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Blog by Googler
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Mirror, Mirror, on the wall, who’s the wokest of them all? - I spent most of my life in woke organizations, namely Harvard and Google. Both of those institutions have lots in common: both have very talented an...2 days ago
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Infinite Mac OS X - *tl;dr:* Infinite Mac can now run early Mac OS X, with 10.1 and 10.3 being the best supported versions. It’s not particularly snappy, but as someone who ...1 week ago
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Scapegoating Analysts | Recognizing & Preventing A Bad Idea. - Here’s a sign that you’ve arrived as an Analyst or an Analytics team: At the first sign of failure reported by the data, most people blame you (Analyst/D...1 year ago
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Viewing the world with mathematics - I have a very complex relationship with math. I minored in math but I was really bad at it, and my classmates were regularly running rings around me. My mi...2 years ago
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Review: The Body - A Guide for Occupants - I've bounced of a number of other Bill Bryson books before, so I approached The Body with low expectations. To my surprise I found myself reading the book ...5 years ago
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All the Fitbit activity badges - Fitbit has discontinued their Fitbit One step trackers, which seems like a good opportunity to step back and reflect on wearing one for the last decade or ...5 years ago
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Jaguar I-Pace first impressions - A mere three years after I got a ride in a prototype of the early Google self-driving cars, Elon Musk launched Tesla's autopilot. I'd experienced something...
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How I ended up writing opensnoop in pure C using eBPF - Hello friends, it's been awhile. I recently had the opportunity to do a deep dive on eBPF and I learned a lot in the process. There isn't a lot out there o...6 years ago
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Food Survey Made Easy - It's becoming a pretty difficult to dine together. Whether for business or for pleasure. More and more people have more particular food preferences: vegan,...
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Why Kotlin Is Better Than Whatever Dumb Language You're Using - Ah, clickbait. Where would the internet be without it? The answer will shock you! But seriously, I didn't mean to insult your favorite language… much. ...7 years ago
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Salmon: Super delicious & super-easy even for cooking n00bs! (#2 in “Cooking for the Lazy” series) - Tonight I ate some of the most delicious salmon EVER… and, just as gratifying, I made it! Total prep & cook time: under 10 minutes (seriously). Total co...8 years ago
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Therapy Session Who Even Knows: I Am vs. I Do - The fundamental human need for one human being to hear another human being say to them: “You are not alone. You are seen. I am with you. You are not alone....10 years ago
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The un-phonetic alphabet - Karl Fogel started this on the whiteboard in building 43 at Google in early 2006. The goal was to come up with an alphabet that, when used to spell out wor...10 years ago
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Learning colored pencils - Having studied and practiced basic drawing & portrait sketching in graphite for the last 8 months, I figured it was time to learn something about color. Pa...10 years ago
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Checkboxes that kill your product - A little historical baggage can be a dangerous thing when multiplied by a few hundred million individuals11 years ago
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Hello Microsoft! - On april 29th 2013, I joined Microsoft’s legendary Developer and Platform Evangelism team, where I will initially focus on the Enterprise market. I will re...11 years ago
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Ci sono ancora... - Ciao a tutti, ci sono, ci sono. Non sono sparito, anche se l'ultimo post è del 2011. Sto solo cercando una casa alternativa per il mio blog e provando nuov...12 years ago
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Moving to twitter - Not having time to maintain or update this site, I have disabled comments and created a Twitter account, beyondsatire, where you can follow me.13 years ago
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Protest Kiss, 10 years ago.... - Is kissing at protests a thing? From the 9/2001 IMF Protest in DC.
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Brain Slug Hat - Laura made me this Brain Slug hat as an early Christmas gift! I just wanted to share its awesomeness.
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Mammography Debate - When to Start Screening - At what age is it recommended for a woman to start routine mammograms: A. 40 years old B. 50 years old C. Neither A or B D. Both A and B. Until last year, t...14 years ago
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What the press is saying about the new Google Mobile App for Blackberry - Just a collection of links to different articles; probably I'll update it later. Meanwhile, let me enjoy my 15 minutes. CNET (Really in-depth): *Google ...14 years ago
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Mug Shot - sans open mouth - Loyal readers, you'll be pleased to know that I'm actually capable of taking a photo with my mouth closed. :-) We just launched a new website, where the ...14 years ago
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Don't Be Evil - So, [sorta] Health Care Reform actually really passed. A year of dithering, noise, misrepresentation, back-room dealing, and Deity knows what else, and now...15 years ago
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