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I think it is mostly young IT worker recruitment ad, and also a 'Women in technology' angle. I personally wouldn't be too happy if my modest contributions as novice described as 'massive improvement for millions of our users'.
You wouldn't be happy if somebody gave you a virtual high five for your work when you were early career?
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I think it is mostly young IT worker recruitment ad, and also a 'Women in technology' angle. I personally wouldn't be too happy if my modest contributions as novice described as 'massive improvement for millions of our users'.
I'd be happy to put, "Implemented compression alghorith that saves the company 1.5PB in data transfer a day." on my CV. That's $15000 a day saved on data traffic. You are worth $5M+ per year now (at the same scale).
Please fix the title, its 1.5 PB, not GB
It says 1.5M GB == 1,5000,000 GB == 1.5 PB
To use an analogy, imagine if someone wrote: "$1.5M B" instead of 1.5 quadrillion or 1,500,000,000,000,000. You'd be confused, and rightly so. A lot of people would mistakenly read it either as $1.5M or $1.5B, neither of which is right.
In this case a lot of people are misreading it as 1.5 GB/Day instead of 1.5 PB/Day.
PS - The way Google uses it in the Blog post is pretty clear, they're describing what a petabyte is. My issue is with the HN title only.
The amount of negativity in the comments section here is astounding. How could you not be excited and happy for this promising young woman's achievement? No, her work will not put her on the shortlist for a Turing Award. But it is something any engineer should be proud of, and has real impact for millions of users. You have a right to be unimpressed, but if you're taking the time to say "So what?" or "This is just a…
Come on. That is so not hip these days. She saved a bunch of PB ? who cares. If only she built a nice shiny js app, now that is something to talk about
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The amount of negativity in the comments section here is astounding. How could you not be excited and happy for this promising young woman's achievement? No, her work will not put her on the shortlist for a Turing Award. But it is something any engineer should be proud of, and has real impact for millions of users. You have a right to be unimpressed, but if you're taking the time to say "So what?" or "This is just a…
I think the reaction arose because of the person being put on the spotlight would not have been so if she have been a male. Meritocracy being part of the dev culture, promoting somebody achieving regular stuff because of the gender is ill-perceived. It's like when you go to a conference, and half of the talks are a promoted minority of some sort but they are not that good. You feel cheated. The fact is there are wome…
That may be true on surface, and it's a good cliche, but ask any woman developer and you'll hear stories you'd never hear from males.
Click bait.
Please fix the title, its 1.5 PB, not GB
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I'd be happy to put, "Implemented compression alghorith that saves the company 1.5PB in data transfer a day." on my CV. That's $15000 a day saved on data traffic. You are worth $5M+ per year now (at the same scale).
But who is exactly? Is she, or are the compression algorithm authors?