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by gmurphy 10y ago
LEGO itself had such a service, but shut it down in 2012: http://ldd.lego.com/en-us/subpages/designbyme
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by gmurphy 10y ago
A Googler posted on their blog that they were looking, so I emailed him and he referred me. At the time I had dropped out of an EE+CS degree, had four years of suit-wearing professional experience writing enterprise webapps in PHP and ColdF
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by gmurphy 10y ago
I thought the same thing once, but applied anyway on a whim. Have now been at Google for 11 years. It can't hurt to try.
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by gmurphy 10y ago
Chrome doesn't add settings for things when extensions can do the job because doing so adds to our support burden and slows further development - it's better to appeal to fewer people and have a simpler and easier/faster-to-m
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by gmurphy 10y ago
Try using Steam Streaming - it's some work to get it to mirror a desktop rather than a game, but because they assume high-bandwidth connections, it does 1080p at 60fps for me, with super low input latency.
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by gmurphy 11y ago
My father used to teach microcontroller programming (after doing it for years at TI); he LOVES this game, wishes he had it when he was teaching students just a few years ago, and has recommended it to the professors who succeeded him.
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by gmurphy 11y ago
We considered indicating this in Chrome, but the problem was reliability - because JS can execute when you click, we actually can't tell you what will happen next, and we don't like showing unreliable UI (extensions, however, are
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by gmurphy 11y ago
You should try Steam streaming - you can run your full and regular desktop in it (by using fake passthrough apps), and is how I often use Lightroom and Solidworks from my Macbook in bed. Coming from VNC and Remote Desktop, it's remarka
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by gmurphy 11y ago
I don't believe the small mechanical difference in click activation actually makes a huge difference to uptake numbers, since the big leap is making the choice to have plugins not run by default, with the activation path making no noti
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by gmurphy 11y ago
Chrome moved to context click + menu because left click is clickjackable, so doesn't help very much with the security issues.
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by gmurphy 12y ago
As a large amount of what I do at home is games and Lightroom, what I'd really like (as an incredibly niche product) is a pure terminal laptop that is just a fast wireless screen/keyboard/mouse for the beefy desktop elsewhere
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by gmurphy 12y ago
Right now there aren't any systems that do it all well, so you want to just pick the best tools for each job, then glue it together with a hub. A surprising number of things have relatively IP interfaces, so in my house I scripted it a
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by gmurphy 12y ago
Here's quick demonstration that you can easily detect 60fps and that the referenced picture is valid - grab a window (or even your mouse cursor) and wiggle it around your screen. Unless your computer is ancient, it was probably updated
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by gmurphy 13y ago
Yep, z-wave locks have keypads - it's what I have (Yale Real Living), and is a great solution. The problem I was referring to was the new class of Bluetooth-based locks that rely on your phone, but don't have keypads (Lockitron, K
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by gmurphy 13y ago
RaZberry. You can see the (hacked-together) code in: https://github.com/glenmurphy/route/blob/master/examples/cam...
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by gmurphy 13y ago
Smart locks are awesome, I have a z-wave lock in my house, hooked up to a home automation system I wrote so that my front door unlocks whenever I walk up to it. I love that I've reduced the "wallet/phone/keys" patdo
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by gmurphy 13y ago
I score 33/36 on this test and very highly on others like it, yet I consider myself pretty rubbish at reading people's emotions. Still pictures are very different to real life - here, I can rely on pure technical understanding tra
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by gmurphy 13y ago
It's not so much the getting out, as the not having to do anything - you get 90 seconds of HN time!
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by gmurphy 13y ago
> I can run it on my laptop, my other laptop, as well > as my desktop machine that just gathers dust these days. I'm not sure how you're doing this - a killer problem for me with CC is that there's a two-machine limit for
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by gmurphy 13y ago
CSS lets you color links based on whether the user has visited them or not. Most of the Asteroids in the game are links - they use those same CSS rules to color themselves based on whether you've visited them or not. Script on the page can'
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by gmurphy 13y ago
You could use Google Alerts (or equivalent), which gets you the name and frequency, then embed the reason in the search string in a way that won't match anything. e.g: Tammy Glotfelty -"reason: keira science experiment"
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by gmurphy 14y ago
The visibility of the shield was designed to be proportional to the number of people who care/should care about it.
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by gmurphy 14y ago
Gwern is male; not only is Gwern a boy's name, making it a reasonable assumption, but he publicly declares himself as male. For example: https://plus.google.com/103530621949492999968/about http://www.last.fm/user/gwern
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by gmurphy 14y ago
I've struggled with sleep issues since I was a small child; even after doing all the reasonable exercise/caffeine/no-bright-lights things people recommended, my brain sometimes just wouldn't shut down. After some introspection, I came to re
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by gmurphy 14y ago
Didn't appear to work for me, as I'd already (apparently) claimed a $1.25 free credit. D'oh.
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by gmurphy 14y ago
I did not have a degree when Google hired me as an engineer; the engineer who referred me was also a drop-out; my manager, now a VP, also dropped out of college; and I have a co-worker who dropped out of high school. It's not the normal pat
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by gmurphy 14y ago
My problem is that I already have (many) of those relationships, but because of these difficulty issues, I'm stuck in those relationships.
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by gmurphy 14y ago
I'd really love it if someone could make it as as easy to buy design help as it is to buy stock photography. There is an astronomical difference between the effort required to buy tens of thousands of dollars worth of imagery, and the effor
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by gmurphy 14y ago
We call this the 'dark matter' problem - when you're trying to hire great people, for every well-known rockstar, there are tens of people who are better, toiling away in obscurity. The early JavaScript scene was like this - there were peopl
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by gmurphy 14y ago
In general, not using the platform your users use is a path to trouble. For example, because so many designers in the valley use Macs, we continually have to fight an OS X bias in our design process; when designing something, you tend to ca

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