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I worked for Microsoft for a decade and then joined Google about 18 months ago. Overall, both companies are great, with some clear advantages for Google, but there are many people for whom Microsoft would be a better fit.Notable differences:Google has more online services while Microsoft has more client applications.Google has substantially nicer buildings.Google has substantially nicer perks, from free food and snacks to amenities like pinball machines and bowling alleys.Google's culture is more open and trusting and less political. Microsoft's is improving but isn't a match for Google's yet.Google has much better internal tools. But Microsoft's tools are more widely used by third parties, so some of your skills transfer better.Bay Area vs. Seattle. Warm but costs a fortune vs. rainy but has great mountains and costs a slightly smaller fortune. Although Google has fairly large offices in Seattle and also NYC.Microsoft has more structure, Google is more free form. If you don't drive your own career at Google you'll stagnate.Microsoft does enterprise better, Google does consumer better. Each one has some cool things the other doesn't (XBox, Pixel).Google is nerdier and a bit more edgy, Microsoft is more professional.Microsoft has a more formal and skilled management culture. Google's hiring and promotion process goes the extra mile to eliminate bias but is very labor intensive.Google has more consistently brilliant people, Microsoft has a lower average but still many brilliant people. The expectation for technical competence is much higher at Google, while Microsoft values social competence a bit more.Google does remote offices better.Google/Alphabet has all the moonshots, Microsoft has Microsoft Research.

Body pains are a very non-specific description of pain. I suspect you mean aches and pains in muscles and joints.1. You do not want to use anti-inflammatories as these make telomeres, the caps of chromosomes shorter and thus reduce life-expectancy. Us plain Tylenol to relieve pain, but see a physician for blood tests.2. There are many possibilities what could be behind your symptoms. You do not want to cover up symptoms. You want to find out what the cause is behind your symptoms and then treat it by removing the cause.3. Fibromyalgia could be one of the conditions that could cause body pains. This condition required a multifaceted approach as often there is an emotional component mixed in with physical components. All of the underlying factors have to be addressed and it can take sometimes several weeks and months to sort this out. A multidiscipline approach is best.4. Hypothyroidism is another cause. With that condition there are certain blood findings that indicate that too little thyroid hormones are being manufactured in the thyroid gland. The treatment for this condition is replacement of missing thyroid hormones with desiccated, standardized thyroid (containing T3 and T4).5. Adrenal gland fatigue is a condition where the adrenal glands do not produce enough cortisol. This often is from chronic stress that affects us. Frequent naps, food snacks, vitamin C and adrenal gland extract from the health food store can reverse that condition together with relaxation methods (yoga, meditation, self-hypnosis).6. In aging people there often is too little human growth hormone production (GH) from the pituitary gland. This can lead to memory loss, problems with planning and motivation. There are physical changes with a sagging face, muscle aches and pains, mood disorder, sleep disturbance and lack of exercise tolerance. There is a blood test, called IGF-1 and a 24-hour urine test that can determine whether or not a person is GH deficient. Like with diabetes a tiny amount of GH can be given with an applicator (that has a tiny needle attached to it) once per day and this will normalize the aches and pains within 2 to 4 months. But if the diagnosis was not correct, this approach will not work. At this point GH is still very expensive.These are only a few examples how body pains can be treated. The key is to do the appropriate diagnostic tests and find out what caused the aches and pains in the first place. Next the identified cause(s) can be removed by rectifying what was missing. You said “heal…quickly”. I wished there was a quick solution. But unfortunately you chose a topic where speed is not always in the medical black bag.There are some indications that in certain situations where hormone deficiencies do not play a role, intravenous low-dose laser therapy may give you a fairly “quick” improvement (three to five treatments within a two to three week time-frame).

How does authentic Australian cuisine differ from Australian food in the United States (e.g. Outback Steakhouse)?Authentic Australian cuisine…Nope!There is a fairly broad variety of foods that I would consider to be Australian, with influences from all over the world.For the most part, the things that appear on the menu of the Outback Steakhouse chain restaurants in America are nothing like the food you would typically find in most Australian homes, hotels or restaurants, while those items which do draw inspiration from real Australian food are unfortunately not particularly recognisable to Australians.For the sake of this answer I will go through each of the main meals, the types of food that most Aussies would recognise as belonging to that meal, and make comparisons with the Outback Steakhouse where applicable.Be warned: by the end of it you will probably not enjoy Outback Steakhouse quite as much as you used to (unless your main reason for going is for the decor).BreakfastNot sure how this compares to “Aussie food” in the States, as Outback Steakhouse don’t serve breakfast. I suppose our American friends can reply in the comments with the similarities and differences 😊I’ll give you a quick overview anyway.A typical Aussie breakfast could involve toast with some sort of spread, popular spreads include the infamous Vegemite, Nutella, peanut butter, honey, strawberry or raspberry jam. Some also top their toast with mashed avocado or sliced ‘tasty’ cheddar cheese.Cereal in Australia is typically one of the following: coco pops, rice bubbles, froot loops, cornflakes, weet-bix, nutrigrain, sultana bran, special K, muesli, porridge. Other options exist such as frosties and cheerios, but they’re less popular.A ‘big breakfast’ on weekends, holidays or when eating out could involve toast, baked beans, fried mushrooms, tomatoes and sausages, eggs and bacon, and a hash brown. No black pudding though, unless you’re eating at a themed establishment.Other popular breakfast choices are eggs and bacon, eggs benedict, waffles with maple syrup and ice cream, or pancakes with lemon juice and sugar, or butter and golden syrup, or maple syrup, or the Canadian-inspired combination of bacon and maple syrup. Croissants with ham and cheese also go down well.LunchLunchtime for most Australians is a half an hour break at work in which to eat as quickly as possible. The only typical Aussie lunch food that you’ll find on the Outback Steakhouse menu in the USA is the hamburger.Oh the hamburger…An authentic Australian hamburger is nothing like the Outback Burger. Nothing like the Bloomin’ Burger. The Grass-fed Burger with Aged Cheddar is probably the closest:Below is a real Aussie hamburger.Note the fried egg, bacon, beetroot, avocado, and proportionally sized burger patty. No mustard or pickles. Many places (I’m thinking of fish and chip style takeaway shops) also use white bread rather than a hamburger bun.Doesn’t look quite like the one above does it?Beyond burgers, most people would buy lunch from local cafes with widely varied quality, though some people also bring a sandwich or leftovers from home.Popular items at most cafes and lunch shops are meat pies, pasties and sausage rolls, to be eaten with the hands and optional tomato sauce that comes in a single serve squeeze pack.[1] No cutlery is required or expected to eat either of these items, unless you’re seated in a cafe that has tablecloths and table service.Other options typically involve a range of salads with meat and vegetables and a variety of dressings, typically with internationally inspired flavours.There are also wraps, rolls, sandwiches and focaccias similar to what you’d typically find at subway.Google tells me a focaccia is like a pizza. Google is wrong. This is a focaccia, and it’s delicious:Dinner - Pubs and RestaurantsAt your local pub, club or unthemed restaurant typically you’ll have a grill menu of beef steaks, typically porterhouse (sirloin), eye fillet (fillet), scotch fillet (boneless ribeye), rump steak and sometimes t-bone, cooked to your liking (medium rare is best).Outback Steakhouse does have steak, obviously, but the cuts look different, for some reason they only seem to serve the middle of the steak cut in the shape of a square or circle?By way of comparison, an Australian butcher’s guide to popular beef cuts.[2]Steaks are always served with either chips and salad or chips and veg (you can also ask for ‘chips and chips’), and a sauce of your choice (typically mushroom, Diane, pepper, red wine jus, or garlic butter).There is also usually a menu item known as “reef and beef” or “surf and turf” which will include some combination of prawns, fish fillet, mussels, scallops or other seafood alongside your steak, chips and salad. Sirloin and Choice of Shrimp sounds similar I guess.Then there’s the actual seafood menu. Most of Australia’s population live on the coast, where plenty of seafood can be found.Many menus will have at least a prawn cocktail, ‘fish and chips’ (battered flake, whiting, blue grenadier or similar, thick cut chips, tartare sauce and a slice of lemon, maybe a side salad. No mushy peas.) and lemon pepper squid/calamari.The closes thing we have to the Volcano Shrimp on Outback Steakhouse’s menu…Is a prawn cocktail. Except not. This is a prawn cocktail:In Australia you can get a Chicken Parmigiana (called a parma or parmi depending on what part of Australia you’re from) with chips and salad, often in a deal called a “pot and parma” (with a lot of beer).We also have stuffed chicken breast with Italian style flavours, and rice or pasta dishes. I can’t see anything like any of these things on the Outback Steakhouse menu.Pasta dishes are typically Italian inspired, while rice dishes include everything from paella to curries to nasi goreng and (westernised) “Chinese” dishes.You may rarely encounter something similar to a Queensland Chicken & Shrimp Pasta though… maybe.Such as this pasta dish from a restaurant in Fitzroy:Caesar salad is definitely a thing here. It usually has an egg and bacon in it though, which isn’t listed for Brisbane Caesar Salad on the Outback Steakhouse menu:An Australian Caesar looks more like this:We also have some other tossed salads with lemon herbed chicken tenders or similar, whereas the salads on the Outback Steakhouse menu look pretty basic. Just garden salad 🥗 there’s even an emoji that looks like their menu description.Monterey Jack is in some of their products, but that is an American cheese. We tend to prefer our own cheese from local dairies, and not often in a salad.I haven’t got a clue what Aussie Crunch is either. Clue, anyone?Sweet potato as a side would most likely be in the form of wedges, deep fried and salted, such as:Not baked with honey, sugar and cinnamon as at Outback Steakhouse. Ew?Baked potatoes are delicious but not too common on menus here, unfortunately. Perhaps as a lunch item occasionally. We do get a lot of potato skins as starters though, with cheese, bacon, sour cream.Dessert - Pubs and RestaurantsDessert with this type of meal is likely to be sticky date pudding, mini pavlova, creme brûlée, lemon meringue pie, cheesecake, or an ice cream sundae (with fruit or sauces), as well as a typical selection of cakes such as carrot, lemon, or orange and poppyseed.Outback Steakhouse has a New York style (baked) cheesecake… which is not that common or that popular here. They have a carrot cake which is nice. Too much pecan in the other stuff and not nearly enough fruit on any of it.Dinner - Take AwayMain stream take away food, as in the kind that isn’t meant to be a cuisine from somewhere else, includes roast chicken and chips, fish and chips, pizzas, souvlakis, doner kebabs, and HSPs, as well as your standard run of chain stores including McDonald’s, Hungry Jacks (aka Burger King), Red Rooster, KFC.I’m guessing you won’t know what a HSP is… it stands for ‘halal snack pack’ and comes from the same shops that sell doner kebabs. It’s essentially the same concept as loaded fries or poutine, except better. Loads better than Aussie Cheese Fries on Outback Steakhouse’s menu.On the other hand, a HSP has deep-fried, thick-cut chips, chicken salt, grated cheese, lamb or chicken kebab meat (or both), topped with garlic, chilli or barbecue sauce (or all three), in a styrofoam box with a plastic fork and a can of soft drink.Life is good.Snacks, party foods, chocolates and lolliesMorning and afternoon tea typically consist of snack foods, some of which are hot: potato cakes, dim sims, spring rolls or chiko rolls. There also deep fried treats typically available from fish and chip shops, such as banana, pineapple and mars bar fritters.Biscuits and cakes are probably better known than our hot snacks however: tim tams, iced vovos, lamingtons, ANZAC biscuits, chocolate ripple cake, vanilla slices (aka snot block).Fairy bread – buttered refined white bread covered in sprinkles or hundreds and thousands – is also a popular party food.To eat a Tim Tam correctly, nibble off two of the corners (opposite to one another), put one of the nibbled corners in your hot drink and suck the drink through the biscuit until it gets to the top. Work quickly, then shove the whole thing in your mouth before it disintegrates.[3]Local junk food cuisine (if you can call it cuisine?) include freddo frogs, caramello koalas, violet crumble, peppermint crisp, cherry ripe, minties, fantales, bbq shapes, twisties and cheezels, and I’m probably forgetting a few things too.And lastly, ice creams and icypoles. Milo scoopshake, paddlepops, billabongs, lifesavers, and bubble o’ bills, sunny boys and zooper doopers, golden gaytimes, frosty fruits and pine lime splices, are the most Aussie ones that I know of. Calippos, drumsticks, magnums and the like are also extremely popular in Australia.Sunny boys are remembered fondly by many Aussies, but they aren’t being made anymore. I guess a picture is the best you’ll get:BeveragesWe have a strong tea and coffee culture, with nearly every private home and all motels and hotels having at least a kettle, a few mugs, tea bags, instant coffee, milk and sugar available, if not a full British style tea setting complete with loose leaf, a teapot and fine china teacups.In the British tradition, we draw the tea first and then add milk or sugar or both or neither. No heavy cream or creamer unless you’re camping or on military rations.In Melbourne, the Italian influence brought us espresso, but the high quality local dairy industry have made milk-based coffees very popular, before, during and after meals and at any time of day.Lattes and capuccinos in particular are staples in the diets of most Melburnians.Milo is ubiquitous in Australia. It’s basically delicious malted chocolatey dirt that goes great in drinks. Hot or cold or sprinkled on ice cream, never a complaint from me.There’s also this option.[4]Our soft drink is mostly American, both Coke and Pepsi varieties. Not sure there’s much to say on that one except that if you add some ice cream to your soft drink we’d call that an ice cream spider (what you might call a ‘float’ on your side of the world).Our local wines can’t be beat (#notbiased), with the Barossa, Margaret River and Rutherglen areas of the country particularly famous for their vineyards.Australian beer isn’t much like the beer you get elsewhere in the world, so I’m told. I think some of the other answers give a better overview than I’m capable of, except to say that no one here drinks Fosters (lol).XXXX, Carlton Draft, Victoria Bitter, Swan, Coopers, Tooheys. The main thing about beer here is the size of the glass… it has a different name in every state.And then the cocktails. We have a pretty strong cocktail market. The most ubiquitous Aussie cocktail is more of a mocktail though: Lemon, Lime and Bitters. It is refreshing, and you can get it almost anywhere 😊The rest of the cocktails on Outback Steakhouse’s menu could be ordered here too, you may have to give the bartender the recipe if you want it exactly the same.Outback Steakhouse Menu Items that aren’t AussieBlooming Onions and Bloom Petals - the only thing I’ve ever seen done with an onion that was less weird than this is when Tony Abbott (one of our former Prime Ministers) decided to eat one like an apple. Not a thing.[5]Alice Springs Chicken Quesadilla, Steakhouse Quesadilla, Alice Springs Chicken - Quesadilla is delicious. It is also Mexican, and we expect to eat it in restaurants that specialise in Mexican cuisine. I don’t think anyone seriously expected us to claim ownership of that particular dish anyway.I also haven’t got the foggiest idea what it has to do with Alice Springs, haha!! Alice is a desert town, it isn’t known for chickens, quesadilla, Mexicans, mushrooms, cheese, bacon or honey mustard sauce, and most of those things only arrive there weekly, trucked in from Adelaide…As for grilled chicken on the barbie, wood fired with bbq sauce… that’s about as American as American can be in my book. Our barbecues are a hotplate or open grill for frying things on, with a gas flame, similar to a frypan on a gas burner (hob). It’s not usually a smokey slowcooker with spice rubs and bbq basting.Wood fired grilled shrimp on the barbie - Hate to break it to you… but we don’t put shrimp on the barbecue. Shrimp are a different species to prawns, which I suppose is the American version of a prawn. Here, ‘shrimp’ is the term for a baby prawn… which is usually only found in fried rice.You could probably find chargrilled prawns on menus in some places, though it’s not that common. The most Australian thing about the concept is probably the catchphrase from that old tourism ad with Paul Hogan in it.Mac n Cheese Bites - Another American thing.Gold Coast Coconut Shrimp - see above about the shrimp. Coating it in coconut I suppose is meant to make it seem tropical, the Aussie Gold Coast is a tropical tourist town so I guess there’s a link there. Creole marmalade is definitely not Aussie. Sounds like it might come from New Orleans, at a guess.Seared Peppered Ahi - it’s described as sashimi style tuna. Tuna is not a fish we typically eat other than canned here, and sashimi is a Japanese method of preparing fish to be eaten raw. Nothing about this is Australian and if it was on a menu here no one would buy it either unless they’re partial to Japanese cuisine.Sydney ‘Shrooms - not something they’re known for. Also not a typical side dish I’d see on a menu here….Baked potato soup, chicken tortilla soup, French onion soup - Yes we eat soup. Not this type of soup. More likely minestrone, pumpkin, cream of mushroom…Aussie Fish Tacos, Aussie Chicken Tacos - Tacos are Mexican…I don’t have a good picture for this spot, so here’s a platypus. Did you know the babies are furless, and are called puggles? 😍Crispy Chicken Sandwich, Sweet Chook O’ Mine - these sound boring and I’ve never really seen them on a menu here. Steak Sandwiches are far more common, but amazingly they don’t seem to have them on the menu at Outback Steakhouse?Kookaburra Wings - Wings of any sort on any menu is considered American cuisine here. We have them, we just don’t recognise them as our own. I’m also vaguely offended on behalf of the kookaburras, but they’d probably just laugh it off.Baby Back Ribs - Ribs of any sort on any menu is considered American cuisine here. We have them, we just don’t recognise them as our own.Crab cakes - I asked around. We don’t even know definitively what these are without checking Google… and Google says it’s American. Seems to me we have perfectly good fresh seafood in Australia, no need for that over-processed junk on a restaurant menu.In summary…Australian Cuisine has quite a lot of influences. British, German and Italian are probably the main ones in terms of what is served at generic unthemed restaurants and pubs around the country.There’s also a decent amount of Greek, Turkish, Vietnamese, Indian, Chinese, Thai, Malaysian, Mexican and American foods that have become part of our food culture, that are included in some menus and places more than others.Having said that, the menu at Outback Steakhouse isn’t much like anything an Aussie would recognise as our own food. The most recognisable thing on that menu to be honest is the name of a couple of cities appropriated for particular dishes.Our cuisine is also heavily influenced by the availability of fresh produce, which is to say a lot of seafood, fresh beef and chicken, seasonal fruit and vegetables. There’s a disturbingly low amount of fruit and vegetables on that menu, most especially if you exclude starches and corn which seem to be staples.Our food tastes good without a lot of fussy seasonings, basting, dressings and spicy, sugary sauces that add a lot of fat and sugar to the food. With the amount of additives on that menu you could just about season a piece of cardboard and get the same result… But perhaps that’s the point.If that menu is representative of a typical American diet then I think we’ve just uncovered the source of the obesity epidemic (and Aussies aren’t a lot better statistically, so that’s saying something).It’s kind of depressing actually.Here’s a koala.Footnotes[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsT0TS25Ytk[2] Butcher's guide to popular beef cuts[3] https://youtu.be/Kp-G2yJahSI[4] Page on youtu.be[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_UJ9_Qhekc