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I've turned down actual offers because even some medium-sized companies won't tell you which team you'll be working on when the offer is extended.

I get that things can be fluid, but its such a meat machine.

> It's an infinite loop ...

In Go, if runtime.GOMAXPROCS() returns 1 or is set to 1 (meaning, Go only has access to a single system thread), the 'for' loop canabalizes the scheduler and the goroutine is rarely or never scheduled.

That fact doesn't make the OP's statement true, or have anything to do with the optimization bug, but it is worth pointing out that there are situations where Go correctly cannot guarantee that goroutine is executed.

Investors pull the strings. The behavior isn't the result of an investment, but failing to implement procedures after the fact to stop future incidents definitely can be. Not through action, but through inaction.

Meaning, more ethical investors (also known as: Board Members) might say "We need to do something about this."

They did detect the hack.

Looks great. My main complaint is that the templates feature appears to be reinventing Terraform. Would have been cool if we could use the Terraform templates we already have, or even provide support for CloudFormation (given this is an AWS-only tool).

Gundb is garbage.

But single node with unlimited room to grow is always a good value prop. Cockroach can market that, but Spanner can't.

I can't generalize for every school, or everyone at every school. I attended an engineering program at one of the top 5 schools by total international student population.

Honestly, international students are cliquey. Many of them that I talk to openly admit to cheating on their english proficiency exams universities require you to take before you can attend. Meshing with local students is nearly impossible if you don't understand the language proficiently.

I'd expect you'd see roughly the same numbers if you looked at American students in Chinese universities, or elsewhere. But we have to make this anti-American because its Quartz, and Trump is bad, right?

But the most successful products tend to be ones that can scale from zero to global. DynamoDB is a great example.

Given that Spanner starts at $650/mo/node + storage costs, I think Cockroach could still see huge usage as a self-hosted alternative.

Its probably a class size of 2, with Amazon. Beyond those two though, no one else is close.

When I say MacBooks... I mean the MacBook Pros. As in, what this article is talking about. Apple never reduced the size of the MB battery by 30%. Or added a second screen. Or kept performance they same (they improved performance gen-over-gen with the MB). Use your head. Apply some context.

Everyone talks about the downsides of the new MacBooks. No one talks about about how they reduced the size of the internal battery by 30%, effectively added a second screen, improved overall performance, and still kept the same battery life.

This isn't true on the span of a single year due to market volatility.

That information is pretty easily available.

Most people (think: GNU wizards) who do projects like this don't want to monetize; not for capability reasons, but for philosophical and social reasons. They think monetization is against some principal of free software, or their morals, or that people will stop using their software if they do, or, simply: they're lazy and just want to code, without worrying about menial things like income.

And then, when they can't afford to work on their project anymore, they want our pity. They don't have mine.

It is his responsibility to capture the value of his work. The world does not owe him this. The world doesn't owe him anything unless he demands it.

You're asking to have your cake and eat it to: Give software away (altruism) but also feel guilty when he complains that he doesn't have any money. You can't have both.

Honestly, I'm 100% more fine with Apple spying on me than pretty much anyone else. I'm less perturbed with the entire concept of spying than I am with who is doing it.

It is so concerning to me that the company has committed to spending an average of $400M per year on cloud infra when their revenue is only $200M, and they've revealed that user growth slowed from 17% to 3% in the quarter Insta released Stories.

It'd be one thing if they were going to use some of the IPO money to cost-optimize revenue, but I get the feeling that they need to focus on growing revenue due to how Insta Stories gutted them in 2016. That means hiring more people and writing bigger checks to Google.

And they're branding themselves as a "camera company." Their hardware division does not contribute materially to revenue (not profit: Revenue), and practically every other consumer camera company, from Kodak to GoPro, is dying.

This is not a healthy company.

The "real world" argument is a classic No True Scotsman fallacy.

> I can't wait until they are connected and I can issue a command to move streaming from one device to another one in another room

Google Home can do this to a degree today. You are capable of saying things like "Play X on my TV." if your TV is wired up with a ChromeCast.

In general, Google Home is very far ahead of Alexa. I agree with the opinion that Alexa is a glorified radio, but I don't believe that opinion extends to all devices in that class. I think its just because Alexa is overrated and not very powerful.

Did you seriously just suggest that Amazon is generally regarded as a pleasant place to work? Amazon, the company that not 3 months ago, had an employee attempt to kill himself by jumping off of one of their buildings after being put on an "employee improvement plan" [1].

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-employee-attempted-sui...

No. In what world would Snapchat be paying the rates that you pay at your Denver colo center? Why is that even relevant? They pay what Google charges them, which is $0.08/GB egress. Probably less due to negotiated bulk discounts.

I'm not so sure. $33M would buy 412PB of egress alone. At 160M daily active users, that's roughly 2GB per user. In just bandwidth. That's high, and they've probably negotiated some deals to lower their bills, but also consider instances, storage (photos and videos), 10% of their bill is easily support...

$33M a month is the right magnitude. The more I think about it, the more I wonder if it's actually way too low, and they're getting really deep discounts.

That's true, but Intel has as much to lose as AMD if that cross-licensing deal is terminated. So I'd imagine that Intel would want to re-negotiate it with the new party, which is obviously a possibility.

The intended audience might be more experienced than you are.

People also die. By your definition, are all people destined to fail because we all die? Is no one worth remembering, or being called "successful"?

Horizon is a scary recommendation right now given the recent shuttering of RethinkDB (the company). It might still be a great choice, but I would give the community some time to coalesce and see where things end up before recommending it for new projects.

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Any thoughts on adding Go or Elixir as officially supported languages in the future?