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This company should outsource all engineering to infosys
Re:Google App Engine and Cloud Datastore Outages on Monday November 11, 2019 @11:28AM (#21506100)
All customers must migrate to aws
You give them €200B to change a lightbulb and it still won’t work.
Can anyone who has worked on Bank of America comment on if any of the things they build actually worked?
Wonder if Peter Thiels fund will have miraculous returns this year.
Re:Google Cloud Worth $225B, Deutsche Bank Says on Friday October 04, 2019 @09:05PM (#21163172)
> we should keep our infrastructure to ourselves.

Hilarious, now that we know amazon builds better infrastructure. How they say it? „don’t buy your own hype“!

Re:Ask HN: Why are recruiters not interested in contractors? on Friday October 04, 2019 @07:59PM (#21162911)
Because in next few days recruitment will find a very capable developer with 12 Years experience who will do it for 90 because not everything in life is in his control and he wants the gig ASAP.

You are replaceable commodity. Like iron ore etc.

Re:My Time at Google and After on Thursday August 29, 2019 @02:42AM (#20827238)
She claims he didn’t enter a formal child support arrangement till the kid was 4. If true, this is a huge red flag.

Also not very good at his job “Drummond was charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2005 with causing Google to violate securities law because he failed to advise the company's board that the company was required to register $80 million in stock options used as compensation for employees.”

He took home $47m last year.

Re:Google OAuth Is Failing with 500 Error Code on Monday August 19, 2019 @04:56PM (#20741747)
I have a good handle on how the customer base for cloud computing services perceives cloud vendors and aws is way ahead of everyone else by a mile.

This is because they have a far better and complete platform, and it appears to be better engineered too with fewer of the downtime incidents we’ve been seeing at the other vendors.

Why do you suspect this is? Let me tell you. Amazon had better people. Full stop.

Re:Google OAuth Is Failing with 500 Error Code on Monday August 19, 2019 @03:20PM (#20740895)
Maybe memorising algorithms from a textbook does not translate to great system engineering and SRE skills? Who would have thought.
No need to feed the troll. From user achingtooths comment history: “I'm 19 years old and I left the US because everything is so expensive. There's just no way to live on your own or even comfortably without a high paying degree. I now live in Eastern Europe on $400 a month”
Re:What is a coder's worst nightmare? on Sunday June 09, 2019 @04:28AM (#20137956)
Low iq MBA manager with insecurities charged with delivery. Usually vindictive and on a power trip, and has social leverage on some senior exec.
Try to understand: Kavanugh and the people he is aligned with are like that incompetent manager in your office who took your successful project using their influence. Now they want to shake down Apple. After that google just watch.
Will Microsoft "Linux kernel" devs influence Linux roadmap?
Did you read the article till the end or look up the background of the person who wrote it? The message is not about the slides.
Re:Alphabet unit halts glucose-detecting contact lens project on Saturday November 17, 2018 @05:21AM (#18474870)
Was rapid evaluation team getting neck massages for positive rapid evaluations?
Not effecting all regions no.
Re:India’s banking system is flirting with a Lehman moment on Saturday November 10, 2018 @10:34AM (#18421704)
I read a time ago corrupt officials take a cut of every project. Don’t know if still a fact.
Re:Ask HN: What if gmail was compromised? on Thursday November 01, 2018 @01:55PM (#18356605)
Even worse, slack.
Re:Why Everyone Should #DeletePytho on Sunday October 28, 2018 @06:12AM (#18319957)
#deletenanx.me

Who is upvoting this garbage

Why don’t you see a doctor, and get prescribed some meds?
Funding secured.
Run the tracker in a virtual machine running locally. Run your “work” apps in that vm.

This is so stupid.

Re:The end of India’s ‘IT miracle’? on Thursday June 07, 2018 @09:16AM (#17255458)
I’ve seen developers in the London office of some banks get paid over £150k who were not any good at software either. it would be disingenuous to say that isn’t common.

I also saw some incredibly good devs there but you get both.

Build something.
Re:Anne Wojcicki on How to Build the Future on Saturday April 14, 2018 @05:56AM (#16836674)
You also have a greater chance of being significantly screwed over if your core skill is technology and not playing the politics.

Avoid.

Re:Anne Wojcicki on How to Build the Future on Saturday April 14, 2018 @05:53AM (#16836664)
Its fun being a cost center where having friends in the business side of things is what counts for career progress?
Why have you assumed that of the pool of applicants to his job there were residents with equal skills?
You don’t get to define the word. He started a company which is now public and worth close to a billion dollars.

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