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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. Re:NYC??? by Adhemar · · Score: 2, Informative

    There's nothing mentioned for the New York city offices on the official Google Deverloper Day website.

  2. Will they have by jimstapleton · · Score: 2, Funny

    a mechanical Steve Balmer throwing chairs and shouting "Developers! Developers! Developers!"?

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  3. Reading the article, I'm disappointed by hey! · · Score: 4, Funny

    I thought it was going to be a day when people were supposed to bring me flowers and cards, or take me out to lunch and things like that.

    But it turns out to be educational stuff that's supposed to be good for me. I'm sure Google means well, but I already know enough to be dangerous. People should put more effort into appeasing me and less into pouring oil on that particular fire.

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  4. 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.

    1. Re:Are they serious? by jrumney · · Score: 4, Informative

      Its mainly about developing using Google's APIs. KML, AJAX, Atom, that sort of thing. Sure, the tips and tricks are already known, but its still useful to have an intensive session where they are presented to you by the people involved in their creation, rather than spending untold hours filtering through the crap on online forums to find the useful tips.

  5. 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 ClosedSource · · Score: 2, Funny

      Fortunately, Google verifies that their developers speak at least 3 languages as part of their legendary interview process just for situations like this.

    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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    4. Re:Why does Google hate America? by D-Fens · · Score: 2, Funny

      Fortunately you'll have a hard time finding someone in Europa that is monolingual. So it wouldn't be that much of a problem as you claim. "ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDINGS THERE."
  6. Re:NYC??? by jrumney · · Score: 3, Insightful

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