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
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Would anyone be up for an Google Internal xprize for carbon reduction by gcu reduction? I'd put some dollars to that if the results were, say 2x the gain of buying LED bulbs or cow methane.
Anyone know what the mapping is from gcu->tonnes of carbon?
Mostly I just want to see the end of useless computation...
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Today's Birthdaily Inspiration is an homage to my hi5 days. Cala 13 has only gotten better over the years and they can almost make Assange sound good...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi_Viral_(song)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjSCy1GC6Sc
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Finally got around to buying more carbon offsets after many years and was happy to see Google offers access to their program:
https://sites.google.com/a/google.com/googlercarbonoffsets/home
However I'm likely switching to Terrapass in the future since they also can offset your water usage, and oddly enough their offsets cost half of what we price internally. Also auto-pay, so I won't slack off like I did before.
Oh and fwiw I've went from 12 tons to 5 tons estimated yearly usage.
https://sites.google.com/a/google.com/googlercarbonoffsets/home
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AT&T pulling a Verizon here in California...
http://www.tellusventure.com/blog/att-tries-100-million-grab-from-california-taxpayers/
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Want to know who owns your code?
cs -l -local "case:yes f:my/google3/path/.*/OWNERS\$" \ | xargs -n 1 g4 owners \ | sed -e 's/ included.*$//' -e 's/,$//' \ | grep -v '^//' \ | grep -v piper-group-eng \ | egrep my/google3/path \ | sort | uniq
Sample output
So much good. they had me just for the alt-tab, but v1.1 is epic. Markdown compose!
http://www.boxyapp.co/
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Today's Inspiration: *Quantum Physics meets Hip Hop*
Loving this latest from P.O.S. He's such a decent guy. When Julie was starting chemo he tweeted a happy bday to her when I told him how he's been an inspiration to us working through his kidney transplant.
[guessing "daily" inspiration was a bit ambitious for this collection.]
More here:
and liner notes on the raps here:
Housing bubble? 1.1m? Nah, this is fine.
Either that or the market for messy homes is hot hot hot. Wonder if it comes furnished?
http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/197-Cirrus-Ave-Sunnyvale-CA-94087/19546861_zpid/
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6258266053741395233/6258266052516266338?...
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If you're considering influence peddling via NetPAC you should at least know who gains...
https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en//publicpolicy/doc/NETPAC-Contributions-...
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Please don't unplug the anthrax/explosives detector.
#notacop
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6245647585107650705/6245647585352363186?...
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There's a good discussion on industryinfo about diversity and how haircuts factor into that. Don't want to derail that thread so posting here..
At 22 I went to work for the UN in Geneva. My wife and I drove 3h to Zurich to get our cuts at Time Tunnel. Geneva Salons were too snobby for a metalhead and a punk used to the Hair Police in Minneapolis.
Eventually we found found our counter cultural tribe at
andWhat I will say is that working and living abroad taught me valuable lessons on diversity, inclusion and empathy.
GBUS to Tracy/Modesto. 85 miles each way. New GBUS endurance record. wow.
https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Modesto,+CA/1600+Amphitheatre+Pkwy,+Mountain+View,+CA+94043/@37.5960...
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My latest step in my *Borgmon@Home* project.
https://rainforestautomation.com/rfa-z109-eagle/
I think I already saved the 9 this cost by adjusting our laundry schedule to hit better ToU rates and tracking down some vampire loads.
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6242284384095970257/6242284386346022354?...
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Today I confidently said to my father in law that I could make it easy for him to insert photos into gmail. Sadly Google let me down here.
Root cause bug is here:
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(!)...
Reposting this in the wake of the current Nest thermostat die-off. Customers respond really well when you
- Admit that you made a mistake
- And try to make things right.
I hope our friends at Nest invest in a similar response.
https://signalvnoise.com/archives2/six_apart_does_their_customers_right.php
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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
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https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6239084702831613217/6239084706355357970?...
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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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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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I guess they had to do something with the Chrome Bookmarks code base once they rolled it back.
See
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.
Saw this recently and my wife asked if there was a _Code of the Google_?
*Code of the West*
1) Live each day with courage.
2) Take pride in your work.
3) Always finish what you start.
4) Do what has to be done.
5) Be tough, but fair.
6) When you make a promise, keep it.
7) Ride for the brand.
8) Talk less and say more.
9) Remember that some things aren't for sale.
10) Know where to draw the line.
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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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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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.
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._
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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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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Anyone gutsy enough to try the Xfinity Wifi 'security profile' ?
It generates an XFINITY.mobileconfig. Peeking into the file it appears to contain my username, password and some certificates.
/me walks slowly backwards...
<key>EAPClientConfiguration</key>
<dict>
<key>UserName</key>
<string>[email protected]</string>
<key>UserPassword</key>
<string></string>
<key>AcceptEAPTypes</key>
<array>
<integer>21</integer>
</array>
<key>TLSTrustedServerNames</key>
<array>
<string>*.aaa.wifi.comcast.com</string>
<string>*.aaa.wifi.xfinity.com</string>
</array>
<key>TTLSInnerAuthentication</key>
<string>PAP</string>
</dict>
Uhhhhh, how would I have been able to influence this decision?
Backgound: we still need something like this to render snippets for sharing URLs to G+. Well, unless search wants to provide a low latency API/service to render a webpage with javascript and all that that.
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2015/10/deprecating-our-ajax-crawling-scheme.html
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A great read, but they missed out on another big issue - tons of content is semi-private and will be lost forever.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/10/raiders-of-the-lost-web/409210/?single_page=tr...
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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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#til about vaporwave -- somehow I missed this trend...
oh, and much A E S T H E T I C
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdpP0mXOlWM
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- 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*.
---
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 (
) 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.
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_.
_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_