Decided to dig deep in my mail archives to see what my first contact was with Google-folk after reading @116509592231017933209 post.
Earliest was search integration on redhat.com (early 2000), back then http://
Lots of people moved on including Ray Sidney, Samir Kothari, Harry Cheung, Howard Jacobson, Rachael Kutras...
The two still here are @112983450704233067709 and @111898143234484272777
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Is there a bad OWNERS MR that someone pays attention to? Seeing a few errors like this:
WARNING: file /google/src/files/38806164/depot/google3/googledata/html/hosted/OWNERS references non-existent file /google/src/files/38806164/depot/html/external_content/gstatic/apps/cpanel/resources/OWNERS
*dasher folks:* can you fix?
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Remember, mockito is what you should be using for all new tests. Might as well go all-in and add junit4 and hamcrest too...
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Interesting #anecdata points.
Caught up with an old friend. His teenage sons are both big kik users on their iPod touches. They don't want an iPhone since they're not allowed in school but the iPod is.
The son of my wife's stylist asked me if we could add file transfer to Hangouts or messenger. I'm somewhat dubious on this (seems like a good way to spread virii -- however adding Drive sharing to chat might be interesting (and safer..) and is orthogonal with Photo sharing in Messenger.
Send file == upload to drive, share file from drive to friend, share link over chat channel, render drive content using embed.
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Security Escalation help?
We found about 1m users that are infected with a chrome extension that rewrites search result pages (See http://
- Can we notify those 1m users that they are infected?
- Can we detect that this extension is running on the SRP and stop it?
I can't tell who on Search to raise this issue to, and I cannot see who would coordinate an outreach program to the poor folks that are getting a crappy chrome experience due to the dodgy extension...
Thanks
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Following up on my post yesterday.. Is this the best Journal name ever?
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Interesting reading here..
Has anyone calculated the k-anonymity of any of our products based on the information they make available to 3P?
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I sense a weekend project combining:
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and
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Now if I could only travel back in time to tell people to not write that unused code in the first place.... or maybe that's a Google-X project?
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@102206255324090806743 - would it kill you to update your wordpress sharing plugin to get some G+1 love?
Oh yeah, good article. I +1'd it using the Chrome extension :)
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Before node.js...
DB connectivity, plus this great new feature:
_New top-level functions Number and String. The Number function converts an object to a number. The String function converts an object to a string. See "Number and String Functions" on page 135._
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Mainstream is finally realizing that facebook is doing this....
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Teach Me How to -Dougie- Viral Loop.
What you see here is a work of art for making viral loops.
The page leading up to this asked me to _confirm_ that someone had endorsed me. I accepted the endorsement (adding it to my profile).
This page uses some decent semantic analysis to generate 'Skills you might Endorse', and a one-click way to generate a 4x viral loop (not to mention all the other mechanisms via 'see more' and loading up more endorsements.
Performing actions here also help improve the algorithms. If one person tags a user with a skill then you can present the same tag once added to the profile to other users and have a high likelihood of success.
And at the end of the day LinkedIn will have a much better way of finding strong candidates with specific skills; users will have more profile content, etc etc.
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Kudos to the person on the Events team that auto-selects the "Pancake" theme for events that start early in the morning..
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So far the main thing that bugs me about Danube is when I reload an active G+ page all the posts get reordered.
@100370640544909873365 any plans for "live" reranking of the stream? Friendfeed was doing this 5 years ago and it was pretty cool to see posts bubble to the top when they were commented on....
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Using TestUtil.getSrcDir() in production code? If you are *congratulations*, your binary now has *junit* and other testing cooties.
At the very least convert it to:
Runfiles.getRunfilesDir();
Which pulls in a much lighter set of dependencies.
Of course if all you need to do is read a file from the classpath you're much better off just doing something like:
Resources.toString(Resources.getResource(MyClass.class, CONFIG_FILE), Charsets.UTF_8);
while adding something like this to your BUILD file target:
resources = glob([*.config])
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jdk8 uses :: to represent class methods? I'm getting perl flashbacks already!
Also a neat deck on Guava below (where I found out about the jdk8 syntax)
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Oakland As game + this = 1h extra shuttle time!
[ and two more cleanup CLs written]
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Seems like we could rewrite urls in the form of:
http://
as
https://
Right now all you get is:
_We're sorry - Google Reader no longer supports the "Note in Reader" bookmarklet._
Where should I file this bug? Seems like it could be a simple GFE redirect of some sort..
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Anyone else seeing weird proxy issues with Chrome Dev Channel? On net-internals I see this:
Effective settings
Use DIRECT connections.
Source: SYSTEM
Original settings
PAC script: https://
Source: SYSTEM
Weird.
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Looks like our facebook monitor is better than their own internal systems. Either that or they don't canary :/
Oh and I love graphs with no y-axis units or labels.
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Today's changes should pay for themselves in the carbon offsets alone.
In fact someone should build a business making open source software more energy efficient and take on Carbon Offset 4514$. I can see it now:
_"Sure thing, keep your coal plant -- I just made mysql joins 5x faster"_
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I'm still always surprised that java doesn't have a native string type and instead uses a char[]/offset/size data structure.
Don't forget to 'new String()' your substrings!
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So does anyone have a contact at the newly acquired frommers? Zagat folks?
Looks like their community site runs a version of Demand Media's Pluck. (If you've ever commented on SFgate you'll recognize it right away).
It'd be nice if Pluck supported authorship and proper schema.org markup, even it it's only on Frommers for the time being. [See poor Arthur Frommer's profile below...]
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I have to stop optimizing and get back to features. However I've kicked over the Guice rock and lots of crawly things were discovered. For Oz:
266k Key<...> objects retained.
18k NamedImpl objects, most with duplicate names (looking at interning)
(Linked)?Hash(Set|Map) in various places that can be cleansed.
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multiply.com is shutting down their social network. Anyone want to look into ways of bulk importing these folks?
According to igraph we track around 150k multiply.com profiles, so it may not be a big needle mover. However it might be worth it for a PR win. (Or not... if the lede is that Google+ is killing smaller social networks..)
The least we could do is offer to import all the photos into G+
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Google is a tourist destination -- at least for my in-laws. They all want to go -- two retirees and a middle age school teacher/poet. I guess I forget that people have this fascination with what we do.
Anyone considered opening _Googleworld_ or _Googleland_?
Figure I'll give them the drive around followed by a walk through 43 and lunch. Any other suggestions?
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Can we run an MR against the calendar database that relocates all meetings with '1:1' in the title to the smallest conference room less < 20m from the existing one?
Bonus points if we can reshuffle and repack all meetings into the appropriately sized conference room. (yeah, yeah, I know that's NP-hard, but still, we're Google...)
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When did we start removing the little profile thumbnails from personal search results? I saw this a while back but just assumed I was in some latency experiment...
I've been telling sites that XFN and such are a way for them to "stand out in search" because of the profile photo annotations.
Should we be pushing harder for sites to adopt authorship? Also why are Don Dodge and Jeff Reine not showing up as authors in the results below? Weird....
Would appreciate any clarification.
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Okay Googlers -- if you were unhappy that Events was a closed dogfood you have your chance to participate in the most open dogfood we've ever done.
Here's some simple things you can do:
- Are you using proper schema.org markup? Are your comments http://
- Do you have a user history for your service? Investigate if it's possible to send these moments to frame service. I can connect you with the right people.
- Do you request OAuth scopes for your api-based service? Consider using plus.moments.write to send us active and passive user activity.
Docs are below, feedback will be gladly taken (and I just might send you some Google+ schwag as a token of appreciation)
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[keeping this in the ES family...]
Reaction from my family to the events spam:
_Your company is so fucking stupid sometimes... Why don't you turn off events until you fix your stupid problems._
Sadly I partially agree. If we still had the incoming stream we could easily put the stranger events there. I know that some fixes are in flight -- why are we not being more public about this? A simple Mea Culpa would do a lot here. Comms folks, what's up?
More quotes: _You look like a bunch of amateurs..._ and _why didn't you anticipate this?_
Harsh.
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@103803434511913844892 @102352541062683971307
Ade shared this to a limited audience so I can't plus you into the original post...
Looks like you guys recently turned this service down (is it because of igraph changes?)
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Tired of being asked to check-in to "West Oakland Mental Health" instead of the Parking Lot to pick up the Google Shuttle. Used Mapmaker to edit, but am seeing the bug described in here:
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Click on the link below if you're on MapMaker so we can get this approved.
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