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by skj 12y ago
Engineers at Google don't have mandated hours. Be available for important meetings, and be somewhat consistent with when you're around.
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by skj 12y ago
I also don't think that winning competitions is a negative. I only believe that the experience doing so gives one a bigger advantage in interviewing that in actual work performance. I also don't believe that the Google hiring comm
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by skj 12y ago
As I mentioned in another post, I don't think it's that Google sees programming competition success and says "oh boy, we gotta get this one!", but that the experience of those competitions helps the candidates perform be
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by skj 12y ago
What's going on is that practicing for programming competitions (which is needed to perform well in that venue) gives you a leg up on Google-style interviewing skills, but not a leg up on Google-style day-to-day demands. As a consequen
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by skj 12y ago
tale = tail. oy.
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by skj 12y ago
This is only a counterargument if you actually put all of the bills through this machine, eventually. Did you do that, perhaps as a final sorting measure? Otherwise, the ones that were too good to arouse your suspicion were swept through.
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by skj 12y ago
It screams exponential at me, especially given a potential underlying model where every sick person has a .x probability of getting every individual they work with sick. As the number of individuals goes up with no change in the rate of sic
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by skj 12y ago
My manufacturer wants to charge me $400/year to keep the built-in map system updated. It was a $3500 add-on when we bought the car originally. It sure would be nice if I could go in and put Google maps in there.
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by skj 12y ago
Laws stop bad actors all the time. Certainly not all burglaries are stopped, but I imagine there would be more of them if there were no consequences. We should punish the actual bad behavior, not things that enable bad behavior. Otherwise,
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by skj 12y ago
> What methods could we employ for increasing our margin of error? What might these methods look like? These methods and their applications are the field of distributed computing :)
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by skj 12y ago
This is completely consistent with my statement :) Our time perception of the object remains the same, but the processes experienced by the object itself are much slower, relative to how we perceive them. Specifically, if the object falling
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by skj 12y ago
Time from that matter's perspective. From the outside observer's perspective, it zips right in. Same way that if you travel near the speed of light your perception of time slows until you are no longer traveling that fast. But to
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by skj 12y ago
One piece at a time! Also, who is to say that Google's way of orchestrating those hojillion computers is best? Separating the two pieces, as has been done here, makes it possible for others to create different (and maybe better) orches
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by skj 12y ago
Inside Google we do that as well, but it's actually distinct from bazel. Bazel is a build language, and I believe they provide a reference implementation. It's not unimaginable (and as I mentioned, it has been done internally) to
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by skj 12y ago
> Doesn't matter to me if it bores them. If that's a problem maybe they shouldn't downvote in the first place? Perhaps the downvotes are because it bores them? I guess it shouldn't matter to you that you get downvot
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by skj 12y ago
Yes. For instance, by accident or oversight.
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by skj 12y ago
You got the motto wrong.
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by skj 12y ago
Consider compiling the fonts into the binary. This is what I did for go.uik: https://github.com/skelterjohn/go.uik/blob/master/luxisr.ttf...
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by skj 12y ago
You can't. And, you shouldn't try to find out, either. It's specifically if you know that your code infringes.
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by skj 12y ago
Maybe in the world of ubiquitous automation, those sorts of things won't actually be problems.
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by skj 12y ago
Are you doing a COPY to get it all in? Another thing you can try is to use a builder image, where you mount your source in as a volume (ie don't copy), and that build image makes a new Dockerfile+binary that you can build into a much s
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by skj 12y ago
Clearly that would require becoming adept with Ruby, which would require actually looking at Ruby code. That's a bit of a show-stopper.
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by skj 12y ago
It's not a googlecode-hosted project: there is no /p/ in the middle, and you can't see its source (not that there'd be much to see). It's a tool made by the googlecode team to help migrate.
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by skj 12y ago
wrong. https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/oauth2client and https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/kubernetes , just to list two that I deal with.
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by skj 12y ago
Now you're suggesting that Google basically devotes a team to detecting "crawler-free-quota abuse", when the real solution needs to handles crawlers from many different sources that aren't all Google.
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by skj 12y ago
Google crawlers come from well-known IPs, especially well-known to Google. Appengine requests come through reverse proxies, and there is no fundamental difficulty in not counting requests from crawlers towards the quota. That said, see my o
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by skj 12y ago
I thought about that too (I'm a Googler working on cloud), but then a colleague mentioned that this would become a way to get free computation from Google. So, while I agree with the sentiment that it sucks that this crawling eats the
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by skj 12y ago
> Are you suggesting YC help someone take care of their kids? No, how did you get that? I'm also not suggesting they shouldn't. It's just not at all what I was talking about.
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by skj 12y ago
You say you disagree, but your experience doesn't support that. "It was hard and it required sacrifice." because of the implicit bias brought up by the GP. For someone in their mid twenties, no relationship or dependents, mov
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by skj 12y ago
Not all issues are equal. Porn, in particular, has a lot of history of abuse of its participants and objectification of a large class of people. Rap music is a genre. If you said "rap music that talks about running around murdering pol

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