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151.
by puzzle 8y ago
There's a lot of non-coding work involved in launching in a given country. Years ago, not long after GrandCentral became GV, there was a project to launch in a second country, but the effort just stalled for a variety of reasons and go
152.
by puzzle 8y ago
He doesn't mention robots.txt once, I checked. GoogleBot not only obeys that, it also tries to detect if a site is getting overloaded, so it doesn't run it into the ground. It's not clear if he was getting hit by GoogleBot or
153.
by puzzle 8y ago
Schrage was like that even at Google. I met him once. That day, he vented about Googlers leaking. Yep! I can understand that it made his job harder, but, as you mention, there's a way to say something and then there's the better w
154.
by puzzle 8y ago
Was this caused by changes rushed before a holiday code freeze? I know nothing about FB, but it's customary for companies to stop pushing new binaries in early-mid December and to leave ad systems alone a week before Black Friday or so
155.
by puzzle 8y ago
I suspect a lot of the decrease happens at night. Late trains are a bit of a Russian roulette. If you're going from Brooklyn to upper Manhattan, it might be faster and more reliable to share a car with friends or strangers.
156.
by puzzle 8y ago
When MapMaker was still around, you could see a lot, but not all, of the history of a feature on Google Maps. A submission from an end user would have been visible clearly as such. Imports from third parties would have been less obvious (an
157.
by puzzle 8y ago
Super Zoom needs a better lens than what the sensor strictly requires. That was probably not the case on the Pixel 2. Also, can the Pixel 2 control the OIS the way the Pixel 3 does? I own both, but have no way of checking.
158.
by puzzle 8y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2011/may/12/facebook-... To their credit, FB got better (or smarter).
159.
by puzzle 8y ago
This is not exactly new. Way back when Circles/Plus were being developed/launched/leaked, FB paid a PR company (M-B, I think) to attack Google, while insisting on keeping anonymous about their funding. I was at Google at the
160.
by puzzle 8y ago
Well, yes, I didn't mention that when GAE launched in preview mode, there was nothing exactly like it, so it had an initial pricing model that made intuitive sense (CPU-based), but was flawed: RAM was much more representative of the ac
161.
by puzzle 8y ago
Probably from the AppEngine change of almost a decade ago or the double Maps bumps (the big shrinking of the free tier years ago, then another one in 2018). Usually those are adjustments to make prices match reality.
162.
by puzzle 8y ago
The biggest problem with reading Italian is knowing where the accent goes if it's not mandatory to write, in which case you need to know from context, as in the words at the end of http://www.italianlanguageguide.com/pr
163.
by puzzle 8y ago
On the other hand, Italian courts were the most wiretap-happy in Europe a while ago (and not very tech-savvy), so perhaps I'd think twice before running anything there. I bet/hope Amazon got good lawyers to handle that.
164.
by puzzle 8y ago
It's relatively well connected to both Southern and Northern Europe?
165.
by puzzle 8y ago
If a lot of Amazon employees end up living in Manhattan, they'll be doing a reverse commute, which is probably a good thing for everyone. As to LGA, remember that it can't have direct flights to the West Coast (e.g.: Seattle...) f
166.
by puzzle 8y ago
High quality z-pages are great, but if there's no easy and secure way for a developer to get to them, they become useless. Rather than their contents or generation, my question is about automatic discovery and secure, restricted proxyi
167.
by puzzle 8y ago
Are you going to collaborate with folks working on Kubernetes or other projects to find a way to automatically expose z pages, e.g. to the Kubernetes dashboard or the GKE console pages? That's one of the first things that ex Googlers m
168.
by puzzle 8y ago
My point is that the law is the law. You can and should work to change laws if you don't like them. But, if you break a law that you don't agree with, there is no broadband in jail (as Eric Schmidt used to say).
169.
by puzzle 8y ago
I thought this whole conversation was in the context of companies like Google? I don't think companies are people. They definitely don't get to flout the laws as they see fit, but they have the right to operate in the markets they
170.
by puzzle 8y ago
No matter the values and principles, no matter whether you agree with them or not, at the end of the day both positions are the law in the respective territories. You don't get to pick and choose which laws should be enforced. But you
171.
by puzzle 8y ago
It's a slippery slope. It certainly gives fodder to China and other countries to say "Hey, look, you have the tools to censor results for X, Y and Z, because those laws say so. Why not ours?" The Canadian case was even worse
172.
by puzzle 8y ago
Google did not disclose the price for Feedburner, but it was rumoured to be around $100M (I worked at Google at the time and have no insider information whatsoever on the deal).
173.
by puzzle 8y ago
I used to work for Google, but not on maps. You can see the zoom level for yourself in the URL. Use the scrollwheel or its trackpad equivalent and the Z parameter in the address bar will change. That's where I got the numbers, not any
174.
by puzzle 8y ago
The original Google Maps was pre-rendered in a gigantic MapReduce. It had many fewer landmarks. The modern Google Maps does a lot of the layout and rendering on the client or on the fly, with a differing set of constraints and tradeoffs. It
175.
by puzzle 8y ago
Google does have vegetation and desert data, but you can see that it starts to fade around zoom level 5 in the US (at which you can only see a number of entire states and the names of major cities). If you go somewhere else on the planet, e
176.
by puzzle 8y ago
Probably something like Flatbuffers, with which you can skip the marshalling and unmarshalling. It was designed for games, where you would map files into memory.
177.
by puzzle 8y ago
So what's the price? For Spanner, which is perhaps their closest competitor, it takes a few seconds to find at least the list price, before discounts and such.
178.
by puzzle 8y ago
The Amiga had a feature in the Exec kernel since version 3.0 that let applications register so-called memory handlers, which the system could call to purge e.g. thumbnail caches owned by the userland process, etc. Of course the Amiga had a
179.
by puzzle 8y ago
How about Confuse-A-Cat? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DmE8-Xg0Kg
180.
by puzzle 8y ago
I think it's great. The soprano I could do without, but getting John Hurt to narrate was just brilliant. It's no coincidence that the best tracks are Il Pleure and The Holy Egoism of Genius. They're are not as great when Paul

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