Questions tagged [google]
Google is an American multinational corporation which provides Internet-related products and services, including internet search, cloud computing, software and advertising technologies.
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What is Google's repository like?
I heard Google has a giant private (internal) repository of all of their code and their employees have access to it so that when they are developing things they don't have to reinvent the wheel. I'd ...
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How to Properly Google for C
The problem with trying to use Google to find tutorials or answers for the C programming language is that C is not an expressive enough name to narrow down the searches. Even coupled with keywords ...
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How much is Google investing in the Go language? [closed]
I have read quite a bit about the Go language, and it seems promising. The last important bit of information I am missing before I decide on spending more effort on the language is: How much money/man ...
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Programming language usage at Google [closed]
I have heard Google uses Python, Java and C++. But what I don't know is how is each of those programming language is used. I mean what is Python, Java and C++ is used for at Google. Why would they ...
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Upcoming Google interview, looking for some preparation advice [closed]
Well I've been hitting the books wherever I can. I have an interview coming up, first one via phone, for a software engineer position. I've read all the blog posts, I've read all the accounts of ...
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Why doesn't Google use GWT in most of its applications? [closed]
Google created Google Web Toolkit (GWT) and doesn't use it when building their own web applications.
Does this mean GWT is not suitable for building dynamic applications? Or have caching problems? Or ...
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Is Google's Go a type-safe language?
this page http://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html writes:
although Go has static types the
language attempts to make types feel
lighter weight than in typical OO
languages
So my question is ...
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Oracle owns Java but Google is using Java?
Ok, I don't get it. What does "Oracle owns Java" mean?
Google is definitely using Java in Google App Engine, does that mean that Google have to pay Oracle for doing so?
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Google Analytics with multiple environments
We are planning to use Google Analytics in our organization and I am in charge for setting it up. I was wondering how to deal with multiple environments. We sure do not want to collect data during ...
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How productive is an excellent developer compared to an average one? [duplicate]
I believe that I read somewhere that Google has a rule of thumb that an excellent developer is around 300 times more productive than an average one. Does anyone have any rules of thumb used by large ...
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What does Google mean here when they say "don't copy and paste this code"?
Here is an excerpt from code from Google's recaptcha API (https://www.google.com/recaptcha/api.js):
/* PLEASE DO NOT COPY AND PASTE THIS CODE. */
(function() {
if (!window['___grecaptcha_cfg']) { ...
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Omitting inheritance in programming languages
I am developing my own programming language. It's a general purpose language (think staticlly typed Python for the desktop, i.e. int x = 1; ) not intended for the cloud.
Do you think it's okay not ...
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What ever happened to the Google AJAX Search API
I am looking to query the main Google search however all references including stackoveflow point to the Google AJAX Search API.
The odd thing is that it does not seem to exist any more not even a ...
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What does Google or Microsoft get by hosting JS files on their Content Delivery Networks (CDN)?
As you know Google, Microsoft and jQuery.com offer JS files on their CDN. To do this, they must need to operate significant servers which must come at a cost to them. Why do they do this and what do ...
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Explanation of the Google Gravity trick
I am not much of a JS developer, but I stumbled upon this site called Google Gravity (those who haven't used it, try doing a search there - you'll be amazed), which is a remastered Google homepage. ...
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