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by pyb 9y ago
One of the Kergelen islands (part of France) is called Île de Croÿ Surely they mean the Kerguelen Islands ?
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by pyb 9y ago
Funny how fast the 'remote' tide has turned in the last year or two. These days, most prospective employers/contracts I find would prefer me to work remotely. Although personally, I'd rather work onsite ! This is for Lon
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Venture investing in the US and Europe are totally different industries(techcrunch.com)
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What Happens When Money Breaks the Rules?(slate.com)
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by pyb 10y ago
I've heard that Google pay less in London than they do in any of their US offices.
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by pyb 10y ago
Around 2011, IMG turned down acquisition offers from Apple and Intel.
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by pyb 10y ago
Hmm, he got the name of one of the main protagonists wrong. Pierre Yves => Pierre-Yves Droz. You need to demonstrate some attention to detail, if you're going to claim an ability to 'read between the lines' in this dossier
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by pyb 10y ago
Depends, what will the price be ?
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by pyb 10y ago
Sounds nice, but I am unable to find any ticket info.
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by pyb 10y ago
Wasn't there a study by Google a while back, where they found, as a trend, that their most successful people had only marginally passed their job interview ?
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by pyb 10y ago
I agree, but only with the 'breaks' part.
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by pyb 10y ago
Did I read correctly ? Must I remove my GPL licensed code from Github ?
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by pyb 10y ago
I also got logged out of Google on my Android phone yedterday.
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by pyb 10y ago
By the way, Skype and Lync("Skype for business") are different products with a different codebase. But I find Lync to be the worst of the two.
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by pyb 10y ago
"I asked if they considered to pay the driver more? [...] He then added that I must realize that they were not competing with Taxis for the drivers, but rather with Walmart." https://www.alexkras.com/my-interview-a
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by pyb 10y ago
That chestnut is getting a bit old now. For those of us who do have open source code on Github, the consensus is clear : despite the hype, most employers don't really look at Github in any depth. They mostly prefer to grill candidates
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by pyb 10y ago
From what I see around me, there are only 2 ways to get hired by Google. Either you are a fresh CS graduate, or you need to take 2-3 months off for fulltime study.
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by pyb 10y ago
No one said it was easy...
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by pyb 10y ago
So true. A 'good' programmer who commits terrible code is a bad programmer. In other words, one trait of a senior developer is knowing to pick your battles. If you can't do good work, you have to get out.
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by pyb 10y ago
And, well, it looks like it was mostly just one guy working on it.
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by pyb 10y ago
If they're implying that a recent 'shortage' (if there is?) of Airbnb/Stripe/Dropbox sized successes is due to acquisitions, I'm not sure that's entirely fair.
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by pyb 10y ago
Reading between the lines, wasn't Sam complaining about a trend whereby many promising startups get acquired way too early ?
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by pyb 10y ago
The problem is that in many companies, sadly, the management do everything they can to isolate developers from their users.
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by pyb 10y ago
I've heard Google's VCS is basically their own reimplementation of Perforce. Are there any major differences ?
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by pyb 10y ago
What is a PA ?
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by pyb 10y ago
They have picked a strategy consisting in hiring large numbers of less experienced developers, rather than a few great ones. This is very much impossible to reverse, so now, they have to make it work with the people they have.
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by pyb 10y ago
The larger problem is not so much people leaving, but those not coming to the Valley in the first place.
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by pyb 10y ago
"When I was at Google, someone [...] completed a big optimization push only to find that measured page load times increased. When they dug into the data, they found that the reason load times had increased was that they got a lot more
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by pyb 10y ago
I like 'gig economy' too. You may also like to call it the 'tax- and labor law- avoidance economy'
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by pyb 10y ago
In London at least, from the way they drive, it's painfully clear that the average Uber driver has very little experience. It follows that turnover must be quite huge in the profession.

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