nosefrog

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by nosefrog 3y ago
I used to work there. The tooling is pretty good.
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by nosefrog 3y ago
I work on Google Search infrastructure. Of course, caching is important, but a large percentage of queries don't hit the cache. The backend that serves results that aren't cached has very strict latency bounds. > From that pers
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by nosefrog 3y ago
I'm not reading it, though it sounds interesting. I found this quote when I was browsing through Donald Knuth's website 10 years ago for inspiration on where to take my life next.
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by nosefrog 3y ago
Very interesting essay. Reminds me of how Donald Knuth describes his job: > Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things. What I do takes lon
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by nosefrog 3y ago
But then you won't catch the bug before it hits production :)
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by nosefrog 3y ago
> Second is I removed stock because stock is hugely outsized in value for tech companies, and most of these jobs aren't going to have RSUs. RSUs are the companies you're talking about are effectively cash, and they make up a si
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by nosefrog 3y ago
FWIW, re: comparing to "elite SV company" compensation, it doesn't really make sense to discount stock, since stock at the "elite" SV companies is effectively cash, because they're public. Unless you mean that
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by nosefrog 3y ago
My friend's startup is similar but for YouTube videos: polyglatte.com
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by nosefrog 3y ago
Every database schema I've worked with uses plurals. Seems worth using plurals for that reason alone.
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by nosefrog 4y ago
Nice to see Steve Yegge back to writing blog posts :) One of the reasons I was excited to join Google was to read all of his internal posts, but it turns out they were mostly on Google+, which was taken down by the time I joined.
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by nosefrog 4y ago
> "When they do, a shocking percentage of them will go on to make a startup worth a billion dollars (on average 6 out of 100 startups in recent batches)." That's 6/100 (6%). 1/6 is 16%.
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by nosefrog 4y ago
Unpopular opinion: the government should try to make depositors of banks whole when their banks fail.
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by nosefrog 4y ago
> The government said the company only committed this week to permanently preserve its employees’ chat messages—after DOJ officials informed Google they would file their motion for sanctions. As a current Google employee, I'm very h
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by nosefrog 4y ago
MADE is amazing, thanks for creating it :)
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by nosefrog 4y ago
When I was at Dropbox, one of the big threats to the business we talked about was OS's banning file sync applications and forcing them to use their own APIs for them instead. It looks like that's finally happening now, unfortunate
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by nosefrog 4y ago
I wonder if this is actually a technical limitation in Outlook :)
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by nosefrog 4y ago
Yea, a lot of the core libraries at Google have flags in them, so when you link them into your cli, you get those flags as well.
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by nosefrog 4y ago
Has anyone gotten off the wait-list in SF? I've been able to ride a Cruise taxi, but not Waymo.
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by nosefrog 4y ago
Cool! Does anyone know of apps similar to this for Chinese?
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by nosefrog 4y ago
What makes you think Dropbox doesn't deduplicate data?
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by nosefrog 4y ago
Colossus, the successor to GFS, is one of the coolest technologies at Google. Almost everything we have internally is built on top of it.
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by nosefrog 4y ago
> If you think google products and joining google will be the highest payoff, then learn golang. The most popular languages at Google are C++ and Java, and both are an order of magnitude more popular at Google than Go :P
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by nosefrog 4y ago
I love how Reddit forces you to the mobile app to see NSFW content, but iOS apps aren't supposed to be pornographic...
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by nosefrog 4y ago
That's weird, most people I know with Google offers say they're good for a year or more.
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by nosefrog 4y ago
Has anyone else noticed that OneMedical doesn't do full blood tests during yearly screenings anymore? My girlfriend had to beg for a vitamin d test last time she went (they said she didn't need one because she looked healthy, and
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by nosefrog 4y ago
I find the implication here that GM makes good cars amusing.
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by nosefrog 4y ago
My grandfather got his PhD because he lost an argument to Grace Hopper because she had a PhD and he didn't. He was working for the Navy at the time, and he wanted to use a higher level language for some operating system they were build
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by nosefrog 4y ago
Source?
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by nosefrog 4y ago
That explains why Dart is also a mega-success. /s
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by nosefrog 4y ago
Can you talk more about your method for solving problems? That's normally where I get stuck.

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