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by romed 8y ago
You’re thinking of the Data Liberation Front, who built the feature known as Takeout.
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by romed 8y ago
Your agreement with Google allows them to use your data on your behalf. The feature you suggested uses your data to benefit other people, or other people’s data to benefit you. Even when aggregated that violates the agreement.
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by romed 8y ago
Maybe you’ve never used Inbox? Or you’re using gmail for gsuite or .edu? There are lots of features that are only enabled for gmail.com accounts, and there are many features that got triggered by using Inbox even if you later changed back t
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by romed 8y ago
A very good feature of gmail’s extensive “email intelligence” that grew out of Inbox. How did you think the Purchases label worked? How did you think Google Now alerts you on your mobile when your packages are delivered? If this surprises y
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by romed 8y ago
If a CEO of a publicly traded company expresses a belief in a short-side/journalism conspiracy, the board of that company should relieve that person of their duties right away. All such people in recent history have been paranoid cran
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by romed 8y ago
As I said nine days ago in this box and was roundly downvoted therefor: "Good chance that Musk will get placed on the bad actors list and will be unable to serve as an officer or executive of Telsa." What I don't understand
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by romed 8y ago
It's possible you are right, but the net daytime migration into Berkeley is positive. There are 20k more people during work hours than overnight. Housing prices in Berkeley are high because of regional demand, yes, but mainly because
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by romed 8y ago
Putting either houses next to jobs, or jobs next to houses, would solve the problem.
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by romed 8y ago
Yes of course you'd need to improve transportation, but the existing built environment of the Sunset is self-sabotaging. It's car-dependent and the cars are in the way of the buses and trains.
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by romed 8y ago
"Four floors and corner stores" on every block of the Sunset would make a significant dent in San Francisco's housing crisis.
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by romed 8y ago
A good thing to keep in mind is that there are hundreds of thousands of ex-googlers. The fact that one or more of them holds this belief is virtually assured.
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by romed 8y ago
"Steven Nelson died after he responded to an online ad promising a sexual encounter. He was instead attacked by Kelly Schneider, who yelled homophobic slurs while kicking him repeatedly with steel-toed boots, then stripped and robbed h
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by romed 8y ago
I'm sorry but I am from Oklahoma and you are incorrect. Gay people are regularly beaten, threatened, have their houses burned, and are even murdered. It has been less than a year since drive-by shootings at LGBT organizations in both
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by romed 8y ago
Sure those places are “liberal” unless a working class person is also a gay man who is afraid of being beaten to death in the streets. I associate the housing crisis not really with liberal hypocrites but rather with ineffectual old ways of
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by romed 8y ago
In my experience at Google, "people at higher positions" do not really make these kinds of decisions. Someone at the leafmost position in the organization comes up with some research and recommendations and if nobody stops them,
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by romed 8y ago
That strategy did not help Google get off python 2.
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by romed 8y ago
The amount of light falling on each sensor pixel is the only thing that matters in digital photography. The roof of my house also gathers a lot of light but it's not a good camera.
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by romed 8y ago
I think what you meant is that low noise and high ISO are advantages of large pixels. Larger sensors just happen to have more such pixels. If you where willing to eat the reduction in resolution, you'd get the same noise and sensitiv
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by romed 8y ago
Doesn't the availability of speed boosters somewhat counteract the advantage of access to Canon and Nikkor lenses? I switched from a Nikon system to an Olympus m43 body and kept using all my old glass. Except for one particularly sna
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by romed 8y ago
Interesting. “Full” is a weird way of saying 35mm. Aside from that I’ve come to think that software beats hardware in photography. My m43 body can drive the sensor around using the IS actuators to take a high-resolution image with no color
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by romed 8y ago
No matter how bad you feel about your own career, just read this and be thankful that you don't have to sit in on a monthly meeting between the IRS, IBM, and _Unisys_ (unless you do, in which case, despair).
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by romed 8y ago
I don't think any of our current companies are as powerful as East India Company was, or even Standard Oil.
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by romed 8y ago
Demand for travel by car is elastic to the tune of about 1 billion annual VMT per penny. https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/jpube-v...
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by romed 8y ago
I specifically worded this to be about money not brains. Most readers here can probably imagine how to implement a bounded time service. Most readers here also cannot afford to operate one. That is the point. Operating software reliably at
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by romed 8y ago
I’ve seen comments on HN over the years in which someone Dunning-Kruegers their way into saying that TrueTime is easily replicated. I always wonder if they have sixteen senior SREs in their pocket, because that’s the level of production eng
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by romed 8y ago
I question your statement that building apps on weakly-consistent systems is so difficult. I’ve worked on very large scale systems that you’ve definitely heard of and probably used that are built atop storage systems with very weak semantic
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by romed 8y ago
The paper is mostly discussing the culture within the mainline “google3” development, that contains most of the code and in which most googlers are working. Android has a very different culture. Chrome and kernel teams have slightly differe
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by romed 8y ago
Yes well in the final analysis all problems are recruiting problems, aren’t they?
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by romed 8y ago
I think a key to instilling positive code review culture is to make sure that the comments are based on some objective, such as readability and clarity, and not based on personal preference. In particular, if one person is reviewing code o
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by romed 8y ago
Having glanced at it a bit I don’t see how this can be based on internal code search / kythe. Kythe works by building your codes. That’s how it can find callers and specializations and whatnot. This doesn’t seem to.

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