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by rryan 14y ago
All ChromeOS devices to date have come with a "Developer Mode" hardware switch which turns off trusted boot and allows you to run your own OS / custom ChromeOS builds. I would bet this Chromebook is not locked down.
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by rryan 14y ago
http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/efficiency/internal/... You're right -- those PUE numbers from the article were talking about their PUE at the time. Google's 2012 average PUE across all facilities was 1.12/1.13 with a minimum PUE
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by rryan 14y ago
> And, no, you don't have root or control of my data, unless you're telling us about some backdoors you're inserting into Ubuntu. There are many cases where code controlled by Canonical runs with root privileges: The installer, the pack
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by rryan 14y ago
This post by Russ Cox (a co-inventor of Go) describes leaving parametric polymorphism out as "slowing down programmers". http://research.swtch.com/generic I think it's safe to say they are aware of the issue and consider lack of generics
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by rryan 14y ago
If I'm going to be burdened by a static type system, then I expect it to do certain things for me in return. One of those things that I take as a given is that a static type system can check that my basic use of types in my program are safe
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by rryan 14y ago
From the bug report it looks like they will allow users to choose safe software sources. Presumably this means you could add userscripts to this list and regain the old functionality. It's just not done yet. This change was made to prot
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Google to buy Frommer's(online.wsj.com)
76 points by rryan 14y ago|31 comments
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by rryan 14y ago
See Matt_Cutts' response below: > That's right. The matches from Gmail are collapsed unless you specifically indicate intent with search keywords like "gmail" or "email."
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by rryan 14y ago
Search is basically becoming a modern version of Google Desktop.
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by rryan 14y ago
"I always have a gmail tab open." GMail search is painfully slow (for me average seems to be about 5+ seconds) and is not that powerful (i.e. can't match substrings, etc.). I'm personally looking forward to using Google search ranking on my
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by rryan 14y ago
You trust computers you control? That's so cute. http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html
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by rryan 14y ago
Well, I'll miss Qt. Or at least the corporate muscle that used to fund it.
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by rryan 14y ago
Well, I can't seem to find the raw source material -- but here's a news article about the relative accuracies of Google vs. Siri. 86% accuracy (Google) vs. 68% accuracy (Siri). This is not surprising. Google has been doing question answerin
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by rryan 14y ago
Well, there's more to Chrome than its pure rendering and JS speed you know? Predictive prefetching makes sure Chrome already has the page data before you finish typing. It can still beat Safari with tricks like this. Chrome Sync syncs your
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by rryan 14y ago
It's part of Android Jelly Bean which is available to Googlers and Google I/O attendees.
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by rryan 14y ago
No perceptible effect on my battery life so-far. I believe it is mostly server-side.
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by rryan 14y ago
Most of these are passive notifications -- i.e. they don't ping you they're just there in your notification bar (or if you swipe up to start the Google Now app). In some cases, it makes sense for some of these to be notifications that ping
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by rryan 14y ago
> Actually the 500M (or 400M or 300M) or whatever number is bogus. Could you provide some sources here? > They've probably created a very large Freebase graph for scale testing and it's likely that they're able to handle 500M entiti
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by rryan 14y ago
This is almost identical to my backup server except I have 3x2TB drives in a RAID-Z pool. I agree with all the author's "reasons this is awesome" except my #1 reason is data integrity. ZFS with RAID-Z does block-level checksumming and autom
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by rryan 14y ago
Chrome OS is a very different beast from desktop GNU/Linux distributions so I don't think that's a fair assumption.
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Google announces next Chromebooks and a Chromebox (desktop replacement)(chrome.blogspot.com)
98 points by rryan 14y ago|113 comments
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by rryan 14y ago
Sorry, but how does a single search for Matt Groening keep you on Google more than a search for Matt Groening followed by a click on Wikipedia? Also, I think these types of queries (people, places, things) rarely trigger ads. Based on the e
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Things Not Strings -- Google Launches Knowledge Graph(googleblog.blogspot.com)
284 points by rryan 14y ago|139 comments
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by rryan 14y ago
It's not US only. These work for me: [selbstmord] on google.de [suicidio] on google.es [zelfmoord] on google.nl Even longer queries like [como suicidarse sin sentir dolor] on google.es worked. I tried a bunch of things on google.fr and cou
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by rryan 14y ago
Editing a shared Google Docs document is inherently creating derivative works. You and anyone editing with you are asking Google to change the original document via HTTP requests. Each edit is a derivative work of the original document you
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by rryan 14y ago
Coming from an open-source developer perspective, it's frustrating that people who don't have a working knowledge of copyright still feel free to speak as if they are knowledgeable about copyright on sites like HN. Copyright is second-natur
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by rryan 14y ago
The word is federated. Email is federated. Google Wave was federated. Twitter is not federated. You can run your own email server and be a first class citizen in the network. You can't run your own Twitter server and be anything but a layer
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by rryan 15y ago
https://accounts.google.com/b/0/PurchaseStorage It's $0.33 per GB-month for all the Google storage tiers. This is the best you'll find pretty much anywhere on the Internet.
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by rryan 15y ago
The list is actually just a list of accepted organizations who have filled out their profile on Melange. Check back in a few days as all the orgs create profiles.
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by rryan 15y ago
Google+ fills a void for me most similar to a mix between Twitter and HN. The discussions are what makes it shine. Why doesn't this happen on Facebook or Twitter? Here's what I think: For most people, Facebook is just the wrong context for

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