Paul Lindner

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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Nice thing about using Chrome Canary as my primary browser is I occasionally commit *Tab bankruptcy* at random intervals.




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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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How many youtube comments have *you* flagged for abuse today?




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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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*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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Would using the term _Google+ deniers_ be too harsh?




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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!"



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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..)


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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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Be careful removing 'unused import' for protos.  strict deps don't apply in this case so you'll want to test compile with global presubmit...




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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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We need pet names for KG

then I can query "name of deadmau5's cat" and get the answer

Professor Meowington phd




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Some good advice here..  auth-refresh is very handy..

https://wiki.corp.google.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/MacRoadWarrior




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What's the word?  hideous, yes that's the word.

This is the new commenting system on sfgate.  The trolls over there get the commenting system they deserve I guess....


http://viafoura.com/

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Bin packing is NP Hard....

1st time with Shopping express-extended.  Oh the boxes!

Bottom box is 2ft ^3 -- toilet paper/paper towels.
Middle boxes contained misc things from other stores.
Top-one is 14" ^3 -- It contained a 4-pack of cucumber soda and enough bubble wrap to float a boat.

I'm saving the boxes and should be able to reuse the smaller ones.  I did send feedback to team about this situation.


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Whiteboard mural preservation; Apiary edition.


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5935066275097290433/5935066270001622498?...

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G+ Inspired UI at http://littlemonsters.com

- Sidebar with icons for apps
- Cards for posts and expanding comments
- Mole-based chat system.
- Header that collapses when you scroll down
- Big Red Buttons!


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Found a few tips here.  Color prompts, didn't realize that g4's -c flag would tab-complete.

Added a comment about setting the tmux title using

  tmux rename-window

Now I have a decent set of titles instead of

1 bash 2 bash 3 bash 4 bash 5 bash 6 bash 7 python ...


https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/presentation/d/1xh9sh8jtl36h_-Ys8DYQL2ddryjhr_jiObqT5Dl8k9Y/edi...




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Sometimes you want down and to the right too...  At least when it comes to Focus Query cost.


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Parameterized tests in Junit 3 -- another Java #protip

Adding some experimental code that modifies a junit3 test?  Yearning for Junit4 @RunWith(Parameterized.class) annotation?

For simple things like an experiment flag you can do this:

Add the flag to the base test class.

   boolean experiment = false;

Create a subclass of your test and change the value in your setUp method:

 class FooWithExperimentTest extends FooTest {

 @Override
 protected void setUp() throws Exception {
    this.experiment = true;
    super.setUp();
  }
}

Your subclass will run with the varying value.




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