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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
Completely disagree. While I was at Google I was encouraged to find another project that I was interested in contributing to in my 20% time. I ended up working on some internal tools, but there's plenty of options.
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
Honestly, that story sounds really vague and I can't see _anything_ in it that would even be remotely responsible for an account suspension. What do you think they got in trouble for? Sending a message to too many people? That certainly isn
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
This isn't true though. Unless you have some egregious terms of service violation, your account will only lose access to Google+. For example, not using your real name could get you banned from G+, but the rest of your Google account will s
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
Unfortunately the tablet is still running Android 2.3, rather than 3.x. At that point, I think I'd go with the Samsung Galaxy Tab 7" (WiFi), because for $40 more you get a much nicer screen, faster processor, more RAM, etc. Of course the do
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
I wouldn't feel foolish at all. Regardless of whether it's a viral marketing campaign, it was a neat idea that seems to have caught some steam. Furthermore, you hopefully gained something from those few hours of work, whether it's knowledge
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
"Since you don’t care, you might as well click on the paid advertisement below so Google will send me $.50." I hope the author knows, this is a clear violation of ToS for AdSense and will likely jeopardize his account status. Edit: Sent the
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
I think he's going after the inverse point and in a sarcastic manner: that Google didn't bundle Android along with any of their popular products. Microsoft did by including IE with Windows which was then shipped with every computer, thus us
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
Except that this is _exactly_ what happens at public colleges as well. In fact, my public high school saw that I was fast at math and got me into college classes early, so it even occurs there to some degree.
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
I don't know about the latest revisions, but the CR-48 had a terminal that was basically only useful for SSH. So if you have a dev box setup somewhere that you can SSH to, it makes an okay dev environment (for someone who uses emacs or vi).
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
The account was not deleted, it was suspended pending review. It has since been reviewed, and reinstated. As to why it was flagged for reviewal, I suspect the other person's comment (that she originally went by the name Adafruit Industries)
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
No, it doesn't.
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
Here's a pretty good introduction on ARIA which is what Google uses to make their web sites accessible: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/scriptjunkie/ff743762
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
New versions of git will actually go back and generate this information for old commits. This will lead to git being slightly slower when in old repositories until all the commits contain the generation information, but that should happen f
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
This has been updated to say 1.3% in the article
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
Gerrit is open source and is what's used on the Android team: http://code.google.com/p/gerrit/
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
This appears to contain no information that isn't covered by this post: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2731695
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
I suspect it's due to internationalization reasons. Even in English, we don't really have useful singular third-person gender-neutral pronouns (yes, I'm aware of "they", but it's actually a debated topic). In other languages where everythin
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
My bigger worry with that mentality is it seems slightly demeaning to the startups. "Here's a developer that wasn't good enough for us, maybe he's good enough for you though". Given that Google is investing in the companies, that should _no
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
NorCal, actually. But close enough :)
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
Google had very little to do with creating the Evo beyond providing the OS. The hardware (screen, battery, etc.) were all HTC.
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
The two year time frame is kind of harsh. Things need time to grow. See: Chrome, Android. Both were released 2.5 - 3 years ago, but have only really started hitting their stride in the past year. Give Wallet, Music, Chromebooks, etc. time t
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
As the other commenters have noted, this is not nearly complete (it was rather disappointing in its completeness, in fact), and that doesn't mean you shouldn't do it. It'd be a great learning exercise and if you could add a twist to them (v
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
You place a lot of confidence in your colleagues to claim that any arbitrary ten of them will come up with quicksort :)
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
Yeah, and so does chrome (well, it can sync passwords, bookmarks, etc.) I'm not sure what else the author wants Android and Chrome to sync. Application data? That's up to the authors of the application, just the same as it is with iCloud.
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
I pondered on how the GMail People Widget would affect Rapportive in the initial thread about it's announcement, but I think this is the best possible response to it. Embrace the technology and use it to further your own product. Kudos Rapp
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
Yeah, once I'm done school I in all likeliness will move to the Bay area. Just too much is happening there (well, here. I'm here for the summer) to miss it.
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
I don't mean to derail this thread too much, but it makes me sad to see PyCon move to the west coast. Basically all of the conferences are already there and PycCon was one of the best conferences on the east coast. Though, to be fair, all
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
Well, as someone who goes to NCSU, I plan on driving it at least :-) Miami is only close for people living in Florida is more my issue. NC is pretty close to centered along the east coast, has a fairly large tech hub and doesn't get many c
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
Well, there are other options on the East Coast. RTP, for example has a fairly large tech scene, but doesn't host many large tech conferences. And it's within driving distance of Miami.
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by mdwrigh2 15y ago
> "Again it seems like some high-brow Google engineers, based on statistical evidence that humans have feelings, decided to employ some grandmother type to filter all their marketing through." It seems like you, based on unstatistical e

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