Some Industrial Metal while I wait for the MRI to scan..
This concert footage is also so very good. Watch it while you can since this never made it to DVD...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yaz5V6OFQlo&sns=gp
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Rank your top 5..
Another product roadmap from Comcast. Heads up to Nest, Jetstream, Drive, and Fiber teams.
Probably pretty accurate since the last survey was asking about Solar, and lo and behold, they're doing that..
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6147710232253884145/6147710234524435826?...
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Oh, and while we're dreaming... I propose that this be the new aquatic gbus.
http://www.wingship.com/?page_id=248
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I'd love to see this built... Not holding my breath..
Oh and whatever happened to the PRT concepts like Skytran?
http://www.skytran.us/skytran/
http://sfbarf.tumblr.com/post/117869492200/could-san-franciscans-be-riding-a-sky-tram-to-work
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Edit: tickets dispensed! The rest of you will just have to take the Decemberists Vocabulary quiz:
http://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/03/24/books-decemberists-vocab-quiz
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2 Tickets for the Decemberists/Lucius show at the Greek Theater up for grabs.
*Free*. tonight, friday night.
You'll need to print out a PDF that I send you. (According to Ticketmaster this is totally legit, since the Greek doesn't check ID and they disallow the ticket transfer feature..)
First one to write 'panoply of song' gets them.
http://www.decemberists.com/
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Also listen to This American Life episode for more context on this shameful legacy.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/512/transcript
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/05/the-racist-housing-policy-that-made-your-neighbo...
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New term for shady SEO - tooth-worms...
http://www.prosites.com/blog/post/2015/04/02/SEO-for-dental-practices.aspx
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hospital wifi sucks more than shuttle wifi
--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
50 packets transmitted, 34 packets received, 32.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 20.109/59.697/251.879/55.778 ms
http://www.google.com/get/videoqualityreport/
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#dailyoneliner - find targets affected by the files you're changing
Maybe there's a better way, but this works for me...
g4 whatsout | perl -pe 's,^.*google3,/,; s,/([^/]+)$,:,' | xargs blaze-bin/devtools/deps/depserver/query/depends_on -ds
You can then expand this to do other useful things:
| xargs blaze build
to build affected targets
| xargs unused_deps
to find unused deps
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Trigger ACTION_SEND from Android Chrome? (with a photo?)
I know that chrome allows you to trigger specific intents (see linked page) But instead I just want to trigger ACTION_SEND with text and optional image pixels generated by the browser...
Maybe @112427496122904544974 knows?
https://developer.chrome.com/multidevice/android/intents
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Achievement Unlocked. Spouse obtains medical cannabis prescription on April 20th.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_(cannabis_culture)#__sid=rd0
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*The Real Life Social Network* July 2010
by Paul Adams, UX researcher at Google. This had a huge influence on the design of Google+.
http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-network-v2
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*Hat Shopping*
Sadly, no matching towel.
http://shop.nordstrom.com/s/marc-by-marc-jacobs-dont-panic-hat/3902695
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Signal boost for http://go/secondopinion
I requested a 2nd opinion yesterday around 2pm, received form at 4pm, sent it in at 5pm, was called within 15 minutes to go over details.
<24h later a specialist doctor called us to discuss the case and started the process to get all the data needed for a diagnostic review.
Crazy good. Highly recommended.
Someone needs to add a link to
https://sites.google.com/a/google.com/us-benefits/health-wellness
so this is more discoverable....
https://accounts.google.com/ServiceLogin?continue=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fa%2Fgoogle.com%2F...
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Code Yellow == hazmat? Seems legit.
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6136222398160596161/6136222399346749426?...
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Dealing with the _"Help me with my website"_ question...
When people find out you're a Googler they often ask _"can you help me with my site"_? I mostly give some simple advice and leave it at that. This time is different.
But first.. a story.
My wife, Julie, fears dentists due to unfortunate childhood events. While on vacation she had some gum bleeding. Using Google Search I found Maisy, an oral surgeon, and her husband, Amir, an anesthesiologist. Together they did the impossible and got Julie the dental care she needed. She went above and beyond in so many ways.
Alas, there were complications on discharge. Despite a blood test only 10 days earlier her levels had dropped really low. Maisy and I talked a lot while we waited for the transfusion to complete in the ER. We spoke about how she and her husband started their practice and how they wanted to grow it. Many questions about online marketing came up. I said I would see what I could do. After everything I'd walk over glass for Maisy.
So....
*What's the best way to help?* I'm no expert, but I am acquainted with some non-google consultants I could engage. Looking for any advice or referrals, especially for people that deal with local.
Oh and if you need a dentist, it's well worth the trip. Great people, dog friendly, pleasant surroundings, and the most advanced dental technology.
http://www.desertdentalspa.com/meet-the-doctors/dr-maisy-ibrahim/
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*Earliest mention of Eden aka Orkut* October 2003
_I already started getting bug reports regarding eden so_
_it's time to add it the project list (:_
_Eden is a social networking tool under development. You_
_can visit http://eden/, sign up and check it out. Please_
_keep eden confidential._
....
https://groups.google.com/a/google.com/d/msg/bugs/lA-IYLLpn3c/Ft-h3xqSjUgJ
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Many of these themes will seem familiar...
https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2015/03/25/Grow-Your-App-By-Helping-People-Share/?_fb_nosc...
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So no more G+ by default on Android... (amongst other apps) Overall it's probably a good thing -- I'd prefer earned installs to default ones.
.oO(Should we start spending on app install adds?)
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6129912537119115681/6129912535696718466?...
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*Dodgeball vs Twitter (and Facebook)* March, 2007
via Techcrunch
Yes, at one time Dodgeball was neck and neck with Twitter and Facebook.
http://techcrunch.com/2007/03/19/sxsw-showdown-dodgeball-vs-twitter/#__sid=rd0
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*Tacotown, aka Buzz* August 2009
I binge watched TGIF videos when I joined Google. This one has a special place in my heart. So inspirational.
I'm happy that so many of the people you see below are still here -- still trying to deliver on this dream. [In fact too many to plus-mention.]
Source: https://sites.google.com/a/google.com/tgif-info/highlights/08-28-09
https://drive.google.com/a/google.com/file/d/1iIVuMoaWc1467f9-c2JGR99u7EO6aWpt6O3y94aUOznRMfKPWKSXAH...
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*Campfire One: Introducing OpenSocial* November 2007
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KOEbAZJTTk
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*Fall Detection and Diversity*
Why not build fall detection into every phone? And why don't we have these kinds of features?
I recently had a scare where my wife passed out and hit her head while walking our dog. Luckily a neighbor noticed and helped her back to our house. It's highly unlikely she'd use a device like the one you see below, but I suspect an app on the phone would be acceptable (and more useful)
Which brings me back to product design. When was the last time you saw _elder_ or _person with medical condition_ as a target user outside of a11y bug? Having multiple points of view really matter. Without it we're blind to many use cases across the design spectrum.
http://www.tunstallhealthcare.com.au/solutions/iVi
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Hey -spaces- collections are back. So here's some heavy german #dailyinspiration
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdFNafVwcqM
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For those of you not around back in 2010 we were working on this interests thing back then too.
In a serif font no less.
Finally cleaning up some of this stuff now...
https://critique.corp.google.com/#review/88781755
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I'd pay to get this cherry picked into LMP MR1..
https://b.corp.google.com/issues/18069309
signed,
Paul's Nexus 5 with 900+ MB of system memory used...
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Pour one out for Apache Wave. Everyone's moving to share.js
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/incubator-wave-dev/201503.mbox/%3C1426366328.3531989.240420...
Sad to see this happen, but somewhat expected given the complex code base and lack of institutional support.
Reminds me that I should push some Apache Shindig changes to keep that on life support...
http://sharejs.org
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What will it take to change this narrative:
_There are companies that do not get social and they never will. Apple’s one of them, Google is the other: they’ve failed with Google+. When your culture is engineering-focused, you do not understand social. Social is a very emotional experience. Engineers are not so much, in a lot of cases,_
It won't be facts, since any numbers we release are instantly dismissed. My guess is that we're going to have to move influentials over, one-by-one until the zeitgeist changes. People only see what's in their bubble, and Google's social efforts don't penetrate.... yet.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/mar/06/myspace-what-went-wrong-sean-percival-spotify
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A new TPaaS vendor appears
http://fancy.com/things/719827939058782136/CLOUD-Toilet-Paper-Storage
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Today's #ukgarage inspirational tune. Sadly there's no vid for this..
https://play.google.com/music/m/Tpletfdxsiuhlkgtsxt4b244uti
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What's a collection of cards? Decks! so obvious it hurts...
Did you test that name Dmitry?
http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/26/mobile-search-david-vs-googliath/
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What's up with Ad Planner? It now redirects to
https://awics.corp.google.com/um/ssoauth?dst=https://adsmediaplanner.googleplex.com/?ICS_AUTH_OK
and gives me a 403. Is there any way to get some baseline geo/demo data for publisher websites these days?
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Here are some 20% projects for Blogger:
https://sites.google.com/a/google.com/blogger/blogger-jobs
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I contributed early on but didn't realize that Google contributed 16k as well. Happy to see things like this.
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Blogger-hands-out-165-000-to-Mission-fire-victims-6104825.php?...
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I love it when things just f'ing work.
- I read an internal G+ post by @118054148122560925848 about bad snippets on http://grpc.io/
- Commented, said I'd ping folks.
- Pinged grpc TL @117058620747746997157 on hangouts
- He creates a group chat with @117889162726815756319
- I say here's my github id
- Added to project.
- I clone it and realize it's jekyll
- minimal yak shaving getting jekyll up and running
- in the meantime a new image is uploaded
- git fork, clone, edit, push
- create pull request
- merged.
- DONE
A big image for a big project and a descriptive snippet.
http://www.grpc.io/
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Today's inspiration. Some chill, yet uptempo chamber music. Great music for sharpening pitchforks, if that's your thing ....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvp28IVUpa0
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I still think Ripples is awesome and needed more than ever in a interest based system. How else are you going to follow the entire chain?
Here's a link to the Tau post by Danielle
[and ugh, the metadata for sharing on those pages is awful...]
https://plus.google.com/ripples/details?activityid=z12qtdmgdtmaj5oy304cjzjwttehc3bb4z40k
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I find the Blogger decision baffling given the effort in Social for Project R
http://go/projectr
What's the story here? @103643500382916616176 or @106642279061626308531 can you weigh in?
I was hopeful that we'd offer a way for adults to have adult conversations around adult topics and content. Hell, sometimes I'd like to restrict my youtube comments to only adults (*yes* we have the ability in the ASBE backend to do this!)
I'm also sad that we're spending any amount of time to help Tobacco companies peddle their wares, which it seems is the main driver for a lot of this...
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Let's lighten things up with a little whistling...
Oh and growing up I wanted to be Dr. Banzai, well at least a Blue Blazer Regular....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gNJ1z-ulB4
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So if Google is creating special versions just for kids, maybe they can do one just for adults. Then I thought what's the opposite of a unicorn and search provided just the answer: *icorn*
Oh and what did the Unicorn call his dad?
Popcorn
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071024061903AAPom3V#ya-c
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