presootto

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by presootto 12y ago
Google is just a bunch of hypocrites. Do you remember what happened when they're new ReCaptcha was reverse engineered? Let me remind you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8728336 Disclaimer: I work for TAGA (The Ar
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by presootto 12y ago
> This article read like a paid Google App engine advert. Yeah, that was my impression too. The fact is: Google is really afraid of AWS. Google knows that it's several quarters behind on cloud infrastructure deployment, and that the
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by presootto 12y ago
Not every Google employee is part of the sect. Some of us have our own opinions outside of what Google's PR-bullshit department comes up with. Disclaimer: I work for TAGA (The Arrogant Google Assholes)
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by presootto 12y ago
>This is just completely false. Google has just as much backstabing and infighting at the exec level as an company out there. Of course it does. And much more then people outside of the company think. As long as people like Eric Schmidt
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by presootto 12y ago
Very much this. There's a huge difference between what people think working for Google is like, and what it is actually like. If you get hired you will end up working on boring maintenance/refactoring tasks, or some non-fancy infr
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by presootto 12y ago
Nothing to see here. Just an idiot with more money than sense, like many of the top execs at Google. Disclaimer: I work for the arrogant Google hypocrites.
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by presootto 12y ago
Nothing at all; this was a decision made by the Hangouts team. The XMPP change has to do with the NIH syndrome a lot of Google engineers suffer from, combined with the incompetence of the Hangouts PM, Kate Cushing. Disclaimer: I work for Go
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by presootto 12y ago
And where does most of Mozilla's funding come from? Google. As long as that's the case it can never be truly independent. I wish they found an alternate source of cash that allowed them to get rid of those Google hypocrites. Discl
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by presootto 12y ago
I agree that the settlement is mainly about damage control. I also think the company most affected by said negative PR is Google. I'm still waiting for Eric to apologize to the recruiter who was fired for contacting an Apple employee a
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by presootto 12y ago
Firefox is Free software, Chrome is proprietary and made by the company that employs this guy: http://mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com/post/84829703425/r... I know what I'd choose.
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by presootto 12y ago
The privacy concern is a very real one. Also, see: http://mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com/post/84829703425/r...
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by presootto 12y ago
There's always going to be some conflict of interest when the company who builds the OS is the same one that runs the advertising platform.
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by presootto 12y ago
There's plenty of people who still believe that, even inside of Google. Then there's the group of employees, known as the 'memegen consenus', who have come to realize that Google is not different from any other large cor
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by presootto 12y ago
This POWER8 board has been in development for a long time and will only be used if it turns out to be cheaper then the Intel/AMD alternatives. The platforms team at Google is also developing an ARM solution. They have GPU's in tes
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by presootto 12y ago
Do you really want to work for a company ran by criminals? Why aren't Jonathan Rosemberg and Eric Schmidt in jail? Fuck them and fuck the entire legal team at Google! Disclaimer: I work for Google.
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by presootto 12y ago
That depends on your contract. And unfortunately those contracts are legal. I gave up working on open source projects as I'd rather that code didn't exist then having to surrender it to my company. My employer, Google, has the mos
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by presootto 12y ago
If you have any questions regarding Google's activity in DC don't hesitate to send an e-mail to these addresses: rachelw@google.com lawyercat@google.com