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I suspected this might get downvoted and wanted to make clear I'm not demeaning the 90% of Google developers, but I failed, so I deserved the downvote. Just to make it clear I'm aw…

True, and a fine line which is hard to judge from the seats we sit in. But I agree that a US company cannot be associated with the Kremlin or Beijing or Riad in 2017 without conseq…

Sure, but aren't we forgetting that Russia is like China in that over a certain size of business you are in no way able to operate unless you are in agreement or cozy (more busines…

Thanks. Basically I want the sturdy laptop backpack you got from HP 10 years ago with a clever way to pack clothes and ideally waterproof bottom (rubber/plastic) so that I don't wo…

True and the more surprising aspect is that to land a develop position at Google you need to be on top of all CS theory and fresh in memory, just to unlearn everything and use Go f…

Is the difference to Chinese and Saudi money floating in the valley that we expect violent repercussions for anyone that opposes some aspect of the financiers' wishes? Or is it jus…

If Java had good AOT and fast startup coupled with comparable initial GC heap sizes, it could have had a better chance at fighting off Go. Java will not go away and many teams that…

Past experience makes me wary to risk spending that much and be disappointed two trips later. Lifetime doesn't mean they give money back if unsatisfied, except one or two companies…

And it's made thinly veiled racist agenda mass acceptable as seen in this year's CSU (and to some extent CDU) communications. I'm scared a little, to be honest, though I continue t…

Am I alone in finding it unsurprising but unfortunate that all those addons to the official go toolchain are created by everyone to paper over the limitations of the Google Go impl…

Go is becoming the new Java from what I can tell so it's good to know enough to find your way around and patch a Go project if needed. Being the new Java, despite being less expres…

> Graal, Truffle, SubstrateVM, Sulong Is there a succinct explanation as to what those four projects are and how they would be combined in the hypothetical implementation you menti…

I'm not a bag geek, but I know firsthand how hard it is to find the right bag, if you care about functionality more than form. For instance, I still haven't found the right carry o…

It's ironic since there are more content creators now if we count all the users of the silos. My theory is that it's all about convenience and network effects. So if a fully decent…

Didn't Google try to solve that with circles. I never used Facebook or any other "social network", so I'm probably unaware of some details, but I read about circles when Google+ ca…

I know, but how come we have now people from AfD in parliament in Berlin who openly gave interviews and public talks where they proclaimed the state and existing system has to be r…

tl;dr: good idea, but not applicable to many FOSS developers due to local laws. Please keep in mind that the legal complexity of accepting donations prevents many of us from doing …

When I visited the R&D center of a German car manufacturer, we were checked at reception and needed special permission to carry the devices we had with us for the presentation we w…

I know what you mean, but for this to be more widely used than Tor there is a need for me to know that nodes I operate only process stuff that won't be identified by 3rd party to s…

For that purpose I would think optional whitelisting would make more sense. Instead of spyware lists you subscribe to in uBlock Origin, you would subscribe to a vetted, whitelist o…

Yev, would you ever consider opening the software and hardware design of the vault? It seems that you could lead this and give the industry a standard way, with vendors producing t…

These things are very hard to find concrete data about for outsider, which I am one of, but at least nVidia has published that they're building their new Falcon controller chips ba…

Hah, I never understood the appeal of AARCH64 either. It's not like it's some super clean ISA or that they won't run into similar power-vs-IPC conumdrums when they start to create …

> Your other comment about NFLX makes you seem suspiciously and hilariously like a sock-puppet account so I can't actually be candid on that now. I really wondered why they didn't …