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by alec 6y ago
I work for Google, but not on anything related to Meet. I'm most excited about this because the video/audio quality is much higher. When I use Zoom with friends, everyone is usually 320x240, or maybe 640x480 if there's only
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by alec 10y ago
I recently got a Pebble Time Round and love it. Never wanted a watch before. Few watches provide vibrating alarms, but Pebble's helps keep me on track during the day without disturbing everyone around me with beeps. I wrote a tiny ap
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by alec 10y ago
Saving half a pound (225g) on a backpacking trip is a enough that a frequent hiker would notice.
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Peopleware on Programmer Productivity(thened.net)
2 points by alec 11y ago|0 comments
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by alec 12y ago
I don't think this offers an "incompatible experience" - my reading of the post is that the experience is fully compatible and that users of non-Chrome browsers will still be able to use Google Search. Currently, some/a
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by alec 12y ago
> there's nothing in this analysis that suggests they're doing otherwise The article included a decompiled code snippet showing it running methods like "sendMMSLog" and "sendPhoneCallLog", apparently logging
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by alec 12y ago
My computer runs Debian, so I read debian-security-announce, which gets one email per updated package. Sample of messages from this year: https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2014/threa...
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by alec 12y ago
Google talks a fair bit about their internal systems at this level of "descriptions but not code" - Bigtable, MapReduce, Spanner, Flume, Chubby, and more have been influential.
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by alec 12y ago
Works for me - I have a StartSSL personal cert and an Android phone (Nexus 5 / KitKat), and all of Chrome, Chrome Beta, and Firefox load up the site without any sort of warning or other indication. I also dug out a Jelly Bean phone (G
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by alec 12y ago
re: "One way less for Google to track me." Google says that they don't use Google DNS for tracking. From the Google DNS privacy page: "We built Google Public DNS to make the web faster and to retain as little information
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by alec 12y ago
Thanks! I don't really know when the website has a problem, when goread has a problem, and when I have a problem, so I end up assuming that it's goread problem. I like how the desktop web version gives a "last refreshed&quo
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by alec 12y ago
See also Delta Debugging for a line-based (non-syntax-aware) version of this. Very useful for cutting down test cases to size. I'm enthusiastic that c-reduce is threaded. https://www.st.cs.uni-saarland.de/dd/
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by alec 12y ago
Interesting writeup, thanks. I'm a user and have been negatively impacted by the feed fetching optimizations - daily feeds are often a few days behind and come in bunches. Two examples: - Penny Arcade updates its comics Monday, Wednes
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by alec 12y ago
I'm with you. I tried tmux but didn't find any benefit and several serious drawbacks. Many of the purported benefits - better configuration language, more maintainable code - don't matter to me: - Screen is done and isn&#x27
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by alec 12y ago
I think he's asking what happens if you have two panes side-by-side and try to select text in one to copy. Does it also select text from the other one?
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by alec 12y ago
The person who wrote the CDDL says it was deliberately written to be incompatible with the GPL. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Development_and_Distribu...
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by alec 13y ago
I'm a big fan of Joey Hess' moreutils - https://joeyh.name/code/moreutils/ Examples: - sponge: read in all of stdin, then write to the given file. Great for pipelines: sed "s/root/toor&#x
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by alec 13y ago
A 2007 Yahoo investigation found 40-60% of Yahoo's users came to the site with an empty cache, accounting for 20% of page views. Empty cache experience is important. http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2007/01/0
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by alec 13y ago
"The guarantees needed to avoid leaving the server in a bad state when handling panics would be impossible without the defer mechanism Go provides." I'm only passingly familiar with defer, but I understand it to be equivalent
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by alec 13y ago
Since the Bitcoin blockchain is public, couldn't you follow the money? Make a list of all wallets that accepted these funds initially, and then do graph analysis, either to see where the money went or provide others with a tool to avo
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F1: A Distributed SQL Database That Scales(research.google.com)
131 points by alec 13y ago|23 comments
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by alec 13y ago
Uninteresting: "Use my blog platform! It has the power of node!" Interesting: "I wrote something new in a way or with tools that I had not used before. Here's what worked, here's what didn't, and here's
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by alec 13y ago
"Deploy one-off utility types for simpler code" can be called a monad or Optional. I wonder if the language developers will add more formal support for that; it looks impossible to add Optional as a library due to lack of user-co
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by alec 13y ago
The AnandTech link in the article says they found the string "BenchmarkBooster" in the apk alongside the class names of several well-known benchmarks. http://anandtech.com/show/7187/looking-at-cpugpu-benc
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Unlike Me: Using Facebook Graph Search(slate.com)
1 points by alec 13y ago|0 comments
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by alec 13y ago
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2013/06/go... "Google Lawsuit Challenges N.S.A. Domestic-Spying Apparatus" the first hit on google for "google nsa lawsuit"
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by alec 13y ago
I'm surprised at your result - Google Flights was effectively instant on the routes I tried, while on those same routes dohop.com had a progress bar that took over ten seconds to complete.
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by alec 13y ago
You probably didn't. They had desktop ebook software (can't find a link describing it at the moment) pre-Kindle that was phased out due to low usage.
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by alec 13y ago
The "shut it down, you lose all your stuff, and we're starting over" strategy worked for Amazon and ereaders (result: Kindle), but hasn't so much for Microsoft and music (result: Zune marketplace).
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by alec 13y ago
Google does not sell your data. http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

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