Talk Binary » google http://talkbinary.com Programming Resources, Technology, Computers Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:22:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Google – Please be politehttp://talkbinary.com/blog/images-misc/google-please-be-polite/ http://talkbinary.com/blog/images-misc/google-please-be-polite/#comments Thu, 09 Jul 2009 18:45:34 +0000 Diego http://talkbinary.com/?p=1925
So Google invited me this one day to check out their RSS reader by looking at a couple of items. I was surprised

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]]> http://talkbinary.com/blog/images-misc/google-please-be-polite/feed/ 0 Prolog, Google, and more reveal the answer to life and everythinghttp://talkbinary.com/blog/images-misc/prolog-google-and-more-reveal-the-answer-to-life-and-everything/ http://talkbinary.com/blog/images-misc/prolog-google-and-more-reveal-the-answer-to-life-and-everything/#comments Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:54:11 +0000 Diego http://talkbinary.com/?p=1601 Prolog apparently reveals the answer to life if you try finding a binding for the variable X. Since it tries proving X for any value, apparently it decides to use the answer to life as the binding. Mysterious!? Tell us what you think.

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Even Google agrees

Why is 42 the answer to the universe and everything in life? Beats me but apparently its the true answer. Try asking Google it doesn’t disagree.

googleanswertolife

And before you start doubting the big G, you have to consider xkcd webcomics, which are awesome btw. Check out Ask the admin and find out how xkcd is related to the answer to life as well.

Is this starting to get creepy? Look at the palm of your hand, it is also said you have 42 major creases. Weird? Well it might because I just made that up but wouldn’t surprise me if it was true! (In case it is, tell me!)

Share with us your programming encounters!

Encountered something similar? Why not share it with the everyone?

This prolog interpreter can be installed from the command line with a simple

sudo apt-get install swi-prolog

Or depending on the OS you have, you might simply have to use your content manager to download it to your system.

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Ever wanted to know what employees at places like Google and Microsoft are making and what they think of their jobs? Well, Glassdoor provides you with Ratings, Reviews and Salaries of the employees themselves. They are anonymous of course. In other words, employees are more likely to give out the complete truth without worrying about being exposed.

Find out about the company you want to work for

The site is in beta so apparently it’s still launching. Either way, the amount of reviews, ratings, and salaries submitted is good enough to give you a great idea of what working for the company feels like, the perks given, the pros, cons, salaries, management, and more!

In other words, find out if your dream job is really…your dream job!

The site layout is clean, user friendly, and has a lot of useful information. In the pictures provided, I show you the layout of the site, a preview of a reviews page for a company, and the average salaries page for that company.

A couple of quotes from former employees

Here are some pros from Google

I have never met so many brilliant people at one company ever. I have worked for 8 years in industry now. Seriously, there is not a single dumb employee.

You interact with great developers, original thinkers and interesting people all the time. Unlimited munchies are great, three free meals a day (or two in satellite offices) is great, medical benefits, partial subsidy of fitness membership, subsidy for ongoing education (though in reality you are unlikely to have time to use it) are all pluses. Being on the winning team feels good, especially when winning an uphill battle against an entrenched monopolist.

And now the cons…

Extreme preference is given for manager feedback during performance review cycles. Some managers have no clue about the products they are managing, In such cases, employees who are more vocal and are manager suck-ups get preferential treatment during the review cycles. But engineers who make more contributions, are recognized by peers but who are not in “good books” of their direct management or a level above, get penalized.

The days when Google was the coolest place in the world to work are gone. Google is deteriorating at the edges. Many managers at Google got their jobs just by having low employee numbers and are otherwise unqualified. Once entrenched they tend to show little concern for their reports, concerning themselves with “managing up” to their own manager.

In other words there are as many positives than there are negatives in lots of these reviews. Finding if they outweigh the positives is your job!

Disclaimer: The views and opinions expressed in these previous quotes do not represent what Talk Binary thinks of the previous company. This is simply a review showing the reviews found on Glassdoor made by anonymous users and not Talk Binary.

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What happens when you get three ex senior Googlers? Cuil. According to its website, their search engine boasts 3x the amount of content than Google and 10x the amount on Yahoo. While checking it out, I was a little enticed. The “darker” theme for searching was neat and the way results are shown are something worth checking out. – Source

It still seems it doesn’t have ALL the sites on the internet. A search for Talk Binary…doesn’t show my site. I’m ranked #3 on Google, and #1 on Yahoo for that same keyword but not on this new search engine? Many websites are complaining the results aren’t too relative to the keywords so you shouldn’t bother with it right now. Maybe in the future?

Google and the world

Many people are hating how Google is taking over the internet. It recently purchased YouTube. Big deal? Well, the ads that backed up YouTube financially is owned by Google. They recently tried purchasing Digg. They also opened up Knol, an attack on wikipedia allowing users to generate cold hard cash from their articles. They’ve made Picasa which is an image editing program, and so much more…

Is Cuil one of the few trying to compete directly with Google? Is it going to get pwned in the process? Tell us what you think!

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Google Maps

This is what we envision Google to be. An omnipresent being with great and unforeseeable power…Don’t underestimate the power of Google!

Below is the rest of the “The Googling” series.

Google Moon

Google my Maps

Google SMS

So what did you think? Find them funny? Comment Below! Also, got more to share? Why not share them at our forums?

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