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by smueller1234 5y ago
It's worth noting the while some of the other brands may be more well known in the Americas, Booking.com is actually the vast majority of the business. That's the reason why the parent renamed from "Priceline.com" to &qu
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by smueller1234 5y ago
It's not. The remote connection to safety (did you mean security?) would be that static source analysis tools don't work as reliably with dynamic languages. That matters at Google. But you don't even have to think as hard abo
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by smueller1234 5y ago
Nitpick: From the PoV of the (public tech) employers, they typically look at compensation not including appreciation of the restricted stock. It's typically "base + bonus + new stock grant value" or sometimes "base + bon
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by smueller1234 5y ago
And survival.
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by smueller1234 5y ago
I'm not the original author but I used to work with him and now do in storage infrastructure at Google. As others pointed out, what the author, Kris, writes kind of implies/requires a certain scale of infrastructure to make sense.
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by smueller1234 5y ago
The current forecasts don't predict cost parity for the next few years. I wouldn't speculate as far out as ten. What you'll see is that spinning rust will increasingly become used for cold(er) storage due to still offering ch
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by smueller1234 5y ago
Correction: I understand it to be a quarter of staff (the total staff being 26000). So the article is pretty grossly wrong in an important and obvious detail. Not sure how much I'd trust it on the more nuanced but. (Former booking empl
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by smueller1234 5y ago
It really depends on your job and location. I think the "your boss expects/forces you to" interpretation from the grand parent isn't generally what happens (at Google). I haven't seen that at all. It's rather m
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by smueller1234 5y ago
Perl is a tree based interpreter. It's not exactly an AST anymore but the time it's being executed, but close enough.
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by smueller1234 5y ago
Don't wait, read it. It's fun and informative, worth every minute! I haven't had as much fun reading a technical book in years!
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by smueller1234 6y ago
You're right. Oof, I need to stop reading HN late at night when I can't even read units wrong or have any intuition. Apologies.
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by smueller1234 6y ago
Another impressive one: Ultra high energy cosmic rays have been detected to 3e20 eV (300 EeV; detected by the Fly's Eye Collaboration). They're nuclei, however, so the rest mess is at least about 10000x higher. https://
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by smueller1234 6y ago
Google is hiring just fine. (Source: I'm hiring. I work for Google. Also careers.google.com.)
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by smueller1234 6y ago
Actually reading tapes from two generations back can decrease the lifetime of your drive considerably. So in a larger setup you're probably not going to want to skip as many generations (in part because you can and practically must inc
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by smueller1234 6y ago
Actually, I seem to recall that he was working on it before getting hired by Facebook (unless there was a massive delay in the hiring to become known). I was following his excellent blog posts on the matter at the time.
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by smueller1234 6y ago
Suggestion: I hope I didn't completely miss something, but the site seems to put average prices for procedures all over the place when the median price would actually be much more informative to somebody searching for a provider. Looki
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by smueller1234 6y ago
You seem to have looked at Google specifically (mention of Docs). Google has substantial engineering presence in several european countries. Just a few cities/countries off the top of my head in no specific order: Munich, Zürich, Londo
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by smueller1234 6y ago
Probably relevant: if I go to the terms/privacy policy via settings, I am greeted by the following preamble. "If you don't live in the European Region, WhatsApp LLC provides WhatsApp to you under this Terms of Service and Pri
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by smueller1234 6y ago
I won't comment on the incident, but I can tell you that we have two, not three, SRE sibling teams each. That still gives awake-time coverage, but not working-hours coverage. We simply pay folks for the time spent oncall outside of wor
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by smueller1234 6y ago
This reminds me of a relevant anecdote: back in the naughts, I was doing research in cosmic rays at a large nuclear research facility. I did simulation and data analysis - office/computer work mostly. One day, a person with a clipboard
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by smueller1234 6y ago
You should. Some of his books may take a bit of patience to appreciate, but there's plenty that give you a great ride with a good conscience of having done something to improve your vocabulary. :)
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by smueller1234 6y ago
Throughout 2020, this hasn't actually been true.
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by smueller1234 6y ago
Ah, I'd be out of date then. Go back a few years and my info would've been authoritative. I was running product development for booking's marketing department then, including the meta search integration. Time flies!
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by smueller1234 6y ago
That's correct, Booking was the largest Adwords spender. I worked on their adwords integration then. Good fun. I wouldn't immediately consider the hotel metasearch products a problem for booking. It shifts traffic to different p
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by smueller1234 6y ago
For what it's worth, this (sort of thing) was one of the reasons why I joined Google. And lo and behold I do in storage infrastructure now. :) (Alas, I am not at liberty to speak for the company or share any numbers.) I appreciate that
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by smueller1234 6y ago
Unfortunately I have to disappoint you. DDR5 is expected to be significantly more expensive than DDR4 at a system level, byte for byte.
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by smueller1234 6y ago
Actually Freiburg has quarters with plenty of old town charm. And if that's not old town enough, you can always go to one of the smaller towns around, which should have plenty. It's an article that picks out and exaggerates one as
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by smueller1234 6y ago
Makes for a great play table for kids as well. We bought one and put a custom sticker of roads/trees/houses on it that the kids can play with toy cars on, or amend with additional lego houses/trees etc.
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by smueller1234 6y ago
Which happens to be what the actual article does as well!
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by smueller1234 6y ago
That's a surprisingly accessible read and I would recommend it to folks curious about "what does intense irradiation do to the human body". But it's also quite haunting.

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