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theadder posted:Google working on nanoparticles to detect cancer oh look, another google moonshot misdirect that will never happen. everyone keep looking this way, ignore the fact that we are an advertising company and give us credit for innovation
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:this is everyone's go-to number when they mean "we have no idea" hth 5 years is "we have no idea but we know its possible" 10 years is "we really have no idea when we'd do it or if doing it is possible at all" hth
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:this is everyone's go-to number when they mean "we have no idea" hth this is also a magic number for investors. new products have to be profitable (or just really huge) at the 5 year point.
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PleasureKevin posted:if Google was in my blood stream, I would surely contract ads
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lol like google would ever go through all of the testing and certification required to produce a medical product.
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Nintendo Kid posted:5 years is "we have no idea but we know its possible" the last big cold fusion thing was 5 years away every single time it was reported
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The Management posted:lol like google would ever go through all of the testing and certification required to produce a medical product. well that would require them actually hiring engineers, for starters and established biomedical engineers tend to make bank off patents already
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:the last big cold fusion thing was 5 years away every single time it was reported from two weeks ago: quote:Lockheed Martin Corp said on Wednesday it had made a technological breakthrough in developing a power source based on nuclear fusion, and the first reactors, small enough to fit on the back of a truck, could be ready for use in a decade.
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we can use cold fusion to stop volcanoes right?
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PleasureKevin posted:this is also a magic number for investors. new products have to be profitable (or just really huge) at the 5 year point. investors are just beep boop robots that do everything by weird arbitrary numbers they are programmed with, this checks out
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PleasureKevin posted:if Google was in my blood stream, I would surely contract ads 
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so this nanoparticl initiative, did they buy a company that does that for some inexplicabkle reason or is this an employee's 20% spare time project?
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Pinterest Mom posted:from two weeks ago: lockheed martin's device is hot fusion. H.P. Hovercraft posted:the last big cold fusion thing was 5 years away every single time it was reported right and cold fusion is at least theoretically possible. the deal with 10 year or higher predictions is that it's pretty much the point where, once the prediction time rolls around ad you haven't done poo poo, people forget you promised 10+ years ago because so much other poo poo has happened. and when you see "we can do this in 20 years" you can be certain that they have no plans to do the thing because that gives them a generation for people to forget the promise was ever made.
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Sagebrush posted:so this nanoparticl initiative, did they buy a company that does that for some inexplicabkle reason or is this an employee's 20% spare time project?
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Nintendo Kid posted:
sure, in the "if these materials behaved in a way that they don't, it would totally work" sense
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FMguru posted:my sources in mountain view tell me that the 20% spare time thing is all but dead. you have the option to do your own thing in your 20% time or you can just spend that time working at your regular job, and guess what looks better when bonus and promotion and team reorganization time comes around? good ol non-mandatory vacation time, my favorite
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I was surprised to find out the average time people spend employed at Google is extremely low, only 1 year. Only amazon was lower lol
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pram posted:I was surprised to find out the average time people spend employed at Google is extremely low, only 1 year. Only amazon was lower lol no kidding? if you've got that kind of turnover, the mystique is going to be rubbed off faster "i used to work at google." "who hasn't?"
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pram posted:I was surprised to find out the average time people spend employed at Google is extremely low, only 1 year. Only amazon was lower lol everyone I know that has gone to Amazon has quit in under two years. they all hated it. the super-spergs I know that went to google have never left, the normal ones got out of there as soon as they could.
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pram posted:I was surprised to find out the average time people spend employed at Google is extremely low, only 1 year. Only amazon was lower lol lmao if true fuzzy mammaml please confirm
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YouTube apparently does a default auto-play of a ""similar"" video after the one you've watched now, which is the worst loving thing.
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Rooney McNibnug posted:YouTube apparently does a default auto-play of a ""similar"" video after the one you've watched now, which is the worst loving thing.
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Nintendo Kid posted:the deal with 10 year or higher predictions is that it's pretty much the point where, once the prediction time rolls around ad you haven't done poo poo, people forget you promised 10+ years ago because so much other poo poo has happened. http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/10/zuckerberg-sees-50-to-100-million-oculus-units-sold-in-next-decade/
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PleasureKevin posted:if Google was in my blood stream, I would surely contract ads
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i haven't heard anything about fast turnover. 1 year seems crazy low to me and is certainly not the case at my office. if i were google execs i'd worry about key high level people leaving to fb or whatever not some nobody who has been around less than a year and barely knows the ropes. also of course google is not going to run medical trials. they contract that poo poo out like they already have with that blood glucose contact lens thing. also lol at lockheed martin. "tokamak is bad here's a linear reactor suitable for an engine we're the best." like a jillion university physics departments don't already have programs for that. http://www.washington.edu/research/energy/researcher/richard-d-milroy
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average google employment ~12 months makes sense though, considering how fast we're hiring
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PleasureKevin posted:if Google was in my blood stream, I would surely contract ads
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2010-era joke: what's the fastest way to get from santa clara to palo alto? tell a fb recruiter you're leaving google
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On Friday of last week (Oct 24 or “Devolve Friday” as it’s now known), visitors to the Revolv website were treated with the following headline: ”We want to share some exciting news with you. Revolv is now a Nest company.” Wow! Considering that Nest — the maker of the hugely popular Nest Learning Thermostat and the less-popular Nest Protect smoke/CO alarm — has one of the biggest corporate sugar daddies in the world (i.e., Google), that’s incredibly exciting news. As I stated in a recent review of the Revolv Hub Home Automation Controller: “The Revolv Hub is a powerhouse that looks to be relatively future-proof from a hardware standpoint. A great choice for a newbie.” With the crazy amount of money Google/Nest could throw at it, Revolv could evolve into the epitome of a smart home system hub. Moving down the Revolv home page, however, readers soon discovered that the exciting news is actually only exciting to the honchos at Revolv. That’s because of the answer to the question all the smart home early adopters who ponied up the $299 for the Revolv Hub were loudly asking — “What happens to my Revolv service?” Get ready for it. The excitement might be too much for you: For existing customers, the service will continue to be available and we will continue to offer customer support. However, Revolv will not be made available to new customers.
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every time i click a link in hangouts i think "gently caress google" not even microsoft would dare to do this garbage. they also route it through a lovely forwarder page so they can harvest data.
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:this is everyone's go-to number when they mean "we have no idea" hth we know
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fuzzy mammal remove those options in the next update or ur a bitch
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lmaooooooooooooo andy rubin has left google
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The precise reason for his departure couldn’t be learned but the people familiar with the matter said it involved the structure of his team. While he had broad independence, he was seeking a different arrangement. larry gave him this gig to avoid the sinking ship narrative from taking hold after andy rubin got kicked out of anroid but of course larry is a lovely manager and google is completely hosed at an organizational level cremnob fucked around with this message at 05:02 on Oct 31, 2014 |
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down with the google death to the google
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it also shows u how serious all of google's "moonshots" are and the prospect for them actually being able to execute on anything lmao everyone working at google on these "10 year visions" won't be there in 5 years
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i always suspected that google does so many acquhires cause they had terrible turnover and that was an easy way to lock up employees for a few years
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THC posted:down with the google same but the op
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:average google employment ~12 months makes sense though, considering how fast we're hiring yes its 1.1 years. only amazon and insurance are worse lol  http://www.payscale.com/data-packages/employee-loyalty/full-list
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