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by mehrdada 8y ago
The point is Google LLC CEO is much more isolated from accountability to public shareholders of Alphabet Inc. than CEOs of public companies.
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by mehrdada 8y ago
Cost cutting at Google is definitely a real thing and people who’ve been there have been feeling the downward slope for a while now (on a relative basis to Google itself in the past, and doesn’t say much about Google relative to the market)
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by mehrdada 8y ago
Lenovo is a manufacturer that shipped spyware to the users. No thanks, I’d rather do business with Apple. To be fair to Apple, when their devices work, they usually work fine. The issues that they don’t resolve are engineering defects that
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by mehrdada 8y ago
I upvoted this comment as there's a lot of truth to that, plus its the only comment with the obligatory word "thoughtful" on this thread, but to be fair, to find the person who introduced "McKinsey drones" to Google
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by mehrdada 8y ago
I was personally affected by all those three I had listed, among other things. To add, I also personally faced: - The 2016-2017 keyboard issue on all MacBooks of that generation I had (5-6 devices). - The MacBook Air 2008 "core shutd
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by mehrdada 8y ago
"Never" is the wrong word here. They offer "quality program" long after the issue was discovered like: - MacBook Air 2008 broken hinge issues - image retention issues with Retina 2012 model - GPU issues with NVIDIA GPU i
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by mehrdada 8y ago
The term Immigrant Visa in US immigration specifically refers to a visa that would confer permanent residency (i.e. green card) upon entry to the US. H-1B is definitely not one. It is a non-immigrant visa. Immigration intent, e.g. “dual i
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by mehrdada 8y ago
This is the key insight that many people ignore, straight out of The Monopoly Operating Manual. When you are Google size, many of your investments are, and should be, wisely targeted at buying insurance against risks to future revenues and
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by mehrdada 8y ago
Haha. It’s the first time I hear Google finally admitting to this under duress. Normally, in the recruiting propaganda there’s always room for “Doing Things That Matter”, and the lobbying for immigration expansion message always echos the n
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by mehrdada 8y ago
I doubt there are companies exclusively rely on A/B tests to make decisions, but even if there were, someone has to think about hypothesis and design the right experiment to then confirm with data. You can't just have a computer
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by mehrdada 8y ago
I haven't visited in about a decade so don't have a full picture. I'd say a lot of people have access to a VPN, but would not go as far as to say they are always connected to a VPN.
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by mehrdada 8y ago
This. Similarly, Google Cloud Platform blocks IPs from Iran, because I suspect they don't have a big-enough customer that pushes them to enable it. Some lazy-ass product counsel at Google does not have the balls to do the right thing a
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by mehrdada 8y ago
Sounds like an opinion piece without much justification and evidence. Occam's razor suggests that the uncertainty and longstanding high rate of inflation should explain currency devaluation. For years, the 1- to 5-year CD rate had bee
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by mehrdada 8y ago
Google acquired her company without any real product for $380MM. She cashed out, now she is gone. Simple as that. It's going to be harsh ride from here with no upside.
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by mehrdada 8y ago
Xoogler here. The most fun thing was the time when the lazy-ass billionaires who manage the place and are completely out of touch with the realities of the world (and randomly boast things like "don't be promo focused"--just
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by mehrdada 8y ago
Sounds like the author likes getting attention from clickbait titles. I have stopped taking it seriously. The HN thread on the second part adequately responds to this.
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by mehrdada 8y ago
Haha, "the most elite and prestigious employer in the world" has around 100k current full-time employees (and many more if you count the de facto employees hired as contractors). That fact alone contradicts the dictionary definiti
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by mehrdada 8y ago
TLDR: complete bullshit analysis. If you count all the potential downsides of anything and conveniently ignore any calculation on the upsides, that's what you get. Facebook similarly destroys billions of shareholder value by hiring peo
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by mehrdada 8y ago
True. I have a new catchphrase that I use: Google does everything at scale. They waste talent at scale.
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by mehrdada 8y ago
One should start their own if they can't identify one, I'd say...
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by mehrdada 8y ago
I suspect it'd mostly depend on your personal standards and ambitions than your role. I can't imagine many below-VP positions being much different on this dimension. Even many VPs and up are getting stuck in life-sucking unimporta
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by mehrdada 8y ago
> Overall, the job wasn't exciting to me. I didn't have to work that hard, and one day I had this realization while sitting in my gray cubicle (I was in a sea of gray cubicles surrounded by gray walls, listening to white noise
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by mehrdada 8y ago
> I really like Sundar, he comes off as a pretty authentic Authentic? Perhaps to you he comes across that way. Far from it he feels to me. He seems just... well, thoughtful , I guess. To the point that he clearly insults the intelligenc
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by mehrdada 8y ago
Davis, California is quite a bit cheaper and close enough to the Bay Area
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by mehrdada 8y ago
> but it is removing some potential revenue Dozens of studies about music have proven this theory false. In fact music “piracy” likely has increased their revenue because they spread music. Intuitively you can see why labels have gave in
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by mehrdada 8y ago
Piracy is "the practice of attacking and robbing ships at sea." Looking at that page does not attack or rob anyone. The use of that word is simply perpetuation of Hollywood propaganda.
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by mehrdada 8y ago
I read the doc. Seems to be something like a user guide for the Feitan product published a year ago. Never it mentions the hardware/firmware of Titan keys that Google sells today is theirs. Most security keys from various companies l
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by mehrdada 8y ago
I don't think this is true. Titan seems to be an in-house project. Are you basing this assumption on anything but the exterior looks?
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by mehrdada 8y ago
An obvious next step to consider might be applying EMI techniques: https://mehrdad.afshari.me/publications/compiler-validation-...
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by mehrdada 8y ago
> the word does deny something: usually of the possibility of bias. That's precisely why I objected to its use in the context it was used here (and other places where it is colloquially used incorrectly): by announcing you worked

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