Google Opens Sydney Office, Internship Program 110
An anonymous reader writes "ZDNet is reporting that Google has kicked off an internship program that will see Australian university students work in projects in the company's Sydney office. Google's local head of engineering, Lars Rasmussen, said 5-10 spots would be made available, with both technical and non-technical positions on offer. ZDNet Australia also has pictures of the official opening of Google's Sydney office."
Motto (Score:4, Funny)
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Where justice is in the hands of Philip Ruddock [wikipedia.org] no less.
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Actually, not only was it not founded by convicts, but it wasn't even a penal colony. It was originally a number of free colonies. They did accept convicts, but they weren't founded for that purpose.
Mod granparent -1, Fucking Idiot.
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From my POV this seems like a strange thing to do now. A bit like us sending criminals to the moon [wikipedia.org].
Penal Colonies - Strategic Importance (Score:3, Informative)
For example the French explorer Louis-Antoine de Bougainville arrived in what became French Polynesia in 1768 and claimed the islands for France. This roughly coincides with James Cook's first voyage of discovery (1768 - 1771) that resulted in the circumnavigation of New Zealand and the mapp
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There was a theory that Australia was actually settled some 200000 years ago by another group of settlers, and tha
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See, it's an awful lot easier to feel good about almost wiping out a supposedly inferior race when you've got a nice convenient story to say that they did the same earlier.
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I did some reading after I posted, and I have a sneaking suspicion that that is indeed the motive behind the story I remember.
Based on the research I read, it seems that the "modern human" came out of Africa about 200000 years ago, so it does seem a bit far fetched to think that they made it to Australia at the same time anyway.
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The Commonwealth of Australia was not, it was founded in 1901 as a Federation of six free colonies.
There is an important distinction.
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The name "Commonwealth of Australia" might have been founded in 1901, but it was the same people who were there in 1900, so I don't think the distinction is as important as
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The nation of "Australia" didn't exist until federation in 1901. So the country Australia was not founded by convicts, but the colonies of New South Wales and Tasmania were.
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It took the convicts to make it the greatest country on Earth. Yeah... you heard me... the Greatest Country on Earth!
How about that! England sends all their undesirables off to far away Van Diemen's land (as Australia was known then) as punnishment for minor crimes (e.g. stealing a loaf of bread
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Tasmania was known as Van Diemen's Land. Various colonies, such as New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, combined to form the Commonwealth of Australia. Van Diemens Land was renamed to Tasmania to honor the first euopean to locate Tasmania.
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1. Skin cancer
2. Deadly spiders and snakes in your house
3. Long travel times to get across the country
4. Inconvenient timezone
5. No decent sports leagues
6. John Howard
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1. Hunting crocodiles
2. Pulling pints in England
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1. Skin cancer
I'm a geek.
2. Deadly spiders and snakes in your house
Other countries have bears.
3. Long travel times to get across the country ...
Beats unbelievable travel times to get across the CBD
4. Inconvenient timezone
Inconvenient for you perhaps. I quite like it. Only have to deal with yanks in the early morning.
5. No decent sports leagues
Huh?
6. John Howard ... at least we can say Johnny acts that way because
Tony Blair. No - you definitely win this one. Now if you were from the US
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Bears don't hide in your bed.
Beats unbelievable travel times to get across the CBD
CBD?
Inconvenient for you perhaps. I quite like it.
Crap for watching the football on TV.
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Huh? People start dying all over europe if you get a "heatwave" and it's over 35 degrees for a weeek. Pussies.
2. Deadly spiders and snakes in your house
Don't forget the world's most venomous fish, snake, shellfish, octopus, jellyfish, and dropbears. And that's how we likes it. Pussies.
3. Long travel times to get across the country
It's ok so long as you're not driving anything british or american. Pussies.
4. Inconvenient timezone
No, YOU GUYS are in the inconvenient timezone.
5. No decent sports
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I don't need to wear a hat, tshirt and suncream to go outside in the summer, Australians live under a hole in the ozone layer. Brilliant eh?
And that's how we likes it.
Yeah, it's great having to electrocute your arm every day to stop it rotting off.
No, YOU GUYS are in the inconvenient timezone.
You have to get up at all sorts of obscure times to watch any decent sports on TV, we're not interested in watching w
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Its called sunshine
"2. Deadly spiders and snakes in your house"
Not in my house!
"3. Long travel times to get across the country"
Same with America. As opposed to Europe we're not all squashed together and our roads are not one big, continuous traffic jam.
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google.com.au has Australian themed logos all the time, notably on anzac day.
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Got a surprise when I looked at your site. This is an excerpt from an email I sent today.
"This, I feel, can be solved very easily. On the old telephone system you could (at least on Great Barrier Is.) call the operator and get her/him to patch you through to the entire Island. This could be implemented in the New Zealand telecommunications system with an option to broadcast to all people in a particular area with the emergency and the backup plan. In the case of a Tsunami alert, I would imagin
Link to cache (Score:1)
"Google goes down, under" (Score:3, Funny)
US WAS ALSO A PENAL COLONY (Score:1, Insightful)
so quit and stop re-inforcing US stereotypes.
Re:US WAS ALSO A PENAL COLONY (Score:1, Offtopic)
Your friendly slashdot user from good old Europe
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Says alot about us, no?
Good for Aussies! (Score:4, Insightful)
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Don't they teach Geography anymore?
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5-10 spots (Score:1)
thanks for the offer, Google, but it's going to be difficult to get one of those spots
I'd better start preparing my resume
Other offices (Score:3, Informative)
Australia still not on the Google Map(s) (Score:3, Interesting)
Yes, I do have a prototype application using the Maps API which has had to rely on satelite/aerial images to place pins and, no, this isn't a job application, at least not unless they have a need for some very part time context analysis.
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When Australia was colonised by the British, there were already people living here. Most of them were effectively massacred, because the British did not consider them "advanced people" or something. The British effectively stole their land, started "Australia", and the small percentage of aborigines who make up Australia's population would probably like the land to still be regarded as theirs. That isn't how things are, though.
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I'm guessing I might now have to upgrade my prototype application to use version 2 of the Maps API to get the street maps to show there.
I heard the internships are hard (Score:3, Funny)
Google Notebook also? (Score:3, Interesting)
Wow! (Score:1)
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I feel I'm capable, but I don't have a Masters or PhD...
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Food (Score:5, Interesting)
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I can only speak for myself, but I live 35 miles (56 km) from my workplace. So I can't go grab a bite to eat with my friends because they're all at least that far away. The friends I want to eat with are my friends here at work.
Secondly, my place of work also requires that you drive if you want to go grab something to eat for lunch. This is a pain and adds to the cost of going out.
Now - I work in a suburban area. I would imagine those who work in urban areas, as well as those who live closer to thei
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You only drink cokes at lunch?
Seriously, though, there are many good reasons for having this. One reply already touched on some, but here are some more.
Some people have to work through lunch. Many jobs with salaries simply say you have to have such and such done by such and such time. If something happens and time is running short, you often have to stay over lunch (or after-hours) to finish it. Having free coke (and a freakin' nice kitchen...) allows (and possibly) encourages employees to stay the ex
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If it's free, it tastes better. Scientifically proven fact.
Last week (Score:1, Offtopic)
Fast food counter (Score:1)
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/hardware/soa/Photo_g
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Senator Coonan (Score:2)
Re:Who cares? (Score:2, Insightful)
Besides, the only thing they'll be doing in the Australian office is marketing and advertising. Always the way.
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Moving to Sydney would do it for me.
They're not recruiting Austrailians! (Score:2)
>Moving to Sydney would do it for me.
They really do want people to move to Sidney
On this network security job ad [google.com.au] located in Sydney Austrilia it says: "Please Note: Only candidates with EU work authorization will be considered."
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Re:The food at Google (Score:2)
And let me guess, google now know what food adwords to put up when those people are browsing the web.
Re:The food at Google (Score:5, Funny)
That statement says alot about the eating habits of geeks and also the power of Google lore. I'm sure the trash at Google HQ smells like roses and that their staff is so clean and tidy that the restrooms never needs cleaning, but nevertheless Google employs 99 virgins that clean them after every visit there.
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Major difference here in Australia is that Mountain Dew contains no caffiene. So I doubt that it would attain the same level of use.
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No, like all large tech companies Google employs hundreds or even thousands of virgins.
Disclaimer: I work in a tech company and I am a virgin.
Re:The food at Google (Score:2, Informative)
Since I no longer work there, I can't really speak to the quality of the food these days, except I can make the observation that it's harder to cook for thousands of people than for hundreds of people.
In the early days, the food was *great*. There wasn't much of a selection, but as Charlie started cooking for more people, it improved. I don't know if I believe that it was enough of a reason to get a job there, but it was definitely the best company-supplied food I've e
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Like to share the menu?
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Considering that the finest food you can get can cost $100 just for the ingredients and expensive, highly-trained chefs (top restaurants are often barely profitable even with obscene prices), if your statement is true then Google could double their profits just by cancelling dinner. Do the shareholders know about this?
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It was dreamlike
Tim