Showing posts with label google. Show all posts
Showing posts with label google. Show all posts
Tuesday, February 05, 2019

How Alexa captured me as a customer and dragged me into the post smartphone era

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I can clearly remember when I knew I'd been captured by Garmin as a customer: it was when I bought their stupendously expensive Smart Sc...
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Friday, December 02, 2016

Review: Harmony Hub & Echo Dot

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I started writing this review of an Echo Dot , but realized that I couldn't really review it without the true reason for its presence in...
Friday, April 29, 2016

Review: Matterhorn

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My standard for Vietnam War books is The Things They Carried , by Tim O'Brien. But Matterhorn might very well replace that. Matterhorn ...
Monday, November 30, 2015

First Impressions: Sensi UP500W WiFi Programmable Thermostat

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I had a Hunter 44860 Thermostat that had been going strong for ages. While my wife repeatedly complained about the programming UI, the chea...
Friday, September 18, 2015

Indexing Google's Source Code

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I couldn't talk about this before, but now that Wired magazine has disclosed the size of Google's code base  (2 billion lines), I ca...
Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Interviewing and Performance

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Recently, someone asked me a deep question: we all know (and Google has the data ) that interviews do a poor job of predicting on-the-job pe...
Monday, October 06, 2014

Gaming the Coding Interview

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Paul Graham's essay on how you can't really game startups had me thinking about the coding interview. Google had a lot of studies s...
Thursday, September 18, 2014

Exploitation

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Google, Intel and Apple are appealing Lucy Koh's rejection of their settlement about the anti-poaching case. It's very hard to get ...
Monday, April 28, 2014

Review: Android Studio

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Since helping my wife with her Nutrition Tracker App, I'd had a chance to try both Eclipse and Android Studio for android app developm...
Wednesday, December 26, 2012

First Impressions: Republic Wireless Defy XT (Dual Band)

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My 2 year old Nexus One had started getting a flakey power button, so I was going to have to buy a new phone. While I was very happy at my ...
Monday, December 24, 2012

Frank Spychalski MIA in New Zealand

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Current Googler Frank Spychalski left for New Zealand in November and was supposed to show up at a friend's place in the last 2 weeks. ...
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Friday, October 12, 2012

Long Term Review: Nexus 7

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Well, 3 weeks isn't a very long time to write a long term review of the Nexus 7 unless, unfortunately, your device was a complete and u...
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Saturday, July 28, 2012

Review: Orange Internet Max (France)

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As a very cheap person and proud of it, I rarely run my Nexus One in data mode when I'm at home: I'm usually within wifi range, and ...
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Sunday, May 13, 2012

Sharing on G+: It doesn't always mean what you think it means

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Sharing on Google Plus has always bothered me, but it wasn't recently until I got a grasp on why it bugged me so much. Most of it is bec...
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Thursday, May 10, 2012

D&D at Google

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An Engineer's Guide to Silicon Valley Startups describes how I ended up joining Google because of a D&D Game I joined in late 2001...
Tuesday, May 01, 2012

Independent Cycle Touring at Google

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For bike to work week, I've agreed to reprise the Independent Cycle Touring in Europe presentation at Google's campus at HQ. It wil...
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Friday, February 03, 2012

A Surprising Change in Google+ Engagement

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In December, I wrote a piece about how Google+ engagement was surprisingly low , considering how many people followed me on Google+ versus F...
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Sunday, December 11, 2011

Referrals: Google Plus versus Facebook versus Quora

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I ran into this article where Google plus supporters claimed that all the estimates of Google plus usage are low. In other words, Google pl...
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Sunday, November 27, 2011

Review: I'm Feeling Lucky

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I never encountered Doug Edwards in person at Google, so when I'm Feeling Lucky hit the shelves, I took my time getting to it, since I ...
Sunday, November 06, 2011

Piaw's Feed Survey Results

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I want to thank everyone who took the time to fill out my Social Network News Survey . I was very curious to see how many people care enough...