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631.
by puzzle 10y ago
Maybe? It's also significant that Rachel had to handle a lot of huge fires while at Google, all over the globe: China, the Street View Wi-Fi incident, the European reception of privacy policy changes, the Books lawsuits, antitrust acti
632.
by puzzle 10y ago
I seem to remember that the features now available as Enterprise-only were not listed as such during development. Even if that's not the case, it's still a bummer. And it really sucks having to go through a salesperson's spie
633.
by puzzle 10y ago
Why would Broadcom sue a large customer like Google? Check out what chips are in the motherboard picture in Wired's article from a few years ago about the Pluto switch.
634.
by puzzle 10y ago
70 metros translate to many more POPs (also for redundancy reasons). The metros can be seen in e.g. the 1e100.net hosts in a traceroute. They're usually the closest airport code, so e.g. lhr for London. Somebody in China reverse engine
635.
by puzzle 10y ago
Where do you get the crazy idea that Google doesn't run its links to saturation? It's crazy because it would cost an enormous amount of money. The B4 paper states multiple times that Google runs links at almost 100% saturation, ve
636.
by puzzle 10y ago
Microsoft hadn't really even started when Apple itself had already perfected the fine, dirty art of submarine patents. We're using about early 90's, if not late 80's.
637.
by puzzle 10y ago
The future? The System/38 (aka AS/400 aka iSeries aka System i) had capabilities from the beginning, almost 40 years ago.
638.
by puzzle 10y ago
Martial, the poet, was able to put worse in writing: http://www.thehypertexts.com/Martial%20Epigrams.htm
639.
by puzzle 10y ago
You should check out Martial's Epigrams. Some translations are watered down, but some are faithfully explicit, like the original texts.
640.
by puzzle 10y ago
Normal HDR combines regular, underexposed and overexposed shots. HDR+ does not.
641.
by puzzle 10y ago
Normal HDR is usually implemented as bracketing. As the section "Capturing high dynamic range scenes" explains, HDR+ does not use bracketing.
642.
by puzzle 10y ago
Little of it was made public, but http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/23/4358400/google-engineer-ba... "Microsoft treat vulnerability researchers with great hostility," he says.
643.
by puzzle 10y ago
He also found vulnerabilities in many more security products out there. At some point, years ago, Microsoft became very hostile toward him, but things seem to be better now.
644.
by puzzle 10y ago
Targeting the elderly can be seen by some as agist or condescending. See the reactions to the stereotype of one's parents (especially one's mom) having trouble with technology.
645.
by puzzle 10y ago
Not having to ship a toolchain (nvcc, gpucc or whatever equivalent linked as a library)?
646.
by puzzle 10y ago
That might be less effective if you can't guarantee that all the builds end up always on the same node.
647.
by puzzle 10y ago
Is there any caching involved? In other words, what happens if I build the same source tree twice or if one line changes between one run and the next?
648.
by puzzle 10y ago
You're probably surprised only because you didn't know that at some point Google was one of the largest Tandberg customers on the planet, if not the largest. Then it all makes sense.
649.
by puzzle 10y ago
Sounds more like what's been tested by early adopters for the past six months: https://gsuiteupdates.googleblog.com/2016/09/new-early-adopt...
650.
by puzzle 10y ago
Yeah, that list is far from exhaustive. Years and years ago, Google's websearch cluster validation suite found a tricky bug that isn't on that list. The exchange with the CPU manufacturer was amusing.
651.
by puzzle 10y ago
I'm sure there are good use cases for Fleet, but running Kubernetes (or anything else) with just one master is asking for trouble.
652.
by puzzle 10y ago
You can do that kind of bootstrap without fleet. Just use ignition or cloud-config with the right systemd units and a bunch of fixed IP addresses. I think the CoreOS folks worked on a number of ways to simplify and automate bootstrapping of
653.
by puzzle 10y ago
I knew lots of good people at IBM, but they're almost all gone now. Nvidia can be a pain in the butt (read: how they cram their software stack to run on Linux), but I can only see things getting bad quickly if they were to be acquired
654.
by puzzle 10y ago
He actually had a green badge for a while. That's normally associated with interns, but it's also given to visiting scientists. Something about that was just funny. I only waved hello to him, but was very lucky to spend time with
655.
by puzzle 10y ago
Same for Bigtable and Spanner.
656.
by puzzle 10y ago
They do. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6Douyfa7l8 At least for disaster relief, in Asia, too: https://maps.googleblog.com/2011/03/new-imagery-of-japan-aft... "Today, we’ve published imager
657.
by puzzle 10y ago
Is Oracle really a surprise? Safra Catz is an immigrant herself, but she's also on the Trump advisory team and, in the end, it's still Larry's company anyway.
658.
by puzzle 10y ago
The Mayo Clinic is one of the best hospitals on the planet and is even mentioned in the article, since they have diagnostic labs that specialize in so-called esoteric testing. Their doctors are paid a salary, which is market-based, reaches
659.
by puzzle 10y ago
Y'all forgot about AMOS, although that came out quite late.
660.
by puzzle 10y ago
Yeah. And it's finally OK to mention the custom security chips or even LOAS (which already existed in some form before Aurora), because Niels Provos brought it up on stage: https://twitter.com/jbeda/status/715

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