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by aiiane 11y ago
By that argument CDNs shouldn't exist, since the government could theoretically compel them to inject code into the sites they serve.
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by aiiane 11y ago
There's also https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout if you don't want Analytics tracking you.
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by aiiane 12y ago
What's your opinion on accessibility?
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by aiiane 12y ago
Another proposed hiring metric that is likely to favor the stereotypical coding-since-childhood male developer. IRC channels are often just as bad if not worse than mailing lists when it comes to providing a welcoming space for minorities.
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by aiiane 12y ago
This is cool. I only wish it didn't require quite so cutting-edge Python features; a lot of systems are still running a bit behind Python 3.4, even if they're running Python 3. :)
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by aiiane 12y ago
dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8732859
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by aiiane 12y ago
https://www.google.com/contributor/welcome/
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by aiiane 12y ago
> Why does Google not provide this information in their privacy policy? Most likely because they prefer the policy to stay at a length that it's feasible to read. Unlike the questions which are answered there, which put upper limits
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by aiiane 12y ago
A distributed lock server is a distributed lock server. Yes, there are always going to be a few implementation quirks, but when it comes down to actually designing a scalable system, the implementation quirks are noise - it's knowing w
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by aiiane 12y ago
Not currently, to my knowledge.
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by aiiane 12y ago
The promotional cluster is only a very small part of Inbox's feature set.
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by aiiane 12y ago
https://support.google.com/inbox/answer/6098273?hl=en&ref_to...
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by aiiane 12y ago
I bet I could find plenty of people that would consider search to be broken if searching for vpn did return openvpn results. (Or the slightly less loaded example, if searching for 'man' returned results with 'almanac'.
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by aiiane 12y ago
I'm curious why you think Inbox would result in your inbox getting cluttered. From how you describe your workflow, Inbox would work well for you.
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by aiiane 12y ago
In general Google tends to keep accounts siloed, if for no other reason than that different accounts is the solution recommended to people who want to silo things.
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by aiiane 12y ago
Google actually takes a similar approach: http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
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by aiiane 12y ago
OS updates for $SPECIFIC_PHONE are generally reliant on the carrier to decide to push out a patch, even after AOSP itself is patched. So an answer "from the Google side" can't really answer your question.
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by aiiane 12y ago
The common trope when it comes to associating leashes and marriage is wives having their husbands on leashes (and googling bears this out). If you think that the statement in that post was actually meant to refer to something other than the
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by aiiane 12y ago
This isn't about offense. It's about stress. You're basically telling people to not be stressed out when they're biking and cars pass them too closely, because the car had a reason to be on the road. "The car needed
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by aiiane 12y ago
I don't think you meant it in a mean way or serious way. The problem is that you are far from the first person to use these tired tropes, and it only takes so many "not too serious" comments before the pattern itself becomes
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by aiiane 12y ago
Am I the only one who is seriously tired of programming languages being compared to women? I know you're probably well intentioned, but that and a number of other things in your post are pretty heavy on the stereotype side of things (&
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by aiiane 12y ago
Note that you can sign up for a Google account without signing up for GMail. Just click the "I prefer to use my current email address" link underneath the username box in the signup flow.
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by aiiane 12y ago
Not actually true. Modifying arguments that were passed in is another. :)
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by aiiane 12y ago
http://xkcd.com/927/
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by aiiane 12y ago
But the statement to which I was replying is "the problem is that ... no one would trust them". The popularity of "Sign In with Facebook" belies that it's a problem to not be trusted (at least when it comes to offer
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by aiiane 12y ago
You're allowed to be cynical, but I'm also allowed to tell you that you don't know how Google works internally. :)
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by aiiane 12y ago
EXTERMINATE. EXTERMINATE.
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by aiiane 12y ago
I don't think anything "magically" changed it - more just it evolved over time. See the quote from Yonatan I posted elsewhere in this thread regarding the original motivations and successes or lack thereof. No idea on evidenc
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by aiiane 12y ago
There was a bug uncovered as part of the launch today where some of them aren't rendering properly - there's a fix in the works; the dot should disappear when it goes live without any action on your part. (Don't know when it
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by aiiane 12y ago
The popularity of "Sign In with Facebook" seems to belie that.

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