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gd2··on My Forgotten Language: the brain can lose and reclaim an abandoned mother tongue
An older friend had a stroke, in recovery she switched to having better communication ability in her nearly abandoned native Spanish, and had greater difficulties communicating in her everyday dominate language for like 70 years- English - of her 75 years.
gd2··on Google Chromecast and Google Home Causes Wi-Fi Drops
The scary part is that it takes highly involved HackerNews readers to possibly understand what's happening. Most regular folk are going to just think, Wi-Fi got flaky again.
gd2··on Mapzen Shutdown
In with the people who are calling this a sad shutdown.
gd2··on A Seattle vigilante who beats the police to bike thieves
But we see a lot of smash the window and grab whatever bags are in the car in San Francisco.
gd2··on The Imposter's Handbook
First I've heard of this book, but catchy title.
gd2··on Microsoft, Sony, and others still use illegal warranty-void-if-removed stickers
"I would be interested to hear from the regulators what assumptions were necessary to justify the policy."

The article says this rule of law is from the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnuson%E2%80%93Moss_Warranty..., . So, its not some GS-13 level "regulators" who determined this law, but something that was voted on by a majority of both houses of Congress, and signed by the President of the United States.

If your interested in what assumptions were made, you can look up speeches of the supporting Senators, and other aspects of legislative history.

gd2··on A Lighter and Smaller Laptop
Good point. I like to see some new method thrown at the UI controls when one switches to full screen / no toolbars. Possibly stealing swipe type methods from mobile.
gd2··on Cloud9 Acquired by Amazon
I like this. When testing my cloud9 account I thought it was a still rough edged proto-type of the future. I wasn't ready to change my workflow, but thought very interesting.

Congratulations to the cloud9 team.

gd2··on Say_what: Using speech-to-text to fully check out during conference calls
I like it, but it also sounds so wrong. Nice hack project.
gd2··on Disney Said to Buy Stake in $3.5B MLB Web Unit
I'm a fan of the MLB app. While Bloomberg stressed video streaming, for me, MLB app shines in that space where I want to know what's happening in real time, and be able to see well chosen hi-lights, but don't want the time commitment of watching the video of a whole game.
gd2··on Voice Assistant? Yes please, but not in public
Didn't know about the easy available saved history URL. Interesting.
gd2··on Spaces, a tool for small group sharing
A space about space. Right now almost empty.

https://goo.gl/spaces/wYK3coJ6Mb5c5CMv6

gd2··on Announcing SyntaxNet: The World’s Most Accurate Natural Language Parser
Yes, I was being playful with language, rather than straight serious. But this topic invites that.
gd2··on Announcing SyntaxNet: The World’s Most Accurate Natural Language Parser
Right, is this name for this product a sign that Google is becoming more human, and less engineering extreme sports minded?
gd2··on Ask HN: How do you decide what to learn next?
I should do better, because I've been random in deciding what to learn But some combination of: found good teaching materials, people I'm in contact with are learning it, and this could pay off big.
gd2··on San Francisco Tech Firms See Workers Flee from $4,500 Rents
True, but isn't part of it that one thinks that on the $9 album, the marketing and media company folks gets $8.50 of $9.00

But there is also artistry in creating a coffee or dining experience, and hopefully that money spent on the meal and coffee goes more to the chef artist who prepared the meal, the architect artist who designed the space, and the line cook, waitress and dishwasher.

gd2··on Dear Apple, there’s nothing ‘really sad’ about using a 5-year-old PC
It seems a somewhat strained interpretation to view this as Apple is anti-poor people. But it does point out that Apple is losing touch with what people do with personal computing power.

Phone are much better then five years ago, computers not so much. I'd much rather spend my dollars where the major improvement in computing technology is, then spending to upgrade a desktop to view thing almost the same as before.

gd2··on Sbux Math: Calculate Your Starbucks Reward Program Changes
This change feels like a bad fumble, even if Starbucks is a great marketing engine.

Under the old program, even that it was kinda dumb, I liked getting the stars and the reward, and it somehow made me feel like a member a my club. This changes seems to bust that.

gd2··on First language influences brain for later language-learning
I thought those studies concerned more that the bi-lingual children had an extra flexibility at understanding a concept, rather than a more developed compartmentalization process.
gd2··on First language influences brain for later language-learning
I'd like to see this developed for relearning language after a stroke.

Have a friend whose first language was Spanish, but lived her life in the English speaking world and had limited Spanish skills as an adult After a serious stroke, she initially couldn't speak, but recovered ability in Spanish first. The court and language therapist marked down her communication skills because they were so English-centric. Caused a sad story.

gd2··on Two scientists meeting on a bus leads to discovery in the lab
Sandy Pentland: "Social Physics: How Good Ideas Spread" | Talks at Google similar theme. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMBl0ttu-Ow I think its in this video that he talks about the productivity gains of the seemingly random exchanges of ideas, and the possibility to increase them by scheduling and thoughtfully designed common areas.
gd2··on Do rent controls work?
So, if the new people to the community do stay around enough of years, do they become the lucky "been there a while" people, and get the subsidy that they paid for earlier back in reduced rents?
gd2··on Google+ Photos Is Shutting Down
this is confusing. I'm not seeing any photos that need to be manually transferred, but I don't like the uncertainty.
gd2··on This is what makes bicyclists blow through red lights
If we could only get people like that into cars.
gd2··on Hello World: Windows 10 Available on July 29
Besides the yawn factor, this blog announcement's structure and language lacks skillz. Not good.
gd2··on Why do buses bunch?
In the simulation, the back of the bus slides out like a race car in the "S" curve. Don't spill your coffee.
gd2··on Goodbye Spacebar: Google wants keyboard without spacebar
Like the direction this is going in, but true that its combining space and gesture area, not getting rid of the space bar.

I've thought that it would be more efficient, if one could keep ones fingers on the keyboard rows, and use the some type of thumb gestures to move the cursor.

gd2··on Cognitive Cooking with Chef Watson
I try a byte of that.
gd2··on Mockups: How Apple can catch up to Yelp reviews and Google ratings overnight
Echo, Echo, Echo, chamber.

No, rather not.

gd2··on Commencement address by Bill and Melinda Gates
Let your heart break.

That was the headline summary.

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