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theDoug

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About theDoug

My name is Douglas Dollars, and I am a person. I work for Google, as the Staff Program Manager of Google Cloud Platform product roadmap, which is a way to see the future. I like that we have options these days.

Please accept that my intention is that of a hopefully helpful stranger. The opinions stated here are my own, and I'm never _trying_ to be an asshole but HN brings it out in all of us, but especially you.

Three effective ways to reach me are: Twitter @yourfondestlove, personal email doug@favorite.cat, or work email douglasdollars@google.com

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    Comment #49073515

    I do hope they also use it to that effect.

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    Comment #23983733

    For the time being all public commitments, release notes, and deprecation notices can be found in one or both of: - Release notes: https://cloud.google.com/release-notes - GCP Blog…

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    Comment #23983698

    Thank you! We work really hard on the GCP roadmap program, keeping it fully accountable, and pushing against interesting transparency limits. A public GCP roadmap is also in longer…

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    Comment #23983639

    Yeah. All Cloud deprecations have a minimum of a year notice, usually as an email, ahead of multiple follow up emails as the year draws close. It's in the terms. Additionally, you …

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    Comment #23470333

    Maybe it is. I feel like this is the narrative on every second cycle since 10.6 (Snow Leopard, to 10.5's Leopard), that "this" is the one where things get more reliable and nature.…

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    Comment #23361384

    The answer is found in System Preferences > Mission Control. Uncheck the “Automatically rearrange spaces based on most recent use” box :)

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    Comment #22542992

    Generally "Europe, the Middle East and Africa"

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    Comment #20704820

    Poor 20-something grandfather Rafael also identifies as a nana and as a middle-aged woman. https://mobile.twitter.com/TheKenChilds/status/1161847717397...

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    Comment #20539751

    > To obtain a library card in any state in the U.S., the applicant must be the person who will ultimately be controlling/using the card, and a significant amount of identifying inf…

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    Comment #20016869

    This is not what Google uses, but shares many similarities, so the title of "Google's" isn't fully correct. This is an example from https://rework.withgoogle.com/guides/

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    Comment #20016844

    'Major' is up to personal definition and will distract people here no doubt. Metafiter has been my long-time lighthouse for this kind of gauge, though obviously not as big as its p…

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    Comment #20013753

    In the instance of these headphones, the app allows you to adjust the level of active noise cancellation as well as choose which sources can send audio to the headphones. Neither o…

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    Comment #19955121

    Dupe https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19954673

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    Comment #19860708

    You seem fixated on the word "promise," which I've never once heard said. Assistant calling and Duplex appointment booking were both available within the year, across most of the U…

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    Comment #19809198

    Great, another thing they deprecate, my own history. /s

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    Comment #19748940

    Nah. The number of issues on any project is not an indication of project quality but community activity and imagination for improvements. This is the wrong number to point to if yo…

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    Comment #19628196

    But looking at a web page nearly made his body vomit!

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    Comment #19611583

    Google Cloud? Which two?

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    Comment #19611560

    It is an important question, but Google services which are largely consumer-based and no cost are a very different world from Google Cloud. People get a lot of Internet Cool Guy po…

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    Comment #19578524

    Yeah, looks like 52 minutes for a routing issue in one zone in a single region. Not that downtime is fun for anyone. Disclosure: I work for Google Cloud

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    Comment #19539596

    +1 One area I've found helpful is focusing on sources of clarity. With the volume of information/data of all levels of quality becoming so abundant to the point of being overwhelmi…

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