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Wow.

Wow.

 

 

 

Remember: *Social's about the people*

_Hey now y'all, can we just get real?_
_Do we care about our fans or is this just another deal?_
_Said another way, have we lost our way?_
_Social's about the people, remember they are people_
_Do we really need another fan, like or share?_
_Do we need another post to show up everywhere?_
_I hope as we scatter we never forget_
_That our posts live forever even when we go to bed_


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itvvFfeLh84






 

For a second there I thought we had forgotten some size params on our FIFE urls...


https://plus.google.com/104979267299758620425#__sid=md0






 

This is either really disgusting or super-trollish, depending on whether this person is an actual employee...   Latest comment:

_Nothing at all; this was a decision made by the Hangouts team. The XMPP change has to do with the NIH syndrome a lot of Google engineers suffer from, combined with the incompetence of the Hangouts PM, Kate Cushing._
_Disclaimer: I work for Google._


https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=presootto






 

This just happened to me at 4am.  Many, many reports like this at http://community.nest.com/ and there's no public response.

Wife wants to rip them all out and get a refund.  Anyone from Nest team want to help out?


http://9to5mac.com/2014/01/20/is-the-nest-protect-fire-alarm-giving-users-false-alarms/






 

Google+ : For Winners.

(Private communities and hangouts get the job done for Ingress players...)


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6014259673203354705/6014259666305363442?...






 

A tale of automation woe.  Read from the bottom..

A tale of automation woe.  Read from the bottom..

A Windows 7 deployment image was accidentaly sent to all Windows machines, including laptops, desktops, and even servers. This image started with a repartition / reformat set of tasks.

As soon as the accident was discovered, the SCCM server was powered off – however, by that time, the SCCM server itself had been repartitioned and reformatted.

 

 

 

So I was trying to buy a copy of The Decline of Western Civilization this weekend.

So I was trying to buy a copy of The Decline of Western Civilization this weekend.  Only available copies are VHS tapes for $200 on Amazon (!)

Found this instead...

 

Newcomer Kilovolt Coffee Lights Up West Oakland

Newcomer Kilovolt Coffee Lights Up West Oakland

New food and drink establishments are slowly springing up in our neighborhood, Kilovolt Coffee is the latest welcome addition -- read more from KQED Bay Area Bites: http://goo.gl/GGg5k3

 

*Decreasing Dwell Time*

Has anyone looked into mechanisms for loading busses more quickly?  A couple of thoughts:
- Add a card scanner on the 2nd door, deputize a Googler to check entrants.
- On campus make a pickup stop in a secured area.  Then people don't have to badge as they board.
- Install two badge readers on double-deckers, one on the stairs, one by the driver.
- Do not wait for tardy passengers if the bus is running late, there's probably another one right behind.

I wrote most of this post while the Van Ness bus boarded passengers @Sacramento which was blocking an entire lane of traffic.









 

Now you too can build your own Zuul Portal.

Now you too can build your own Zuul Portal.

 

Install ground-breaking spyware; receive ongoing rewards!

_[from a survey I received from TiVO today]_

We are considering creating a special segment of the TiVo Advisors panel to explore TiVo subscribers' usage of mobile technology and how it relates to your enjoyment of TV and other media.  Everyone who participates in this exclusive segment of the panel will receive ongoing rewards based on actual participation (not a monthly sweepstakes).

This ground-breaking research will help us understand the ways mobile, television, digital, social, and other media are viewed, used, and shared by TiVo subscribers.  Your participation will have a direct impact on how entertainment and information is delivered to consumers today and in the future.

To participate in this exclusive group, you will be required to download and continually run an app on a qualified mobile device (up to three devices per panelist).  The app runs in the background of your device (in other words, you do not have to interact with the app to receive rewards).

Qualified devices include:

Android™ smartphones and tablets that run Android version 4.0 or greater, and are not rooted;
Kindle Fire HD, but not the first generation Kindle Fire;
iPhone® 5, iPads® and iPod touch® devices that run iOS version 5.0 or greater.
Earlier iPhones are not supported at this time.
The app is a small mobile application (about 3.3 megabytes) which is not intended to interfere with your web, app, wireless phone, or battery usage. Once installed, you should never need to re-activate the app.

At this time, we'd like to get your initial thoughts about this idea.  If we choose to proceed, we'll send out more information in the next few months.

 

Still an empty profile though...

Still an empty profile though...

But not much better than:

Joe Tuman - https://plus.google.com/109949039322333887009

Libby Schaff - https://plus.google.com/110500927796450135344

Bryan Parker - https://plus.google.com/109333654487362962540

At least Parker has a couple of posts there.  Tuman has only 1 Youtube video..

If there are other candidates add them here and I'll share an Oakland Mayor 2014 circle..

 

It's breeding season for -Snowy- Great Egrets.

Next time you're on the west side of 1201 Charleston look up to the trees and you'll notice a dozen -Snowy- Great Egret nests.  Maybe you'll even catch them flying from tree-to-tree carrying newly found twigs.  They really get going on the weekends when they have the campus to themselves.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Egret


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6004786295072276513/6004786295235612994






 

 

Broken Bells at the Fox Theater with Julie Lindner

Broken Bells at the Fox Theater with Julie Lindner

 

*Mockito verboseLogging, plus GuiceBerry hints*

Want to see your mock activity?  Do something like this:

mock(SharingJsonService.FutureInterface.class,
    withSettings().verboseLogging());

Also: Injecting a GuiceBerry mock?  Reset it in a teardown!

There's probably a better way to do this, but.....  I created a Mock inside a GuiceBerry module, then injected it into the test class.

There were two tests that mocked the same method, the second test would blow up because it saw the previous stub, and returned null for the second invocation instead of re-stubbing.

Adding a Mockito.reset(...) on the injected value fixes that.

Thanks to verbose logging I was able to figure that out.

Phew, time for bed.









 

*want*  - couldn't find an internal bug for this, anyone know?

_Add support for [deprecated = true] on all types of definitions_


https://code.google.com/p/protobuf/issues/detail?id=329






 

Why did no one tell me about this?  Would've been so useful for some mobile debugging a little bit ago....

https://xsds.corp.google.com/









 

 

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     

 

Somewhat amused that the java output from protoc doesn't pass our own internal lint checks :)









 

Google+  has some common sense content rules in the User Content and Conduct Policy [1]  You'll notice there is no...

Google+  has some common sense content rules in the User Content and Conduct Policy [1]  You'll notice there is no section on censorship based on viewpoint.

The issue described by Eric Raymond below is much more mundane.  It's actually a problem in the way Google+ previews web snippets.  

A couple of weeks ago we introduced the new Article embed type.  You'll notice these posts by their distinctive large-photos with a ragged-edge.  This new code caused the problem.

The markup on theblaze.com uses the http://schema.org/NewsArticle markup.  That, combined with some other factors causes the preview processing to fail.  This issue was reported to us on April 1st and a fix will be released to production early next week.

I opened an issue on our developer site to track this issue since it does affect a handful of other sites that use the NewsArticle markup.  Feel free to Star it to receive updates: 

https://code.google.com/p/google-plus-platform/issues/detail?id=805

[1] https://www.google.com/intl/en-US/+/policy/content.html

Originally shared by Eric Raymond

G+ may be engaging in non-viewpoint-neutral censorship of news  articles relating to firearms. 

This link:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/04/04/gun-control-advocates-who-say-more-guns-equal-more-crime-...

results in post blocking when it's either pasted in the link box or pasted in text with the preview image not removed. Others have reported that all firearms-related articles from The Blaze, but not non-firearms-related articles, are blocked.

Something more specific than blocking of firearms-related images is going on, as the Geeks with Guns G+ community would have noticed that a lot sooner than now.

Google has some explaining to do.

 

Can we add a 'has sane permalinks' checkbox to Ariane?

Or maybe an SDD - _SEO Design Doc_.  For a company founded on search we do a crappy job of following our own webmaster guidelines...









 

 

Emacs tip o' the day

  % g4d someclient
  % emacs
  M-! g4 diff -du
  M-x diff-mode
  # review patch
  # Find interesting diff, C-c C-c to open file at diff point









 

Thanks to Malte for ControllersForbiddenDependenciesTest

Millions of browsers and data plans are breathing a sigh of relief.











 

Looks familiar...

Looks familiar...

 

 

 - Use _cs -local_ to edit  files found by a code search query.  Here's me cleaning up an experiment this morning:

  *emacs *

If I know all the files need editing I'll also do bulk g4 edit first:

  *g4 edit *









 

 

Considering setting up a Google Code Orphanage.

OWNERless code could automatically be "gifted" to a code-orphanage group of maintainers.  Those volunteers could then put the code up for adoption or retire it in a sensible way.


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5995965251408653457/5995965253170844578






 

Punting to your users and their elected officials considered harmful.


http://lj-advisory.livejournal.com/






 

Full list of Google supported Donors Choose projects.


http://www.donorschoose.org/donor/2275665/?tab=PROJECTS_SUPPORTED






 

 

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Bayfair bus just ejected everyone at GWC because of "low fuel". How can this ever happen?









 

Location start and end in Calendar

*Wanted*: Location start and end in Calendar

I think we can do a better job of mapping travel in Calendar if we allowed Events to have *begin* and *end* locations.

For example, I have a GBUS entry in my calendar.  Part way through my ride I'm getting cards telling me time to the start point.

I quickly scanned buganizer and didn't see an FR there -- but I think this would really help for happy hour.

-----
Another crazy idea -- according to the https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5545  location could reference a URI.  Imagine if the URI referenced a moving object, like a bus, plane or other trackable object.]   If we had that then we could support navigation to any stop along the path, support timed transfers and other cool stuff....

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5545

 

Can we acquire Xoogler founded startups and then have them fix the code they left behind?









 

I wonder if there's anything to learn here, especially with our push to split into multiple apps.


http://www.theverge.com/2014/3/21/5534814/twitter-music-is-officially-dead






 

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So we have new *Die Techie Scum*  and *Tech out of Oakland* graffiti at the West Oakland Park & Ride

If Transportation folks can get someone on this it would be great (time is of the essence for this kind of stuff)

If not I'll try and pick up some solvent and rags this evening and clean it up...









 

 

Don't close that tab or touch that dial!

Don't close that tab or touch that dial!

...heard this morning on KZSU 

 

Seeing this error when launching the extension:

Seeing this error when launching the extension:

Chrome Canary and Chrome Beta channel.  (Haven't tried stable yet...)

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot set property 'id' of null colorpicker.min.js:1

ColorPicker colorpicker.min.js:1

ColorPicker colorpicker.min.js:1

setColourPicker reader.min.js:1

init reader.min.js:1

Consider using 'dppx' units instead of 'dpi', as in CSS 'dpi' means dots-per-CSS-inch, not dots-per-physical-inch, so does not correspond to the actual 'dpi' of a screen. In media query expression: (min-resolution: 144dpi), (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 1.5)