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People brought machines, we gave 'em quota. Easy enough.

So glad to not be doing that any more.

5 TB of data made available, not 5 TB of transfer/bandwidth/etc.

But yeah, that video was epic, and it was spot-on, too. A company that has no idea how to deal with people is going to suck at making tools _for_ people.

> Beatty took bold and immediate action. He drove his Ford F-350 Super Duty utility truck in front of the Jeep and allowed it to essentially crash into the back of his vehicle so it would latch on, according to bridge officials. He then "slowly and safely" guided the Jeep across the bridge's southbound lanes and brought it to rest in a safe area, away from the flow of traffic.

edit: This was pre-divider, so a runaway vehicle on the GGB could have made quite a mess by crossing into oncoming traffic.

Based on your experiences, I am going to assume you are not in the same situation. You will likely have better results for an otherwise identical request.

Have a good day.

In the words of everyone who's ever done a small fix, "reload".

Also, conference calls are death.

3583: BASIC bytes free on an unexpanded VIC-20. 38911: same idea for a C-64.

Those were both prominent numbers since they showed up on the screen right when you turned it on and sat there until you got cranking on something else.

It was ugly. It had terrible looking widgets that were out of place on Windows, Macs, AND Unix boxes - quite a feat at that.

One (dumb) thing JavaScript had going for it was that at least initially, you had to have it on to get CSS action on pages in Netscape. If you turned off JS, then you lost CSS too and things probably looked pretty ugly.

I want to say that some browsers forced you to keep JS on in order to parse a proxy.pac and those of us in corporate/educational environments with filtering proxies had to deal with that, too. Add it to the CSS issue and now you have multiple reasons to leave it on and try working with it. By way of comparison, you could get by with Java disabled.

I still ran with both off in the bad old days and took the lumps, but I'm just cranky that way. I still run with JS off by default.

We don’t talk too much about this.

3 racks * 40 boxes * 2 sockets * 12 DIMMs per socket * 128 GB = 368640 GB or 360 TB raw. Remove some of that for overhead (kernel, OS gunk, network buffers, whatever code you'd have to run to make it into a cluster), and there's your 256 TB with a bunch left over.

Stuff like this is why I sometimes say that a lot of these startups could be done with "three Xeon racks" if they actually cared about doing it right.

[Note: assumes 2nd generation Xeons (Skylakes), with 24 DIMMs. Ice Lake = more/bigger memory, fewer actual machines.]

I didn't find out just how screwed up this was until becoming part of the hiring process at Facebook... some seven or eight years later.

So... yeah. What you said is totally a thing.

They sold 2017 cars with a time bomb that goes off in 2022, and nothing to do about it. LTE capable devices were around for years at that point.

Put it this way: the last time I saw it, they still had the "clowncopterize" button. Try finding that anywhere else.

It's right next to the part where they tell you to take things offline rather than leaving a paper trail around -- but of course, they word it a bit more carefully than that.

"Don't be evil" vs. "don't do evil" vs. "don't leave records of evil". Very different things.

Really, a lot of places just put up with your personal desires for excellence as long as you keep saving their bacon. Stop saving their bacon or throw the "balance" off from their point of view, and they won't appreciate you any more.

Sorry, but management tends to suck in this regard. If you find someplace that's different, hang onto it!

Hint: don’t tell me to smile more, either.

You ever, you know, just talk with your coworkers? And not just sling bugs at them?

I always wanted to apologize to Sgt. Brink for having to take my calls that day.

I'm not saying you're getting all of the bad ones, but there's probably something going on if a supposedly simple problem (this, FizzBuzz, pick whatever you want) fails. Yeah, I know, someone's going to mention the environment, and the pressure of it being an interview, and that's certainly true.

All I can say to that is that I've posed FizzBuzz itself to someone who claimed aptitude, totally randomly over a chat session, not as part of an interview, just us chatting randomly. I think we were actually talking about how interviewing was such a pain. They themselves talked a great deal... but then never delivered on it.

Besides, you work at Google. Don't you see this all around you? They're already on the inside.