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Exactly right. I'm still waiting for Eric Schmidt and the other Google execs involved in this to issue a public apology. What was Google's motto again? Don't be what? Disclaimer: I…

I've never claimed to be Rachel Whetstone. Where did you get that from? If you prove that I lied about Victoria Lease resigning because of sexual harassment I'll close my account. …

A lot of recruiters at Google are temps and will lie through they're teeth in order to get candidates interested. Google still has a reputation of being an amazing workplace. This,…

Google is just a bunch of hypocrites. Do you remember what happened when they're new ReCaptcha was reverse engineered? Let me remind you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=87283…

> This article read like a paid Google App engine advert. Yeah, that was my impression too. The fact is: Google is really afraid of AWS. Google knows that it's several quarters beh…

Not every Google employee is part of the sect. Some of us have our own opinions outside of what Google's PR-bullshit department comes up with. Disclaimer: I work for TAGA (The Arro…

>This is just completely false. Google has just as much backstabing and infighting at the exec level as an company out there. Of course it does. And much more then people outside o…

Very much this. There's a huge difference between what people think working for Google is like, and what it is actually like. If you get hired you will end up working on boring mai…

Nothing to see here. Just an idiot with more money than sense, like many of the top execs at Google. Disclaimer: I work for the arrogant Google hypocrites.

Nothing at all; this was a decision made by the Hangouts team. The XMPP change has to do with the NIH syndrome a lot of Google engineers suffer from, combined with the incompetence…

And where does most of Mozilla's funding come from? Google. As long as that's the case it can never be truly independent. I wish they found an alternate source of cash that allowed…

I agree that the settlement is mainly about damage control. I also think the company most affected by said negative PR is Google. I'm still waiting for Eric to apologize to the rec…

Firefox is Free software, Chrome is proprietary and made by the company that employs this guy: http://mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com/post/84829703425/r... I know what I'd choos…

The privacy concern is a very real one. Also, see: http://mostlysignssomeportents.tumblr.com/post/84829703425/r...

There's always going to be some conflict of interest when the company who builds the OS is the same one that runs the advertising platform.

There's plenty of people who still believe that, even inside of Google. Then there's the group of employees, known as the 'memegen consenus', who have come to realize that Google i…

This POWER8 board has been in development for a long time and will only be used if it turns out to be cheaper then the Intel/AMD alternatives. The platforms team at Google is also …

Do you really want to work for a company ran by criminals? Why aren't Jonathan Rosemberg and Eric Schmidt in jail? Fuck them and fuck the entire legal team at Google! Disclaimer: I…

That depends on your contract. And unfortunately those contracts are legal. I gave up working on open source projects as I'd rather that code didn't exist then having to surrender …

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