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Google -Hospice- -Upstate Farm- Pasture Service

Hallway conversation with @104255968520200310944 and @101824307711135795640:  wouldn't it be great if there was a way to export a dead service's data into an sstable and allow for deletion/takeout?  That way you could turn down the service more easily and get rid of zombie code.

As you can see the naming quickly went to the morbid side.









 

<sudden-clarity-clarence>
Most of my work is actually Software *Re*development
</sudden-clarity-clarence>

_New construction on a site that has pre-existing uses._

- Blight Abatement
- Historic Preservation
- Encouraging Growth
- Transit Villages (okay, maybe not..)









 

 

So what are people using to get photos in from old-school cameras?

The Eye-Fi X2 is now basically useless for this:
- They used oauth 1 for their "PICASAWEB" upload feature.  This is now broken.
- They used iPhoto APIs to upload photos.  The new Apple Photos App doesn't have integration hooks, so again, nothing.

Their new offerings only upload to their own cloud, so I'm left with useless hardware.  Yay progress.


https://community.eyefi.com/






 

 

Thought I'd go all meta and post the ripples for the ripples deprecation post...


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6151421247823702833/6151421246109492834?...






 

 

Just posting this because it contains *Taco Town* in the lyrics.  And it's awesome.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd5ZLJWQmss






 

Any reason to not get one of these?

This would replace a 40" Sony GTV.  It's had a good run, but GPMAA is still slow and buggy, and the new Youtube app is a serious regression.  And since Android TV doesn't support multiple users I can use the nexus player and my wife can use the built-in ATV functionality.

... and why is this already on sale?
... also lists amazon prime video -- wonder if that'll get released for nexus player?
... and Opera browser bundled?  WAT?


http://store.sony.com/43-class-42.5-diag-4k-ultra-hd-tv-zid27-XBR43X830C/cat-27-catid-sony-ces-2015-...






 

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






 

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?...






 

Oh, and while we're dreaming...  I propose that this be the new aquatic gbus.


http://www.wingship.com/?page_id=248






 

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






 

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

---------
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/






 

OH: _it's like Opentable for wheelchairs__









 

 

 

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/






 

I think healthcare would be a lot better if they used *millimds*









 

 - 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









 

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






 

Achievement Unlocked.  Spouse obtains medical cannabis prescription on April 20th.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_(cannabis_culture)#__sid=rd0






 

*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






 

 

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...






 

 

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/






 

*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









 

 

*wireless only*

annoyance of the day:

wireless in google3 really means mobile...










 

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?...






 

Finally found a way to dogfood collections in my own way....

And I've only just begun to document the people, the products and the decisions that have shaped Social at Google this past decade.

Looking for dusty old decks, groups links and old forgotten wiki pages.









 

*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






 

*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...






 

*Campfire One: Introducing OpenSocial* November 2007


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KOEbAZJTTk






 



M-x grep-find
cs -local 'codesearch query'
C-x`
repeat











 

*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






 

Hey -spaces- collections are back.  So here's some heavy german


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






 

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









 

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...









 

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






 

Actually managed to spend my FSA funds before the deadline!

... because of last minute medical necessity.

</phelps_mom_happy_sad>










 

AST Crazy

C++ -> cfront -> C -> ASM

Java -> javac -> bytecode -> Proguard -> bytecode -> dex -> dex2oat

es6 -> jscompiler -> es5 -> ....

What else? GWT? Dart?









 

Should I feel like a VIP because I was invited to the _Samsung Blogger's Lounge_ at SXSW? Or is it just spam?









 

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






 

 

Has anyone extracted the dalvikvm verification logic into a command line tool?

I'm trying to track down a bizarre kitkat crash and doing manual bisects is killing my soul..









 

Today's   inspirational tune.  Sadly there's no vid for this..


https://play.google.com/music/m/Tpletfdxsiuhlkgtsxt4b244uti






 

Let's make sure that when communities == spaces that we don't lose support for the Play Store dogfood usages.

fyi @116834966192427446812


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