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by gonyea 7y ago
The Hayward fault seems to have the most seismic activity lately. You'll feel them 2+ times a year in the East Bay--especially if you're in an older, multi-story building when it strikes.
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by gonyea 7y ago
Goal #1: Don't let the users "get screwed." Goal #2: Don't have a solution that requires an army of people to manage. If no one's willing to help fund your idea, you're out of luck. That seems... really underst
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by gonyea 7y ago
This all makes sense to me. If you're not providing enough value to users to cover the >$15k fee, you're just an attack vector for user data. Consistency of the process aside, I'm really not sure what people would expect.
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by gonyea 7y ago
Google Maps is a travel powerhouse. Makes sense to have things in one place. I’m traveling Europe right now and I live out of Google Maps.
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by gonyea 7y ago
This is an in-joke at Google.
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by gonyea 7y ago
I'm a Full-Stack developer at Google, which is fairly uncommon given the complexity of systems here. The chief trait of a Full Stack developer, in my opinion, is often just growing into the needs of the team/moment. I've been
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by gonyea 7y ago
Uh, you realize that imap support has been in GMail for its entire history?
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by gonyea 7y ago
There are contractual obligations around changes to GSuite products (and their APIs).
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by gonyea 7y ago
On a related note: LED light bulbs often emit radio frequencies and all of the ones I’ve tried so far interfere with my garage door. Which was insanely hard to figure out. (Garage door openers have spots for 2 light bulbs.)
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by gonyea 7y ago
Imagine you have ~billions of users and 99.9% of them use the default. Do you put your eng effort towards power-user flexibility for the tinfoil hat crowd or do you improve popular features? In the case mentioned, searching "your locat
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by gonyea 7y ago
This is hilarious. Every single Google conspiracy is basically because some Google Engineer tried to DRY up functionality in an insanely complicated system.
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by gonyea 7y ago
China has a long history of imperialism. They even tried attacking Vietnam after its war with the US and failed.
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by gonyea 7y ago
In my experience, Developers who deviate from the norms are able to support themselves. Data Scientists are generally more dependent on support and infra from the rest of the org.
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by gonyea 7y ago
It's amazing that Apple seems to be holding on to their grudge against Nvidia... to their own detriment. You haven't been able to buy a Mac/Macbook Pro with an Nvidia chip for many years now, and using one in an external encl
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by gonyea 7y ago
Meal kits waste an incredible amount of plastic. Using it felt immoral.
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by gonyea 7y ago
Installing a foam roof or replacing the insulation in your walls goes a long way and saves a lot of money on energy costs over time.
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by gonyea 7y ago
In North Charleston, the pace of production has quickened. Starting this year, Boeing is producing 14 Dreamliners a month, split between North Charleston and Everett, up from the previous 12. At the same time, Boeing said it was eliminatin
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by gonyea 7y ago
Apple has completely lost its way under Cook that it’s now just rent seeking. They’re just scrambling to fill a $$$ hole for their investors at this point. Apple is incredibly bad at building services and has been for their entire existence
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by gonyea 8y ago
The big news is the 32gb RAM in the 13” mbp. Amazing that a small form factor is starting to be treated like a real computing device by Apple.
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by gonyea 8y ago
Their website said “Bangkok”. I’ve traveled all over Asia and Europe without this problem.
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by gonyea 8y ago
AirAsia is a flaming disaster. I remember booking a flight out of Bangkok. Well, it turns out that I actually booked a flight out of the once named Bangkok airport, which isn’t actually even in Bangkok. I complained and the “support” rep sa
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by gonyea 8y ago
I mean, Computer Science is practiced at Google. Shooting from the hip and excusing it as craftsmanship is generally frowned upon.
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by gonyea 8y ago
What? I started using Google in high school (‘99) because the teachers said it was good... and they were right.
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by gonyea 8y ago
I get what you're saying, but ibuprofen and acetaminophen save lives. The problem is the western (American?) tendency to self-medicate and to over medicate with really potent stuff. That shouldn't be as normal as it is.
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by gonyea 8y ago
Well, market rate in this context meant the (regional) labor and material costs to construct a generic, equal sqft house with X rooms and Y baths. I perhaps chose the wrong term. It'd likely require a lawsuit to make them shell out an
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by gonyea 8y ago
Unless the city is pitching in $$$ for the effort, this seems legally questionable. Insurance will only pay the market rate (and barely that), and the cost of such a process would surely run higher.
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by gonyea 8y ago
I want to build an ADU on my Mountain View property but was denied because the permitting department in anti-ADU and will obstruct any way they can, despite the rule changes. Yet others have gone ahead and built an ADU on their property any
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by gonyea 8y ago
So did literally everybody else building a website that was embedded in an iframe. I was there in 2011, at a startup, copying the same StackOverflow answer as everyone else so we could store cookies in Safari. This is such a non-issue. It w
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by gonyea 8y ago
Some items on this list are rather silly. Does anybody consider the iPhone 7 as being “Killed by Apple” or was it just superseded by newer hardware?
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by gonyea 8y ago
Home furnishings are a bit special. The market is flooded with cheap Chinese goods. There’s no way to tell what’s good, and there are way too many choices/knockoffs. Plus it’s too heavy to return if you don’t like it. You really have t

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