi
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by kyrra 7y ago
I'm a bit confused by your wording. Are you saying your billing and shipping address were in the US, but your ip was in Thailand?
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by kyrra 7y ago
https://www.google.com/settings/storage can be at least a little helpful to see storage usage across Google's main properties.
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by kyrra 7y ago
Not a direct counter-point to this piece, but: https://www.wsj.com/articles/irs-commissioned-report-respond... It's a high-level view of the 2 sides arguing about the Free File program.
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by kyrra 7y ago
I don't know anything about this specific story, and won't comment on it. But, this is actually a common attack vector that people with nefarious purposes use. They come up with a story that makes some company look bad, but leave
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by kyrra 7y ago
It's documented here https://opensource.google/docs/thirdparty/
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by kyrra 7y ago
Monorepos with Git don't play together nicely. Perforce is key if you have lots of devs on a monorepo.
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by kyrra 7y ago
It's a slide tool written by the Go team, mainly used by them to present at conferences. You'll also notice they've stopped using it as much recently. There was no talks in 2018, and only 1 in 2019. Previous years had many
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by kyrra 7y ago
Original post on Hearthstone weibo account: https://www.weibo.com/3229779100/Iax22g4xQ similar post on the Blizzard account: https://www.weibo.com/5883095259/Iax1avYRU Which links here: https:&#x
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by kyrra 7y ago
As a reminder, here is Google's privacy FAQ for DNS. https://developers.google.com/speed/public-dns/faq#privacy
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by kyrra 7y ago
(googler, opinions are my own) As a reminder, there is a similar free solution that tries to solve the same problem as what3words from a different angle: https://plus.codes/ Google Maps shows these today. And you can search
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by kyrra 7y ago
I recommend the World of Warcraft diary. It's 300 pages, has some awesome stories and pictures, and just as a good job of telling how blizzard made WoW have in 2001-2004. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/whenit
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by kyrra 7y ago
There is discussion about C# and Java being faster than Go, but one interesting thing to note is that both C# and Java have to use C to interface with the kernel. Java: https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy.java/blo
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by kyrra 7y ago
Transparency is hard for some reason at large companies. I think it's a mixture of wanting to maintain an image, plus complexity of systems that don't always make it easy to get information to end-users about issues. For your Dri
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by kyrra 7y ago
I remember that story. It was talked about a lot here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18886804 The Fi team cares a long about these kinds of issues and does what they can to solve them. I cannot comment on specific
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by kyrra 7y ago
(googler, opinions are my own) This is one thing nice about Google Fi, Sim swap attacks aren't possible. Your phone number with Fi what is tied to your Google account, the only way to get a Fi phone number on a new phone is to sign int
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by kyrra 7y ago
It's a trade-off. As a user of a third-party library, I would like to upgrade it to get new functionality. But there are breaking changes in the update. So to upgrade I would have to fix all users of the library to upgrade. While this
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by kyrra 7y ago
Another interesting bit with the monorepo is the one-version-policy: https://opensource.google.com/docs/thirdparty/oneversion/ That's why the typescript upgrade was so hard for them. We (attempt) to enf
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by kyrra 7y ago
If you want to hint of what code search looks like a Google check out code search for chromium. https://cs.chromium.org/ What is internal is more featureful. And it covers the entire code base.
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by kyrra 7y ago
As someone who has worked at multiple companies, currently at Google, you don't tend to leave a company, you leave a manager. Managers are one of your primary interfaces to a company. If those managers are crap, you will have a bad exp
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by kyrra 7y ago
The interesting this to me was that whoever this person was knew WoW twitch personalities at least decently. Before his Twitter went down, he was using some of th phrases that people say to try and make fun of Asmongold. He was also postin
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by kyrra 7y ago
The attacker also attack Blizzard's game servers. Is actively taking down WoW classic and Overwatch. https://www.reddit.com/r/classicwow/comments/d10x4f/servers_... The attacker was posting updates
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by kyrra 7y ago
Want to know a great way to handle a subset of these? Good automated code linters. Google has a ton of formatters and linters that either auto correct or suggest changes. To paraphrase a smarter Googler than me: People tend to just do what
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by kyrra 7y ago
(googler, opinions are my own) Disagree. RCS is most definitely an open standard that Google has bought onto in the last few years. The standard itself is 20 years old at this point I think. The problem was that carriers could not agree on
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by kyrra 7y ago
As someone who has worked on integrating with BACS (UK version of ACH) they have the have the same code. https://gocardless.com/direct-debit/receiving-messages/#audd... "2 Payer deceased You have attempted to
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by kyrra 7y ago
> ... can be both cheaper ... Impossible Burger patties are actually more expensive. For example, Burger King: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/meatless-fast-food-burgers... > The meatless burger is $5.99, arou
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by kyrra 7y ago
Technically I think Mercurial would be better for engineering wise in the long term. Mercurial has a single implementation (Git has 5), and they greatly discourage anyone from implementing a second. This gives them a single source of truth

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