mondoshawan

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by mondoshawan 6y ago
This is the first I've ever suggested an opinion on it publicly, and I'm a line engineer, not management. Internally, I don't usually talk about things like this, either.
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
Googler here, these articles are literally the first I've heard of it. No internal emails, rabblerousing, or any kind of comms about it, and it seems as though the union discussed doesn't actually exist yet. Seems a bit odd (and b
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
I'm curious to see what they ultimately mean by "biological contamination". The objectives are so overly broad that they might be twisted enough to cut off colonization efforts.
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html In general, yes. Politics aren't really on the discussion list here.
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
Linux kernel source is a good start. Read up on just about everything in thr kernel docs on I2C, SPI, and regsets. Read datasheets, play around with dev boards. There's no manul for it, really -- its close to old school software engine
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
This is reductivist to the point of insanity. Google is a large company, and this news makes me ashamed of the behaviors of thr execs at the helm, ceetainly, but not everyone inside of Google are evil, or passively in line with these guys.
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China Used 'Mass Surveillance' on Thousands of Americans' Phones, Report Claims(newsweek.com)
9 points by mondoshawan 6y ago|2 comments
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
That's what I did so much in my early days at Google, banking a week's worth of time and making a huge push. I don't do that too much anymore, though.
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
Because its a total waste of money -- I'd be hiring someone who does not posess the requisite skills to do the base level job. My job is to create software solutions for the company by using my skills, and lead a team of engineers to p
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
I haven't followed her career, TBH, but at the time she made the statement, she was working for Yahoo, so where she's at currently is irrelevant. Just because she's highly visible, doesn't mean her views are correct.
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
Some students see it as one more thing distracting them from writing more code, and believe the only thing that will determine their career success is ability to write code (as you all know, ability to write code is necessary but
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
There's been multiple calls that the policy is dead or 120%, neither are accurate, most spoken by folks with ulterior motives and biases.
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
Yes, because context is key. In that statement she was attempting to craft Yahoo!'s work culture as it's CEO. In contrast, I've been at Google since 2006 and have been utilizing 20% time since I started, and other Googlers he
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
It depends on the need/success of the project. My first 20% project was a disconnected caching filesystem back in 2005 and it was rapidly shifted to my 80% project as it solved a real need in our infrastructure.
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
At the time she made this statement, she represented Yahoo, not Google, and was making major changes in its culture to fit her direction. I wouldn't put much stock into these statements. As a current Googler, I've been spending 20
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
Ah, no. Current Googler here: 120% is a misunderstanding of what 20% time is.
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
Marissa doesn't exactly represent Google's culture, given she works at Yahoo... :P
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
120% is a misconception. 20% is volunteer. 80% is assigned. I built MDT that way, taking a few days cumulatively to work on it, and I maintain a strict 40 hour work week, with my manager's backing.
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
It was and still is part of our culture.
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
Current Googler -- AFAIK, 20% time is still a thing. You just have to clarify the project with your manager, just like you did before. I utilized it to write the Mendel development tool (mdt) for Coral boards here: https://pypi.o
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
I beg to differ, given the propensity of FPGA tools and the Google opensilicon job thing where yoi can tape out a corner of a chip for free.
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
XNU is not FOSS, and 99% of the foundation classes, Aqua, and drivers are all proprietary.
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
I typically do, too, but the Pi4 compute module and board are all too eerily similar to a product my team demoed to Eben at CES... right down to the MCO for the port layouts, form factor, and the high-density module interconnects.
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
Depends on the 40-pin peripheral layout. The tinkerboard doesnt run Raspbian, but instead runs ASUS' own OS.
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
Any of the Udoo boards, most specifically the x86 Advanced Plus II. Plenty of GPIOs from the Braswell core, and another chunk from an integrated Arduino. Its a bit more than 2x the price, but the flexibility and standard boot and peripheral
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
No GPIOs there, though.
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
Ostensibly, yes. But consider that Eben Upton is an ex-Broadcom guy that helped build videocore and that they get everything at cost, and it looks like an incredibly powerful PR move for Broadcom with side benefits.
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
Wow. Just... wow. I couldn't get past the third clip he shows in the review.
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
It's not dangerous -- it's a mistake. It's like putting strawberries in with salmon on a salad: ostensibly it's good, but it's wrong. :D C and C++ are really different languages these days. They share some syntax, b
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by mondoshawan 6y ago
As an avid collector of vintage hardware and one who runs a YouTube channel dedicated to teaching people about how the hardware works, and how to actually use it, I can say confidently that yes, we definitely struggle. There are a great num

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