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by theDoug 8y ago
I remember an April Fools joke to this effect a decade ago, and it's great to see it come to life now. In the height of my pro-photo life, Smugmug was the only place to care about durability, presentation, and maintaining reasonable ma
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by theDoug 8y ago
You can always ask him directly, rather than work in imagination. He is a friendly person.
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Statement of Dr. Eric Schmidt to the House Armed Services Committee [pdf](docs.house.gov)
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by theDoug 9y ago
Instacart has been my sole interface to Costco over the last year (Sunnyvale area). I think the selection online/in-app is far less than the typical Costco, but the experience boost is legitimate.
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by theDoug 9y ago
As far as I can see, this seems to be a "global solution" which only outputs English
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by theDoug 9y ago
Siri can't do two countdown timers at once, such as what I need when cooking. It's bonkers to me that this is still a limitation on a phone that lets me track a dozen-plus world clocks, as though it's a more common use case.
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by theDoug 9y ago
A while ago! Google Cloud is currently G Suite and the Google Cloud Platform.
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by theDoug 9y ago
Albeit from May last year, I thought this video showed capability with accents in English quite well compared to other smart devices: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNx0huL9qsQ Happy to hear about more recent tests or coun
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by theDoug 9y ago
This is also the first generation of the device. These things tend to scale up.
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by theDoug 9y ago
Indeed the same.
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by theDoug 9y ago
Absolutely. Also continually interesting to me to see response, given Google gives no guidance, compared to other companies that provide guidance and then 'miss' resulting estimates. (Disclosure: I work at Google)
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by theDoug 9y ago
I gets attention, and forces Google to be yet again needlessly seen as an exception to the rest of the work-world, where leaving an employer to find work closer to your interests is natural and expected. Would love to tab through a collecti
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by theDoug 9y ago
Yep. As of 24 days ago, there’s this public quote[1] "We are on GCP now and have no plans to migrate off of it, or go 'multi-cloud'" [1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/7mv84u
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by theDoug 9y ago
Maybe a bit of all the above! Like the Google Cardboard it also shows that fun can be relatively low-cost, customizable, and simple. (Disclosure: I work at Google)
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by theDoug 9y ago
Not everyone _needs_ accessibility ramps, but we all benefit from them. :) Many businesses need them, but don't have the staff or expertise, many may want them for fun functionality (building their own "Not Hotdog" app), but
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Cloud AutoML: Making AI accessible to every business(blog.google)
191 points by theDoug 9y ago|93 comments
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BeyondCorp: How Google Ditched VPNs for Remote Employee Access(thenewstack.io)
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Protecting Google Cloud customers without impacting performance(blog.google)
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Answering your questions about “Meltdown” and “Spectre”(blog.google)
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The head of Google Cloud Platform’s TI on the future of cloud share(cloud.withgoogle.com)
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by theDoug 9y ago
Agreed. They can have a $79 in-warranty battery replacement program but if no one knows about it, it does little good to point to its existence later.
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by theDoug 9y ago
I’m having difficulty finding any reference online to them using machine learning to sort fruit. It also seems odd they would given they are a distributor/retailer and not a grower/wholesaler. Got a link to share?
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by theDoug 9y ago
Yeah. Or the "Feedback" link below that info box area, which lets people identify bad photos. Probably don't need to email the CEO. (Biases: I work at Google, I've done the same to suggest better photos)
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by theDoug 9y ago
Do you have any facts to back your claims?
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by theDoug 9y ago
Nintendo is also a 128 year old entertainment company. These are some of its recent toys, and to their credit it seems to me they deeply understand (like Disney) how to serve as a home for beloved characters and re-release new twists on the
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by theDoug 9y ago
Biggest seems to be a superlative with no basis. Perhaps its biggest test?
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by theDoug 9y ago
Companies typically do this to spread the media coverage. Conferences such as reinvent naturally have a lot of touch-points, but it doesn't do well if there's more being pumped out than can be consumed, or so much that your target
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by theDoug 9y ago
I wasn't aware that the speed to logo creation was a typical concern. Learning something new every day.
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by theDoug 9y ago
I moved to the US in April was and shocked by the Equifax breach, but more surprised to hear from a coworker how often these “free credit/identity monitoring for a year” situations occur. One co-worker is covered by no less than four g
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by theDoug 9y ago
Needs help and media training badly. Past that, good sense to know to not apply additional pressure to your popular contract employee, while on another phone call with a reporter, and ask > “Now they want to reframe the story as me threa

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