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by rryan 15y ago
I'm afraid I'm spitting into the wind here, but.. Let's say there is a right way and a wrong way to do pseudonyms (empirical evidence: YouTube, HN). You think Google would haphazardly enable them as JWZ proposes without making damn sure the
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by rryan 15y ago
You're a fool if you think you can remain anonymous today. Google products or not. Real name or not.
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by rryan 15y ago
Being able to level criticisms at anyone within the company is one of Google's great cultural strengths. At no point would you ever be fired for having an opinion and expressing it loudly. A long rant to all of engineering CC'd to Larry Pag
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by rryan 15y ago
You're implying that Wave engineers don't know how to use Java. But Wave engineers are Google engineers. Google engineers are hired somewhere in a high 90th percentile of programming ability and experience. You've proven the GP's point -- d
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by rryan 15y ago
Huh -- now I'm curious.
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by rryan 15y ago
I normally like Ted's posts, but in this one he either omits or doesn't seem to realize that the reason nginx scales better than Apache is that its workers are non-blocking event-loops.
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LeafLabs puts Python on their Arduino-compatible ARM board(leaflabs.com)
6 points by rryan 15y ago|0 comments
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by rryan 15y ago
Interesting writeup. The lessons learned section could apply to any startup.
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by rryan 15y ago
Interesting to see Arduino getting into ARM. The LeafLabs Maple always appealed to me way more than Arduino because of the beefy STM32 ARM processor it comes with. (Well, also because their libraries, team, and documentation are all top-not
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by rryan 15y ago
Also, using Google services (even YouTube) is the energy equivalent of leaving a light on for 3 hours. Pretty amazing.
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All Google services are carbon neutral since 2007.(googleblog.blogspot.com)
4 points by rryan 15y ago|1 comments
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by rryan 15y ago
Hotpot merged directly into placepages -- I see my reviews and reviews from my friends on local pages (it's a really nice experience). I think to get a full picture of a restaurant you might care about: 1) reviews from your friends (hotpot)
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by rryan 15y ago
Doesn't strike me as an apples-apples comparison. Some data is not free. The web is decentralized and anyone can request a URL and maybe get a response. Not all data sources are like this. ITA doesn't own the airline data -- it receives fee
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Google buys Zagat(googleblog.blogspot.com)
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by rryan 15y ago
> understand how it works So... care to tell me how EC2 works? :P The only way you are going to learn how these proprietary systems work are by working at Google or Amazon. What makes the EC2, S3, etc. APIs different from AppEngine or t
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by rryan 15y ago
This seems like a misstep to me that will ultimately hurt users and developers. If any API incompatibilities emerge (beyond the normal API level that Android uses to distinguish between release APIs) then developers will be forced to fork t
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by rryan 15y ago
In that sense of a fork, all manufacturers of Android have forked it. I assume if they (or the person who showed it to MG) called it a fork that would be more significant than just a custom UI (which Android is designed to facilitate).
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by rryan 15y ago
You seem to have misunderstood. joebadmo was saying that the post-PC era seems to be more about content consumption than content production. You responded in the negative by saying you spent 6 hours consuming content, which doesn't make muc
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by rryan 15y ago
So, your evidence is an HN commenter? They have mentioned that social services like Buzz and features of Reader and Picasa would be affected. You could imagine the share feature of any service which will be extended to share to G+ will be i
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by rryan 15y ago
Qt is a lot more than just a UI toolkit, so I'm very glad to see the iOS port progressing. You can write a native UI on top of a cross-platform codebase a lot easier than re-writing the whole thing from scratch, so having QtCore and friends
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by rryan 15y ago
Is that a joke? Maybe you don't remember the time before Google existed, but it was much worse.
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by rryan 15y ago
> All tech companies have an equal amount of the good and evil in them. [Citation Needed]
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by rryan 15y ago
> AsyncTask, IntentService, Service, unit tests... Maybe I'm off-base here, but I think that if you understand the abstract concepts behind these on another platform (say GNU/Linux development with Qt or GTK) then it's simply a matter o
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by rryan 15y ago
Seriously! Brian Hall wrote essentially 5 paragraphs of word vomit that seemed somewhat indistinguishable from a Markov model trained on a bunch of phrases about Google combined with some conspiracy theory websites. I was /shocked/ to see J
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by rryan 15y ago
Google are using Java (a derivative of the Apache Harmony implementation of Java) but compiling it to a different bytecode that runs on the Dalvik virtual machine. Dalvik is very different from the JVM in a variety of fundamental ways. The
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by rryan 15y ago
Actually, Google just launched an in-app payments system for any web-app. It started in the Chrome Web App Store but now can be offered on any app in any browser. They charge a 5% transaction fee.
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by rryan 15y ago
> ... by the bot ... Just wanted to mention this post: https://plus.google.com/106912596786226524817/posts/A3mStMmX... "we do not take automatic action based on the number of abuse reports submitted for a profile" Also, a real-name su
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by rryan 15y ago
About 80% of the way through his essay, he mentions that a Googler did originally try to help him. I presume that was before he started spamming Twitter? I think I read somewhere (Twitter?) that it was Matt Cutts that originally tried to he
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by rryan 15y ago
Also Vic Gundotra: http://twitter.com/#!/vicgundotra/status/94184809936601090
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by rryan 15y ago
In general, Google has not aggressively patented things. They have been issued ~300 patents. Compare to IBM's over 26k patents in the US alone. Essentially they showed up to a nuclear weapon fight with a bouquet of flowers. EDIT: I realize

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