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commenterelevenon Dark side of a Valley software engineer

The important bit from that page is:

"I am on-call about 10 days per quarter, usually 3 shifts of 3-4 days each. I am paid extra for my on-call (after-hours) work, but not at my full hourly salary because I only work when there are problems after hours (e.g. on weekends or late at night.)".

Note that depending on the exact team, Software Engineers at Google may also be part of an on-call rotation.

commenterelevenon Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository

OK, interesting point of view.

Can you justify it with examples?

commenterelevenon Pastejacking

"Note that if I can get you to "su and say" something just by asking, you have a very serious security problem on your system and you should look into it."

- Paul Vixie, vixie-cron INSTALL file (https://github.com/rhuitl/uClinux/blob/master/user/vixie-cro...)

commenterelevenon Reversing the Petya ransomware with constraint solvers

I think you're talking about unreal mode.

http://wiki.osdev.org/Unreal_Mode

commenterelevenon Optimizing C++ Const Objects in LLVM

Would that mean not being able to use const in unions?

commenterelevenon You can't defend public libraries and oppose file-sharing

He claims that these are not copyright royalties, but rather a cultural grant.

commenterelevenon The gimp.org domain has expired

It looks fine to me? What are you talking about?

commenterelevenon Google Launches Sidewalk Labs

The main devices that Google devs use - Nexus devices - do not have a menu button.

And I guess they think that the three dot menu is ugly or something.

commenterelevenon Google Launches Sidewalk Labs

Vaporware is when you promise a product and fail to deliver on it.

They have not announced a product yet, only a research area.

commenterelevenon GitHub under ongoing DDoS attack

I think you meant "(arse|ass)?holes".

commenterelevenon Images that fool computer vision raise security concerns

This reminds me of this tool-assisted speedrun: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOfcvPf-22k

The image recognition in Brain Age is obviously much simpler, but it's still basically the same idea.

commenterelevenon XKCD: Meeting

Yet he has one finger on the pulse of the internet-nation, as evidenced by the previous comic: http://xkcd.com/1492/

commenterelevenon Startup jobs with low salary and negligible equity, what gives?

That's exactly the point.

commenterelevenon µBlock for Firefox

They claim that when the extension gets added to addons.mozilla.org, it would start to auto-update.

commenterelevenon On the new Snowden documents

Snowden was low-level, but he was basically an admin doing migration to a new system. His job description required the access he was given.

Additionally, one of the lessons learned from the 9/11 attacks was that keeping data too "Need to Know" might prevent people who actually need to know information from knowing about it.