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by puzzle 7y ago
Google has tracked office air quality for years, e.g. through the Aclima partnership. That's basically because Larry Page really, really cares about it. He's kinda like your friend with a Kubrick obsession that can't stop bri
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by puzzle 7y ago
It was even crazier: when the original download server was written, local disk was faster, mainly because the network wasn't too fast (rack locality was a concern, way back when), but also because GFS chunk servers weren't, either
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by puzzle 7y ago
I bet there's a very long tail, i.e. the majority of images are rarely accessed, if ever.
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by puzzle 7y ago
Resizing images in Golang is not as trivial as you might imagine at first. You need to be able to handle all sorts of formats and color spaces. You'd be surprised by the kind of weird garbage your users will upload. Then you need to us
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by puzzle 7y ago
But Yahoo search itself has been, for the past four years, a mishmash of Bing, Google and Yahoo results. I wonder which mix of the three Yahoo will pass along when using its API, versus using its search page.
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by puzzle 7y ago
Google retrains models all the time. They gave a presentation about ML and production last year: https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon18asia/presentation/... You can see there's a section on privacy a
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by puzzle 7y ago
I'm an ex employee. There's actually a whole team whose sole job is making sure that all other teams have policies, measurements and alerting for deleting data. They'll chase you if any of the above doesn't hold. It&#x27
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by puzzle 7y ago
Maybe they're the same service behind the scenes. Would you store the same music twice, if you had to run both?
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by puzzle 7y ago
Is this on desktop or mobile? It could match the theory in the grandparent post that they preferred sticking to one backend. That also allows handling conflicts in one place, with one protocol. E.g. what would the behaviour be if you edited
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by puzzle 7y ago
Oh, God. I forgot about the empty src bug. YouTube wasn't the only substantial Google service affected by it from time to time. But I remember it differently. Yes, it triggered a GET for /. But that generated HTML (usually the ser
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by puzzle 7y ago
The new headcount is coming from cloud. Lots of sales people in particular.
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by puzzle 7y ago
I left Google years ago and have a few crazy stories about Eric, but it might be still too early for some of them. He was very approachable and understood well the technology that we were building. Most of my colleagues seemed to like him,
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by puzzle 7y ago
Yeah, Sergey was better with numbers. Like that time when a PM was showing a new payment product on stage and he asked "was that your real credit card number?". She confirmed it was, to which he replied "Anyone could have mem
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by puzzle 7y ago
Well, there's one guy (Ron Nicholson, who later worked on the N64 chipset) whose signature appears in both machines. Perhaps he thought to apply Job's idea to the Amiga 1000. As for other machines, I don't know of other sign
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by puzzle 7y ago
It might have been a legend or an exaggeration, but Miner sometimes asked Mitchy whether to draw a circuit one way or another. He'd look at the dog's tail for a response. More often than not, she was right. More seriously, he admi
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by puzzle 7y ago
In Chrome beta 74, the count is in the bottom toolbar, so a variant of this attack that were UA-aware might have an even easier time. (The padlock is no longer green, either, and the leading https:// is omitted.) On the other ha
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by puzzle 7y ago
Google used to have a phonebook search feature, but it was retired years ago. I don't know the reasons, but it might have had something to do with privacy or legal actions.
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by puzzle 7y ago
In a commencement speech, Jeff Hoefer goes a little bit into why he left the team four years ago and how he's changed his job each year since: https://youtu.be/a7cJHTpW4Tg (jump to 49:00 or so for the more relevant bit
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by puzzle 7y ago
Probably the former, given that the team has been around for a long time. There was another defection even before their earliest example of 2016. In that case it was someone with a decade of experience on the team and another 25 years in th
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by puzzle 7y ago
Or, in more recent times, it's not as if wiretapping abuse was discovered in places like Greece or Italy.
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by puzzle 7y ago
I remember that being a former Google intern.
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by puzzle 7y ago
I found in my own amateur UX studies that there are drivers who hear "in a quarter mile, turn right" and don't know how far that is, even after having heard that prompt thousands of times. You'd think that after a while
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by puzzle 7y ago
Do you mean rerouting? Google Maps is tuned differently than Waze, which caters to drivers looking to shave off minutes or even seconds. It tries to keep directions simple and easier to follow (e.g. not making a large number of turns), even
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by puzzle 7y ago
It's not an ad¹. A lot of humans navigate that way, for many reasons. Google has done research on that through the years. Landmarks might be easier to spot and are an useful confirmation that you got the turn right. Do you never ask yo
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by puzzle 7y ago
Interesting, I didn't know about the ten years. The relevant rules seem to be here: https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/expa... He mentioned it in 2013. So he's probably not affected
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by puzzle 7y ago
Another thing that is commonly baked, by professionals: old tapes that have trapped too much moisture and start to deteriorate. They're placed in ovens for much longer, at lower temperatures.
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by puzzle 7y ago
There was another good interview in NYC on US premiere day: https://youtu.be/zH982kFXMuM I had to make sure to be in NY for it. Last time I saw him live (at IFC for The Zero Theorem), he mentioned that he can only spend 29
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by puzzle 7y ago
Which might or might not involve Gilliam himself in some kind of consulting form. He's not sure yet, because they've been talking, but at the moment there's no signature.
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by puzzle 7y ago
Yes, Amazon was going to distribute it, but they got scared after last year's lawsuit.
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by puzzle 7y ago
Juicy details about Levandowski and their Google Maps costs...

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