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gonyeaon M 7.1 SoCal Earthquake: What's Next?

The Hayward fault seems to have the most seismic activity lately. You'll feel them 2+ times a year in the East Bay--especially if you're in an older, multi-story building when it strikes.

gonyeaon Google’s painful Gmail OAuth verification process

Goal #1: Don't let the users "get screwed."

Goal #2: Don't have a solution that requires an army of people to manage.

If no one's willing to help fund your idea, you're out of luck. That seems... really understandable, given that every major government is literally investing millions trying to hack into Google's user data.

gonyeaon Google’s painful Gmail OAuth verification process

This all makes sense to me. If you're not providing enough value to users to cover the >$15k fee, you're just an attack vector for user data.

Consistency of the process aside, I'm really not sure what people would expect.

(I work at Google, yadda yadda, but have nothing to do with this.)

gonyeaon Google Trips app to be discontinued on August 5

Google Maps is a travel powerhouse. Makes sense to have things in one place.

I’m traveling Europe right now and I live out of Google Maps.

gonyeaon ZetaSQL – A SQL Analyzer Framework from Google

This is an in-joke at Google.

gonyeaon I’m sorry, but this “Full Stack” meme makes me mad/sad

I'm a Full-Stack developer at Google, which is fairly uncommon given the complexity of systems here.

The chief trait of a Full Stack developer, in my opinion, is often just growing into the needs of the team/moment. I've been weighted in different directions because that's where the product needed me; I'm currently the Front-End domain expert on my team.

Self-adulating thought leaders who throw shade at Full-Stack are themselves just really bad at using more than one language, let alone thinking about different parts of a large system.

(I'd also expect a Full-Stack developer to understand systems and resource provisioning/monitoring. Not just JS vs. Java.)

gonyeaon Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API

Uh, you realize that imap support has been in GMail for its entire history?

gonyeaon Google Is Turning Off the Works-with-Nest API

There are contractual obligations around changes to GSuite products (and their APIs).

gonyeaon Mystery Frequency Disrupted Car Fobs in an Ohio City, and Now Residents Know Why

On a related note: LED light bulbs often emit radio frequencies and all of the ones I’ve tried so far interfere with my garage door. Which was insanely hard to figure out.

(Garage door openers have spots for 2 light bulbs.)

gonyeaon Google Will Soon Let Users Automatically Scrub Location and Web History

Imagine you have ~billions of users and 99.9% of them use the default. Do you put your eng effort towards power-user flexibility for the tinfoil hat crowd or do you improve popular features?

In the case mentioned, searching "your locations" appears to be just all on or all off (I have no insider knowledge of Maps). That greatly reduces the surface area for heisenbugs in a high QPS system.

gonyeaon Google Will Soon Let Users Automatically Scrub Location and Web History

This is hilarious. Every single Google conspiracy is basically because some Google Engineer tried to DRY up functionality in an insanely complicated system.

gonyeaon China’s vast fleet is tipping the balance in the Pacific

China has a long history of imperialism. They even tried attacking Vietnam after its war with the US and failed.

gonyeaon Mark Shuttleworth sees increased demand for enterprise Ubuntu Linux desktop

In my experience, Developers who deviate from the norms are able to support themselves. Data Scientists are generally more dependent on support and infra from the rest of the org.

gonyeaon Mark Shuttleworth sees increased demand for enterprise Ubuntu Linux desktop

It's amazing that Apple seems to be holding on to their grudge against Nvidia... to their own detriment.

You haven't been able to buy a Mac/Macbook Pro with an Nvidia chip for many years now, and using one in an external enclosure is iffy. So data scientists are increasingly using Linux to do their work.

gonyeaon Meal Kits Have a Smaller Carbon Footprint Than Grocery Shopping, Study Says

Meal kits waste an incredible amount of plastic. Using it felt immoral.

gonyeaon Claims of Shoddy Production Draw Scrutiny to a Second Boeing Jet

Installing a foam roof or replacing the insulation in your walls goes a long way and saves a lot of money on energy costs over time.

gonyeaon Claims of Shoddy Production Draw Scrutiny to a Second Boeing Jet

In North Charleston, the pace of production has quickened. Starting this year, Boeing is producing 14 Dreamliners a month, split between North Charleston and Everett, up from the previous 12. At the same time, Boeing said it was eliminating about a hundred quality control positions in North Charleston.

These planes are going to start failing in unison in a few years.

gonyeaon Apple's Reinvention as a Services Company Starts for Real Monday

Apple has completely lost its way under Cook that it’s now just rent seeking. They’re just scrambling to fill a $$$ hole for their investors at this point.

Apple is incredibly bad at building services and has been for their entire existence. They cannot multi-task and things will languish for 2-3 years at a time.

gonyeaon 16 Inch MacBook Pro and Other Apple Products predicted coming in 2019

The big news is the 32gb RAM in the 13” mbp. Amazing that a small form factor is starting to be treated like a real computing device by Apple.

gonyeaon I have chosen the wrong flight dates because your date picker is broken

Their website said “Bangkok”. I’ve traveled all over Asia and Europe without this problem.

gonyeaon I have chosen the wrong flight dates because your date picker is broken

AirAsia is a flaming disaster. I remember booking a flight out of Bangkok. Well, it turns out that I actually booked a flight out of the once named Bangkok airport, which isn’t actually even in Bangkok.

I complained and the “support” rep said “I hope you learned your lesson.” So I called my bank and disputed the charge, getting a full refund. Apparently they never figured out how to challenge my dispute. I hope they don’t learn that lesson.

gonyeaon When Jeff Bezos decided not to become a physicist [video]

I mean, Computer Science is practiced at Google. Shooting from the hip and excusing it as craftsmanship is generally frowned upon.

gonyeaon Google cans the Chromecast Audio

What? I started using Google in high school (‘99) because the teachers said it was good... and they were right.

gonyeaon Ibuprofen alters human testicular physiology to produce compensated hypogonadism

I get what you're saying, but ibuprofen and acetaminophen save lives. The problem is the western (American?) tendency to self-medicate and to over medicate with really potent stuff. That shouldn't be as normal as it is.

gonyeaon Owner who demolished famed San Francisco house must build replica

Well, market rate in this context meant the (regional) labor and material costs to construct a generic, equal sqft house with X rooms and Y baths. I perhaps chose the wrong term.

It'd likely require a lawsuit to make them shell out an additional $200k+ for the specialist architect and master carpenter to help recreate the original structure.

gonyeaon Owner who demolished famed San Francisco house must build replica

Unless the city is pitching in $$$ for the effort, this seems legally questionable. Insurance will only pay the market rate (and barely that), and the cost of such a process would surely run higher.

gonyeaon Owner who demolished famed San Francisco house must build replica

I want to build an ADU on my Mountain View property but was denied because the permitting department in anti-ADU and will obstruct any way they can, despite the rule changes. Yet others have gone ahead and built an ADU on their property anyway, under similar circumstances, ignoring the permitting department.

Morally speaking, did these people injure me? Did they slap me in the face? Are they wrong? They increased the housing supply during a shortage, but at the cost of ignoring the law.

gonyeaon Why Doesn't Google Comply with Do Not Track?

So did literally everybody else building a website that was embedded in an iframe. I was there in 2011, at a startup, copying the same StackOverflow answer as everyone else so we could store cookies in Safari.

This is such a non-issue. It was widely regarded as a bug in Safari.

gonyeaon Killed by Google

Some items on this list are rather silly.

Does anybody consider the iPhone 7 as being “Killed by Apple” or was it just superseded by newer hardware?

gonyeaon Ask HN: Is Google is broken for discovery?

Home furnishings are a bit special. The market is flooded with cheap Chinese goods. There’s no way to tell what’s good, and there are way too many choices/knockoffs. Plus it’s too heavy to return if you don’t like it. You really have to see it in person to have the confidence that it’s right.

This is also true for cabinets, flooring, lighting, etc.