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Today's Birthdaily Inspiration is an homage to my hi5 days. Cala 13 has only gotten better over the years and they can almost make Assange sound good...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi_Viral_(song)



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjSCy1GC6Sc






 

Finally got around to buying more carbon offsets after many years and was happy to see Google offers access to their program:

https://sites.google.com/a/google.com/googlercarbonoffsets/home

However I'm likely switching to Terrapass in the future since they also can offset your water usage, and oddly enough their offsets cost half of what we price internally. Also auto-pay, so I won't slack off like I did before.

Oh and fwiw I've went from 12 tons to 5 tons estimated yearly usage.



https://sites.google.com/a/google.com/googlercarbonoffsets/home






 

 

Owners of OWNERS

Want to know who owns your code?

cs -l -local "case:yes f:my/google3/path/.*/OWNERS\$" \
  | xargs -n 1 g4 owners \
  | sed -e 's/ included.*$//' -e 's/,$//' \
  | grep -v '^//' \
  | grep -v piper-group-eng \
  | egrep my/google3/path \
  | sort | uniq

Sample output

https://x20web.corp.google.com/~plindner/cargocult-oz/owners_all.txt

 

So much good. they had me just for the alt-tab, but v1.1 is epic. Markdown compose!





http://www.boxyapp.co/






 

Quantum Physics meets Hip Hop

Today's Inspiration: *Quantum Physics meets Hip Hop*

Loving this latest from P.O.S. He's such a decent guy. When Julie was starting chemo he tweeted a happy bday to her when I told him how he's been an inspiration to us working through his kidney transplant.

[guessing "daily" inspiration was a bit ambitious for this collection.]

More here:
http://www.doomtree.net/2016/03/mondays-with-p-o-s/

and liner notes on the raps here:

http://genius.com/8779700

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNN6Je7XN9U

 

 

What's worse than deprecated or not ready yet?

Deprecated *AND* not ready yet.









 

I'd happily use this instead of Postmortem.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotwash






 

Deps

Rec'd just for this:

- No code runs faster than no code.
- No code has fewer bugs than no code.
- No code uses less memory than no code.
- No code is easier to understand than code.

http://www.mikeperham.com/2016/02/09/kill-your-dependencies/

 

If you're considering influence peddling via NetPAC you should at least know who gains...


https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/www.google.com/en//publicpolicy/doc/NETPAC-Contributions-...






 

 

Diversity and Haircuts

There's a good discussion on industryinfo about diversity and how haircuts factor into that. Don't want to derail that thread so posting here..

At 22 I went to work for the UN in Geneva. My wife and I drove 3h to Zurich to get our cuts at Time Tunnel. Geneva Salons were too snobby for a metalhead and a punk used to the Hair Police in Minneapolis.

Eventually we found found our counter cultural tribe at http://usine.ch/ and http://www.lecheveusurlasoupe.net/

What I will say is that working and living abroad taught me valuable lessons on diversity, inclusion and empathy.

http://timetunnelhair.ch/category/salon/

 

 

My latest step in my *Borgmon@Home* project.

https://rainforestautomation.com/rfa-z109-eagle/

I think I already saved the 9 this cost by adjusting our laundry schedule to hit better ToU rates and tracking down some vampire loads.


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6242284384095970257/6242284386346022354?...






 

Anyone have a contact at npr.org?

Their pages are generating invalid Content-Type headers:

Content-Type: text/html;;charset=UTF-8

Fixing on our end, but someone should let them know..









 

Dead Integrations

Today I confidently said to my father in law that I could make it easy for him to insert photos into gmail. Sadly Google let me down here.

Root cause bug is here:

https://b.corp.google.com/u/0/issues/26608412

Basically no one has updated the gmail compose/onepick integration to read from photos.google.com data. Instead it only supports G+ photos and albums, which are not being created any more.

So I thought, let's turn on Drive integration and use Drive OnePick. Nope. It sucks. You don't get an inline image in the message, nor can you use the photo options you normally get.

Inbox does have something that works, but I'm not going to train my 80 year old father-in-law to use another email client right after I got him moved over from NetZero(!)...

 

Reposting this in the wake of the current Nest thermostat die-off. Customers respond really well when you

- Admit that you made a mistake
- And try to make things right.

I hope our friends at Nest invest in a similar response.


https://signalvnoise.com/archives2/six_apart_does_their_customers_right.php






 

I have a dvd rip of a VHS transfer of some old Sun (we put the dot in .com) internet promotional clips.

You can see some of them over here:

http://planet-rla.com/digital-journey-2/

Happy to share if anyone wants




https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6239084702831613217/6239084706355357970?...






 

 

 

If you want more than 10 days of Nest data you're gonna have to send your creds to a shady guy named _WebPirate_


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6236206815904801937/6236206812873308466?...






 

 

Not this again...

I guess they had to do something with the Chrome Bookmarks code base once they rolled it back.

See http://go/stars for the latest pitch deck and future plans.

So what does this mean for Spaces, which is also using search results?

What does it mean for collections?

Why can't we work together on this stuff instead of fragmenting? It's just so stupid.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/12/01/google-turns-image-search-into-pinterest-with-new-collections-featu...

 

Code of the West

Saw this recently and my wife asked if there was a _Code of the Google_?

*Code of the West*

1) Live each day with courage.
2) Take pride in your work.
3) Always finish what you start.
4) Do what has to be done.
5) Be tough, but fair.
6) When you make a promise, keep it.
7) Ride for the brand.
8) Talk less and say more.
9) Remember that some things aren't for sale.
10) Know where to draw the line.

 

New version of auth-refresh is out. Uses the new glogin / gcert command line commands to save you time every day.


https://groups.google.com/a/google.com/d/msg/macroadwarrior-guide/XRCmHEZGOac/ICNZ-0W5AgAJ






 

The internet has all the answers



http://style.org/unladenswallow/






 

Now cards aggressively target when I switch to hl=en-UK to get the British voice for TTS


https://plus.google.com/photos/107786897865850743842/albums/6219438267743132305/6219438269857772130?...






 

Anyone know the Google-wide record for most reviewers on a CL?

I think someone's trying to break it...










 

Postdoc

*Me*: There should be a term that describes writing the design doc after the implementation

Wahbeh Qardaji answered immediately _Perf_ ....

 

Plus Sundar

Sundar - you should really update your G+ tagline. People have commented on your posts that you're still listed as SVP, [and you *have* updated your twitter profile to CEO]

Also what changes would you like to see in G+ that would make you engage as you do on Twitter. You post and retweet at 8x the rate over there, yet you have similar engagement levels on your posts in both places.

For November:
7 retweets, 3 tweets
1 G+ Post.

http://plus.google.com/+SundarPichai/posts/C49DTNR8uoG

 

Fedora

New Security Vulnerabilities channel on Comcast channel 997. Fedora Core 10 was EOLed in 2009...

 

Bumper Music Playlist

Finally got around to starting a playlist of the dorky songs I play when meetings start late.

And for your Halloween pleasure you'll find the following tracks:

- _Edgar Winter_ - *Frankenstein*
- _Focus_ - *Hocus Pocus*
- and a very special instrumental version of the *Time Warp* from the _Rocky Horror Picture Show._

https://play.google.com/music/playlist/AMaBXynB0Y7GSMNgd3XrzHLe5CQOatDMjcWYhS0Gn7R7ACZuOmlJLQJ9vez4G...

 


It's not just me.

@112530828667788492083 can we please get a new design that has the destination adjacent to the POST button?

Invest in some eye tracking if you need to; but it's fairly obvious that people are not seeing the destination for their posts.








 

Kill Oz

New Badge for people who remove Oz Actions.

 

Missed this announcement; but I'm really happy to see that we're operating in this space.

Also, I want a few of these.



http://www.aopen.com/eu/aopen-collaborating-with-google-on-new-retail-technology






 

 

Xfinity Wifi

Anyone gutsy enough to try the Xfinity Wifi 'security profile' ?

It generates an XFINITY.mobileconfig. Peeking into the file it appears to contain my username, password and some certificates.

/me walks slowly backwards...

<key>EAPClientConfiguration</key>

                        <dict>

                                <key>UserName</key>

                                <string>paullindner09@comcast.net</string>

                                <key>UserPassword</key>

                                <string></string>

                                <key>AcceptEAPTypes</key>

                                <array>

                                        <integer>21</integer>

                                </array>

                                <key>TLSTrustedServerNames</key>

                                <array>

                                        <string>*.aaa.wifi.comcast.com</string>

                                        <string>*.aaa.wifi.xfinity.com</string>

                                </array>

                                <key>TTLSInnerAuthentication</key>

                                <string>PAP</string>

                        </dict>


http://wifi.xfinity.com/faq.php

 

 

Today's inspiration

*Fairy tales and anecdotes*
*Both dangerous for amateurs* [1]

When it feels like I'm boiling oceans I spin up Doomtree's Marathon. 6 verses of poetry with amazing beats.

.. and if you missed Doomtree at SXSW you can see them tonight. [2]

_crash y'alls server..._

[1] http://genius.com/Doomtree-marathon-lyrics
[2] http://www.songkick.com/concerts/24476944-doomtree-at-oakland-metro-operahouse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bocpRJ3PAmA

 

Uhhhhh, how would I have been able to influence this decision?

Backgound: we still need something like this to render snippets for sharing URLs to G+. Well, unless search wants to provide a low latency API/service to render a webpage with javascript and all that that.



http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2015/10/deprecating-our-ajax-crawling-scheme.html






 

A great read, but they missed out on another big issue - tons of content is semi-private and will be lost forever.



http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/10/raiders-of-the-lost-web/409210/?single_page=tr...






 

Here's a 30 day challenge.

Only consume Youtube and Play Music content in a language you barely know.

This is how much of the world interacts with our products.

All of a sudden you understand why lyric videos are so popular on Youtube. It also explains weird comments on G+ from people that are just playing around with English.

I've been doing something like that for a few days. It's eye opening.

Oh and if you're interested in music discovery from Suisse Romande see the link below.


https://www.youtube.com/user/LesReperagesCouleur3






 

Bob

So I was adding this to a dev run.sh script today, but it seems that it's usable in other situations..

Bob has decided that nuclear weapons are the
☻/ / \ only way to kill -Oz Development- Old Bugs
/▌ |☢|
/ \ /||||

 

Bay-Curious is Hella good

It has a Dory-like system where listeners can up-vote the questions they want answered. I have to wonder if this system combined with crowdfunding could provide an alternate funding model for in-depth news reporting.

Even the SF Chronicle is exploring similar techniques:

http://www.beaconreader.com/projects/the-faces-behind-the-h1-b-debate

http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/08/20/the-origins-of-hella

 

about vaporwave -- somehow I missed this trend...

oh, and much A E S T H E T I C



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdpP0mXOlWM






 

Come Home Paul! Come Home!

- First time I've seen Recruiters targeting expat folks. What next, will they contact my family to put pressure on me to move back?
- Including a Youtube video in your emails is a good way to get your message visibility in Inbox. Even if it's this dorky thing.
- It also appears that Target makes it's recruiters use their DJ name. In da house with *DJ Luke Doubler* and his sidekick *Talent Scout*.

http://rumandmonkey.com/widgets/toys/namegen/3675

---
Paul,

My name is Luke Doubler and I’m a talent scout for Target Corporation.

I’m reaching out to you because I see that you went to the U of M and I’d like to see if you’d consider coming back.

I found your name on your GitHub profile (http://github.com/lindner) and see you are a full stack developer with contributions in JavaScript, full stack products, Apache, Amazon Dynamo and others. I also see via your LinkedIn profile you are with Google. I’d like to see if you’d consider a leadership role with Target.

Our corporate office located downtown Minneapolis has an engineer leadership position open in a very agile/scrum development team building products that will propel Target.com as the premier online retailer.

Would you be open to connecting Paul via phone? Your full stack development experiences appears to be exactly what we’re seeking. I can make myself available based on your schedule.

I look forward to connecting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QopMlVsPH3Y

 

Curiosity

Today's inspiration: *Curiosity enabled Products*

So happy to work at a place that values and enables curiosity.

GPMAA and now Youtube Music generate curiosity. What's this song? Oh who's that? What are they saying? *Waynes World III*??!?

Google Search satisfies my curiosity.

And what do you know it's a song about curiosity: _I think about anything and everything, like a child_.

http://lyricstranslate.com/en/comme-un-enfant-child.html

_Je chante et je pleure, comme un enfant_
_Je joue à me faire peur, comme un enfant_
_Je pense tout et son contraire, comme un enfant_
_Je danse, j'ai le coeur à l'envers, comme un enfant_

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c-GeBqUgAA&feature=youtu.be

 

Rolling down 580 and Bus #37 is rattling on each bump and making it hard to even type this message. Is it time for some upgraded shocks?










 

So maybe it's just me, but I've misposted to the wrong target multiple times in the past week. I think it's because I'm used to the send-arrow being right next to the audience.

With Tau the Post button is on the bottom, thus my eye doesn't cross the default audience.

I thought that privacy had a requirement that the send be right next to the post button for exactly this reason.

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