1500 Word MTU

Basically no one has updated the gmail compose/onepick integration to read from photos.google.com data. Instead it only supports G+ photos and albums, which are not being created any more.

So I thought, let's turn on Drive integration and use Drive OnePick. Nope. It sucks. You don't get an inline image in the message, nor can you use the photo options you normally get.

Inbox does have something that works, but I'm not going to train my 80 year old father-in-law to use another email client right after I got him moved over from NetZero(!)...

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Paul Lindner

January 13, 2016

I have a dvd rip of a VHS transfer of some old Sun (we put the dot in .com) internet promotional clips.

You can see some of them over here:

http://planet-rla.com/digital-journey-2/

Happy to share if anyone wants

#internetnostalgia

https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6239084702831613217/6239084706355357970?...

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Paul Lindner

January 12, 2016

Automated Search Terms Page? It's basically XSS and SQL Injection attacks.

From: http://www.bevmo.com/catalogsearch/term/popular/

https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6239020187224152225/6239020186677415666?...

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Paul Lindner

January 5, 2016

If you want more than 10 days of Nest data you're gonna have to send your creds to a shady guy named _WebPirate_

https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6236206815904801937/6236206812873308466?...

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Paul Lindner

December 2, 2015

Not this again...

I guess they had to do something with the Chrome Bookmarks code base once they rolled it back.

See http://go/stars for the latest pitch deck and future plans.

So what does this mean for Spaces, which is also using search results?

What does it mean for collections?

Why can't we work together on this stuff instead of fragmenting? It's just so stupid.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/12/01/google-turns-image-search-into-pinterest-with-new-collections-featu...

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Paul Lindner

November 24, 2015

New version of auth-refresh is out. Uses the new glogin / gcert command line commands to save you time every day.

https://groups.google.com/a/google.com/d/msg/macroadwarrior-guide/XRCmHEZGOac/ICNZ-0W5AgAJ

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Paul Lindner

November 21, 2015

Now cards aggressively target when I switch to hl=en-UK to get the British voice for TTS

https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6219438267743132305/6219438269857772130?...

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Paul Lindner

November 19, 2015

Anyone know the Google-wide record for most reviewers on a CL?

I think someone's trying to break it...

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Paul Lindner

November 11, 2015

Plus Sundar

Sundar - you should really update your G+ tagline. People have commented on your posts that you're still listed as SVP, [and you *have* updated your twitter profile to CEO]

Also what changes would you like to see in G+ that would make you engage as you do on Twitter. You post and retweet at 8x the rate over there, yet you have similar engagement levels on your posts in both places.

For November:
7 retweets, 3 tweets
1 G+ Post.

http://plus.google.com/+SundarPichai/posts/C49DTNR8uoG

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Paul Lindner

October 30, 2015

Bumper Music Playlist

Finally got around to starting a playlist of the dorky songs I play when meetings start late.

And for your Halloween pleasure you'll find the following tracks:

- _Edgar Winter_ - *Frankenstein*
- _Focus_ - *Hocus Pocus*
- and a very special instrumental version of the *Time Warp* from the _Rocky Horror Picture Show._

https://play.google.com/music/playlist/AMaBXynB0Y7GSMNgd3XrzHLe5CQOatDMjcWYhS0Gn7R7ACZuOmlJLQJ9vez4G...

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Paul Lindner

October 21, 2015

Missed this announcement; but I'm really happy to see that we're operating in this space.

Also, I want a few of these.

http://www.aopen.com/eu/aopen-collaborating-with-google-on-new-retail-technology

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Paul Lindner

October 21, 2015

So are we going to release some kind of G+ numbers too?

https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2015/10/11-things-to-know-about-google-photos.html

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Paul Lindner

October 6, 2015

Come Home Paul! Come Home!

- First time I've seen Recruiters targeting expat folks. What next, will they contact my family to put pressure on me to move back?
- Including a Youtube video in your emails is a good way to get your message visibility in Inbox. Even if it's this dorky thing.
- It also appears that Target makes it's recruiters use their DJ name. In da house with *DJ Luke Doubler* and his sidekick *Talent Scout*.

http://rumandmonkey.com/widgets/toys/namegen/3675

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Paul,

My name is Luke Doubler and I’m a talent scout for Target Corporation.

I’m reaching out to you because I see that you went to the U of M and I’d like to see if you’d consider coming back.

I found your name on your GitHub profile (http://github.com/lindner) and see you are a full stack developer with contributions in JavaScript, full stack products, Apache, Amazon Dynamo and others. I also see via your LinkedIn profile you are with Google. I’d like to see if you’d consider a leadership role with Target.

Our corporate office located downtown Minneapolis has an engineer leadership position open in a very agile/scrum development team building products that will propel Target.com as the premier online retailer.

Would you be open to connecting Paul via phone? Your full stack development experiences appears to be exactly what we’re seeking. I can make myself available based on your schedule.

I look forward to connecting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QopMlVsPH3Y

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Paul Lindner

October 2, 2015

Curiosity

Today's inspiration: *Curiosity enabled Products*

So happy to work at a place that values and enables curiosity.

GPMAA and now Youtube Music generate curiosity. What's this song? Oh who's that? What are they saying? *Waynes World III*??!?

Google Search satisfies my curiosity.

And what do you know it's a song about curiosity: _I think about anything and everything, like a child_.

http://lyricstranslate.com/en/comme-un-enfant-child.html

_Je chante et je pleure, comme un enfant_
_Je joue à me faire peur, comme un enfant_
_Je pense tout et son contraire, comme un enfant_
_Je danse, j'ai le coeur à l'envers, comme un enfant_

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c-GeBqUgAA&feature=youtu.be

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Paul Lindner

September 30, 2015

Digging into some Sharing patterns wrt to Reddit.

This reddit thread:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/3mh63x/artem_russakovskii_3450mah_battery_confirmed_on/

Posted by some random user:

https://www.reddit.com/user/sajdx1

Contains a link to a post by an Android Police author and prolific G+ user:

https://plus.google.com/+ArtemRussakovskii

That link in Reddit was clicked on 28k times (probably much more since these logs are only web requests..)

select top(request,15) as h, count(*) as c from
gfstmp_oz.tmp_oz_fe_weblog.20150927 where AppsFrameworkExtension.action_class = 'PermalinkedUpdate' and referer like '%reddit.com%';
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------+
| h | c |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------+-------+
| GET /+ArtemRussakovskii/posts/T9fdFDBp1fd HTTP/1.1 | 28917 |
| GET /+ArtemRussakovskii/posts/hpc36iQuRSR HTTP/1.1 | 3665 |
| GET /u/0/108441771977176576567/posts/QQNFtAeEjTY HTTP/1.1 | 2088 |
| GET /100098741112799154035/posts/Lavu4mVTvpX HTTP/1.1 | 1899 |
| GET /+ArtemRussakovskii/posts/bA4ryjrT9MJ HTTP/1.1 | 1827 |

*Someone send Artem a cookie, or some G+ swag...*

https://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/3mh63x/artem_russakovskii_3450mah_battery_confirmed_on/

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Paul Lindner

September 29, 2015

Circles and People still matter

So Bindu just announced that she was limiting comments to Extended Circles (again) due to trolling and creepers. -(She deleted the post after a few hours..)- It's actually there, I just missed it.. (thanks Amber!)

https://plus.google.com/115989323496360706014

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Paul Lindner

September 28, 2015

Blast from the past..

- "Who gets to see this" was a much better way of telling people what's going on. (Even if 'Twitter' wasn't really a thing.
- Google Me? Google You?

https://drive.google.com/a/google.com/file/d/0B6u4AdjA8gX8TnVzeWFONVUybzA/view

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Paul Lindner

September 28, 2015

Juror PII in Alameda County is at risk from POODLE, FREAK, and LOGJAM attacks.

Chrome and Firefox refuse to connect. Safari is A-OK.

Of course this blacklisting is causing IT Admins grief. Glad I don't have to admin crap products with embedded ssl stacks..

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/o3vZD-Mg2Ic

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=ejuror.alameda.courts.ca.gov

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Paul Lindner

September 23, 2015

Glad to see a new major tenant in Oakland. Still think it would've been a super place for Google. Alas alas..

http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Uber-will-open-East-Bay-HQ-in-Oakland-s-Sears-6523178.php

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Paul Lindner

September 22, 2015

*Own goal*

Happy to see our passionate users take things into their own hands, but the writing is on the wall...

I guess I shouldn't be surprised we never really gave Anne Beuttenmueller and the rest of the Ingress team a reason to stay. Ingress users are super passionate G+ addicts. I don't want to lose them.

https://plus.google.com/104895861304489440774/posts/Z4hf94sn8YP

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Paul Lindner

September 18, 2015

Nest Support Kudos

I had a support call last night and it went really well.

Thermostat displayed E24 error code. The diagnostic tool on the web site was well done. I got to the end where a support ticket was opened. Called in and went through diagnosing the faceplate. At the end it wasn't the thermostat, the furnace had a faulty safety sensor that caused the fan to run and cut the voltage to 1v.

Suggestions:
- The clunkiest part of the process was telling the rep my email address. Also the email I entered in the ticket was different than my Nest account email.
- Could we surface the diagnostic tools on the Nest App? Tried on mobile web and it wasn't working well so then I was running between my desktop and the Nest.
- There's a good opportunity to refer to HVAC repair technicians (Nest Pros?). I spent an hour calling around to find someone that would come out at 9pm in the evening. [Of course this is hard in general; Google search really failed here too. Yelp at least had an 'open now' filter on their business listings.]

In any case thanks again for the good support experience - I hope other teams can learn from it.

http://nest.com/e24

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Paul Lindner

September 16, 2015

Googleplex

http://googleplex.com link previews now available

Googlers sharing to G+ with googleplex URLs will see much improved previews. And yes, that means you can now start a G+ Collection of favorite Memegen links .

But it also means that many other internal sites support better sharing. For example, the devsite.googpleplex.com staging site you see below allows for testing G+ web integration before a prod deploy. It also means Teams, Ariane, EasyOKRs, YAQs and more don't generate random login.corp page previews.

That said, note that not all googleplex sites are supported. The default acl for Googleplex requires a Machine Cert, which G+ doesn't have. If you want your googleplex web app to work well with this new feature you can follow the guidelines here:

https://sites.google.com/a/google.com/uberproxy/user-docs/howto/requesting-an-acl-change

Once that's done you should follow the G+ Snippet guidelines below to generates awesome preview titles/descriptions and images.

Please feel free to contact me if you have questions about this feature. Happy Sharing!

https://devsite.googleplex.com/+/web/

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Paul Lindner

September 16, 2015

Installed the OnHub with it's quite large -wallwart- power supply.

The Airport Extreme I replaced had this built-in and had an AC power cord.

I have mixed feelings

- Wall warts are ugly and don't play well with power strips.

but...

- I can probably use a passive PoE injector/splitter to run everything over a single cable.

Anyone tried this? Especially with a teeny splitter that could squeeze into the enclosure?

[And then I just need a power strip with 12v and 5v outputs....]

https://support.google.com/onhub/answer/6246478?hl=en

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Paul Lindner

September 15, 2015

Is there an internal tool that analyzes http logs? Referers, IPs, query terms, all that?

Sure I can set up a bunch of dremel queries and contour reports. But it's gotten to the point where I'm feeling nostalgic for WebTrends. That's saying a lot since I remember that WebTrends sucked pretty bad...

https://plus.google.com/+webtrends

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Paul Lindner

September 11, 2015

Facebook - House of Pain - TV Commercial

[Note: I dare you to find this video using Google Search. I used search.twitter.com to find this]

This is a new Facebook TV Commercial set to House of Pain's Jump Around. Of interest:

- square aspect ratio (on tv it's on a seamless white background)
- there is no opengraph markup on this page. No markup at all really.
- Except for meta tags for: https://w3c.github.io/webappsec/specs/referrer-policy/ which I did not realize existed.
- It makes me want to see if it's possible to animate our own app UI at 60fps.

https://www.facebook.com/facebook/videos/vl.515712155263726/10153943242676729/?type=1&theater

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Paul Lindner

September 9, 2015

*An update on UrlBuilder*

It's finally gone. The effort to remove UrlBuilder started 8 years ago. I started migrating the last remaining bits in June. 43 CLs later and the task is complete.

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

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

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Paul Lindner

September 9, 2015

Share Link stats - Week

50% increase in sharing actions.

https://dasnav.corp.google.com/dnlesnav/#label_id=lbas4&view=default

Share link replaced Copy Link in the Y release. The chart below shows both actions and the the combined activity.

https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6192442805982854689/6192442808427363266?...

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Paul Lindner

September 9, 2015

Android Police noticed.

It's launched at 100% so I'm not sure why they say it's only on for a certain users. Will investigate.

http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/09/08/google-is-testing-proper-post-sharing-to-apps-in-google-for-...

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Paul Lindner

September 2, 2015

+1 SVG size. Now smaller.

The +1 button uses SVG to render the G+1 you see on the button. When I was adding the new logo I could tell that it was going to be much smaller. Turns out you can actually see the effects in our graphs. Over 512 bytes per response savings, which adds up at 100kqps. That's 50Mbps transit. [Can someone translate that to milliSWEs for me?]

https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6189954277431784961/6189954277510628834?...

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Paul Lindner

September 1, 2015

*Share all the G+ Post Links on Android*

A long time ago the deciders decided that G+ would *not* share Google+ post links the standard Android way. Instead you got a Copy Link menu item which required you to manually switch apps, often killing off the G+ app on low memory devices.

So we fixed the glitch.

As of yesterday 'Share link' replaces 'Link' when viewing a post. Share to Facebook, Twitter, Pocket, Hangouts, Flipboard or Keep. Share a link from consumer G+ to Corp G+. Or even launch Barcode reader and make a QR code. And when you're done, press the back button and you'll return to where you started.

Moral of the story: don't fight the platform. Use it. Rely on what people know instead of substituting your own custom thing. Ecosystems > Walled Gardens.

https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6189564056792138865/6189564059411663874?...

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Paul Lindner

August 25, 2015

Tree rings on the web

In the future web-archeologists will analyze html to identify the age of a page by the widgets they include.

Here you have a web site built circa 2012 with the very rare plusone button with a G+ on a grey background.

https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6187004181065470801/6187004179257230690?...

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Paul Lindner

August 21, 2015

Bay Area Funk

Today's Inspiration: Bay Area Funk Compilations

If you're a Bay Area transplant like me you owe it to yourself to learn a little of the musical history of the place you live. I bought these on CD a while back and it had very educational liner notes. I wish we could get that into digital form somehow.

Sadly volume 1 is not available on Play Music. Volume II is. Recommended.

https://play.google.com/store/music/album/Various_Artists_Bay_Area_Funk_II?id=Bfnhqeirjlpwupvqkqkilx...

And here's some details on volume 1...

_On this first volume of Bay Area Funk 16 tracks represent the best of the infamous Bay Area scene. Ranging from the boogaloo and shing-a-ling sound of Marvin Holmes and the Uptights to the psychedelic funk-jazz of P-I-R-Square. The compilation covers the period from 1967 to 1976 and is packed with music from the key originators and characters including a 12 year old Little Denice produced by blues legend Jimmy McCracklin, rhythm and blues hero Rodger Collins, KSOL radio station director "Hard Punching" Herm Henry, and Sugar Pie Desanto, former opening act for James Brown who is still pulling back-flips on-stage even in her late 60s._

https://www.ubiquityrecords.com/shop/products/BAY-AREA-FUNK.html

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Paul Lindner

August 20, 2015

Technology Adoption Curves, then and now.

There's a fascinating out of print book called *Forecasting the Telephone* that I happen to own. It's amazing that many of the things that we use today were predicted over 100 years ago.

If you search you can find pdf excerpts. Here's the growth of telephones year over year. Note that it omits the first 20 years of growth, when phone wires needed to be 1/8" thick.

It might be interesting to chart Google Fiber deployments against this.

https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6184877649278027425/6184877651734734818?...

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Paul Lindner

August 18, 2015

OnHub is from Access and Energy (an Alphabet Company)

Why is it launching as on.google.com?

2nd HN comment has _ Do we trust Google not to monitor our traffic though?_

le sigh...

http://on.google.com/

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Paul Lindner

August 14, 2015

I'm replacing myself with a very small shell script.

Things are still a little rough but I'm finding value in the reports and the cleanup CLs it helps me generate. See the doc below if you want to play.

You can see an ugly sample report at

http://go/cargocult-oz

and here's a partial list of CLs that Cargocult generated:

https://critique.corp.google.com/#search/&q=%23cargocult&type=cl

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uGbOLN1WMY9JJf9AsGcKG3le0kNJ1fsqCkHaK8wPt04/edit?_escaped_fragme...

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Paul Lindner

August 8, 2015

#branding

http://abcnews.go.com/US/young-girls-google-hangouts-burglar-breaks-california-home/story?id=3295428...

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Paul Lindner

August 7, 2015

There are people out there that like to argue. To be pedantic. And who trot out every logical fallacy in the book while not even realizing it (or caring.)

It's gotten so bad that +116478487531429494919 proposed sending Harry Potter fanfic to such people to give them something to argue about.

However we're Google and we know that won't scale. Instead of letting these people harm our discussions I propose a new AAaS (Arguments as a Service) product that will keep these arguers busy.

- Arguers can find other arguers using a smart phone app.
- We'll match argument styles and positions. Ad Hominem vs Strawman, Android vs iPhone. You name it.
- Want to argue face-to-face? Our Uber integration will get you both to a bar of your choice where you can argue the merits of a sports team or anything else.

And coming in 2016 we'll offer AAaS Pro:
- Design your own Oxford style debates or Presidential fora.
- Adds Abuse and Hit-on-the-Head APIs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQFKtI6gn9Y

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Paul Lindner

August 6, 2015

Learned about how lifeline service operates these days.. Rep said he'd signed up 30 people today.

Lifewireless.com

https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6179691051696948657/6179691054706701970?...

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Paul Lindner

August 4, 2015

Everyone's posting Ben Evans blog posts these days.. I always take them with a grain of salt given his coverage of G+ over the years...

_So, my more-or-less serious theory (based on absolutely no chats with actual real Google employees) is that Google will never make a decent social product, nor any other product for which the engineering is generic and success depends on judgement calls around the UX, because Google’s culture does not appear to respect skills needed for such products._

http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/googles-failures

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Paul Lindner

July 31, 2015

Today's Inspiration: Before there was Lindsey Stirling: *Rasputina*

Playing tonight in SF if you're into Steampunk Cello music.

https://play.google.com/music/playpreview?preview=AE9vGKoi80sjOCKwG5Sf47AD7kx6-pr_DeFUwMRSoGkQ9KEZBq...

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Paul Lindner

July 31, 2015

Who's responsible for the screens on our GBUS fleet? I have some interesting ideas on how we could use them to good effect.

For everyone else: What would you like to see on these screens?

https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6177704708114458817/6177704710270242274?...

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Paul Lindner

July 30, 2015

Today 2pm, MTV-SB65:

"""Bob Gurr, retired Disney Imagineer, spent over 40 years developing more than 100 designs for attractions ranging from the Disneyland and Walt Disney World Monorails to the design of the mechanical workings of Disney’s first Audio-Animatronics human figure.

The attractions he developed still are incredible, and even more so if you consider the technology available to him at the time.""""

https://groups.google.com/a/google.com/forum/#!topic/atgoogle-mv/7W0k21E-ceo

https://groups.google.com/a/google.com/forum/#!topic/atgoogle-mv/7W0k21E-ceo

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Paul Lindner

July 29, 2015

An old favorite from 2000

In my career every next generation (NG) software project failed. Only at Google have there been (some) counter-examples.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

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Paul Lindner

July 27, 2015

Origins of the Open Plan Office

I didn't realize that the crazy Chiat Day "virtual office" concept happened in our Google LA offices.

I'm reading _Tog on Design_ (1996) since it contains so many eerily accurate predictions mixed in with some totally wrong ones.

http://archive.wired.com/wired/archive/7.02/chiat_pr.html

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Paul Lindner

July 17, 2015

Facebook for Education?

[email protected]

heads up @101960497985958811288

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Hey Paul – happy Friday!
I saw that you’ve been at Google for a while. With your strong CS fundamentals from U of Minnesota, I thought you would be an awesome fit here at Facebook with our new focusses this year. Facebook is currently in hyper-growth mode reaching beyond social network and has lots of interesting projects coming down the pipeline at a large scale of 1.4B user data. Whether you’d like to stay in your expertise OR would like to explore something new, our engineering managers would love to speak/meet with you depending on your interest as a lead or IC. I'm also recruiting for a team that's building out a new platform from scratch in K-12 education space. If that doesn't intrigue you, you can explore other opportunities as well. I'd love to chat in more detail - what day/time works for you this week?
Look forward to hearing from you.

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