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swedish_mafia··on Alphabet’s Chief Legal Officer Stepping Down Amid Investigation
And this https://medium.com/@jennifer.blakely/my-time-at-google-and-a...
swedish_mafia··on Google is blatantly lying about the quality of Stadia’s games
This company should outsource all engineering to infosys
swedish_mafia··on Google App Engine and Cloud Datastore Outages
All customers must migrate to aws
swedish_mafia··on Bank of America's CEO says it's saved $2B per year by building its own cloud
You give them €200B to change a lightbulb and it still won’t work.
swedish_mafia··on Bank of America's CEO says it's saved $2B per year by building its own cloud
Can anyone who has worked on Bank of America comment on if any of the things they build actually worked?
swedish_mafia··on Evidence of market manipulation on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange?
Wonder if Peter Thiels fund will have miraculous returns this year.
swedish_mafia··on Google Cloud Worth $225B, Deutsche Bank Says
> we should keep our infrastructure to ourselves.

Hilarious, now that we know amazon builds better infrastructure. How they say it? „don’t buy your own hype“!

swedish_mafia··on Ask HN: Why are recruiters not interested in contractors?
Because in next few days recruitment will find a very capable developer with 12 Years experience who will do it for 90 because not everything in life is in his control and he wants the gig ASAP.

You are replaceable commodity. Like iron ore etc.

swedish_mafia··on My Time at Google and After
She claims he didn’t enter a formal child support arrangement till the kid was 4. If true, this is a huge red flag.

Also not very good at his job “Drummond was charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2005 with causing Google to violate securities law because he failed to advise the company's board that the company was required to register $80 million in stock options used as compensation for employees.”

He took home $47m last year.

swedish_mafia··on Google OAuth Is Failing with 500 Error Code
I have a good handle on how the customer base for cloud computing services perceives cloud vendors and aws is way ahead of everyone else by a mile.

This is because they have a far better and complete platform, and it appears to be better engineered too with fewer of the downtime incidents we’ve been seeing at the other vendors.

Why do you suspect this is? Let me tell you. Amazon had better people. Full stop.

swedish_mafia··on Google OAuth Is Failing with 500 Error Code
Maybe memorising algorithms from a textbook does not translate to great system engineering and SRE skills? Who would have thought.
swedish_mafia··on Denial of H1-B visas to India’s largest IT services exporters at all-time high
No need to feed the troll. From user achingtooths comment history: “I'm 19 years old and I left the US because everything is so expensive. There's just no way to live on your own or even comfortably without a high paying degree. I now live in Eastern Europe on $400 a month”
swedish_mafia··on What is a coder's worst nightmare?
Low iq MBA manager with insecurities charged with delivery. Usually vindictive and on a power trip, and has social leverage on some senior exec.
swedish_mafia··on Supreme Court rules antitrust lawsuit against Apple can proceed
Try to understand: Kavanugh and the people he is aligned with are like that incompetent manager in your office who took your successful project using their influence. Now they want to shake down Apple. After that google just watch.
swedish_mafia··on Both Windows 10 and Chrome OS are embracing the Linux kernel
Will Microsoft "Linux kernel" devs influence Linux roadmap?
swedish_mafia··on Someone Stole My Startup Idea: They Raised Money with My Slides? (2009)
Did you read the article till the end or look up the background of the person who wrote it? The message is not about the slides.
swedish_mafia··on Alphabet unit halts glucose-detecting contact lens project
Was rapid evaluation team getting neck massages for positive rapid evaluations?
swedish_mafia··on Google Kubernetes Engine's third consecutive day of service disruption
Not effecting all regions no.
swedish_mafia··on India’s banking system is flirting with a Lehman moment
I read a time ago corrupt officials take a cut of every project. Don’t know if still a fact.
swedish_mafia··on Ask HN: What if gmail was compromised?
Even worse, slack.
swedish_mafia··on Why Everyone Should #DeletePytho
#deletenanx.me

Who is upvoting this garbage

swedish_mafia··on Update to Ask HN: What to do if I’m about to lose my job to mental health issues
Why don’t you see a doctor, and get prescribed some meds?
swedish_mafia··on Battery breakthrough: Double performance lithium battery that doesn’t catch fire
Funding secured.
swedish_mafia··on Upwork Freelancers Who Want Guaranteed Pay Have to Opt in to Tracking Software
Run the tracker in a virtual machine running locally. Run your “work” apps in that vm.

This is so stupid.

swedish_mafia··on The end of India’s ‘IT miracle’?
I’ve seen developers in the London office of some banks get paid over £150k who were not any good at software either. it would be disingenuous to say that isn’t common.

I also saw some incredibly good devs there but you get both.

swedish_mafia··on Ask HN: How do you recover from repeated interview rejections?
Build something.
swedish_mafia··on Anne Wojcicki on How to Build the Future
You also have a greater chance of being significantly screwed over if your core skill is technology and not playing the politics.

Avoid.

swedish_mafia··on Anne Wojcicki on How to Build the Future
Its fun being a cost center where having friends in the business side of things is what counts for career progress?
swedish_mafia··on U.S. To Seek Social Media Details from All Visa Applicants
Why have you assumed that of the pool of applicants to his job there were residents with equal skills?
swedish_mafia··on Martin Shkreli has been sentenced to seven years in prison
You don’t get to define the word. He started a company which is now public and worth close to a billion dollars.
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