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I'm curious, which phone is more popular?

I'm curious how you did your energy audit and found the water heater was the culprit. Did you hire someone else, or do it yourself... if so, how?

Yes, thank you, that was my point... when online communities are connected to real-world communities, the atmosphere of the online communities are usually better. I'm not sure how the person above missed that, since I said it twice. I brought that up because Zuck was talking about facebook being used to help real-world communities... like your kid's kindergarten class... and my neighbourhood watch group.

I had to stop reading, the negativity in the article drove me away. The bad online communities he references, in my experience, are usually not the ones that are built on top of real-world communities and relationships. That is not to say that all of the ones that are online-only are bad... just that communities online that reflect real-world communities seem to work pretty well from what I've seen. Anyway, I can't really claim to fully understand the author's point, since I couldn't bring myself to read the whole thing.

I agree that they are ahead of the game. Combined Cycle Gas Turbine generators are still the most economic way to produce electricity... though carbon tax and renewable subsidies do tip the scale in some markets. I don't think they are purely doing this for cheap electricity... at least not right now. I believe in what they are doing, and think it will help facilitate a transition to more efficient renewables eventually, but I don't believe they are doing this for the economic benefit right now... it's a good PR move that could also pay off financially in the long run... in my opinion.

But, within Allo, can you ask the assistant "What's on my schedule?" and get an answer?

I know that's not what you were saying, just curious if that part works for you.

Hah! That's a very good point. I can think of several instances I've been involved in where the person who decided what triggers the alarm never actually had to respond to the alarm. I guess it's relevant for anything you are building... not just alarms. The end users of the software need to be involved in the building of it.

Yeah, that makes the whole thing meaningless if you ask me. Well, maybe not meaningless... I supposed I can say... as an X, I'm most likely to marry an elementary school teacher. But if I meet an explosive worker, this will not tell me how likely I am to marry them... which I think is more interesting.

All I could find was this, from the article: "It’ll be a while before all browsers support background sync, especially as Safari and Edge don’t yet support service workers."

It talks about using code to check to see if it's supported in the user's browser under "Progressive Enhancement".

I believe did: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc-LEG0T_4c&feature=youtu.be...

At the live press announcement they talked about multi-room audio... here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc-LEG0T_4c&feature=youtu.be...

For the multi-room audio they talked about (to be released later this year), has anyone seen anything that indicates if it will work with a non-audio-specific chromecast? For example, I hope to be able to play music to my TV through a chromecast (and be able to see album art on my tv), and then have the same audio playing in my living room coming out of a chromecast audio. Man i hope it will work regardless of type of chromecast.

Give yourself some time to get back to healthy... any kind of health issue can cloud your judgement. I always try to refrain from making big decisions when I'm not feeling good. Shingles sucks, and the pain can linger... hope you're doing better now!

Hopefully this can be a constructive conversation. Instead of just bashing google for once again shutting something down, I'd like to hear what obligation people feel a company has to keep a service alive that isn't living up to it's expectations.

That's not quite how I remember the "grip of death" events doing down.

Having read the entire article, I'm a little confused.

He says it's one of his favorite questions to both ask and be asked, but when VCs ask it, it is sparked by their ego with the intent of putting them down. But when he asks the question himself, he doesn't claim to do it with the same bad intentions.

Seems overly negative towards VCs to acknowledge that they ask a really great question, but do it with the intent of making founders feel like crap.

this thing works great, I do the same thing. I wonder if these integrated speaker devices will support playing content that is not audo-only... like youtube videos. it's great to be able to get music from youtube videos. I hope they don't limit the stuff you can cast to audio-only with these new google-cast for audio devices.

Plex is pretty awesome for casting content on your own network if you haven't looked at that.

You can stream any app and your desktop, yes.

A $1 rear screen protector protects against that and gives it a really great grippy feel on the back. It's so much nicer to hold than having to put a clunky case on it.

I agree with you that it's a false choice.

But the part about never sharing anything private with anyone, regardless of the media used... maybe I'm misunderstanding it. That sounds like a terrible way to live. By living that way, you are not retaining your privacy... you've already lost it.

You could die when get on plane, but you still do it, because the reward is worth the risk. Someone could wire tap my house, but I don't let that stop me from having private conversations with my family. There's a risk/reward balance that each of us have to set with respect to our privacy and our ability to share and interact with other people. To say the risk always outweighs the reward seems a little extreme.

I haven't been able to get a client certificate working on Android at all (stock 4.2.2 with Chrome and Chrome Beta). Perhaps someone here has gotten them to work? I've posted in several forums and haven't found anyone that's gotten them to work.

I agree... I didn't know if they accepted payment until going to the FAQ.

Don't you mean: Steve Jobs IS still cofounder of Apple when he was kicked out of it. ;)

That's well done, hope you find a way to keep it alive.

Agreed, I had the same issue when I first hit the site.

Also: ability to seek would be nice, these are single tracks that are an hour or two long... not like you can just skip to the next song :)

love that you posted here when you first saw it, then posted again after listening to a bunch that brought back memories... i did the exact same thing.

Yes, after starting a few that bring back some major memories, I really want to skip ahead and hear stuff from later. It's definitely possible with soundmanager2, which he's using (http://www.schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/). Hope he adds that. Don't get me wrong, I love the site!

dude, this is effing awesome, there's some classic mixes here that I thought I'd never hear again... thank you!

Great work! Good use of soundmanager2 (http://www.schillmania.com/projects/soundmanager2/) would love to see if it works on an iPad/iPhone and takes advantage of HTML5 audio capabilities. Please post of you've tried it with either.