ma2rten

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   by ma2rten 7y ago

   App-based drivers in New York City are already legally entitled to a minimum wage of about $17 an hour after expenses. The Taxi Workers Alliance says its demands include greater job security. A Lyft spokeswoman said Lyft drivers' hour
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   by ma2rten 7y ago

   I meant both api servers and database replica.
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   by ma2rten 7y ago

   That seems silly to me. They could have easily served their api from another server.
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   by ma2rten 7y ago

   I work at Google, I neither know Brendan Burns nor Mike Burrows. According to his LinkedIn Brendan was a Senior Staff Engineer at Google, i.e. Level 7. That is not a particularly high position. My previous manager was a Principle Engineer (
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   by ma2rten 7y ago

   I wouldn't be surprised if this could happen in the US, if someone created a "terrorist" group chat.
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   by ma2rten 7y ago

   You realize that this a common figure of speech and usually not meant literally, don't you?
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   by ma2rten 7y ago

   People get older, you know.
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   by ma2rten 7y ago

   It's still news worthy enough that's on techcrunch.
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   by ma2rten 7y ago

   It wasn't officially supported by the company. Note that f7aeb9 said "as far as I am concerned".
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    by ma2rten 7y ago

    That's not true. The majority of google employees are in areas that directly impact the bottom line such search, ads, sales, technical infrastructure.
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    by ma2rten 8y ago

    There is a documentary called Dominion which might be interesting to you: https://www.dominionmovement.com/watch Warning: it's quite shocking / bloody.
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    by ma2rten 8y ago

    What are you talking about?
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    by ma2rten 8y ago

    Let's say the search index is size N and the AdSense index is size M. If we were to join them, we would save the storage space for pages that are in both indices. Also, the search index would gain all the sites that are in the AdSense
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    by ma2rten 8y ago

    There may be cases where we drop low traffic sites from our index, which is separate from the search index. I don't how much of that is public information, so can't go into detail.
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    by ma2rten 8y ago

    I work on AdSense at Google. We need to crawl all the pages that serve our ads so that we can show ads that are relevant. We actually store those crawl results in a different place than search to prevent exactly that problem. We could proba
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    by ma2rten 8y ago

    There is a very simple answer. It's because they get clicked. They might be the only site for given search term.
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    by ma2rten 8y ago

    I meant accept as not spam.
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    by ma2rten 8y ago

    - Email coming from addresses to which I had already sent email. (!) That is understandable. It is hard to validate if an email is authentic. SMTP has no authentication built in. Gmail can't just blindly accept all emails from addres
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    by ma2rten 8y ago

    I am not familiar with the research, and don't have time to review it right now. However, it seems like common sense to me that there are some factors beyond intelligence that matter such as motivation, interpersonal skills and charact
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    by ma2rten 8y ago

    I work at Google, based on personal experience I would say it does a good job of setting a minimum bar in terms intelligence and coding ability. However, it might reject some people unfairly. A little bit of preparation helps a lot, but bey
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    by ma2rten 8y ago

    It seems like they have at least enough bounds to say now that's not necessary.
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    by ma2rten 8y ago

    Everyone company that has more than a certain number of people (maybe 20?) needs to make plans and communicate them to it's employees. Google's OKRs are relatively lightweight way of doing that.
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    by ma2rten 8y ago

    I didn't get a chance to look at the paper, but I wanted to share my experience working at two social network companies and publishing an academic paper on the topic of machine learning on a social network graph. Many people think it&#
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    by ma2rten 8y ago

    I think it's a knee-jack reaction. People didn't even read the article, but decided that this is what must have happened.
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    by ma2rten 8y ago

    Just to clarify, I didn't mean to imply that this is Bing's secrete sauce. But if it runs at this scale, but it's probably extremely robust and optimized software.
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    by ma2rten 8y ago

    It sounds like they released the tokenizer that powers bing, which one of the largest search engines in the world. That's pretty significant.
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    by ma2rten 8y ago

    But the huge majority wont tie it to some 19th century "Vegan Society" or know/remember anything about some "original definition". Do you have any evidence for that claim? All the vegans I know use this definition
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    by ma2rten 8y ago

    I highly doubt that there are millions of people who call themselves vegan without having heard of this definition. People don't just wake up one day and stop eating animal products. It's kind of like the term hacker. The general
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    by ma2rten 8y ago

    I'm not sure what you mean by "there are different kinds of vegans". The term vegan was coined by the Vegan Society. They have the following definition: "Veganism is a way of living that seeks to exclude, as far as possi
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    by ma2rten 8y ago

    I am more inclined to endorse the excesses of American exceptionalism The US is not only not exceptional in this regard, it's not even the freest country in terms of press: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Press_Fre