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Yea but the root problem lies in Larry's management. Larry gave Vic pure dictatorial powers for Google+ without holding him accountable for real results. They gave him way too much…

I find it ironic that the author is trying to detail core reasons why Google+ failed when they themselves admit they don't use any social media. While I didn't work on the Google p…

Cognizant should be banned from the h-1 program for these type of employee abuses. If they were threatened with something like that, they would actually listen since thats how they…

The biggest problem with slack being used for thoughtful drawn out discussions is that it's UX around recall (i.e. finding a thoughtful discussion you had before) is not good. You …

If they use part of the money to lobby local governments to remove these regulations, it might work.

The problem is that the local governments are not doing their jobs so private industry is stepping in to address the gap (with obviously a biased interest towards their customers, …

I think the Dropbox announcement is a sign that the enterprise has superceded consumer as the 1st priority for Dropbox executives. This makes sense, as essentially they wanted a 10…

I haven't worked at Google in a while. Is this the same Claire Stapleton that was responsible for doing the quirky Company weekly update / TGIF email? If so, it's a bit sad because…

No, options are not the same as shares. Options are a contract that allows you to buy or sell shares at a certain price. The employees are part of the 72 billion. All employees (cu…

There are 80 billion dollars worth of shares that exist. However only 8 billion of those shares were released for the public markets. The remaining 72 billion dollars worth of shar…

This is incorrect. There are lots of cases where profitable companies want to IPO. Specifically the public markets are where you go when you need to raise money at significant leve…

Lol wut, I have a 2 bedroom in the most expensive city in the Bay Area (San Francisco) in one of the most popular neighborhoods in the city and my rent (not rent controlled) is 430…

> The system should never had become so complex as to need a program. Actually there were bills in congress that would have made it so a program wasn't needed because the governmen…

The truth is that almost half of our non-sleeping lives are spent in the workplace. We are inherently social animals (if not the most social animal on the planet). You've pointed o…

Ok, I guess I am out of the loop on the meaning of fascism. However, even if I substitute the word "bullying" the statement doesn't make sense to me: "Google employees protesting t…

Nothing about this has anything to do with the word fascist.

Fascism tends to have these attributes: * dictatorial power * totalitarian one party state * embrace of political violence as a means to silence opposition * strong opposition to M…

What is the correlation between IQ tests and algorithm interviews? Do people with better IQ scores do better on algorithm interviews?

Do you have evidence that Youtube Premium is giving a good ROI to Google? I always thought of it as one of their experiments that they will kill off in the not so distant future.

Obviously you shouldn't log passwords, but what kind of security mechanism have been effective to catch this error? One thing I can think of is have some production test accounts t…

Of course they do, they just value you differently. When companies announce slower growth it impacts their valuation because it impacts the discounted value of their future cash fl…

Yes, one of the biggest drawbacks in the Ruby world is the lack of strong libraries outside of web dev. Python has scrapy, numpy, pandas, nltk, beautifulsoup, matplotlib, etc. Basi…

A majority of the airbnb hosts nowadays are professionally managed ones at this point. I would say out of my last 10 stays, only 2 of them were hosts who actually lived in them. Ai…

I don't think the process is any different from flying. You get out of your transport and take a shuttle to the closest car rental agency. There are tons of car rental agencies in …