skj

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by skj 4y ago
Unless something big changed since I left two years ago, the org chart is totally visible to the entire company, and so are levels except when someone explicitly opts out (most do not bother).
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by skj 5y ago
Are you knocking the knockers? No one is suggesting they be arrested. They're just being ridiculed.
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by skj 5y ago
Pretty uncommon at tech companies, but it's entirely based on the company's policy. The company can fire you at any time (as long as it's not one of several specific bad reasons like racial discrimination), but it's the
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by skj 5y ago
My former boss too! That message was sort of the beginning of the end for the trust I had. Very disappointing.
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by skj 5y ago
Yeah but it's a lot easier to not care.
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by skj 5y ago
What I tried, in a similar situation, was being clear that I did not support the company or its leadership and for them to never contact me again. It worked.
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by skj 5y ago
She didn't.
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by skj 5y ago
eh?
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by skj 5y ago
Pretty low chance that the status page is automated, especially via health checks. I imagine it's a static asset updated by hand.
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by skj 5y ago
Little known fact: "Bob Dole has died" were his last words.
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by skj 5y ago
It's GCS.
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by skj 5y ago
When we designed the security model for Google Cloud Build (I do not work there anymore), we decided that containers were not valid security barriers. So, all partitioning was done on the VM and network (configured outside the VM) level. It
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by skj 5y ago
I don't think "this is a dangerous idea because people might need it to function" is a great take.
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by skj 5y ago
Last I checked, which was not recent, it was hosted out of an S3 bucket.
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by skj 5y ago
Google uses map reduce extensively... where it's appropriate. True time helps with things like spanner transactions. It's just a totally different use case.
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by skj 5y ago
Well.... bye!
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by skj 5y ago
I measure distances in the time it takes light to traverse them, don't you?
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by skj 5y ago
The host can put their CDN inside the operator's network. And, generally, a centrally operated CDN can be smarter than p2p.
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by skj 5y ago
Hmm cloud build spoofs it :) if the customer build accessed the underlying VM's metadata it would be very confusing (though not a security issue). It was not straightforward. I learned a lot about iptables and docker networking.
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by skj 5y ago
Ok, now I understand that survivor bias meme.
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by skj 5y ago
A self-made mining billionaire? Indeed that is fascinating. He must have been working really hard down in those mines to make that much without any help.
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by skj 5y ago
"this context" is using a map from the beginning and not having that slice.
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by skj 5y ago
With big python projects it's often difficult to figure out what code is going to be executed next due to inheritance and mix-ins. With Go, it's usually pretty straightforward. Yes, there are interfaces, but they're used in p
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by skj 5y ago
The limit there is likely that no one has figured out how to make an annual fruit or nut tree.
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by skj 5y ago
How close are we to a black hole?
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by skj 5y ago
You can definitely hear the difference between many guitar models. Are you suggesting that pickups are the only difference?
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by skj 5y ago
It ABSOLUTELY is a SPOF and was responsible for several high profile outages at GCP last year.
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by skj 5y ago
In Google, auditing is handled separately. The availability guarantees necessary for basic authorization are far more strict than auditing. Auth fails closed, audit fails open. Anything that can be stripped out of auth should be, even if we
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by skj 5y ago
"there must be a reason" hahahahahaha
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by skj 5y ago
Some commits cannot be cherry picked. This is because there is no coherent diff for them, like with merge commits.

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