There has _always_ been adversarial traffic from foreign countries, including from foreign government-sponsored entities. There will _always_ be such traffic. All these reports are is CYA: if, god forbid, someone in Russia were to spend $6k promoting Black Lives Matter they can say âoesee, we told you it was happeningâ. This is not new, this happens all the time, and is done by all countries. Furthermore, thereâ(TM)s no way to reliably tell if adversary is a government or not, and any assertions to the contrary are pure propaganda.
But if you're going to do it, there need to be some actual USB-C headphones available, besides the low quality earbuds that manufacturers include with their phones. I get that they'd like us to use Bluetooth, but it's yet another device that needs to be charged, and I hate that.
As a former googler: Google doesn't even allow you to install VLC on company laptops. It's safe to say they will not allow the deployment of _anything_ AGPL licensed in the datacenter.
It's OSS, strictly speaking, but it's not FOSS anymore. The moment you introduce arbitrary requirements or restrictions, the "freedom" part flies right out of the window. The "ethical" way to make money is, IMO, to offer your software under AGPL3 with a commercial license available on a company-by-company basis. That way, on the one hand your software is fully free as in speech (and any proprietary changes to it become free as well), yet there is a way out for SAAS vendors who want to tweak it to run better on their infra, which is basically all of them.
Coming up next: water is wet, air contains oxygen, men think dirty thoughts about women all the time.
I envy the chutzpah of "researchers" who got the grant for this. Any grunt from any megacorp which emphasizes sitting in meetings will attest that at one point or another they couldn't get _any_ work done while at work, and had to do it at home. I spent years working like this at MS in early 00's. Substantial portions of one of their most successful products were written by me on my Dell Inspiron laptop, from my couch in a tiny rented apartment in Redmond. Thank god for Remote Desktop. At work, we had 1:1 ratio between developers and PMs. PMs had to justify their existence, so they'd pester devs to write specs for features, then pass them off as their own work, and then rigidly schedule everything with arbitrary deadlines, and spend the rest of the product cycle "reporting status" to one another, and "managing" the bug backlog (which manifested mostly in "punting" bugs to v.next and releasing a buggy product before an artificial deadline). And of course they'd schedule an endless array of meetings to bikeshed over the most inane and immaterial bullshit, and they'd drag devs into those meetings too.
Google was heaven after this. Holy shit, I could actually get things done _at work_ (and easily 3x as much work, too), and not have to work weekends, and my team had a grand total of two meetings a week, and one of those was optional (a "chalk talk" to deep dive on new features in the product, or discuss interesting papers). No slack, no meetings, no "stand-ups", just raw, unbridled productivity.
This also has a good side effect: when it is expected that people would actually do significant quantities of high quality work, and not just bullshit all day, those who can't pull their weight leave pretty quickly, which has a multiplicative effect on the overall productivity.
First time I heard China cared about "patents". So it's probably not really patents, but a nice long lever to apply pressure to Apple to put in a barn-sized backdoor.
How do you know they were lawfully detained? Why are you suggesting that protections available under US citizenship according to US Code should not be offered to US citizens detained in China? This IS rule of law.
The dude was basically the polar opposite of Steve Jobs. Cringeworthy mobile projects, cringeworthy presentation of said products. I hope they appoint someone better than that. Their laptop lineup is second to none right now. I'm posting this from an X1 running Linux.
Consider this: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/1.... If he is using a high-level figurehead as a bargaining chip to force China to let those folks out, more power to him.
I wish it was more socially acceptable (and less stigmatizing for both sides) to let people go. The problem would solve itself. Someone gets hired, it is discovered they can't walk the walk, they are let go, perhaps with some sort of severance comp. All of a suden the stakes in the interview are nowhere near as high. Right now Google (and other high-status employers) spends _a ton_ of valuable eng time interviewing. What people don't get is getting hired is only the beginning. You have to also pull your weight, which is not easy if everyone kicks ass pretty hard.
I'm actually pretty sure robots can do a better job of it, too, eventually. Stuff them with sensors, perfectly seasoned, juicy burger every time. And no one will spit into it if they happen to be having a bad day.
Google Home AI is better by a mile: better speech recognition, language understanding (you mostly can just say things without adhering to a rigid syntax), and speech synthesis, better music service and question answering, too. Yet people treat Alexa as though it’s extraordinary in some way other than being the first on the market.
I actually wouldn't "guarantee" that. Some people get anxious and can't code worth a damn in an interview. That's just how the brain works: once fight-or-flight kicks in, neocortex basically shuts down. I know because I'm one of those people. I do very well if, for whatever reason, I'm not anxious. I did well in my Google interview only because I had 2 other offers from elsewhere. I spent well over half a decade at Google doing what I think is excellent work, and perf evaluations agreed.
I don't know how to fix this, but I can assure you that there are at least a few great coders among those who can't code FizzBuzz on the whiteboard under the stress of a typical eng interview.
I don't know where you went to school, but in my alma mater the amount of information was far in excess of what anyone could memorize. You had to understand, and be able to derive things to do well on the exams. Memory does help, but that help is very limited without understanding.
Or maybe they are. There are many reasons why one might have a bad GPA. Maybe they didn't pay attention initially but then really got their ass in gear. Or maybe they did a lot of stuff outside the normal curriculum to the detriment of grades. Who knows. My point is, the interview selects for people who can code. Proportionally speaking, there will be a lot more of those who can code among people with good academic record, and a lot more people with bad academic records will be discarded (but, crucially, not all). In the latter category the interview will introduce selection bias in favor of people who can excel in spite of their bad GPA. So the correct formulation here should be: "GPA has no bearing on performance among people who excelled in the interviews in spite of their subpar GPA", not just that it "doesn't matter".
>> at Google, once employees are two or three years out of college, their grades have no bearing on their performance
Sure, if they can pass Google interviews, their grades are unlikely to have much bearing on their performance. They have a pretty serious bearing on being able to pass interviews, though, I can tell you that.
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There has _always_ been adversarial traffic from foreign countries, including from foreign government-sponsored entities. There will _always_ be such traffic. All these reports are is CYA: if, god forbid, someone in Russia were to spend $6k promoting Black Lives Matter they can say âoesee, we told you it was happeningâ. This is not new, this happens all the time, and is done by all countries. Furthermore, thereâ(TM)s no way to reliably tell if adversary is a government or not, and any assertions to the contrary are pure propaganda.
But if you're going to do it, there need to be some actual USB-C headphones available, besides the low quality earbuds that manufacturers include with their phones. I get that they'd like us to use Bluetooth, but it's yet another device that needs to be charged, and I hate that.
As a former googler: Google doesn't even allow you to install VLC on company laptops. It's safe to say they will not allow the deployment of _anything_ AGPL licensed in the datacenter.
It's OSS, strictly speaking, but it's not FOSS anymore. The moment you introduce arbitrary requirements or restrictions, the "freedom" part flies right out of the window. The "ethical" way to make money is, IMO, to offer your software under AGPL3 with a commercial license available on a company-by-company basis. That way, on the one hand your software is fully free as in speech (and any proprietary changes to it become free as well), yet there is a way out for SAAS vendors who want to tweak it to run better on their infra, which is basically all of them.
Coming up next: water is wet, air contains oxygen, men think dirty thoughts about women all the time.
I envy the chutzpah of "researchers" who got the grant for this. Any grunt from any megacorp which emphasizes sitting in meetings will attest that at one point or another they couldn't get _any_ work done while at work, and had to do it at home. I spent years working like this at MS in early 00's. Substantial portions of one of their most successful products were written by me on my Dell Inspiron laptop, from my couch in a tiny rented apartment in Redmond. Thank god for Remote Desktop. At work, we had 1:1 ratio between developers and PMs. PMs had to justify their existence, so they'd pester devs to write specs for features, then pass them off as their own work, and then rigidly schedule everything with arbitrary deadlines, and spend the rest of the product cycle "reporting status" to one another, and "managing" the bug backlog (which manifested mostly in "punting" bugs to v.next and releasing a buggy product before an artificial deadline). And of course they'd schedule an endless array of meetings to bikeshed over the most inane and immaterial bullshit, and they'd drag devs into those meetings too.
Google was heaven after this. Holy shit, I could actually get things done _at work_ (and easily 3x as much work, too), and not have to work weekends, and my team had a grand total of two meetings a week, and one of those was optional (a "chalk talk" to deep dive on new features in the product, or discuss interesting papers). No slack, no meetings, no "stand-ups", just raw, unbridled productivity.
This also has a good side effect: when it is expected that people would actually do significant quantities of high quality work, and not just bullshit all day, those who can't pull their weight leave pretty quickly, which has a multiplicative effect on the overall productivity.
Knowing it works is valuable. Owning it once you know the tricks, replicating it is trivial given the scientific base we already have in this country.
First time I heard China cared about "patents". So it's probably not really patents, but a nice long lever to apply pressure to Apple to put in a barn-sized backdoor.
To fix fake news today would require banning the likes of WaPo, NYT and CNN. Are the âoejournalistsâ sure this is what they want?
How do you know they were lawfully detained? Why are you suggesting that protections available under US citizenship according to US Code should not be offered to US citizens detained in China? This IS rule of law.
The dude was basically the polar opposite of Steve Jobs. Cringeworthy mobile projects, cringeworthy presentation of said products. I hope they appoint someone better than that. Their laptop lineup is second to none right now. I'm posting this from an X1 running Linux.
What are you proposing?
Just like that Power Ball ticket I bought hoping to get the billion dollar jackpot "paid off" a few weeks ago.
Consider this: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/1.... If he is using a high-level figurehead as a bargaining chip to force China to let those folks out, more power to him.
Kangaroos?
I wish it was more socially acceptable (and less stigmatizing for both sides) to let people go. The problem would solve itself. Someone gets hired, it is discovered they can't walk the walk, they are let go, perhaps with some sort of severance comp. All of a suden the stakes in the interview are nowhere near as high. Right now Google (and other high-status employers) spends _a ton_ of valuable eng time interviewing. What people don't get is getting hired is only the beginning. You have to also pull your weight, which is not easy if everyone kicks ass pretty hard.
I'm actually pretty sure robots can do a better job of it, too, eventually. Stuff them with sensors, perfectly seasoned, juicy burger every time. And no one will spit into it if they happen to be having a bad day.
Google Home AI is better by a mile: better speech recognition, language understanding (you mostly can just say things without adhering to a rigid syntax), and speech synthesis, better music service and question answering, too. Yet people treat Alexa as though it’s extraordinary in some way other than being the first on the market.
I mean, how do you determine if candidate’s “body of work” and “qualifications” are real?
How do you interview then?
I actually wouldn't "guarantee" that. Some people get anxious and can't code worth a damn in an interview. That's just how the brain works: once fight-or-flight kicks in, neocortex basically shuts down. I know because I'm one of those people. I do very well if, for whatever reason, I'm not anxious. I did well in my Google interview only because I had 2 other offers from elsewhere. I spent well over half a decade at Google doing what I think is excellent work, and perf evaluations agreed.
I don't know how to fix this, but I can assure you that there are at least a few great coders among those who can't code FizzBuzz on the whiteboard under the stress of a typical eng interview.
I don't know where you went to school, but in my alma mater the amount of information was far in excess of what anyone could memorize. You had to understand, and be able to derive things to do well on the exams. Memory does help, but that help is very limited without understanding.
Or maybe they are. There are many reasons why one might have a bad GPA. Maybe they didn't pay attention initially but then really got their ass in gear. Or maybe they did a lot of stuff outside the normal curriculum to the detriment of grades. Who knows.
My point is, the interview selects for people who can code. Proportionally speaking, there will be a lot more of those who can code among people with good academic record, and a lot more people with bad academic records will be discarded (but, crucially, not all). In the latter category the interview will introduce selection bias in favor of people who can excel in spite of their bad GPA.
So the correct formulation here should be: "GPA has no bearing on performance among people who excelled in the interviews in spite of their subpar GPA", not just that it "doesn't matter".
>> at Google, once employees are two or three years out of college, their grades have no bearing on their performance
Sure, if they can pass Google interviews, their grades are unlikely to have much bearing on their performance. They have a pretty serious bearing on being able to pass interviews, though, I can tell you that.
A non-trivial percentage of them are ex-IE devs. Assuming any teammates from 10 years ago are still there, of course.