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The important bit from that page is:

"I am on-call about 10 days per quarter, usually 3 shifts of 3-4 days each. I am paid extra for my on-call (after-hours) work, but not at my full hourly salary because I only work when there are problems after hours (e.g. on weekends or late at night.)".

Note that depending on the exact team, Software Engineers at Google may also be part of an on-call rotation.

OK, interesting point of view.

Can you justify it with examples?

Would that mean not being able to use const in unions?

He claims that these are not copyright royalties, but rather a cultural grant.

It looks fine to me? What are you talking about?

The main devices that Google devs use - Nexus devices - do not have a menu button.

And I guess they think that the three dot menu is ugly or something.

Vaporware is when you promise a product and fail to deliver on it.

They have not announced a product yet, only a research area.

I think you meant "(arse|ass)?holes".

That's exactly the point.

They claim that when the extension gets added to addons.mozilla.org, it would start to auto-update.

Snowden was low-level, but he was basically an admin doing migration to a new system. His job description required the access he was given.

Additionally, one of the lessons learned from the 9/11 attacks was that keeping data too "Need to Know" might prevent people who actually need to know information from knowing about it.