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In my experience, yes. It's not that they don't look for things with practical results. It's just that there's no incentive to continue beyond the point where you demonstrate the c…

Google Data Center Security video from 2011: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SCZzgfdTBo It's probably not going to stop heavily armed invaders, but nobody's going to sneak onto the…

It can be objectively measured. Tubes tend to produce even harmonics, which are pleasing to the human ear. The even harmonics sound like octaves of the original pitch, creating a r…

I grew up in Mississippi playing Peavey gear dreaming of designing it. Now, I have a PhD in electrical and computer engineering. I don't do audio electronics, but I might not have …

So, they replaced the plastic bottle of water with a plastic bottle of flavored water-like beverage. Sounds like an environmental win to me.

I purchased my Civic hybrid as insurance. At the time, gas was $4.65/gal, so I decided to take the chance. Turns out that it was the peak in 2008. You win some, you lose some. The …

Maybe I'm getting old, picky, arrogant, or some other malady, but I am simply uninterested in working at a company that asks these types of riddles. There are many more practical w…

While I appreciate the inductive nature of this problem, this problem is more likely to demonstrate that the candidate has done a Google search for interview questions ( http://www…

Cyberspace: I'd purchase the last 20 songs I bookmarked on Pandora.com. Meatspace: I'd go play skeeball with my wife.

It is unnecessary to work that hard at it to enjoy it. SC2 matches you against players of equivalent skill level. It may be an ego bruise to be in the bronze level instead of plati…

No, it is not a myth, but you have to take the initiative.

Fallout 3 had no sense of moral ambiguity and limited dialogue options. More importantly, it didn't have an ending that you create for yourself. I felt robbed when it showed what I…

I organized and hosted their recruiting talk at my university. They thought it was handled very professionally and fast tracked my resume.

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> buy a bigger memory chip per unit, adding one dollar to the cost -> charge $1 extra for your $300 unit Devices containing little enough memory where techniques like this are usef…

177 x 50 terminal window + ssh + GNU screen + side-by-side emacs (C-x 3, M-x ansi-term) I use a MacBook Pro with a persistent screen session on my Linux desktop. I could use my Lin…

I also find this a sensitive subject. I always thought that the learning process was held up by the need to constantly reinforce things I learned a long time ago. For example, elec…

> Who wants to go to the suburbs!? People who like space between them and their sociopathic neighbors? I had a passive-aggressive downstairs neighbor who would never tell me if I w…

Among my team within Google, the people with kids live in the South or East Bay. Those without live in San Francisco. The only ones I know living on the peninsula just moved to the…

Sometimes they don't even bother having you sign up. I had a bottle of this crap show up in my mailbox about a year ago indicating that I had two weeks to cancel my subscription be…

From http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2010/02/22/googl... “These fuel cells aren’t powering any off-site data centers,” said a Google spokesperson. “Instead, Bloom fuel …

They did. The guy who wrote moderator originally works on data center power management, so they recently hired somebody else to clean it up for public consumption.

Google doesn't ask questions like these. In fact, they train interviewers to _not_ ask questions like these.

They have me a copy of that book during my orientation at Google, along with a series of other books on the core languages used within Google. Obviously, it's up to every engineer …