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by rryan 15y ago
This viewpoint as raganwald expressed it is too oversimplifying for my tastes. It's pretty .. well, wrong.. to say that all Google engineers are working on is putting ads on web pages. Similarly it's not true that a whole generation of pe
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by rryan 15y ago
No they did not specifically fix this. What they did was fix the general problem that Google-bombs exploited by changing ranking to not be so easily influenced. Source: http://searchengineland.com/google-kills-bushs-miserable-fai...
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by rryan 15y ago
But will you be able to leave with your data? Or will it be locked in to iCloud?
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by rryan 15y ago
Actually, this sandwich analogy is not as good as the library/book one. In this analogy, you are busy while you are making your sandwich (because you are putting it together from stuff you got from your fridge). In the library-with-free-del
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Google Connecting the Dots Between Symptoms and Conditions(searchengineland.com)
3 points by rryan 15y ago|0 comments
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Improving health searches, because your health matters(insidesearch.blogspot.com)
6 points by rryan 15y ago|0 comments
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by rryan 15y ago
http://web.mit.edu/sfs/financial_aid/financial_aid_backgroun... MIT is actually pretty great with financial aid. 76% of students receive need-based aid. ALL financial aid is need-based. Merit and abilities don't even enter into the equati
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by rryan 15y ago
The address book is uploaded using TLS/SSL and the author used mitmproxy.
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by rryan 15y ago
Well, for one Google doesn't operate locally in every country. Moving into a given country comes with tradeoffs which Google surely weighs. Off the top of my head, I assume the decision to move into a country is a balancing act between thes
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by rryan 15y ago
I read it in a few minutes and it's in pretty plain language. Altogether a nice change, I think.
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by rryan 15y ago
Bagels. Really? That's what it takes to make life at $COMPANY awesome? What about working with smart people on interesting problems?
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by rryan 15y ago
CheapViagra DotCom has added you to her circles.
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Google+ relaxes real-name policy, allows pseudonyms(plus.google.com)
135 points by rryan 15y ago|105 comments
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by rryan 15y ago
This was a huge frustration for me on 2.x. I'm glad they're suggesting that people insert fake activities to fix it. Here's an example -- from the homescreen, click a Music widget. The Music app opens and shows the song I was listening to.
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by rryan 15y ago
> native client, Dart, etc. You forgot SPDY, WebRTC, etc. This is nothing like ActiveX. These are open-source technologies and other browsers are free and invited to implement them. They're trying to push the web forward.
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by rryan 15y ago
This is organizing your information. You are part of the world. So it makes sense, no? It's really just Google Desktop, except with the assumption that you use cloud services instead of storing your data on your desktop now.
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by rryan 15y ago
Yes. This was Google Buzz. The technology behind it was truly great (Salmon, Pubsubhubbub, and friends). It was federated. Everyone took a dump on it every chance they got, despite it being a technically very sound solution to the problem.
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by rryan 15y ago
The subjects of photos can choose to find and tag themselves in photos visible to them.
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by rryan 15y ago
No -- you can't. You can lock people out of your project, but FLOSS doesn't mean everyone gets to play inside your project. The license guarantees anybody who doesn't like the way Google is doing things can take the code and start their own
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by rryan 15y ago
https://github.com/whalliburton/academy Since there's no link to the actual repo in that document.
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by rryan 15y ago
The very phrasing of these two questions highlights the philosophical differences between emacs and vim: "feature" vs. "shortcut".
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by rryan 15y ago
Not even 1MM SLOC -- that alone is very impressive.
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by rryan 15y ago
You probably don't. The AOSP is hundreds of individual git repositories. android.kernel.org and the "repo" tool are the only sane way to deal with them.
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by rryan 15y ago
Which is why Google Takeout exists. What other company is posturing this way and also lets you backup (soon to be?) all of your data? Account lockouts due to TOS violations are often cases in which Google's hands are tied legally. Very few
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by rryan 15y ago
A for effort -- but you picked the wrong policy to rail against. The problem with Sophie Lee is that she is too young and if you create a GMail account with her real age it will be immediately locked out due to COPPA regulations. This isn't
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by rryan 15y ago
Was it actually free as in libre? Did the magazine include a license for the code samples? If there was no explicit license then it was absolutely not libre due to copyright.
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by rryan 15y ago
One of the greatest parts about Reader is that you don't need a mouse at all. Try using the keyboard shortcuts. (Hit Shift-? for a helpful overview)
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by rryan 15y ago
Downvoted for your ad hominem. Quality discussion is valued on HN. Please argue your point without rhetorical tricks.
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by rryan 15y ago
Are new features bloat? Code doesn't take up zero space, you know.
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by rryan 15y ago
You should check out "In the Plex", the authorized Google biography. It details this and how Google had been working internally on two paths for Android. They were originally going to go for the Blackberry style phone at first, but internal

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