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Google to Hold Worldwide Developer Day

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the there-better-be-punch-and-pie dept.

Incon writes "Google is holding a day for developers to meet and learn from Google staff at its various worldwide offices. Places at the event are sure to go quicker than hotcakes, so get in quickly. Locations that Developer Day will be held at are: Beijing, Hamburg, London, Madrid, Moscow, Paris, Sao Paulo, Sydney, Tokyo and of course at Google HQ in Mountain View."

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  1. Are they serious? by PHPNerd · · Score: 3, Insightful

    What do they expect people to learn from Google? Any company with their heads on straight won't be giving away trade secrets, and even tips and tricks on how to develop software are either already known or it's something that Google has an edge on and doesn't want to lose. It's not like Google has any "secret knowledge" or anything like that. They just made a great business plan and it payed off.

  2. Why does Google hate America? by Mr2001 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Not really, but... come on, one event in the entire US, compared to three in Europe within 1000 km of each other? We don't even get one on each coast?

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    1. Re:Why does Google hate America? by i_should_be_working · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Those 3 in Europe are in coutries which speak different languages. How would you like your only option to be the one in Madrid? Think you'd get anything out of it?

    2. Re:Why does Google hate America? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

      But Europe is? Shut the fuck up with your Eurocentric bullshit.

    3. Re:Why does Google hate America? by arivanov · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Well...

      We may get them in many places, but at least some of them have nothing to do with development.

      For example let's take London - there is a nice round zero worth of development there. If you want to work as a developer for Google you have to agree to relocating to Dublin (or in more rare cases Mountain View) as a preliminary condition before any further conversations have happened.

      So Google is not hating anyone. It is just doing Google recruitment. Featured on el-Reg and many other internet news sites. Makes quite a laugh reading about it.

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  3. Re:NYC??? by jrumney · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Language differences are more important than geographical ones. And I count 5 in Europe, not 3.

  4. Re:NYC??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It's ever-so-slightly easier to travel from London to Paris than from NYC to Mountain View, so why not axe one of those locations and add another in the US? Well, maybe you haven't learned this in school yet, but they speak different languages in London and Paris. It may be easier to travel between those two cities, but it's not easier to go to a conference in one of those cities and get anything out of it if you're from the other city.