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Re:The EARN IT act is an attack on end-to-end encryption on Friday March 06, 2020 @08:43PM (#22509146)
Why is a search warrant on electron data not comparable to a search warrant for some physical documents?
They have money so they are being sued.
Yeah, looking at the lists of violations makes it pretty clear that the system is obsolete. These are the same people that claimed they could fine every single engineer working at Intel for not technically being certified.
I'm pretty sure anyone that works on something that kills people "could" be charged manslaughter. The entire PE system seems antiquated and obsolute.
Are there many examples in the real world of this actually happening?
I didn't realize that one's knowledge and skill is a function of location.
It's not too late to learn. Just start playing around with stuff
Re:Pay up or we’ll make Google ban your ads on Monday February 17, 2020 @07:08PM (#22352211)
Or (more likely) because they are not allowed to by policy.
Re:Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group on Saturday February 15, 2020 @01:32AM (#22333690)
It's not like any one uses hadoop or kubernetes and has any success am I right?
Re:Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group on Saturday February 15, 2020 @12:54AM (#22333565)
But we do know AWS's operating margin which is 29%. Spending a little to gain market share in a high margin business seems sound to me.
Re:Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group on Saturday February 15, 2020 @12:53AM (#22333559)
20% over the top of the market value.
Re:Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group on Saturday February 15, 2020 @12:52AM (#22333556)
Not every employee that is hired is really top tier, there are probably some average people that get through. Also people can get lax and complicit.
Re:Google cuts jobs at cloud-computing group on Friday February 14, 2020 @07:21PM (#22331862)
Amazon lets people go regularly, I don't get what the issue is.
Re:Toward _FORTIFY_SOURCE Parity Between Clang and GCC on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @04:07PM (#22312824)
Clang has mostly caught up to GCC and suppressed it in many others ways. It's probably somewhat bad in the long run since LLVM/Clang seems to have more devs contributing to it now.
It's still safer than not having it.
Re:Investigating the Performance Overhead of C++ Exceptions on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @07:21PM (#22304472)
I suggest that people read Bjarne Stroustrup's recent paper on why exceptions are necessary to see the counter point http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2019/p194...
Re:Investigating the Performance Overhead of C++ Exceptions on Tuesday February 11, 2020 @07:20PM (#22304466)
Bjarne Stroustrup wrote a rebuttal to that proposal http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2019/p194...
Re:Clang vs. other open-source compilers on Monday February 10, 2020 @03:34AM (#22287356)
This info is from 2007, the title should reflect that. This is not a useful post.
That source you cite literally says that "45% of Google employees are programmers."
It's obviously going to be mostly engineering, it's Google.
How is opening 5000 new jobs in Canada a sign that Google is "extremely centralized"? In regards to your Munich example, what exactly is the issue with that? If there's a large amount of talent in some area why wouldn't you want to try and compete for it? Anyway, I have a good feeling that office will grow soon, there's plenty of non-hardware and chip design talent in that area :) You do have to start somewhere though. I will also make an educated guess that Google isn't hiring just junior people, and even if they were, they would grow into more senior roles anyway.
And then wait 20 years for everyone to agree?