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Paul Lindner
 

So has anyone made a poster with Udi Manbar's "It's our problem" statement?

It was one of the more inspiring things I had seen when I was watching old TFIFs (when we could do that..)

See the attached Noogler training deck and consider how things have changed today. (Also a reminder of go/gthink and the insight reports on https://sites.google.com/a/google.com/gthink/g/resources/analyst-insights-reports)

if users can't spell, it's our problem

if they don't know how to form the query, it's our problem

if they don't know what words to use, it's our problem

if they can't speak the language, it’s our problem

if there is not enough content on the web,
it’s our problem

if the web is too slow, it’s our problem

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ZBLK7WfoLHRveZs8FiSlMvgVlkKWNKDhiEgi2Ocy4W8/edit#slide=id.i1...





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Proud Code

GoogleCloud asks: *What was the first program you wrote that you were proud of?*

_Please include what language it was written in and a brief description. Feel free to go out of bounds if you have a creative answer!_

My response:

At age 17 I was published in Compute!'s Gazette. The small utility, named ML Runner, is tool written in Commodore 64 Basic and 6502 Assembly. It converted machine language binaries into easy to use BASIC programs. The result was a better, easier way for users to execute code.

You can see the actual short code on page 98 in the June 1987 Issue here:
https://archive.org/details/1987-06-compute-magazine

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdTVpBafCZghSvaYi6sf8JRbncaOqh153gwtxJE00D0pCcB7g/viewform?...

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Scanning

I guess just in case I was running some perl script I downloaded off of Matt's Script Archive on port 7888

plindner@arcwelder:[beaker]/google3$ host 172.25.65.58
58.65.25.172.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer security-scanner-amer-3.cbf.corp.google.com.

But it appears I can't make it stop :(

https://scarf.googleplex.com/checkip?target=100.109.7.129&list=

05:52:51.515942 IP 172.25.65.58.43577 > 100.109.7.129.7888: Flags [P.], seq 0:432, ack 1, win 229, options [nop,nop,TS val 1188697399 ecr 2097041011], length 432
        0x0000:  4560 01e4 1784 4000 3b06 ccee ac19 413a  E.....@.;.....A:
        0x0010:  646d 0781 aa39 1ed0 c325 02b0 5897 25e2  dm...9...%..X.%.
        0x0020:  8018 00e5 069a 0000 0101 080a 46da 1537  ............F..7
        0x0030:  7cfe 4e73 4745 5420 2f66 6f72 6d2f 6175  |.NsGET./form/au
        0x0040:  6b74 696f 6e2e 6367 693f 6d65 6e75 653d  ktion.cgi?menue=
        0x0050:  2e2e 2f2e 2e2f 2e2e 2f2e 2e2f 2e2e 2f2e  ../../../../../.
        0x0060:  2e2f 2e2e 2f2e 2e2f 2e2e 2f65 7463 2f70  ./../../../etc/p
        0x0070:  6173 7377 6420 4854 5450 2f31 2e31 0d0a  asswd.HTTP/1.1..
        0x0080:  486f 7374 3a20 6172 6377 656c 6465 722e  Host:.arcwelder.
        0x0090:  6d74 762e 636f 7270 2e67 6f6f 676c 652e  mtv.corp.google.
        0x00a0:  636f 6d3a 3738 3838 0d0a 4163 6365 7074  com:7888..Accept
        0x00b0:  2d43 6861 7273 6574 3a20 6973 6f2d 3838  -Charset:.iso-88
        0x00c0:  3539 2d31 2c75 7466 2d38 3b71 3d30 2e39  59-1,utf-8;q=0.9
        0x00d0:  2c2a 3b71 3d30 2e31 0d0a 4163 6365 7074  ,*;q=0.1..Accept
        0x00e0:  2d4c 616e 6775 6167 653a 2065 6e0d 0a43  -Language:.en..C

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Found some weekend reading based on the abstract alone.


_Although it has been a part of the dark underbelly of the Internet since its inception, recent events have brought the discussion board site 4chan to the forefront of the world's collective mind. In particular, /pol/, 4chan's "Politically Incorrect" board has become a central figure in the outlandish 2016 Presidential election. Even though 4chan has long been viewed as the "final boss of the Internet," it remains relatively unstudied in the academic literature.
In this paper we analyze /pol/ along several axes using a dataset of over 8M posts. We first perform a general characterization that reveals how active posters are, as well as how some unique features of 4chan affect the flow of discussion. We then analyze the content posted to /pol/ with a focus on determining topics of interest and types of media shared, as well as the usage of hate speech and differences in poster demographics. We additionally provide quantitative evidence of /pol/'s collective attacks on other social media platforms. We perform a quantitative case study of /pol/'s attempt to poison anti-trolling machine learning technology by altering the language of hate on social media. Then, via analysis of comments from the 10s of thousands of YouTube videos linked on /pol/, we provide a mechanism for detecting attacks from /pol/ threads on 3rd party social media services._


https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.03452






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How easy is it to learn Verilog, VHDL and Lua? Only 3 languages until I hit Yoda.

[Oh and I have no idea what the Spitfire language is, but I'll take it...]




https://docs.google.com/document/d/1B9I1kEps589lHhpzsUIecAmJWgNb-H1cj1qspdXQJ_c/edit?_escaped_fragme...






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Here's a 30 day challenge.

Only consume Youtube and Play Music content in a language you barely know.

This is how much of the world interacts with our products.

All of a sudden you understand why lyric videos are so popular on Youtube. It also explains weird comments on G+ from people that are just playing around with English.

I've been doing something like that for a few days. It's eye opening.

Oh and if you're interested in music discovery from Suisse Romande see the link below.


https://www.youtube.com/user/LesReperagesCouleur3






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I've been very impressed with the rapid progress of Sprint Reader I'm up to 650 wpm and can probably go faster with...

I've been very impressed with the rapid progress of Sprint Reader I'm up to 650 wpm and can probably go faster with a little more practice.

Originally shared by Sprint Reader

Language auto-detection done!

Functionality coming soon and paves the way for more intelligent word hyphenation (by language pattern) and maybe, just maybe auto-translation!

Stay tuned.

  Google Translate     

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Paul Lindner
 

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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curious as to why there was a globe favicon next to Merc news articles I viewed the page source..


<script language="JavaScript">
document.write('<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/favIcon/mercury/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">');
document.write('<link rel="icon" href="http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/favIcon/mercury/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">');
</script>

Why oh why.....


http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/favIcon/mercury/favicon.ico






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Couldn't agree more...

Couldn't agree more...

Originally shared by Brad Templeton

When I saw the news about Steve Jobs it was a shock. But the news that Dennis Ritchie has died was much more like a blow. I didn't know him super well, we attended Usenix together for many years, but he was mostly a quiet man, not the sort to seek the limelight.

Dennis was instrumental in two things -- the C language and Unix -- which are the foundation of almost all the computing in the world today. Certainly much of C came from its predecessors like B and BCPL, and many things in Unix from its predecessors like Multics, but these two focal points were where all of 60s and early 70s computer science came together, and spread out. Of course Linux and MacOS and Android are very direct descendants of Unix, but even Windows is filled with ideas from Unix.

Far more than Steve Jobs, pretty much all your computing is based on Dennis' work. Last week Google noted Jobs at the bottom of the home page, a very rare honour. But Dennis Ritchie would be even more deserving of it.

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The language, the food, Paris during christmas time, the Tour de France, snowboarding at Mont Blanc, summer music...

The language, the food, Paris during christmas time, the Tour de France, snowboarding at Mont Blanc, summer music festivals and the TGV all spring to mind. Living in Geneva for a few years was an amazing experience!

Originally shared by Paul Lindner

Question of the Day

Happy Bastille Day! What's your favorite part of French culture?

I'd like to revive a great feature from the Vox blogging platform -- the question of the day. It was a great way to overcome writers block and meet like-minded people. And it's a lot of fun!

So feel free to reshare this post, add your thoughts, and share with the circle of your choice. If posting publicly use the hash tag.

Still stumped? Try using Sparks and search for french related things!

Cheers,

Paul

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