Andy Walker originally shared this post:
Fun times with the ever awesome SREs on reddit answering your questions:
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/177267/we_are_the_google_site_reliability_team_we_make/
We are the Google Site Reliability team. We make Google’s websites work. Ask us Anything! : IAmA
Hello, reddit! We are the Google Site Reliability (SRE) team. We’re responsible for the 24×7 operation of Google.com, as well as the technical infras…
Technology is gloriously disruptive.
Processes change slowly.
In the middle, geeks watch, amused.
For example, today I got an MS Word document (and I don't have word on any of my 3 machines). The document was emailed to 20 researchers, saying "here is your new website" please send any modifications by return.
I suppose it's progress… they could have sent it hard copy.
Upgraded from early 2008 MBP to current 2.3GHz i7 model with retina display & SSD. It feels like my laptop has been to the gym. Every thing is just so much more toned. Taut keyboard, crisp text, solid unibody, silent operation. *Surreal.* #apple
So, I have an old iPhone 3GS* that is sitting around unused, and a Bose Sound Dock. Is there an app that can turn these two items into "an Apple TV speaker" so I can have the Soma FMs Christmas Lounge tracks on in the kitchen without making two connections to their server?
* smashed screen / no backlight – everything else works fine
Christmas Lounge. Chilled holiday grooves and classic winter lounge tracks. (Kid and Parent safe!) Listen: MP3: 128k 56k 32k Firewall/Proxy MP3 Windows Media: 128k 32k Popup Player; Listeners: 2310; N…
Robert Nyman originally shared this post:
Web browser support for HTML5 Input types, attributes and elements + CSS & JavaScript support:
http://www.wufoo.com/html5/
Wufoo · The Current State of HTML5 Forms
Many browsers are supporting features of HTML5 including much related to forms. This is research on what browsers are doing what with those new features.
On motorways, lowering the speed limit at congested times leads to less congestion because cars don't have to be so erratic in their braking. Would the same policy work in an urban environment. i.e. would average journey times be reduced if the speed limit on main roads were reduced from 30 to something lower at various states of congestion?
/me starts a some background reading and checks out the potential of using our SCIAMA supercomputer.
Free stuff usually goes down well, as do competitions, so my students seem to be lapping this one up. 3GB extra free space if you sign up and confirm you're at UoP – and if you're already a member, just confirm your membership to get extra free space.
+Dropbox #marketing team: have a gold star and take the rest of the day off.
Dropbox – Great Space Race! – Simplify your life
Dropbox is a free service that lets you bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and share them easily. Never email yourself a file again!
Jeff Dean originally shared this post:
Spanner: Google's Globally-Distributed Database
I and many others have been working for the last few years on building a large-scale storage system that can manage data across all of Google's datacenters. This system underlies Google's advertising system, among other products. We'll be presenting a paper describing the system (with 26 co-authors!) at OSDI 2012 next month. We've now put up a web page with a link to the PDF of the final version of the paper.
Feedback is welcome, of course.
Here's the abstract of the paper:
Spanner is Google's scalable, multi-version, globally-distributed, and synchronously-replicated database. It is the first system to distribute data at global scale and support externally-consistent distributed transactions. This paper describes how Spanner is structured, its feature set, the rationale underlying various design decisions, and a novel time API that exposes clock uncertainty. This API and its implementation are critical to supporting external consistency and a variety of powerful features: non-blocking reads in the past, lock-free read-only transactions, and atomic schema changes, across all of Spanner.
Google Research Publication: Spanner
Spanner: Google's Globally-Distributed Database James C. Corbett, Jeffrey Dean, Michael Epstein, Andrew Fikes, Christopher Frost, JJ Furman, Sanjay Ghemawat, Andrey Gubarev, Christopher Heiser, Peter …
It's 1975 all over again.
"Is this a photo of Rich Boakes?"
No Google, I'll take it as a compliment, but that's Barack Obama.
Did I bugger up a setting somewhere?
Free #JavaScript books.
JSBooks – free javascript books
JSBooks is a showcase of the bests free ebooks about Javascript. Find here the best publications about your favourite programming langage without spending any bucks !
TextMate + GPLv3 + GitHub = a challenger to Sublime Text 2 ?
textmate – TextMate is a graphical text editor for OS X 10.7+
Detect memory leaks in #javascript .
Addy Osmani originally shared this post:
Leak Finder: Memory Leak Detection For JavaScript
If you regularly work on JavaScript web apps, you'll know that we're unlikely to run into memory leaks in the traditional sense, but it is possible to have objects that are unintentionally kept alive and in turn keep others alive (like big parts of the DOM).
To help discover these leaks, two of my fellow Googlers (+Marja Hölttä and +Jochen Eisinger) have developed a tool that works with the Chrome Developer Tools (specifically, the remote inspection protocol) and retrieves heap snapshots and detects what objects are causing leaks.
There's more information (and a whole post on how to use the tool) over at http://google-opensource.blogspot.de/2012/08/leak-finder-new-tool-for-javascript.html and I encourage you to check it out. The project page for the leak finder can be found at http://code.google.com/p/leak-finder-for-javascript/.
Some more info: In case you're wondering why a tool like this isn't already integrated with our Developer Tools, the reason is two fold. It was originally developed to help us catch some specific memory scenarios in the Closure Library and it makes more sense as an external tool (or maybe even an extension if we get a heap profiling extension API in place).
Leak Finder: a new tool for JavaScript – Google Open Source Blog
News about Google"s Open Source projects and programs
Google Drive & Permissions
I'm trying out Google Plus for some lazy web-publishing and seeing continued file-permission strangeness. Here's an example in case others are experiencing similar and it's reproducible…
Before I begin, the remote machine looks like this:
rjb@buck-16~/Google Drive/xyz/words $ ls -la
total 48
drwxrwxrwx 7 rjb staff 238 8 Aug 15:45 .
drwxrwxrwx+ 22 rjb staff 748 8 Aug 15:45 ..
-rwxrwxrwx 1 rjb staff 341 7 Jun 10:58 404.html
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rjb staff 321 8 Aug 15:34 defaults.php
-rwxrwxrwx 1 rjb staff 6462 8 Aug 15:42 index.html
-rwxrwxrwx 1 rjb staff 3031 6 Jun 22:25 js.html
-rwxrwxrwx 1 rjb staff 115 6 Jun 20:21 menu.html
I then locally edit `js.html`. Note the timestamp and permissions:
rjb-mbp:words rjb$ ls -la
total 48
drwxr-xr-x 7 rjb staff 238 8 Aug 15:41 .
drwxr-xr-x 22 rjb staff 748 8 Aug 15:42 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rjb staff 341 7 Jun 10:58 404.html
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rjb staff 321 8 Aug 15:34 defaults.php
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rjb staff 6462 8 Aug 15:42 index.html
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rjb staff 3119 8 Aug 15:50 js.html
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rjb staff 115 6 Jun 20:21 menu.html
Shortly afterwards on the remote machine it appears thus – note how the modification time is updated (and indeed the file is updated) but neither the original permission, nor those on the machine where the file was edited, are used):
rjb@buck-16~/Google Drive/xyz/words $ ls -la
total 48
drwxrwxrwx 7 rjb staff 238 8 Aug 15:54 .
drwxrwxrwx+ 22 rjb staff 748 8 Aug 15:45 ..
-rwxrwxrwx 1 rjb staff 341 7 Jun 10:58 404.html
-rwxr-xr-x 1 rjb staff 321 8 Aug 15:34 defaults.php
-rwxrwxrwx 1 rjb staff 6462 8 Aug 15:42 index.html
-rw——- 1 rjb staff 3119 8 Aug 15:50 js.html
-rwxrwxrwx 1 rjb staff 115 6 Jun 20:21 menu.html
This is syncing between a two OS X Mountain Lion machines.
#googledrive #apple #osx
_P.S. I'm using 777 to illustrate the point, that's not normal_ :-)
A JS lib for lazy spreadsheet-as-a-db – looks useful. Anyone used similar libs with success?
SpreadsheetDB-For-Google_Apps_Script
SpreadsheetDB-For-Google_Apps_Script – Google Spreadsheet as a DB for Google Apps Script.
Looks like #apple #mountainlion has broken homebrew too (laptop this time, not the server)… anyone upgrade and still have homebrew working?
OS X #mountainlion may destroy all custom virtual server configurations in the bundled #apache Web Server. That's the only change I've made to the server and 150 websites have gone away ]. #apple
Dear +BBC News,
A youtube video with only 210,000 views has not "gone viral".
That is all.
RIP
NASA – NASA Offers Condolences on the Passing of Pioneering Astronaut Sally Ride
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Google Docs can't do cross referencing and section numbers so I decided to try LibreOffice… 6 crashes in one evening… time to give OpenOffice a spin again, now that it's been donated to Apache.
Discussion with TimBL on internet/web regulation, neutrality & free speech.
Needs ingesting and discussing over a beverage …
Thomas Steiner originally shared this post:
Essentially Google's solution to callback hell in asynchronous programming ported to #nodeJS
// Thinking in composers…
(via +Malte Ubl)
Composers: An asynchronous programming framework. Contribute to composers development by creating an account on GitHub.
Is this Wikipedia's most interesting page?
If you know of a better one, I'd like to read it!
List of common misconceptions – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This incomplete list is not intended to be exhaustive. This is a list of current, widely held, erroneous ideas and beliefs about notable topics which have been reported by reliable sources from around…
A new non-cloud collaborative code editor. Could work well in #education settings to allow tutorial members to reach a solution together.
It stems from a Google project that's not going to see the light of day in its original form.
Projector + a classroom of editors = novel peer #learning opportunities.
(via (& best wishes for the new role) +Scott Blum )
Collaborative IDE
ACTA
Votes for: 39
Abstained: 165
Votes against: 478
ACTA is history.
Media lawyers are easily startled, but they'll soon be back, and in greater numbers.
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