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This seems really dumb! https://foobar.withgoogle.com/staticfiles/js/landing.5252068... : !function(){ "use strict"; function a(){ var a=document.getElementById("login"); a.addEventListener("click",function(a){a.preventDefault(),window.launchPopup()},!1)} window.handleAuth=function(a){ a.logoutUrl ? window.location.href=a.redirectUrl : window.location.reload() }, window.launchPopup=function(){ window.open("/login/","…
I think google should make a system where you can play these puzzles by simply asking to and then agreeing not to share your solutions with anyone. That way, any hacker news people who would like to do so can. Sure people could enable google search history and google random python stuff, but any privacy minded hackers will have that disabled permanently ( as I do ). I'd like to note that I actually googled python lam…
In what sense does "lambda:0" create an empty object? And how is it better than "object()"?
I think google should make a system where you can play these puzzles by simply asking to and then agreeing not to share your solutions with anyone. That way, any hacker news people who would like to do so can. Sure people could enable google search history and google random python stuff, but any privacy minded hackers will have that disabled permanently ( as I do ). I'd like to note that I actually googled python lam…
> attempting to ascertain whether "lambda:0" is really the shortest way to make an empty object in python... In what sense does "lambda:0" create an empty object? And how is it better than "object()"?
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Only the very stupid are fine with Google recording everything they do.
You’d be amazed by the amount of doublethink that even very smart people are capable of, and the extreme and convoluted arguments they give for their position.
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Why do you find it intensely irritating? Google's a massive company that employees all sorts of different professions and types of people. This puzzle isn't targeting you, seems successful to me.
Well, that's rather my point - the kind of people who would find it irritating are almost certainly not the kind of people they would be targeting with such a puzzle anyway. Why do I find it irritating? Because it seems both elitist and adolescent, in a child-like "secret society" sort of way.
That pretty much sums up the people I have met that work in Google engineering. I have only met a few at conferences, but thanks for putting words to the initial feelings I got from them all.
I'm not trolling when I say this, nor am I some sort of hater... But, isn't Google the same company that we're always reading about, the one shaping up to be one of the most evil entities humanity has ever seen? After all, they pretend to protect net neutrality until it's their turn to play ball. They pretend to be pro-freedom, anti-big-brother (maybe you should read a bit about what Julian Assange has to say about L…