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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 usuall…

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 distur…

Saving half a pound (225g) on a backpacking trip is a enough that a frequent hiker would notice.

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 …

> 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 "sendPhoneC…

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-a…

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.

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 …

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 fa…

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 desk…

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://w…

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 exam…

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…

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?

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...

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/…

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.yui…

"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 wit…

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 whe…

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 w…

"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…

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/718…