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961.
by pja 12y ago
From my personal experience, you don’t get interviewed for or by a specific group for "ordinary" Google positions. As I understand things from the outside (perhaps a Googler can confirm?) a candidate goes through the interview pro
962.
by pja 12y ago
The author seems to beat herself up a lot over failings that I don’t think were her fault. Sure, the "do you have any questions?" foul-up is a huge own-goal, but some of the others? Eg, " I wanted to talk about Gmail (I used
963.
by pja 12y ago
"Scrum Masters...The main issues in the Scrum Master market are that lots of Project Managers and people from somewhat similar disciplines doing the two day certification and are repackaging their careers on their CVs and jumping on th
964.
by pja 12y ago
Ah, this does look like a more plausible reason for the Gemalto hack: http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/20/8079083/gemalto-sim-card-g... Short version: Knowing the OTA key lets you push malware to the targe
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by pja 12y ago
One of my Google interviewers asked me to implement the AdWords analysis backend from scratch: an online, high volume (high enough to need to partition the data across some kind of distributed storage) streaming dataset with a query load th
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by pja 12y ago
I had a chat to a friend who's worked in the mobile industry for decades. He said that 4G phones (possibly 3G too, I don’t recall) only use the shared secret key for the initial sign-on to the parent mobile network. Thereafter, new key
967.
by pja 12y ago
If we banned the hotplug of new devices when the system is in a locked state, would that be sufficient to mitigate these attacks via system buses with DMA access? "No password? No hotplug for you." seems like a rule we ought to be
968.
by pja 12y ago
Can you ever imagine Apple pulling a stunt like this? No, because it’s astonishingly user hostile: Lenovo should be hanging their head in shame, not making out like it’s no big deal.
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by pja 12y ago
If anyone wants to take a look at the struct offsets inside their own code, the article mentions pahole as being a useful tool but I found that it chokes on recent C++ - the dwarf libraries it relies on can't cope with lambdas and vari
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by pja 12y ago
Not really, if the fear is being sued for wrongful dismissal. If the advice is so non specific that it doesn't contain anything actionable, then it's probably not specific enough to be helpful. Essentially, if you give the ex-empl
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by pja 12y ago
That's weird - middle click still works fine on Firefox/Linux, but doesn't work on Chrome/Linux. Hard to believe this was intentional.
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by pja 12y ago
I don't know whether this particular proof models IO timeouts - might have a poke at it and see what it's doing if I have time later. More generally, Coq is "just" a well integrated proof tool & I can't see any
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by pja 12y ago
At a guess it demonstrates that there's no possibility for infinite loops or recursion. It's going to rely on a model of the storage mechanism (memory, disk, whatever) that will respond to requests for data in finite time, but tha
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by pja 12y ago
At least some of these are what makes git awesome. * commit changes manually - I find my self picking individual changes out of the current state of my source & committing them individually all the time, so this is just perfect. * his
975.
by pja 12y ago
Everything I've read suggests that the G+ / GMail / YouTube integration was forced onto the various parts of Google by executive fiat: The rank & file Google employees were against it, but a company is not a democracy so
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by pja 12y ago
Google seems determined to make exactly the same mistakes with YouTube Music that it made trying to pushing Google+ down people's throats. I.e., abuse a dominant position in one area to force users onto its other services whilst comple
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by pja 12y ago
even Google -- famous for them -- acknowledges they're useless When I interviewed at Google (four years ago now I think) there were no trick questions. Hard questions? Yes. But none that had "gotcha" answers that you'd
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by pja 12y ago
Ah, fair point - VMWare only gets you OpenGL 2.1 & given that the guy is writing a games engine he probably wants 3.x at least.
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by pja 12y ago
The answer to this developer's install problems are a VMWare virtual machine running on his usual Windows setup. By his own account his actual Linux code works just fine - the only thing that was in his way was his inability to install
980.
by pja 12y ago
Academic papers about medical treatment affect life/death of millions. This is frightening. Absolutely. If you read "The Emperor of All Maladies" you'll discover that a single research lab led by a (probably) fraudulen
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by pja 12y ago
Minor derail - I know I mistype 'their' as 'they're' and likewise for other similar homonym pairs all the time, but due -> dew is a particularly nice example of the genre :)
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by pja 12y ago
Consider my flabber appropriately ghasted. Sounds like getting out was the right move! I guess those managers had never read the Mythical Man Month?
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by pja 12y ago
I was easily doing ~3 hours of meetings in a given day I just wanted to pull this bit out and highlight it in dancing neon. 3 hours of meetings per day? Not even in a single block? It's astonishing that anything got done at all!
984.
by pja 12y ago
I'm going to guess that's 99c on contract. So not really 99c at all.
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by pja 12y ago
Note that "jay-walking" is something that the US car industry came up with in order to drive pedestrians off the road and clear the way for vehicular traffic so that they could sell more cars. In much of the rest of the world, the
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by pja 12y ago
Yeah, almost all the 2+1 roads in the UK have been converted back into two defined carriageways because they were incident magnets. I can imagine low speed 2+1 roads being OK. It's the 50mph+ ones that lead to horrific crashes - human
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by pja 12y ago
There's a bug in the system somewhere breaking voice calls altogether on the Nexus 4 which is apparently triggered by a recent change to Google Play Services. Mostly the people affected are using third party ROMs (CyanogenMod et al), b
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by pja 12y ago
Running into all sorts of problems with 'Mail app' and now 'Gmail app' using a third-party imap server. Lots of message with an HTML body or attachements are displayed blank. Google really, really wants you to use GMai
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by pja 12y ago
And most of that is documentation of the optional packages IIRC.
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by pja 12y ago
It's not that it was unknown and non-obvious - it's that as each successive stent was shown not be an effective treatment, cardiologists continued to operate for decades, confident that the next "new! improved!" version

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