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by lrem 4y ago
According to a quick Google search the typical sizes of football fields I've grown up with were either 32m or 44m long. Pro league football fields are anywhere between 100m and 120m long. However if I add "American" to the qu
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by lrem 4y ago
Rolling the dice on maybe killing or maiming an innocent bystander is fun?
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by lrem 4y ago
Most certainly not a lie. The person tweeting that was a member of the Stadia team. If they didn't believe Stadia is going to be fine, why wouldn't they jump ship earlier?
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by lrem 4y ago
What if I told you that perf has been abolished in the meantime? It's even public: https://buildyourfuture.withgoogle.com/programs/grad
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by lrem 4y ago
Taking into account what Docusign are doing, they probably need legal in retainer for every single of the 180 countries they sell to. How many languages do they need to support in the software? And don't forget sales. Stuff adds add qu
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by lrem 4y ago
Many if not most merchants I deal with refuse those. Which is terribly annoying when it's a shop with clunky checkout flow.
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by lrem 4y ago
An easy one: Google doesn't sell your data. For using it internally: health data is widely considered toxic. As in "I'm not touching that thing with a barge pole" toxic. I would personally be pretty surprised if Google e
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by lrem 4y ago
I extrapolated this into the hypothetical "if asked, users would not consent to this sale". I would consent to it though. Entirely possible I misread the spirit behind the letter of what GP wrote.
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by lrem 4y ago
Paradoxically, trust-ruining incidents is what makes Google trustworthy. There's a strong postmortem culture. "We messed up, what systems and processes are now needed to never mess up like this again?" I hear that's also
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by lrem 4y ago
I believe I can share an anecdote: a while ago I have uploaded a bunch of photos of a work event to the corporate account. This being corporate, it runs pre-release of everything. The gallery managed to hit some bug in the jillions of lines
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by lrem 4y ago
You're a step too far with your assumptions. I'm a Googler. I've noped away when Pebble sold to Fitbit. But seeing from the inside how Google treats user data, I'd be 100% ok with the data going to Google instead.
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by lrem 4y ago
A measuring point.
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by lrem 4y ago
It used to be that you'd get your traffic from Google. That one good tutorial you wrote would bring a steady stream of visitors for years. But for a few years now Google has a strong preference for fresh. Fresh links matter more than l
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by lrem 4y ago
Do we have any reason to believe to the contrary?
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by lrem 4y ago
This wouldn't make sense as a target. "We estimate we'll need seven quintillion dollars and it will take about seven hundred years" doesn't make for a good money-grab.
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by lrem 4y ago
Does Stanford actually have that kind of resources? Based, say, on Randal Munroe's estimation of Google's capacity?
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by lrem 4y ago
Do you seriously think that the whole Internet contains exactly 400 pages mentioning "the purpose of life", including synonyms? ;)
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by lrem 4y ago
There is a widespread belief in a simple explanation among Googlers: device makers test against iPhone. Whenever Apple strays off spec, they'll choose to be compatible with Apple's implementation rather than the standard. TBF, can
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by lrem 4y ago
No. But which way did incentives align?
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by lrem 4y ago
I believe the keyword is "public display". The screens they install in shops and other places come without the "smart" bits and are optimised towards surviving an always-on cycle in suboptimal conditions. They're al
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by lrem 4y ago
I work in Google and think I can share: in fact we do ask our users a lot. To the point that I would be very surprised if any major development in GCP is allowed at all without extensive focus groups, or coming out of cooperation with s
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by lrem 4y ago
Funny, I have neither. But think your analysis makes sense too and I just got lucky.
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by lrem 4y ago
I'd totally do any government/police assisted dance, even if that cost a couple hundred bucks and needed an unpaid day off, to get a banhammer-immune Google account. And that's despite currently working there.
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by lrem 4y ago
Who won't?
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by lrem 4y ago
I've also moved on... But unless someone out there gets their hands on a CPU comparable with M2, what would be the point of not upgrading back to a Mac? It's not like Windows is a significantly better experience (gee, the menu ite
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by lrem 4y ago
https://safebrowsing.google.com/safebrowsing/report_phish/
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by lrem 4y ago
That's what Google has been heralding since Google became newsworthy, so I'd imagine a lot of orgs picked that up.
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by lrem 4y ago
I imagine the test protocols are heavily regulated. Getting what you describe right is within reach of experiment design... But updating regulations in a mathematically correct way is a whole new challenge. And given the current state of gl
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by lrem 4y ago
Damn. Thanks. I even tried verifying the link and it seemed to go to the right place. Saw your reply too late to edit.
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by lrem 4y ago
Your question fundamentally falls into the area of unanswerable philosophy akin to "do insects feel pain?" But there's a reasonable intuition suggesting that the answer to your question is "no". What we're look

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