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Re: Google accused of racketeering in lawsuit

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Post by eximius »

philipov wrote: post #148
drfuchs wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well, it wasn't the opinion of the editors, but of business leaders; as for the general public, Google still ranks very high: https://www.thebalance.com/retail-brands-with-the-best-reput... and https://www.forbes.com/sites/karstenstrauss/2017/02/28/the-w...

2015 - #10 2014 - #14 2013 - #4 2012 - #2 2011 - #1 This looks like a collapsing reputation to me. Perhaps it hasn't fully collapsed yet, but you can see how big a hit it took recently.

Sagging, maybe. Caused by collapsing moral fortitude, maybe.

But even being on the list means it hasn't collapsed.

Re: Google accused of racketeering in lawsuit

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Post by Aissen »

tyingq wrote: post #151
rebelde wrote: post #136

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This is off-topic, but "no php"?

Guess they would have passed on Facebook then.

And Facebook has written a transpiler to C++, then a new language based on PHP, and a VM for it. Seems like quite an investment.

To over-simplify, Google probably just tunes the Hotspot JVM.

Re: Google accused of racketeering in lawsuit

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Post by tyingq »

Aissen wrote: post #202
tyingq wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Guess they would have passed on Facebook then.

And Facebook has written a transpiler to C++, then a new language based on PHP, and a VM for it. Seems like quite an investment. To over-simplify, Google probably just tunes the Hotspot JVM.

Uh. Google reimplemented all of java for Android. And then invented a whole new language to replace their internal use of C.

And now, of course, dart and flutter, on a new OS to replace the Linux underpinnings.

Re: Google accused of racketeering in lawsuit

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Post by eternalban »

rurban wrote: post #200
eternalban wrote: post #183

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They were not "recursive", as I recall. Care to share a few patterns?

Here is a newer book about such patterns: http://buildz.blogspot.de/2010/12/parametric-design-patterns... Recursive pattern expansion is the most powerful. Think of Lindenmayer L-Systems to generate plants or fractal image compression. Graphical pattern matching would be a breakthrough way to simplify usage if such a tool. This was studied in the late 80ies.

Well, that was patronizing. (I was doing L-system based design in '91 in Arch school. :)

The question to you sir was: which patterns in Alexander's book are "recursive".

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Post by shaftway »

rebelde wrote: post #136
londons_explore wrote: post #122

As a former insider, I can tell you likely pre-story which might cast a different light on this: * Google employee comes up with an idea. * They go and research the idea to check if there are any already existing companies which do it. * If any are found, they meet and decide if they should buy the company, reinvent the idea, or that it isn't relevant. * If, after investigation it is determined the company's tech isn…

This is off-topic, but "no php"?

Disclosure: Current googler

It used to be a deal-killer. It's less of one now, but that's more because they'll acquire a company and have the staff re-invent the project in one of the "blessed" languages (Java, Python, C++, Go) while they run the old code on isolated VMs.

Actually, they do that even if the project was in one of the blessed languages. There's a tech stack my internal project uses that was acquired. We can't use it for certain sensitive data because it's considered "untrusted", which is kind of a pain. We're waiting for the re-write to stabilize so we can move over to that.

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Post by _-david-_ »

londons_explore wrote: post #122

As a former insider, I can tell you likely pre-story which might cast a different light on this: * Google employee comes up with an idea. * They go and research the idea to check if there are any already existing companies which do it. * If any are found, they meet and decide if they should buy the company, reinvent the idea, or that it isn't relevant. * If, after investigation it is determined the company's tech isn…

>no php

Are there other languages Google doesn't like?

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