I've been working as a software engineer at Google for about three years.
This is absolutely not the case, at least with my experience on my particular project. I feel like I am treated well, and we're not stack-ranked in any way that I'm aware of. My manager exercises discretion with letting people into the project and almost everyone I work with makes decent progress adding new code to the project and the code is of decent quality with relatively few problems in production. I feel privileged to work with the people around me for 40 hours each week at this point in my life.
I know this is pretty much a vague anecdote but I'd be happy to answer any questions or explain further.
That's why Google developed F1: The fault-tolerant relational database over Spanner. This database provides a traditional schema without named rows, and supports transaction-based relational SQL queries. Very interesting: http://research.google.com/pubs/pub38125.html
Development, as a mental process, involves a lot of switching between medium-term and short term views.
I think of it as stack frames in my head. Trying to do task A? OK, let's break it down into pieces...oh wait, task A starts with task B, how do I do that again? *Looks up task B reference in a web browser* meanwhile, you have to keep the stack frame of task A, then task B in your head.
I just did all the things you mentioned and I couldn't get my CPU usage to go over 8% on my 3.0 GHz core2duo box. For your problems, I blame: cosmic rays.
I'm using Centos 5.3 in a university lab. The outdated nature of this Linux has been pretty frustrating - it's almost impossible to install anything new. I couldn't put Google Chrome on here, for example, or a recent version of The Gimp.
I just put Firefox 4 on here and it's damn sexy. It performs great, it was easy to install on the Linux box, the graphics are much nicer than FF 3, it gives RAM back to the system when I close tabs. There's less chrome so I get more browsing space on my monitor, without sacrificing any functionality at all. Bravo, Firefox team.
The problem is that it doesn't solve a problem that anybody really seems to have - there's little demand for higher performance apps in the browser.
I think the coolest potential for this idea is to recompile existing well-written native applications (e.g. photo editors, IDEs) so that they run from the browser with exactly the same appearance as their native counterparts. This would bring the idea of a thin client laptop computer that runs a web browser only closer to reality.
The only real problem is not Windows, it is getting the computers into the mainstream stores to be sold alongsides the Macbooks
What makes you assume Apple won't switch to ARM sometime in the next couple years? They dumped PPC for X86 due to the more favorable power/performance ratio. It's only natural to assume that when high-powered ARM processors appear, Apple will switch to that architecture without a moment's hesitation.
New features of upcoming sites can be co-opted before they threaten the big players, as you might have seen with Facebook taking on some Twitter-like notions, such as the feed.
And pretty much stealing Foursquare's entire concept and copying it as Facebook Places.
No problem, glad I could help:) I just wish they'd put a real adblock and multiple rows of tabs in the beta, but I downloaded it after reading the article and it works pretty well on my netbook. Let's see how the final version turns out!
In particular, [Chrome] is still lacking a lot of options that i think ought to be available like having a drop-down list of all open tabs
That's available as one of my favorite extensions:
here.
If I could ask for any Chrome feature, I'd like to see multiple rows of tabs. That used to be my favorite Firefox extension (Tab Mix Plus) but I'm willing to give it up in favor of Chrome's performance.
Is anyone getting flashbacks of that Westwood College advertisement where the two losers are "working" at a video game production house, and explain to their boss that they need to "tighten up the graphics on Level 3?"
For one the market share for iPhones is still much much larger then all the Android based phones out there. It is second only to RIM Blackberries.
That's actually not true, Nokia's apple share has always been much higher than Apple's.
Apple's profit margins are rather substantial, though, compared to their percentage of the market.
Interesting rumour. I'm slightly interested to know what your basis for this assertion is
Half a dozen of my friends figured this out the hard way. Their doctors all traced it back to drug interactions between antibiotics in the -cycline family (minocycline, tetracycline, etc.) and their low-dose oral contraceptive pills. But since anecdotes aren't proof, I spent about five minutes Googling:
Many sources I found note that it is difficult to conduct formal research in this area because women don't want to take antibiotics as part of a study and risk getting pregnant. It is difficult to prove what happens, but my friends have traced it back and told me what their doctors said. I hope sexually active readers hear this and protect themselves.
Just think about it: who bears most of the risk in case of pregnancy? Women.
That's the commonly held belief. However, in modern society, men are held accountable for their actions, and many women are perfectly willing to do nefarious things to keep a man around. Read: missing pills, poking holes in condoms, fishing used condoms out of trash, etc. Also, be aware that female birth control pills fail for the entire month if the woman takes any kind of antibiotic that month.
FEMALE BIRTH CONTROL PILLS FAIL FOR THE ENTIRE MONTH IF THE WOMAN TAKES ANY KIND OF ANTIBIOTIC THAT MONTH.
Repeated for emphasis. I can't count on two hands the amount of friends of mine that have accidentally impregnated a woman who took an antibiotic and didn't know about this side effect. And when accidental pregnancies occur, the man must defer to the woman's beliefs on whether abortion is wrong.
It might be unjust, but in most societies, men can walk away and abandon women they've gotten pregnant easily without serious social stigma or financial repercussions.
This is a modern society of hair-trigger lawsuits. Most women won't put up with that. Also, most men actually have at least minimal moral standards for themselves and won't abandon their child and its mother to fend for themselves.
We need more male contraceptive methods. Hell, we need as many contraceptive methods as we can get. If it were up to me, everyone would be required to use at least three methods before having sex. Unintended pregnancies destroy lives, so let's be smart about this.
In short, it would take a lot more than this one paper to overturn the consensus that has resulted from one hundred years of scientific research. I mean, if someone published an experiment tomorrow saying that Einstein was wrong, what would your reaction be? To reject Einstein? Or to think that the experimenter might have screwed up?
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
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In all fairness, I actually really enjoyed this movie.
Like this one?? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Your brother will pay off the entire loan in no more than thirty years and then the entire situation is fixed, no?
Roads? Where we're going we don't need roads.
I've been working as a software engineer at Google for about three years.
This is absolutely not the case, at least with my experience on my particular project. I feel like I am treated well, and we're not stack-ranked in any way that I'm aware of. My manager exercises discretion with letting people into the project and almost everyone I work with makes decent progress adding new code to the project and the code is of decent quality with relatively few problems in production. I feel privileged to work with the people around me for 40 hours each week at this point in my life.
I know this is pretty much a vague anecdote but I'd be happy to answer any questions or explain further.
Classic Schmosley.
That's why Google developed F1: The fault-tolerant relational database over Spanner. This database provides a traditional schema without named rows, and supports transaction-based relational SQL queries. Very interesting: http://research.google.com/pubs/pub38125.html
I think of it as stack frames in my head. Trying to do task A? OK, let's break it down into pieces...oh wait, task A starts with task B, how do I do that again? *Looks up task B reference in a web browser* meanwhile, you have to keep the stack frame of task A, then task B in your head.
"Don't buy a house more than 3x your annual income."
Before or after tax?
Which one?
Right-click on any chrome at the top of the window > Tabs on top
I just did all the things you mentioned and I couldn't get my CPU usage to go over 8% on my 3.0 GHz core2duo box. For your problems, I blame: cosmic rays.
I likes me some tab opening-closing animations.
I'm using Centos 5.3 in a university lab. The outdated nature of this Linux has been pretty frustrating - it's almost impossible to install anything new. I couldn't put Google Chrome on here, for example, or a recent version of The Gimp.
I just put Firefox 4 on here and it's damn sexy. It performs great, it was easy to install on the Linux box, the graphics are much nicer than FF 3, it gives RAM back to the system when I close tabs. There's less chrome so I get more browsing space on my monitor, without sacrificing any functionality at all. Bravo, Firefox team.
I think the coolest potential for this idea is to recompile existing well-written native applications (e.g. photo editors, IDEs) so that they run from the browser with exactly the same appearance as their native counterparts. This would bring the idea of a thin client laptop computer that runs a web browser only closer to reality.
Is the rent just too damn high?
What makes you assume Apple won't switch to ARM sometime in the next couple years? They dumped PPC for X86 due to the more favorable power/performance ratio. It's only natural to assume that when high-powered ARM processors appear, Apple will switch to that architecture without a moment's hesitation.
And pretty much stealing Foursquare's entire concept and copying it as Facebook Places.
I'm happy to hear that you survived. It must feel great to be alive!
No problem, glad I could help :) I just wish they'd put a real adblock and multiple rows of tabs in the beta, but I downloaded it after reading the article and it works pretty well on my netbook. Let's see how the final version turns out!
That's available as one of my favorite extensions: here.
If I could ask for any Chrome feature, I'd like to see multiple rows of tabs. That used to be my favorite Firefox extension (Tab Mix Plus) but I'm willing to give it up in favor of Chrome's performance.
Here ya go!
That's actually not true, Nokia's apple share has always been much higher than Apple's. Apple's profit margins are rather substantial, though, compared to their percentage of the market.
Half a dozen of my friends figured this out the hard way. Their doctors all traced it back to drug interactions between antibiotics in the -cycline family (minocycline, tetracycline, etc.) and their low-dose oral contraceptive pills. But since anecdotes aren't proof, I spent about five minutes Googling:
Reference 1
Reference 2
Reference 3 (about 3/4 down the page)
Reference 4
Reference 5
Many sources I found note that it is difficult to conduct formal research in this area because women don't want to take antibiotics as part of a study and risk getting pregnant. It is difficult to prove what happens, but my friends have traced it back and told me what their doctors said. I hope sexually active readers hear this and protect themselves.
That's the commonly held belief. However, in modern society, men are held accountable for their actions, and many women are perfectly willing to do nefarious things to keep a man around. Read: missing pills, poking holes in condoms, fishing used condoms out of trash, etc. Also, be aware that female birth control pills fail for the entire month if the woman takes any kind of antibiotic that month.
FEMALE BIRTH CONTROL PILLS FAIL FOR THE ENTIRE MONTH IF THE WOMAN TAKES ANY KIND OF ANTIBIOTIC THAT MONTH.
Repeated for emphasis. I can't count on two hands the amount of friends of mine that have accidentally impregnated a woman who took an antibiotic and didn't know about this side effect. And when accidental pregnancies occur, the man must defer to the woman's beliefs on whether abortion is wrong.
This is a modern society of hair-trigger lawsuits. Most women won't put up with that. Also, most men actually have at least minimal moral standards for themselves and won't abandon their child and its mother to fend for themselves.
We need more male contraceptive methods. Hell, we need as many contraceptive methods as we can get. If it were up to me, everyone would be required to use at least three methods before having sex. Unintended pregnancies destroy lives, so let's be smart about this.
No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong.
- Albert Einstein