wetha

What is an example of these absurd hoops you talk of, w.r.t the google interview process specifically? I just went through the process and had a much more positive experience, so i’m interested to know.

>> If a bird shits on your hand will you use paper or water to clean it ?

>That's a misleading analogy. Do you eat off your butt? If I got bird poo on my bare foot, I'd wipe it off in the dirt and move on. Most people shower every few days anyway. I don't care how clean my butt is, just as long as it doesn't smell and it doesn't itch.

I think this hits at the root of the disagreement. If I get bird poo on my bare foot, I am totally washing that off with water - i am not comfortable wiping it off with paper and then tracking that onto my hand/clothes. To each their own. I believe it is harder to get your butt not to stink or itch when just using paper. I use water/soap when possible, and fallback to paper when not, usually public washrooms - so I’m familiar with both, if that needs saying.

> (FYI, in English, a space is only used after end-of-sentence punctuation, not before. I've never understood why Indians consistently get this wrong.)

Interesting generalization. I haven’t seen too many Indians do that. But as long as you get the point the OP was trying to make.

Disclaimer: Am Indian.

Around query pricing, my understanding is BigQuery charges by bytes scanned uncompressed. Redshift Spectrum/Athena charges by bytes scanned compressed. That makes Athena/Spectrum cheaper as well.

I’m not the author of the post. Your comment assumes a well known schema. My understanding from the post is that this solution can join and filter on “custom” datasets of arbitrary schema that each of their customers upload.

I assume CloudSQL is google’s alternative to AWS RDS. Less of an excuse to not make the setting user configurable when the competition (AWS) does.

“You can only request that they call you.”

Sounds like exactly why Amazon is much better. They don’t put you on hold, and there’s no IVR menu to suffer through.

This, if done maliciously, is a valid DOS attack vector known as Slowloris/SlowPost attacks.

I know it’s easier said than done, but there should be active mitigation in place, rather than only monitoring.

> because that is who America has designated as their community support system.

This seems unjustified. Your statement assumes (a) Support systems in the community are run only by religious people. This implies (b) Non-religious people do not run any community programs.

Assuming (b) is true (which it may very well not be), the question that needs to be asked is, why do non-religious people and institutions not run more community programs. Not rail against the religious people who do.

Disclaimer: I am not American.

Can’t speak to Azure, but why is this difficult on AWS? You can stop and restart your instances, and you’ll be charged only when they’re running. Your data will need to be on EBS volumes.

AWS. t2.Micro instance = $15 monthly. EBS Cold HDD 1 TB = $26 monthly. With the free tier, the T2 instance is free the first year. Plus, all the cloudy goodness of EBS Snapshots for backup and easy scalability.

Indian currency is not on the Gold Standard.