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by mvgoogler 13y ago
> partially for inspecting the product, and partially for teaching and inculcating cultural norms Yes! I would go further and say that - without discounting their value for catching bugs - the _largest_ benefits of doing code reviews are
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by mvgoogler 13y ago
Shadow interviewers don't do a separate interview. They typically observe an interview done by an experienced interviewer and then write up feedback. It is primarily meant to be a learning experience for the shadow interviewer. They wi
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by mvgoogler 13y ago
Flash chips are typically spec'd in terms of bits in the industry. Things like SD cards are really small consumer electronics devices and are spec'd in terms of bytes.
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by mvgoogler 13y ago
The press-release said 10nm _class_ with a big asterisk next to it. I would be willing to bet that means something like 19nm.
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by mvgoogler 13y ago
> I cant imagine that some Googler asked Larry face to face about XMPP He - and the rest of the leadership - have been asked about XMPP/CalDav/CarDav/RSS/Reader/<any topic related that has ever been discussed on HN> in person re
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by mvgoogler 14y ago
> It was like this: Option A is that I transfer, stay at Google, but may have an early-term smear of my Perf history and might have to cut bribes to people with HR database access in a few years when I rise to a level where even early,
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by mvgoogler 14y ago
Something the OP made up. To the extent that I've ever heard people talk about "Real Googlers" the criteria have nothing to do with title, level, background or what college you went to. The criteria are: 1) Get s t done 2) Don't be a dick
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by mvgoogler 14y ago
I've seen plenty of instances of the same thing - new hires where it was clear he team wasn't a good fit. They had an adult conversation with the current manager and did their best to be productive until they found a team that was a better
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by mvgoogler 14y ago
http://research.google.com/pubs/papers.html
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by mvgoogler 14y ago
Um - No.
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by mvgoogler 14y ago
Sounds like Jeff Dean :-) http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2013/2/160173-the-tail-at-scal...
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by mvgoogler 14y ago
There are plenty of small planes with retractable gear. The reality is that it doesn't really matter. Landing gear-up is almost always survivable - for the people at least :-) Distracting someone with trying to find and operate the landing
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by mvgoogler 14y ago
So, if you're saying that if you're descending through 80 feet AGL and you hear the stall-warning horn, you're going to pitch the nose down _first_ ? Sorry - if I'm throwing in full-power first and doing whatever I have to do do to get leve
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by mvgoogler 14y ago
Sure, it would be unusual for a random individual controller to be able to give instruction on landing a 747. But I can guarantee you that they would arrange for someone who did to help you. For immediate help, there would likely be another
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by mvgoogler 14y ago
You're _technically_ absolutely correct. In reality, ATC is going to treat a plane with an incapacitated pilot and an un-trained person at the controls as an emergency regardless of the terminology used.
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by mvgoogler 14y ago
It's not mentioned in the article, but there is also 7-weeks of parental/paternity leave available for the other parent.
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by mvgoogler 14y ago
I work on the Photos backend team at Google. Picasaweb and Google+ use the same back-end. The back-end makes no distinction between albums created in Picasaweb and albums created in G+. Having an option in Picasa desktop client to control w
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by mvgoogler 14y ago
Director is generally the management level just below VP. I don't know the specifics of this situation though, so take it with a grain of salt. reply
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by mvgoogler 14y ago
That sounds like it would have been within R-2503A, which is the restricted airspace over and around Camp Pendleton. The Marines operate UAVs so it could have been part of a military exercise.
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by mvgoogler 14y ago
Did the OP ever say that he was a paying customer? I don't see anything concrete in the article. He says he transferred his _business_ number over, but I don't see any mention that he had a "Google Apps for Your Business" (i.e. paid) accoun
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by mvgoogler 14y ago
The are a lot more pictures on the "An Inside Look" page of the data-centers page. Gallery: http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/gallery/#/all Web-Page: http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/ Blog post: http://googleblog.bl
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by mvgoogler 14y ago
As someone who just recently transferred out of Platforms[1] to another group at Google, I can assure you that the technology has not plateaued. [1] Platforms is the group at Google that designs and builds the technology that goes into the
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by mvgoogler 14y ago
You want writes to flash to be as sequential as possible. Random writes to flash result in more wear and worse performance due to GC overhead. Log-structured file systems tend to write data sequentially since the writes append to the log (y
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by mvgoogler 14y ago
Damnit - you're comment made me snarf coffee all over my laptop. :-)
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by mvgoogler 14y ago
In my experience the 18 months 'rule' is much more a guideline than a hard rule. I've personally seen a number of cases where someone transferred much sooner than that for a variety of reasons. If you approach situations like this in a cons
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by mvgoogler 14y ago
I agree. I read that article as "Don't use relative dates - it makes it hard for me to scrape your content".
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by mvgoogler 14y ago
It is completely up to the author. When you post something you choose the set of circles you want to share the post with. One of the choices is 'public'. There isn't really a default for this. When you open the sharebox, the set of circles
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by mvgoogler 14y ago
Yes. The io_submit based async io API is much better, especially if you are doing lots of iops.
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by mvgoogler 14y ago
If you'are getting a "join Google+" pop-up every time you access Gmail then there is something wrong. That is definitely not the behavior I see on my alternate Gmail account which is opted out of Google+.
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by mvgoogler 14y ago
No - it just means you haven't opted in to Google+. To check - I just created a test gmail account and opted out of Google+. The Google+ section disappeared from my account settings page, which makes sense. I don't work on the sign-up/opt-o

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