Based on past discussions on HN and I feel google has huge terrible support for it's offerings. May be it will improve with time. But currently I am really concerned with running GCP in production.
As others (including downthread) have pointed out, Google definitely has a bad overall support reputation, but that's because nearly every (traditional) Google service is free and lacks this structured support model. Just like Cloud, if you're even a moderately large Ads customer, you get pretty good support!
Disclosure: I work on Google Cloud and want your business ;).
I wonder if the problem is more that Google has got terrible support for it's free offerings - maybe for justifiable business reasons. However the damage to their brand when they want to sell business critical services is an unintended consequence. (Similarly I think killing Reader was justifiable from their perspective but the damage to their reputation amongst a vociferous and possibly influential demographic has probably outweighed the cost of keeping it going... They can't launch a service without someone popping up to remind us about Reader)
I miss Reader (though I'm amused that it let Feedly take off, and they're a Cloud customer!).
One thing often not considered ("Why not just have someone keep it running?") is that you really have to keep a team of people on it (in case there's a CVE or something) or at least familiar enough with the code to fix it. There's also the double standard of "you haven't added new features in forever!" (Maybe this wouldn't have applied to Reader though).
But, I agree if we could have kept it on life support somehow, we wouldn't have (as many) people asking "What if they shut down Cloud?!?". Conveniently, as people get a sense of how serious Google Cloud is about this business, even on HN I'm seeing this less.
Lawsuit is not just about not supporting web standards. It's also about preventing others from doing so. Even if gf 45 supports 48 more features it cannot do so in iOS
A climate change denier, citing the success of government regulations that limit emission of environmentally harmful substance, without noticeable harm on economy, must not be really thinking it through...
This is purely an ad hominem argument because I don't have time to dig into their claims: isn't in the EPA's interest to claim that their regulations are worth the cost?
The clean air act isn't an EPA regulation. It was created by an act of congress, and part of that law requires the EPA to file regular reports on whether or not the law is working.
Drinkable and breathable at all? Sure, since without water and air we die.
But what about tradeoffs? What if we can leave air polluted enough that two hundred years of breathing it would be fatal, and spend that money elsewhere? Would that tradeoff be worth it? No-one ever lives to be 200 anyway.
What about a century? Almost no-one lives to be 100.
At what point is the tradeoff no longer worth it?
And, to return to your statement (which I earlier conceded): drinkable water & breathable air can't be worth any cost, because if they cost my life then I can't enjoy them anyway.
Given that resources are fungible, and that money spent preventing acid rain could instead feed the hungry: how many people are you willing to kill in order to preserve buildings from corrosive rain?
It's a tragedy that so many so called intellectuals want to stifle any debate by labeling people "climate change deniers" in the first place. I fully believe that there is enough evidence that we need to take immediate action but exactly how human activity is impacting the environment is far from understood. To pretend that anyone knows exactly what's going on, or even if the changes we have measured in recent years are with out a doubt human caused, is BS, even if there is significant evidence pointing in that direction.
This doesn't mean Macintosh wasn't inspired by Xerox , even if they started work with Macintosh and Lisa there's is big chance getting first hand look at Xerox they have changed their approach drastically. Even if Android was in development before iphone debute they got drastic inspiration from iphone UI.
I didn't say otherwise. It's absolutely clear that ideas in Macintosh were inspired by PARC, just like ideas at PARC were inspired by SRI.
My complaint is about the assertion that "[Jobs] was inspired to base the user interfaces of the Lisa and Macintosh systems on Xerox's ideas", when the inspiration came before that visit, and was not due to Jobs.
Total worldwide production of plastics looks to be about 250 million tons, and they are estimating that about 8 million tons per year make it into the oceans. From the paper, but not the gloss, is that fact that China is by far the leading offender in this, followed by Indonesia, Philippines, and Sri Lanka. India is in 10th place, and the US in 20th. Coastal Europe combined is about the same as the US.
Cosmetic companies include microbeads in many products. These end up in the sea. The plastic soaks up some pollutants, and is also eaten by fish. It makes its way into the human food chain. It's a serious problem. Individual consumers didn't really know that they were dumping plastic into the ocean. The manufacturing companies did know, absolutely, that they were dumping hundreds of billions of these microbeads.
Acrylic clothing sheds microfibres. These are too small to be caught by washing machine filters, and they end up in the sea doing the same thing as plastic microbeads.
The point of article is if you start any discussion with outright declaring someone wrong, there is no chance of you changing their thoughts. So you are right we have to start by conceding some points. Like in any negotiation you win by little bit of give and take.
what's the incentive for cpu manufacturer to make effort of building extra cache memory in hardware for bigger cpu in ARM64, if there is no sane way to use it ?
The difference between cache line size and cache size is like paper. You can make it wider (bigger cache line size), taller (bigger cache size), or both.
The problem is like printing. If you put in an A4 or letter (ANSI A) sized sheet and tell your printer it's A3 or tabloid (ANSI B), you're gonna have problems.
It would be a good idea to look into data from interviewer side. In my experience I found some people provide much better interviewing environment and some people make candidate nervous.
