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by noahl 7y ago
No idea, I don't work there any more. It would be really interesting to know though.
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by noahl 7y ago
This is interesting, but I think the authors don't talk enough about CPU and memory utilization. To me, the "classic" Google distributed systems architecture puts different tasks in different logical servers (doesn't mat
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by noahl 7y ago
Interestingly, basing insurance on healthiness seems to be a new trend happening right now. I'm a runner, and recently I've seen a lot of ads for a company called HealthIQ (I think) that offers cheap life insurance, but only for p
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by noahl 7y ago
Also worth noting that even if you put them underground, you could flood your tunnels, or have an earthquake, or a giant rabid mole attack, etc... I don't read your comment as ignoring this, but I want to point out for everyone that re
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by noahl 7y ago
The office is for Azure DevOps, our source code hosting / work item tracking / CI / CD / package hosting solution. I think we are looking to hire software engineers and senior software engineers, but if those titles don&
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by noahl 7y ago
I work as a software developer in RTP, and I really like it. (I'm in the Microsoft office, which by the way is hiring.) School districts can vary. I live in Chapel Hill, which has truly excellent schools. Durham can be hit or miss, and
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by noahl 7y ago
Oak ridge national laboratory was built where it is partly because they could get lots of cheap power from the TVA, so probably from that. (TVA is a regional electricity provider that operates a lot of hydro plants.)
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by noahl 7y ago
They probably can't share their cost analysis. I would expect that most companies that both a) are big enough for the cloud providers to bother talking to and b) have proven they have the ability to run their workloads on multiple clou
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by noahl 7y ago
One of the things that I really love about the tech industry is the way so many companies have adopted a dual-track seniority system, where you can advance as an individual contributor or as a manager. I'm not familiar with the history
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by noahl 8y ago
Hi! I enjoyed reading your comment, but please be careful before posting working explosive recipes on the internet nowadays. It's sad that we have to think about it, but we do. (Unless you deliberately posted one that doesn't work
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by noahl 8y ago
Yes, paying attention to detail is important. But you would never say this about an engineering system. If you had to make a series of poorly-marked binary choices in a certain order to correctly deploy a bugfix, and someone got that wrong,
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by noahl 8y ago
Plenty of other comments have covered what a great position you're in, and I agree. To take full advantage of what you're seeing in this thread, it would be very helpful if you'd post where you live and where you might be wil
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by noahl 8y ago
Quick reminder: "slave wages" are exactly $0, and also you can't leave the job due to threat of violence. (And also there's a lot of violence anyway, and also bad housing and bad food and complete lack of personal time o
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by noahl 8y ago
That is incredibly unreasonable, because 1) Fires tend to spread. Fire codes are not just for your own benefit, they're for the benefit of everyone around you. 2) If you live in a fire trap and it eventually catches on fire, firefighte
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by noahl 8y ago
A coworker at a previous company had a red Swingline stapler on his desk. He told me that at one point, the company was giving them out to any employee who had to change desks more than some number of times in a single year. They eventually
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by noahl 8y ago
I believe the state of the art is bazel and similar systems. Bazel supports C++, Python, Java, and Go well that I know of, maybe more too. It's also extensible, and people have rolled their own support for various languages. You can fi
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by noahl 8y ago
Agreed to all of what you said, but also, performance in some circumstances is a discount. One of the Google Cloud employees said "Derek’s point about savings is about list price differences that result from total system performance
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by noahl 8y ago
Who needs these chips? I'm honestly curious. I've never worked on something that needed as much single-thread performance as possible and couldn't be parallelized; I'd love to know what industry will use them (and what i
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by noahl 8y ago
Back when I worked at Google, the standard log processing tool was Dremel. You could get exactly the same thing by shipping your logs to BigQuery. I haven't checked, but I bet it's cheaper than ES for data that's mostly cold,
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Land sale stokes speculation that Apple still considering RTP campus(wraltechwire.com)
1 points by noahl 8y ago|0 comments
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by noahl 8y ago
Can you share anything more about this? I'd love to hear it. I think you shared the most relevant experience of any post so far.
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by noahl 8y ago
FYI - I used to work for Google in Seattle. Now I work for Microsoft in Raleigh, and I'm very happy. (Not technically FANG, but close.)
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by noahl 8y ago
Very true!
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by noahl 8y ago
And this would be ... a spectacularly good outcome. In order to do this, the company would have to develop a workable, repeatable model of how to economically improve an "opportunity zone". There's some evidence that this is
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by noahl 8y ago
This is an interesting point because it reminds me of something much older. Monasteries now (and I assume historically too) had a business to cover their expenses. The monks are supposed to work enough at the business to keep it going in ad
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by noahl 8y ago
I moved from Seattle to Chapel Hill about a year ago (also grew up in Durham, a lot longer ago). I second everything cbarnes89 said, and I'd add that there's a small but growing Microsoft office in Morrisville.
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by noahl 8y ago
He seems to be arguing that policymakers aren't paying enough attention to this. He specifically calls out intellectual property laws, tax policy, and competition laws as three areas that have not yet adapted to this trend. It sounds l
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Hi, it's Amazon calling. Here's what we don't like about your city(wsj.com)
4 points by noahl 8y ago|0 comments
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by noahl 8y ago
I would guess that they do know that, but they think for whatever reason that they can't get away with doing the same thing. (Or maybe they'd have to sacrifice something else that they care about - if they started setting higher s
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by noahl 8y ago
I just moved from Seattle to Raleigh, and I'm still trying to learn the local tech scene. Can you share any info publicly on companies doing cool stuff around here?

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