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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?...






 

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






 

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?









 

One of these days I'm going to create SoftwareTropes.com




http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheEngineer






 

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/






 

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






 

So I guess we need proper Dasher Support for conglomerates now.

Might finally need to use multiple ou= entries in LDAP....









 

 

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






 

 

Learned about how lifeline service operates these days.. Rep said he'd signed up 30 people today.

Lifewireless.com


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6179691051696948657/6179691054706701970?...






 

Everyone's posting Ben Evans blog posts these days.. I always take them with a grain of salt given his coverage of G+ over the years...

_So, my more-or-less serious theory (based on absolutely no chats with actual real Google employees) is that Google will never make a decent social product, nor any other product for which the engineering is generic and success depends on judgement calls around the UX, because Google’s culture does not appear to respect skills needed for such products._



http://ben-evans.com/benedictevans/googles-failures






 

We could've launched this with G+.... So sad.

http://go/sidecardesign

I wonder if we could:
- correctly implement canonicalized URL search in G+ Search
- expose that via the existing G+ Search APIs....

+106931094502616873058 / +106433955572999345226


http://www.metafruit.com/kiwi/






 

Didn't see that coming...

Also Polyvore is an interesting case study for collections....


http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/31/yahoo-acquires-polyvore/#__sid=rd0






 

Today's Inspiration: Before there was Lindsey Stirling: *Rasputina*

Playing tonight in SF if you're into Steampunk Cello music.


https://play.google.com/music/playpreview?preview=AE9vGKoi80sjOCKwG5Sf47AD7kx6-pr_DeFUwMRSoGkQ9KEZBq...






 

Who's responsible for the screens on our GBUS fleet? I have some interesting ideas on how we could use them to good effect.

For everyone else: What would you like to see on these screens?



https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6177704708114458817/6177704710270242274?...






 

Today 2pm, MTV-SB65:

"""Bob Gurr, retired Disney Imagineer, spent over 40 years developing more than 100 designs for attractions ranging from the Disneyland and Walt Disney World Monorails to the design of the mechanical workings of Disney’s first Audio-Animatronics human figure.

The attractions he developed still are incredible, and even more so if you consider the technology available to him at the time.""""

https://groups.google.com/a/google.com/forum/#!topic/atgoogle-mv/7W0k21E-ceo



https://groups.google.com/a/google.com/forum/#!topic/atgoogle-mv/7W0k21E-ceo






 

An old favorite from 2000

In my career every next generation (NG) software project failed. Only at Google have there been (some) counter-examples.



http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html






 

To obtain the pinnacle of internet speeds requires me to use... a telephone.

_Ready to speed ahead?_
_Learn more by calling_
_1-800-XFINITY_

Is this high technology or a late night infomercial?

But seriously has anyone inquired on this? After last nights outage I could use a few laughs..


http://www.xfinity.com/multi-gig-offers






 

Who knew there was a advertising company devoted to DMV signage. .

Liked the upcoming event UI treatment. Ads were okay. Postmates and auto collision shops.


http://mvnetwork.com/






 

Facebook for Education?

stopleaks@fb.com

heads up @101960497985958811288

---

Hey Paul – happy Friday!
I saw that you’ve been at Google for a while. With your strong CS fundamentals from U of Minnesota, I thought you would be an awesome fit here at Facebook with our new focusses this year. Facebook is currently in hyper-growth mode reaching beyond social network and has lots of interesting projects coming down the pipeline at a large scale of 1.4B user data. Whether you’d like to stay in your expertise OR would like to explore something new, our engineering managers would love to speak/meet with you depending on your interest as a lead or IC. I'm also recruiting for a team that's building out a new platform from scratch in K-12 education space. If that doesn't intrigue you, you can explore other opportunities as well. I'd love to chat in more detail - what day/time works for you this week?
Look forward to hearing from you.









 

Confession time: I grew up in poor rural MN but was able to attend two fully-sponsored summer Science camps.  It changed my life.

At one I got to make holograms, perform blood spatter analysis and write Apple II games.

Another one was sponsored by our Rural Electric Coop where I managed to get an extensive tour of a coal fired power plant and learned all about electricity.

Those are gone, but @111531961318959598038 and @105449406040345263889 have one for the new century.  I'm happy to support it and I hope you will too.


http://www.siliconnorthstars.org/






 

You should lose .1 on your OKR for every time you quote Business Insider.









 

Surprise realization: G+ has more active users than Google Now.... On Android. (Assuming 30DAU)











 

Random  - replace OWNERS files with proto syntax ala METADATA.  Anyone working on this?









 

Some interesting "Getting More" #'s in this deck.

If you haven't seen it the Internal site is here:

https://grow.googleplex.com/opportunity/site/gettingmoreatgoogle

Now if only I could retroactively apply what I learned in this course...


https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1V-2wJElhwRJAb_M2J3eOGR7xT0zZj5nFX2NCwiKgs1A/edit?_escaped_fr...






 

Sharing this one more time since some people were interested...

For everyone else here's _Propellerheads featuring: Miss Shirley Bassey - History Repeating_

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzLT6_TQmq8









 

This is the best ZikZak inspiration yet.  It's 4 years old and we still haven't gotten anywhere near to what it conceptualizes.


https://vimeo.com/16423199






 

I've wanted this for youtube for so long..

I think this is one reason comments are bad -- if you're commenting you're not actually watching the video.


http://thenextweb.com/facebook/2015/07/07/watch-out-youtube/






 

Worth it just for the colorized json output alone.

Just:

  sudo apt-get install jq

and you're gtg


http://stedolan.github.io/jq/






 

TiL there's a Ken Nordine Youtube Channel.

Word Jazz. {Yeah} Mesmerizing.




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYi07EhENJI






 

So many transitions...

Worth watching for a *very* young Wil Wheaton as a "Toaster Punk"


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_K8vnx2ZDc






 

Quite happy that all the old data from the Zoltan checklist was migrated into

https://noogler.corp.google.com




https://noogler.corp.google.com






 

Remember Soderbergh?

http://go/soderbergh

So much awesomeness that never saw the light of day... @103615931922153151429


https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/file/d/0BxVGGK_Vco3LMDB4QzZRZW56Y00/edit?_escaped_fragment_=






 

Just wow.

"millions of web pages" "thousands of newsgroups" - oof

Pointcast part starts at 5:00


https://archive.org/details/ComputerChronicles-SearchEngines_861






 

 

Direct link: https://www.tumblr.com/tv

Nice intro with TV static, but I do wonder if anyone born after 1990 knows what that is..

- Supports next/prev, but no pause
- Content is limited, not very customizable.
- No context cues presented, no intros/bumpers other than the initial splash screen.


http://venturebeat.com/2015/06/25/tumblr-launches-tumblr-tv-a-platform-for-surfing-gifs/






 

New project christened Project Zikzak

I did a random hallway sample and only 2 people knew what I was talking about.  What about you?


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This looks fun...

*Glen Keane & Rebecca Ussai | The Principles of UX Choreography*

6/24/15 at 14:00 PT
MTV-43-2-Tunis Tech Talk (200) VC

Any questions, please contact: kevincburke
This talk will not be recorded

The Principles of UX Choreography w/ Glen Keane & Rebecca Ussai







 


Q: http://www.quora.com/Does-tipping-the-dealer-in-Zynga-Poker-give-a-player-better-cards

A: no

As I commented on the post below. Zynga derived a lot of their early ways from the Golden Palace casino.








 

Proposal:  replace OWNERS with GUILD

format:
ldap skill-level

where skill-level is one of apprentice, crafter, journeyer,  master and grandmaster

optionally allow 'retired' in front of the above.

And we could have languge-related GUILDs too, though I wouldn't call my readability review CL a _masterpiece_.....


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6163691072404617057/6163691072815330002?...






 

Nuggets of truth in there.

Favorite one so far is _"If it takes you too long to refactor than you are not refactoring enough."_


http://www.agile-process.org/proverbs.html






 

Imagine the uproar if Youtube sped up all videos 9% to show more ads... Yet basic cable is doing this all over the place using the software below.

Once seen you will notice it all over the place.  My wife keyed me in when she said _"This episode of Murder She Wrote feels like a Gilmore Girls episode..."_

[oh and whatever you do: do not search for the word 'judder']


http://www.primeimage.com/TimeTailorSeries.html






 

When was the last time anyone ever changed an RPC deadline flag?

Can we get rid of all of them entirely now that deadline propagation is a thing and rpc services support a default deadline option?

  rpc foo(FooRequest)  returns (FooResult) {
    option deadline = 5.0;
    option fail_fast = true;
  };









 

 

For a company born on the web we sure do an awful job marking up our sites with relevant data.

Almost all of the images on the new Sidewalk Labs site are transparent (see below).  There is no schema.org,  opengraph or other semantic markup.

I hate to add another step to launchcal, but cmon, this is embarrassing.  The fix is easy:
- Save page as HTML in Chrome.
- Put page (and linked assets in some secret, yet public web site)
- Preview this on G+, Facebook, and Twitter at the very least.
- Use Webmaster Tools / Search Console to make sure that search knows about your domain and use tools within.


http://sidewalkinc.com/






 

Inbox actions have been around for a while and Notifications have not implemented them in generated emails.  Anyone on this?

If we remove iframe'd gmail access to posts it can make up for some of the lost traffic.


https://developers.google.com/gmail/markup/






 

 

 

Using ssh on a GBUS?  Use this instead.

Even works on Chromebooks if you enable VPN.


https://mosh.mit.edu/






 

code code the humongous bloat...
the more you hack the bigger the CL
the bigger the CL the sadder you feel
so delete code with tons of zeal