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181.
by puzzle 8y ago
You usually can't hold on to options for longer than three months after you leave a company, right? You'd have had to exercise them.
182.
by puzzle 8y ago
I was at Google for quite a few years "during the time of Andy Rubin" and know of at least two terminations for harassment and at least two for having sex at work. There are also cases that could and should have been handled bette
183.
by puzzle 8y ago
The email was from 2015, but he had left Google in 2014, so it wasn't sent on company time/servers. Even if it had been sent earlier, Andy Rubin had been named in enough patent lawsuits and deposed enough times to know that multip
184.
by puzzle 8y ago
Python protocol buffers can use either a native or a C++ implementation. The latter is more than an order of magnitude faster. I'm wondering if they tried that. It doesn't solve the Ruby case, of course. Or JavaScript. gRPC can a
185.
by puzzle 8y ago
Yeah, but a lot of software does not support them, at all levels in the chain. Which is a tragedy. They'd be useful in more contexts than just gRPC.
186.
by puzzle 8y ago
A more accurate description is that they used to buy satellite imagery from third parties such as DG, which were responsible for the blurring. Nowadays, a lot of images come from planes, many of which are operated by Google, which does not
187.
by puzzle 8y ago
The original author and main developer, Dave Reveman, started working on other projects for Novell (Silverlight, etc.), then joined Google, where he worked on ChromeOS compositing (obviously) and, more recently, on Crostini. He's a rea
188.
by puzzle 8y ago
How about attempts to abuse the vulnerability in the months since?
189.
by puzzle 8y ago
Raph Levien worked for years on improving Android audio latency. I had a great chat with him a long ago about emulating the DX7, APIs and so on. I thought they already managed to get numbers to reasonable levels (after adding tighter requir
190.
by puzzle 8y ago
Those are all userland packages. OIN's site does not list any packages with supplemental kernel modules.
191.
by puzzle 8y ago
That would be covered if exfat were in the mainline kernel, which I don't think it is yet.
192.
by puzzle 8y ago
They would also have logs of any further attempts to exploit the vulnerability after it was found. I haven't seen anyone mention that. Although it's still no definitive proof, it can be useful corroborating evidence. (I left Googl
193.
by puzzle 8y ago
So it's a certification issue, not a technology one as the OP said? I wouldn't be surprised if it has something to do with e.g. security clearances of employees.
194.
by puzzle 8y ago
You might find it surprising, but at Google it's common to do things like not returning anything when aggregating data from a small number of users. That's before even looking at projects like RAPPOR or ESA. Source: I had access t
195.
by puzzle 8y ago
No mention of the Google-Murdoch spate is complete without a link to this classic: https://europe.googleblog.com/2014/09/dear-rupert_25.html
196.
by puzzle 8y ago
The logs live somewhere else. If you had some magic exploit that let you run code on Google systems AND delete logs, you could do much more damaging things than just reading G+ data.
197.
by puzzle 8y ago
Before those two, more than a decade ago, Google also had OpenSocial, with MySpace and others. It was an interesting period of time, if you were there. The project was one of the "failures" that soured Google on having open standa
198.
by puzzle 8y ago
Here it is. It's in 1.12, actually, not on HEAD as I recalled: https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/pull/67504 Still not sure if these are the configuration files that GKE uses behind the scenes, but
199.
by puzzle 8y ago
I just saw a change the other day which makes system pods fit better on nodes with one vCPU. It reduced their numbers by the same factor (i.e. keeping the same proportions). It was meant for GCE and I am not sure if/when it will make i
200.
by puzzle 8y ago
From the original article: "Most architecture research papers are based on simulations running small, easily portable benchmarks that project potential performance if ever implemented. This article is not one of them but rather a retro
201.
by puzzle 8y ago
Didn't he write the predecessor to Effingo ( http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~dhay/IND2011.html ), more than a decade ago? I still remember his name and email because the service was great, but also difficult to tame. And
202.
by puzzle 8y ago
Nitpick: Dave Drummond is, or at least was, Kent Walker's boss, board member and the top lawyer. He focused on business, though. Kent Walker was the policy guy. Ironically, this article from six weeks ago makes the point that he's
203.
by puzzle 8y ago
No, he removed his original "Also, aren't you a Googler?"
204.
by puzzle 8y ago
You have no idea. Whether it's about GDPR, the Google Books lawsuit, surveillance reform, relationships with China or whatever else the policy issue of the day might be, Kent Walker was involved. He's not a leader? He has hundreds
205.
by puzzle 8y ago
[You asked if I'm a Googler] I used to be a Googler, years ago. That's how I know how ridiculous the outrage and the downplaying of Walker are. I'm glad I can talk now without being accused of defending my employer. I brought
206.
by puzzle 8y ago
The SSCI might be less of a circus show than e.g. House committees, but you still hear preposterous things from them. Look at this interview: https://www.wired.com/story/mark-warner-senate-committee-hea... "I know
207.
by puzzle 8y ago
Or maybe this is largely a manufactured issue. Alphabet sent Walker, but the committee didn't allow him to sit down. Between him and Salgado, the experts that Page and Pichai defer to, I don't think there's anyone better qual
208.
by puzzle 8y ago
It's worse: this is driven by Doepfner and co. They don't even hide.
209.
by puzzle 8y ago
I thought this was going to be a profile of Scott Draves of Electric Sheep fame.
210.
by puzzle 8y ago
Paul McCartney showed the Mellotron and its original presets at a live concert at Abbey Road Studios more than a decade ago: https://youtu.be/TUcfB5Whp4I Amusing.

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