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as did the Google recruiters and HR people I spoke to before accepting the job :)

It was certainly executive-level pricing :) To answer your question, I don't know. The wait list was well over a year, and it was many many times more expensive than other childcar…

The daycare wasn't free, at least not when I started in early 2007, and the waiting list was huge. It wasn't presented that way through my long interview process where the benefits…

As someone who was there start of 2007 to end of 2010, this resonated. My first two years were very different to the last two.

I lost 50 pounds in under 200 days, and then another 20 over the next year. Here's what worked for me: * Calorie counting to work out baselines * Accept the feeling of being hungry…

VP of Product Director of Product These titles both exist...

My interview for Google as an SRE in late 2009 consisted of well over half design questions around improvements of a system with lots of users. One of the best series of questions …

At least part of the complication is that overseas equivalents of 401k funds that may be mandatory to contribute to are often considered to be bank accounts by the IRS.

Excellent, thanks. Hopefully we'll see tools like Cloudability support it then. I'll check it out again, really the frustrating management aspect was the lack of org oversight over…

There are some great aspects to Google Compute, but I hope this change results in catch up on features needed for corporate adoption compared to AWS. The lack of a billing API and …

My understanding is that they didn't do a write API due to fear of automated spam and poor S/N ratios.

It's not just that, looking through my current and past entries some of these records just aren't correct, and don't even match the data provided on LCAs etc.

Not right, but not entirely wrong either. The process for an internal, expedited H1b transfer is significantly simpler than an H1b from scratch.

I think they're ruling out hyphenating. Cooke-Bell and Bell-Cooke.

Not sure if you're the one who changed it, but the " Trapperkeeper is a new Clojure framework [...]" title works fine and is much less misleading imho.

Your comments apply to the HN link text, not the article or headline. Puppet Labs isn't a single language company.

What are you finding unreliable in terms of tooling for Puppet on Windows?

This is a very ordinary problem, and it's usually solved like this with Puppet: Specify the service declaratively, and subscribe it to the package that provides the payload. servic…

Maybe it was open source software and/or he went through a simple CLA process?

Thanks for the feedback andyl. We're thinking very much about the direction of embedding all dependencies, but we're also conscious of the needs of the Linux distros, who don't pac…

We very much encourage people to use the package repositories we host: http://docs.puppetlabs.com/guides/puppetlabs_package_reposit... Are you suggesting we should drop gem support…

Great news Mitch! Congratulations, and give us a yell if I can help with anything.

I'd love to see more details about this. You may not return to this comment, but nigel@puppetlabs.com would love to chat about what you're doing here.

In Australia where in many ways it felt like we were second-hand consumers of UK rave/dnb culture, the "digital" was a big part of that experience in the early 90s. Think of all th…

And here you've nicely summarized why I think I've seen so many technically-inclined philosophy grads working as sysadmins... Totally a case of selection bias, given I'm one of tho…