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Re: Xg2xg: Lookup table of similar tech and services for ex-Googlers

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Post by puzzle »

bitskits wrote: post #70
mdeeks wrote: post #55

What does Google (or others) use for an intranet or team documentation? We're using Quip and it is just a black hole where documents go to die, never be seen again no matter how badly you want to find it.

Within Google there are several tools, but the most common (and IMO best) is markdown. (Docs is a close second.) Pros: Get's checked in like code, gets reviewed, and leaves a nice paper trial of edits. Cons: Doesn't invite comments/discussions as well as Docs does.

For many years there was also a wiki that just didn't refuse to die. I think that when I left there was yet another attempt going on to migrate the content away from it. Surprisingly, one of the main appeals was that its availability was independent of Google's production environment (Borg, GFS and co.). If Docs or Sites were down, which was slightly more likely inside Google because most employees were on dogfood builds, it was going to be a fun day...

Re: Xg2xg: Lookup table of similar tech and services for ex-Googlers

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Post by anton_kosyakov »

jaytaylor wrote: post #26

Is there something comparable to the web-based IDE called Cider? Now that Amazon took cloud9 (c9.io) out of the market, it seems like there is a sizeable void. I want web-based Spacemacs or Evil! Or even just intelli-j.

You should check out Gitpod (https://www.gitpod.io). It was launched recently and provides disposable, ready-to-code development environments for GitHub projects: https://dev.to/svenefftinge/introducing-gitpod-frictionless-...

IDE is based on Theia (https://theia-ide.org), i.e. VS Code with cloud-first mindset.

Re: Xg2xg: Lookup table of similar tech and services for ex-Googlers

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Post by Insanity »

lazyasciiart wrote: post #64
randomsearch wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn’t the purpose of the free food to make you spend more time at work? Seems logical that the alternative is more time at home.

But it's not free time at home. It's time cooking and meal planning and grocery shopping. And maybe that's with family and friends, but for many people it's probably done alone.

I would expect that for many people, especially those with kids, dinner is a time for getting together with the family.

Re: Xg2xg: Lookup table of similar tech and services for ex-Googlers

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Post by endymi0n »

shereadsthenews wrote: post #19
manojlds wrote: post #14

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Why is the part that k8s uses it funny? That would have been one of the goals right? K8s is like lot of these projects except that it was created as a open source version of borg from within Google.

It’s funny because inside google borgmon is deprecated for new projects and has been since nine years at least. Of course google has stretched “deprecated” to its limits.

A close source told me only half joking that at Google, when you start any new service, you‘ve got the choice between about a dozen backing services, of which half are deprecated and the other half are not officially supported yet...

Re: Xg2xg: Lookup table of similar tech and services for ex-Googlers

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Post by hopler »

jaytaylor wrote: post #44
kajecounterhack wrote: post #36

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Cloud9 is still there https://aws.amazon.com/cloud9/?origin=c9io

Now with that AWS lock-in, no thanks. It only serves as a reminder of how early adopters get burned, similar though not as bad as the whole FoundationDB->Apple fiasco; that one affected me personally and drove home this lesson. I don't enjoy being the insect who claimed a tall blade of grass only to be mowed down first. If you value your time and value stability, don't use closed-core tools.

What is the lockin? What do you lose if you migrate your c9 to AWS c9?

Re: Xg2xg: Lookup table of similar tech and services for ex-Googlers

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Post by hopler »

Insanity wrote: post #83
lazyasciiart wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But it's not free time at home. It's time cooking and meal planning and grocery shopping. And maybe that's with family and friends, but for many people it's probably done alone.

I would expect that for many people, especially those with kids, dinner is a time for getting together with the family.

That's the fantasy, yes. In reality, a professional working parent usually gets home after the kids eat.

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Post by hopler »

paxys wrote: post #39
bloomer wrote: post #29

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So do you get to go home 45-90 minutes earlier then? I think that is what the original comment was questioning.

"Free food" mainly means free breakfast, lunch, coffee and snacks. Hardly anyone I know stays late for dinner.

Are you over 30? Dinner is big for young/single people who don't want to cook/clean or go out every day, and who like to sleep late.

Re: Xg2xg: Lookup table of similar tech and services for ex-Googlers

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Post by hopler »

andreareina wrote: post #57
QuercusMax wrote: post #25

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Not sure why you think free food is traded for free time. Free food helps me use my time at work more effectively. I usually have breakfast and lunch with teammates, and it's a mix of socialization and work-related conversations. Half an hour in the free cafe > 45-90 minutes going someplace to buy food.

Personal preference obviously but I like getting away from work for lunch. After eating if it's nice out I'll actually just sit myself on a bench and chill. 15, 30 minutes doing that is worth so much more to me than leaving work that much earlier.

You can do that with a free lunch too.

Re: Xg2xg: Lookup table of similar tech and services for ex-Googlers

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Post by romka2 »

There is no listed equivalent of RecordIO. What do people use for high-reliability journals?

When I needed something like RecordIO to store market data, I couldn't find anything. So I implemented https://github.com/romkatv/ChunkIO. I later learned of https://github.com/google/riegeli (work in progress), which could've saved me a lot of time if only I found it earlier. I think my ChunkIO is a better though.

Re: Xg2xg: Lookup table of similar tech and services for ex-Googlers

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Post by Insanity »

hopler wrote: post #86
Insanity wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would expect that for many people, especially those with kids, dinner is a time for getting together with the family.

That's the fantasy, yes. In reality, a professional working parent usually gets home after the kids eat.

I feel like this might depend on the culture, and how late you usually eat dinner etc..

Because well, kids usually don't tend to cook for themselves so the parents end up cooking for them and eating with them.

That might be my bubble though, my friends / family have jobs that allow them to leave work around 5-ish and with school ending somewhere between 4-5, it's not that much after the kids are home. (or they pick up the kids after school).

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