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by mehrdada 9y ago
I believe the logical implication of that sentence is backwards: it means most of the building will be used for Google Cloud as opposed to other Google products; it gives no information about how Google Cloud is distributed across Google of
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by mehrdada 9y ago
Please note that Google HQ is in Mountain View, CA, so expanding in Seattle is analogous to adding spare nodes in your distributed system, not single point of failure.
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by mehrdada 10y ago
> Is that a thing that ever happens? Yes. If you acquire a company, you assume all their liabilities as well as the assets. You might want to just buy the assets and have the acquisition owners dissolve it themselves to keep the liabili
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by mehrdada 10y ago
This paper might be of interest[0]: Stratified Synthesis: Automatically Learning the x86-64 Instruction Set – PLDI 2016 [0]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StanfordPL/stoke/develop/d...
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by mehrdada 10y ago
Worth noting that iOS HFS+ already had some non-standard features [hacks] that Mac did not use like encrypting files with different keys based on the data protection level—that APFS provides—so it makes sense to upgrade iOS first, which ca
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by mehrdada 10y ago
Crashes are the easier bugs to report, but often the most important compiler bugs are silent miscompilations that go unnoticed. With C compilers in particular, it's not easy to non-conclusively demonstrate a bug/convince the deve
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by mehrdada 10y ago
I think this can vary across people/projects and perhaps true in a large number of cases (this could also be said for the management in business, and it is debatable whether spending time on the ground doing the actual thing would alwa
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by mehrdada 10y ago
It had a "permission system" that in effect did not provide the user with any practical choice. The non-choice was between "install this app and give everything it wants (even in the background)" and "piss off"
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by mehrdada 10y ago
> Going public now isn’t fair to other founders How is this relevant, like at all ? > and isn’t fair to those who would buy the stock on the IPO. You can declare something overvalued or undervalued relative to a specific price, but I
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by mehrdada 10y ago
> does anyone actually like the new mac keyboards? Yes. I have being using three 2016 MacBook Pros regularly so far (two 15" and one 13") and I absolutely prefer the new keyboard on two of them to the old ones. The keys are mor
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Grail is raising at least $1B to fund its early cancer screening test(techcrunch.com)
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by mehrdada 10y ago
It's funny, a long time ago, my brother and I were debating what would be a good definition that draws a line between a real "computer", as opposed to a calculator/controller/toy/etc. I was advocating running
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by mehrdada 10y ago
You can also buy a beer for folks who actually wrote an answer you used if you ever meet them IRL. I bet direct revenue from users would be negligible by the other revenue streams Stack Overflow Inc pursues.
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by mehrdada 10y ago
> Startups are overdosing on ambition these days > Not every billion dollar business starts with a billion dollar idea. Not everything unfundable by VCs is unworthy of doing. It's interesting the author is being a VC is under
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by mehrdada 10y ago
The cool thing I really like about Vanadium is a unified worldview it provides with the ability to access every object in the Vanadium ecosystem through its powerful naming/mounting mechanism. In Vanadium, you can "mount" thi
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EMI-based Compiler Testing(web.cs.ucdavis.edu)
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by mehrdada 10y ago
A key step missing is to set up the iOS device as Supervised in Apple Configurator and prevent pairing with non-Configurator hosts . Additionally, you can install your own non-removable profile via Configurator on the device disabling a bu
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by mehrdada 10y ago
I cannot see (pun intended) how "normal" seeing is fundamentally different. One basically sees by measuring their interactions with photons and deducing how something "looks like" vs. measuring interactions with electron
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by mehrdada 10y ago
The majority of "no single founder" advice I have heard are from investors, and that obviously includes PG as well. It is important to realize that investors have many incentives to fund companies with more than one founder. Not a
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by mehrdada 10y ago
I had been participating in Stack Overflow since its public beta (though I'm not an active participant anymore), and this topic comes up every now and then, but the astronomical growth of Stack Overflow has not stopped. The composition
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by mehrdada 10y ago
I am aware of at least one lawsuit against an employee in which the firm has used a Google query an employee made as an evidence.
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by mehrdada 10y ago
This is actually a dangerous source to draw conclusions from. Even ignoring the qualitative bias of H1-B workers having less leverage than an average worker with easy mobility which likely causes relative wage depression in that data set, t
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by mehrdada 10y ago
I'd say this thread is not a bad first approximation for what you are asking for (but note that high side has a lot of variance and is very much context, person, and importantly, timing dependent and the uniquely highs are always under
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by mehrdada 10y ago
> You should be anchoring to a number that is high but realistic, and negotiating from a position of strength. I very much agree with you and my other comments in this thread are very much advocating for this position. I'd just lik
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by mehrdada 10y ago
I agree. Following that recipe, you decide on ending the phone call with a nice, but uncooperative about blurting out a number recruiter who claims they can be competitive. Now the question is this: if you are willing to blow off the whole
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by mehrdada 10y ago
You need to multiply that with the probability of the companies not beating your current salary. The higher your current salary, this probability will go higher, and your interview cost will too. In effect, interviewing not being worth your
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by mehrdada 10y ago
Yes, and many savvy recruiters would make you make the calculated risk anyway. Note that at that stage, the recruiters are highly incentivized to say or allude to "we can beat everyone/are competitive" without saying a numbe
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by mehrdada 10y ago
This would work fine except you may not have a ton of time to waste. The problem is, in practice, as someone with an outlier comp, you may end up having to go interview at a company only to realize at the end of the whole interview dance
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by mehrdada 10y ago
I have a feeling that $2000 recovery service would have basically said the same thing had they encountered a corrupt GPT record or HFS+ superblock in a fully unencrypted disk as well.
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by mehrdada 10y ago
Fund the research you want to see in the world. Incentivize it as you think is right. Don't whine.

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