Reposting this in the wake of the current Nest thermostat die-off. Customers respond really well when you
- Admit that you made a mistake
- And try to make things right.
I hope our friends at Nest invest in a similar response.
https://signalvnoise.com/archives2/six_apart_does_their_customers_right.php
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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
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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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Uhhhhh, how would I have been able to influence this decision?
Backgound: we still need something like this to render snippets for sharing URLs to G+. Well, unless search wants to provide a low latency API/service to render a webpage with javascript and all that that.
http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2015/10/deprecating-our-ajax-crawling-scheme.html
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A great read, but they missed out on another big issue - tons of content is semi-private and will be lost forever.
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/10/raiders-of-the-lost-web/409210/?single_page=tr...
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Here's a 30 day challenge.
Only consume Youtube and Play Music content in a language you barely know.
This is how much of the world interacts with our products.
All of a sudden you understand why lyric videos are so popular on Youtube. It also explains weird comments on G+ from people that are just playing around with English.
I've been doing something like that for a few days. It's eye opening.
Oh and if you're interested in music discovery from Suisse Romande see the link below.
https://www.youtube.com/user/LesReperagesCouleur3
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#til about vaporwave -- somehow I missed this trend...
oh, and much A E S T H E T I C
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdpP0mXOlWM
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So maybe it's just me, but I've misposted to the wrong target multiple times in the past week. I think it's because I'm used to the send-arrow being right next to the audience.
With Tau the Post button is on the bottom, thus my eye doesn't cross the default audience.
I thought that privacy had a requirement that the send be right next to the post button for exactly this reason.
cc +105287604880515191722 / +111378387414156670233 / +112530828667788492083
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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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Never thought you'd see the day..
Oh and for those unfamiliar - the trippy logo is Camelia. Can you see the P6? Now you can...
http://perl6releasetalk.ticketleap.com/perl-tech-talk/details
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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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*Faster than the speed of TAP*
Fixing a breakage before TAP found it....
I'd say something about the TAP Barrier....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_barrier
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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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Let's see if changing the lights will make our workplace more efficient... Oh wait.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect
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A QA engineer walks into a bar and orders a beer. Orders a beer. Orders 2147483647 beers. Orders -1 beers. Orders no beers. Orders a lizard. Orders '); DROP TABLE orders;. Orders sfdelknesv. Orders.
I rarely go to the DNA Lounge these days, but I happily receive their weekly newsletter just for the bad jokes.
http://www.dnalounge.com/
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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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Today's inspiration honors the end of Malika's internship on the ZikZak project.
For your weekend perfcrastinating you'll find the original dystopian, cyberpunk pilot for _20 Minutes into the Future_ aired on Channel 4 in 1985.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRy1oE81dS4
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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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Today's inspiration is brought to you by the Nintendo Power Glove
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU1CDSP7FRk
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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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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.
http://www.citypages.com/music/watch-prince-debut-purple-rain-at-first-ave-before-his-lawyers-take-i...
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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...
https://developer.android.com/tools/support-library/features.html
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Today's inspiration prompted by +115146860555867196292 / +100847248655489858102 / +118393036391325867874
Click click click click click!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-qTCrNpi44
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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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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?'''
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=p-hacking
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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
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheEngineer
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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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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..]
http://blog.oshineye.com/2013/03/what-do-you-mean-we.html
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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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I should update my news alerts....
http://m.thedrum.com/news/2015/08/05/orangina-spends-4m-going-after-open-social-consumer-stand-out-a...
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