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by dmayle 13y ago
Disclaimer: I work for Google, though did not at the announcement, nor cancellation, and my views are my own, etc. etc. I managed to get into the beta, and was so excited about the prospect. I think one of the most serious problems at the
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by dmayle 13y ago
I'm a Google employee, but don't work on maps. I also don't speak for the company... and so on and so forth. If you zoom in on Google Maps, you can see that the city is marked as Gereida, so it's not the lost city he&#x
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by dmayle 13y ago
I may be a bit biased, because I'm a Googler... but looking through this thread and seeing all the people downplaying Google's contributions to Go, Android and Dart. As if they were minor... But what about all of the papers that
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A new Google Wallet app for all Android phones(googlecommerce.blogspot.com)
5 points by dmayle 13y ago|1 comments
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by dmayle 13y ago
That's an interesting anti-pirating technique... Demonstrate how to crack your own licensing, while at the same time adding a backdoor to make users conflate the two. Obviously, all cracked versions of his software have backdoors in t
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by dmayle 13y ago
Ok, I'll bite... In the article it mentioned that the tutor in question had a greater than 90% success rate. What's the control group success rate? 95%? 85%? If I start an SAT tutoring group and manage to limit myself (let'
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by dmayle 13y ago
I must admit, I don't see how it's extortion. It's capitalism at it's finest (by forcing the consideration of externalities as a free-market commodity). Since space in the streets is a fixed size-resource, supply and de
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by dmayle 13y ago
Yes and no. It's not synthetic, but it's not naturally occurring, either (at least, not at levels that are useful). A lot of work went into the production process before penicillin actually became viable as an antibiotic (hence
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by dmayle 13y ago
Fair enough. But let's look at the scale of Google compared to messaging using your numbers to prove my point. I don't know what Google's operating expenses are[1], but I'll use the public income numbers as a proxy, and you can adjust from
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by dmayle 13y ago
Disclaimer: I am a Google employee, but I do not speak for Google. I'm not offering an opinion for or against the decision to drop XMPP, but I wanted to offer some corrections to what is being said. I think you've misunderstood how scale wo
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by dmayle 13y ago
Hi numbers! I'm a software engineer at Google and I just wanted to let you know how to get your money back! I'm sorry if we weren't properly indexed when the card was retired, but as of now searching for 'google wallet prepaid refund' retur
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by dmayle 13y ago
Maybe because mouse integration already works?
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by dmayle 13y ago
Actually, you can look up what George Bush's IQ is. Depending on the specific test mentioned, he comes in at about 120. So he may or may not be smarter than you...
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by dmayle 14y ago
I'm not an astrophysicist, so hopefully one can chime in, but my understanding is that 'universe' == the x,y,z,t continuum. Anything outside of that is a different 'universe'. If you can imagine a place that requires alternate dimensions i
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by dmayle 14y ago
Sure, but that one stems from a cast iron pot called the Dutch oven (called so because the Dutch excelled at making them). They're cast iron puts that you put something into, and often seal under a layer of hot ash for cooking. The childis
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by dmayle 14y ago
Oh, the irony... People willing to pay for high-quality vinyl (analog recordings) built from a higher fidelity digital recording of the physical object. Why not just listen to the digital recording in the first place?
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by dmayle 14y ago
This is entirely misleading, because it makes it seem like the policies in other countries is questionable with regards to fair use, or perhaps with lesser rights. In France, for example, there is no such thing as fair use, but that's only
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by dmayle 14y ago
Any good recommendations for a book to choose? I browsed the 'new eBooks' section, and the only one that looked any interesting was on balsamiq mockups...
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by dmayle 14y ago
That makes no sense, and defeats some of the protection of SSL. If you're on a secure site, there should be no referrer sent cross-domain, or cross-protocol.
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by dmayle 14y ago
Even more interesting, "Spanner" is English for "something that spans", as in a database spanning the world. Maybe it's a bit snarky, but I really don't see how you can read into something like that. It reminds me of the following Jack Han
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by dmayle 14y ago
I'm a self-taught engineer, and I first picked up Big-O when I was 16. (That was almost 20 years ago). I've written a linux kernel patch (rejected), toy compilers, and the two big no-nos of software development ( 1: Writing your own lock-
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by dmayle 14y ago
I think you're absolutely right. I work for Google, and I know no details of this other than publicly available, but this is my personal opinion: My understanding is that Google is wiring up city buildings with high speed internet for free
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by dmayle 14y ago
I use a custom function: function hl() { local R=$1; shift && egrep --color=always "|$R" $@; }
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by dmayle 14y ago
I hate to be negative, but this is just marketing research, there's absolutely no content at the linked site.
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by dmayle 14y ago
I'm going to jump out of the woodwork to answer this one, because the solution is really obvious. If secure boot were about securing your computer from third parties (e.g. malware, rootkits cough ) installing unauthorized software, then th
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by dmayle 14y ago
Given the audience, I'm surprised that this is the first mention of the Chord Buddy. I first saw it on Shark Tank (it's a helper on top of a real guitar that has you playing immediately, and removing the 'training wheels' one guitar strin
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by dmayle 14y ago
I dug into to this looking for some greater insight, but found the article a bit lacking. I looked into the both of them for managing a couple of personal machines, and decided against Chef because of the very heavy stack. What I found real
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by dmayle 14y ago
So, it's about adding automatic 'multi-seat' support, which is basically support for multiples of the group (keyboard, mouse, monitor) each configured with their own X server. (And the automatic launching of X server and configuration). Giv
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by dmayle 15y ago
I agree completely. First 14 years: free. Beyond that start raising the price. Registration only kicks in once you have to start paying...
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The chair is compiling(plus.google.com)
2 points by dmayle 15y ago|0 comments

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