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What kills me is that the US Gov does pay for a fair amount of work (the military loved funding gcc for instance)

I'd also point out that we've (google) spent scads of money on oss software development , orgs and the rest at Google. The author really didn't research before writing the article.

Also another campus in Qatar, I've been to all three (collect em all!)

Damn shame, we have a huge number of developers committing code to OSS projects. I'd be surprised if you actually worked at Google, as anyone who made it past their first week is welcome to our training on how to release, patch and in fact navigate the borders between Google and personal copyright.

Five years? You can buy smart phones for 30$ in shenzhen electronic malls today. I don't know your threshold for cheap, but considering feature phones sit at 25 to 20 in the same places.. The future is now :-)

From what we've seen (on the nasa/google installation) we're seeing quantum operation, but yes, once we see 2k qubit chips (which we hope happens within the year) that's when we'll know about whether there is an actual advantage vs scalar processors for annealing problems.

This is one of the reasons we're all going round and round on proving 'quantumness' so that when we get a processor with more qubits we can predict and test that it is indeed all that an a bag of chips.

From what I can tell, it's a side effect of the way they architect the inter cell (a cell is 6 or 7 qubits) communications. This points to a larger problem of course, where we can show entanglement within the cell but cross cell entanglement isn't as clear (to me, but I might be behind the curve on this)

It is only 509 qubits. I keep wanting to say it has 512, too...

At Google we've capped it so that you'd not see 7 unless there is some need to revise the slate (different job to interview for, or a really badly formed interview) . In fact we found and target 5 nowadays as the statistical change of score for incoming candidates after 5 wasn't dramatic enough to justify the extra trouble.

YMMV/excpetions etc, but still... I remember when we capped it at 8, then 7, now it's largely 5 at most for 95% of the candidates.

Wait, aren't those you're calling to disrupt this the same you say are putting in very little effort?

In fact I'd go further and say it's pretty much industry standard for recruiters to go missing/contract ending mid-offer. It might sound aggro, but if you think you have an offer coming, it's not awful to email anyone you might know inside a company to get an answer.

Heck, I don't think I even mind telling people it didn't work out, so if you get in this kind of mess with Google, I'm happy to track down errant Google recruiters for you for them to officially turn you down, or happier still, get you that offer that is waiting in some stalled process.

Big companies can be challeging to interview for. So many moving parts that translate into an offer. pre-interview, interview, referrals, manager and exec review, headcount allocation, comp negotiation, etc. etc...

Till about 2006, the lunch "interviewer" was able to put in feedback, but was specifically told that they were not supposed to do it.

Except for some smart alecks who would put in "Candidate held fork in left hand, was neat eater" I never saw anything beyond "n/a" or similar non-feedback. Most often I would see a savvy recruiter pair up the lunch with the referrer so they could catch up with their friend and it would act as the 'sell' part of the interview slate.

SoMa didn't have the ball park yet so it was kinda sketchy anywhere past the highway, and there were a bunch of weird muggings/knifings when a person of the wrong race would go to the wrong bar or place. We knew not to go the Korean club on Harrison. Meth heads would surround the happy donut and south park was a bit of a homeless tent city, and while there were some of the same hotels near the convention center, the west hall hadn't been built yet and it was all kinda run down the way most of moscone is.

I used to do a fair amount of work in the Potrero hill area in 2000 or so and dreaded parking there. Then the bust happened and not only did a lot more parking appear, but many of the good restaurants in that area shuttered almost overnight.

We lived in lower Haight until 1999, and it was okay, if you could roll with a little bit of homeless person screaming in the middle of the night just outside the place we rented. Our cars were broken into a few times and we got a few parking tickets a year but that was the price one paid to live in SF. It largely wasn't worth it. First me, then my soon to be wife got a job in the south bay, we moved to los altos to skip the commute.

The funny thing is the big 'displacement' story in the city around 2000 was the gentrification of the Castro, where older more established gay folks were making it difficult for younger, poorer gay people to find places to live near the Castro (which is sort of the traditional gay nexus in SF)

IMO SF is in much better shape nowadays, and it has a lot to do with the thousands of tech companies in and out of the city employing people who add their money and the rest to the city.

It's a pretty great office too. Lots of happy chicagoans work there.

Yep, it turns out that post Obama's use of Moderator (and then hangouts with moderator) we realized that this was only a taste of what can happen when you have a really popular person using your systems. Yes, I'm talking about Lady Gaga. Made Obama look downright pedestrian.

I think it was during my video interview at OSCON? Who knows...someone should create a website that helps people find things.

That's really nice of you to say that. Thanks!

There's a notion that companies named after their open source project are more likely to succeed commercially than those that are not. So from that perspective, good for MongoDB. Of course I can come up with a number of counter examples....

Here's a paper that we felt answered this question: http://arxiv.org/abs/1304.4595

Like you, I was worried about the snake oil aspects of qc, but ...well, I got over it when I looked into the science of the d-wave implementation and talked with folks like Sergio.

Please note,we're talking about a quantum annealer here, not a full on qc and we're okay with that :-) Also, disclaimer: I'm a googler who worked with our quantum folks and nasa to get the machine in place.

As an FYI, the git repo is here:

https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/omap/+/glass-omap-xr...

I think that tactic will help quite a bit no matter where you might apply, not just Google (though I can confirm it almost always helps to be an active open source developer. It's consistently help us decide positively on a number of candidates.)

Affordability will come, the really difficult problem with the techology from a portable perspective is you need an exceptionally low temperature and very low vibration environment otherwise you'll never anneal.

Yer qubits get too warm and shakey in your pocket...

And don't forget that the larger sizes from vendors vary widely. A Ralph Lauren (black/purple) xl, xlb, xlt, 2xlt and 2xlb fit very different torso shapes and that's just one manufacturer.

Also, monthly auto-clothing deliveries implies a level of replacability for the profitable clothes that would lead me to think they'd look good for a limited amount of time and that quality fabrics and tailoring would be limited. Which then makes me think they're not targeting people with standards and taste so much as people who do not want to think about clothes and that wouldn't be something I'd want to use.

One nit: I'm not seeing an open source license in the repo. This is what would keep me from using or caring about this code snippet or start caring about how the developer was being treated.

Is there one and am I just missing it?

Imagine the trouble we could cause if we could. It would be glorious.

That's actually a fairly awesome idea.

The uptick in 2010 has a lot to do with the introduction of git over http solidifying and I firmly believe that android's use of git, which is extensive and that reliance on git coupled with the rise of the platform pulled an incredible number of developers onto Git and over the learning hump.

If you can find the 'open source updates' from oscon on youtube/oreilly, Shawn Pearce gives an architectural update that will inform your speculations.

It shouldn't even be that expensive. You can designate a single region for way less than that (or at least you could, it's been years since I looked into it) and to trick it into the business press, you need to only add links like Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) to your pr story.

In the late 90s, companies would add ridiculous statements like "company X manages large scale industrial controls in the same vein as GE (NYSE:GE) , HP (NYSE:HPQ) and IBM (NYSE:IBM)" to scam yahoo and other pubs into linking their PR From the popular stock pages. It was very lame.

What I'm getting from this is that Logitech has cancelled the Sqeezebox line, which is too bad, they were nice devices, though admittedly once Logitech took over, I stopped caring as much (they were a local firm in Mountain View across the highway from Google).

The streaming software was pretty good stuff at the time, and open source, hosted here:

http://svn.slimdevices.com/

Someone who cares should fork the software into another repo and look after the project, assuming Logitech isn't interested in maintaining it..

This reminds me of the bear joke: They only had to outrun oracle and adobe...

I'm pretty sure he knew you, I remember when we worked at the same company, we held you in similar high regard :-)