Car Photos
Remember Soderbergh?
http://go/soderbergh
So much awesomeness that never saw the light of day... @103615931922153151429
https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/file/d/0BxVGGK_Vco3LMDB4QzZRZW56Y00/edit?_escaped_fragment_=
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Just wow.
"millions of web pages" "thousands of newsgroups" - oof
Pointcast part starts at 5:00
https://archive.org/details/ComputerChronicles-SearchEngines_861
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Naming your project guide by Lea Kissner
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d9db0fCyNo-vVNxrPRQSoObkiGnNjSkzQjx0QL2wH7M/edit?_escaped_fragme...
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Direct link: https://www.tumblr.com/tv
Nice intro with TV static, but I do wonder if anyone born after 1990 knows what that is..
- Supports next/prev, but no pause
- Content is limited, not very customizable.
- No context cues presented, no intros/bumpers other than the initial splash screen.
http://venturebeat.com/2015/06/25/tumblr-launches-tumblr-tv-a-platform-for-surfing-gifs/
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New project christened Project Zikzak
I did a random hallway sample and only 2 people knew what I was talking about. What about you?
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This looks fun...
*Glen Keane & Rebecca Ussai | The Principles of UX Choreography*
6/24/15 at 14:00 PT
MTV-43-2-Tunis Tech Talk (200) VC
Any questions, please contact: kevincburke
This talk will not be recorded
The Principles of UX Choreography w/ Glen Keane & Rebecca Ussai
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Q: http://www.quora.com/Does-tipping-the-dealer-in-Zynga-Poker-give-a-player-better-cards
A: no
As I commented on the post below. Zynga derived a lot of their early ways from the Golden Palace casino.
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Proposal: replace OWNERS with GUILD
format:
ldap skill-level
where skill-level is one of apprentice, crafter, journeyer, master and grandmaster
optionally allow 'retired' in front of the above.
And we could have languge-related GUILDs too, though I wouldn't call my readability review CL a _masterpiece_.....
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6163691072404617057/6163691072815330002?...
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Nuggets of truth in there.
Favorite one so far is _"If it takes you too long to refactor than you are not refactoring enough."_
http://www.agile-process.org/proverbs.html
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Imagine the uproar if Youtube sped up all videos 9% to show more ads... Yet basic cable is doing this all over the place using the software below.
Once seen you will notice it all over the place. My wife keyed me in when she said _"This episode of Murder She Wrote feels like a Gilmore Girls episode..."_
[oh and whatever you do: do not search for the word 'judder']
http://www.primeimage.com/TimeTailorSeries.html
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When was the last time anyone ever changed an RPC deadline flag?
Can we get rid of all of them entirely now that deadline propagation is a thing and rpc services support a default deadline option?
rpc foo(FooRequest) returns (FooResult) {
option deadline = 5.0;
option fail_fast = true;
};
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I see dead screens...
When I walk into the office I see row after row of screens, empty and lonely. I want to change that. I want a world where ambient passive consumption helps eliminate the blank screen.
Solving one piece of this puzzle is Malika's intern project. It starts with rich, compelling, G+ Android Daydream support. If time allows we may be able to add interesting things like:
* Interactive hooks, voice action (Choose your own adventure!)
* Whisper/Copresence support
* Kiosk mode, add QR codes or NFC support
* Vendor support,
* Rich Video/Audio
If you're looking into something like this we'd love to hear more. (I did some searching and didn't turn up much other than http://go/showy ) If you have specific features you'd like to see in such a system leave 'em in the comments. Maybe we can add it!
The GigaBOB connects to the GigaBUD. I kid you not.
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6161946194840316401/6161946188675942722?...
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Boing Boing's Xeni Jardin covers everything.
Boing Boing's Xeni Jardin covers everything.
Autoawesome CLs
*Autoawesome CLs* - Project Cargocult
I'm going to formalize/automate all the dirty hacks I use to generate hundreds of CLs. Wish me luck, and I'd love suggestions/feedback.
Hit, Run, and Homicide
Driverless cars / sentient station wagons circa 1984
http://www.murderhewatched.co.uk/post/73453995895/season-1-episode-9-hit-run-and-homicide
For a company born on the web we sure do an awful job marking up our sites with relevant data.
Almost all of the images on the new Sidewalk Labs site are transparent (see below). There is no schema.org, opengraph or other semantic markup.
I hate to add another step to launchcal, but cmon, this is embarrassing. The fix is easy:
- Save page as HTML in Chrome.
- Put page (and linked assets in some secret, yet public web site)
- Preview this on G+, Facebook, and Twitter at the very least.
- Use Webmaster Tools / Search Console to make sure that search knows about your domain and use tools within.
http://sidewalkinc.com/
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Inbox actions have been around for a while and Notifications have not implemented them in generated emails. Anyone on this?
If we remove iframe'd gmail access to posts it can make up for some of the lost traffic.
https://developers.google.com/gmail/markup/
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Using ssh on a GBUS? Use this instead.
Even works on Chromebooks if you enable VPN.
https://mosh.mit.edu/
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Google -Hospice- -Upstate Farm- Pasture Service
Hallway conversation with @104255968520200310944 and @101824307711135795640: wouldn't it be great if there was a way to export a dead service's data into an sstable and allow for deletion/takeout? That way you could turn down the service more easily and get rid of zombie code.
As you can see the naming quickly went to the morbid side.
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Facebook is even using Boq. oh wait..
http://www.secretsofthefed.com/facebook-friends-undercover-federal-agents/
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So what are people using to get photos in from old-school cameras?
The Eye-Fi X2 is now basically useless for this:
- They used oauth 1 for their "PICASAWEB" upload feature. This is now broken.
- They used iPhoto APIs to upload photos. The new Apple Photos App doesn't have integration hooks, so again, nothing.
Their new offerings only upload to their own cloud, so I'm left with useless hardware. Yay progress.
https://community.eyefi.com/
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Congrats to Natalie Villalobos for getting page 2 coverage in USA Today.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/05/22/google-io-developer-conference-natalie-villalobos-wome...
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Thought I'd go all meta and post the ripples for the ripples deprecation post...
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6151421247823702833/6151421246109492834?...
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8 years later...
(Status: Dying slowly 3/22/2007)
https://wiki.corp.google.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/UrlBuilderMustDie
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Just posting this because it contains *Taco Town* in the lyrics. And it's awesome.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd5ZLJWQmss
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A Design Doc for your Illness
Just got the final Second Opinion report and I'm quite impressed. [See http://go/secondopinion - it's a great perk] I liked that they chose people that are advancing in their careers and researching the specific field. You get a clear, well written summary of your medical record, actionable data, and citations for specific background information. There's pragmatism and optimism, including this quote:
_Finally, if one can outpace the innovations in cancer that are taking place right now, survival may actually be substantially better._
If you're considering this service please let me know. We're happy to share our report, just ask. For everyone else here's an outline of what's included.
Expert Selection Process 2
Letter from Physician Case Manager 3
Summary of Clinical History 4
Questions to the Expert 20
Report by Vijayakrishna K. Gadi, MD, PhD 21
Report by Komal Jhaveri, MD 28
Curriculum Vitae for Vijayakrishna K. Gadi, MD, PhD 33
Curriculum Vitae for Komal Jhaveri, MD 37
Legal Terms 40
Any reason to not get one of these?
This would replace a 40" Sony GTV. It's had a good run, but GPMAA is still slow and buggy, and the new Youtube app is a serious regression. And since Android TV doesn't support multiple users I can use the nexus player and my wife can use the built-in ATV functionality.
... and why is this already on sale?
... also lists amazon prime video -- wonder if that'll get released for nexus player?
... and Opera browser bundled? WAT?
http://store.sony.com/43-class-42.5-diag-4k-ultra-hd-tv-zid27-XBR43X830C/cat-27-catid-sony-ces-2015-...
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Some Industrial Metal while I wait for the MRI to scan..
This concert footage is also so very good. Watch it while you can since this never made it to DVD...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yaz5V6OFQlo&sns=gp
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Rank your top 5..
Another product roadmap from Comcast. Heads up to Nest, Jetstream, Drive, and Fiber teams.
Probably pretty accurate since the last survey was asking about Solar, and lo and behold, they're doing that..
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6147710232253884145/6147710234524435826?...
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Oh, and while we're dreaming... I propose that this be the new aquatic gbus.
http://www.wingship.com/?page_id=248
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I'd love to see this built... Not holding my breath..
Oh and whatever happened to the PRT concepts like Skytran?
http://www.skytran.us/skytran/
http://sfbarf.tumblr.com/post/117869492200/could-san-franciscans-be-riding-a-sky-tram-to-work
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CDs are dying
Not sure what's more annoying -- waiting 1.5h for Kaiser to burn radiology CDs or realizing that I actually didn't have a working CD *reader* at home.
Managed to get something working:
Parts:
- 1 SATA<->PATA converter from old server
- old ATX power supply
- my trusty Rackable home server, w/ internal AHCI adapter
- An ancient Sony CD drive. [Broken]
- A CD drive pulled from an old AMD K6 tower [working]
And of course 1 of the CDs is defective and I'll have to get that again. oof.. CDs deserve to die.
Edit: tickets dispensed! The rest of you will just have to take the Decemberists Vocabulary quiz:
http://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/03/24/books-decemberists-vocab-quiz
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2 Tickets for the Decemberists/Lucius show at the Greek Theater up for grabs.
*Free*. tonight, friday night.
You'll need to print out a PDF that I send you. (According to Ticketmaster this is totally legit, since the Greek doesn't check ID and they disallow the ticket transfer feature..)
First one to write 'panoply of song' gets them.
http://www.decemberists.com/
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Also listen to This American Life episode for more context on this shameful legacy.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/512/transcript
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/the-racist-housing-policy-that-made-your-neighbo...
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New term for shady SEO - tooth-worms...
http://www.prosites.com/blog/post/2015/04/02/SEO-for-dental-practices.aspx
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hospital wifi sucks more than shuttle wifi
--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
50 packets transmitted, 34 packets received, 32.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 20.109/59.697/251.879/55.778 ms
http://www.google.com/get/videoqualityreport/
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#dailyoneliner - find targets affected by the files you're changing
Maybe there's a better way, but this works for me...
g4 whatsout | perl -pe 's,^.*google3,/,; s,/([^/]+)$,:,' | xargs blaze-bin/devtools/deps/depserver/query/depends_on -ds
You can then expand this to do other useful things:
| xargs blaze build
to build affected targets
| xargs unused_deps
to find unused deps
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Trigger ACTION_SEND from Android Chrome? (with a photo?)
I know that chrome allows you to trigger specific intents (see linked page) But instead I just want to trigger ACTION_SEND with text and optional image pixels generated by the browser...
Maybe @112427496122904544974 knows?
https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/android/intents
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Free to be you and me
*Free to be you and me* [in 2015?]
[apologies for the banjo earworm...]
Just finished the Unconscious Bias self study. It brought me back to age 9 and how these songs and videos (and other positive experiences) formed who I am.
I wonder what a 2015 version of FTBYAM would be like? The ideas are good, but it feels really dated. Who'd be today's Marlo, Rosy, MJ, or New Seekers?