Tag: Google
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Link: The surprising thing Google learned about its employees — and what it means for today’s students
While I don’t disagree with this kind of ASTOUNDING FINDING, what it usually means that in addition to engineering, it turns out you need these other skills. I sure STEM is necessary, but not sufficient to be a good nerd in corporate America: “among the eight most important qualities of Google’s top employees, STEM expertise…
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Link: Googles challenge in enterprise cloud
Post Alphabet, where any previous inhibitions about pursuing new hobbies have evaporated, it is even harder to imagine the “capital allocators” choosing to invest in thousands of enterprise sales and support people given alternatives involving life extension and/or space elevators. After all, won’t the robotics division eventually solve any problem that today requires humans? The…
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Link: Tech companies that are likely to acquire startups in 2016
“The roughly 60 or so publicly traded software companies hold more than $380B in cash and short term investments on their balance sheets. Though Microsoft, Google, Cisco and Oracle possess 75% of that cash, 14 other companies have cash reserves of greater than $500M.” Source: Tech companies that are likely to acquire startups in 2016
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Google Losing $8B to $9B on Side Projects, Estimates Morgan Stanley
Trying to figure out the various lines of business I. Google. Google Losing $8B to $9B on Side Projects, Estimates Morgan Stanley
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Google: ‘EVERYTHING at Google runs in a container’
Google: ‘EVERYTHING at Google runs in a container’
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\”M.C. Escher’s cloud\”
Always love some funny writing, eh? > Since Google’s (virtualized) cloud is itself built on top of Linux containerization, this means developers will enter into the paradoxical situation of running a container-based OS on a hypervisor on top of a container. [“M.C. Escher’s cloud”](http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/23/google_loads_coreos_onto_its_cloud/)
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40,000 plus Macs in use at Google
And check out the comments for this gem: Do American universities not teach their computer programmers to use sensible names for objects? “Cauliflower Vest is an end-to-end Mac OS X FileVault 2 recovery key escrow solution.” Yup, first thing that comes to mind. It would be nice if we could assemble a tool set without…
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This Is the Woman at the Heart of Everything Google Builds
Using RedMonk logic: companies tend to keep what they consider their competative advantage closed source; Google keeps their dev toolchain closed source; Google’s ability to more productive in development (the primary point of a dev toolchain) is a core differentiator for Google. QED. More: This Is the Woman at the Heart of Everything Google Builds
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Netscape finally wins
Chrome is doing its job: Google’s signals sit on top of an increasing number of PCs, slowly making the underlying OS irrelevant. –more…
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The new fragmentation
The result is the CIOs and individuals face a market over the next five years where Microsoft still dominates PCs, Apple’s iPad leads the tablet category, and Google’s Android leads in smartphone sales. Frank Gillett, Forrester
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Can I Use the Word "Agile" Enough?
Zane’s post on the negative effects of personal motivations on software development reminded me of Cockburn’s discusion in Agile Development on the same topic. I went a-Googling for a write up, or summary of what was in the book. The closest thing I found was this, but the rest seemed like slim pickins. However, as…
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