Whatever's on the barge in the bay better be good.  Otherwise William Gibson and I will both be disappointed.

_"He's at Google CAZ. See the knuckle tats?" They all dress like 50s longshoremen, particularly the women._


https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/395649357791248384

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Farewell iGoogle and your hundreds of quality Zombie gadgets.

For perspective Campfire 1 was 6 years ago on Nov 1st.  At hi5 we wanted to create a Day of the Dead gadget but ran out of time (hi5 was super popular in south/central america, so it would have been a natural fit..)


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T-Mobile user with a grandfathered plan?

Install this before you upgrade to KitKat...


https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pdanet#body-content

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Be careful removing 'unused import' for protos.  strict deps don't apply in this case so you'll want to test compile with global presubmit...




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IE9 - the doughnut hole of web animation...

svg works well on all browsers except IE8, and Gingerbread
css3 animation works on IE10+
svg smil?  everything with svg, but not on IE at all.
requestAnimationFrame?  nope.

http://caniuse.com/


http://caniuse.com/

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We need pet names for KG

then I can query "name of deadmau5's cat" and get the answer

Professor Meowington phd




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Some good advice here..  auth-refresh is very handy..

https://wiki.corp.google.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MacRoadWarrior




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What's the word?  hideous, yes that's the word.

This is the new commenting system on sfgate.  The trolls over there get the commenting system they deserve I guess....


http://viafoura.com/

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Bin packing is NP Hard....

1st time with Shopping express-extended.  Oh the boxes!

Bottom box is 2ft ^3 -- toilet paper/paper towels.
Middle boxes contained misc things from other stores.
Top-one is 14" ^3 -- It contained a 4-pack of cucumber soda and enough bubble wrap to float a boat.

I'm saving the boxes and should be able to reuse the smaller ones.  I did send feedback to team about this situation.


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Whiteboard mural preservation; Apiary edition.


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G+ Inspired UI at http://littlemonsters.com

- Sidebar with icons for apps
- Cards for posts and expanding comments
- Mole-based chat system.
- Header that collapses when you scroll down
- Big Red Buttons!


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Found a few tips here.  Color prompts, didn't realize that g4's -c flag would tab-complete.

Added a comment about setting the tmux title using

  tmux rename-window

Now I have a decent set of titles instead of

1 bash 2 bash 3 bash 4 bash 5 bash 6 bash 7 python ...


https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/presentation/d/1xh9sh8jtl36h_-Ys8DYQL2ddryjhr_jiObqT5Dl8k9Y/edi...




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Sometimes you want down and to the right too...  At least when it comes to Focus Query cost.


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Parameterized tests in Junit 3 -- another Java #protip

Adding some experimental code that modifies a junit3 test?  Yearning for Junit4 @RunWith(Parameterized.class) annotation?

For simple things like an experiment flag you can do this:

Add the flag to the base test class.

   boolean experiment = false;

Create a subclass of your test and change the value in your setUp method:

 class FooWithExperimentTest extends FooTest {

 @Override
 protected void setUp() throws Exception {
    this.experiment = true;
    super.setUp();
  }
}

Your subclass will run with the varying value.




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ProtoAssert is a java testers best friend.

ProtoAssert
  .assertThat(result)
  .ignoringField(...)
  .isEqualTo(expected);




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TAP submit speedup  #protip

- You mail a CL
- The presubmit automatically starts a TAP run.
- You get an email with the results.
- You did *not* change the CL after you mailed it.

If all of the above is true, use the TAP base with *--rerun* when submitting to save time.  The base is in the email TAP sends you and it looks like this:

  OCL:53489329:BASE:53489326:1380560146993




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Can't wait for the sequel +Share


http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1_2013/

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NYC Googlers -- recommendations on laptop repair?

My sister-in-law spilled Sierra Nevada on her 2010 MacBook Pro and I'm trying to help her.  I found http://http://www.laptopmd.com/ and they quoted 65 to clean the motherboard and replace the keyboard.

She's living on grants and piece work so if you know of a better deal let me know.


http://www.laptopmd.com/#header

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Somethings wrong when fiber to the home comes to rural Minnesota before the bay area...

[This is a little town 1200 people about 30 miles from Rochester MN]


http://www.kmtel.com/internet/high-speed/

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SVG, it's VRML for flatland.

Hacking on svg is bringing back memories of another markup language with multiple coordinate systems..

I am writing up a little guide on how to get productive with SVG so others can benefit from my pain.


http://www.wiley.com/legacy/compbooks/vrml2sbk/ch06/06fig09.htm

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Protip: Use Optional#asSet() to populate collections from optional values.

Was annoyed with lots and lots of code that looks like this:
   Optional<Foo> foo = getFoo();
   if (foo.isPresent()) {
     collection.add(foo.get());
   }

Turns out there's asSet which lets you write code like this:

  collection.addAll(getFoo().asSet());




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