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Doing my best to make the world a little better every day.
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Interesting observations by Brad Garlinghouse. I'm reminded of this quote from Sergey Brin:
“In some ways we have run the company as to let 1,000 flowers bloom, but once they do bloom you want to put together a coherent bouquet,”
Originally shared by Anne Toth
Spot on.
Are you folks aware of this community. Lively discussion with only a little bit of misinformation...
Animated GIFs. In the Washington Post. What next? The Memeconomist?
Anyone have a copy of this lying around? If not I'll expense a copy (or two).
A good chunk of it is in Google Books, but would like to read the rest of it.
http://books.google.com/books?id=2chSmLzClXgC&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&am...
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Interesting perspective on the "sustainable" movement in restaurants and how it hasn't made it all the way to the kitchen.
The first job title listed in LinkedIn's Outages skill?
Vice President, New Nuclear Operations at SCANA/SCE&G
... and you have to love the "Related Companies" list...
Hey Paul, years have passed. Maybe we can get one of our friends at LinkedIn to write a blog post about the weekend long outage caused by bad NIC firmware (if I remember it correctly?)?
Plenty of post-mortems end with "check the firmware" or "check the damn duplex settings"
In any case here's an actual LinkedIn mea-culpa, short on details.
If you've ever suffered a large outage you've likely written a postmortem document. Post them here. We can learn why things break so we can build systems that don't.
I love reading about how teams deal with and learn from failures. Here's a github writeup that's pretty interesting.
It's the time to reflect on the past year. I found this article quite interesting, especially when you contrast it with this Wired article from 1993:
Definitely some food for thought.
Interesting. And I don't wholly disagree with him at this point in time.
As time goes on the number of things Lanier is taking credit for seems to be increasing. I'd love to see him interviewed by a journalist who actually understands these topics and doesn't just become part of Lanier's hype machine.
Paul Lindner hung out with 1 person.Julie Lindner
Paul Lindner hung out with 1 person.Julie Lindner
Mike's already picked up on the +1s bleeding through.
We have an open bug on choosing a URL from the body text. Another possible solution -- allow posts with links to use full-bleed photos.
Originally shared by Mike Elgan
How Google+ could improve viral G+ marketing for free.
Unlike Facebook, Google+ is a great blogging platform.
Let's say you want to blog about another post somewhere. If you paste in the link, or click on the link icon, Google+ will add a thumbnail from the external post, plus a blurb.
But this is ugly. Some of the highest-traffic bloggers on Google+ don't use that system, including me. What we do instead is add a big, appealing photograph, the paste in the link in the body of the post.
The first method links plus-ones on the other post. In other words, when someone plus-ones a post on Google+, the original source plus-one count goes up by one. It's linked forever. If the same user comes back and un-does his plus-one, the count on the source site goes down by one.
However, if you do the big-picture method, plus-ones on Google+ are not reflected on the external post -- the plus-ones are not linked.
Here's an example of the problem: Yesterday I posted an item on Cult of Mac using the big-picture method. The post and its comments got well over 2,000 plus-ones. But over on the Cult of Mac site, the post got only 76 plus-ones.
People always mentally compare the Facebook "Like" count with the Google+ "plus-one" count and Google+ often looks like a slacker. But the reason is that likes for the the big-picture posts on Google+ aren't counted.
If Google+ had counted the "plus-ones" for my post, for example, the G+ count would have been much higher than the Facebook count, and people viewing the source page would have a more accurate comparison between Facebook and Google+.
Here's my proposed solution.
When a user pastes in a URL in Google+, and the system auto-generates the thumbnail-and-blurb thing and links the plus-ones of the two posts, the user should have the option of replacing the thumbnail-and-blurb without de-coupling the linked plus-ones.
That way, bloggers like me could use big-picture blog posts and still have plus-ones reflected on the source page.
Is this possible or desirable?
A little something shared with me by my former colleagues at LinkedIn.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba6Igu1MvE0
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Paul Lindner hung out with 1 person.Julie Lindner
Paul Lindner hung out with 1 person.Julie Lindner
Nice to see a punk community springing up in Google+! Here's my first pick. Posting the play store link since they don't have many youtube videos available and since Revolution and World on Fire are my faves...
There are almost 100k public schools in the USA.
Let's assume a police officer in each school costs $50k/year. (And that probably doesn't include pension costs). That's $5 billion dollars per year.
There are around 10m guns sold in the USA per year. So to fund this we'd have to add a $500/gun tax.
I couldn't find stats on ammunition sales, but it might make even more sense to tax bullets. Maybe based on their lethality. BB guns are free. Cop Killer bullets are $2000.
[left this originally as a comment Dan Gillmor's post, but I think it deserves broader sharing since I think it puts this whole thing into perspective...]
The secret truth -- the ITU wants deep packet inspection to fix their Content-Type charset headers..
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Spotted: +1 buttons on LinkedIn. Never thought I'd see the day...
Also this article is just so true :)
+1 buttons on LinkedIn? Amazed. Amazed.
http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20121005143024-6526187-working-one-of-the-most-dangerous-...
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*Hidden Riches!*
From java-libraries-dev
ImmutableMultimap has an inverse() method, so it's really also ImmutbaleBiMultimap.
http://docs.guava-libraries.googlecode.com/git/javadoc/com/google/common/collect/ImmutableMultimap.h...
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The latest episode Bark the Herald Angels sing check it out on Disney! See what there first Christmas with Stan will be like
Count -all- more of the +1s !!!
And we can even beat twitter when the article isn't being reposted by tons of bots, like this:
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/state_web_winter_2012
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Holiday Classics and a Vibraphone, a great combination.
Pasting in my sell-my-soul listing. Please bid -- at 4.50/hr this is technically illegal for California minimum wage laws....
https://sys-gplus2012.googleplex.com/item?q=9016
Is your code tired, riddled with lint and deprecation warnings? Send it off to my exclusive day spa for 8 hours of luxury. My special treatments include:
- Lint detox -- remove all subdermal lint errors found with -v
- Dependency liposuction - run reducedeps on your tired BUILD files.
- javascript manicure - buff and polish with fixjsstyle.
- Hot stone deprecation massaging.
- Dead code exfoliation using scythe.
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*LTBD* - Little Things, Big Difference.
Last week I had a very satisfying LTBD moment. I discovered that many webmasters were double escaping url params in their +1 widgets. Fixing this little thing caused a noticeable boost in +1 renders and creations and a big big drop in error logs -- big difference.
2 years ago when I was at LinkedIn this was a formal policy direct from Deep Nishar, head of PM. Each engineer was supposed to tackle an LTBD item for each sprint. These are the little things that make the product easier to use, clearer, or fix annoying bugs.
http://talent.linkedin.com/blog/index.php/2011/01/recruiter-review/
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It's high noon for the internet and the ITU.
The watch you see was from the 1998 plenipotentiary conference in Minneapolis. I implemented the RealAudio streaming for the conference back when I worked in the IT department at the ITU.
Engraved on the back of the watch is the text "Offered by SWISSCOM".
Indeed Simon Tennant -- Most of what the ITU serves up is offered by one of the member state PTTs or (more rarely) a corporate member so this seems entirely appropriate
With less gold trim, it could be a nice watch. And without the rather Soviet Russian looking ITU logo. And without the CAPSLOCK Minneapolis text. Actually it's really ugly but good at generating conversation. Paul Lindner :)
Hipster watch? Naaah. You want a Casio F-91W :)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/apr/28/casio-f-91w-watch-design-hipsters-al-qaida
Instead of tossing that torrent of catalogs consider using Catalog Choice to stop them at the source. Results have been noticeable after using them for about a year.
Pennies from Verizon prepaid 3G bandwith. I find it fun to see how badly people implement their payment systems. Worried a little bit that end-users won't.
[note: 1st attempt was with wrong zip code]
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Music appropriate for
blaze-bin/devtools/janitor/terminator
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY0WxgSXdEE
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WTF? Why is this snippet so awful? Can we fix it?
Liking btrfs a lot. This weekend I started upgrading to a 2x2T drive setup for media from a single 1T drive. A bit of a pain, but I learned a bit. I also found out that my current drive was probably in worse shape than I thought.
- Upgrading Seagate drive firmware using grub2 chained bootable iso was a no-go. Will just have to live with it.
- Learned about GPT partitions and 4k sectors and gdisk. Nice to see that drive partitioning has almost progressed beyond MBR and 4 partitions.
- Added the new drive using btrfs device add
- Converted to RAID1 using btrfs balance
- Almost freaked out when my old drive hit a patch of bad sectors.
- Deleted some unused junk on the drive. Rebooted
- Started the balance again, success! (btrfs also remapped a bunch of bad metadata using it's built-in redundancy! btrfs read error corrected:)
Next up, removing the old drive and adding in the 2nd 2T drive, followed by moving the root and home partitions to a new SSD. Anyone using btrfs on their boot partition?
I really like the promise of btrfs a lot. I tried migrating to it last year and was very thankful for backups. I'm going to hang on for another year and then move over to it.
What I really like is the promise of seamlessly adding new disks to an array and removing smaller less efficient disks without doing the big software raid upgrade dance.
Get your #musicmonday moving with some Greek punk/grunge.
You can really hear the Nirvana-esque Steve Albini production along with shades of X, the Sex Pistols and Gossip.
I suppose Punk from disaffected youth is the only silver lining for the Greek financial mess.
h/t to Pixbear for review.
Anyone work with reverbnation? Would be nice to get them supporting Google+
http://www.reverbnation.com/band-promotion/social_sync
They're probably already using our APIs since they target Youtube. They also have one of the larger mappings of social media links I've seen.
http://www.reverbnation.com/band-promotion/social_sync
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PRWeb also has a problem with people using them for spam. For example the press release you see below was republished on sfgate.com. Once published it was pushed into SFgate's Most Read list by bots.
At $159 per press release it's probably cheaper than other spam vectors..
Yes, I'm following this community and a few more people on the team may be as well. I've been seeing how some of the questions on this forum are being answered and the main guys doing this seem to have a good handle on what's going on.
Sal Candido, Jan 02 2013 on 1500wordmtu.com