davidcgl

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by davidcgl 10y ago
Direct link to her talk: https://youtu.be/j_K1YoMHpbk?t=2h38m40s
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Waymo: Google's self-driving car company(waymo.com)
785 points by davidcgl 10y ago|748 comments
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Waymo: Google self-driving car company(wired.com)
6 points by davidcgl 10y ago|0 comments
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Google's new PhotoScan app makes it easy to digitize old prints(engadget.com)
2 points by davidcgl 10y ago|0 comments
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by davidcgl 10y ago
Map data and quality varies depending on your location.
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by davidcgl 10y ago
Many readers are skeptical about the usefulness of personal AI assistants. This reminds me of what Jeff Bezos said about disruptive technologies [1], which I think resonates well among many tech company executives. You (they) need to be wil
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by davidcgl 10y ago
I'd argue they are consistent in that every candidate who made it past resume screening is given equal opportunity to partake in a well documented process. Whether or not the process itself is effective is a different question. Sure,
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by davidcgl 10y ago
I'm not sure I understand -- who's complaining? To be clear, I can see why big companies prefer coding interviews (it's more "consistent" when interview feedbacks are boiled down to a score), but at the same time I&
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by davidcgl 10y ago
While there are many legitimate criticism of whiteboard-style coding interviews, I have yet to see a convincing alternative that scales well to the size of big companies. Google [1][2], Facebook et al. hire thousands of engineers per year,
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by davidcgl 10y ago
DeepMind reduced Google data center cooling bill by 40% in an experiment. If this effect is real, it probably more than justified the $500m tag Google paid to acquire DeepMind. Google might not have come up with a killer app, but perhaps th
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by davidcgl 10y ago
Are you saying Google should've bought LinkedIn? How does that contribute to Google cloud platform?
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by davidcgl 10y ago
Just because someone claimed Google manipulated search suggestions doesn't mean they actually did it. The video itself even acknowledged the lack of concrete proofs.
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YouTube 360-degree live video(youtube.googleblog.com)
27 points by davidcgl 10y ago|6 comments
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by davidcgl 10y ago
My guess is OP meant to say AWS vs GCP (Google Cloud Platform) instead of GCE (Google Compute Engine).
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Google has doubled Chromebook bug bounty to $100,000(venturebeat.com)
3 points by davidcgl 11y ago|0 comments
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Google DeepMind Challenge Match: Lee Sedol vs. AlphaGo(youtube.com)
16 points by davidcgl 11y ago|1 comments
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Amit Singhal leaving Google(plus.google.com)
7 points by davidcgl 11y ago|0 comments
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License to not drive: Google’s autonomous car testing center(medium.com)
70 points by davidcgl 11y ago|22 comments
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Meteor Galaxy Developer Edition(info.meteor.com)
9 points by davidcgl 11y ago|0 comments
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Nexus 5X and Nexus 6P review: The true flagships of the Android ecosystem(arstechnica.com)
2 points by davidcgl 11y ago|0 comments
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by davidcgl 11y ago
I agree that if you strip out all the complexities behind what you see on the screen, then yes someone can definitely build a bootstrap-y clone in a weekend.
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by davidcgl 11y ago
If you boil down the entirety of Twitter into just a CRUD app that allows you to post 140 characters at a time, then yes, you can make that in a weekend. Well, how about recommended posts / people to follow (ML)? Sponsored posts with a
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by davidcgl 11y ago
> any competent web developer could make A non-scaling Twitter in an afternoon I wish people would stop claiming how they could clone a social media app in an afternoon / weekend.
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Committing to RCS, the latest standard in carrier messaging(officialandroid.blogspot.com)
4 points by davidcgl 11y ago|0 comments
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by davidcgl 11y ago
There is an official guide: https://www.meteor.com/tutorials/react/creating-an-app
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Adblock Browser 1.0 for Android and iOS(adblockplus.org)
4 points by davidcgl 11y ago|0 comments
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by davidcgl 11y ago
Nanodegrees may seem a good idea, and they no doubt make sense financially to google Google doesn't own Udacity.
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by davidcgl 11y ago
It's an easter egg. It's a pretty common thing Google does.
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by davidcgl 11y ago
G+ wanted to be a rendezvous for all social/sharing activities on Google, and it turned out that many users didn't like it. Would G+ have fared better if it didn't force G+ onto every Google property? Maybe? It's easy to
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Using Google without a Google+ profile(googleblog.blogspot.com)
589 points by davidcgl 11y ago|273 comments

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