So she did this for free? :D please tell me this is a paid internship!
No, Google interns are paid more than most devs in Europe.
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#13There isn't much information but this reads more like an advertisement for google internships than anything else. Not to denigrate her work, she could very well be brilliant and have gone above and beyond, but from how it reads they could be blowing it up to make it seem like every intern has a huge impact and you could too! Either way good for her, but not sure why this is so high up on HN.
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#14Why she doesn't wear a Pied Piper t-shirt?
However, I'm more interested if the Erick's position is still vacant in the venture? (Jin Yang's will work as well for first 2 years, I suppose).
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#15Can we get her to work for DropBox? Every time my iPad GoodReader syncs my 1,000+ papers, it has to check every file. It boggles the mind that they don't support some version of change records.
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#16So she did this for free? :D please tell me this is a paid internship!
Unpaid internships are illegal, if the intern is doing real work for the company. https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs71.htm
> Unpaid internships are illegal
Sorry venerable Sir, what planet you're talking about?
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#17So she did this for free? :D please tell me this is a paid internship!
Unpaid internships are illegal, if the intern is doing real work for the company. https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs71.htm
just want to point out that your link explicitly refutes your statement. They are not illegal and you linked to a test about legality of unpaid internships:
> There are some circumstances under which individuals who participate in “for-profit” private sector internships or training programs may do so without compensation.
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#18This page is consistently crashing my Firefox content process. I'm running 51.0.1 64-bit on Win10. Anyone else having this problem?
Look in about:crashes, you can click the links and see if there is already a bug filed for it. Given that you're on release and this is a Google blog rather than an obscure site, it's unlikely to be a problem in Firefox itself. Check gfx drivers, plugins, etc.
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#19So she used a compression algorithm developed by other googlers? So what?
Don't get me wrong, I'm sure she did a lot of work for it, but looks like a lot of people would have been able to do that, there is nothing innovative in what she did, right?
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
Unpaid internships are illegal, if the intern is doing real work for the company. https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs71.htm
Not in the United Kingdom. Although I'd imagine Google pay their interns
I did miss that it was in London, but I'm still surprised that there is some form of worker protection law that the US has that the UK doesn't.