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What is an example of these absurd hoops you talk of, w.r.t the google interview process specifically? I just went through the process and had a much more positive experience, so i…

>> If a bird shits on your hand will you use paper or water to clean it ? >That's a misleading analogy. Do you eat off your butt? If I got bird poo on my bare foot, I'd wipe it off…

> Some people criticized anesthesia as a “needless luxury”; clergymen deplored its use to reduce pain during childbirth as a frustration of the Almighty’s designs. It’s become fash…

Around query pricing, my understanding is BigQuery charges by bytes scanned uncompressed. Redshift Spectrum/Athena charges by bytes scanned compressed. That makes Athena/Spectrum c…

I’m not the author of the post. Your comment assumes a well known schema. My understanding from the post is that this solution can join and filter on “custom” datasets of arbitrary…

I assume CloudSQL is google’s alternative to AWS RDS. Less of an excuse to not make the setting user configurable when the competition (AWS) does.

“You can only request that they call you.” Sounds like exactly why Amazon is much better. They don’t put you on hold, and there’s no IVR menu to suffer through.

This, if done maliciously, is a valid DOS attack vector known as Slowloris/SlowPost attacks. I know it’s easier said than done, but there should be active mitigation in place, rath…

> because that is who America has designated as their community support system. This seems unjustified. Your statement assumes (a) Support systems in the community are run only by …

I knew of Prince Rupert’s drop before[1]. Reading about Prince Rupert’s cube sent me down the rabbit-hole of reading up on Prince Rupert himself. Why do we no longer have Renaissan…

Can’t speak to Azure, but why is this difficult on AWS? You can stop and restart your instances, and you’ll be charged only when they’re running. Your data will need to be on EBS v…

AWS. t2.Micro instance = $15 monthly. EBS Cold HDD 1 TB = $26 monthly. With the free tier, the T2 instance is free the first year. Plus, all the cloudy goodness of EBS Snapshots fo…

Indian currency is not on the Gold Standard.

What makes Krakow inherently better than say, Bangalore? Not snark, just asking.

The level of national discourse in India has reached such a low point that questioning or raising doubts about any of the government's policies/actions leads to one being labelled …

Here's an interesting trip down the rabbit hole - Kerala, the state mentioned in the article, is surprisingly distinct from the rest of India. It has some of the highest literacy r…

The reason these videos appeal to people is because it returns some power back to the customer being mistreated. Any fairly frequent flier will have horror stories of being mistrea…

That's too simplistic. While individual people need not be rational, a better theory is that society as a whole is largely rational when taking into account disruptions due to caus…

It is possible you see better representation of both genders in a society where people choose their career based on potential ROI. Fewer societies allow its people to truly choose …

Thank you for [1], I found the transcribed interview wonderful. However, I did not read his words as taking "perverse pride in being illiterate" but rather more of being happy with…