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by nigelk 3y ago
as did the Google recruiters and HR people I spoke to before accepting the job :)
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by nigelk 3y ago
It was certainly executive-level pricing :) To answer your question, I don't know. The wait list was well over a year, and it was many many times more expensive than other childcare options in the Mountain View area, and utterly unaffo
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by nigelk 3y ago
The daycare wasn't free, at least not when I started in early 2007, and the waiting list was huge. It wasn't presented that way through my long interview process where the benefits were discussed a number of times. I relocated fro
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by nigelk 3y ago
As someone who was there start of 2007 to end of 2010, this resonated. My first two years were very different to the last two.
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by nigelk 8y ago
I lost 50 pounds in under 200 days, and then another 20 over the next year. Here's what worked for me: * Calorie counting to work out baselines * Accept the feeling of being hungry and learn to relish it ("I'm losing we
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by nigelk 10y ago
VP of Product Director of Product These titles both exist...
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by nigelk 10y ago
My interview for Google as an SRE in late 2009 consisted of well over half design questions around improvements of a system with lots of users. One of the best series of questions I've ever gotten in an interview. We probably spent clo
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by nigelk 11y ago
At least part of the complication is that overseas equivalents of 401k funds that may be mandatory to contribute to are often considered to be bank accounts by the IRS.
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by nigelk 11y ago
Excellent, thanks. Hopefully we'll see tools like Cloudability support it then. I'll check it out again, really the frustrating management aspect was the lack of org oversight over multiple projects started within your domain.
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by nigelk 11y ago
There are some great aspects to Google Compute, but I hope this change results in catch up on features needed for corporate adoption compared to AWS. The lack of a billing API and the lack of centralized management are really painful if you
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by nigelk 11y ago
My understanding is that they didn't do a write API due to fear of automated spam and poor S/N ratios.
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by nigelk 11y ago
It's not just that, looking through my current and past entries some of these records just aren't correct, and don't even match the data provided on LCAs etc.
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by nigelk 12y ago
Not right, but not entirely wrong either. The process for an internal, expedited H1b transfer is significantly simpler than an H1b from scratch.
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by nigelk 12y ago
I think they're ruling out hyphenating. Cooke-Bell and Bell-Cooke.
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by nigelk 12y ago
Not sure if you're the one who changed it, but the " Trapperkeeper is a new Clojure framework [...]" title works fine and is much less misleading imho.
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by nigelk 12y ago
Your comments apply to the HN link text, not the article or headline. Puppet Labs isn't a single language company.
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by nigelk 13y ago
What are you finding unreliable in terms of tooling for Puppet on Windows?
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by nigelk 13y ago
This is a very ordinary problem, and it's usually solved like this with Puppet: Specify the service declaratively, and subscribe it to the package that provides the payload. service { 'myservice': ensure => run
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by nigelk 13y ago
Maybe it was open source software and/or he went through a simple CLA process?
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by nigelk 14y ago
Thanks for the feedback andyl. We're thinking very much about the direction of embedding all dependencies, but we're also conscious of the needs of the Linux distros, who don't package software that way. There is a downside to having all yo
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by nigelk 14y ago
We very much encourage people to use the package repositories we host: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/puppetlabs_package_reposit... Are you suggesting we should drop gem support entirely andyl?
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by nigelk 14y ago
Great news Mitch! Congratulations, and give us a yell if I can help with anything.
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by nigelk 14y ago
I'd love to see more details about this. You may not return to this comment, but nigel@puppetlabs.com would love to chat about what you're doing here.
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by nigelk 14y ago
In Australia where in many ways it felt like we were second-hand consumers of UK rave/dnb culture, the "digital" was a big part of that experience in the early 90s. Think of all the newsgroups, mailing lists and blogs. Think hyperreal.org a
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by nigelk 14y ago
And here you've nicely summarized why I think I've seen so many technically-inclined philosophy grads working as sysadmins... Totally a case of selection bias, given I'm one of those and notice them, but I've long been convinced that a love
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by nigelk 14y ago
Snippets at Google had one other really useful tool when you're a large company. You could subscribe to a keyword, and pick up any snippets that mentioned it. As someone who was running a service that could get in the way of engineers doing
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by nigelk 14y ago
This is awesome. As an ex-Googler at a startup, I've been wanting to re-implement OSS snippets for a while now. Checking it out!
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by nigelk 14y ago
I don't. I'm one of those Australians who moved to the US to work at Google, and then left to join a startup, Puppet Labs. There are a lot of Australians in tech in the Bay Area, particularly working in operations, and a regular topic of
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by nigelk 14y ago
I quite like the command line tooling GCE comes with. It's a much nicer user experience.
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by nigelk 14y ago
From memory this was due to LaunchServices not waiting until the home directory was completely mounted, and thus launching with default prefs. There was a workaround I had running for a while in a large deployment in the form of a logouthoo

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