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by minwcnt5 13y ago
What "backdoors" were revealed, may I ask? It's been known for years that Google makes user data available to law enforcement agencies when there's a warrant. They've been up front about this with their transparen
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by minwcnt5 13y ago
What was vague about the responses? Google issued something like three separate denials the day the news broke, with increasingly clear and strong language. They stated they had never heard of "PRISM", at least not by that name,
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by minwcnt5 13y ago
Relevant to your last point: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_attribution_error
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by minwcnt5 13y ago
I think his point is it would be extremely expensive. The leaked presentation claimed the cost of PRISM was only $20M.
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by minwcnt5 13y ago
What's the moral and ethical amount of taxes they should be paying, then? And who decides what that amount should be?
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by minwcnt5 13y ago
I think this implementation is just a necessary first step. Imagine combining this with technology that can detect subvocalizations -- that is the future.
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by minwcnt5 13y ago
The following site allows you to search for people's solutions by language: http://www.go-hero.net/jam/13/solutions There are actually several people who solved this problem (including both large inputs) using Ruby. And for those asking a
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by minwcnt5 14y ago
Had Google actually even "embraced" RSS? I would say no. Reader isn't one of their core products and never was.
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by minwcnt5 14y ago
"Not going out of your way to support technologies you aren't interested in" is not the same as "Going out of your way to kill technologies that compete with your proprietary social network".
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by minwcnt5 14y ago
The dozen or so Bell Labs alumni working at Google is also evidence that Google can hold the interest of the sort of people you would expect to find at places like Bell Labs. :)
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by minwcnt5 14y ago
> Advertising is just a means for providing comfortable livelihoods to these excellent people. I'd say it's a bit more than that; what Google has done in advertising has benefitted millions of consumers and businesses. I'm not sure why
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by minwcnt5 14y ago
> I've already got devices buzzing etc. to get my attention for "important thing". Isn't that the point though? Glass should require far less of your attention than these devices because it eliminates the need to reach into your pocket
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by minwcnt5 14y ago
"E.g. apparently Bing is just as good as Google these days." Well, when one of your "1000 ranking signals" amounts to "clicks on Google's search results", I would hope so. Of course, this just means they'll always be equal to Google - epsi
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by minwcnt5 14y ago
I think Facebook has way better engineers than AOL did, though, and an extremely engineering-oriented culture. The infrastructure they've built up already is also very valuable; only a small handful of companies can match them there. I th
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by minwcnt5 14y ago
That's not what it means. The agreement was that e.g. recruiters from Apple would not actively attempt to recruit Google employees, i.e. solicit them. They couldn't really prevent a Google employee from applying for a job at Apple though
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by minwcnt5 14y ago
I don't think it's the slow setting. I tried it for a few months, and I did use the slow setting, but just found the washed out colors annoying. Regardless of the lighting in the room. I even tried forcing myself to keep it on for a coup
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by minwcnt5 14y ago
If not Sergey it would probably be an old timer like Urs. Vic is pretty new and probably well down the totem pole.
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by minwcnt5 14y ago
Yup, this came up during the uproar when Google changed their privacy policy earlier this year. IIRC this language is needed to let them share your data across services. e.g. showing your profile photo as part of their social search resul
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by minwcnt5 14y ago
Nobody said he shouldn't be happy. The point was that bragging about them in public (as opposed to around friends or family) is unbecoming.
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by minwcnt5 14y ago
I thought the lack of a magnetic field was considered to be such a "fundamental reason", i.e. without one away any significant atmosphere that's created will be stripped away by the solar wind.
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by minwcnt5 14y ago
In search alone, Google launches hundreds of improvements per year. Most people would call that innovation. The biggest recent example is the knowledge graph, and there was stuff like instant, but they're constantly doing algorithm change
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by minwcnt5 14y ago
I would bet that 95% of Google SWEs have heard of the Game of Life, but you can be an exceptionally good software engineer without that knowledge. It's usually considered recreational mathematics, which is a small or non-existent part of m
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by minwcnt5 14y ago
$300k/year is not abnormal at all for a fairly senior engineer or director at Google in Silicon Valley after bonuses and stock grants. It doesn't matter whether people say those numbers or not, anyone who works in the Valley knows that's t
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by minwcnt5 14y ago
Your situation sounds extremely bizarre. There should be no reason to avoid traveling outside the US if you're a Canadian on an H-1B. Except maybe if it's about to expire and you have an application for an extension pending. (My employer
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by minwcnt5 14y ago
If my memory is correct, the immigration team at my company recommended that I cross the border at an airport. Apparently these kind of problems may occur more often at land crossings. One might speculate it's because airports process a m
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by minwcnt5 14y ago
Having to handwrite the Kanji seems like an extra step though - it'd be easier to simply take a photo.
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by minwcnt5 14y ago
Curiously, in Canada the construction industry is experiencing the exact opposite effect and is at an all-time high: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-31/canadian-building-j...
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by minwcnt5 15y ago
Building their own index is only worthwhile if they can build a good ranking algorithm to go along with it. And they're at a huge disdvantage in doing so because they don't track users to improve quality whereas Bing does.
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by minwcnt5 15y ago
Five problems in five interviews sounds low. Obviously this is pure speculation, but perhaps the concern was that you didn't solve them fast enough. Interviewers are supposed to ask more than one technical question; the candidates I am en
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by minwcnt5 15y ago
DDG's main schtick is that they don't track users. It would be nearly impossible to match Google or Bing's ranking relevance without using signals derived from logged user traffic. Their core principles essentially ensure they won't ever

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