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Google is an American multinational corporation which provides Internet-related products and services, including internet search, cloud computing, software and advertising technologies.

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 like to know more about it! Is there anyone here…
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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 like "Programming" and/or "Language" yields results…
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How much is Google investing in the Go language?

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 power does Google or other companies invest in…
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Programming language usage at Google

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 used upto 3 programming languages when 1 language is…
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Upcoming Google interview, looking for some preparation advice

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 interviews (some pretty old), and Google itself even…
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Why doesn't Google use GWT in most of its applications?

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 have RPC problems? Or are there other concerns…
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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 exactly is it safely typed with generics (like C#) or…
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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 development and QA (or maybe collect data to a…
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How productive is an excellent developer compared to an average one?

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 companies or maybe there are even some empirical…
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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']) { 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 to allow inheritance or Mixins? (given that the…
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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 note to say it is depreciated? The old links point…
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How do you handle supporting Chrome versions?

I'm working on a site for my company which, up until a certain point, was an Internet Explorer-only site for various reasons, mainly that when the site was originally conceived IE had a 90%+ market share so the work to get it working in other…
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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. From then on, I've been thinking and wondering…
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