Mudhoney from the Space Needle under clear skies in Seattle for Sub Pop Records 25th anniversary..
Human, Dustcake, Engineer
Doing my best to make the world a little better every day.
❤️ J9
news.ycombinator.com/user?id=lindner
@exk4ji+mpb4mdiCG5KVHxIMCo0as4k4/cIwRoxt3Aw4=.ed25519
www.openhub.net/accounts/plindner
dl.acm.org/profile/99659334862
This is... grotesque..
1) Send html attachment
2) Have user open attachment on filesystem
3) Need to recover your password? Send recovery link to email.
4) Enter password, click open, popup gets blocked on mail-attachment domain.
4) Secure? uhhhh
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5901699545583209681/5901699548451213538?...
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Is this GASP approved? Seems like our button states/colors are outta control....
Is this GASP approved? Seems like our button states/colors are outta control....
Originally shared by Google OS
YouTube's subscribe button is now red
LGTM :)
LGTM :)
Originally shared by Gerwin Sturm
While the activity log at is nice for keeping track of posts you +1'd it contained too little information to be really useful, so I whipped up a chrome extension that rectifies this "issue" by fetching profile picture and a small text snippet for each of the posts via the Google+ API. This only works for public posts but from my experiments it seems that only public posts ever get added to the activities anyway. The extension still needs a bit of testing and clean-up, but I'll open-source it soon :)
PS. I've all sent feedback that this should be the default behaviour without the need for extra scripts :)
I got an email from the Google + platform team saying that there was a problem with our implementation.
I got an email from the Google + platform team saying that there was a problem with our implementation. The email however didn't contain any specifics, just some links to common issues. I've spotted 2 small things that might be the issue. Thing is I do not want to address what might be an issue only to have it turn out that I missed something for fixed something that wasn't broken.
So the question is where do I go / who do I talk to to get specifics?
Little known fact. All royal births require launchcal approval.
_It doesn't look like we're going to get launch calendar approval before EOD today. API team, please grant 100K QPD for now, to ensure that we do not block the birth of the Royal Baby._
ttp://b.corp.google.com/issue?id=9677423
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A case where this side up really mattered...
A case where this side up really mattered...
Juhan says hi!
Here's my neighbor Juhan. He's a Google fan that suffers from Macular Degeneration. Every other week I help him with his old Windows XP rig that somehow resets the font sizes back to stock.
He's still on AOL, which doesn't support larger font sizes. So when he receives a "letter" he opens it, selects Forward and uses the message editor to boost the font size. He tried switching to Comcast (Zoho?) Mail but it was a big fail.
Otherwise he does pretty well with video sites, Newspapers and Skype. Watching him use technology has been very instructive. I learned a lot watching him cope with various web sites.
Despite not using our products he's a big fan of Google and wishes us all the best!
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5898813881606962785/5898813885589560450?...
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Neil Gaiman came by Google to speak about his recent novel, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, and at the end, a bit...
Originally shared by Chris DiBona
Neil Gaiman came by Google to speak about his recent novel, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, and at the end, a bit from an new book coming out in September.
Neil Gaiman: "The Ocean at the End of the Lane", Talks at Google
Two questions come to mind:
- Google, master of the links, should've done this first
- It will probably get spammed to death, but that's a fairly easy problem to solve...
http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/1/4482322/twitter-embedded-websites-tracking-monitoring-events
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Turn on/off new +1 look-and-feel. Coming soon to all Googlers.
http://go/originalplusone
http://go/prettyplusone
Cool new stuff:
- SVG 'G' and Roboto font by @106049961088401964660 's wizardry
- Did I mention Roboto? We'll be priming the font cache for 50% of the sites on the web.
- Elimination of a huge sprite (well, just so long as you're not using IE8)
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-Priceline- *Intestine Negotiator!*
_...a Priceline like service for the healthcare industry-bringing transparency to the healthcare sector in same fashion as Priceline/Kayak/Expedia did to the travel industry._
....
Your profile seems like a possible fit for our team. I have included management info below my name and I will look forward to hearing your thoughts.
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Sibley Regional Park #throughglass
Sibley Regional Park #throughglass
Early Sunday, before it got too hot, Julie Lindner and I took our dog Tommy for a walk in the Oakland Hills. With some care (and a bit of luck!) you can get some nice shots with the Glass camera.
<voice style="casey-kasem">
Hot new entrant into the BadgeWidget top-40, slotting in at Number 4 It's Teaser-Trailer.
</voice>
And who knew we were up to Transformers *4*!
http://teaser-trailer.com/transformers-4-spy-videos-and-pictures/
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Mr Jingles is the best thing ever. I fully expect it to help our popularity in APAC where a mascot is almost required.
Pictured below: Toph and TophToph, the SixApart/Typepad mascots.
https://plus.sandbox.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5894689919880372449/589468991981...
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Hi there Android Central!
The wait is over!
The wait is over! If you were at Google I/O you may have seen these new buttons and badges. Now everyone can use them.
Originally shared by Raj Iyengar
If you're a publisher, blogger, or community owner that wants to promote your Google+ presence on your website, we have a bunch of new options for you! Starting today, you can configure a compact Follow button, or beautiful redesigned Badges that help your visitors follow you on Google+ without leaving your site. And, by popular demand -- Community Badges!
You can see the Follow button in action on the websites of
The Huffington Post, Mashable, CELEBUZZ, FITNESS Magazine, and Cooking Light.
Kudos to Kickstarter for reinventing Patronage as an egalitarian fan-based process.
Kudos to Kickstarter for reinventing Patronage as an egalitarian fan-based process.
... and The Suburbs are totally cool, you should check them out.
Soundcloud and Google+: now better integrated.
Soundcloud and Google+: now better integrated.
If you already have a Soundcloud account go here:
If you create content on Soundcloud you definitely want to connect your profiles. Add your Google+ profile here:
And then add your Soundcloud profile here:
Soundcloud supports authorship markup, and connected profiles makes your Soundcloud content eligible for enhanced search results!
Originally shared by Ade Oshineye
This simple OSX utility is handy. You can keep windows on top, change transparency and more.
This simple OSX utility is handy. You can keep windows on top, change transparency and more.
This allows me to have my Keep todo list always on top, and stop hangout windows from staying on top.
Unexpected pleasure - Google Now and All Access let me know about new releases that I would have forgotten about.
Unexpected pleasure - Google Now and All Access let me know about new releases that I would have forgotten about. In the past week it's highlighted a new single from M.I.A., the new CSS album and this gem from Austra.
*RWYU* - Request What You Use?
One thing that always bothers me is useless or expensive RPCs, and the various ad-hoc ways of filtering proto fields. So I was inspired by IWYU and came up with these ideas...
** When making an RPC include a 'template' for the response. The simplest possible thing is an actual response object. Fields you want have defaultValue, fields you don't want are empty. Call it the 'Mask' or 'Filter'
FooResponse = fooRpc(FooRequest)
becomes
FooResponse = fooRpc(FooRequest request, FooResponse mask)
** Building up these masks can be tricky. So borrow code from dremel so you can make them look like a SELECT.
mask = MaskMaker.create(fooResponse, "message.*,foo.name");
** A Rpc service can then look at the fields wanted and adjust it's behavior. If a proto message isn't needed you can probably save extra downstream RPCs. The logic is actually fairly clean:
if (mask.hasMessage()) {
if (mask.getMessage().hasField()) {
m.setField(x);
}
response.setMessage(m);
}
[and you could conceive of DSLs or other mechanisms that dispatch producer logic for portions of the response.]
** A client can enforce the filter/mask by stripping out anything the server sends that it did not expect. Tracking mismatches here can identify efficiency wins.
** To make creating masks easier we could sample RPCs and find a maximal mask that includes data that is actually accessed. Just Instrument the getters on the generated proto objects and figure out what your code actually uses. (Obvious caveats apply about exceptional cases, speculative RPCs, etc.)
Anyone tried to solve this problem in a general way? Am I crazy to think that there's a general-purpose solution to this problem?
[Bonus points if we can figure out a way to also specify limits and continuation tokens inside a mask. Maybe with proto extensions?]
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Now we know why all the Noogler Helium balloons were replaced with pinwheels!
Congrats @105461895807395473744!
Couple of little things:
- Can you spec a better image for the snippet?
- Perhaps add more detail in your title?
- Add a rel="publisher" attribute to your Google+ page link.
http://www.google.com/loon
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Back in 1999 I worked with keen.com to provide a 1-900 service for linux support. Today? Well, just look at the snippet below..
http://www.keen.com/
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Great new feature that makes it easier for people to follow your Google+ page from your newsletters and...
Great new feature that makes it easier for people to follow your Google+ page from your newsletters and notifications.
In the past you had to add and verify all your sender email addresses (which were often [email protected]). Now the email hostname just needs to match your verified website, which is much easier.
Originally shared by Google Small Business
Customers can now follow you directly from Gmail
Posted by Saurabh Sharma and David Nachum:
Today we're expanding the Gmail people widget to include brands and businesses (), making it easier for your customers to connect with you on Google+. This way, when people receive emails from your domain, they can follow your Google+ page directly from their inbox! Your recent Google+ posts can also appear in the widget (alongside your email message), helping customers find and engage with your content.
To appear in the new Gmail widget, all your business or organization needs is a verified Google+ page and digitally-signed emails. Check out this page to learn more:
ZigBee in the hospital...
ZigBee in the hospital...
Noticed these all over. Turns out they're used to track equipment and people as they move throughout the building, just like electronic toll collection.
Some interesting background info at share.net/Aware point
Paul WFH - Work from Hospital
Unlikely I'll be @standup. Will be in office at ~11:30 if all goes to plan.
Standup Update
- Say hello to Rhidhima as you welcome her aboard as +1 2013 TL.
- Working on getting some SocialGraph CLs through the oz queue
- Followup on +1 deletion issues.
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Has it been 2 years already? Time flies when you're +1'ing
Has it been 2 years already? Time flies when you're +1'ing
[oh and the cake was delicious..]
Originally shared by Fred Gilbert
Happy second birthday +1 and happy donut day to you all! I hope y'all get a chance to pick up a free one at Krispy Kreme :)
I was talking to Brett Slatkin about authorship and he mentioned the Google Consumer surveys offers an A/B image...
I was talking to Brett Slatkin about authorship and he mentioned the Google Consumer surveys offers an A/B image survey that would be perfect for Authorship profile photo optimization.
You also get geographic/demographic breakdowns so I suspect that it's a good deal more informative than the OK Cupid bestface system.
My problem with surveys is that what people say they'll click or appeals to them can differ from what they actually click when they aren't thinking about "I'm taking a survey"
IIRC the accuracy rate was on-par or better than traditional survey methods. **
As always how you ask the question matters a large amount too.
http://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/static/consumer_surveys_whitepaper_v2.pdf
Happy to see OAuth support for CalDAV. Still sad that it's always going to be saddled with legacy vCalendar issues.
Happy to see OAuth support for CalDAV. Still sad that it's always going to be saddled with legacy vCalendar issues.
Both CalDAV and CardDAV suffer from their history and badly need redesigning. Not much has changed in the 10 years since I was hacking on libical. I mean, consider the following CDATA chunk from the RFC. No one should need to parse/generate this ancient format. It's complicated, finicky and plain awful.
BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Example Corp.//CalDAV Client//EN
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
LAST-MODIFIED:20040110T032845Z
TZID:US/Eastern
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
DTSTART:20000404T020000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=4
TZNAME:EDT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
DTSTART:20001026T020000
RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=10
TZNAME:EST
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTAMP:20060206T001102Z
DTSTART;TZID=US/Eastern:20060102T100000
DURATION:PT1H
SUMMARY:Event #1
Description:Go Steelers!
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR
Maybe I should standardize SnmpDav? At least it has XER which would make it slot into XML without the ugliness above.
In any case I hope that a new calendaring standard emerges from this muck that is more developer friendly.
#closure boilerplate reduction:
@107106902560384103150 submitted http://cr/47565620 , which allows goog.ui.Components to do this:
this.getRequiredElementByClass('classname')
Also goog.ui.Component has a domhelper. You can get rid of your local domHelper_ vars in most cases and use this.getDomHelper() (and other dom helpers in goog.ui.Component) instead..
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truth:
truth:
Another option is to take a hard look at how the accident actually happened, treat the engineers involved with respect, and learn from the event.
A couple more pull quotes:
"... at Etsy. We instead want to view mistakes, errors, slips, lapses, etc. with a perspective of learning. Having blameless Post-Mortems on outages and accidents are part of that."
"an engineer who thinks they’re going to be reprimanded are disincentivized to give the details necessary to get an understanding of the mechanism, pathology, and operation of the failure. "
"A funny thing happens when engineers make mistakes and feel safe when giving details about it: they are not only willing to be held accountable, they are also enthusiastic in helping the rest of the company avoid the same error in the future."
My favorite quote: "[Engineers who make mistakes] are, after all, the most expert in their own error."
I can honestly tell you that I've been the person who has primarily been involved in multiple incidents that were followed up with a postmortem. Each time it's been a great experience. There really is no blame. It doesn't even enter the picture. Each time we've learnt and improved the situation so that the same problems don't arise in future. Everyone wins.
My local electric utility PG&E has a low tech solution for their Smart meters.
My local electric utility PG&E has a low tech solution for their Smart meters. If you want to activate the remote sensor you fill out this form and wait 5 days for your "HAN eligibility code".
Well.. it turns out that submitting this form emails [email protected] with the information (and cc's the person filling out the form). A quick check reveals that it posts to '/cgi-bin/pgemail.pl' with the included account number and other personal information.
I wonder how they'll send me this super secret code? Email too? But don't worry it's secure, they have "PKI certificates using Certicom Elliptic Curve Qu Vanstone (ECQV) technology."
Warning, once seen, cannot be unseen.
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Go to your profile. Notice that your +1 tab is *+1's* instead of *+1s*.
Maybe we should rename the other tabs to:
Post's
Photo's
Review's
:-P
http://b/5155750
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Do you send out emails with a noreply address?
Do you have a plus page?
Then you should consider getting your mappings added to the following bug so people can follow your page when they're reading your email updates.
https://b.corp.google.com/issue?id=9176847
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An API generator with shades of Apiary being used by my former coworkers at LinkedIn..
http://rest.li/
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At LinkedIn HQ they have a time-capsule made of legos.
At LinkedIn HQ they have a time-capsule made of legos. I hope they invite me over when they decide to open it back up.
Of course this would be the handiwork of Adam Nash.
And thanks again to Brandon Duncan for inviting me over for lunch to see this and other LinkedIn wonders.
And more from James.. Seems like it's moving in a good direction..
http://www.chmod777self.com/2013/05/time-for-updated-activity-streams.html
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Was listening to Kreayshawn's Gucci Gucci, heard the shout out to Google Maps and got curious...
http://rapgenius.com/search?q=google
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Added some information to this question about integrating with analytics.js
Added some information to this question about integrating with analytics.js
I wasn't aware of this change to tracking functionality. I'll see if we can add some of this to the docs or provide an easy way to activate this tracking.
Actual subject line:
_Subject: traceroute Square, Inc_
Got me thinking about what unix commands one could prepend in front of a company name. Bonus points if they actually execute :)
Subject: mount Netapp.com:/jobs /home
Subject: echo "curl http://evite.com/jobs" | at teatime
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Nice I remember meeting Mark at the PJ20 show he was walking behind me in the Pearl Jam Museum it was really interesting listening to him remembering about stuff back in the days as we walked through there
Dan Baran, Jul 13 2013 on 1500wordmtu.com