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Google Hangouts URLs now bookmarkable and reusable(plus.google.com)
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by timothya 12y ago
The fact that your data is stored on a cloud provider doesn't mean that that provider owns your data. For example, from Google's TOS: "You retain ownership of any intellectual property rights that you hold in that content.
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by timothya 12y ago
Yes. Things marked as done in Inbox (including marking many things as Done by sweeping) are shown as archived in Gmail (and vice versa).
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by timothya 12y ago
That code doesn't work (at least in ordinary page scripts), as far as I can tell. http://jsfiddle.net/vej6vbdt/
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by timothya 12y ago
There may occasional bugs, but I don't know of any cases when Gmail actually lost emails. According to this talk [0], the bug referred to by that article caused some users' emails to be temporarily inaccessible, but all the emails
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by timothya 12y ago
Video of the interview: http://new.livestream.com/accounts/10060267/events/3447060 The question about women asking for raises happens around 01:34:04.
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by timothya 12y ago
If you look at what the answer is linking to (or in the snippet of the first result), it seems like that's just a bad parse. The answer should be "... the range of 10^78 to 10^82".
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by timothya 12y ago
This is expected. At the original price cut last year, I remember them saying that they will continue to cut prices as storage and CPU prices continue to drop. This is just proof of that commitment.
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by timothya 12y ago
Yes, it looks like Google is moving on from OpenID 2.0 to OpenID Connect, which is the new standard [0]. It appears that OpenID 2.0 login will be kept for compatibility, though [1]. Google+ Sign-In is an implementation of OpenID Connect,
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by timothya 12y ago
I doubt that Netflix really wants to be doing DRM. But the simple fact is that the rights-holders demand it. If Netflix didn't do DRM, then it wouldn't have any good content on it. As soon as rights-holders can be convinced that D
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by timothya 12y ago
CSS Shapes are still pretty new; looks like support is only there in the newest version of Chrome: http://caniuse.com/#feat=css-shapes
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by timothya 12y ago
This reminds me of something Larry Page said at TED this year: I say, wouldn't it be amazing if everyone's medical records were available anonymously to research doctors? And when someone accesses your medical record, a research
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by timothya 12y ago
When commenting on a YouTube video, there is a checkbox where you decide whether to share that comment on Google+ as well [0]. Your choice is sticky - if you uncheck the box and make a comment, then that setting will be remembered and it wi
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by timothya 12y ago
Why would that happen? Google specifically opposes "frictionless sharing"[0] (I think that's one of the reasons Google+ doesn't really have a write API - they don't want apps posting "on behalf" of users).
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by timothya 12y ago
Windows Phone's market share in the U.S. is at 3.4% (and apparently isn't growing)[0]. Supporting your apps on another platform is expensive, so I imagine that Google doesn't support it because the market and users aren'
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by timothya 12y ago
Some more information on the 1202 and 1201 alarms: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a11/a11.1201-pa.html tl;dr: Some misconfigured switches meant that rendezvous radar jobs kept being erroneously scheduled, which used
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by timothya 12y ago
I believe that in the early days, one or two people had their whole account shut down and went around complaining that it was because of Google+'s name policy when really it was because of something completely unrelated (distributing i
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by timothya 12y ago
I think Google cares more about privacy than most companies. Everyone (including Google[0]) agrees that they made privacy mistakes with Google Buzz. And I think that they've worked hard to improve privacy in their products since then.
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by timothya 12y ago
You can hide the reviews so that they don't show up on your Google+ profile. If they are hidden, you can only see someone's review by looking at a place that they've reviewed directly.
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by timothya 12y ago
False. In the past, if your profile was suspended (for example, because of your name), it only affected your Google+ profile. Your Gmail still worked exactly the same. Some people spread rumours in the early days of Google+ that your Gmai
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by timothya 12y ago
This seems pretty silly. If you look at the screenshot from the click study they did in the presentation [0], for the search "gary danko yelp", Google is (or was) serving up the Gary Danko website itself first, instead of the Ye
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by timothya 12y ago
Yes, certainly this particular bug was serious and a real problem that needed to be fixed. The link should not be shared accidentally like that. I was just making the case that "Anyone with the link" still provides some security.
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by timothya 12y ago
It provides as much security as you have trust in the people you share it with. If I set one of my documents to "anyone with the link" just so that I can access it when I'm not logged in, and I'm careful to not share the
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by timothya 12y ago
Google doesn't really need to throttle attempts at guessing Drive URLs - they are long enough that it is totally infeasible for anyone to guess them. The guessability of these links is not the weakest link in finding these documents -
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by timothya 12y ago
To clarify, I think what they mean is that it's possible that those old links have already been compromised, even though none of the documents (new or old) are vulnerable anymore. The bug has been patched so that any document with the
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by timothya 12y ago
For the one of the reasons you might want the various things you look at online to be encrypted - for privacy. If the stream is encrypted, an eavesdropper can't tell which video you're watching. This might be even more important i
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by timothya 12y ago
Interesting. It looks like the page itself is encrypted with more standard crypto using AES [0], but the video itself is served from a connection using RC4 [1]. As far as I can tell from this article [2], attacks on RC4 are only theoretical
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by timothya 12y ago
I haven't built an application in Polymer yet (though I did have a good experience building a small application about a year and a half ago with Dart's WebUI library, which implemented a lot of the Web Component features before Po
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by timothya 12y ago
> The difference between a developer advocate and a developer evangelist is inbound vs outbound. That's a great way of looking at it. There is definitely some overlap, but I think it's nice to have the mindset that they are o
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by timothya 12y ago
One of the things that I've always seen as an interesting difference between how Google and Apple run their developer relations teams is the title that they give their employees. Apple has Technology Evangelists , suggesting that they

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