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by puzzle 8y ago
I used to work at Google on search, among other projects. :-) I left it out because there's also blog.google now and there isn't a consistent choice of canonical URLs. It's not merely a hostname change, because the new Reader
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by puzzle 8y ago
This became so common that "An update on ${employee_name}" was a humorous way inside Google to announce one's departure. Or to joke about it when merely switching teams. Searching for ["an update on" Google] and ign
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by puzzle 8y ago
For what it's worth, you can have two different Google accounts on your phone. One of them uses Fi, the other one "regular" Voice. That's what I ended up doing. And no, you can't make Voice forward to the Fi number,
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by puzzle 8y ago
At Google, things got so bad in some Mountain View buildings, where few were contractors anyway, that they started adding fancy bathroom campers in the parking lots. I always wanted to find out if there was any relationship to the signs tha
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by puzzle 8y ago
As unfortunate and depressing as it is, a lot of that is required or strongly encouraged by the IRS. Otherwise, it starts treating the contractors as actual employees: https://www.irs.gov/newsroom/understanding-employee
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by puzzle 8y ago
Bigtable, and presumably Spanner, goes beyond that. Data chunks have checksums and they're immediately re-read and verified after compactions, because it turns out that errors do happen and corruption also happens, even when you use EC
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by puzzle 8y ago
How many (mostly) empty places do you know of in Sunnyvale or Palo Alto? I know of many in NYC, e.g. this dentist from out of state who has an apartment in the UES. The markets are different at the middle and high end. (By the way, I do rem
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by puzzle 8y ago
From the article, given the area it's in, it doesn't sound like it would necessarily host low-income or middle-class families. Call me cynical, but I see those condos being someone's third or fourth home and being empty half
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by puzzle 8y ago
That's an extremely thin sourced description. WPS and BOOPSI both were object-based systems written in C, yes, but WPS originated from the SOM work at IBM Austin: http://collaboration.cmc.ec.gc.ca/science/rpn/
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by puzzle 8y ago
What Amiga tech is that? ARexx started as retail software that Wishful Thinking Development sold (like WShell). Commodore acquired it years later.
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by puzzle 8y ago
Be courted Amiga developers quite heavily. They would show up at events and declare loudly that the Amiga was a major inspiration and that Be was a modern Amiga in spirit. There was even a slogan floating around, something like "Amiga
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by puzzle 8y ago
That's interesting. For the London 2012 Olympic Games, YT had the rights to live stream in tens of countries in Asia and Africa, basically everywhere where the Internet rights hadn't been bought by broadcasters. For latency and re
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by puzzle 8y ago
In the case of COPPA, the slippery slope guidelines of being deliberately opaque come straight from the FTC: https://www.ftc.gov/tips-advice/business-center/guidance/com... "If you choose to block childr
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by puzzle 8y ago
That sounds plausible at first, but is inaccurate on multiple levels. By early 2006, YouTube had substantial peering in place. It's easy to prove: they talked about their programs at NANOG ( https://www.nanog.org/meeting
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by puzzle 8y ago
The most peculiar thing about building on top of Bing's index, when it comes to privacy, is that Bing itself was caught looking at the queries and clicks of Google users during the "hiybbprqag" affaire. It was quite telling t
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by puzzle 8y ago
The in-game metal-ish music for Psygnosis' The Killing Game Show, by Ray Norrish: https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/?file=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.m... Tim Wright's percussion-rich Shadow of the Beast 2: https:&#x
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by puzzle 8y ago
I was bummed when I clicked on "Space song" thinking "Cool, they have the demo tune by the Silents!" and got something else instead. Luckily, it took just a few clicks to get to the real thing by Jesper Kyd (who later sc
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by puzzle 8y ago
Even if they don't start synchronized, something as simple as a hiccup on the receiving side of all such pings would make them more and more synchronized over time. Such is the life of anyone operating large sites.
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by puzzle 8y ago
Security was the main reason why, when I asked years ago.
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by puzzle 8y ago
Given how many services it affected and the mention of 404 errors, I would suspect a GFE bug or bad configuration that started rolling out worldwide (hence the geographically diverse, but not 100% spread of the issue). A decade ago, Tuesday
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by puzzle 8y ago
They're not very different. Grana Padano is fresher and milder. They have similar levels of fat and protein — among the highest of all cheeses for protein, actually.
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by puzzle 8y ago
Docker was at times contentious, like when they injected an embedded DNS server into containers of some network types and refused to add a switch to turn that off: https://github.com/moby/moby/issues/19474 Th
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by puzzle 8y ago
You're right, in theory, but that's not how things work in reality at scale. Remember that every search query propagates through at least a thousand machines.
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by puzzle 8y ago
No, the main reason I know about is that advanced operators are more resource intensive than regular queries. Not blocking these would affect search for everybody else. That, of course, also tends to take care of spammers, malware as you de
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by puzzle 8y ago
When I was at Google, you were not supposed to serve end users straight out of BigTable. You had to do extra work: request hedging against multiple replicas (Jeff Dean has mentioned this up in public many times, with numbers on long-tail la
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by puzzle 8y ago
I remember that third party developers for BeOS had machines (BeBoxes, PowerPC 603) with 16MB (not GB) of RAM, but internally Be engineers had to use 8MB systems. It did seem to have positive consequences at the time...
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by puzzle 8y ago
Interestingly, Google gets it right about Terry Gilliam. He was famous also for being the only non-British Monty Python, but he became a citizen and gave up his American passport. He's listed as "British screenwriter". I gues
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by puzzle 8y ago
In interviews back before GDPR, the CNIL stated that, when the maximum fines allowed weren't enough, they saw the PR embarrassment of making their rulings public, which is not required, an even higher punishment for Google. So they hav
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by puzzle 8y ago
It's really an XWayland application, i.e. it uses X, whose protocol is forwarded to Wayland. That's why in this article you need to pass -X to Sommelier: https://medium.com/@kennethrohde/sharp-looking-vscode-o
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by puzzle 8y ago
I have no idea if the CNIL acted also out of tax reasons, something which is hard to prove, but they haven't been exactly friendly to Google for the past decade. Among other actions, they're the ones that have been taking Google a

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