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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…

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), …

I bet there's a very long tail, i.e. the majority of images are rarely accessed, if ever.

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 we…

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, v…

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…

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 i…

Maybe they're the same service behind the scenes. Would you store the same music twice, if you had to run both?

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 …

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 G…

The new headcount is coming from cloud. Lots of sales people in particular.

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 …

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 wa…

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 fo…

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 ofte…

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 t…

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.

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…

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…

Or, in more recent times, it's not as if wiretapping abuse was discovered in places like Greece or Italy.

I remember that being a former Google intern.

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 o…

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 easi…

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 confir…