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by thisisnotatest 13y ago
Off-topic, but > I never supported the 'Occupy' protests mainly because you can't influence a corporation by yelling at it. Sitting in front of those banks in NYC or wherever didn't actually change shit. You know why?
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by thisisnotatest 13y ago
I don't think there's any direct connection. I highly doubt that those who decided to put this rainbow on google.com for pride month were thinking about that issue. But certainly those of us working in search quality weren't
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by thisisnotatest 13y ago
Sometimes I work noon-10pm at Google. Because I feel like it. What's the problem? :-)
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by thisisnotatest 13y ago
IANAL, but, so what? If you build a stapler using your own internal mechanisms for stapling, and I design my own stapler with my own internal mechanisms, I'm infringing on your ideas just if they both look like staplers from 10 feet away? O
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by thisisnotatest 13y ago
Also, patent claims are, as far as I can tell, nearly indecipherable. I worked on an application for an invention with really helpful, smart, technically literate lawyers, but after it was all put in the form of claims and figures and embod
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by thisisnotatest 13y ago
Indie game Kingdom of Loathing is entirely supported by optional item purchases (a new unique, powerful, funny item every month).
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by thisisnotatest 13y ago
You're not misreading his posts. They make me sad, too.
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by thisisnotatest 13y ago
I think you vastly overestimate the effectiveness of earplugs. You might not hear a cat's scampering on the floor, but you are not going to miss anything like someone speaking at a normal volume in the room, much less a fire alarm. As one d
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by thisisnotatest 14y ago
You didn't address my point. Where do you draw the line? At one point does one's choice of how one allocates one's money go from "free speech" to "Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors"?
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by thisisnotatest 14y ago
The author says he chose to start his company in Canada because, "In the Bay Area, investors, friends, and early adopters are so embracing and supportive of new ideas," and this can actually have bad consequences. It's an interesting notion
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by thisisnotatest 14y ago
Bribery is free speech too. Yet bribery is illegal. So where do we draw the line? Consider the special interest groups today that take this approach: "I'm not coordinating with the Senator, but I did start spending millions of dollars of at
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by thisisnotatest 14y ago
Seems like you're less likely to have an accident if your GPS directions are right there in your field of vision than if you have to look away from the road at a device on your dashboard or in your hand.
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by thisisnotatest 14y ago
I got a kick of reading about how this hack was one of the things that enabled StarCraft to be released. As an eager 12-year-old, it seemed like I couldn't get it soon enough. But as a software engineer now, I can't stop cringing at this st
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by thisisnotatest 14y ago
+1. The gradient just makes the page look confusing, and my eyes gained none of the imagined advantage of "you were just looking at red, so look for red... look for red... there's the next line!" I might actually like it better if it just c
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by thisisnotatest 14y ago
I'm glad that you took my post good-naturedly, Michael. I let out a sigh of relief that this didn't immediately escalate. It sounds like you are dedicated to bettering yourself as you have more experiences and gain more perspective, which i
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by thisisnotatest 14y ago
Good news, everyone! Michael Church is commenting on a HN thread about Google so he can talk about how his ideas about Google+ Games were unjustly ignored! I, like some other Googlers I know, regularly resist replying to his posts here. But
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by thisisnotatest 14y ago
Stanford only changed the font of the wordmark, not the S or the S-and-tree or the seal. I, for one, welcome our new wordmark. It's a pretty inoffensive change, compared to the lolfest that is the "perpetually loading" new UC logo.
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by thisisnotatest 14y ago
Craigslist, anyone?
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by thisisnotatest 14y ago
Good news, everyone! Android (as of 4.1 Jelly Bean) lets you disable notifications on a per-app basis. I'm surprised no one has mentioned this on this thread yet. You'll miss the "it's your turn to Draw Something!" notifications, but, c'mon
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by thisisnotatest 15y ago
No. I work on Search Quality at Google. We have a firewall between Search Quality and Ads. We don't answer to Ads. Revenue is just not my team's problem. We come into work every day and look at our search results and try to get the most rel
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by thisisnotatest 15y ago
I've worked on the query parsing code for google.com, and, I promise you, + and "" were equivalent. (Barring unusual edge cases with ambiguous combinations of punctuation.)