People come and go from Google all the time. It's becoming common for SV engineers to work at Google twice or more in their career. I know a guy who was at Google three separate times before he was 19 (once as an engineer, at 16, then both the companies he left to found got acquired) -- although he's of course a bit of an outlier.
It has also become a revolving door between Google, Facebook, and several other big tech companies -- people get a little bored, go elsewhere, eventually realize the grass was greener, and come back.
Yes, the Google lemonade is good, but the lychee lassi is even better.
I'm in this process right now. It has taken between 3 and 4 months to get to the end of the interview process with each of the big companies in Silicon Valley, depending on the company. Google alone has had me onsite for 8 separate interview days, not counting 3-4 phone screens. I'm highly qualified (PhD in CS from MIT, postdoc at Harvard Medical School, and as a Xoogler, I technically don't even have to interview to return to Google), but that hasn't expedited things. The hiring climate right now is ridiculously stringent. It wasn't this way even 3 years ago, I could walk into almost any job, and go from sending in a resume to getting an offer in a week or less.
Yes, foreigners have had Internet access for about 3 years now. (There are a few hundred foreigners posted in North Korea at any given time.) Of course network traffic is monitored, and everyone using the network knows that, but journalists visiting North Korea have used the network to get stories out quickly.
There are two different cellphone networks in the country -- the network used by locals, with up to 2 million subscribers already, and with only country-wide intranet access, and the network used by foreigners. You can't place calls between the two networks, and the phones on the two networks look different, so that North Korean minders can easily spot a local using a foreign cellphone illegally.
Actually, Koryo (Goryeo) is the name of one of the most important and longest Korean dynasties, following Silla, Baekje and Gogoreyeo. It's where the English name "Korea" comes from. A lot of things have the name "Koryo" in North Korea, and some things in South Korea. The North Korean name for Korea is Choson, the name of the dynasty that was built following the overthrow of the Koryo dynasty.
The South Korean name for Korea is Hanguk, "country of the Han" (that's the Korean Han, which uses a different Chinese character than the Chinese Han character representing the Han people that fought the Manchurians). To a South Korean, "Choson" sounds like a very backward name for Korea. To a North Korean, "Hanguk" sounds like a label imposed by imperialistic invaders.
First law of politics: any resolution adopted by a political figure that requires action beyond the end of the next election cycle can be safely ignored, and will soon be completely forgotten.
Second law of politics: most resolutions that claim future action within the current election cycle can also be safely ignored.
The plane's control systems should have several levels of degraded-mode operation, so if one system stops working, the plane still hobbles along the best it can without the non-working system. Google's self-driving cars have something like 7 layers of nested failure modes, each with slightly degraded functions relative to the next higher level. It's almost impossible to trigger enough failures to completely shut the system down, which is a good thing if you're traveling at highway speeds. It's very concerning that a company like Boeing didn't catch this before product release, but even more concerning that they didn't design the system to be resilient against this sort of failure.
How did this make the front page? I think the OP neglected to realize that Google I/O is just around the corner. Devices are discontinued every year right before I/O (after months of steep discounts to clear stock) to make way for the new device(s) that are about to be announced.
It's much worse than that. The president, by himself, created and enacted a law which carries a criminal penalty.
I agree that is bad. I don't know if the alternative is worse though: Congress has effectively become completely useless, because no bill on any issue can ever get pushed through Congress these days without major blockades from the non-sponsoring side, and (usually last thing on a Friday afternoon) without large amounts of unrelated legislation (riders) being stuffed into the bill after hundreds of pages of fluff so the riders won't actually be read by anybody before they're signed into law.
The amount of energy used by game consoles in sleep mode across the world pales in comparison to how much energy is wasted running VMs and JIT compilers on Android phones around the world. And that pales in comparison to the number of Petawatt hours (Exawatt hours?) of electricity is wasted per year running Javascript in browsers across all devices. Seriously people, higher-level languages that aren't easy to compile (or don't compile into efficient code) are ridiculously wasteful.
Could they have picked a worse name? "Windows Hello" reminds me of all the awkward conversations I had with nontechnical Windows users about their "My Documents" folder. "Open My Documents." "Your documents?" "No, your My Documents." "My your documents?" "NO!..."
The impact of a suicide goes far beyond delaying a few hundred people's commute by 3 hours. My friend is a nanny for a family whose daughter knew the kid who jumped in front of the train. This girl was biking past the tracks when the mother of the suicide victim showed up, and subsequently got to watch the reaction of shock and grief of the mother when confronted with the result of this horrific act.
Suicide is always an incredibly selfish act. You think you're just ending your own pain and suffering, but instead you are bringing a lifetime of pain, suffering, shame, unanswered questions and grief to a lot of other people that care about you even if you think they don't.
This feels pertinent to me because this morning I was woken up at 6:45am by a loud helicopter hovering overhead for over an hour. A teenager had jumped in front of the CalTrain by where I live in Palo Alto in an apparent suicide. Turns out this is the 8th such CalTrain suicide so far this year, up from 8 suicides total (10 deaths) over the whole year last year. Locals are loudly requesting for the crossroads to be made into underpasses, and for improved fences etc.
On the one hand I keep thinking that if someone is determined to commit suicide, they'll find a way. (There was a police guard posted at the crossing after previous suicides to prevent this, but the teenager simply jumped the fence 200 yards from the crossing and jumped in front of the train there instead.)
On the other hand, I see the wisdom in trying to make the world a place where it's in no convenient way to commit suicide. As Banksy tweeted this morning, "Suicide does not end the chances of life getting worse, suicide eliminates the possibility of it ever getting better."
Actually, Google stopped using PageRank as their main ranking signal a long time ago. Their latest "Hummingbird" engine still has PageRank in the mix somewhere, but even Google engineers talk about it like it's basically a non-PageRank algorithm at this point. There are so many layers of complex ranking and anti-gaming heuristics and scoring functions and other black magic that the summary of this article is based on an incorrect premise.
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What is the worst thing that could happen if you were nice to people, even when they screwed up?
People come and go from Google all the time. It's becoming common for SV engineers to work at Google twice or more in their career. I know a guy who was at Google three separate times before he was 19 (once as an engineer, at 16, then both the companies he left to found got acquired) -- although he's of course a bit of an outlier.
It has also become a revolving door between Google, Facebook, and several other big tech companies -- people get a little bored, go elsewhere, eventually realize the grass was greener, and come back.
Yes, the Google lemonade is good, but the lychee lassi is even better.
I'm in this process right now. It has taken between 3 and 4 months to get to the end of the interview process with each of the big companies in Silicon Valley, depending on the company. Google alone has had me onsite for 8 separate interview days, not counting 3-4 phone screens. I'm highly qualified (PhD in CS from MIT, postdoc at Harvard Medical School, and as a Xoogler, I technically don't even have to interview to return to Google), but that hasn't expedited things. The hiring climate right now is ridiculously stringent. It wasn't this way even 3 years ago, I could walk into almost any job, and go from sending in a resume to getting an offer in a week or less.
Yes, foreigners have had Internet access for about 3 years now. (There are a few hundred foreigners posted in North Korea at any given time.) Of course network traffic is monitored, and everyone using the network knows that, but journalists visiting North Korea have used the network to get stories out quickly.
There are two different cellphone networks in the country -- the network used by locals, with up to 2 million subscribers already, and with only country-wide intranet access, and the network used by foreigners. You can't place calls between the two networks, and the phones on the two networks look different, so that North Korean minders can easily spot a local using a foreign cellphone illegally.
Actually, Koryo (Goryeo) is the name of one of the most important and longest Korean dynasties, following Silla, Baekje and Gogoreyeo. It's where the English name "Korea" comes from. A lot of things have the name "Koryo" in North Korea, and some things in South Korea. The North Korean name for Korea is Choson, the name of the dynasty that was built following the overthrow of the Koryo dynasty.
The South Korean name for Korea is Hanguk, "country of the Han" (that's the Korean Han, which uses a different Chinese character than the Chinese Han character representing the Han people that fought the Manchurians). To a South Korean, "Choson" sounds like a very backward name for Korea. To a North Korean, "Hanguk" sounds like a label imposed by imperialistic invaders.
After watching Jurassic World, I strongly prefer the use of velociraptors for tracking assets.
First law of politics: any resolution adopted by a political figure that requires action beyond the end of the next election cycle can be safely ignored, and will soon be completely forgotten.
Second law of politics: most resolutions that claim future action within the current election cycle can also be safely ignored.
Hopefully not Optimus Prime. The world needs him.
The plane's control systems should have several levels of degraded-mode operation, so if one system stops working, the plane still hobbles along the best it can without the non-working system. Google's self-driving cars have something like 7 layers of nested failure modes, each with slightly degraded functions relative to the next higher level. It's almost impossible to trigger enough failures to completely shut the system down, which is a good thing if you're traveling at highway speeds. It's very concerning that a company like Boeing didn't catch this before product release, but even more concerning that they didn't design the system to be resilient against this sort of failure.
I assume the original poster doesn't want to do the backbreaking work either -- but that's a moot point, they're too rich and white for that anyway.
How did this make the front page? I think the OP neglected to realize that Google I/O is just around the corner. Devices are discontinued every year right before I/O (after months of steep discounts to clear stock) to make way for the new device(s) that are about to be announced.
It's much worse than that. The president, by himself, created and enacted a law which carries a criminal penalty.
I agree that is bad. I don't know if the alternative is worse though: Congress has effectively become completely useless, because no bill on any issue can ever get pushed through Congress these days without major blockades from the non-sponsoring side, and (usually last thing on a Friday afternoon) without large amounts of unrelated legislation (riders) being stuffed into the bill after hundreds of pages of fluff so the riders won't actually be read by anybody before they're signed into law.
The amount of energy used by game consoles in sleep mode across the world pales in comparison to how much energy is wasted running VMs and JIT compilers on Android phones around the world. And that pales in comparison to the number of Petawatt hours (Exawatt hours?) of electricity is wasted per year running Javascript in browsers across all devices. Seriously people, higher-level languages that aren't easy to compile (or don't compile into efficient code) are ridiculously wasteful.
I switched all my domains over to Google Domains too. Love it, and I have no plans to use anything else from now on.
Could they have picked a worse name? "Windows Hello" reminds me of all the awkward conversations I had with nontechnical Windows users about their "My Documents" folder. "Open My Documents." "Your documents?" "No, your My Documents." "My your documents?" "NO!..."
The impact of a suicide goes far beyond delaying a few hundred people's commute by 3 hours. My friend is a nanny for a family whose daughter knew the kid who jumped in front of the train. This girl was biking past the tracks when the mother of the suicide victim showed up, and subsequently got to watch the reaction of shock and grief of the mother when confronted with the result of this horrific act.
Suicide is always an incredibly selfish act. You think you're just ending your own pain and suffering, but instead you are bringing a lifetime of pain, suffering, shame, unanswered questions and grief to a lot of other people that care about you even if you think they don't.
"Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not OK, it's not the end."
One sad aspect of suicide, out of many, is that a suicide victim never gets to see for themselves that life does in fact get better.
This feels pertinent to me because this morning I was woken up at 6:45am by a loud helicopter hovering overhead for over an hour. A teenager had jumped in front of the CalTrain by where I live in Palo Alto in an apparent suicide. Turns out this is the 8th such CalTrain suicide so far this year, up from 8 suicides total (10 deaths) over the whole year last year. Locals are loudly requesting for the crossroads to be made into underpasses, and for improved fences etc.
On the one hand I keep thinking that if someone is determined to commit suicide, they'll find a way. (There was a police guard posted at the crossing after previous suicides to prevent this, but the teenager simply jumped the fence 200 yards from the crossing and jumped in front of the train there instead.)
On the other hand, I see the wisdom in trying to make the world a place where it's in no convenient way to commit suicide. As Banksy tweeted this morning, "Suicide does not end the chances of life getting worse, suicide eliminates the possibility of it ever getting better."
China does just fine on a single time zone. In fact maybe we should get the whole world on UTC and just adapt locally.
Oh wait, in this case the story is, in fact, about systemd.
This is like asking "which medical technique should I use for treating headaches, trepanning or inhaling mercury vapors?"
Not likely.
Actually, Google stopped using PageRank as their main ranking signal a long time ago. Their latest "Hummingbird" engine still has PageRank in the mix somewhere, but even Google engineers talk about it like it's basically a non-PageRank algorithm at this point. There are so many layers of complex ranking and anti-gaming heuristics and scoring functions and other black magic that the summary of this article is based on an incorrect premise.
The fact that the FCC's move provoked this reaction from Verizon shows that the FCC did something right.
"Old" doesn't mean "antiquated".