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sleet··on U.S. tells Google computers can qualify as drivers
Reminds me of how Thomas Peterffy's engineering team skirted the rule that all trading orders had to be entered through the keyboard. They built a robot with rubber fingers that typed entries into the keyboard.

And thus high-speed trading was born.

sleet··on Copy-Pasting URLs from Google Search Can Leak Previous Searches
Workaround:

Change your omnibox search engine query to https://www.google.com/#q=%s (chrome terminology)

sleet··on Google Brain Residency Program
The very next sentence is:

> The residents are expected to read papers, work on research projects, and publish their work in top-tier venues.

My reading of that they're saying that the program has similar activities not that it provides a comparable outcome.

sleet··on Inside LAN Sync
Facebook use bittorrent as part of their deployment process, they exploit rack and cluster affinity to improve performance [1].

[1] https://facebook.com//download/1411324735760067/devops.pdf

sleet··on Pandora Acquires TicketFly for $450M
Perhaps they define usage based on time?

It seems reasonable that users would spend 1b/80m = 13 times the amount of time listening to music than they do interacting with Facebook.

sleet··on Google Nexus 5x and 6P
I replaced my Nexus 5 battery last night. It cost very little, took about 15mins and so far the battery life is looking great.

I followed this guide (without their tools): https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Nexus+5+Battery+Replacement/260...

sleet··on The Machard Knot and its 16-year-old inventor
The KISS principal is used outside of software engineering, I believe it was popularized by the US Navy.
sleet··on The Architecture of Morrisons OrderPad
I suspect thats its a custom tool set [1]

[1] http://martinfowler.com/bliki/Infodeck.html

sleet··on Are we at Peak Google?
The IBM Centennial Film [1] is a nice watch for anyone interested in the history of IBM.

[1] http://youtu.be/39jtNUGgmd4

sleet··on Firechat and nearby communication
Source code: https://github.com/servalproject

Activity: (1) https://github.com/servalproject/batphone/commits/developmen... (2) http://developer.servalproject.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=cont...

sleet··on How I Built It: Dropbox
Or this could only be for paid customers.

i.e. a folder shared by a paid customer does not consume space for anyone who joins it however a folder shared by a free customer does.

sleet··on Chrome SPDY indicator (extension)
chrome://net-internals/#spdy
sleet··on Open-source Dropbox alternative powered by Git
Unless you have pack-rat, in which case you have unlimited history: http://www.dropbox.com/help/113
sleet··on Dropbox: the new file system of the web
You can vote for it here: https://www.dropbox.com/votebox/5972/events-api
sleet··on The Government's $200,000 Useless Android Application
add an incentive to minimize expenses?
sleet··on No Accounting for Startups
I second xero, it's fantastic. Try before you buy, they have a demo company you can trial with before purchasing.
sleet··on Undo Send in Gmail
filters run
sleet··on Official Google Blog: Talk face-to-face right from within Gmail
Does anyone know what browsers are currently supported?
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