I'd like to buy this on Play, but it's not available in my country... AND the Web UI does not show this.
Took a long time to even figure out how to file this bug.
https://b.corp.google.com/issues/29584458
https://play.google.com/store/books/details/David_Graeber_The_Utopia_of_Rules?id=HFtABAAAQBAJ
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People on the outside asking me about this. No clue.
Of course Incendiary Device could be a zippo for all we know...
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Incendiary-devices-spark-fire-at-Google-7862600.php
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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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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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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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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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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
#internetnostalgia
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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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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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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Circles and People still matter
So Bindu just announced that she was limiting comments to Extended Circles (again) due to trolling and creepers. -(She deleted the post after a few hours..)- It's actually there, I just missed it.. (thanks Amber!)
https://plus.google.com/115989323496360706014
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Blast from the past..
- "Who gets to see this" was a much better way of telling people what's going on. (Even if 'Twitter' wasn't really a thing.
- Google Me? Google You?
https://drive.google.com/a/google.com/file/d/0B6u4AdjA8gX8TnVzeWFONVUybzA/view
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Juror PII in Alameda County is at risk from POODLE, FREAK, and LOGJAM attacks.
Chrome and Firefox refuse to connect. Safari is A-OK.
Of course this blacklisting is causing IT Admins grief. Glad I don't have to admin crap products with embedded ssl stacks..
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/o3vZD-Mg2Ic
https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=ejuror.alameda.courts.ca.gov
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Glad to see a new major tenant in Oakland. Still think it would've been a super place for Google. Alas alas..
http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Uber-will-open-East-Bay-HQ-in-Oakland-s-Sears-6523178.php
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*Own goal*
Happy to see our passionate users take things into their own hands, but the writing is on the wall...
I guess I shouldn't be surprised we never really gave Anne Beuttenmueller and the rest of the Ingress team a reason to stay. Ingress users are super passionate G+ addicts. I don't want to lose them.
https://plus.google.com/104895861304489440774/posts/Z4hf94sn8YP
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Installed the OnHub with it's quite large -wallwart- power supply.
The Airport Extreme I replaced had this built-in and had an AC power cord.
I have mixed feelings
- Wall warts are ugly and don't play well with power strips.
but...
- I can probably use a passive PoE injector/splitter to run everything over a single cable.
Anyone tried this? Especially with a teeny splitter that could squeeze into the enclosure?
[And then I just need a power strip with 12v and 5v outputs....]
https://support.google.com/onhub/answer/6246478?hl=en
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Is there an internal tool that analyzes http logs? Referers, IPs, query terms, all that?
Sure I can set up a bunch of dremel queries and contour reports. But it's gotten to the point where I'm feeling nostalgic for WebTrends. That's saying a lot since I remember that WebTrends sucked pretty bad...
https://plus.google.com/+webtrends
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*An update on UrlBuilder*
It's finally gone. The effort to remove UrlBuilder started 8 years ago. I started migrating the last remaining bits in June. 43 CLs later and the task is complete.
https://wiki.corp.google.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/UrlBuilderMustDie
https://wiki.corp.google.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/UrlBuilderMustDie
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Android Police noticed.
It's launched at 100% so I'm not sure why they say it's only on for a certain users. Will investigate.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/09/08/google-is-testing-proper-post-sharing-to-apps-in-google-for-...
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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.
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6189564056792138865/6189564059411663874?...
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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.
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6184877649278027425/6184877651734734818?...
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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...
http://on.google.com/
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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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQFKtI6gn9Y
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Learned about how lifeline service operates these days.. Rep said he'd signed up 30 people today.
Lifewireless.com
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6179691051696948657/6179691054706701970?...
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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._
http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/googles-failures
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Today's Inspiration: Before there was Lindsey Stirling: *Rasputina*
Playing tonight in SF if you're into Steampunk Cello music.
https://play.google.com/music/playpreview?preview=AE9vGKoi80sjOCKwG5Sf47AD7kx6-pr_DeFUwMRSoGkQ9KEZBq...
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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?
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6177704708114458817/6177704710270242274?...
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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.""""
https://groups.google.com/a/google.com/forum/#!topic/atgoogle-mv/7W0k21E-ceo
https://groups.google.com/a/google.com/forum/#!topic/atgoogle-mv/7W0k21E-ceo
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An old favorite from 2000
In my career every next generation (NG) software project failed. Only at Google have there been (some) counter-examples.
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
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Facebook for Education?
[email protected]
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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Some interesting "Getting More" #'s in this deck.
If you haven't seen it the Internal site is here:
https://grow.googleplex.com/opportunity/site/gettingmoreatgoogle
Now if only I could retroactively apply what I learned in this course...
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1V-2wJElhwRJAb_M2J3eOGR7xT0zZj5nFX2NCwiKgs1A/edit?_escaped_fr...
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Quite happy that all the old data from the Zoltan checklist was migrated into
https://noogler.corp.google.com
https://noogler.corp.google.com
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Remember Soderbergh?
http://go/soderbergh
So much awesomeness that never saw the light of day... @103615931922153151429
https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/file/d/0BxVGGK_Vco3LMDB4QzZRZW56Y00/edit?_escaped_fragment_=
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Naming your project guide by Lea Kissner
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d9db0fCyNo-vVNxrPRQSoObkiGnNjSkzQjx0QL2wH7M/edit?_escaped_fragme...
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New project christened Project Zikzak
I did a random hallway sample and only 2 people knew what I was talking about. What about you?
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This looks fun...
*Glen Keane & Rebecca Ussai | The Principles of UX Choreography*
6/24/15 at 14:00 PT
MTV-43-2-Tunis Tech Talk (200) VC
Any questions, please contact: kevincburke
This talk will not be recorded
The Principles of UX Choreography w/ Glen Keane & Rebecca Ussai
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Proposal: replace OWNERS with GUILD
format:
ldap skill-level
where skill-level is one of apprentice, crafter, journeyer, master and grandmaster
optionally allow 'retired' in front of the above.
And we could have languge-related GUILDs too, though I wouldn't call my readability review CL a _masterpiece_.....
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6163691072404617057/6163691072815330002?...
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The GigaBOB connects to the GigaBUD. I kid you not.
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6161946194840316401/6161946188675942722?...
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Inbox actions have been around for a while and Notifications have not implemented them in generated emails. Anyone on this?
If we remove iframe'd gmail access to posts it can make up for some of the lost traffic.
https://developers.google.com/gmail/markup/
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Google -Hospice- -Upstate Farm- Pasture Service
Hallway conversation with @104255968520200310944 and @101824307711135795640: wouldn't it be great if there was a way to export a dead service's data into an sstable and allow for deletion/takeout? That way you could turn down the service more easily and get rid of zombie code.
As you can see the naming quickly went to the morbid side.
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Congrats to Natalie Villalobos for getting page 2 coverage in USA Today.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2015/05/22/google-io-developer-conference-natalie-villalobos-wome...
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