Epic.
Pick your song, then pick your beats-per-minute dancers.
Human, Dustcake, Engineer
Doing my best to make the world a little better every day.
❤️ J9
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One liner for output of /usr/bin/unsued_deps for #futureme
*cat /tmp/oz_deps | awk '{print -bash "\nblaze build " " || read -p BORKED "}'*
buildozer 'remove deps //java/com/google/common/annotations:annotations' //java/com/google/apps/people/oz/widget/signin:module
blaze build //java/com/google/apps/people/oz/widget/signin:module} || read -p BORKED
....
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Some gutsy tagging on P turf.
(And real proof that the techies are taking over the Mission. P and NP gangs are the new Norteños and Sureños.)
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5968262152633464209/5968262154427017826?...
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Had brunch there this weekend. Great food, somewhat spotty service, but they're just getting going.
Graffiti partially removed/obscured and one bag of trash dealt with this morning.
I have a bag with solvent, gloves, rags, trash bags and a scrub brush. If other people are keen on helping I can leave it out. I also brought my portable leaf blower -- I can get some of that broken glass taken care of.
Also reported illegal dumping using SeeClickFix on 7th & Linden (Download the App, it actually gets stuff done). Also can someone get Caltrans to pick up the sofa and other junk that was dumped in the lot?
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5965831869026667441
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Hey WOPR folks, let's clean up West Oakland.
I used to live in SOMA and there was a guy who would clean up all the trash and butts around the corner of 7th and Howard. His small acts made a huge difference and he was the most popular guy in the neighborhood.
There's a trash bin at the corner of 7th and Adeline, so arrive a few minutes early, clean up and win a few hearts and minds. And remember we have hand sanitizer on the bus.
https://plus.google.com/+PaulLindner/posts/NuzN8eaLjKx
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My new morning routine -- remove trash from West Oakland. Contrast that with the new defacement of West Oakland.
My new morning routine -- remove trash from West Oakland. Contrast that with the new defacement of West Oakland.
I know who wins the contest for "best citizen of Oakland." Thanks for your efforts.
Thanks Vivek Bhatia and Karen Ivy - I find the best reaction to hate and distrust are good deeds.
I wouldn't worry about that graffiti ... I think it's just one of those viral marketing campaigns for the new Pepsi product "*Diet* Techie Scum". ;)
Seriously though, thanks for being such a good citizen, especially when the reception you get is less than friendly.
Somehow I missed that Klari Reis was posting a new Petri Dish painting every day for all of 2013.
Somehow I missed that Klari Reis was posting a new Petri Dish painting every day for all of 2013. The entry for December 26th, Poinsettias at Midnight, really captures the season.
Power off those monitors
I just powered off 64 monitors and 2 HD screens on my way out the door. Most monitors were in standby mode (~1.5w) about 10 were not (bad X config, dunno...)
Assuming that they stayed that way for 2 weeks that'd be 269 kWh.
That's ~ 7 of electricity or so just on my floor. Kind of a drop in the bucket, but still....
Couple more things you might want to look at:
Couple more things you might want to look at:
** While testing I saw a few errors pop up when looking for the _escaped_fragment-= version of pages. Looks like this:
unknown domain: goodeggs-garbanzo-seoserver.herokuapp.com
** Your pages have a lot of boilerplate in them that can confuse things. Consider adding html5 header/footer/nav elements. or just getting rid of much of that from your server-side-rendered output. and....
** Seriously consider adding rel="canonical" -- it's the best way for Google to know the URL you want people to use and it helps to disambiguate your pages.
Regarding mixpanel you can see the unminified JS if you view source here:
Not a huge amount of bytes to be saved, but it can't hurt :)
35% of sites on the web now use a custom font. The +1 button's use of Roboto apparently added 8% to that statistic.
No worries, when we added Roboto we also converted the button to SVG. All those bytes from the sprite now are more effectively used to support highly cacheable font downloads.
http://httparchive.org/trends.php
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Mini postmortem on apache mod_fcgid.
Mini postmortem on apache mod_fcgid.
Notable because it showed up as a Recommended post for me....
Originally shared by Tracy Hurley
We ran into some unexpected server load issues that I tracked down today involving apache 2.2 mod_fcgid. Yay, troubleshooting!
Roo Roo and Tommy (the dog) on yet another trip out.
Roo Roo and Tommy (the dog) on yet another trip out. This morning was brunch at the Universal Cafe with a side trip to Blue Bottle coffee.
A good meal was had by all.
Great read.
Great read. I'd also recommend listening to the latest "This American Life" which discusses how your destiny is predicted by where you live. The details on the creation of the fair housing act and riots in the 60s were especially eye opening.
And all of this is especially apropos with the recent Thanksgiving holiday.
Originally shared by Ade Oshineye
"There’s an old saying: ‘with great power comes great responsibility’. There’s a degree to which it’s true, and it certainly seems that the current lot of powerful people are thoroughly irresponsible. I’d like to add another – though it’s deeply wishful thinking. With great privilege should come great humility. Those of us who are privileged – like me, and like Boris – should be able to find that humility. To know that we really don’t know what it’s like to live without our privilege. We can try to imagine – but we’ll never really succeed. And we should know that we’ll never really succeed – and be far, far more willing to listen properly to those who do know it. Most of all, though, we should know when not to talk as though we had all the answers. We should know when to shut up."
Dramatic rays over the Eames House numbers at Heath Ceramics.
Dramatic rays over the Eames House numbers at Heath Ceramics.
Bonus: 20% off this weekend on everything.
Here's a quick tip I posted to the Developing with Google+ community.
Here's a quick tip I posted to the Developing with Google+ community. Plenty more good stuff there for publishers and app developers.
Originally shared by Paul Lindner
Youtube and Google+ Embedded Posts
If you embed Youtube videos on your web site you might want to take second look at the Google+ Embedded Post feature:
Instead of using a direct Youtube embed try creating a Google+ post that includes the video and your commentary. Embed that post on your site by following the instructions linked above.
People can still play the video in the page, but now they can also +1, Follow, and Reply to it. This engagement will make your conversation stand out in the new Youtube.com comments section.
Youtube and Google+ Embedded Posts
Youtube and Google+ Embedded Posts
If you embed Youtube videos on your web site you might want to take second look at the Google+ Embedded Post feature:
Instead of using a direct Youtube embed try creating a Google+ post that includes the video and your commentary. Embed that post on your site by following the instructions linked above.
People can still play the video in the page, but now they can also +1, Follow, and Reply to it. This engagement will make your conversation stand out in the new Youtube.com comments section.
I think this type of embedding is not really support Paul Lindner, right? ;)
https://plus.google.com/111487545374003509241/posts/DcD5awY3Jub
I was just thinking what my website really needs is a bunch of ascii penises and bobs army.
CircleCount - I should have checked your posts before writing mine! With all the great traffic on plus it's hard to keep up.
Note that this is not embedding the full comment stream into the page, this is embedding a single post. People can reply to that specific post by clicking on the comment icon.
Alex Sørlie Glomsaas -- this means that you won't get random youtube comments showing up on your page, and that it elevates your post above the others due to the engagement it receives on your site.
Paul Lindner don't worry, I didn't expected you to have seen my post ;)
You are right, what you have described here is the official way of embedding a post (including youtube-video and comments to the post).
Maybe what I have combined (embedding the video + embedding the unofficial comment stream to the video) could be an interesting option for embedding a youtube video by setting an option like "Show suggested videos when the video finishes"
In the meaning of officially supported by YouTube.
But I think since embedding comments wasn't an option before the integration of Google+ comments this won't get an option with the new comments, too.
Thanks for the feedback CircleCount - I'll pass along your feature request to the right people.
And everyone --Comment quality is much improved recently. No ascii-art and very little "Bob" showing up.
Sharing my personal tips for #bureaucracybusters
By using the tips below I'm down to 2 passwords and two gnubby touches per-day.
https://wiki.corp.google.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MacRoadWarrior
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*Paul's Guide to Youtube spammers*
G+ uses a reputation system and it gets better if it's properly trained. Here's how to help.
1) Find a video you like.
2) Select *Newest First* Comments.
3) Find a spammer! Selling instagram followers, make money at home, PSN codes, ascii-"art", Home "remedies" etc.
4) Hover over the timestamp
- If it's a link to a video, you have a skinny page, report it inline.
5) If it's a G+ profile cmd-click into a new tab
6) On the opened tab click on the profile link in the left card.
7) Amaze at the series of spam posts
8) Report them as spam from the drop-down until you get bored
9) Block/Report the profile if you deem it appropriate
10) For particular nasty stuff or if you detect certain patterns escalate at
http://go/es-abuse
And follow the instructions in the bug template.
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Hi widget lovers.
Hi widget lovers. You may have noticed a new look for the +1 and +Share buttons that are consistent with the Follow and Badge widgets. We hope you like them.
You'll also notice that they scale up beautifully. All of our buttons are now using SVG to render the iconography, and the Roboto font for text. There's even some SMIL animations hiding in there too. All of this is perfect for your new high dpi laptop, tablet or phone. ‡
Please let us know if they're working for you and if you have any suggestions. Thanks for using Google+ widgets!
‡ results may vary on IE8 and Gingerbread browsers.
Matt Mastracci I'll look into it and let you know. Thanks!
They look ugly in my opinion... I prefer them being red with white text.
I prefer the old ones. But it would be awesome if we could customize the button as we want. That would be major advantage over every other Social Network.
Derrick Lambert thanks for the feedback. White text is difficult due to contrast issues.
Hafeed Elbekkaoui I'll see if we can offer a button without the sharing dialog. Can you give me an idea of the specific use cases where you think this would be better (feel free to send privately if you want..)
Vasilj Milosevic - Are there specific customizations you'd like to see?
Matt Mastracci - I've put in a request for a scalable Sign in button.
Thanks again everyone!
Paul Lindner
It would be awesome if we could use custom image, the less cool, but still cool would be color customization of the button itself :)
The size, roundness etc.
Thanks Vasilj Milosevic - I'll add this to our feedback for future releases.
Note that we do offer local customizations for the Google+ Signin button, so there is a precedent.
goooood
The vertical align of the numbers next to the +1 button in the bubble looks a little off, i.e. it doesn't look like it's exactly middle. Is this intended?
Masatake Wasa -- are you talking about the horizontal layout like this?
[g+1] < [22]
There might be something there that's not right - we'll take a look. Thanks for the feedback.
Yes, exactly, the horizontal bubble. It appears pushed down a little - if that makes sense - on Chrome and also on Safari.
[Edit / addition] For illustrative purposes: http://goo.gl/j00Hrx (just as a contrast, the Facebook Like button's vertical align seems to be exactly middle).
Daniel Baines Chrome Extension changes coming soon. Sadly you can't use SVG in the toolbar..
Paradigm shift. Post->Create, View->Search.
I think part of the YT problem is one of perception that reminds of the early days of Gmail. Remember when you 'put' messages in 'folders'? That's what people think of when they post. Instead you have 'Content' that is created that has certain attributes.
When you have content with attributes you can use search to surface it, rank it, and filter it.
So my minor suggestion for Youtube comments is to add a really simple thing: Add _Searching for Comments..._ to the loading indicator.
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Paging absentee Google-owned Youtube channel owners -- time to start policing your comments. If you're not going to moderate *and engage* just disable comments. Otherwise while you're away the partying teens will trash the place.
For sport and old-times-sake I spent time reporting porn/abuse/spam on popular videos and Google-owned channels. I saw the usual hideous garbage in "Newest First", but what I didn't see was any engagement from the channel owners.
So to repeat, own your channels. Moderate and engage. Moderate and engage. *Moderate and engage*.
[Also banning a few abusive individuals will go a long way towards eliminating the ascii-art genitalia until the ML algorithms catch up..]
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/football/ex-nfl-player-home-trashed-hundreds-partying-teens-articl...
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New SVG based Plusone Buttons going out to the world.
https://play.google.com/music/playpreview?preview=AE9vGKqN3U0OdvXv0MiMQwSljmTmDspcCdRRosU-xYLTBvl6BL...
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The SNS space keeps shifting. Hyves is now moving from a general purpose social network to a gaming focused one.
I hope that works out better from them than it did for hi5.
http://hyves-corporate.pr.co/63596-hyves-transformeert-naar-online-gaming-portal
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Munchery delivers. Had a nice meal from them yesterday and noticed that they're also here on Google+.
Munchery delivers. Had a nice meal from them yesterday and noticed that they're also here on Google+.
Even if you can't get them in your area you can admire their fine food photography. This attention to detail pervades the rest of the experience, including thoughtful packaging, high quality ingredients, and artful presentation. Highly recommended.
Originally shared by Munchery
Heading to the park this weekend?
I have one invite left for purchasing Google Glass for the first person that wants it.
I have one invite left for purchasing Google Glass for the first person that wants it. Remember the requirements are:
- be a US resident
- be 18 years or older
- purchase Glass
- provide a U.S. based shipping address OR pick up the device in New York, San Francisco or Los Angeles
Originally shared by Google Glass
Wow, lots of questions! We'd rather "show" than "tell" so here you go: the mono earbud, and the Glass that Explorers will be getting when they swap later this year.
Edit: More questions! The earbud plugs into Glass, so you can choose whether to use it.
*Day of the Dead (code)*
Find dead build targets at http://deps/unused then do this:
blaze build devtools/janitor/terminator
sed 's/ .*//' |xargs -n 1 blaze-bin/devtools/janitor/terminator
** PASTE LINES FROM deps/unused **
^D
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I had to show this to a few people this weekend to help them understand my human cannonball t-shirt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSizGn8vbFQ
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One benefit of missing the shuttle is visiting the West Oakland McDonalds and observing the use of technology. Pretty much the opposite of Google demographics you can find anecdotal societal changes first hand at the WiFi watering hole.
Mobile first. Yes
Bluetooth headsets - more than you'd think.
Parents and kids on ancient wintel laptop.
Multiple IPads with keyboards.
Religious argument ended with "Look it up on YouTube!"
https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5941325952242369169/5941325947220876290?...
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fyi
fyi
Originally shared by Pic Scanner app (iOS)
Earlier this week, the number of +1s on my G+ page suddenly and inexplicably dropped from around 5,000 to approx. 800. I complained to Google 2 days ago but so far those haven't been reinstated, and it seems Google doesn't know where they went.
Did the NSA steal those, too?
Fyi
Fyi
Originally shared by E John Feig
Anyone else have this issue with Google+ badges? It cut off the last letter in my name! When I look at the source, I can see that the 'g' has been converted to some random unicode character. What's even more annoying is that when I go into my dashboard in tumblr to try to change this, it shows up correctly. The only place it seems not to work is when viewing the page. =/
The g is turned into some CJK letters. It looks ok to me now (not CJK'ed): https://plus.google.com/_/client/demo/badge.html?personid=+EJohnFeig
Whatever's on the barge in the bay better be good. Otherwise William Gibson and I will both be disappointed.
_"He's at Google CAZ. See the knuckle tats?" They all dress like 50s longshoremen, particularly the women._
https://twitter.com/GreatDismal/status/395649357791248384
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Farewell iGoogle and your hundreds of quality Zombie gadgets.
For perspective Campfire 1 was 6 years ago on Nov 1st. At hi5 we wanted to create a Day of the Dead gadget but ran out of time (hi5 was super popular in south/central america, so it would have been a natural fit..)
https://plus.sandbox.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5940941643516135201/594094164049...
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Highly recommended.
Highly recommended. This is an electronic/noise remix of the P.O.S album We Don't Even Live Here by experimental group Marijuana Deathsquads.
The folks at Rhymesayers Entertainment are doing a great job showcasing the creative forces of the Midwest. Definitely worth following here on +
T-Mobile user with a grandfathered plan?
Install this before you upgrade to KitKat...
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pdanet#body-content
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IE9 - the doughnut hole of web animation...
svg works well on all browsers except IE8, and Gingerbread
css3 animation works on IE10+
svg smil? everything with svg, but not on IE at all.
requestAnimationFrame? nope.
http://caniuse.com/
http://caniuse.com/
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background:
LETSDANCE.TO is an app that syncs new songs with old video clips of dancers.
The suggested tracks are automatically generated using the excellent Echonest API and are matched on their BPM (beats-per-minute) and a number of other factors.
N.B. The list of songs were NOT manually selected - therefore some combinations work well, some not so well.
Paul Lindner, Jan 16 2014 on 1500wordmtu.com