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I dunno, if you look at the legacy of DigiNotar it seems like you're dealing with a lot of potential headaches for a couple thousand bucks that your customers hate paying you anywa…

It's important to realize this post doesn't make any assertions about the fundamental merits of people who are rejected by Google.

"Google Cloud Security and Compliance Whitepaper" linked elsewhere on this thread: https://storage.googleapis.com/gfw-touched-accounts-pdfs/goo... Relevant bits start at page 12: "…

(I'm a software engineer on Google Drive.) The answer is no. To the point where it's actually a pain in the ass for us because developing any ML-assisted capabilities for G Suite r…

If it makes you feel better: Hospitals of reasonable size typically have an on-site clinical engineering team that handles those kinds of situations. Important (that is, capital ex…

It's weird to me you would treat this state of affairs as a static and universally-holding position. I think it's obvious (with several current examples coming to mind) that invest…

These experiences also exacerbate the perception that I referred to before that can basically be summarized as "every previous attempt at making this better ended up being complete…

Healthcare industry insiders joke: Any theory of the current state of medicine that involves a cardio-thoracic surgeon feeling like they are not completely irreplaceable, one-in-a-…

It reminds me of Moneyball ; in it, the author points out that the statisticians were frustrated by their inability to get traction within the MLB, but their pitch essentially boil…

I was thinking of Andre 3k at the OutKast reunion tour with the "sell out" thing here. I'm also a software engineer at Google and I think our stock price has gone up too? I might b…

The problem with sports analogies is that athletes typically actually matter to the success or failure of their organization, and that's both immediately visible to and recognized …

To be honest I don't think the typical corporate strategy is irrational, either, because employees can be wrong about product and business decisions in exactly the same way that ex…

I don't have the context on the "engagement industry" or whatever that I think I need to appreciate this post as the specific criticism I think it's trying to be, but I think peopl…

You're so low it's actually kind of uncomfortable.

+1000. Working in the warehouse at the bottom of a hospital would get weird sometimes because you had absolutely no indication what time of day it was -- working third shift could …

Binary files (arbitrary example: images used for golden screenshots in tests) have no line counts and are likely skewing the numbers here -- in the way you're (logically) looking t…

I think it's disingenuous to try to appeal to what you see as the norms of "professional IT culture" when Linus founded the Linux community, and with it, its culture. I think invok…