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These are beginning to pop up. A couple of ex-Google chefs started Gastronaut ( http://www.gastronautsf.com/ ), and I swear I saw something about YC funding a similar concept recently but I can't for the life of me find the name.
Were you thinking of ZeroCater? http://www.zerocater.com/
One correction and one comment: The article says cafeterias are available 24/7. That is not technically correct. The cafeterias are open for various meals on various days (eg one might do breakfast and lunch 5 days a week, another might do lunch 5 days a week and dinner 4 days a week). What are available 24/7 are the micro-kitchens, which have coffee machines, breakfast cereal, various snacks, sodas, ice tea, etc. It…
There's a vending machine in 43, second floor.
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Does Google have a culture of pranks/hacks? It certainly makes sense, but I've never really heard anything about it
Yes, some places more than others, though. It's not highly generally highly publicized. That is, other than the "offical" April Fool's jokes. Googlers LOVE April Fool's day, and there's generally a solid handful of nonpublic April Fool's day jokes on campus. But there's also just random pranks. Some I'm aware of: - Everyone's photos on the internal people database (available on an internal website) showed up with eit…
- For April Fools day this year, the internal corp login page rick-rolled everyone.
- Larry Page has this crusade to make meetings more efficient, so all around campus are these posters that say things like "All meetings should have a single decider" or "Meetings should not have more than 10 people". Well, soon after, a bunch of posters appeared saying motivational things like "You're building the future. Make it awesome." I couldn't tell if this was a very subtle troll or a well-intentioned but ultimately condescending attempt at motivating people, but in either case, the response is the same: troll harder. So with a couple friends, we put up posters that said things like "Read slogans", "You will do whatever this poster says", or "All meetings require a unicorn and a pony." Well, sure enough, after a couple days another round of posters went up that said things like "Red" (on a yellow poster) or similar absurdities. Then a day or so after that, another round of posters went up with "The posters will continue until morale improves."
- (I was on the same team as Scotty, but a couple years later, so we didn't overlap except socially.) When we got back from a team retreat in Pittsburgh, our work area was all cordoned off with police tape, with all the furniture turned upside down, courtesy of the people who hadn't gone.
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Well technically, sugar costs more per calorie than fat. As one gram of sugar is 4 calories and one gram of fat is 9 calories.
Right, but it's not the total calories that folks like me and mslyuter are worried about. Sugar and other carbs, when digested, raise blood sugar levels, which in turn raises insulin. Then, blood sugar gets sucked into fat cells and converted into fat simply because of the insulin. So those calories don't even get a chance to be used in their original form before they're stored as fat. IMO the various ways blood suga…
The only place on the campus where employees pay for food is from a vending machine. The pricing strategy is based on nutrient content, again according to the Harvard pyramid plan. For the vended products, you pay: one cent per gram of sugar two cents per gram of fat four cents per gram of saturated fat one *dollar* per gram of trans fat That's very cool. I'd love to see this concept get wider usage.
Unfortunately it seems to penalize people who choose to eat more fat vs. carbs.
If Alice and Berta both choose to consume exactly 2000 calories a day, but Alice chooses a low-fat diet while Berta chooses a low-carb one, then Berta will pay less according to that system. So it's not really a problem that sugar costs less; low-fat diet are still cheaper.
One correction and one comment: The article says cafeterias are available 24/7. That is not technically correct. The cafeterias are open for various meals on various days (eg one might do breakfast and lunch 5 days a week, another might do lunch 5 days a week and dinner 4 days a week). What are available 24/7 are the micro-kitchens, which have coffee machines, breakfast cereal, various snacks, sodas, ice tea, etc. It…
In Chicago, * There are no scooters or bikes * The cafeteria is only open for breakfast and lunch * The microkitchens are slightly smaller but very similar to the ones in MTV. There are a lot of "healthy" options but the choice is less eclectic. So depending on your office YMMV.
Google has an office in Mota Lava?
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Insulin is secreted every time you eat. It's not a bad thing, it's a very fundamental part of regulating your blood sugar. (Ask someone with type I diabetes -- it's a royal pain to control blood sugar manually.) It's released whether you're active, sedimentary, eating a healthy diet, or junk food. When you eat breakfast in the morning, you're most certainly replenishing glycogen. While you sleep, it's the primary sou…
So... there's no such thing as too much insulin?