Paul Lindner

-Priceline- *Intestine Negotiator!*

_...a Priceline like service for the healthcare industry-bringing transparency to the healthcare sector in same fashion as Priceline/Kayak/Expedia did to the travel industry._

....

Your profile seems like a possible fit for our team. I have included management info below my name and I will look forward to hearing your thoughts.




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<voice style="casey-kasem">
Hot new entrant into the BadgeWidget top-40, slotting in at Number 4 It's Teaser-Trailer.
</voice>

And who knew we were up to Transformers *4*!


http://teaser-trailer.com/transformers-4-spy-videos-and-pictures/

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Mr Jingles is the best thing ever.  I fully expect it to help our popularity in APAC where a mascot is almost required.

Pictured below:  Toph and TophToph, the SixApart/Typepad mascots.


https://plus.sandbox.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5894689919880372449/589468991981...

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*RWYU* - Request What You Use?

One thing that always bothers me is useless or expensive RPCs, and the various ad-hoc ways of filtering proto fields.  So I was  inspired by IWYU and came up with these ideas...

** When making an RPC include a 'template' for the response.  The simplest possible thing is an actual response object.  Fields you want have defaultValue, fields you don't want are empty.  Call it the 'Mask' or 'Filter'

    FooResponse = fooRpc(FooRequest)

becomes

   FooResponse = fooRpc(FooRequest request, FooResponse mask)

** Building up these masks can be tricky.  So borrow code from dremel so you can make them look like a SELECT.

   mask = MaskMaker.create(fooResponse, "message.*,foo.name");

** A Rpc service can then look at the fields wanted and adjust it's behavior.  If a proto message isn't needed you can probably save extra downstream RPCs.  The logic is actually fairly clean:

   if (mask.hasMessage()) {
     if (mask.getMessage().hasField()) {
       m.setField(x);
     }
     response.setMessage(m);
   }

 [and you could conceive of DSLs or other mechanisms that dispatch producer logic for portions of the response.]

** A client can enforce the filter/mask by stripping out anything the server sends that it did not expect.  Tracking mismatches here can identify efficiency wins.

** To make creating masks easier we could sample RPCs and find a maximal mask that includes data that is actually accessed. Just Instrument the getters on the generated proto objects and figure out what your code actually uses.  (Obvious caveats apply about exceptional cases, speculative RPCs, etc.)

Anyone tried to solve this problem in a general way?  Am I crazy to think that there's a general-purpose solution to this problem?

[Bonus points if we can figure out a way to also specify limits and continuation tokens inside a mask.  Maybe with proto extensions?]




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Now we know why all the Noogler Helium balloons were replaced with pinwheels!

Congrats @105461895807395473744!

Couple of little things:
- Can you spec a better image for the snippet?
- Perhaps add more detail in your title?
- Add a rel="publisher" attribute to your Google+ page link.


http://www.google.com/loon

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Back in 1999 I worked with keen.com to provide a 1-900 service for linux support.  Today?  Well, just look at the snippet below..


http://www.keen.com/

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Wishlist:

g4 rollforward

-- like rollback, but formats the text so the original description appears in emails with

ORIGINAL LINE#1 (rollforward of cl/X)

instead.

Any guess on buganizer category for this FR?




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Paul WFH - Work from Hospital

Unlikely I'll be @standup. Will be in office at ~11:30 if all goes to plan.

Standup Update
- Say hello to Rhidhima as you welcome her aboard as +1 2013 TL.
- Working on getting some SocialGraph CLs through the oz queue
- Followup on +1 deletion issues.




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#closure  boilerplate reduction:

@107106902560384103150 submitted  http://cr/47565620 , which allows goog.ui.Components to do this:

  this.getRequiredElementByClass('classname')

Also goog.ui.Component has a domhelper.  You can get rid of your local domHelper_ vars in most cases and use this.getDomHelper() (and other dom helpers in goog.ui.Component) instead..




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_No Cellular Phones in the hospital reception area_

has xfinitywifi...




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Warning, once seen, cannot be unseen.

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...
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Go to your profile.  Notice that your +1 tab is *+1's* instead of *+1s*.

Maybe we should rename the other tabs to:
  Post's
  Photo's
  Review's

:-P

http://b/5155750




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Do you send out emails with a noreply address?
Do you have a plus page?

Then you should consider getting your mappings added to the following bug so people can follow your page when they're reading your email updates.

https://b.corp.google.com/issue?id=9176847




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An API generator with shades of Apiary being used by my former coworkers at LinkedIn..


http://rest.li/

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And more from James..  Seems like it's moving in a good direction..


http://www.chmod777self.com/2013/05/time-for-updated-activity-streams.html

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Was listening to Kreayshawn's Gucci Gucci, heard the shout out to Google Maps and got curious...


http://rapgenius.com/search?q=google

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Actual subject line:

_Subject: traceroute Square, Inc_

Got me thinking about what unix commands one could prepend in front of a company name. Bonus points if they actually execute :)

Subject: mount Netapp.com:/jobs /home
Subject: echo "curl http://evite.com/jobs" | at teatime




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Sprint K nominations anyone?

If not it will be *K-car*.  And if you know what a K-car is, you know we don't want it.




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Care about standards? From my comment from Jeff Dean's post at http://plus.google.com/112317652221071509598/posts/Wd1SamQcvpQ

Here's some things you can do to support standards at Google:

-- Look at the pages your team generates the way Googlebot does:

http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets

Add standard schema.org and html5 markup.

-- Discuss standards with the scant 200 other Googlers at  http://g/standards-discuss

-- Participate in a standards mailing list/group.  Plenty available for individuals at IETF or W3C.  See standards-discuss if you want to participate as a Googler on corp-oriented bodies.  Standards often suck because they're written by the standards/industrial complex instead of actual implementors.

-- Participate in an open-source project that implements a standard.  These reference implementations are often poorly or insecurely coded.  (For example a few people contributing to Apache Oltu would make Java OAuth that much better)

-- Consider exposing your amazing well-crafted stubby API via Apiary.  Be extra careful to not break compatibility for a whole year.   Write lots of integration and conformance tests.

-- Be like Vint.  Suit up.

-- Above all have fun!


http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets

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This is a new community that will allow us to coordinate with folks that are using our widgets.  Please invite anyone that  you know that's involved.


116259442203462107734

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It's search actions.  Any idea where we are with that project?  Hopefully we can converge on a syntax that works for everyone.


http://searchengineland.com/yandex-announces-interactive-snippets-serp-redesign-159942

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Broadening distribution.  Syncing up the Moments API (aka History API) with schema.org actions and the recent changes for inbox activities would benefit us all.


https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/document/d/1IMQGH0F8SQ2r0I1CdlOwGFWsI5kYZccavyKGoArMn6U/edit

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I highly recommend taking some time to set up your own Adwords campaign.  It's eye-opening.

There are things I like.  [targeted emails are genuinely helpful and intelligent based on your situation]

And things that are not so great.  [some confusing web UI for newbies, some difficulty getting keyword/landing page quality matched to bids]


http://www.google.com/adwords/?sourceid=awo&subid=ww-et-awhp_nelsontest3_nel_p&clickid

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Interested in standardizing and coordination of Google's vocabulary and markup efforts?  Join here!

 <div itemscope
          itemtype=”http://schema.org/SubscribeAction”>;
   <span itemprop=”name”>Join</span> the
   <a itemprop=”url”
     href=”https://plus.google.com/communities/102693216008518569997”>;
     Schemarama</a>
    Community!
</div>


102693216008518569997

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Buganizer, buga-buganizer, you're a buganizer
Oh, buganizer, oh, you’re a buganizer baby
You, you-you are, you, you-you are
Buganizer, buganizer, buganizer
(Buganizer)

_cannot unhear_




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Anyone interested in a structured data/markup/schema group to coordinate external facing efforts?

It seems that we're moving in the same directions:

- Publisher Markup (authorship/schema)
- Interactive Posts for Google+
- Moments API
- Inbox Actions (JSON-LD)
- Tools (SDTT, markup helper)

If interested you can plus people into this thread and I'll create a G+ community with these people as seed members...




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Boswell relevant....

@103827306991532885669  -- just had a chat with the CTO of vizify where I explained authorship.


https://www.vizify.com/

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Feedback from my wife who doesn't follow many people.

- didn't like having followers show up in the list of people.  She had created circles for design/art/music but they were not set to 'Following'.  I think we should ask users to check this on startup.  (I'm assuming that following-only circles are not used for hangouts)

- She saw someone she didn't recognize and from a following circle.  Her first choice was to remove the person from her circles.  That did not remove the person from the chat roster. How does Babel sync circle members and the chat roster?  ANything I can tell her? (She reloaded, logged-out, logged-in) etc...




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