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Parallel

Removing 120k directories on CNS for a xoogler should be easy, right? Well, it is if you're using GNU parallel

  parallel --bar  -n 1 fileutil --gfs_user=distiller-yt-pii rm -f  -R < /tmp/top-dirs.txt

  ....
  35% 5974:10984=4225s /cns/pc-d/home/mlei/rockers_squared_nm/Models/Experiment-model0_no_crosses/Version-00119720-Created-20140613-21s5936

 

Dogfoods past

googlegroups.com == dogfood history

I counted 44 dogfood google groups (!) including these classics:

butterandcream-prod (wha?)
friendsofallen
openbonfire
snickersmocha

Enjoy it while you can, GDPR will probably force the cleanup of all these...

 

JOMO

This is a must-read deck. Very happy to see these concepts being taken seriously.

I also find Pomodoro very useful to help focus.

One thing they missed was ADHD and meds used to treat it.

go/jomo-research

 

Online Communities. Corp Culture. Headcount. Machine Resources. These and much more can also be considered _"The Commons"_. (As in the "tragedy of the...")

If the commons are failing you should look to Ostrom's design principles to understand why. Christopher Allen's adaptation of these principles is a good intro.


http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2015/11/a-revised-ostroms-design-principles-for-collective-governanc...






 

EBT

Googlers, don't be smug, doesn't look like Google Express supports Food Stamps either..

[And at least Amazon offers discounted Prime membership to people with EBT cards.]

That said if you don't have the learned experience of being poor you might want to check out today's talk "Growing Up Poor In America" - Lisa 'Tiny' Garcia at 11am PT

Livestream at http://go/tiny-kim

[original image sourced from https://imgur.com/MUuZ9sr]

 

6p

So one more Nexus 6p / Android post.

A teammate offered me a 6p test device as a loaner. Has the asset tag and everything. *Yay!*

Turns out it was factory reset with a test account on it. *Uhoh!*

But no worries there's an internal unlock tool. (http://go/androidunlock) *Yay*

Ugh it's broken for some odd reason:

https://buganizer.corp.google.com/issues/68021469

Techstop basically gives up at this point and say try out http://go/skylab -- basically saying that the device is a paperweight.

If we can't manage a shared pool of devices I fear what hell our enterprise customers go through. Also imagine if a fired employee Factory Resets their phone before they leave. Instant brick...

Anyway, enough ranting for today. I need to save my energy to deal with my wife's repeated question: "let's just go buy iPhones -- Are you some kind of masochist or what?"...

 

Google Store

Google Store, please take my money :(

- FWIW this is the chrome bug where time goes backwards
- And to add insult to injury I now have 4 pending charges for the failed orders.... At least having my card declined let me know that this was the case
- Filed http://b/72589737

 

6p

Wow, so this is what the Google Store offers for a clean/working Nexus 6p trade-in...

 

Yegge's post was weird. He chastises Google for me-too-ism, but then goes on to talk about a war with Uber.


https://medium.com/@steve.yegge/why-i-left-google-to-join-grab-86dfffc0be84






 

Here's your periodic repost of the http://go/ortelius video, which most Googlers never see.

I'll keep posting it until we get a new Creative Labs concept video that can replace it..







 

WebSub/ActivityPub are now both W3C standards.

https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/REC-websub-20180123/
https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/REC-activitypub-20180123/

I find it really weird that no-one at Google actually was involved with this since it's in our interests for web crawl, publisher support etal..

https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/REC-websub-20180123/






 

 

Even the Economist is piling on the of 2018...

I didn't have time to write up my 2018 predictions, but this is right in line with what I was expecting this year. Expect more payback for excessive hubris.


https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21735021-dominance-google-facebook-and-amazon-bad-consumers-a...






 

There should be a Moore's law for Twitter where the tweet size doubles every 18 months until it becomes Livejournal.

...
[h/t to a podcast that will remain nameless]








 

Given recent Inbox instability I decided to try out some native mac email apps.

- Airmail 3
- Spark

So far so good. These apps both have snoozing and pinning. Folder support is still a bit off; but nothing too difficult. Might as well start getting used to no Inbox now.

[And sadly I can run two native apps in the memory used by inbox on chrome..







 

go/rulesofthumb doesn't account for GDPR fines.








 

SIDLP

*And you may ask yourself, well*
*How did I get here?*

_The Stanford Integrated Digital Library Project (SIDLP) - is to develop the enabling technologies for a single, integrated and "universal" library, proving uniform access to the large number of emerging networked information sources and collections. These include both on-line versions of pre-existing works and new works and media of all kinds that will be available on the globally interlinked computer networks of the future. The Integrated Digital Library is broadly defined to include everything from personal information collections, to the collections that one finds today in conventional libraries, to the large data collections shared by scientists. The technology developed in this project will provide the "glue" that will make this worldwide collection usable as a unified entity, in a scalable and economically viable fashion._

https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9411306

 

plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose....

But seriously -- I'll see if I can find out what happened with ES. It was quite a thing a few years ago...

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






 

Phones?

So what phone should I buy now that Nexus Support has basically told me to pound sand and I'm off the Nexus/Pixel train? Had every phone since the G1.

I think of the amount of money spent on wall-to-wall Pixel TV ads and wonder how a small amount of that would have helped placate our most loyal customers...

 

 

6p Bootloop

Nexus 6p Bootloop :(

And we're not making it right for users and sending people to Huawei, who are now closed. And all my spare phones are micro-sim.

The playbook for the people on the phone is a depressing read:

https://support.google.com/playops/hardware/answer/7519413

We have a huge hoard of cash, surely we could do right by our users?

Oh and this is my 4th 6p...

 

I'd use my Google Home more if it supported a MovieFone voice..








 

Jeff Dean's Britney Spears wonderbug:

https://buganizer.corp.google.com/issues/14224408

[Also check out the hotlist this is on for other amazing bugs.









 

Pillow

Received a travel pillow as a gift. "for when you're tired on the shuttle"

 


I'm supporting Perkeep on OpenCollective.

I'm especially excited about using this for infrastructure libraries since we now have a way for project-to-project contributions to flow down the dependency tree.

https://opencollective.com/perkeep






 

Story of your life

Well worth watching. The blog->book is an interesting thing I didn't know about and I found the email -> blog solution for communicating with her future grown-up children clever.

Slides are here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/14fAzIdLrfKt6K313UraEJATFsjFsqTEumNun4ufhtiU/edit?usp=sharing

https://wordpress.tv/2017/12/10/brianna-privett-the-story-of-your-life-using-wordpress-as-your-memor...

 

Seeing Whole Systems

Nicky did a great talk at Long Now called Seeing Whole Systems. Would anyone be interested in screening it here?

http://longnow.org/seminars/02017/aug/07/seeing-whole-systems/

But for now revel in visualizing the prisoner's dilemma. Also check out loopy http://ncase.me/loopy/

http://ncase.me/trust/

 

self-owned mdb groups are aptly named.









 

rpc side-channels were a mistake.









 

Wildfires...

Reminder that SoCal wildfire donations are being matched.

https://g-give.googleplex.com/campaign/2017-Southern-California-Fires

There's a tile memorial at Rockridge Bart for the Oakland Firestorm. Gets me every time.

 

 

gThanksPlus?

Looks like G+ sharing was added to gThanks in

https://b.corp.google.com/issues/9972517

But the shares it creates now are pretty bare-bones and you have to really hunt down that G+ share button...

Oh and big congrats to all the people getting Kudos and PBs lately. Y'all are awesome!

 

 

Lightspeed Ready!

Inside an AT&T pedestal cabinet in Oakland...

 

 

 

 

The .io domain is an abbreviation of Indian Ocean.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io#__sid=rd0






 

We play both kinds of Javascript here: Fast and Precise

Paging +116010686905328984286

Interesting stat:

_The main internal repository at Facebook contains around 13M LoC of JavaScript, spanning about 122K files._


https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/11/08/fast-and-precise-type-checking-for-javascript/






 

Twenty Eight Bucks

It took a bit of searching to figure out why I received a check for 8. But if you get one here's why:

This is a wage and hour PAGA action arising from Defendant's failure to pay wages in a timely manner at the end of each pay period. Labor Code § 204( d) requires employees to be paid out by the seventh (ih) day following the closing of the pay period if employees are paid on a weekly or bi-weekly basis. Defendant, who paid its employees on a bi-weekly basis, had a consistent policy of paying the wages of its employees on the eighth (8t11) day or later following the close of the respective pay period, and thus, beyond the time periods as allowed pursum1t to Labor Code § 204. This PAGA action is being sought on behalf of Defendant's other aggrieved employees.

In addition to the PAGA action, Plaintiff also asserts individual claims for wrongful termination in violation of public policy. Specifically, Plaintiff engaged in protected activity by removing alcohol from the workplace (due to fear for her personal safety and the safety of co-workers), and to prevent sexual harassment. However, by exercising such rights, Plaintiff was terminated from her employment.

Defendant's Position

Plaintiff was employed by Defendant from approximately January 27, 2015 to April 12, 2016 as a Program Manager. In late March 2016, a Google employee reported that several personal items had gone missing. Google's asset investigations team confirmed through video evidence that Plaintiff had taken the reported items. During its investigation, Plaintiff provided inconsistent accounts of her actions, which Google deemed to lack credibility. As a result, Google terminated Plaintiffs employment for violation of company policy and the dishonest conduct she exhibited.

Google denies that its payroll schedule was inconsistent with section 204 of the Labor Code. Moreover, Plaintiff cannot show that she or any of the members of the group she seeks to represent were aggrieved. An award of civil penalties under PAGA would result in an award that is unjust, arbitrary, and oppressive

https://www.docketalarm.com/cases/California_State_Santa_Clara_County_Superior_Court/16CV301321/Baid...

 

Have you heard of NetzDG? Here's some really good background on why we're working so hard.



https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/11/germany-facebook/543258/article






 

Aaron Swartz day is upon us... Looking forward to this panel.


https://www.aaronswartzday.org/ethical-algorithms-panel/






 

Imagine a PBS version of Black Mirror.

Oh wait, there is..

Happy Friday everyone... and back to the GDPR grind..




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6GBbKiGaZg






 

Starting a GDPR Playlist

Suggestions welcome. So far I have:

- Der Kommissar
- The Pink Panther Theme
- The Final Countdown
- URL Badman
- Private Eyes



https://play.google.com/music/playlist/AMaBXykJsdwDFc6MfhN6BOLaS-8bHys6YJfxv5lsld76R3LUGkK2fYFxNyjjU...






 

*Feature Request:* Implement _laws_and_regulations.gcl_









 

Oh hi Epona...

I wonder if there's a canonical source that describes every single state an account can be in?

The fact that our systems are not tested against the full set of account variations scares me.

Adding new Account Variants that means that every single system needs to be adjusted to handle it. This is just not scalable.


https://sites.google.com/corp/google.com/epona/home#__sid=md0






 

 

 

Name your band *P.O.P.* - confusion galore results.

- Bunch of sites drop the final dot *.* (dos based web server?)
- Youtube and Tunecore groups this with an older group named Pop! from Australia
- Play Music groups a bunch of stuff into Pop, Indonesian Pop, Rap etc.
- Amazon does the worst. Click through on P.O.P. and they serve up groups starting P.O, like P.O.D. etc.

Luckily a fave of mine named *P.O.S.* has managed to cross the SEO chasm.



https://resonate.is/profile/2307/






 

California Fires

Two new local charities available for gift match for California Wildfires so it's not just the Red Cross now:

http://go/california-fires

Still *0k* to match.

Also I learned that Google Docs has a 'mobilebasic' suffix which generates a simple lightweight doc. Many of the emergency resource docs are using this:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14ZhXDNaL260p5OempaFbCrsYBe_5pvNvDqV7xcwn95s/mobilebasic

https://docs.google.com/document/d/14ZhXDNaL260p5OempaFbCrsYBe_5pvNvDqV7xcwn95s/mobilebasic