Curious if anyone uses something to replace paper notebooks?

As Google becomes more heavily regulated I wonder if we'll have to start using software like this? We do run many "Experiments" after all...


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ELN_software_packages

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Hangouts Extension Withdrawl:

https://b.corp.google.com/issues/71647499#comment75

has your solution

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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

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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/

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Even the Economist is piling on the #techlash 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...

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



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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.




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#til that Google Voice voicemail bytes are stored as Photos...

http://google3/java/com/google/android/apps/hangouts/protocol/OzServerRequest.java?l=391&rcl=151...






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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...

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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

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Anything Google specific going on to support people affected by Wildfires in Northern California? Facebook has already pledged m. Where we at?

I've only begun support:

- Already donated to various animal shelters in the area.
- Going to drop off supplies at 1-2-3-4 Go Records tonight, they're sending critical items to victims.




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I had forgotten how I signed up for eMarketer which actually dumps some useful analysis in your inbox. I didn't find the original eMarketer info but I did find this roundup of valuable external data sources (which does include eMarketer)



https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e0E3Vy6LIDP1Q15mhYh-Pp_2Uli-kVwg1xqv3j3dNWQ/edit?_escaped_fragme...

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Maps and GBUS work pretty well split-screen, especially useful to know if you're going to get to the stop on time.

https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6470343210085028337/6470343209853819490?...

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Surprised it took this long for an article about this to come out...


http://blogpros.com/blog/2017/09/google-plus-removes-share

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Anyone know if there are projects inside Google to standardize on data models for Intellectual Property Rights?



https://www.coalaip.org/

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DNS still kinda sucks, despite the billions of revenue collected by ICANN and registrars..

https://sites.google.com/corp/google.com/stronger-dns

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Stumbled on Jostle.me, a new Enterprise Social Networking company. Some good takes on why this stuff is important. Also includes elements of gThanks, teams and more.


https://www.jostle.me/google-apps

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Hi Last-minute 120ers.

Here's the pitch deck for *Google. Forever.* Still looking for UX and BD team members.


https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/presentation/d/1eP4UkcW3U4l7p13XzHPX7RXSPaNSJqrLS4nGASxgUKo/edi...

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*Google+ vs Facebook GIFs - 2011*

So I hear that body slam GIFs are all the rage now. Of course back in 2011...

Many more cringe-worthy things here:

https://zahidlilani.com/2011/07/19/hilarious-google-plus-gif-animations/



https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6438194510653877985/6438194508238025506?...

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Launching +1 button evolving banners...



https://play.google.com/music/m/Thzqqdnh7rpdhjodtkdkricg4z4?t=Anvil_Of_Crom_From_Conan_The_Barbarian...

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*Paul* Added *Groove Thang* to *Bumper Music*

[manually constructed activity post]

Plug for my bumper music playlist[2] that you can use to spice up your meetings and give it that TGIF vibe. Suggestions welcome, description below:

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Waiting for people to show up for your meeting? Add some Bumper Music! [1] These are instrumental tracks that can be easily faded out at any point.

Retrospective? Let's do the Time Warp!

Your "classic" weekly sync? Apache, Frankenstein, Hocus Pocus, and Green Onions have you covered.

Top Secret Project meeting? Moby's James Bond

Or just spice up your boring all hands with some electro/synth/funk.

Suggestions welcome!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bumper_music
[2] https://play.google.com/music/playlist/AMaBXynB0Y7GSMNgd3XrzHLe5CQOatDMjcWYhS0Gn7R7ACZuOmlJLQJ9vez4G...





https://play.google.com/music/m/Tur2wrgcwhqev3aymylzwn2d2em?t=Groove_Thang_2006_-_Remaster_-_BEF

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And here I am redacting Google+ widget logs so we don't track you across the web...

https://support.google.com/plus/answer/6320398


https://support.twitter.com/articles/20169421

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Anyone know what's the latest on Macaroons? They seem to solve a large set of problems in a general way...


https://research.google.com/pubs/pub41892.html

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I highly recommend The Product Excellence Workshop. Take it with your team for an even stronger experience. The instructors +101977395828280125935 and +100280079678510579493 deftly covered a large body of knowledge.

It's also good to see the H.E.A.R.T. model covered in formal training. People like
+114097187269026141752 and friends have done well to evangelize this in Social/G+ over the years.

Lots more at http://go/peworkshop and more resources at https://product-excellence.googleplex.com/



https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4hHF-4S5VYcTUNLMEl0bDVaOUk/view

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CitC on mac, really hope security kittens are in my favor..

https://g3doc.corp.google.com/devtools/srcfs/g3doc/mac-citc.md




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I still have business cards with code.google.com on them....



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QoS is awesome. Returns 429 to GoogleBot when under load.

And Google+ is fortunate to have +103629377878623483645 implementing and developing it. Thanks!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-KFDiTrQe9lWDJOMWx3a0xCb28/view

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This is a very well written article about how the film/content industries are attempting (and failing) to keep up with archiving their data.

Reading about LTO I now understand why gtape is moving to http://go/chronicle and http://go/timelock (Also interesting that timelock has a Q2 OKR for 500PB, which is 10x the size of the film archive mentioned in the article.)

I'm also curious if Google has had to delete data that we've regretted. Do we have all of the old street view data?



http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/it/the-lost-picture-show-hollywood-archivists-cant-outpace-obsole...

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*Oz News Update* - Early Q2

TLDR:
- Deathstar and other projects launched, we removed lots of code/GCUs/Zipit.
- We're going to keep removing code/GCUs/zipit.
- The +1 button will meet it's demise soon. Long live the G+ button.
- Contacts, People APIs and lots more are moving/moved.

Read the full episode at:

https://groups.google.com/a/google.com/d/msg/oz-eng/uXAdeOtGg5Q/KLsRdzBdEwAJ

And I'll leave you with some revolutionary, code killing, Oz-esque inspiration from Oakland's _The Coup_:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acT_PSAZ7BQ

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I set up https://makamaka.me/ on Google Cloud. 1st time deploying a rails app, so it was interesting. Will write more about the experience soon.

Ping me if you want to sign up.

And yes, some of you may recognize the name....



https://makamaka.me/about

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I wish I could find the thread/post discussing admin-disabling Chrome Extensions on Mac. There has to be a way.

Not sure if this is just the skeezy myway.com developers or if it's some kind of XSS they enable. In any case the extension rewrites your google search results. Badly. You know you're in trouble when the support page has uninstall directions...

http://support.mindspark.com/





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Just found out we have to restart our memcacheg servers due to the build horizon policy... Such a waste of good cache...

I wonder if there's room in the borg lifecycle to define a mechanism for jobs to 'handoff' from old to new; that way the contents don't get blown away during a restart.

Or maybe we'll just have to wait for gredis or gouchbase....



https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yuPqLH1grR9wyUlHVxugJHL8Dulf0diPuObOAs6r_d4/edit?_escaped_fragme...

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Aunt asks me about Alexa vs Google Home..

Being diligent I check for requirements... and just like that Google Home is out of the running.

Not everyone has or wants a Smart Phone and I find it embarrassing that Google; the company that benefitted strongly from the Web can't ship devices that are web enabled.

[I'm also looking at you Google Wifi, you promised us a Web UI a couple of years ago too...]









https://support.google.com/googlehome/answer/7035987?hl=en

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https://omg.corp.google.com/#/show-incident/4289

A distributed system is on in which the failure of a gaia flume you didn't even know existed can render your own OnHub unusable...


http://www.azquotes.com/quote/585930

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*In Search of... define:sgamster*

Google search and Google translate are stumped by "sgamster", which appears in lyrics from the short-lived Welsh Hiphop band Tystion.

If you go to the Tystion wikipedia page you'll find a link to

http://www.axkx15.dsl.pipex.com/tystion%20page.htm

that seems to have some translated lyrics. Digdug has this listed as high quality but it doesn't appear in searches.

And based on that, I'm guessing *Timewaster* is the answer.

h/t to the John Peel Radio show for this deep cut.




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

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Launching today, see spike in 404s. One contributing factor? https://plus.google.com/+whitehouse is no more.

still accessible at:

https://plus.google.com/105479712798762608629

As "The Obama White House"

fun times. fun times.


https://plus.google.com/105479712798762608629

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Just heard Superfreak in La Place Cafe.

Was on the first cassette I ever owned. (First vinyl? Kiss Destroyer)

I wonder if people will remember their "firsts" going forward in a cloud based world....


https://play.google.com/music/playlist/AMaBXylLDTLqOEfkqa9onz7nF8OZV2Oot6mB9FrzK2DdmieX2Wg5iup7sNmAC...

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Happy Holidays from the Google+ Death Star Project team and the Chewbacca family.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3a5j8PgQxg

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Got the Holiday Gift blues? Watch Robot Reindeer.

ROBOLIGHTS combines your two favorite things: Robots and Christmas into a 3 acre theme park of crazy. Visit it before the authorities shut it down.

https://www.facebook.com/ROBOLIGHTS




https://photos.google.com/

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Here's your friday lol, includes the extra special Google dis:

_You know rappers like to sell drugs_
_But you do it on the streets_
_And you deader than Google buzz or Google+_

http://genius.com/Ytcracker-bitcoin-baron-lyrics


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZfg1Gtcg08

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YUDA - great logo, even better tool.

Oh and I'm already #34 on the scoreboard.

https://yuda.corp.google.com



https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6353721735624836113/6353721735448299490?...

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Google+ WBS == 16.2 :(



http://www.webbloatscore.com/

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As I said on http://g/opensource-discuss :

_We’re Google. The 10x solution is to replace DNS. (And I’m only half-joking.)_


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20% project Idea

Create Google+ Communities based on donation match data from https://give.corp.google.com/b

Then expand that further, let anyone make communities with a recurring membership fee, or private profiles with a membership. Sort of like Patreon.. but better.





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Am I the only that's shocked that GFE pushes are paused for over a week?

If so I hope that people point out how much of a SPOF this is. [And maybe we'll finally be able to open the huge urlmap.production.any in cider without problems]




https://groups.google.com/a/google.com/d/msg/prod-notify-all/QuvZJiC0TKc/io_-O0nCAgAJ

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All-in on Ubiquity

Turned off my HP workstation for the last time.

You can get 6CPU, 32GB mem, 300GB disk hosts these days. They're actually pretty decent for most work. You lose hyperthreading but you get 46MB cpu cache. I/O feel relatively snappy.

Get your own https://portal.corp.google.com/

Of course I look forward to the day when all of this runs on GCE and I can remount my block device on a n1-highmem-32 (32 cpus, 208GB memory !!)




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Me, At Conference. _*Oh, I work for Google*_ .... space time warps.

Next time I might just use a fictitious company. If we can agree on a secret name Googlers can just nod understandingly when I say "Oh, I work for Massive Dynamics".



http://www.siegelgale.com/brand-naming-8-great-fake-company-names/

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Where's the schema.org markup? Where do I file bugs?

Guess I should just be happy that there's an RSS feed here... https://blog.google/rss/


https://blog.google/

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Boq history.

NikkoNodes actually sounds kinda cool...
Nikkoify not so much...


https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tx0CS03rsUfREx36CNoq2Yr0uZNZn9LPU4dAMe5DhgY/view?_escaped_fragme...

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How easy is it to learn Verilog, VHDL and Lua? Only 3 languages until I hit Yoda.

[Oh and I have no idea what the Spitfire language is, but I'll take it...]




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