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by rifung 9y ago
Is there any evidence this is happening? I work at Google and as a lower level engineer more often than not wish some of the leads had better soft skills which makes me think they're not emphasized nearly enough in terms of promotion,
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by rifung 9y ago
By group of men are you using that like group of people or are you saying it's specific to males?
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by rifung 9y ago
> If you mean the ads are better quality, then that’s even worse. Better ads mean you’re being told what to buy... more effectively. I suppose it depends what you mean by "better quality". I have seen ads which were effective i
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by rifung 9y ago
This might be true but I much prefer product placement which doesn't interfere with the show than having the show be interrupted to see an ad.
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by rifung 9y ago
First of all I didn't mean to put down anyone's work. I am sure the technology is fascinating. Someone asked about the reason for negativity and I gave them my reasons. > I think you should give the cryptoscene another chance a
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by rifung 9y ago
> But there is also a chance that we genuinely are at the beginning of the transition from Fiat currencies to crypto (beginning of the S-curve mass adoption) I can only speak for myself but I see this chance as practically being 0. As fa
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by rifung 9y ago
> Totally legit reason in some countries. Sorry but what is a legit reason and it's a legit reason for what?
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by rifung 9y ago
> vertically integrated companies are so efficient, and lower costs so much, that they force competitors out of business. I don't think you would want to argue that driving competitors out of business since antitrust legislation is
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by rifung 9y ago
> Also most of the restaurants hide their revenues from tax authorities (it was recently in the news) - otherwise the prices will be much higher, like our neighbors have (France, Italy). Perhaps I'm misunderstanding but are you argu
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by rifung 9y ago
> Linux distros are a fantastic example of this. It's easy enough to create a viable linux distro that there are 5+ popular ones, and if you don't like those there are 10+ less popular ones which are perfectly viable and reason
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by rifung 9y ago
> The difference between a Tesla easter egg (which are almost entirely regarded as delightful) and this easter egg is that this easter egg was poorly executed. I don't own a Tesla but I assume a key difference is that the easter egg
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by rifung 9y ago
> Seeing the list of things that Google keeps in a monorepo, vs things that Google keeps in Git repos, it seems like they might be thinking similarly. They've really only got a precious few products that typically run on non-Google-
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by rifung 9y ago
> I'm asking because i wouldn't know how to setup a mono repository at my 50 people Startup even if we deemed this to be necessary. Sorry if this is a really dumb question. If you only have 50 people I'm assuming your code
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by rifung 9y ago
> These days, people feel increasingly under fire. We have to watch what we say, what we do, who we offend, what our political affiliations are, and whether we are crossing any lines. Is it just "these days"? Maybe I'm too
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by rifung 9y ago
Or just someone who isn't a native speaker?
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by rifung 9y ago
Not if you only consider salary though right? I assume MBAs also get bonuses and the such?
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by rifung 9y ago
> Take Tumblr for example - they sold to Yahoo. Verizon bought Yahoo. If I was an engineer at Tumblr I'd be pissed that an evil monopoly like Verizon that's fighting against net neutrality is suddenly using my code. But wouldn&
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by rifung 9y ago
> Sorry for the rant, but as you can imagine I'm done with GCP and can't wait to head back to AWS land. Nonsense, the feedback is much appreciated! Thanks for taking the time!
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by rifung 9y ago
I work for Google.. Sorry to hear that your experience was poor but thanks for the candid feedback! Is the equivalent to CloudFormation on GCP supposed to be Deployment Manager? Would you mind elaborating what could have been done better? I
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by rifung 9y ago
Isn't that because re:invent is happening now?
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by rifung 9y ago
My cynicism leads me to believe it's because tech is (now?) more about making money and less about ethics or making cool stuff.
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by rifung 9y ago
> Sounds to me like he is just rambling a bit there at the end. Gold actually does have some intrinsic value—it's useful Actually I think you are misunderstanding him? He isn't saying that gold doesn't have intrinsic value
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by rifung 9y ago
Yes because he believes you should invest in things which inherently generate value. Note that gold has inherent value in its use for conductivity or jewelry, but it doesn't create any more, which is the same at bitcoin. In other wor
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by rifung 9y ago
> Maybe one day i'll productize it and sell it as a package, but honestly my bills are paid and I don't feel the need to make more money than I do right now. Why take on the stress? I really admire that you made something &quot
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by rifung 9y ago
Ah interesting to know that GCC does this! I figured there would be compilers which did this but I sadly didn't have any examples. > the compiler DOES have that special logic. Indeed it being a controversial decision does not imply
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by rifung 9y ago
> The fact that you think she's wrong, and that you're right, on this issue, suggests you don't understand how compilers work either. I'm happy to be proven wrong and certainly know I have much more to learn but I sus
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by rifung 9y ago
Recently, a coworker of mine told me how she thought the compiler should catch when you don't give printf the right arguments. Another example is when a coworker said you couldn't define flags in a Go library but she didn't r
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5% is generous? It's a requirement at some universities so I wouldn't be surprised if it's higher. Then again, I don't know what % of universities requires it either.
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by rifung 9y ago
> it's made by Google, but it's not like they use it themselves. I work at Google (Cloud) but not on front end. All the front end SWEs I've talked to use Angular for their projects so we definitely do use it!
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by rifung 9y ago
> What an incredibly simplistic view of the world. I could make the same argument of your point of view as well. I work at Google precisely because I think I can make a difference here. That means something different to different people

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