Can Google Duplex do two phase commit?
Just had the worst experience getting two medical schedulers to get a series of events coordinated. Total disaster.
Ended up getting everyone on a conference call to work out the details, would be hard pressed to see an AI accomplish that...
#til hangouts chat web UI is responsive if you narrow the window.
.. that combined with running in a chromeless window is much better than the native app, since you don't have to re-auth in two places all the time:
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#DWebSummit is coming the end of this month. There will be... surprises...
Also check out that entirely stippled web site...
Bye Bye Bluefin
Today I removed the last remnants of the Google+ mobile basic frontend, aka Bluefin (see http://
And congratulations to the team for leaving me some traps:
- Removing protos lead to global js compile errors. Turns out that a bunch of random code relied on mobile basic soy_globals.
- To calculate a URL path the following was done:
- Execute a java method.
- ... that instantiates a soy template *places.soy*
- ... that executes {mbPlaceUrl(....) }
- ... which is provided by a soy plugin
- ... that runs some other java code!
Well played, well played indeed.
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Does Alphabet have a 30 year or 300 year plan?
The Softbank 30 year plan from 2010 is pretty thought provoking. (It's already 8 years old, but still feels forward thinking.)
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Blender put all their videos on PeerTube after getting shut down on Youtube.
PeerTube uses ActivityPub standards and WebTorrent to serve up videos. It's under rapid development and has progressed a lot since the last time I checked in with them..
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RT @SarahJamieLewis: In the Dat protocol white paper under Network Privacy, there is a section that reads: "There is an inherent tradeoff i…
Protip: don't fill your GCP disk 100%. Instance starts but you can't login since there's no place to put an ssh key..
The fixes are.. Not good. (resize not supported on OS, so have to clone, mount on new VM, and then build a new VM with the cloned disk...)
Probably just going to burn it down and start over...
This is Nancy O'Malley scaremongering in the Alameda County DA race. Also check out the bowl of Cheetos and the ashtrays.
*Wildfire* was quite the system back in the 90s, seems like the Android Dialer or Google Voice could easily implement the best features today.
Some tidbits:
- When summoned Wildfire says "I'm here"
- Whispering in your ear could be done on phone, but also in real life if you had, say Google Glass.
More details from an old Fortune article:
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_For now, Wildfire is only for those willing to shell out big bucks. A business with a dedicated server pays an average of ,400 per user to get set up. Independent subscribers who buy the service from authorized service providers generally pay monthly charges of between 50 and 00. Lowering prices is the company's top priority. Competition is looming, but to date no one else has as sophisticated a product on the market._
I don't know much about co-ops and education. But this is an interesting development:
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Recruiter pitches from Facebook and Amazon on the same day.
Day is young maybe Apple or Microsoft can chime in too...
Who can beat this [[ping] * [market cap]] record?
*Memes are the Building Blocks of Perceived Reality*
PDF added to my reading list...
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Wired UK with some good coverage of the #platformcoop movement including @resonatecoop
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Hi German folks! Please vote out racists like @c_lindner. I'd rather be mistaken in my mentions for singer @patricklindner_.
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@freiheit_chris @ulfposh @Markus_Soeder @jensspahn @janfleischhauer @sebastiankurz @janboehm @RobertHabeck @c_lindner Most people mistake me for @patricklindner_
@KeineWunder bah! @ulfposh did you mistake me for @patricklindner_? I suppose that rebels are against Volksmusik too....
Will be interesting to see what Chrome team does with this.
It sure feels like a rollback situation, especially when we're breaking our own stuff.
This was 6 years ago and here I am still using emacs with a fuzzy copy of a Guice dependency injection graph in my head.
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Fantastic performance tonight in San Francisco by @dessadarling@twitter.com She's a fabulous performer and member of Doomtree Collective. Here's a thoughtful interview from 2015 about Doomtree's unique path to success:
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RT @bradfitz: The video of the @PerkeepOrg talk from @lejatorn and me at @lfnw the other day is already online:
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Because social networks are what we do, you should understand how the bonds Google+ creates can spread contagions (both the good and bad kinds...)
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Reading "The World of Knowbots" from "The Digital Library Project". circa 1988
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Thievery Corporation's Treasure from the Temple is on Resonate Coop:
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Give it some mutual aid :) If you're a member it's a good album, if you're not a member plz sign up!
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Also: _"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by ignorance, however, any sufficiently advanced ignorance is indistinguishable from malice."_
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It'll be a a rich tapestry of technology, philosophy, ethics, and activism.
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I've had a deja vu feeling about Maven for awhile and finally was able to put my finger on it...
I present to you a clip from the 1985 film _"Real Genius"_.
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Cleaning up my Xmarks bookmarks so I can import them into @pinboard before they disappear forever. Interesting look back at the default bookmarks that came with Safari/IE etc.
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Get ready for GDPR with avocado and sprouts on whole grain bread (aka California Style)
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Get ready for GDPR with avocado and sprouts on whole grain bread (aka California Style)
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MLS provides a security layer for group messaging applications with from two to a large number of clients. It is meant to protect against eavesdropping, tampering, and message forgery.
Whoa, Ratchet trees...
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In an alternate timeline Google Gadgets survived and iGoogle evolved into ARCS.
But seriously, go read this and think about how the world might be different if we could split up the data hosting (into Google Cloud) and the Application Serving. What kind of world would we have then?
Once you've digested that read the User Sovereignty doc
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I think efforts like this are key if we want Google to grow even larger than it's current size without being regulated to death.
Trap my contacts? If only... (2010)
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Feature request for OnePick
_To make sure that whatever aspect ratio a thumbnail is displayed in, it doesn’t cut off important bits, the new “crop” function allows you to select a focal point (or “focus” point) on the uploaded picture._
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Sherlog broken, caldav broken. Oh yeah 5110 group memberships (again)
#pupp right +112225569907336841303 ?
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Everything in our world will soon be technology-mediated. @anildash offers some wisdom on how we can make these changes in a net-positive way. Recommended.
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Having an open gadgets proxy seemed like a good idea at the time ....
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... now I want to see Pong at TGIF via paddles. Oh and please be aware of the control you have and unintended consequences of the the systems you design. kthxbye
_It was a blistering July day in Las Vegas, with temps hitting 109. Inside the SIGGRAPH 91 convention hall Yello's Rubberbandman looped on the speakers. On each chair: a red/green paddle._
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Scrobbling for @resonatecoop is now available thanks to the efforts of Malachi Soord @inversechi
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Think GDPR will easy? Think again.
A group named NOYB has already raised 300k euro in donations and will start filing cases on May 25th.
Only 78 days to go...
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Heard a CashCall radio ad to refinance and “buy the bitcoin dip”. Shades of 1999 #bubble when our WaMu loan officer told us to invest our down payment...
Highly recommended talk by @aparrish that illustrates #cybernetic principles of The Law of Requisite Variety and the Good Regulator Theorem.
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A strong argument for the recent changes to promo. I wonder if we'd had this in the past this person would have gotten promoted?
Also one of these days I'm going to write a "Why I stay at Google" post.
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brb checking my memcached commits on github.
I also think there's a future for a Branding Agency specializing in vulnerability names. We're no longer content with CVEs any more.
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Friday #stream2own update for @resonatecoop. I discovered the esteemed electronica duo @Coldcut has their catalog there. Nine listens means I now own "Quality Control" and other tracks.
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