curious as to why there was a globe favicon next to Merc news articles I viewed the page source..
<script language="JavaScript">
document.write('<link rel="shortcut icon" href="http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/favIcon/mercury/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">');
document.write('<link rel="icon" href="http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/favIcon/mercury/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">');
</script>
Why oh why.....
http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/favIcon/mercury/favicon.ico
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ugh.. protip for protesters @google-- have data to back up your claims.
Right now there's a grim reaper effigy and carpenter union folks handing out flyers. Flyer is hyperbolic to the extreme and doesn't have any real data other than that a specific contractor used by google pays below the prevailing union wage. The only action requested is to email REWS.
So I ask the person there: does this apply to projects at Google or is this just a problem with this contractor in general? How many companies employ this contractor? How many people are being paid below wage? What other actions have you taken, if any?
No effing clue on any of those questions nor any passion.
I never thought I'd say it, but it made me nostalgic for eng-misc.
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Is it possible to requisition an SSD for an eng workstation?
blaze builds get stuck in i/o with high await times and things get slowww... (and not to mention poky Intellij indexing performance..)
Switching to ext4 with writeback and no barriers has helped somewhat... And the new kernel has help too..
As it is I fear for my karma in the next life due to how brutally I've tortured this poor drive..
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136073
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Doubt many people noticed -- but Yahoo Pulse is now Yahoo Profiles... They still have that lamer exclamation point generic profile pic...
Time to update a few igraph rules...
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5676533779883563105/5676533781096547538
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If only cs had +1 ...
https://cs.corp.google.com/#google3/java/com/google/protobuf/contrib/testing/ProtoAssert.java
bye bye boilerplate...
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Unofficial Google phone support today:
* GTV Music app (won't play an album, only plays first song.)
* Picasa Multiple account + dasher fun (uploads going to wrong account, looks broken because both accounts have same name/profile photo) Figured it out by comparing obfuscated gaia IDs..
Lots of "Open Link in Incognito Window" required, sadly :(
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How is gmemcached related to the open source version?
latest release looks quite impressive!
Check out the release notes for 1.4.10
http://code.google.com/p/memcached/wiki/ReleaseNotes1410
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This one's for you Brad Fitzpatrick.
Not sure who came up with opensocial's Drinker data type. Maybe Louis Ryan, Dan Peterson or Cassie Doll?
http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/11/the_social_graph_is_neither/
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Hey Sam Goto -- here's another worthy oEmbed partner...
http://8tracks.com/
I'm skeptical that we can support generic players for all these partners unless we don't give them a way to surface the amazon/itunes links that fund 'em.
http://8tracks.com/
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Testing out latest finsky, looks like there's more music there now...
https://market.android.com/finsky/details?id=album-B5t7w66ic4dqvfzfg3lse6v7ncy&feature=music_pre...
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This WebRep stuff *must* be stopped!
Terrible, terrible thing...
https://plus.google.com/100623276740673202144/posts/L7gKuoFLAEC
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If you have time on your hands try this:
1) Find spam comment on G+
2) Real time search for spam comment text
3) press report abuse as the spammer posts 'em.
(and then notify http://goto.google.com/es-escalations)
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ruh-roh....
corp IPs are getting throttled on twitter....
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5671211153945752385/5671211158341484930
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search quality peeps:
Can you autocomplete proper names that have stop-characters in them? Maybe pull them from freebase or something? #justsaying
cla4514war -- a book
ke -- a musical artist
3oh!3 -- another musical artist
Even odder is the prompt 'Search instead for cla4514war'
Note that that Youtube executes these searches properly. And an unreleased music product fails badly here (which was how I found this issue in the first place.)
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Sadly I have to log into an AOL account to test contact importing, which means I get exposed to their peculiar form of "news".
I am happy that no one has +1'd this particular article and confused that this has a facebook like and share button. odd...
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5667572945699929553/5667572943501636066
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Very impressed with Google Ears (go/ears). I thought I'd throw it a challenge and it nailed it!
Watch if you dare :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zoIzdJ--go
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Just added soundcloud.com iGraph support -- the first step to using their graph data in intelligent ways. (And to clearly identify Dr. Luke's remixes..)
Let me know if YOU want to support better indexing of your favorite social site!
goto.google.com/lifeofaconnectedsite
http://soundcloud.com/drluke/ke-ha-blow-cirkut-remix
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Anyone had a chance to check this out? Might be a good solution for flash apps (crossdomain.xml not withstanding...)
https://github.com/cideas/as3-googleplus
https://github.com/cideas/as3-googleplus
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Aha! Now I know why I'm seeing inverted images. Clever!
https://sites.google.com/a/google.com/photos/backend/fife-color-inversion
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First step to reducing most java binary sizes by 50MB is complete. Code that does not use custom balancers will not require a static version of lbv2client.
Thanks to @101926291824638317887 for coming up with the action plan (see attached doc...).
And big shoutouts to the folks that create and maintain TAP global presubmit and Rosie for making it somewhat painless.
https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/document/d/1A_MTciL428sYZNRiV2xNTrqDUpTqm2BByQAE1mlQ-QQ/edit?hl...
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A new future for Buzz?
Instead of getting rid of Buzz maybe we can turn it into what it's defacto become -- an echo of activity on the web.
Just as we have the games stream we can have the buzz stream -- the collection of imported content from you and your friends. Two simple changes are needed:
* Don't allow new posts to Buzz.
* Add +1 and share buttons to imported content -- allowing you to share the best stuff to your main stream.
Thoughts?
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Just got pinged because of this article.
Someone I work with in the OpenSocial community is trying to read between the lines..
http://www.canadianreviewer.com/cr/2011/9/10/sourcecode-dev-google-in-perspective-an-interview-with-...
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Interesting data on scaling opensource memcache codebase to 850k qps using the standard linux tcp stack on 10G ethernet:
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rss39/mm_comp.pdf
I wonder how our internal version of memcache stacks up? [moma search for memslap had no results..]
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rss39/mm_comp.pdf
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Is there any standardized igraph-like library for email address classification/normalization at Google?
I did a search for gmx.de and bellsouth.net and didn't find anything generic. Just lots of whitelists scattered everywhere like the following class. In any case if you're interested in this let me know since I'll likely be designing such a beast in the near future....
https://cs.corp.google.com/codesearch#google3/java/com/google/caribou/base/AddrSpec.java
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So now's the time to add your Zagat profile to your google profile!
igraph rule coming shortly. Now we just need to teach them about schema.org markup, XFN, hCard, etal.
http://www.zagat.com/user/3365969/reviews
http://www.zagat.com/user/3365969/reviews
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