The +1 button uses SVG to render the G+1 you see on the button. When I was adding the new logo I could tell that it was going to be much smaller. Turns out you can actually see the effects in our graphs. Over 512 bytes per response savings, which adds up at 100kqps. That's 50Mbps transit. [Can someone translate that to milliSWEs for me?]
Today's inspiration is brought to you by the Nintendo Power Glove
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*Share all the G+ Post Links on Android*
A long time ago the deciders decided that G+ would *not* share Google+ post links the standard Android way. Instead you got a Copy Link menu item which required you to manually switch apps, often killing off the G+ app on low memory devices.
So we fixed the glitch.
As of yesterday 'Share link' replaces 'Link' when viewing a post. Share to Facebook, Twitter, Pocket, Hangouts, Flipboard or Keep. Share a link from consumer G+ to Corp G+. Or even launch Barcode reader and make a QR code. And when you're done, press the back button and you'll return to where you started.
Moral of the story: don't fight the platform. Use it. Rely on what people know instead of substituting your own custom thing. Ecosystems > Walled Gardens.
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Looking for funky, but Wahlberg's not your style? Here you go.
Sadly it'll probably be taken down before I get off this shuttle. Sorely tempted.
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Who's responsible for updating Android Support libraries in google3? There are a bunch that are missing (customtabs, recommendation-app, percent, etc.)
Would be nice to have this as part of the release process. It also would be good to get the naming sync'd up...
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Tree rings on the web
In the future web-archeologists will analyze html to identify the age of a page by the widgets they include.
Here you have a web site built circa 2012 with the very rare plusone button with a G+ on a grey background.
Bay Area Funk
Today's Inspiration: Bay Area Funk Compilations
If you're a Bay Area transplant like me you owe it to yourself to learn a little of the musical history of the place you live. I bought these on CD a while back and it had very educational liner notes. I wish we could get that into digital form somehow.
Sadly volume 1 is not available on Play Music. Volume II is. Recommended.
And here's some details on volume 1...
_On this first volume of Bay Area Funk 16 tracks represent the best of the infamous Bay Area scene. Ranging from the boogaloo and shing-a-ling sound of Marvin Holmes and the Uptights to the psychedelic funk-jazz of P-I-R-Square. The compilation covers the period from 1967 to 1976 and is packed with music from the key originators and characters including a 12 year old Little Denice produced by blues legend Jimmy McCracklin, rhythm and blues hero Rodger Collins, KSOL radio station director "Hard Punching" Herm Henry, and Sugar Pie Desanto, former opening act for James Brown who is still pulling back-flips on-stage even in her late 60s._
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Today's inspiration prompted by +115146860555867196292 / +100847248655489858102 / +118393036391325867874
Click click click click click!
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Technology Adoption Curves, then and now.
There's a fascinating out of print book called *Forecasting the Telephone* that I happen to own. It's amazing that many of the things that we use today were predicted over 100 years ago.
If you search you can find pdf excerpts. Here's the growth of telephones year over year. Note that it omits the first 20 years of growth, when phone wires needed to be 1/8" thick.
It might be interesting to chart Google Fiber deployments against this.
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TiL the definition of p-hacking. Sadly I've seen instances of it here; more along the lines of '''the experiment dashboard doesn't make any sense, what'd we do wrong?'''
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What's the best way to help a temp?
New guy on the shuttle is on a 3m contract as a Production Designer. He was told "You're doing so well we might have to cut off your contract early." which just seems wrong on so many levels.
I guess part of the problem is that he's overqualified for the position, and he has more experience.
What's the ethical and decent thing to do in this situation?
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One of these days I'm going to create SoftwareTropes.com
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OnHub is from Access and Energy (an Alphabet Company)
Why is it launching as on.google.com?
2nd HN comment has _ Do we trust Google not to monitor our traffic though?_
le sigh...
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I'm replacing myself with a very small shell script.
Things are still a little rough but I'm finding value in the reports and the cleanup CLs it helps me generate. See the doc below if you want to play.
You can see an ugly sample report at
and here's a partial list of CLs that Cargocult generated:
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2 years later. Still resonates. When I get overly nostalgic I reread this.
[And I bet Clay still has hidden pharma ads on his blog..]
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There are people out there that like to argue. To be pedantic. And who trot out every logical fallacy in the book while not even realizing it (or caring.)
It's gotten so bad that +116478487531429494919 proposed sending Harry Potter fanfic to such people to give them something to argue about.
However we're Google and we know that won't scale. Instead of letting these people harm our discussions I propose a new AAaS (Arguments as a Service) product that will keep these arguers busy.
- Arguers can find other arguers using a smart phone app.
- We'll match argument styles and positions. Ad Hominem vs Strawman, Android vs iPhone. You name it.
- Want to argue face-to-face? Our Uber integration will get you both to a bar of your choice where you can argue the merits of a sports team or anything else.
And coming in 2016 we'll offer AAaS Pro:
- Design your own Oxford style debates or Presidential fora.
- Adds Abuse and Hit-on-the-Head APIs.
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I should update my news alerts....
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Learned about how lifeline service operates these days.. Rep said he'd signed up 30 people today.
Lifewireless.com
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Everyone's posting Ben Evans blog posts these days.. I always take them with a grain of salt given his coverage of G+ over the years...
_So, my more-or-less serious theory (based on absolutely no chats with actual real Google employees) is that Google will never make a decent social product, nor any other product for which the engineering is generic and success depends on judgement calls around the UX, because Google’s culture does not appear to respect skills needed for such products._
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We could've launched this with G+.... So sad.
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I wonder if we could:
- correctly implement canonicalized URL search in G+ Search
- expose that via the existing G+ Search APIs....
+106931094502616873058 / +106433955572999345226
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Didn't see that coming...
Also Polyvore is an interesting case study for collections....
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Today's Inspiration: Before there was Lindsey Stirling: *Rasputina*
Playing tonight in SF if you're into Steampunk Cello music.
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Who's responsible for the screens on our GBUS fleet? I have some interesting ideas on how we could use them to good effect.
For everyone else: What would you like to see on these screens?
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Today 2pm, MTV-SB65:
"""Bob Gurr, retired Disney Imagineer, spent over 40 years developing more than 100 designs for attractions ranging from the Disneyland and Walt Disney World Monorails to the design of the mechanical workings of Disney’s first Audio-Animatronics human figure.
The attractions he developed still are incredible, and even more so if you consider the technology available to him at the time.""""
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Technical Debt Repossession
Fail to pay down your technical debt? Let _The Helping Hand Acceptance Corporation_ remove your OWNERS files.
I jest, I jest...
Knowledge Panel FR
When I search for a Phone (say Sony Xperia) show the music videos where it's been product placed.
This Avril Lavigne vid must be the worst yet. The video starts with "oh, my new Sony phone is ringing!".
Also: I wonder if Forrester includes these payouts in total digital ad spend?
An old favorite from 2000
In my career every next generation (NG) software project failed. Only at Google have there been (some) counter-examples.
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To obtain the pinnacle of internet speeds requires me to use... a telephone.
_Ready to speed ahead?_
_Learn more by calling_
_1-800-XFINITY_
Is this high technology or a late night infomercial?
But seriously has anyone inquired on this? After last nights outage I could use a few laughs..
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Origins of the Open Plan Office
I didn't realize that the crazy Chiat Day "virtual office" concept happened in our Google LA offices.
I'm reading _Tog on Design_ (1996) since it contains so many eerily accurate predictions mixed in with some totally wrong ones.
Who knew there was a advertising company devoted to DMV signage. .
Liked the upcoming event UI treatment. Ads were okay. Postmates and auto collision shops.
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Facebook for Education?
stopleaks@fb.com
heads up @101960497985958811288
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Hey Paul – happy Friday!
I saw that you’ve been at Google for a while. With your strong CS fundamentals from U of Minnesota, I thought you would be an awesome fit here at Facebook with our new focusses this year. Facebook is currently in hyper-growth mode reaching beyond social network and has lots of interesting projects coming down the pipeline at a large scale of 1.4B user data. Whether you’d like to stay in your expertise OR would like to explore something new, our engineering managers would love to speak/meet with you depending on your interest as a lead or IC. I'm also recruiting for a team that's building out a new platform from scratch in K-12 education space. If that doesn't intrigue you, you can explore other opportunities as well. I'd love to chat in more detail - what day/time works for you this week?
Look forward to hearing from you.
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Confession time: I grew up in poor rural MN but was able to attend two fully-sponsored summer Science camps. It changed my life.
At one I got to make holograms, perform blood spatter analysis and write Apple II games.
Another one was sponsored by our Rural Electric Coop where I managed to get an extensive tour of a coal fired power plant and learned all about electricity.
Those are gone, but @111531961318959598038 and @105449406040345263889 have one for the new century. I'm happy to support it and I hope you will too.
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Some interesting "Getting More" #'s in this deck.
If you haven't seen it the Internal site is here:
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Now if only I could retroactively apply what I learned in this course...
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Sharing this one more time since some people were interested...
For everyone else here's _Propellerheads featuring: Miss Shirley Bassey - History Repeating_
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This is the best ZikZak inspiration yet. It's 4 years old and we still haven't gotten anywhere near to what it conceptualizes.
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I've wanted this for youtube for so long..
I think this is one reason comments are bad -- if you're commenting you're not actually watching the video.
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Worth it just for the colorized json output alone.
Just:
sudo apt-get install jq
and you're gtg
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TiL there's a Ken Nordine Youtube Channel.
Word Jazz. {Yeah} Mesmerizing.
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Retro-futurism (circa 1995)
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Till then there's plenty of interesting Tog reading...
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So many transitions...
Worth watching for a *very* young Wil Wheaton as a "Toaster Punk"
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Quite happy that all the old data from the Zoltan checklist was migrated into
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Remember Soderbergh?
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So much awesomeness that never saw the light of day... @103615931922153151429
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Just wow.
"millions of web pages" "thousands of newsgroups" - oof
Pointcast part starts at 5:00
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Naming your project guide by Lea Kissner
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