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We're currently going through a migration from G Suite to Office 365, and so far my impression of Office is mostly downright bad. All of the online apps seem like slow knock-off products.

In particular, Excel Online feels like a joke compared to Google Spreadsheets. At first you notice the sluggish movement of focus from cell to cell due to this ridiculous animation. Then when you select a cell value from a drop-down and hit tab, focus moves down instead of to the right, which is infuriating when you suddenly find yourself typing in the wrong cell. Somehow they screwed up copy and paste as well, sometimes pasting takes multiple seconds. Then if you work on something else for a bit, the page gives you an error about inactivity and makes you reload in order to resume. The whole thing is so bad I do my work in Google Spreadsheets and then copy the finished work into Excel Online.

As a developer, one of my primary use-cases for spreadsheets is to generate and maintain an overview of different legacy implementations, the state of their rewrite, and any changes in behavior we've made. This type of work is largely done collaboratively with other devs and project leads. Turns out this type of real time collaboration for spreadsheets is basically dead with Office 365. It feels like we're going backwards in time, I used to just share the document and others would make their changes, but now we're fighting over file locks and in a few cases I've heard of people sending files back and forth with email.

Also, I really miss the "Shared with me" view in Google Drive. With OneDrive there is a separate drive for myself and for each group I'm a member of. When someone shares a file with one of my groups it doesn't show up in my OneDrive, I have to look through each of the groups' OneDrive.

Oh, and the online scheduling assistant is useless when you invite a group of people. The whole group shows up as one "person" who is busy as soon as anyone is busy. Also, noone can see the RSVP status except for the organizer, so when our scrum master is home sick I have no idea who has accepted the meeting. And why do canceled meetings stay in my calendar but renamed to "Canceled: XYZ"?

/rant

Is that 8 seconds to first byte, or 8 seconds for the complete body?

No SLA I've seen guarantees a time for full body because that time fluctuates too much with both the size of the object and the current state of the internet. The new-ish refresh of the GCS lineup of services says you get sub-second access, but that has to be time to first byte, and I have a hunch that NewRelic shows you time to last byte.

If my assumptions are accurate, I would say the data you get from NewRelic does not warrant reimbursement from Google, though I might side with you if all of your objects are tiny.

The managed Kubernetes across multiple clouds sounds very nice! Or am I reading too much into this? I would love to give GKE some access token to my AWS and have them manage the whole shebang.

> "In our support of this feature, GKE customers will be able to build applications that can easily span multiple clouds"

Did they then change their minds? The github repository is gone (404), and the user does not have any repositories:

https://github.com/MICROSOFT-XBOX-ATG/MICROSOFT_UWP_UNREAL

https://github.com/MICROSOFT-XBOX-ATG?tab=repositories

This is actually the fifth time this is up for discussion (not counting the two submissions with zero comments):

https://hn.algolia.com/?query=the%20open%20office%20trend%20...

Annotations can already be disabled by default: https://www.youtube.com/account_playback

One example is that you can turn on the heat using your phone. Very nice if you live in a place with cold winters. Volvo does this.

The hash32 implementation in Java 7 was not intended to fix the case where the actual hash value was zero, nor did it have an impact on that case as the hash32 value was stored in a separate field.

It was made to decrease the number of hash value collisions in large data structures (hash maps and such). Its replacement is described here: http://openjdk.java.net/jeps/180 . Given that most Strings never end up in a large collection, allocating an extra 4 bytes for every one of them was a waste.

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I currently work in an office made of small-ish rooms, each with 5 to 10 persons in an open floor plan. The people sharing a room are in the same team. I don't think I could go from this to having a private office, the cold and quiet loneliness would be depressing. I love the banter that comes up while waiting for a test suite to complete, and the ability to quickly do some pair programming or have an impromptu team meeting. At any time, we can simply turn around to face each other instead of the desk.

Previous discussion, 4 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8815065

This seems very sensationalist.

I can not see how someone visiting a page you published publicly is a form of spying on you.

I also do not see why Google or anyone else should be obligated to access your page from an IP address block with their name on it.

> The other annoyance I have is with email clients that display plaintext emails in proportional font, which mangles ASCII art diagrams and nicely-aligned tables/columns.

If you want to send me ASCII art, use HTML and CSS to specify the font required for display. My email client will default to a font which is pleasant to my eyes. It is ridiculous that my choice of default font should be confined by a tiny subset of email content, especially where the author knows ahead of time that this content is sensitive to the font it is displayed with.

> Example, the WebView has no way to return its HTML contents. So it's difficult to implement your own caching mechanism.

That's a feature to me. Respect my Cache-Control headers!

Thanks for mentioning TotalTerminal!

I'd rather put my money on Spring learning lessons from Play / Scala / Akka. If they don't, the writing may indeed be on the wall.

I am unable to recreate this problem.

My Firefox sends the following Accept-Language: "en-us,en;q=0.8,sv-se;q=0.5,sv;q=0.3".

When I go to Google.com in a new private browsing context, I am redirected to Google.se with English language. When I go straight to Google.se in a new private browsing context, the page is in English.

In that case, why not make it available as a javascript bookmark?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookmarklet

As far as I know, that behavior is best practice. An instance of SecureRandom does not automatically receive new entropy over time. If you desperately need to keep using that same instance, you have to keep seeding it.

The episode is available here http://www.svtplay.se/video/1753565/del-3-av-12 but you need to understand Norwegian (speech) or Swedish (subtitles).

Edit: The preamble to the chess game starts at 53:00 and is in English.

That seems suboptimal. By pulling directly from the telcos, they could get data on all users rather than a subset.

No. Lately I've been feeling as if I live in a bubble, that I must be missing something. People seem to be losing their minds over this and other Google(+) business, while I think it's all quite fine.

This was sent out to the App Engine Downtime Notify group:

We experienced an issue with Google App Engine Open ID service starting at 2013-10-24 13:40 US/Pacific. Some users got a 502 error when attempting to login to applications that use Open ID authentication. The problem was resolved as of 2013-10-24 15:15 US/Pacific. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and continued support. Please rest assured that system reliability is a top priority at Google, and we are making continuous improvements to make our systems better.

Google has responded to a request for comment from The Verge.

We’re excited to bring more content to Chromecast and would like to support all types of apps, including those for local content. It's still early days for the Google Cast SDK, which we just released in developer preview for early development and testing only. We expect that the SDK will continue to change before we launch out of developer preview, and want to provide a great experience for users and developers before making the SDK and additional apps more broadly available.

This YouTube video I came across earlier today briefly explains the matter of achieving good carbonation (though not in a commercial or mass-production setting): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2V7ykGolWjg#t=3m45s

In short, it says that you need to remove the air inside the bottle before carbonating, and then carbonate over multiple passes while letting excess gas out of the bottle between the passes.

I have not researched the matter any further and can not make any claims regarding the quality of the information.

The "Wallet for digital goods API" continues to process transactions for you, so there is still processing in Wallet.

Besides that, as far as I can see a merchant would be more likely to get volume discounts on their transactions by funneling them into one payment processor. In this way the thinner Wallet API would seem like an improvement given that no merchant will have Wallet as their sole supplier of transaction processing (as you point out, most people order with CC). Fewer merchant accounts should also lead to less administration.

Unlike an HTML form, this could show up in the notifications drawer on Android.

I for one think it would be pretty sweet if I could just tap a notification to (for example) verify my email address & archive the message, rather than involving a browser!

For those interested, Google has been using OpenFlow for some time now. This presentation by Urs Hölzle is about a year old:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLHJUfgxEO4

Slides: http://www.opennetsummit.org/archives/apr12/hoelzle-tue-open...

It appears that the "wormhole" is off center. If you zoom the page, you'll notice that each step brings the tunnel closer to the center of the screen.

At zoom level 6 (counting from 100% as level zero) you are viewing from inside the tunnel, but only just. At zoom level 8 (maximum), the view is almost at the center of the tunnel.

If I had to take a guess, the page fails to calculate the center of the viewport, using (0,0) as its target coordinate; but (0,0) is top-left.

It sort of works in my Firefox 20 (current stable release) if I zoom in all the way.

I have two Android phones (ICS and Jelly Bean) and this has not been my experience at all.

The first time you start the Google+ app, it will ask you if you want to enable Instant Upload (which uploads to a private album from which you can publish). Prior to that it doesn't do anything with your photos.