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by skj 13y ago
Google employees have root on their devices, unless it's a chromebook pixel for some reason. If you root that you can't use the corp network. Not sure why, since you have root on any other kind of laptop you might get from corp.
902.
by skj 13y ago
That also assumes that Islam would have gone unchanged, as well.
903.
by skj 13y ago
It's almost as if different people have different opinions, and HN is a place we can come to discuss them. Or something.
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by skj 13y ago
You are misinformed. Goole Compute Engine was announced almost a year ago, and it is none of this.
905.
by skj 13y ago
Eh? It's not like they sneak it in.
906.
by skj 13y ago
Could you explain more what you mean? I'm tempted to dismiss it, but I don't actually understand your point so I'll give you the benefit of the doubt until I do.
907.
by skj 13y ago
So, it seems likely that culture fit was not a problem. In general if you get one interview that results in a weak no-hire, you need a couple strong-hires to balance it out. If you get one with a confident no-hire, that's it.
908.
by skj 13y ago
Lower-level management is drawn from the same pool as the engineers. For upper-level, Google does not have the luxury of getting one thousand credible and serious applicants every week, so the process necessarily differs.
909.
by skj 13y ago
There is no feedback expected from those lunches. But you're right, they are tests... for the candidate to test Google.
910.
by skj 13y ago
This is a bad strategy. One thing that actually helps you tremendously is evidence of growth. The easiest way for the hiring committee to see this is for you to show improvement from a previous interview. I guess it'd be possible to ga
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by skj 13y ago
You seem to think a Google SRE is something like a sysadmin. This is not true.
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by skj 13y ago
No. The UK government doesn't get to remove things, it just has an expedited way to get the removal requests in front of Google employees who can remove things.
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by skj 13y ago
I don't understand how 2FA completely counters this scam. Consider if you called someone up and told them your password, and then gave them an up-to-date number from your OTP generator. Except instead of calling them up, you're en
914.
by skj 13y ago
I just think that a promotion shouldn't automatically entail moving into management. At my company the engineer ladder and the management ladder are different (though you can transfer between them if you like). I can get promoted 5 mor
915.
by skj 13y ago
They would not have to store your password to know that you typed an old one by accident, just a hash.
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by skj 13y ago
Generally that's because to fight it, they'd have to visit the town's courthouse or spend money on a lawyer. If I were the one choosing the fines, and I lacked a soul, I'd choose a fine amount that maximized #speeders *
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by skj 13y ago
The failure was not inevitable. Two things happened to go wrong at the same terrible time.
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by skj 13y ago
Because testing every sequence would take exponential time relative to the length of the sequence. For the post-accident simulation, they say "ok since we know we are in this modification of the SR-71, in this phase of the flight, and
919.
by skj 13y ago
Right, apparently the notion of sample bias escaped whomever said that.
920.
by skj 13y ago
My point was that the arguments presented were not the reasons that using floats to handle finance was a bad idea. Since, as I showed, they also applied to integers.
921.
by skj 13y ago
Could make all the same arguments against integers: - Limited precision, - Some numbers aren't representable, - Go try adding 1 to itself over and over again. That said, yes, floats are a bad idea for financial arithmetic.
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by skj 13y ago
There was no implication that the Randian titans were inspired by Rand. Only the implication that they lived by her ideals. That, of course, can happen before she actually articulates them.
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by skj 13y ago
Frankly, if he sells scamming products then his health advise is worthless.
924.
by skj 13y ago
"there Lorem Ipsum text"
925.
by skj 13y ago
Email from Google recruiters went to my gmail spam. I had to whitelist @google.com, which I thought was pretty silly. I know it's a popular domain to spoof, but you'd think that at least with @google.com they could do a quick vali
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by skj 13y ago
It's your right to complain about Youtube quality these days (from what I understand ISPs tend to throttle them mercilessly), but it was clearly an extremely good buy for Google, and Google makes tons of money off of Youtube ads. When
927.
by skj 13y ago
When writing papers in grad school, we'd leave placeholders in all the time, but always prefixed with the string "ZZZ", so they'd be really easy to search for.
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by skj 13y ago
20% is certainly not gone. However, you will have to claim it on your own. If you want to know the best thing about working for Google (I work for Google), it's the peer group. Sure, the interview process misses a lot of great candidat
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by skj 13y ago
Unlike some stack ranking horror stories I've heard, at Google the engineers are stack-ranked against everyone else at the same tech level. That's thousands of people. If you're in the bottom 10% of thousands of people, then
930.
by skj 13y ago
Now that I read the article, seems like they're merging all the regexps into one, which really could be O(n). However, the trie will not be O(log n). You have to at least look at every character in the input, so there's a hard O(n

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