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by puzzle 10y ago
It's not like Google hasn't been doing the same under Linux for years: http://research.google.com/pubs/pub45290.html https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!msg/llvm-dev/UOJqp0
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by puzzle 10y ago
The previous CFO said at some point that Fiber had good margins, but that probably referred to mature markets like Kansas City, where most of the neighborhoods had been wired and bureaucracy was minimal.
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by puzzle 10y ago
The rainbow checkmark was one of the rebranding initiatives after the assimilation by Commodore. It was a nod to the five colour rainbow stripes next to the company logo on the C64/Vic 20 case and on all peripherals, monitors and drive
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by puzzle 10y ago
If you look at Baidu's infrastructure, it's almost like a parallel universe where the names are identical or almost identical to Google's: BFE, GTC, GSLB. And BFS does look a lot like GFS2 aka Colossus.
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by puzzle 10y ago
Tomas Rokicki's AmigaTeX, with its previews, was a lot better than any other implementation of the time, too.
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by puzzle 10y ago
It's not just a matter of freshness. They are also served by different backends with different trade-offs.
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by puzzle 10y ago
Reality is much more complex than that. Google's index has been tiered for many years, see e.g. https://search.googleblog.com/2012/05/search-quality-highlig... • New index tier. [launch codename "cantina
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by puzzle 10y ago
Or you might also rearrange fields of the same type to be together.
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by puzzle 10y ago
Do you really think that last year's Nexus 6P was designed by Huawei?
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by puzzle 10y ago
Speaking of... where are GCP GPU instances, without Cloud ML?
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by puzzle 10y ago
There's, uh, prior art for the name: https://www.instagram.com/p/5dDY0YtgEP/
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by puzzle 10y ago
At some point Apple didn't even store Netscaler configurations under source control. Glad to hear that they got better.
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by puzzle 10y ago
I miss 68K coding and quite regularly wish I could be paid to do it again. The 020+ days with even crazier addressing modes was a lot of fun. x86 just doesn't cut it.
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by puzzle 10y ago
fleetd doesn't even support rolling updates. It just barely got support for in-place updates. There's a reason why CoreOS folks themselves don't dedicate many cycles to it anymore.
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by puzzle 10y ago
False. There was already internal encrypted traffic and the revelations only sped up the migration for the rest. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/google-en...
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by puzzle 10y ago
Along those lines, there's RAPPOR: http://research.google.com/pubs/pub42852.html
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by puzzle 10y ago
A "suitably clever Googler", an insider threat, is something that Google actively defends against, at multiple levels. The general assumption is that you can't blindly trust internal users, devices, etc. See the BeyondCorp pa
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by puzzle 10y ago
The Amiga version was the only one with a split-screen, two-player mode using two mice. Using a joystick or keyboard just didn't compare. I guess you might be able to emulate that these days by talking directly to two USB mice and bypa
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by puzzle 10y ago
You must have missed the Google/HP recall of the melting Chromebook power adapters. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-12-17/google-hp-...
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by puzzle 10y ago
gRPC can also use FlatBuffers, by the way.
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by puzzle 10y ago
Google has made its own lidars: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2015/12/0...
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by puzzle 10y ago
It doesn't support checkpoints or container migrations right now, but it does go out of its way to hide from pods all the details about the host, in order to support them in a future release.
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by puzzle 10y ago
https://support.google.com/fi/answer/6188337?hl=en "Once you do this, your text messages and voicemail will sync across Hangouts everywhere, including: Gmail chat, Google+ Page or profile, Chrome desktop app,
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by puzzle 10y ago
That's not answering the question at all. The service being sold is an auction. Who owns the machines that run the auctions? Google France?
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by puzzle 10y ago
Google sells ads through auctions, primarily. Do the auctions take place in France?
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by puzzle 10y ago
Login cookies are usually sent over HTTPS. Check your browser's cookie store, you'll see that Google services use so many of them, also because of the many hostnames and domains they are on. I suspect YouTube cookies because you c
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by puzzle 10y ago
Not for all clients, everywhere. It could be an old version of the Android app, given his mention of Cyanogen.
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by puzzle 10y ago
The ISP might have return his cookie to someone else running iOS. The fact that it only happened for a few hours might be explained by cache expiration.
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by puzzle 10y ago
The most likely explanation is that one of his devices visited YouTube over HTTP (not HTTPS) and his ISP "helpfully" installed some kind of caching proxy that returned the wrong cookies to the wrong user. ISP have been known to ca