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by sayhello 4y ago
Counter-Strike was a mod of Half Life, not Halo.
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by sayhello 4y ago
When I was a Google employee, I helped a friend go through their account lockout issue. It was because they used MFA to a phone number, but later changed their phone number, which made them unable to login. He tried so many times that some
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by sayhello 6y ago
The three-body problem. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Three-Body_Problem_(nove...
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by sayhello 6y ago
We made sure that the activation of the API is gated by: 1) User Activation checks 2) When access to the file system is requested, a File Picker is necessary 3) When the API is in use, there are plenty of indication that it's being use
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by sayhello 6y ago
Precisely. You'll also gain the ability to update your apps cheaply (via the web) and bonus security points by not being beholden to Electron updates.
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by sayhello 6y ago
I worked on this. The quote is true, in all honesty. Same as downloading and running applications from the web. We do our best to make sure the scenario listed doesn't happen. For instance, on Windows, after a writer is closed, we appl
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by sayhello 6y ago
Why does it have to be sad? When software becomes easier to develop, it enables everyone to benefit. More developers, more applications of software. At the same time, performance has a tangential relationship with computer code being interp
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by sayhello 7y ago
I beg to disagree :-) I’ve worked on the Native File System API on Chrome. It’s available through Origin Trial at the moment. That said, Web apps can currently emulate reading files and writing to disk. Take a look at this library, which al
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by sayhello 7y ago
And it's nice that the web app only has a narrow set of permissions. You could imagine the same for an unzipping app. It theory, an unzipping app doesn't need anything else than specific file system permissions, i.e. read for a sp
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by sayhello 7y ago
About web APIs, didn’t want to imply that blink was used instead of WebKit for that reason, it was just an example that rendering engines could still evolve independently.
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by sayhello 7y ago
Disclosure: I work at Google on Chrome. Opinions are my own. Using chromium as a base, browsers will have to differentiate by offering a better product. “Better” is less likely to be better performance, compatibility, or accessibility. By u
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by sayhello 7y ago
Because the scammer may be using this as a way to launder money or to extract money from stolen credit cards. They may not be scamming legitimate bookers, but rather, using the listing for other kinds of scams.
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by sayhello 7y ago
Good point. The current widely used kernels seem to make some assumptions about ‘owning’ the hardware and implicitly trust any running programs at a certain level. There is a need, however, for some pragmatism. While a capabilities-based OS
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by sayhello 7y ago
Did the BSD jails provide enough isolation? Would memory from a process truly be isolated from another? How about FD’s? Could there be side channel attacks? At what level? Perhaps the whole kernel design needs to be revisited, which I assum
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by sayhello 7y ago
Did the Windows Server isolation bundle a slim kernel? One of the core elements of this for the Serverless fast boot requirement is using a kernel that has legacy modules excised.
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by sayhello 7y ago
Used to work on 2nd gen AppEngine. I helped ship the runtimes! Yes, this is due to age. GAE and Run depend on pieces of infrastructure going back a long time.
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by sayhello 8y ago
Google has an office downtown. They've got a growing engineering team too, mostly in Cloud.
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by sayhello 8y ago
As an engineer working on App Engine, I can assure you that's not true. We've been changing a lot of infrastructure, adding features, fixing bugs, all without users being affected. I'm personally very excited about the Second
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by sayhello 8y ago
More runtimes coming out soon. Stay tuned :-)
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by sayhello 8y ago
Correct. We do not use ptrace in production.
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by sayhello 8y ago
I made a logical error, I meant to say: > the word does deny something: possibly objectivity. i.e. there is a possibility of bias. That said, I've made my peace about the "proper" use of language, or rather, the lack there
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by sayhello 8y ago
I suppose colloquially on this forum in the context of comments, the word does deny something: usually of the possibility of bias. Disclosure would work just as well, and is in fact more accurate!
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by sayhello 8y ago
This is exciting because the second generation standard environment allows Google App Engine to provide a more "idiomatic" experience. Using gVisor, instead of NaCL, as the sandboxing technology, shipping new runtimes becomes a mu
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by sayhello 8y ago
Not stopping at a stop sign is called the “Idaho Stop”. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idaho_stop It is legal elsewhere. Two studies argue that it seems to increase safety on the road. Stopping when street cars stop i
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by sayhello 8y ago
Exciting release of the 2nd generation of App Engine runtimes. I'm really excited to see how the community receives this product. It uses the gVisor sandbox, allowing sandboxing at the process level. This in turns allow for fast turni
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by sayhello 8y ago
Might be hardware related. Did you provide your HW profile in the bug report?
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by sayhello 8y ago
(Disclaimer: I work at Google, though on unrelated things. Opinions my own, yada, yada) Worked at a privacy obsessed place before (Mozilla) where I worked on building privacy-preserving ad infrastructure. I think we've more to fear abo
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by sayhello 8y ago
I have a Leesa and liked it so much that I bought 2 more for the rest of my beds. It feels great for me, I like a firmer mattress, but it’s not too firm. Here are the highlights: 1. Half the price of the equivalent at Sleep Country 2. Didn’
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by sayhello 8y ago
NESticle was a fantastic emulator; it really upped the ante as far as user experience went. It was fast , had way more capabilities and configurability than others. The UI was polished and dripping with personality. At the time, while I ha
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by sayhello 9y ago
Firefox is probably slower because it uses the javascript implementation of the hashing algorithm: https://github.com/nimiq-network/core/blob/master/src/main/p... Chrome implements the WebCrypt

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