theDoug

This is nonsense.

The opening statements of the quarterly public analyst calls give a lot of good direction. I don't think anyone would be foolish enough to blab an actual breakdown for this, Alphabet- or Cloud-wide.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31_KHdse_0Y

Employee counts via Form 10-K releases (as of EoY each year):

2013: 47,756 (too lazy to look earlier)

2014: 53,600 (+12.2% YoY)

2015: 61,814 (+15.3% YoY)

2016: 72,053 (+16.5% YoY)

2017: 80,110 (+11.1% YoY)

2018: 98,771 (+23.2% YoY)

Source: https://abc.xyz/investor/

This does not include contractor, temp, and vendors

Came here to make the same observation. Good on teams at Microsoft to not allow themselves to make a "we're more reliable than G Suite" joke.

"We must keep fighting for the kind of world we want to live in. On this #DataPrivacyDay let us all insist on action and reform for vital privacy protections. The dangers are real and the consequences are too important." - Tim Cook today in what is now a bit ironic

https://mobile.twitter.com/tim_cook/status/10900017677801799...

Okay, I'll bite. With no updates since April 2017, why re-share this today and now?

Here is a link also to the legal page, last updated February 2017. Why am I sharing it? Also a mystery for others to solve, I guess. https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/

Yes

Reading the article beyond the neat little graph tells you of California's plans. Governments and companies make long term investments in their own structure over multiple years. This is also the basis of the bond market.

The areas Apple runs to add and improve (AR, 3D face emojis, lotta camera depth work) keep landing in stark contrast to basics like this for me.

I'm still waiting, for almost a decade now, to have two (or more) countdown timers run simultaneously without a 3rd party app. Cooking two items at once continues to fall behind on the Cupertino priority list to tracking dozens of World Clocks to the second.

Yes? This is a basis of fraud and confidence schemes. Especially when it will enrich you.

An area it's being spent on is rent at properties largely owned by property firms.

In the case of the building I live in (in "downtown" Sunnyvale), the three front office workers and two maintenance persons come nowhere near making a dent in the $4.5 million in income this one property earns yearly. Can't speak to the wages of the staff in the other >12 buildings in the portfolio, but the folks keeping this place running aren't driving Teslas.

This post, and posts about this post, have been reshared plenty since 2011. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=yegge&sort=byPopularity&prefix...

You didn't release any data to verify and this is clearly a product pitch in the form of a Medium post, so I guess my response is "Oh. Okay"

Edit: Transcription[0] seems really poor, but I guess they're just checking for mentions of the advertiser's name and not anything like sentiment or actually matching ad copy (where there would be higher value to advertisers).

0: https://podcast-app.magellan.ai/advertisements/b8f65c87-4c66...

Am I reading correctly that they're including LinkedIn as Cloud revenue?

Yeah, congratulations to everyone who called it ages ago or pointed out that a CEO is going to put HQ2 near an already established home.

Good work on 6+ months of press and making cities embarrass themselves for what seemed obvious from the start.

https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/real-estate/news/a...

For perspective, $7Bn is 1.25x Qualcomm's quarterly revenue. This is a big gap.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/25/qualcomm-earnings-q3-2018.ht...

There are many differences. This location is also thousands of miles from Santa Cruz. I'm not understanding why you selected this as a point of comparison?

3400 words about how one person smuggled in a book to read, instant coffee, M&Ms, and champagne-soaked gummy bears, and somehow still half-thought it was _the ashram_ that was "total bullshit."

Dupe of most of these five posts: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=google%2B&sort=byPopularity&pr...

This "feature not a product" belief only makes sense if you pretend that the product doesn't provide the answer sought by its primary user and as byproduct produces a truly real-time stream/map of what music-enjoying people are interested in finding out more about.

This data would be incredibly valuable to companies trying to market and sell music. Like labels, and now, Apple. Not to mention keeping that data now out of the hands of others.

Highly duplicated post.

Number of employees was 89,058 as of June 30, 2018. This does not include temps, vendors, or contractors.

And in my experience as a current employee, it sure seems so. Just as someone who left years ago can juice attention and their job prospects by writing a Medium.com post or making a YouTube video referencing once working at Google, it's increasingly tedious to see anything done internally, most of which is kind of boring, reported with excitement.

But again, congratulations to whatever dumb leaker wanted to make a point out of some random email this week.

Source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1652044/000165204418...

I know we deprecated the prediction API with a year's warning while bringing out Cloud ML Engine. And Cloud SQL changed a bit when the second generation came in and supported MySQL, PostgreSQL and more.

Can't think of others off the top of my head, so that is two if we want to consider major upgrades "abandoned." Perception often doesn't match objective fact.

(Disclosure: I work at GCP)

This is correct, they rejected anyone but top officials.

https://www.law.com/2018/09/04/after-senate-intelligence-com...

(Disclosure: I work at Google)

I bought a couple 2019 core sets and some boosters a month ago, first time I've owned Magic in twenty years. It's weird how it manages to sit in the back of the mind, just waiting for the curiosity to return.

User selection is what makes modern news on the web helpful.

I'm also curious what what defines 'regular news'? What if it's from a finance-focused paper like the WSJ versus my local daily? To wit, why separate stock from weather from sports? Why not all news from all places at once?

Seriously. This is about as newsworthy or controversial as when I ask the assistant to tell me something interesting or a joke.

Wild, and to think they both share the same heir the moment they adopt me.

I don't deny your experience, but it doesn't match mine. I am able to confirm 15 orders over the last two years higher than $50, the highest landing at $73.

Unless we're to believe the app is detecting multiple users surreptitiously and has an opinion on them, group orders / a phone being passed around seems irrelevant, but also not within my personal experience.

(Zip: 94086, and I love Indian leftovers from Ulavacharu, usually individual orders)

I wonder why the media new cycle keeps making him say outlandish stuff! What do the majority of other company CEOs have over the entire industry and Twitter to somehow appear to be quietly doing their job?