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*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


108183048951505359159






 

What's a collection of cards?  Decks!  so obvious it hurts...

Did you test that name Dmitry?


http://techcrunch.com/2015/02/26/mobile-search-david-vs-googliath/


EOF~





 

What's up with Ad Planner? It now redirects to

https://awics.corp.google.com/um/ssoauth?dst=https://adsmediaplanner.googleplex.com/?ICS_AUTH_OK

and gives me a 403. Is there any way to get some baseline geo/demo data for publisher websites these days?












 

 

I contributed early on but didn't realize that Google contributed 16k as well.  Happy to see things like this.


http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Blogger-hands-out-165-000-to-Mission-fire-victims-6104825.php?...






 

I love it when things just f'ing work.

- I read an internal G+ post by @118054148122560925848  about bad snippets on http://grpc.io/
- Commented, said I'd ping folks.
- Pinged grpc TL @117058620747746997157  on hangouts
- He creates a group chat with @117889162726815756319
- I say here's my github id
- Added to project.
- I clone it and realize it's jekyll
- minimal yak shaving getting jekyll up and running
- in the meantime a new image is uploaded
- git fork, clone, edit, push
- create pull request
- merged.

- DONE

A big image for a big project and a descriptive snippet.


http://www.grpc.io/






 

Today's inspiration.  Some chill, yet uptempo chamber music.  Great music for sharpening pitchforks, if that's your thing ....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvp28IVUpa0






 

I still think Ripples is awesome and needed more than ever in a interest based system. How else are you going to follow the entire chain?

Here's a link to the Tau post by Danielle

[and ugh, the metadata for sharing on those pages is awful...]


https://plus.google.com/ripples/details?activityid=z12qtdmgdtmaj5oy304cjzjwttehc3bb4z40k






 

I find the Blogger decision baffling given the effort in Social for Project R

http://go/projectr

What's the story here?  @103643500382916616176 or @106642279061626308531  can you weigh in?

I was hopeful that we'd offer a way for adults to have adult conversations around adult topics and content.  Hell, sometimes I'd like to restrict my youtube comments to only adults (*yes* we have the ability in the ASBE backend to do this!)

I'm also sad that we're spending any amount of time to help Tobacco companies peddle their wares, which it seems is the main driver for a lot of this...









 

Let's lighten things up with a little whistling...

Oh and growing up I wanted to be Dr. Banzai, well at least a Blue Blazer Regular....


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gNJ1z-ulB4






 

So if Google is creating special versions just for kids, maybe they can do one just for adults.  Then I thought what's the opposite of a unicorn and search provided just the answer:   *icorn*

Oh and what did the Unicorn call his dad?

Popcorn


https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071024061903AAPom3V#ya-c






 

Anyone know what happened to hashtag search?  I haven't seen this trigger in many months, but I didn't see an Ariane turndown..

@108935767358519094547 / @100831539213655563256 ?


http://searchenginewatch.com/sew/news/2297394/hashtags-come-to-google-search-results






 

Search ads functioning as In-App ads.

Add or cross off onions, get an onion ad. Brilliant. I hope that we're behind this...



https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6118410658793676817/6118410655566398498?...






 

 

Just wanted to say that Inception on Tau is super awesome -- Speed makes this feature shine. You can flip over to the original post and back in milliseconds.









 

Putting my reorg boots on...









 

Just got a survey from Comcast about them potentially offering Solar. I imagine it'll be part of their Septuple-Play package.









 

I have my own stalker-poet-recruiter now...

var poem = function() {
  wrote(function() {
    this(function() {
      toMakeYouSmile(function() {
        pleaseRespond(function() {
          imStuckInCallbackHell(function() {
            yoursTruly('jason');
          })
        })
      })
    })
  })
})


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6117021450310081057/6117021448725524562?...






 

Curious how the JeffWeCan twitter page ranks so very highly give the data I see in digdug.

https://plus.google.com/explore/JeffWeCan

vs

https://twitter.com/hashtag/jeffwecan

PageRank is comparable, both were crawled and indexed into Base..

I think I found some superroot code, but don't know for sure...


https://twitter.com/hashtag/jeffwecan






 

We're starting work on supporting standard Android Share/Send Intents in the G+ App.  Would love to hear use-cases that people may have or hints on how to make it awesome.

I already found that I can share out to Flipboard which handles things really well.  Also surprising things like sharing to Barcode reader (generates a nifty QR code)











 

 

 

Anyone have a better way to determine if a proto contains one and only one message set in Java? (And no, can't use OneOf yet afaik. because jspb)

Collections.frequency(Arrays.asList(
msg.hasFoo(),
msg.hasBar(),
msg.hasBaz()), Boolean.TRUE) == 1












 

I/O is using a C64 color palette this year...




https://events.google.com/io2015/






 

Yay!  LMP memory leak bug marked as fixed.

http://b/issue?id=19236185









 

MACKLEMORE & RYAN LEWIS - CAN'T HOLD US FEAT. RAY DALTON (OFFICIAL MUSIC...: http://youtu.be/2zNSgSzhBfM


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zNSgSzhBfM&feature=youtu.be






 

All the Martin Solveig _Smash_ videos in a single playlist.   A must-watch.

[Sadly sharing Youtube "Collections" to Google+ collections doesn't work so well...]  @103403111903646616992 - I suppose we're not going to get Playlist embeds, right?


https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1FZihtktLKvWIpUk22nxm9Dth3mlkdHP






 

Where do you find the best Google candidates?  Why not try your local shopping news?

[I imagine it's a package deal or a publishing requirement.  LinkedIn also has their reqs here too...]


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6111425154521051137/6111425156847404834?...






 

 

My new go-to way to share mobile android screens during meetings.
Many conference rooms have a local input for HDMI and this works great with it.  Tips:

- Enable Settings→Developer Options→Show touches
- Fire up the camera if you need to display a device that's not slimport compatible. (like the 2012 nexus 7)
- Get it from stuff - https://mystuff.corp.google.com/stuff/items/1000


http://shop.slimportdirect.com/products/sp1003






 

Let's not Digg ourselves...

_Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it._


http://readwrite.com/2010/09/23/digg_redesign_tanks_traffic_down_26?_escaped_fragment_=#__sid=md0






 


Moonshine wins again.

Turns out my power button is faulty too :(

http://www.reddit.com/r/Nexus5/comments/2edf6j






 

Went looking for the backstory to the Guardian article... I found a backcyclopedia...


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/GamerGate






 

Can we get the trackable shorebird connector shuttles in gbus? I always seem to hit the donut hole at 10 and end up waiting 20 minutes. (I saw 4 quad busses during this time) oof..









 

@Produces
Coffee produceCoffee(@Node @HalfnHalf MilkProduct milkProduct) {
.....
}


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6102481687489401041/6102481690632384722?...






 



Latest one that popped up:

-    float circleWidth = (float) Math.sqrt(
-        canvas.getWidth() * canvas.getWidth()
-        + canvas.getHeight() * canvas.getHeight()
-    )  - innerRadius;
+    float circleWidth = (float) Math.hypot(canvas.getWidth(), canvas.getHeight()) - innerRadius;









 

 

Shout out to @110664632946820915121 in the new Doomtree track in the 2nd verse.

_Ay, I’m pushing up on your tempo_
_She too stoned Nintendo_
_I’m Vint Cerf, she Pink Floyd_
_I’m jumpin out the window_

Also a damn fine track.


http://genius.com/Doomtree-gray-duck-lyrics