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SA500 | 8 years ago | on: Google's “Director of Engineering” Hiring Test (2016)

This has been posted before. Standard questions from a recruiter. The fact he wasn't able to work out how to play the game at this stage suggests he probably would have been cut out for the job anyway...

SA500 | 8 years ago | on: Designing very large (JavaScript) applications

A complete non sequitur.

SA500 | 8 years ago | on: Prove you are not an evil corporate person

Christ, this is silly (disclosure - I work at Google)

SA500 | 8 years ago | on: Google Will Block Spammy Ads (Just Not Many of Its Own)

Any WSJ/News Corp coverage of Google/other tech companies should be taken with a massive pinch of salt. They are direct competitors and have long waged a campaign against their influence https://twitter.com/thelancearthur/status/963090315472093184

SA500 | 8 years ago | on: Google Will Block Spammy Ads (Just Not Many of Its Own)

No it no longer does, although it should

SA500 | 8 years ago | on: How the failed deal with Waymo left Ford in the lurch

Google have been doing this for longer than anyone else and have logged an order of magnitude more miles (cf. all their competitors combined). They also have by far and away the most accurate/reliable technology as evidenced by their dis/engagement stats. They are years ahead of everyone else. As a separate company they would be valued at ~$70 billion- with huge upside

SA500 | 8 years ago | on: How the failed deal with Waymo left Ford in the lurch

Hopeless on the part of Ford.

SA500 | 8 years ago | on: Browse Against the Machine

Do you realise Firefox's marketshare was in large part due Google? It's not surprising that when they decided to go their own way they made rapid gains

SA500 | 8 years ago | on: How Raygun increased throughput 20x with .NET Core over Node.js

It's an MS 'Customer Story' so it is a press release.

SA500 | 8 years ago | on: Porting Windows Dynamic Link Libraries to Linux

'This project does not replace Wine or Winelib.

Winelib is used to port Windows C++ projects to Linux, and Wine is intended to run full Windows applications. This project is intended to allow native Linux code to load simple Windows DLLs.

The closest analogy would be ndiswrapper but for userspace.'

SA500 | 8 years ago | on: An internal Google email shows how the company cracks down on leaks

This is a non story. Product leaks have a massive business impact. Hence Apple's culture of extreme secrecy. Google is somewhere in between

SA500 | 8 years ago | on: Google tried to block media coverage of gender discrimination case

This is clearly a fishing expedition- and I am not surprised that Google objects to the DOJ seeking publicity when they lack evidence as it stands

SA500 | 8 years ago | on: Kill Google AMP before it kills the web

Haha- that is hilarious

SA500 | 8 years ago | on: A Look Inside Apple’s New Campus

Average Apple comp at HQ has to be a lot higher than that

SA500 | 8 years ago | on: Microsoft knows Windows is obsolete. a sneak peek at its replacement

They would argue 10S is only one skew but it does seem absurd

SA500 | 8 years ago | on: Microsoft knows Windows is obsolete. a sneak peek at its replacement

Precisely. And the fact Bing is the only search engine allowed (on spurious safety grounds) and Chrome is barred tells you everything. This is destined to fail right? The main advantage of, say, a Chromebook is that it boots instantly and handles multiple users with no IT oversight

SA500 | 9 years ago | on: Security Update for Microsoft Malware Protection Engine

Graham's a longtime critic of Tavis. Think he used to work for an AV provider. Here's the history anyway https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Graham+Cluley&oq=Graham+Cl...

SA500 | 9 years ago | on: Facebook and Google were conned out of $100M in phishing scheme

Seems like a fairly simple scam. All you would need is an email thread with relevant invoices and you would be well on the way. Surprised all the money was recovered after the fact though?