EmployedRussian

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by EmployedRussian 8y ago
In 2001 my car was towed from LAX parking lot because they checked the plate (they told me they scan all plates daily) and it came back as registered to a different make. Turns out the dealer made a single-letter mistake in VIN when registe
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by EmployedRussian 9y ago
> The problem with that is they'll find work for themselves to do, good idea or not, part of a coherent strategy or not. Isn't that exactly how Gmail came to be?
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by EmployedRussian 9y ago
> I've never met a good, experienced developer who was a slow typist. You will. There is a reason "fast typist" was not a required skill in any software jobs I've ever applied for, and I doubt developer strength has a
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by EmployedRussian 9y ago
> Opting to drive around a (stationary, visible from a distance) bag in an unpredictable manner is literally how Waymo's first "at fault" accident occurred... There wasn't anything unpredictable about the behavior of
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by EmployedRussian 9y ago
I think you are in violent agreement with the parent post: "ability to remove people ... with little repercussion" literally means: they (authorities) can order people move, and it costs them (authorities) little or nothing at all
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by EmployedRussian 9y ago
> I think you can agree that you're probably going to get fired. thesmallestcat claimed "that ex-Googlers cannot bad-mouth the company", and I claimed that no such clause exists in the standard contract of employment. By t
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by EmployedRussian 9y ago
Google NDA covers (non)disclosure of Google confidential info. It has nothing to do with "bad-mouth"ing before or after termination of employment.
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by EmployedRussian 9y ago
It doesn't matter how your candidates are distributed across the spectrum (and I do hope that your hires are not uniformly distributed ;-) What matters is how your scores compare to other interviewers scores on the given slate. &gt
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by EmployedRussian 9y ago
> I understand that part of the employment contract is that ex-Googlers cannot bad-mouth the company. You understand this based on what? Out of curiosity, I just went through my employment agreement, and did not find any such clauses. &g
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by EmployedRussian 9y ago
> Do you work for Google? I do. I've also done 200+ interviews. > Googlers are known to come out to defend their employer on HN Well, sure. It's not because Google tells us to defend it though, but rather to state the facts
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by EmployedRussian 9y ago
> I would never apply I guess you'll never know what (if anything) you've missed. > I'd end up working with a bunch of sycophants who are willing to do that sort of thing You are implying bad intentions where none are l
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by EmployedRussian 9y ago
4.0 is more like: I'll give up my job to get this person hired, she (or he) is that good.
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by EmployedRussian 9y ago
Arguing to HC on behalf of someone I gave 4.0 (which is rare, and which I did give a few times) is something I would do gladly (and I expect most others will do as well). It's not like going in front of HC is an inquisition or an
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by EmployedRussian 9y ago
There are no such incentives. When writing feedback, you simply look back at 20 other interviews where you asked the same question, and write "candidate X's performance on this question was was in {top,bottom} {5,25,50}% of ... at
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by EmployedRussian 10y ago
The article addresses this question: “I think this is the first time autonomous driving has been approached so strongly from a deep learning perspective,” says Tandon. “This is in contrast to a traditional robotics approach,” continues Caro
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by EmployedRussian 10y ago
Has Tesla delivered L4 car yet? Elon's claims notwithstanding, Tesla may actually be half a decade away from L4. > It's pretty sad how far behind ... Maybe they are just trying to not over-promise and under-deliver?
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by EmployedRussian 10y ago
Here you are using fixed passphrase and site name as the password, resulting in monosubstitution cypher, which is where the insecurity comes from. If you use site name as the passphrase and fixed password ("password" below) instea
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by EmployedRussian 10y ago
Waymo is subject to the same reporting requirements as everyone else. Google's reports will likely be transferred to waymo.com site soon enough, and new ones will appear in due time.
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by EmployedRussian 10y ago
> The video clearly shows a fully autonomous vehicle in a range of driving conditions. The video shows a fully autonomous vehicle in a range of (relatively) easy driving conditions. 1. There is not a single "sticky" situation i
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by EmployedRussian 10y ago
I've worked at Google for 8 years. The only way you are likely to see "another 100k on a good year" is if you sell all the RSUs you've got that year. I've see a few people "add a couple of million" when
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by EmployedRussian 10y ago
"While it was stopped" is the key. It's hard to argue that a car stopped at red light violates anyone's expectation of how a human would drive.
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by EmployedRussian 10y ago
When you are barreling down a highway at 65 miles per hour and are not paying attention (and you wouldn't, because the car drives itself just fine), giving you controls is much more dangerous (for you and others around you) then not.
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by EmployedRussian 10y ago
> I would personally never buy one of the Google (or any other) self-driving models with no controls. Google cars have the Big Red Button, which shuts off self-driving system and brings the car to a stop. What more controls do you need?
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by EmployedRussian 11y ago
Google just posted http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-mail-you-want-not-... "but sometimes these wanted messages are mistakenly classified as spam. When this happens, you might have to wade through you
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by EmployedRussian 11y ago
You are mistaken: "We’ve self-driven over 1 million miles" http://www.google.com/selfdrivingcar/where/ (The total miles driven in both manual and self-driving mode is closer to 2 million miles I believe.
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by EmployedRussian 12y ago
Not quite correct. Before the incident, developers could use Windows, Linux or Mac laptop for remote access. After, only Linux and Mac remain as options. In addition, a mandatory two-factor authentication was introduced.
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by EmployedRussian 13y ago
Herd mentality is very likely. Many barns in USA are red. Most barns in USSR were not painted at all. Most French barns don't appear to be red either: http://www.google.com/search?q=image+barn+france
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by EmployedRussian 14y ago
Google is full of horror stories about bureaucracies and abusive/ignorant/incompetent managers? It's true that there are a few disgruntled ex-Googlers that may give you this impression. But I don't believe you'll find many current Google em
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by EmployedRussian 14y ago
"In the interest of fairness, Fog Creek's compensation policy is open, public, simple, and accountable. Many companies try to obfuscate the rules they use for determining compensation in hopes that they won't get caught paying some people t
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by EmployedRussian 14y ago
Most Google engineers use Linux on desktops . For a laptop, you get to choose between a Mac and a PC Laptop (running Linux as well).

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