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The type of roles w/ non-degree holders matters here. I'm sure Google offers a great career in any of its roles, but the article makes it sound like positions Stanford grads apply to (PM + eng) already have lots of non-degree holders. Pointing at company-wide stats to support that claim is weaksauce. Over a third of Google employees are not engineers/PMs (if this is true: https://www.unifygtm.com/insights-headcount/google). Who's to say the vast majority of non-degree holders aren't clustered in their sales and support org? I think the 77% stat is a great signal, love to see reduced gatekeeping in any job market. But, signaling you'll find folks without degrees in eng squads across Google doesn't seem obvious.

I can share some real examples I've seen/heard of from trustworthy sources (I'm not there yet myself):

- Open an independent bookstore in a medium-sized midwestern city's downtown

- Get into the jewelry business (not sure if there was family business experience there);

- Open a coffee shop, this person had someone else manage it (must be nice);

- One past tech PM switched careers to become a traveling nurse and was loving it still ~5 years in;

- Wive's friend moved to montana and opened a dog grooming franchise

Note that virtually all require some money to either invest in opening a new business or re-train yourself in some new profession (college/grad school prob just means loans). Doesn't mean it's true for every option, but worth noting how often that's the case.

It might light up clouds above Tulsa in the evening, maybe you'll see those.

I think the cartel protects itself from an abundance of supply, that's part of the problem. If supply is high it should naturally translate to landlords cutting prices to compete. Instead, a cartel can coordinate to keep prices high or withhold listings to artificially constraint supply. That should keep rents high even during an abundance of supply. I read somewhere they're accused of doing exactly that.

Hi, my partner worked in technology strategy for a large healthcare system where she saw many derm AI-based applications evaluated over the last decade. (Dis)Incentives aside, they all followed a similar\ story arc overpromising in their research findings and underdelivering in actual care delivery. They've been around for longer than you'd imagine. I hope they reach their potential, but suggest approaching them with healthy skepticism.

not always a him

This. Not to say companies always get comms right, quite the opposite, but there's entire org structures filled with people dedicated to crafting these communications and the decisions about wording and audience are probably debated to death internally. My personal hell, but I have to acknowledge it's existence and purpose.

Interesting thread, wonder if that was the internal backdrop for the decision to deploy their biggest deal ever in Adam Newman's new venture (which has several folks scratching their heads).

the "L" in the alphabet puzzle?

I'm surprised no one has raised the problem of senior managers and VPs underestimating and oversimplifying the complexity and LOE of work. It causes unrealistic timelines for others who do have to adhere to a release process (which is never perfect but certainly necessary). "Yes CEO, of course we can get that in by tomorrow, no problem."

When the work misses the impossible deadline the feedback usually points to an underperforming organization and rarely to unrealistic estimation.

It would be interesting to see the volume of visits by government office year over year. I have a feeling that periods around elections might look very different. Also would be interested to see distribution color-coded by industry. Mining and contracting should pop up for certain time periods and government agencies.

Carlos, super buen trabajo, felicitaciones!! Llevo tiempo estudiando temas relacionados a tecnología vs. corrupción desde acá en Berkeley. Tengo testimonios interesantes de contactos que han vivido el cambio post-tecnología en el gobierno. Perú tiene harto potencial en esta área. Si necesitas ayuda en cualquier momento feliz de apoyarte!

I'm a Phantom owner and I'm skeptical about those flying time numbers. I get 15-18 minutes on the drone by itself, but if you add the weight of the gimbal and camera (~0.5lb) the flight time goes down at least 4 mins, AND the gimbal needs power from the drone's battery too. I've heard the Phantom's flying time with the working gimbal is more like 6-8 mins. But if you know what kinda shot you want, that could be more than enough, just get lots of extra batteries (and those have dipped in price, you can grab one for $12).

Yup, topography influences energy policy greatly in most countries. Peru is special because of its diversity...China-like in a much much smaller package. Mountains are good because of potential for hydroelectric plants, but not good to build a grid ON them. Jungle has proven a great source of natural gas, but the Andes mountains severs the jungle from the population centers on the coast.

I think solar for the mountain population is very interesting. They don't have anything at all now, not like we're increasing their current energy bill. It's cleaner than most other options, and very low environmental impact for these typical rural communities.

About time we got a perk -I'm Peruvian :). Seriously though, we've had more engineers graduating schools here and more money in state revenues, we're finally seeing that translate into smarter infrastructure projects.

Maybe they're pushing an update on the 7th

First updates from Google's App Status Dashboard: http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=issue&ts=13...

thanks HN-ers!

Chrome just crashed on me for the first time. Gmail has been up and down a few times already the last 30 mins.

It's back up now. EDIT: went down again...

Awesome, on my birthday...guess people were sending me too many bday emails!

love the hidden humor and classic gaming references all over...totally worth a replay

I've gone through different phases of this as a tool to fight my ADD impulses. My main reason was to avoid that scenario where I would find myself reading and then snap and ask myself "where the hell am I in this paragraph/page/article?" I highlighted sentence by sentence as I read through, but it results in too many iterations. Then I highlighted whole paragraphs, worked better but reading through blue colored background when there's white background all around it made my eyes drift away to the lighter areas. Now I'm highlighting the paragraph prior to the one I'm in, it serves as a bookmark of sorts. It's still a work in progress but its damn better than not doing it!

Quora does a similar thing, it's beyond annoying for a fellow compulsive text-selector.

Is anybody else excited that the future hope of North Korea is one letter away from being called Kim 'Han Solo'?? Awesome.

at least the super secret strategic plan is being displayed in chrome :)

glide over to the google kitchen, someone is stealing some food: http://goo.gl/GPQXJ

Setting the issue of worker treatment aside for a sec, what IBM and it's many clients are doing is a wide-known shady practice that's been around for a long time - hourly rate dilution. Dilution as in mixing different elements (hourly rates in this case) to lower the concentration of something. Customer love it, IBM loves it (when they can pay close to nothing for their H1B workers - and they do) and american workers rarely actually find out. Frighteningly close to a perfect white-collar crime. EVERYONE in consulting does this, small and big. There's no "American IT Workers Union" so this is not going away anytime soon.

In the past we (mostly I) have complained of the Gov't lack of undermining of cyber security, and all things tech. Online attacks over the last decade have been plentiful, so it seems they're being really cautious to an extreme, even hurting consumer's options. But I can't blame them because: (A) In China large corporations and gov't are always extra friendly. (B) Cyber espionage and cyber attacks from China are not uncommon. (C) The US is not ready to protect their 'cyber' infrastructure. Hopefully other HN's can see the following problem too: Huawei placing billions of dollars of communications infrastructure yet hoping they won't be able to monitor them, AND that whatever can be monitored is in no way available to the Huawei Chinese offices, which may or may not grant access the Chinese gov't to take a peek. This is over speculation and unlikely, but if I'm in charge of a security committee you have to assume this is possible and look into it.

In my experience if a candidate is willing to accept the pay level of a younger colleague (just because they have similar number of years of experience) then employers don't care much. However, if it's a strategic job opening to be filled by someone expected to build a full career, it'll be harder to sell yourself knowing that your first 15 years are already gone.