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Industrial espionage or other type of work to gain access to confidential information is one that hasn't been brought up.

It is the case. Almost all of their scaled support is from overseas most of which are not Google employees. They pay other companies to manage these folks. That 85K employee headcount is only the FTE count. The number of non-FTEs is crazy.

There have been multiple and ongoing studies that show reading to your child helps develop multiple parts of the brain, including auditory processing capabilities that are essential to early reading development. The diversity of words matter, even the positive nature as opposed to negative tone of words matters.

https://www.greatschools.org/gk/articles/word-gap-speak-more... is one article that discusses some options but the original study can be found here:

http://www.aft.org//sites/default/files/periodicals/TheEarly...

There have been follow on studies discussed here

https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2015/04/22/key-to-vocabul...

That show it also has to do with the diversity of words, and even their tone (the positive vs negative) that is a key driver towards how well they engage and grow.

Or you have family/friends that aren't very technical and don't know any better. I saw people's faces change as soon as someone mentioned where I worked to others in my circle while I was at Google. I had never seen that before. It was weird at first and then I just accepted it. Then having to explain why I wanted to/did leave there was just a major PITA.

I'd be lying if there wasn't some reservation or me doubting myself a bit at first when I realized I just wasn't happy there and needed to get out and I'd also be lying if I said some of it wasn't because of the above reaction of family/friends.

Keep in mind that most people don't actually store the full 1TB of data.

It really comes down to supply and demand. In areas where there is a shortage of supply of workers that have a particular skill that businesses value wages do rise. However, if there is plenty of supply for certain kinds of jobs then the market will not pay them as much.

I do think that automation/increased productivity plays a part if you automate things out where more people are now capable of doing a particular job it will deflate the wage of that role since there is a greater supply that can now perform that role.

On a mid-range or long-range trip with the family I don't really care about the exterior unless we're talking Aztek level ugly. Minivans are super useful and they've been focusing on family oriented interiors for a long time. I can take the seats out and haul a ton of stuff back there too. They also beat SUVs for the utility aspect in most situations.

How did you get to bragging about one's education/experience? Or that someone needs to control their ego?

First, how is it anti-trust? And second, it's been shown that faster page loads = better conversions since your bounce rate drops. This is especially true for mobile.

So early 40s here, hired at Google after I turned 40 into a senior individual contributor role. My team has a healthy mix of greybeards, middle aged and younger team members. There are some teams that definitely lean younger here and there are teams that lean older too. A lot of it seems to depend on the areas they are in and the projects they work on. Your assertions don't match my experiences at all here.

It's FB and GOOG that account for 99% of growth, not just FB.

So I have none of those frustrations as a 2016 GTI owner. Google Maps is wayyyy better than the built-in nav. If I searched for an address on my phone or even my laptop the address is already in my list of recent addresses in Maps and I don't have to even voice search for it. Although voice searching rocks and I dread having to enter an address in my wife's Odyssey nav interface through their knob interface. Then there is traffic routing which is also way better than what comes with the built-in nav. I can voice search and call a business from the same interface while I'm en-route as well.

I do wish that they would add the ability to have a real weather app in the ecosystem. After moving from the west coast to the midwest where they actually have real weather that can be spotty and fast moving it'd be really nice to be able to pull up an up-to-date weather radar view to see what's coming at me.

Now, there are the bugs....such as occasionally when I call someone it switches to the speaker on my phone vs. my car which is really annoying. It used to crash on a semi-occasional basis but I haven't seen that since I upgraded to a Pixel. Occasionally I do have to reboot the phone when it fails to connect. That is probably the most annoying one.

Looks to probably just be a banned word list as alternate/phonetic spellings get through their filter. phuck.to, kok.to, etc.

Did I miss something or an edited post? Where does the parent mention anything about politics or their views on this?

Your electricity is probably a lot cheaper in Washington also and I'm assuming they have local rate information to factor in. Electricity is very expensive in California especially if you use PG&E since they use a tiered rate structure that goes from .12 - .50 cents. And very little of your usage is actually in that 12 cent tier for most people. In states like that I would imagine your solar roof could potentially pay for itself.

Solar leases use the 2% inflation rate too as a way to make them look more attractive (as does the solar roof calculator) but in reality electricity hasn't been getting more expensive at that rate.

One minor nit. The selling agent doesn't get 30K. They get 15K because the buyer's agent also gets 15K in most normal deals. From that 15K their firm probably takes somewhere between 30-50% depending on the volume and size of deals they close. I'm not saying they're worth 7-10K but it's a far cry from the 30K you speak of. Which reinforces your point even more. They don't get compensated enough to spend another few weeks trying to get you 20K more.

Uber is also moving into the old Sears building that's a few blocks from Pandora's offices

I use this as well on DigitalOcean. It's easy to create new certs and put them on my various devices so I can disable if I need to. I'll have to check out some of the other ones listed here but I've been using it for a few years now without any issues.

Huge recommendation for Endurance. I could hardly put that book down. It was a shame that the author died before it became popular finally. A cruel twist of fate due to when the book was released.

I didn't really have any issues. I even went to an educational company serving the K12 vertical in a leadership capacity. It helped I knew the VPE there through other past colleagues but after my interview with the VP of HR it went pretty well.

The funny part was how curious everyone was about what went on there. I never really felt that much stigma about it from others...most of it was actually self generated. The other way I got past the potential stigma, though, was that I discussed how serious the business side was. The analytics we did, how much detailed knowledge we had about what downtime cost us, etc. Our HR training was done by lawyers, not consultants, because if the company got sued they were not going to get a sympathetic jury so I knew what what not to do as a manager there. That was actually pretty attractive to the VP of HR at my next company.

I'm not saying you won't find those that pass on you because of having porn on your resume but I don't think it's that big of an issue. As others have noted before most porn companies do business under a pseudonym that is innocent sounding and it's usually enough to get you past the screening that might filter if it said "Bang Bros" or whatever company it was.

The bigger issue is if you had school aged kids. They'd never have let me talk at career day. :-)

But they can specify what kind of IDs are necessary to enter federally managed areas such as military bases and other agencies.

I can't comment on Facebook but at Google I see plenty of people in their mid 30s and beyond. I joined in my early 40s. Yeah, we hire a lot of new grads / younger folks (I interview a lot of new grads) but I haven't noticed any overt ageism in the groups I've been in. Plus, the people making the hire decision don't see the candidate anyways. You should/would most likely get called out by the hiring groups if you added in color/vague "cultural fit" references.

This is just my experience, though.

That's not really the point, though. Being in the market for a new house I can say that I really have to fight certain biases to look past a home that has hideous color choices (subjectively speaking). I tend to then find more faults in these houses. Houses that are relatively neutral are much easier for me to envision what I'd do with them differently and so I find myself picturing my family living there. As a seller I would want to maximize more of the latter obviously.

Edit: I should also add that since we will be selling our house we recently painted the rooms that were "our colors" to more neutral ones to make it easier to sell.

I'd assume you are being downvoted because you are making assertions about the US credit system without actually knowing how it works.

How do my parent's credit history have anything to do with my credit history in the US? Are you talking about co-signing for loans or possibly how a child can get a card under their parents' name? I didn't think either of those had any impact on the child's credit score.

I disagree. I also know someone that works in one of the ML teams and he has just a bachelor's and is not relegated to menial tasks and seems to be pretty happy with his level of responsibility.

Back when I used to lead the engineering group for a company I was asked to also lead the IT and Ops teams. I was amazed at how many of the sys admins lived in fear that anything going wrong or taking a risk on something new and it not working as expected would get them fired. Virtually no one wanted to take any risks because of this fear. It took a long time of working with the team and demonstrating that people did not get fired when things went wrong. It was a real eye opener for me.

The geoDefense games (regular and swarm) were huge favorites of mine at the time. I wish they were still making games but haven't seen anything new from those developers since that game came out.

I'm not sure if you're saying you think that Google doesn't use Docs, Sheets, etc inside of Google but that is the entire opposite of what is happening. Anything that you'd normally do in Office is done on Google for Work at Google. There really isn't any other option available.

Disclosure: I work at Google