Potato chips and chocolate hmmmm...
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Paul Lindner hung out with 1 person.Julie Lindner
Paul Lindner hung out with 1 person.Julie Lindner
Paul Lindner hung out with 1 person.Julie Lindner
Paul Lindner hung out with 1 person.Julie Lindner
Looks like our facebook monitor is better than their own internal systems. Either that or they don't canary :/
Oh and I love graphs with no y-axis units or labels.
https://
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Anyone have opinions on this?
Anyone have opinions on this? From my vantage it appears that it's much much harder to get any traction on any standards due to flaws in the consensus reaching process.
I've also seen how the governmental/industry fora work too.They have their own set of problems, but have also been able to achieve a lot with their own processes.
Are Carbon Offsets for Open Source software doable?
Are Carbon Offsets for Open Source software doable?
Instead of planting a tree or sequestering CO2 why shouldn't we spend that money making open source software more energy efficient?
"Keep the coal fired power plant -- we'll just optimize openssl instead!"
I am with you. Ruby, Python, etc programmers should be buying offsets. How many mega wats a lost to bad code.
Heh, of course this is like cap-and-trade, where scripting languages are the polluters :)
Does this mean we can tax the crap out of Oracle for Java!
Actually Java is not bad in terms of CPU use, it can be a memory hog, and due to trying to be OS agnostic, it is bad at using modern system APIs, but in terms of being power efficient it is not bad.
( I have actually been thinking alot about this topic over the last year. )
Just think of all the power used swapping pages to disk :-)
Russell Cattelan -carbon- computing tax vs cap-and-trade :)
And JVMs are not soooo bad. Jonathan's correct that the memory overhead is a bit ugly (48+ bytes overhead for a String in openjdk comes to mind).
And if you want energy efficiency Dalvik does okay.
Me? I'd just like to find more ways of funding grungy optimization work on the open stack that powers most of the computing grid...
Paul Lindner I wonder how hard it would be to find funders for some proposed Apache/python/php/ect improvement if you could could show a watt per mega request gain or something?
I know it is not the short term answer but I really think we need new language that has high-level primitives but lets you get down to the OS/bare metal and control memory layout of your data. Rust seems like a possible candidate but it is hard to tell at this stage how it will play out.
Rust looks interesting, and Go is also a contender here. Will have to see if I can get someone interested in megawatts/changelist...
I suppose one could use Alexa or what ever to figure out how much power could be saved across the net for some change.
at least for http servers
Today's changes should pay for themselves in the carbon offsets alone.
In fact someone should build a business making open source software more energy efficient and take on Carbon Offset 4514$. I can see it now:
_"Sure thing, keep your coal plant -- I just made mysql joins 5x faster"_
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I'm still always surprised that java doesn't have a native string type and instead uses a char[]/offset/size data structure.
Don't forget to 'new String()' your substrings!
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So does anyone have a contact at the newly acquired frommers? Zagat folks?
Looks like their community site runs a version of Demand Media's Pluck. (If you've ever commented on SFgate you'll recognize it right away).
It'd be nice if Pluck supported authorship and proper schema.org markup, even it it's only on Frommers for the time being. [See poor Arthur Frommer's profile below...]
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Sunday Streets are pretty cool, it helps you to see what things would be like without cars crowding out everything.
Sunday Streets are pretty cool, it helps you to see what things would be like without cars crowding out everything.
Also, consider following Spare the Air, Bay Area if you live in the Bay Area -- you get Google+ events like this and the latest pollution alerts.
Originally shared by Spare the Air, Bay Area
We hope to see you this weekend at Sunday Streets. Visit our booth to learn how to Spare the Air and improve the health of your community.
I have to stop optimizing and get back to features. However I've kicked over the Guice rock and lots of crawly things were discovered. For Oz:
266k Key<...> objects retained.
18k NamedImpl objects, most with duplicate names (looking at interning)
(Linked)?Hash(Set|Map) in various places that can be cleansed.
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multiply.com is shutting down their social network. Anyone want to look into ways of bulk importing these folks?
According to igraph we track around 150k multiply.com profiles, so it may not be a big needle mover. However it might be worth it for a PR win. (Or not... if the lede is that Google+ is killing smaller social networks..)
The least we could do is offer to import all the photos into G+
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Some Replacements for your #musicmonday. Download their entire last concert at the link below.
Some Replacements for your #musicmonday. Download their entire last concert at the link below.
I know it's not #macromonday but I thought this shot came out pretty well.
I know it's not #macromonday but I thought this shot came out pretty well.
Taken in Sonoma County at the Nicasio Resevoir.
Hi John Colburn / Dennis Boehm -- Do you know each other?
Hi John Colburn / Dennis Boehm -- Do you know each other? In any case I've been pondering how one might take the Spout experience into Google+ via video hangouts and connect with the nascent arts community that's developing here. There's so much potential to do fun things.
If either of you is interested let me know.
TIL that the Jellybean "What's that Song" widget works with audio from Apps.
TIL that the Jellybean "What's that Song" widget works with audio from Apps. Working great with TuneIn. Here's a track I grabbed off of Couleur3 Fun.
Wild Turkey Olympics this morning. They're decent on the balance beam. Not so great at track and field.
Wild Turkey Olympics this morning. They're decent on the balance beam. Not so great at track and field.
In my day MTV actually had music and we liked it!
In my day MTV actually had music and we liked it!
Originally shared by The Current
Jake Rudh posted his pick for Video of the Day and it's ALL MTV idents. Seriously, just one after another for six minutes. He explains,
"Leading up to the MTV event at First Avenue this coming Friday night, Transmission simulates an hour of watching classic MTV from (1981 - 1992) this Thursday at 10pm."
Take a break and revisit the astronauts, the cows, and the animation that looks even stranger now.
Currently watching Trampled by Turtles via the magic of YouTube on Google TV.
Currently watching Trampled by Turtles via the magic of YouTube on Google TV.
And there's much more at Lollapalooza including Sigur Rós ...
Oh and if you want less glitching I'd recommend using the mobile youtube site:
http://
My guess is that the real-time streaming comments compete with the video feed...
Oops -- turns out Sigur Rós isn't being streamed..
Instead watch this mostly complete concert footage from last week:
Sigur Ros - The Mann Center - Philadelphia, PA 7/29/2012
This is pretty cool, I have great memories of the old Loring in Minneapolis.
This is pretty cool, I have great memories of the old Loring in Minneapolis. It closed then moved and reopened after Paul and I left Minnesota so I've never tried the current incarnation.
I think my positive memories revolve more around the amazing, funky space than the food or drinks but I'll certainly give the Oakland outpost a try once it opens.
Wow. Definitely worth checking out when it opens. Had many memories at the one in Minneapolis.
Cc chad juncker
The local one was never really my scene, but it is an interesting case of reversing the "it's big in California" explanation so often used in Minnesota to explain the popularity of something.
You can stop reading if you're not interested in poetry and other literary pursuits.
You can stop reading if you're not interested in poetry and other literary pursuits.
An empty van trembled in front of the liquor store...
Definitely check out this interview with the erudite John Colburn. John is in my Family Circle but his writing would not be at home in the magazine with the same name.
Google is a tourist destination -- at least for my in-laws. They all want to go -- two retirees and a middle age school teacher/poet. I guess I forget that people have this fascination with what we do.
Anyone considered opening _Googleworld_ or _Googleland_?
Figure I'll give them the drive around followed by a walk through 43 and lunch. Any other suggestions?
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Playing tour guide for a few days. What's your favorite sf bay-area landmark?
Playing tour guide for a few days. What's your favorite sf bay-area landmark?
Has anyone else reripped their entire music collection lately?
Has anyone else reripped their entire music collection lately?
Last time was in 2003 so I had bitrates as low as 96k. Everything is now 320k mp3 and I'm ready to re-import into Google Music. Some interesting observations:
- CD ripping must contribute to global warming.
- CDs are heavy ~40 lbs of CDs fitting in .1 m³ (about 3.5 ft³)
- Gracenote/CDDB has declined in quality (album art especially)
- Price stickers bring back memories. Tower records, FNAC and 32 CHF albums, oh my.
Nice thing is I can better judge the provenance of my collection and correct it. Just received 3 custom CDs from Twin/Tone including two albums from the late-80s Minneapolis band The Wallets.
When I ripped my CDs I transferred everything to thin sleeves and got rid of the plastic jewel-cases. It was a pain at the time (and kinda sad to not be able to keep all of the paper covers; the booklets fit at least), but not it takes up a lot less space (in the cellar).
Anyone have binders they recommend?
Going through all that music felt like my very own John Peel Archive without the memorabilia. I might want to jot notes on each item to help me remember interesting things...
I rip all of my CDs to flac. I can reburn a CD if I want to and I can encode into whatever the lossy flavor of the time is from the flac archives. I use ogg vorbis for lossy encoding. I use binder pages like http://
Thanks Mark Keisler
Considered going with flac, but 320k is about the limits of my hearing (128k definitely wasn't!) Would've gone ogg/vorbis but still needed to support iTunes without pain..
Yeah, I initially ripped everything to ogg/vorbis and then had to convert it from there to MP3 to get it onto an iPod, oops.
I don't really rip into flac because I am some audio snob, Paul Lindner . I don't actually listen to my music from the flac files. Having flac archives enables me to avoid ripping all of my CDs again when I need the audio in a new format. In a few years hopefully people will stop using mp3 and some new format will be supported by all audio players and you'll want to rip into that :)
I never had to go through a full re-ripping exercise. Instead I discovered an exclusive file-sharing network that was absolutely obsessed with quality. Share an album with a typo in a track name, or the year field not filled in, or worst ripped with a constant bit rate, and you would be summarily kicked out. So I pirated hundreds of albums that I already legally owned.
I don't have a good solution for tagging, but I get the impression the artist/album/track info from http://
Do we parse hResume in PRS? (See comments on original post)
Do we parse hResume in PRS? (See comments on original post)
Also some issues with videos FYI.
Originally shared by Robert Headley
Testing for Chris Messina
It does this for every video I post. When I paste the URL into the edit box, it automatically attaches the link, instead of the video widget,
Here is the link I used.
Anyone at LinkedIn interested in improving public profile snippets? (look at the comments on the original post..)
Anyone at LinkedIn interested in improving public profile snippets? (look at the comments on the original post..)
Originally shared by Robert Headley
Testing for Chris Messina
It does this for every video I post. When I paste the URL into the edit box, it automatically attaches the link, instead of the video widget,
Here is the link I used.
Hi, I hear that you're having problems importing.
Hi, I hear that you're having problems importing.. here's a screen shot that shows where you can upload an address book on the Circles Page.
Can we run an MR against the calendar database that relocates all meetings with '1:1' in the title to the smallest conference room less < 20m from the existing one?
Bonus points if we can reshuffle and repack all meetings into the appropriately sized conference room. (yeah, yeah, I know that's NP-hard, but still, we're Google...)
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This looks great and I'm not even a Cal alum. Plan to stop by there later today.
This looks great and I'm not even a Cal alum. Plan to stop by there later today.
[Also makes me wonder if someone also did this for Memorial Stadium at the University of Minnesota ...]
Faces in more places!
Faces in more places!
If you link github directly to your Google+ profile it's a little easier.
Originally shared by Malte Ubl
Getting author annotations for your Github projects in Google search
See, there is my face next to my Github project :)
How did I do it:
My Github projects has www.nonblocking.io listed as my website. That website has this bit of markup:
<a href='' rel='me'>Malte Ubl @ Github
So it says that both my G+ profile and my Github profile are both "me".
Now my G+ profile links to www.nonblocking.io as well (and actually to my Github profile). Those 3 things together establish a pretty safe link between my Google profile and my Github profile and Google starts to surface the association in search. Neat
PS: Only because I work for Google, absolutely positive does not imply that I know what I'm doing, so your experience may vary.
In Portland? Tonight you can network with people working on OpenSocial, Shindig and Rave.
In Portland? Tonight you can network with people working on OpenSocial, Shindig and Rave.
Sadly I won't be able to make this or the OpenSocial State of the Union. Have fun folks!
Originally shared by Mark W.
Please join @ApacheRave, @ApacheShindig, on Tues night @OSCON& celebrate another year of open source!
atom-pub is the only model
Ezra Cooper, Aug 30 2012 on 1500wordmtu.com