Paul Lindner

If you hit a bug too many time your IP gets DoS-blocked which makes Google+ unusable.  Ouch...

The funny thing is that the /jserror and /reporthttp4xxerror endpoints also end up getting blocked so our backends won't allow us to detect this behavior.


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5851848349819472913/5851848351104480802?...

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Automatically create a reverse-time sorted youtube playlist for videos posted to a community.  Allow you to subscribe to it like a podcast.

Automatically create a photo album for all photos posted to a community.




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Seeing lots of 500s and 405s (wha!?) on stream fetch and mark-as-read XHRs

Hope it's just me....




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2 years ago....

http://www.wdyl.com/#monkeys


http://www.wdyl.com/#monkeys

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How about support for humans.txt in authorship?


https://plus.google.com/114334906202592742096/posts/BJeDvcawpsJ

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This is really nice.


http://iframe.ly/pageinfo?url=http%3A%2F%2Fvimeo.com%2F53156464

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Is there an easy way to null-mock an RPC interface in Java/Apps-Framework?  I couldn't figure it out with some time in code search

I'm seeing people using easymock and mockito to do this, but that feels wrong (RPCs don't return null!) and also means that these testing frameworks might find their way into production code if we're not careful.

Here's an example:

 import com.google.ccc.groups.index.server.api.proto2api.CommonGroupsApi.CommonGroupsIndexSyncService;
 ...
 @Mock
 CommonGroupsIndexSyncService.ClientInterface mockSyncServer;
...
    bind(CommonGroupsIndexSyncService.ClientInterface.class)
        .toInstance(mockSyncServer);

Perhaps we could have a stub implementation that could do the following:

1) Implement returning defaultValue for all requests.
2) Implement returning RpcException for all requests.

Extra credit for the following wrapper class that would allow for injecting behavior into the pre-rpc/post-rpc phases:

  public class ForwardingRpcClientInterface {
     ...
     pubilc T delegate() {}

    beforeRpc(...);
    afterRpc(...);

    public Object invoke(...) throws Throwable {
      // defaults to forwarding to delegate
    }
  }

With something like this you could implement a client-side cache or short-circuit requests here.  You could also implement the defaultValue/RpcException classes based on this.




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Some perspective from last year's I/O.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXSjF6iNFeg

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Since we're talking about degenerate +1 buttons in the wild -- here's one that's pretty bad.  It appears that someone took a plusone button iframe element from the dom of one page and slapped it into this.

@109016304695129264328 -- do you have any inside connections?


http://www.laroux.co.uk/

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It's been a long time since I had to switch back to chrome stable from chrome canary.  Today is one of those days...




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A favorite open ended topic I use for interviews.

_Your Coffee Shop doesn't use 2-Phase Commit_

[and a sad snippet for pdf link shares..]


http://www.eaipatterns.com/docs/IEEE_Software_Design_2PC.pdf

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It's 2013 -- why do we still have problems with hotspots in Bigtable/Kansas?

I have not looked into the backend design, but this seems like something that's been solved in the past.

Do we not have
- Dynamic-sized replicas (add more read-only replicas for hot keys)?
- What about adaptive sharding/rebalancing (rehash based on usage)?
- Hierarchical storage? (automatically move dormant accounts to older/slower hardware, move back when reactivated)
- Or... the ability to manually move a single hot key to it's own instance. (variant of adaptive sharding above)

I know about the stubby cacher and how that can help, but that seems like treating the sympton rather than the source of pain.




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2m curated profiles and associated data.

Somewhat bizarre.


https://www.relsci.com/

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http://www.thefanmarket.com/

per 1000

twitter followers
0 Instagram likes
3 Soundcloud plays
5 for FB Likes
5 for FB Likes (USA)
0 for YT Followers
0 for +1s
0 for YT Likes

We're premium...  Congrats S&A team  @115520453074644055116


http://www.thefanmarket.com/

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Wife just told me that Scroogled is now using promoted tweets.

Doesn't seem worth the 00k/day...




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Good idea?  Bad idea?  I'd probably want some heuristics (like don't show http://www.cnn.com/ on http://evil.com/)

Maybe even just limit it to stripping off query params?

Chrome folks?


http://www.distilled.net/blog/seo/combining-the-html5-history-api-and-the-canonical-tag-for-improved...

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Ported my code to run on corp.  Luckily twitter has undocumented ssl support for their URL count.

https://www.corp.google.com/~plindner/thecount/

I'll be hacking this on/off.  You can see the crufty jquery stuff in /home/plindner/www/thecount




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Of interest to moments API work / Aspen and Google+ History

Has the concepts of Actor/Verb/Target

@117410472150303805486 @114489135332974198500 @104392738264586850178 @110885671099056346036


http://tincanapi.com/developers/tech-overview/

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Should we tell the world that you can get +1 counts like this?

https://www.googleapis.com/pos/v1/plusones/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F?callback=jsonpCallback

Instead of the gross reverse engineered hacks that are out there that post to clients6.google.com?


https://www.googleapis.com/pos/v1/plusones/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F'

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#til  that utm == urchin tracking module




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Just saw this guava witchcraft snippet in a code review today from @112047346673343275962.

In this case we wanted to sort by a primary, secondary and tertiary key.  However we only want to keep the first 'primary' entry found.

The magic is that ImmutableSortedSet throws away duplicates, and you can define duplication with the orderedBy() method (which should almost be renamed to .orderedByAndEquals())

sorted = primaryOrdering.compound(secondary)
    .compound(tertiary)
    .immutableSortedCopy(full);

return ImmutableSortedSet
  .orderedBy(primary)
  .addAll(sorted).build();




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Should we make a crowdsourced hashtag <--> freebase mid site?

Here's a stillborn site that would have been my first choice for a name...


http://www.hashtagpedia.org/

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Cloud based Music Queue sounds like an interesting idea.   Maybe you could 'fling' your queue to any screen....


https://plus.google.com/u/0/107928193007461262370/posts/Ums1ou7RzU6?e=-RedirectToSandbox

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Can someone help me decipher where this page is being generated?  I want to change it to pass in the rel="me" param to the ancient focus widget.

If possible I'd also like to see it use the G+ profile badge instead which is much much nicer.

http://books.google.com/books?uid=108407510003645795115


http://books.google.com/books?uid=108407510003645795115

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In honor of C-Sprint - *Convoy* and *CB* radio.  And Rocketsled on rails, I don't care if it doesn't start with C.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlXx6LxMbdQ

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*IDEA* Stubby no-op detector.

Stubby clientside code that tracks if the response code is always the same.  Found some RPCs today that were no-ops due to validation in another part of the system..  Would be nice if we could detect this and report it back.




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Ads folks, good? bad? otherwise?

I want to align the widgets we support with common dimensions used in web layout.  What better place to start than the ad-units most sites use.

My goal here is to make widgets fit seamlessly into layouts and make widgets usable for ad campaigns - for example:
- Brand Follower Widget as an mrec.
- Community Widget latest posts with subscribe.
- etc.


http://www.iab.net/guidelines/508676/508767/displayguidelines

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If I could clone myself I'd spend all my time doubling-down on making Google *the* place for musicians and bands.  Between Play, Youtube, Search and Plus we have so much to offer, yet don't wrap it up in a pretty package like we should...


http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/02/myspace-squandered-the-only-thing-it-had-left/

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Why are we serving up the refresh images? Are the cache headers set properly?  I've been noticing this too on desktop and mobile.

Photos team -- any idea what's going on here?  @102367365652197389609?


https://plus.google.com/u/0/105307547102248990120/posts/Rh1G5g9npTd?cfem=1&e=-RedirectToSandbox

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Have ideas on how to improve Google+ widgets?  Add your ideas and up/down vote existing ideas here:

https://lightning.corp.google.com/plus-button

This uses Lightning which is a frontend to buganizer for ideas collection and management.  It's funny how a simplified interface can make such a difference.

Try it out!


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/5839292500124762193/5839292505628736098?...

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DiRT idea -- push out a bad Android build to Googler Android phones that bricks 'em.  (ahem temporarily)




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Today's a day when I wish I could type 20 ctrl-g in chat windows...

Guessing that's by design...




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Is it time to stop domain-sharding for browsers using SPDY?

I notice that we're doing the right thing for images in the Google+ stream:

https://cs.corp.google.com/#google3/java/com/google/apps/people/activity/client/wrapper/ActivityConv...

Guessing there's lots of other places where this pattern is used..




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