*Me*: There should be a term that describes writing the design doc after the implementation

Wahbeh Qardaji answered immediately _Perf_ ....

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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.

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

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New Security Vulnerabilities channel on Comcast channel 997. Fedora Core 10 was EOLed in 2009...

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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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New Badge for people who remove Oz Actions.

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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>paullindner09@comcast.net</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>

http://wifi.xfinity.com/faq.php

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* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Selectric_typewriter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwh1INne97Q

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*Fairy tales and anecdotes*
*Both dangerous for amateurs* [1]

When it feels like I'm boiling oceans I spin up Doomtree's Marathon. 6 verses of poetry with amazing beats.

.. and if you missed Doomtree at SXSW you can see them tonight. [2]

#nokings _crash y'alls server..._

[1] http://genius.com/Doomtree-marathon-lyrics
[2] http://www.songkick.com/concerts/24476944-doomtree-at-oakland-metro-operahouse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bocpRJ3PAmA

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So I was adding this to a dev run.sh script today, but it seems that it's usable in other situations..

Bob has decided that nuclear weapons are the
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It has a Dory-like system where listeners can up-vote the questions they want answered. I have to wonder if this system combined with crowdfunding could provide an alternate funding model for in-depth news reporting.

Even the SF Chronicle is exploring similar techniques:

http://www.beaconreader.com/projects/the-faces-behind-the-h1-b-debate

http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/20/the-origins-of-hella

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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*.

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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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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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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Pretty close to just adding this to my .bashrc:

alias xargs=parallel

http://www.gnu.org/software/parallel/

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I'm sure this will make some people nostalgic..

_Our October board report will be due in a couple days (Oct 7th) and due to the lack of activity with the project over the past few quarters (and general decline for even longer than that) I think it is time Shindig gets moved to the attic.  Please respond with your vote, thanks!_

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Whenever I do nasty Infrastructure work I repeat a BASF mantra about making the products that you use better...

Stronger, tougher, more durable, and yes, more colorful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTYoS5nLgkM

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Uh yeah...

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Today's inspiration: *Thunderball* by the Man in Black.

h/t to the CBC's Day 6 which covers rare Bond theme songs and likes SEO'd URLs.

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/episode-251-refugee-smuggling-steve-fonyo-doc-bond-songs-climate-change...

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

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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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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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Yesterday 165 people clicked through to G+ from just from this Pin.

According to referrer analysis Pinterest traffic to G+ is starting to overtake Twitter traffic.

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/175921929172335068/

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[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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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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