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I'll mention something that our team just helped launch this past week. If you're seeking asylum in the US, previously you could check the status of your case by fax, phone, or in person, but you couldn't check online. Now, you can check the status of your asylum application online: https://twitter.com/USCIS/status/1090701308636684289

Things like that might not sound like rocket science--and it isn't--but improving services that lots of people rely on is deeply meaningful work. It's non-partisan stuff and our job is to help fix public-facing services that millions of people rely on.
From a business standpoint I think they would be smart to follow Netflix's lead.
I don't know how accurate it is but people say Netflix uses all their analytics to drive their content production. I can easily see Spotify using all the data on which songs people listen to all the way through and which they turn off half way through to try to make some computer written hit songs.

Of course Theodor Adorno would turn over in his grave when that happens (as if it basically wasn't already happening).
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You joke, but I've personally never seen a hand made make build systems, in any company I've worked at, that could handle "fuzzing" by deleting or modifying random files in the build system and having the expected output.

They all required a "clean" to get back in order.

For those that maintain handmade make based build system of reasonable complexity, I challenge you to "fuzz" it before each build. It will not be a comfortable experience.

On the other hand, I've seen many generated makefiles that behaved correctly that are totally unreadable.
If it's so easy I'm assuming you can provide absolutely any proof at all backing up what you're saying?
Also from a founder to someone who had risen through the ranks as a manager & executive.
Mapquest still exists, should we hold a community rally?
Netflix (which from my understanding just pays very high salaries but minimal stock or stock you buy at discount)? also a lot of people that are boasting of high comp have high comp because the value of the stock they were initially granted increased over time with rising stock prices. Will be very very curious to see how total comp numbers trend during a recession.
I think Netflix does and I believe it’s all cash unlike the cash/stock split that google does. I got that from levels.fyi so not sure how accurate the information is.
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Once upon a time, Google used to be run by engineer types.

When Larry and Sergey retired and handed the reins over to Sundar, a standard issue McKinsey drone whose technical contributions over the span of his entire career are close to nil, it was game over for the original Google culture.

In fact, there is a theory floating around that he was chosen because someone very smart at Google predicted the huge oncoming controversies around privacy, data collection, manipulative monopolistic practices, and how overly powerful Google was becoming in general.

Visionless, mild-mannered, bland, milquetoast, "we need to be incredibly thoughtful about this" Sundar was the perfect choice as a CEO to weather that particular storm, by staying under the radar as much as possible by projecting a "don't worry we're the good guys, see how inoffensive I am myself" image (as opposed to "I'm the CEO bitch" Zuck types).

Truth be told, the strategy has worked to a point: Google is in far less trouble than e.g. FB.

But there is a price to be paid by handing over the wheel to someone who was specifically chosen for how inoffensive and uninteresting he is.
Netflix, or Amazon if you're really top-tier, maybe LinkedIn or Apple (counting RSU packages). There are a good handful of companies that are offering sky high comp right now.
The cynic in me wants to suggest that they noticed you cleared your cookies and deliberately served up a memorable-but-clearly-irrelevant ad to make you think that you had successfully fooled them.
Yes, the panopticon is a dangerous ideal. :/ Given enough technological progress, if everyone's DNA were kept in a database, that's a juicy target for any numbers of crimes, misuse, violence, privacy invasion and stalking, i.e., hackers break-in in order to selectively extort rich people with engineered diseases (sounds like a Black Mirror script).
I’m aware this has become a cliche on HN, but I’d be happy to pay that—if it helped align incentives better. Maybe if a company as big and ad supported as Google would make that step, it could become more accepted to pay for software again?
But of course larger tests are flaky. They have more lines of code. That’s practically the null hypothesis, where you assume every line of code has a certain chance of flaking, and then you just multiply out all the probabilities.

I was expecting some in depth analysis, like “tests that use time libraries are flaky” or “tests that have callbacks are flaky” or something. This doesn’t really make any headway towards understanding the problem.
There links in that NY Times article and they look like reasonable sources.
I thought every CEO's ultimate vision was to increase shareholder value. Does the vision of company really come from one person's declarations? Just look at what the company is doing as a whole and you can get a picture of what the company's vision is. In the case of Google how can you can conclude otherwise that the vision of the company is domination in any arena possible to dominate?
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Oh boy I got triggered, wall of text incoming.

Competent ops being expensive wasn't part of the discussion, Good people are expensive period. In the long term, competent people provide better value. Competent ops would figure out to provide the same reliability guarantees at a lower price. Security likewise, nothing to do with it. That's just using circular logic to say using commodity hardware = bad security (wtf!?).

Sofware and by extension infrastructure gets expensive because of incompetent dev/ops, who are too incompetent to implement efficient systems and use a 'hardware is cheap, throw hardware at the problem' mentality in ops. This especially shows today with the fact that we have have mobile phones with 1000x the processing power of desktops 20 years ago that are sluggish when running a simple TODO app. LET THAT SINK IN. Those same 20 year old computers running the first pentiums were running Quake 1(!).

Back to ops, Google before they were "Google" were using custom built commodity hardware using a 'nodes die, deal with it' approach to software development. Obviously this pattern is a win with the popularity of k8s today / ephemeral nodes but it requires a more complicated development process.

This extends to incompetent ops as well. Who are outsourcing all their work to the cloud, paying a crazy premium for it, calling it a day, whereas the competent guys are able to do it properly.

Closer to the subject, Backblaze engineered a from scratch design to create a highly reliable/available/secure system based on non enterprise class storage that lets the offer storage at a fraction of existing solutions.
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Apple's decisions are really unforgivable lately. Soldered on RAM, soldered on SSD, irreplaceable display cables... what the hell ever happened to modular design? How can this be anything but Apple wanting to shut down DIY repair and even third party repair shops? I wonder how much of their revenue is repairs...
I'm not saying relevance is meaningless. I'm saying it's scaled by the profitability of a conversion as well. This business logic works on traditional non-targeted ads as well, like on broadcast TV.

For example, do you remember seeing ads along the lines of "if you or a loved one has been diagnosed with mesothelioma, call the law offices of such and so"? Mesothelioma affects less than 30 people per million. Why run an ad that so few people care about? Because the payoff is so high for reaching the people that do care, and the higher the payoff, the less people have to care for the ad campaign to be worthwhile.
I think it's more about transitioning from the founder-type CEO driven by vision to the maintainer-type CEO who only cares about pleasing the board to keep his position as long as possible.
Mac & Cheese though.
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It is a paradox that Google who boasts themselves to be very technical, gave CEO job to someone who was never software engineeer or written single line of code. His path to fame initially was product management of IE plugin. Smart enough to suck up to founders and give a perception of no threat to them, assured his path to the throne by kicking down others and grabbing successful projects from other leaders.
>How is anything a “status symbol” with over 30%-50% market share in industrialized nations?

That's my point, when it came out the marketing around the iPhone was how using apple made you a trendsetter and you were ahead of the curve, now everybody has one. So raise the price and bring back the sense of exclusivity

as for performance, it really doesn't matter for luxury items. People pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for old cars and it's not because they perform better than a modern economy class vehicle
Funny, as I was reading this, I got an email about my Google+ account going away.
like Apple's ceo
I didnt know about location history and web & app activity. It is indeed quite hidden and when I disabled them, i saw along with web and app activity, there was a bunch of other history google was storing like search history, browsing history etc.
The really evil bit about Google is that, even when you disable them, Google does not delete the already collected history, they just "PAUSE" that so that they can keep old history.
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78% approval ratings seem pretty high to me. Am I the only one who thinks we may be looking for a pattern where none exists? A lot of factors like market conditions, news cycle etc. could lead to +/-10% swing in what is such an unofficial metric to begin with.
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Even if Google has the highest medium/average salary (which is so not true), still not necessarily means other companies won't pay much higher to an individual.
The facts that so many "former Google employees" out there and people left Google in like 4 years on average also hint it.
As many people already indicated, even not FAANG, many smaller companies are generous.
I think the problem is that many of the "dark themes" have grayish fonts that give low contrast. If the font were pure white, the resulting contrast is much more usable in bright light

I achieve this by setting my display to higher contrast to blow out the grays, in bright light.
Well when someone's Windows computer gets infected, that person rarely blames themselves. They blame Microsoft.

I'll take the updates and reboots. I don't know what exploits are coming tomorrow, and I know very little about the ones currently in the wild. My SSD allows reboots carrying updates to happen in just a minute or two.

I will do my due diligence and protect myself.

If you don't want to, don't use Windows, then you won't have anything Windows-related to complain about.

> Unfortunately it seems companies are far more authoritarian and would rather breed a docile obedient type of users in which to force their ideas on and control.

You are on drugs or are otherwise compromised logically. Tech companies are nowhere nearly as organized as would be required to make this a reality.

You're saying that the manufacturer of an OS that requires reboots for certain fixes to be patched onto the operating system is actually an authoritarian regime grooming its users toward a manufactured Idiocracy?

I'll have whatever you're having. It sounds like LSD but only for geopolitical concerns.
I think they're a lot stronger than you think. True, Search and Ads is still their bread and butter, but:

Their search engine is really hard to replace, not just because of the quality, but also because of how ubiquitous it is.

YouTube is the second largest search engine on the planet and has the largest mindshare of any website on the internet.

Android is "the" platform pretty much everyone accesses the internet.

Cloud could do better (it's 3rd distant in the race against MSFT and AMZN), but nevertheless a huge opportunity.

Buffet and Munger were correct when they commented about Google saying they'd never seen a wider moat in their entire career.
> Sundar is neither a founder nor has been a practicing Engineer. That's gotta hurt a company like Google which is mostly Engineering driven.

He might have not fought in the trenches of engineering. But I've seen his congress testimony. He is such a humble and kind guy while still being a nerd, one of us. If I worked at Google, I definitely would be glad about him being CEO.
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I'd say vision is less about having a mandate to maximize shareholder value, and more about how to do it.
Mobile was obviously a big failure on their part, though I think their only misstep was being late to market.

On the other hand bing has been good for them (and it's great for consumers). Hard to call a multi-million dollar business unit a failure.
It is too hard to believe that I feel a certain schadenfreude when the people sprouting low quality, biased, clickbait “journalism” get laid off from their jobs? Maybe it is too hard to believe that not everyone that enjoys this meme wishes for the literal death of those people in some bizarre “day of the rope” like your article alleges. I guess when you already formed an opinion strong enough to create a website named angrywhitemen you’d have to paint your targets as literal Nazis and every twitter meme is one step closer to goosemarching down the steps of the White House. It even funnier when you ask me to state what I believe, when you’ve already determined what I believe and has given I must say possibly the least generous interpertation. The question was rhetorical after all.

I never claimed anything with coal miners, if that is how the meme started then so be it. I said the media has been pushing everyone to learn code, from kids, to adults. Which is objectively true. It is pretty clear you have already formed your opinion on this meme, where you already decided that being told on twitter to do something as harmless as learn to code is equivalent to “making people’s lives as unbearable as possible”. One would be naive to believe that anyone being attacked ideologically for what their doing would deter them, if anything it only strengthens their resolve. I see the Twitter posts as more of a catharsis. These people aren’t going to stop writing their polemic, but we can poke fun of them.

The ironic thing is that there really is nothing wrong with learning to code.

I didn’t think a five word meme was too much for Dang. So let’s leave it here.
You can add emulsifying salts to any cheese you want to use in melted form though.
Don't discount the massive increase in the number of employees. The more people you add, the more the culture dilutes. It becomes impossible for employees to feel like they're part of single a tribe with a clear goal.

Factions develop, tensions mount, and you get angry employees leaking confidential information constantly. Most of the negative press the public has heard about Google in the past year is a direct result of leaks.

It just doesn't feel as "fun" anymore.
I do not try to hide my lack of authority, which is why I transparently couch my words with "it seems" and "my guess".

I don't need to speak with authority here. If you want to stoke the flames of moral outrage, the burden is on you, not me.
I was wondering if this five word off the cuff remark was too political. My apologies.
If you take a step back, Google's launch & deprecate cycle for new products actually kind-of makes sense.

Internally, Google is not so different from an ecosystem of VC-funded startups. They try a lot of things. Some ideas work and others don't.

The alternative is to never ship new products out of fear of failure. Or, to indefinitely support everything, regardless of how tiny. Or, to wait so long to derisk a new product that they possibly miss out on a new market (I'm looking at you, HomePod).

At the end of the day, this strategy has worked out well for them, so why stop? For every failure like G+ or Allo, there's a success like Google Photos or Duo.
Thanks for sharing your perspective and beating around the bush.

Feel free to keep blaming corporations for bad parenting and lack of responsibility for their own children.

Would recommend that you start worshipping money yourself so you can buy yourself a better education. Maybe then you'll stop telling people how to live their lives in a way that tailors to ignorance.

Cheers.
I don't know where you got this idea, but the argument for comparative advantage has nothing to do with the redistribution of income, nor is there a claim of "fairness" towards each and every individual or interest group.

To understand why comparative advantage is an advantage, you must consider the alternative: Economic protectionism. It results in inefficient allocation of labor, because everyone's job is protected. Everyone pays more for everyone else's labor, everyone is less productive. This affects the poor the most, because they spent the biggest share of their income on basic goods and services.

Of course there are economic winners and losers, but by attempting to fully protect everyone, everyone becomes a loser, as evidenced by the countless failed attempts at socialism.
Someone's salty. Do you work at Google?
Google's fall from grace mirrors HP's and Xerox's. At some level, CEOs who do not share an altruistic vision espoused by the "rank-and-file" engineers who are more idealistic. I think in Xerox, they were called "toner heads".

When you suck out the soul, the remaining carcass will totter on for a couple more decades, and encomiums will be written to the "well-managed" company in business magazines, but no promising undergraduates will list it as their dream job, and somehow, that's what really matters.
Not true, refresh grants happen every year and even if the stock stayed flat, the value of them is very high.

Now if Google lost 50% of its stock value overnight, that'd be a different story. But that would be reflected in the next round of refreshes, which are based on a monetary value at the time of grant.
wondering the same thing... it also surprised me that 89% employee take the survey and seemed caring about the vision so much
To explain this a bit more:

I freaking love smaller blogs, I've seen some of the most creative stuff on there. From people creating elaborate living wikis about nice interests such as blue light exposure, sleep[0], etc. and people transforming their blog posts into pieces of art[1], stuff that simply would not be possible on platforms like medium.

I would run into plenty of these awesome blogs while browsing HN but always forget them or put into an RSS app that I never ended up using because the blogs I followed only ended up posting something every month or so.

This service just sends you a very simple email once a week or month with new content from your feeds if there is any.

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From the evidence presented there I would say it is unclear.

Also no one can fact check everything just like no one can report everything. So I agree there are subtle ways of being biased that don’t require telling lies.

That will always be a limitation. That said the right tells so many more lies that any fact checking service should be spending more time on the right vs the left.
Except in this case it’s the reverse. The larger players, which have it far easier in terms of utilization rate, are rewarded more than smaller players working their tails off to reach better, but not best, utilization.

So it’s even worse than applying a single rate to all and tacitly advatanging larger players. It’s actively basing that advantage on largeness.
Pretty sure nobody has been driven to suicide by being told to "learn to code". If you have evidence that supports this assertion then I would be happy to see it. It sounds exaggerated at best.

As to the actual claims: the first article you posted includes a tweet that has many examples of articles which emphasize how the "heartland" can switch to coding as a viable alternative to coal mining and the like. The issue is that there is an underlying implication in those articles that such skills can be learned and applied by coal miners at large. But many / most coal miners probably aren't suited to being coders. Just like many journos are not suited to being coders.
That's fair, I suppose. I just suspect resistance would appear from up above if anyone tried to make location access significantly less required.
Yes because on the same platform where I consume cat videos I get all of my news where I'm going to choose on how to vote? It's an argument that can go on forever but if people are changing their votes based upon what they see on social media they should be more informed.
It actually didn’t. This was the first iPhone ad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nyYloJyq9M

Or you can watch every single iPhone ad. None of them scream exclusivity.

https://www.theverge.com/2012/2/24/2820832/every-apple-iphon...

There are other iPhones for sale besides the $1500 maxed out iPhone XS Max.
Wow, those are significant declines.

It'll be interesting to see how Google reacts, and if the numbers trend back up.