So it was recently password change time. I estimate that I spend 4 hours a year typing passwords (240 days per year, 1 minute of typing a password per day).
So.. what better thing to optimize! Here's what I came up with:
* one hand typability.
* minimize the amount of 'finger seek' latency.
* Made sure there was an appropriate 'stride' to ensure that typing is easy.
For once I'm happy to change my password.
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We recently started importing Orkut friends for new Google+ signups in India and Brazil. Orkut friends show up as Google+ contacts in the circle editor.
We will be offering an upgrade path for existing users soon. However if you'd like this for your own Google+ account you follow these steps:
1) Use a Brazil or India proxy: go/ganon for the firefox or chrome extension.
2) Visit the following URL:
https://
Enjoy!
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ugh, if there was ever a reason to deref URL shorteners
Starting to see spammers using this on G+..
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Curious if anyone else was invited to this? Anyone interested in going with me?
*Pandora Listener Town Hall*
I'm writing to invite you to a Pandora Listener Town Hall meet-up in Oakland on Thursday, December 8th at 7:00 PM at Preservation Park on 13th Street. The get-together will be very informal. I'll share some Pandora history, some background on the Music Genome Project and talk about Pandora today. I also want to hear what's on your mind—questions, complaints, ideas—everything is fair game.
To RSVP, just reply to this email (ideally before Wednesday evening on 12/7). If you plan to bring guests just let us know how many and their names.
It should be a fun evening, complete with some Pandora swag!
Hope to see you soon.
– Tim (Founder)
WHAT: Pandora Listener Town Hall
WHEN: Thursday, December 8th at 7:00 PM
WHERE: Nine Hall at Preservation Park
668 13th Street
Oakland, CA 94612
Click here for map and directions
RSVP: Reply to this email with your name plus the name(s) of your guests
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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.....
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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..
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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...
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If only cs had +1 ...
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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
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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?
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Hey Sam Goto -- here's another worthy oEmbed partner...
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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.
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Testing out latest finsky, looks like there's more music there now...
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This WebRep stuff *must* be stopped!
Terrible, terrible thing...
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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://
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ruh-roh....
corp IPs are getting throttled on twitter....
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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...
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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 :)
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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
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Anyone had a chance to check this out? Might be a good solution for flash apps (crossdomain.xml not withstanding...)
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Aha! Now I know why I'm seeing inverted images. Clever!
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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.
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