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by minwcnt5 11y ago
> I mean that no other species has the ability to do the same. Dolphins likely can. They're capable of inventing novel tricks, and then communicating the behavior with a different dolphin, proven by them doing the same new trick in
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by minwcnt5 11y ago
Not to mention gaming the usage metrics and OKRs to give the impression G+ was far more popular than it really was, then taking the whole team to Hawaii to celebrate the supposed success. I'll never understand what Larry saw in him; he
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by minwcnt5 11y ago
Highly misleading, for a number of potential reasons a) Google was undergoing tremendous growth at the time, so many employees had 0 or low tenure, b) they had just purchased Motorola and their 20k employees, who knows how that factored in,
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by minwcnt5 11y ago
You forgot to add the key qualifier "at Google". That says nothing about how being good at programming competitions correlates with being good on the job in general. It's also kind of common sense that if you spend a lot of
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by minwcnt5 11y ago
I don't think this or other contests (Code Jam, IOI, TopCoder, Code Forces etc.) are well-known among the software community anywhere . Just like math competitions, they are very much dominated by students who were prodigies in math
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by minwcnt5 11y ago
Related: the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect.
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by minwcnt5 11y ago
My rental apartment in the Bay Area has special parking spots with chargers for EVs. And it's not a particularly high end complex (though it is large). Within a year I would expect this to be standard here, maybe within two years for
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by minwcnt5 12y ago
> at Amazon the drone program would start with .. the customer experience ... and you'd work backwards to the technology solution. At Google the technology precedes the customer experience. Speaking of false dichotomies.
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by minwcnt5 12y ago
"Google is like a big frat house. The amount of unprofessional behavior got so out of control that Urs Hölzle himself had to write a 'No jerks' manifesto to teach Googlers how to behave in a work environment. Yes, it's t
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by minwcnt5 12y ago
I think that's fairly common. When I was young and single, when it was my first real job after university, I worked a lot too. I didn't have a lot of obligations, didn't know a lot of people in the bay area, the room for ca
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by minwcnt5 13y ago
The iPhone didn't come out until 2007.
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by minwcnt5 13y ago
In the valley I think I'd rather be a software engineer than a doctor or lawyer if I wanted to maximize my expected career earnings.
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by minwcnt5 13y ago
Ah, the old "Google is just an advertising company" cliche. This is just a small step from the Reddit hipster memes that say things like "oh, self driving cars are not that interesting, they're just a way to get your at
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by minwcnt5 13y ago
If you think HN comments are anything more than Reddit comments dressed up in ostentation then you would be well-served by paying more careful attention to the actual content of what you read in the future.
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by minwcnt5 13y ago
Your comment about TN makes no sense to me. TN is not an immigration-intent visa - if you apply for a green card while on a TN, you have to maintain an address in Canada and prove that you plan to return there. This is very difficult to d
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by minwcnt5 13y ago
Actually, one of the things they said in the AMA is that they don't have any concept of "level one" triage. Rather, they try as much as possible to direct pages to the engineers who built the software because that way it&#x2
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by minwcnt5 13y ago
I was there in 2006. It wasn't accurate then either.
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by minwcnt5 13y ago
And I heavily suspect you work for Microsoft.
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by minwcnt5 13y ago
You have to consider more than just the employees that Google hired. They're also spending money in the region on a bunch of things besides salaries. One way to look at might be that if the facility remains open for 10 years, then th
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by minwcnt5 13y ago
I think you missed the part of the post you're replying to where he said his calculations amount to 86 stops per day per stop . That's at least 2580 stops per day total. 2580 stops for 4500 employees? They're clearly off
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by minwcnt5 13y ago
So are all of the people who worked on Google+. The notion that anyone here, or any individual at Google, is a thought leader whose own personal use of technology represents where the industry is going just because they're a high leve
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by minwcnt5 13y ago
If you read the comments on that post or the HN thread you would see that you can link your YT identity to a G+ "page", where you can set the name and profile pic to whatever you want. It sounds like your real issue is with the f
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by minwcnt5 13y ago
What evidence is there that HN commenters are actually "thought leaders"? That sounds like just the sort of hubris the 4chan thread makes fun of.
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by minwcnt5 13y ago
What? Hasn't G+ always showed profile pics next to comments? I don't understand why that would suddenly become a problem just because it's now enabled on YT too. It only makes stalking easier in the sense that there's
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by minwcnt5 13y ago
CS grad here, I've obtained multiple TN's and it's no different. You just have to avoid telling the agent that your job involves "programming". It's just a technicality really, the language was drafted at a t
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by minwcnt5 13y ago
Um... yes?
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by minwcnt5 13y ago
And interestingly, Patri Friedman used to work at Google...
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by minwcnt5 13y ago
Part of the problem with mchurch was willful ignorance. A few colleagues, including some fairly senior people, reached out to him and volunteered to try and help him resolve his concerns. To my knowledge he never took them up on it.
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by minwcnt5 13y ago
PRISM allows them to retrieve individual users' messages via a FISA court order. It doesn't allow analysts to instantly obtain private data for any user they want. :)
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by minwcnt5 13y ago
> Does Google have time to invent new kinds of networking equipment? Probably not. Hah. If they have time to invent self-driving cars, balloon powered internet, and wearable computing devices I'm pretty sure they can spare a few pe

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