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Trey Harris has been shared in 56 public circles

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Ian Archibald18,384Circle of Google PlussersSo, I often get asked Who should I circle?  I say whomever strikes your interest. Find topics of interest and connect with those people who share that interest.I would very much like to share with you "my" circle of Plussers of whom I LOVE to engage with.  There are people in science, sports, networking, technology, comics, art and medicine found inside, and likely some others as well.  I've been spending the last couple years curating this list.I hope that you will connect with some of these folks!Have a great weekend everyone!﻿2014-02-15 01:16:53326182222CC G+
Ian Archibald18,384Google PlussersThis would be my circle of other awesome people who I have connected with over the past couple years here on Google+. Some awesome people here!As the cool kids say, These kids are dopeI don't take requests to add to this circle. To be added, engage with me, and the others here. You'll be noticed, trust me.﻿2014-01-27 23:35:29320222030CC G+
Justin Matthew13,422Justin's Circle Share....quick circle I put together of people that engage and provide content to keep your circles humming! 1. Plus The Post 2. Comment3. Add People To Circles4. Share The Circle!#sharedcircle   #topsharedcircle #circleoftheday #sharedcircle #trustinme   #circlesharing   #circleshare  #circles         #circleoftheday #sharedpubliccircles  #sharedcircles  #share   #vipsnowballcircle #sharedcircleoftheday  #sharewithyou               #followme  #followers #followback #circle #googleplus #coolpeople  #circleshare #sharedcircles #sharedcircle  #sharedcircles   #sharedpubliccircles  #circleshare #circlesharing #fullcircleshare﻿2013-12-17 03:07:5650011923CC G+
David Leonhardt13,584I built on the Sunday Circle by +Ian Archibald to spread it even further.Recommended:1. Plus the circle.2. Leave a comment3. Save the circle as one of your own circles (Click on "Add people" to do this).4. Share the circle as I am doing now (but don't forget to "Include yourself" when sharing).5. Get offline for a while, too.  :-).#circles   #circleshare   #sharedcircle   #circlesharing#followers #social #sharedcircles   #sharedpubliccircles  #circleshared    #sharedcircleoftheday #addmetoyourcircles   #awesomepeople   #circlecount  #newfollowers   #googleplus  ﻿2013-12-16 01:30:4323211213CC G+
Ian Archibald18,384Sunday Circle Share of Google PlussersThis is my top circle filled with some of the top Google Plussers, Engagers, and Educators.  You will also find some people you likely don't know, but should.You all know people like +Mike Allton +Michael Q Todd +Christine DeGraff and +Billy Funk who bring the awesome every day. But do you know +Rusty Ferguson +Milan Pavlovic +Steven Krohn +David Oldenburg or +Brandee Sweesy ?  All of whom are simply awesome people who have a lot of great content, and engage!.Add this circle to your own today.  If you have other Engagers, add them to the circle, share it out and tag me in your share. Always looking for more engagers!I would be honoured if you would +1, Comment and Share this circle.Hope you all have a fantastic week!!﻿2013-12-15 14:08:26229231931CC G+
Don Dobbie13,348#sharedcircles  ﻿2013-05-29 19:26:154863212CC G+
AyJay Schibig52,306ECLECTIC CIRCLEFeel free to add  and re-share. this  Eclectic Circle of  G Plussers! Circles I am curating:21ST CENTURY PHOTOGRAPHERS (1&2), ALL KINDS, DISCOVERY, FULL CIRCLE,SOCIAL, ECLECTIC,ENGAGERS, AWESOME, NEW HORIZONS and BOOST#circleoftheday   #circleshare   #circlesharing   #circlesharingforthepeopleplc   #sharedcircles   #sharedpubliccircles   #sharedcircleoftheday   #sharedcircleday   #publiccirclesproject   #publiccircles   #publicsharedcircles  #sharedpublicircles   #circle   #circles   #circlemeup  #awesomepeople   #awesomecircle   #circleme   #sharedpoint   #sharewithyou     #ShareYourCircle﻿2013-04-13 06:43:023024213CC G+
Justin Fournier1,731Tech Engage CircleHello Everyone just following the footsteps of +martin shervington  and attempting to circle share fully engaged circles with you.  Below I'm sharing a circle of definite Technology posters. If your new to this platform and needed a circle for sure fire tech news and help.  *Be sure to add and re-share this circle.*  Later Guys!﻿2013-03-10 16:15:55296516CC G+
AyJay Schibig52,306ECLECTIC CIRCLEFeel free to add  and re-share. this  Eclectic Circle of  G Plussers! #circleoftheday   #circleshare   #circlesharing   #circlesharingforthepeopleplc   #sharedcircles   #sharedpubliccircles   #sharedcircleoftheday   #sharedcircleday   #publiccirclesproject   #publiccircles   #publicsharedcircles  #sharedpublicircles   #circle   #circles   #circlemeup  #awesomepeople   #awesomecircle   #circleme   #sharedpoint   #sharewithyou ﻿2013-01-10 07:15:50257003CC G+
Cynthia Yildirim60,580New Google+ users might not have this circle yet of Google Employees on G+, I'm  not an employee, but going to include myself in the circle anyway. :D  #sharedcircles   #Google  2012-11-09 01:27:54213201CC G+
George Station49,835With the addition of +Google Cultural Institute as Number 100 this seems an excellent time for a fresh share of my Googlish Folks Circle.(Ah, round numbers in base 10! Thank you, Dogbert.)I note for the record:  Many others also enhance and improve my Google+ experience in specific interest areas such as "teaching & learning" or "social media and education." And I enjoy several very cool Circles that other fine G+ers have shared.But when I wonder "What Would G+ Do?" (which I'll bet does not quite align with what Google Proper would do)... I generally check the undamped, unfettered Stream of this Circle.2012-10-07 00:21:32100404CC G+
Tim Moore50,614My Go To Circle when I'm using +Google+ from my mobile --- which is a lot!IF you use +Google+ from your mobile device and want GREAT CONTENT, then this is a money circle for you.  All the guys and gals in here are fantastic and post very shareable items.Created for the circle when you want to reliably find and share great content quickly from your mobile!>>> Help your friends who may be new here to +Google+ - share this circle with them.  They will love you forever......... or at least until payday. :) #greatcontent   #sharing  +Shared Circles on G+ +Public Circles +CircleCount +Nothing but Circles  #sharedcircles   #circlesharing   #circleoftheday  +Shared a circle with you +Full Circle  #mobile  2012-10-02 19:10:48484703259CC G+
Tim Moore50,614My Shared Circle of the weekGooglers who are just #awesome . _Don't stalk, just talk, they won't bite_  #sharedcircles   #Google  2012-08-29 20:23:364492010CC G+
Tim Moore50,614My +Best Shared Circle of the week.These are my top quality +Google+ sharers.  I hope you find them as rewarding as I do.2012-08-08 15:57:01445451844CC G+
Kurt Smith59,902Google+ Power Users Circle ShareThis G+ Power Users group includes some really good people to follow and many whom will follow you back. Make sure you've got them in a circle. #sharedcircles   #sharedpubliccircles   #publiccircles   #publiccircleshare   #circleshare   #circlessharing  ﻿2012-07-28 17:08:3749918516CC G+
Tim Moore50,614Here is my #sharedcircleoftheday , it is around those who have helped directly with +Sparkstir or have inspired us in building it over the last year. These are not e-lebrities, but real people with vision on how to use +Google+ to help reach people globally with what they know and sharing it. We applaud them. We would also like to you join us - we've left plenty of room, so add yourself and pass it on to others anywhere in the world who want to help others increase their knowledge, quality of life and overall happiness and personal joy. #Sharedcircle   #sharedpubliccircles   #Sparkstir   #circleshare   #uniting   #circlesharing   #globalchange   #globalrevolution   #educationalresources   #education   #googleplus   #googlehangout   #hangouts   #peoplearoundus   #bettertogether  2012-07-10 14:52:1189929CC G+
Jessica Garcia (RealLipsMcgee)505I am not sure who originally shared this but I know I pulled it from +Chris Brogan. If you want to change Google+ from a ghost town to a party just follow the circle. 2012-07-07 20:23:22499429CC G+
Tim Moore50,614Hi friends,Here is my #sharedcircleoftheday  I wanted to share this circle with you of Top Google+ Sharers - They may not all be E-lebrities, but they have embraced our +Google+ community and consistently contribute great content and do engage with one another.This is a quality circle that I know could have more folks added to it , so please 1) Save this circle. 2) Add some of your favorite G+Sharers, 3) If you'd like to include yourself, check the box at the very bottom of the Share circle dialog box 'Include yourself in shared circle', *4) Share with the world.Have a wonderful Friday my friends!  #GooglePlus   #sharedcircle   #PayItForward  2012-07-06 17:13:42247221129CC G+
matthew rappaport185,761500 Active +Hangouters for you to Chat with and Get to know . . Again this is just Part I, you were not "omitted" by me, if you feel bad you didn'tmake this +Shared Circles on G+!I feel like I +mention ed all of you yesterday... still working on it..https://plus.google.com/111048918866742956374/posts/hYTZsRoWZje+Tom Samacicio for instance is in this circle and he's great.. CIRCLE UP!Ask him about CB Radios!+Pearl Lombardo is a lot of fun too.. CIRCLE HER (she calls SHENANIGANS a lot!)Happy 1st #PLUSversary  week to you all! #sharedcircles  Enjoy your FRIDAY and see some of you tomorrow with +Vivienne Gucwa leading the +The Google + One Year Anniversary Photowalk in Central Park tomorrow12012-06-29 20:33:37500414244CC G+
Alister Macintyre41,910Here by request of one of the people in it, is my main circle of people who share G+ Tips from time to time.  It includes both people who generate them, and people who use them.  Also see this other related circle. https://plus.google.com/u/0/108007903544513887227/posts/XfV7Xek2XK3  People are in one or the other or neither.  Drop me a comment if you want to be in one of these circles.2012-06-13 03:13:14184102CC G+
Arvid Bux54,689Curated circle with English profilesFor my upcoming eBook release, I have curated several circles. This one contains 219 profiles of people who post mostly in English. These people will spice up your stream with all kinds of content, being it news, photos, links, videos, you name it! Apologies when you are not in this circle. Curation is done manually and thus I can make mistakes! Feel free to leave a comment so I can add you and people might see it and add you!#sharedcircle2012-06-11 18:29:4521927911CC G+
Jaana Nyström492,203My 8 circles of Googlers!This is just the beginning...I have found out that even Google employees are not really connected on Google+... This must be remedied!For Google employeesSo after many gruelling hours of collecting people and sorting out the circles here are the results.I will start with Google 1 by Jaana and also notify all the people in the 8 circles WITH THE POST YOU'RE IN so that you may get connected if you wish.The circle in +CircleCount:  http://www.circlecount.com/sharedcircle/?id=z12wdxwjttr3xxo0u22celljpvm0wvzfsLook for the other 8 circles, they're coming up soon.EDIT:  One or two mistaken identities or job changes have come up in all the circles so far, sorry about that. #Google   #circleshare     #Jaanatip  2012-06-08 17:49:159422225CC G+
Michael Kendle (doeiqts)1,389Here's a circle of tech people. The circle is bigger but only lets me share 500. If you're interested in tech, this is a good place to start.2012-06-07 13:57:05501115CC G+
Robert Pitt31,619[CIRCLE]Thought I would share my Googlers circle, enjoy and make sure you give feedback to these guys :)2012-04-16 19:51:00222114CC G+
Alister Macintyre41,910+rahul roy Here is my main G+ circle for G+ Tips. it includes both sources of tips, and people who like to receive them. I have not posted many tips recently, but if people are struggling with something, ask, and maybe we can help.2012-02-27 23:47:31179113CC G+
Chris Lang46,178+Michael Q Todd Suggested I share this circle as THE G+ Power Users Circle So Here Tis, The People That Bring Me The News I Need On G+That's the people I follow every day. Some of the IM profiles like +Ryan Lee and +Ryan Deiss are not active publicly. But the are the multi millionaires that dominate my world so there are in the circle.Lot's of just plain good peeps like +John Hardy and +Jannik Lindquist that usually disagree with me but have very good viewpoints on Google and the web.2012-01-16 22:09:3637013510CC G+
Stephanie L Davis90,938I was asked by #SMMCamp attendees to share my "Googlers" circle. These are people who work for Google; community managers, engineers, developers, free-lancers; staff... etc. Cheers!2011-12-08 20:06:303648513CC G+
Jaana Nyström492,203All Googlers CircleThis is my Googlesphere with people and Pages: Did I miss someone?Their posts are not all about Google, but about life and stuff, too! :-)Did not include myself... Oh how I wish I could! Hahhahaaa! *wink *wink2011-12-03 15:10:281711238CC G+
Alister Macintyre41,910This is my Google Workers circle which I am re-sharing with Shared Circles on G+ page. These are people who are employed by the Google company. Some of them talk about the company's products, but most are just interesting people.2011-11-14 03:10:13168131CC G+
Kris Courtney4,238A great collection of talent - Bless you ...Kris Courtney shared a circle with you.2011-10-19 16:40:43475001CC G+
David Williams3,135GooglersDavid Williams shared a circle with you.2011-10-16 19:56:53344104CC G+
Jon Bishop8,707Google employees circleJon Bishop shared a circle with you.2011-10-16 18:52:12234001CC G+
J Grynd21,026G+ Google EmployeesPLEASE HELP ME BUILD MY CIRCLEJ Grynd shared a circle with you.2011-10-14 15:27:56471102CC G+
Alister Macintyre41,910Here is my circle of G+ TIPS = both people who share them, and who like to receive them. I have a smaller related circle, which I will share in a moment. (Check my profile, since I might not do precisely same circles of delivery.)I added some people to main circle because they were apparently new to G+, asking a lot of questions.Also see comments explanation which I am about to add.Alister Macintyre shared a circle with you.2011-10-08 17:51:181521304CC G+
Paul Anthony1,756A collection of Googlers! The ability to share circles now is well smart.Paul Anthony shared a circle with you.2011-09-29 22:21:05250101CC G+
Scott Husted478My circle of Googlers.Scott Husted shared a circle with you.2011-09-27 18:19:17133000CC G+



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2014-02-22 20:00:21 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)


2014-02-12 17:12:13 (12 comments, 1 reshares, 3 +1s)

I need a mnemonic to help me remember how #Markdown  does text links, I can never seem to remember if it's:
1. (text here)[url here]
2. [url here](text here)
3. [text here](url here)
4. [url here](text here)

(For the record, it's #3.) ﻿

2014-02-02 18:59:50 (2 comments, 1 reshares, 7 +1s)

Forget the Super Bowl, I'm looking to February 14. We have:
• House of Cards season 2
• The Last of Us: Left Behind
• oh, and something called "Valentine's Day".
It's going to be a day of tough, tough choices for some of us.﻿

2014-01-24 15:46:13 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

Just got my first work spam at the new job. A simultaneous email and  voice mail sales pitch from the same guy, selling performance monitoring hardware. He said they "do extensive business with Google".

I think he must mean that they buy a lot of AdWords.﻿

2014-01-20 18:20:48 (15 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

What's the most useful command-line (Unix) tools people have found for extracting stuff from HTML documents? For instance, I have a big HTML file where I want to get all the text inside <a>'s inside <td>'s inside <tr>'s that are in class "Name", with each text entity output on a separate line. I know of several libraries that would let me quickly write a program to do it in various languages, but since it's just an ad-hoc requirement and I know there are CLI's for that too, I think it's time that I learned one of them. What might y'all recommend?﻿

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2014-01-20 16:46:36 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 14 +1s)

The hover-text: 'Automating' comes from the roots 'auto-' meaning 'self-', and 'mating', meaning 'screwing'.

Most of my career my job title or group has included the word "automation", so I can identify with this. I have a couple of observations:

1. The most awful form of the second graph tends to come about when I decide, not just to automate something for myself or for my group, but to open-source it or make it useful for a whole large company. The desire to generalize, to be responsive to people who have needs entirely divorced from your own, to document, to make things pretty; that's where the workload for "automating one little thing" explodes.

2. In one of my earliest jobs, I had a coworker who liked to script everything, but I used to joke that he didn't know how to write the outer loop: he'd... more »

2014-01-20 16:23:14 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 0 +1s)

On CNN yesterday, Haley Barbour threw out the possibility that Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer could have faked contemporaneous journal entries about her confrontation with NJ Lt. Gov. Guadagno.

I believe the forensics is very good on telling the time since ink was put down on paper on the time scale we're dealing with here.

From what I can discern from some time spent reading journal articles (forensics is fun!), May of last year is right at about the boundary point when ballpoint ink (which is what it looked like to me) in inner leaves of a notebook fully dries, making it more difficult to distinguish, say, ink put down ten months ago from ink put down sixteen months ago. But it should be pretty easy to tell whether Mayor Zimmer wrote these journal entries in May or more recently than that.﻿

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2014-01-15 16:27:16 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Hah! When did you start getting a custom birthday doodle? I don't remember it from last year....﻿

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2014-01-14 19:04:15 (12 comments, 0 reshares, 44 +1s)

I'm pleased to announce that as of this week, I am beginning a new position in infrastructure engineering R&D at Bloomberg.

I've written before about how I evaluate a job prospect (specifically about why compensation is only fourth or fifth on my list of priorities). My #1 criteria is the work itself. While I can't get into much detail on that, I'm excited about what I'm going to be working on (at least, what I know about so far!). Among other things, I'll be working on components of the Bloomberg open source stack (see https://github.com/bloomberg if you're interested in seeing some of the source code). I'm looking forward to possibly having the chance to continue working on developer git training, as I did at Google and my job before that.

My #2 criteria is what the company does; does it have some purpose in the community and world? As... more »

2014-01-11 17:57:15 (12 comments, 1 reshares, 2 +1s)

Check me here: I learned the rule for significant figures when doing multiplication or division was that the answer had the same number of significant figures as the lowest significant figures among the terms. So 3.2 * 8.086 = 26, not 25.9 or 25.88.

So if you're talking about proportions in percentage terms, it would seem to me that if you have 4 out of 12, you have 30%, 40 out of 120, 33%, 400 out of 1200, 33.3%, and so on. Is that correct, or is there a different rule for this that I can't find?

I ask just because I ran into one of those amusing cases where percentages of answers to a survey of a relatively small group was expressed with a ridiculous number of significant figures, like 40 out of 120 being expressed as 33.3333333%. When you're dealing with statistical sampling, margin of error also gives you the answer to the number of significant figures, but when... more »

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2014-01-10 20:27:26 (10 comments, 4 reshares, 7 +1s)

Interesting... I got a slightly different message from the Gmail team about the new email integration than others I've seen: Because you have a lot of followers on Google+, only people in your circles can contact you by default. See the screenshot.

I have a bit over 18,000 followers. What does the cutoff seem to be for getting this tweaked default, rather than the default default? ﻿

2014-01-10 20:11:45 (9 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Since yesterday I have a sore throat and laryngitis that's most likely strep. A half hour ago took an antibiotic (amoxicillin), a chest congestion loosener (guaifenesin), and a nasal decongestant (pseudoephedrine). All the lowest recommended doses.

... and I am flying. I don't think I've ever been this high on a legal substance aside from alcohol. Unless I'm missing it, the PDR doesn't list any particularly unusual interactions between these, so I wonder if it's an idiosyncratic reaction (weird, because I've taken all three of those drugs before) or some other weirdness. (No, I didn't wash the pills down with a vodka chaser.)﻿

2014-01-10 18:16:11 (31 comments, 3 reshares, 10 +1s)

To those of you, um, <cough> Keynesian-skeptics I've engaged with in comment threads over the years (yes, years; my first G+ post on macro was in mid-2011), let me ask y'all something that's been bothering me.

I don't want to paint too broad a brush of all anti-Keynesians, but most I've interacted with here have been basically Austrian-school, "austerian", hard money, reduced-regulation, lower-taxation proponents. Subtract the hard money bit and you basically get the more conservative ideology [Add: oops, sorry] economic program of the Republican party, especially the Tea Party (and many Tea Partiers are hard money proponents).

Here's what bothers me: if I understand correctly, you believe that the Great Recession, the ongoing financial crisis, the high unemployment, the lackluster growth, etc., could be alleviated through a program ofre... more »

2014-01-09 20:06:22 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

One of those "only in New York" oddities: You know those advertisement-festooned plastic bars that supermarkets provide to separate one person's groceries on the checkout conveyer belt from another's? We have them here, too, and they're the same size as the ones found anywhere else—but the conveyer belts themselves are narrower in NYC.

So the dividers don't fit if you try to place them straight across the conveyer belt. When the conveyer belt moves, the divider gets wedged ahead of the electric eye, so the belt runs constantly, forcing groceries into the divider and dumping them onto the floor. New Yorkers are used to this; we just put the divider down at an angle so it can ride on the belt, and stop the belt when it reaches the front.

But it seems like there's always someone in line behind you who straightens the thing after you put it down at anangl... more »

2014-01-09 19:14:23 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 13 +1s)

A clarification to yesterday's universal basic income post: the post was pretty massively reshared, and dipping into various comment threads, I see one point I'd consider a complete distraction coming up repeatedly: basically, a fixation on my example of toilet cleaning. Whee! Let's try to respond to this mass of confusion, point by point:

First: my jumping-off point for the post was Megyn Kelly's question, "who will clean the toilets?" I work with the material I have. If she had asked, "who will work in salt mines?", I would have discussed salt mining; "who will clean the septic tanks?", septic tank cleaning; "who will get my coffee?", Fox News interns. In no way was I claiming that cleaning toilets is the worst or most degrading job I can imagine. I was just using an example handed to me and running with it.

Second: some... more »

2014-01-09 18:14:48 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

I think Gov. Chris Christie handled himself as well as he could in the press conference that just wrapped up. He struck the right tone; apologized without reservation; said he'd fired deputy chief of staff Bridget Kelly and withdrawn former campaign manager Bill Stepian's nomination to head the New Jersey Republican party; said he'd cooperate with investigations, and apologized for mocking those investigation up to this point. He took reporters' questions for well over ninety minutes and answered them directly—no walking out without questions and none of the petulant reporter-mocking he's famous for. He repeatedly said "I'm sorry" directly to reporters he called on whom he'd mocked on this story in the past.

Christie offered unconditional assurance that he had no knowledge whatsoever of this scheme and he didn't encourage activity like this. When ar... more »

2014-01-09 15:59:30 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Very interested in Gov. Chris Christie's press conference in a few minutes. I was reading this story in the Bergen County Record and seeing it on Rachel Maddow months ago, and at times it seemed to me like the media watchers on the right who claim Maddow's in a reality distortion bubble of her own could actually be onto something. I mean, really. Gov. Christie may have a rep as a bully, but disrupting traffic, on the busiest bridge in the world, as petty retribution against an opposition-party mayor who won't endorse you when you're up SEVENTY POINTS? I really thought Rachel was just titillating her audience with a too-rich story.

But. After yesterday's emails and texts. Wow. Let's take it as read at the moment that Christie had no knowledge of the things his staff did, and that he did not even indirectly, with "plausible deniability", imply he wanted them done.... more »

2014-01-08 19:43:59 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Mac OS X font selection

My preferred fonts for Emacs are ones that are not built-in to OS X, so I'd like my startup to select the first one in a list that is available on the machine. Falling back to a guaranteed font isn't a problem: Monaco is set as the default fontset, so if I set my preferred font as the startup fontset, if it can't set anything, I'll get Monaco.

So what I'm doing now is creating a list of my preferred fonts ("Liberation Mono", "Menlo", "QuickType", "DejaVu Sans Mono"), creating a list of fonts on the system using (font-family-list), and iterating through the first checking for members in the second, and when I find one selecting it as the default fontset family.

Is there a smarter way to go about this? (Note, I am not using X, so the well-documented solutions to this using X are... more »

2014-01-08 18:44:37 (95 comments, 30 reshares, 43 +1s)

Several times now I've seen clips of Megyn Kelly of Fox News, in discussing a universal basic income (UBI), demanding, "who will clean the toilets?" I wonder whether she realizes what an interesting meditation her question is on the need for regulation in promoting truly free markets, and what that says about the necessary regulation of truly free labor markets.

If we go back to Micro 101, Adam Smith, the law of supply and demand, and all that, and imagine that we have a demand—clean toilets—and a supply—workers who are capable of cleaning said toilets—how does a free market address that?

In the truly unfettered market, we must balance the fact that cleaning toilets is unpleasant with the fact that it is necessary. Hence, one would imagine, cleaning toilets would be a job that would be paid relatively well when compared to other menial but more-pleasant tasks,like, s... more »

2014-01-07 20:25:08 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Huh... I just made a Google Takeout (https://www.google.com/settings/takeout/custom) archive of my Google+ stream, because I wanted to search for an old post I couldn't find with a normal web search.

It appears that the HTML files in the archive don't give you the URL's of the extracted posts. So I could find the post in question, but then I still had to web search to find the post in context. Weird.﻿

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2014-01-07 20:20:19 (8 comments, 1 reshares, 10 +1s)

A #chrometip : if you're like me, you often return frequently to sites you don't have bookmarked, relying on Chrome to autocomplete the URL in the omnibox. For instance, to get my Weather Underground forecast, I just open a new tab and type "wun", and Chrome helpfully fills in "http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=10014".

But sometimes, because of the algorithm it uses, Chrome seems to "prefer" a URL that's "too-specific". For instance, I once chose a particular weather station from the above URL, which glommed on another parameter, which Chrome gladly recorded and filled in from then on whenever I typed "wun". But then that weather station went offline, so when I typed "wun", it would give me a URL that wouldn't work, so—if I didn't know the trick I'm about to give you—I'dhav... more »

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2014-01-06 20:34:06 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

On the +Slate Political Gabfest this week, +David Plotz had a great idea for a political version of the road-trip "license plate game": try to collect license plates from states with enough electoral votes to get to 270.

I'd suggest some variations: on a really long road trip, rather than making it a collective endeavor for all the passengers, you could split into two teams and make it a competition to see who gets to 270 first. For a shorter road trip, allow overlap: if Team Blue bags a California license plate for 55 votes, Team Red can spy a different California plate to collect 55 votes of their own.

For the real political history wonks, see who can first find all the states won by a major presidential candidate in a particular election. Disqualify any candidate who won less than 10 states (sorry, Mondale and Dukakis).

Or, for a shorter but more cutthroatg... more »

2014-01-05 19:46:52 (25 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

My boyfriend just complained to me that, selecting a phone number to text from a contact card on his Nexus 5, he got a "service blocked" error. It turned out the card was launching Hangouts, which seems to be trying to send the SMS directly from the phone, but we don't have text service—we use Google Voice for that.

I went into the Settings → Apps → All → Hangouts and tapped "Clear defaults", then tried the contact card again; it still launched Hangouts instead of giving me the choice to launch Google Voice. I also tried going into Settings → Wireless & networks → More... → Default SMS app, which was set to Hangouts, but Google Voice doesn't appear as an option.

Even weirder, on my Nexus 7, which definitely was setup to text using Google Voice under Jelly Bean, now under KitKat the text option doesn't even show up in contact cards!
I'm... more »

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2014-01-05 17:52:33 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Update: Thanks to +Sean Rees, I fixed it. Running "sudo killall -TERM coreaudiod" did the trick.

This no-sound problem's been sporadically happening to me, but this article's suggested "fix"—replacing the Pepper Flash player with the Adobe one—doesn't particularly appeal to me. Is there another way to kick it into reinitializing audio? I think there used to be a Pepper process in the process table you could kill, but I don't see it anymore, and disabling/re-enabling in chrome://plugins doesn't fix it.﻿

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2014-01-03 18:15:17 (19 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

My question is, what keyboard is a) Mac-compatible, meaning it has three four or five mod keys, and b) isn't so loud it drives your officemates up the wall? I have an IBM Model M, but it fails on both counts—and on some computers, for some reason a PS/2-to-USB adapter just doesn't work with it.﻿

2014-01-03 15:47:28 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Poor Dante de Blasio... they showed him, live, shoveling snow from his walk. One of the anchors (WNBC) asked the reporter to ask Dante if he realized how many people were watching him shovel snow right that moment, and in a refreshing moment of self-reflection, the reporter instead backed the cameraman up so he could show the thirty other cameras all crushed lens-to-lens against the de Blasio's fence and said, "hey, media, say hello to NBC New York!"

A few minutes later, the anchors announced they wanted to show a press statement by the school's chancellor, and after an awkward moment of the anchors staring silently at the cameras, the video cut in... of Dante shoveling the walk. "Oh, that's not the video of the chancellor, obviously, but let's look at this, that's the mayor's son, shoveling his walk..." thunk﻿

2014-01-03 14:59:48 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

Watching the "oh my god it's snoooooowy!" coverage on the local news, and wondering: when did they start having reporters doing live reports from smartphones (or maybe tablets), flicking between the front-facing and rear-facing cameras? Is it just an emergency contingency, or is that common these days? And what is it about front-facing cameras that even broadcast news reporters can't manage to make eye contact?﻿

2014-01-02 20:30:34 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

In OS X Mavericks, can you manually add to the list of authorized unsigned apps? I'm trying to install a driver that has a rather convoluted installation process where the installer calls an application which calls a set of applications within its bundle. I can make the first application run by choosing "Open" from the context menu, but I can't make the remaining apps open, I just get the unsigned app warning.

(I can, of course, disable application checking, install this, and then re-enable it. I'm just wondering if there's a way for me to do it without dropping security checks in the meantime.)﻿

2014-01-02 17:46:54 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

My hallway light just burnt out, and so I put in a ticket with my building¹. Submitting the ticket, it took me to a ticket history page. I've been in this apartment for many years, and here's what I saw:

01/02/14 — New Request                     — Lightbulb in apartment
01/24/13 — Resolved (January 29th, 2013)   — Lightbulb in apartment
10/05/11 — Resolved (October 7th, 2011)    — Lightbulb in apartment
09/19/11 — Resolved (September 21st, 2011) — Lightbulb in apartment
08/18/11 — Resolved (August 19th, 2011)    — Lightbulb in apartment
07/17/11 — Resolved (July 23rd, 2011)      — Lightbulb in apartment
06/13/11 — Resolved (June 15th, 2011)      — Lightbulb in apartment
09/09/10 — Resolved (September 13th, 2011) — Lightbulb in apartment
08/09/10 — Resolved (August 10th, 2010)    —Lightbulb in apartment
07/05/10 — Resolved (July 9th, ... more »

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2014-01-01 19:02:39 (9 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Cleaning out some of my half-written posts from 2013, I found this one, which jumped out of me following a recent post by +Pat Gunn:

When I read Contact for the first time, I was in high school, but I distinctly remember pondering this. Even then, I figured that π must contain in its digits every possible message. But I also figured Carl Sagan knew this too, and so what I thought he meant was "a message appears so early in the digits that the probability of it occurring there by chance was essentially zero."

But is that mathematically a meaningful statement? Or is any given message equally likely to appear in any string of digits, so there can be no notion of finding one "especially early"? Was I (am I) a victim of the gambler's fallacy?

(I liked to play with thought experiments like this as a kid, and I've found I generally have a lot oftr... more »

2014-01-01 07:29:10 (9 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

It always seems somehow faintly ridiculous to me that, once a year, I tune in to a Major Televised Event happening less than 150 m away. (Especially amusing is to find out exactly how long the Kathy Griffin delay is on CNN—this year, I heard the roar outside my deck about six seconds before "the clock struck midnight" on the teevee. I'm about a second by speed of sound away from the ball, if you consider the sound's having to echo around buildings rather than make a straight line. So: she doesn't even need more than the standard seven second delay, apparently, who would've thought?)

But what am I going to do, step out of my building on New Year's Eve? You've got to be joking. (Theoretically, with proof of Times Square residency, I can move about the neighborhood freely. But in practice, fuggedaboutit.)﻿

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2013-12-31 21:22:32 (5 comments, 2 reshares, 3 +1s)

Uhh... this just showed up in the recommended sidebar on YouTube, so I clicked it to figure out what the trick was. (I was imagining using some common household item as an inline resistor.) As far as I can tell, there isn't a trick; he's not "testing" the battery at all (except insofar as he's checking its manufacture quality, regardless of the capacity of its charge). I suppose a truly dead battery wouldn't register correctly, but any battery with usable charge would register at the rated voltage, no?

I've often wondered why multimeters don't have a small stepped resistor (or even a rheostat) for this purpose; then I just searched Amazon for such a thing and found it was pretty common, usually marked with "load test", "battery test", or a power source symbol. So obvious, I wonder why I've never noticed this on multimeters before.﻿

2013-12-31 19:58:39 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

calc units confusion: temperature intervals and exponentiated units

I frequently do "inline text unit conversion"¹ using an interval or error expression. For example, if I want to find out how to express "300 miles" with one significant digit, I might do:
'300 +/- 50 mi <return>
u c km <return>
in order to get the result (482.8032e0 +/- 80.4672e0) km, which I can see is equivalent to 500 km with a single digit precision. Sometimes it's easier to use an interval than an error expression, but it works the same:
[ ' 250 mi<return>
'350 mi<return>
u c km<return>
= [402.336e0 km .. 563.2704e0 km)

The problem is with trying to do a temperature conversion. It works fine with 'u c' for relative temperature conversion, in order to find out that Δ36.8 ± 0.4 °Cis e... more »

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2013-12-31 18:16:51 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

I'm generally skeptical of those claiming "swatting" by aggrieved unidentified... individuals¹, but this one seems to be legitimate from what I can tell.

I must admit I'm usually skeptical because it's just too troubling to contemplate how easy stories like this make it seem to be to ruin an innocent person's life with one anonymous call to the police. I fear my head's stuck in the sand, though.

¹ I hesitate to dignify or pigeon-hole them with terms like "black hats", "hackers", "DDOSers", "trolls", etc.﻿

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2013-12-30 21:06:53 (16 comments, 7 reshares, 19 +1s)

It amazes me that, even though I was first introduced to the idea over 15 years ago by someone I went to school with¹, the proposition that there are serious flaws in the very concept of "journalistic objectivity" remains a novel idea today, even to a lot of journalists.

It seems to me that reporters are finally coming around to the position that "she said, he said" reporting is not required—and is, in fact, reprehensible—when reporting facts that some political group denies. Still, when the topic is particularly hot-button (such as climate change and evolution), they're usually loathe to quote a prominent denier and follow with the simple statement, "this is false."

But, as Brendan Nyhan writes here, there's still a really unfortunate tendency to presume "centrism" means "positions closer to the truth than either party'sposit... more »

2013-12-30 18:01:08 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Like an idiot, I forgot to make sure my Nexus 5 bootloader was unlocked before I started using it, and I only just needed to do something with it unlocked.

Since unlocking is going to wipe it, what's the most complete backup I can do without root? (I don't care about backing up stuff that is synced, just stuff that isn't.)﻿

2013-12-29 18:18:05 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)

In 2014, I resolve not to circle people just because I find their profile photos attractive. (Key word, just.)

#newyearsresolution  ﻿

2013-12-29 18:16:38 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 0 +1s)

Thinking about doing a DIY movie double-feature... anyone have a good rule of thumb for how long to add to runtimes to allow for previews so we can time the following show correctly? My gut says 15 minutes, but I realize this is one of those sensory bias things that could be wildly off.

(And, no, the two films are at two different theaters across the street from one another, so we can't easily just purchase a ticket for one showing and sneak into a later one if necessary.)﻿

2013-12-28 17:58:18 (14 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Okay, last #DoctorWho  geek-out until the series 8 premiere, I promise... But I just re-watched Steven Moffat's series 4 two-parter "Silence in the Library"/"Forest of the Dead", in which we're introduced to River Song, and was struck by how strongly it affected me now, after having seen "The Time of the Doctor". I'd be curious if others have watched those two episodes since and were similarly affected.

I read a lot of snap G+ responses to "The Time of the Doctor" and noticed how many people mentioned waterworks aplenty during the Eleven/Twelve regeneration scene. But I just thought it was brilliant and sweet. I didn't tear up, I didn't even choke up. 

I think my reaction, which was so different to David Tennant's swang song, was due to a lot of factors: having had so long to mull over the choice of Peter Capaldi,s... more »

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2013-12-26 19:15:22 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 8 +1s)

+Susan Dennis brought my attention to this strange feature mismatch on Android:

She was editing a text document in Drive and found it didn't have a spell checker.

Someone else told her that the spell check option was available via the overflow menu (the three dots in many Android toolbars). She said she didn't have an overflow menu. With some tinkering, she figured out that if the document was a Word .doc document, she got the overflow menu and the spell checking, but otherwise she didn't. Strange, huh?

Having tried it myself I see what's going on. Most Android devices ship with Quickoffice, the freeware (but closed-source) app for viewing and editing MS Office-formatted documents. See the middle picture below; when I tap a .doc file, I get a dialog asking if I want to open it with Quickoffice or with Cloud Print.

I'll bet Susan and the person... more »

2013-12-26 17:38:13 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 2 +1s)

#doctorwho (Spoiler-free, unless you consider being told about what loose ends are tied up, without being told how they're tied up, to be a spoiler.)

So after last night, the only Matt Smith-era mystery that I think remains unsolved: how did River Song not realize, when she saw David Tenant's Doctor in the library (and, definitely, when she heard Donna Noble's name), that this Doctor didn't know her and, ultimately, this was her death? Since the Doctor's second meeting with River was after regenerating into Matt Smith, unless some timey-wimey shenanigans are going on, River had never met that Doctor before.

She said she had a "spotter's guide" to the Doctor's faces, so she can presumably now show up from time to time and recognize any post-Eleven regeneration, but it's hard to believe she would have knowledge of all the faces but wouldn't... more »

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2013-12-25 14:28:09 (8 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

Oh noes! Doctors are going to start beheading us! Probably in our sleep!﻿

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2013-12-25 14:18:52 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 0 +1s)

I can't say I have any experience of what car-service surge pricing actually feels like. I'm pretty tolerant of the indignities of the subway, and even late nights or weekends I always have something to read on my phone, and so I'm willing to wait in order to pay one-tenth or less for my trip home.

About the only time I hail a cab is when I'm running late for an inconvenient crosstown trip, have unwieldy packages (though it's amazing how often delivery fees are less than a cab ride would be!), or am stumbling out of a Brooklyn establishment having had one too many. I used to use car services to get to and from the airport, but Newark and JFK are easier by transit now.

I got a promotional credit when I signed up with Uber and never even used that; forget the surge prices, the regular prices seemed kind of ridiculous when there were other reasonable options... more »

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2013-12-23 18:33:46 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

Totally weird... last night, I dreamt I met Kalashnikov, and he showed me the advantages of his design compared to the M-16.

I woke up, amused at my manifestation of the common "dream fluency" phenomenon, where in my dream I could speak and understand technical Russian much better than I really can. (I specifically looked up the declension after waking to see whether the instrumental "with a Kalashnikov rifle" really was автома́том Кала́шникова, aftomatom Kalashnikova; it was!)

Then a few hours after I woke up, this news breaks. I don't typically dream about weapon designers, Russian or otherwise, so this honestly has me a bit creeped out.

(I'm sure I saw something in the corner of my eye recently about Mikhail Timofeyovich's serious condition on a news crawl or on a newspaper someone was reading in the subway orsomething and my subcon... more »

2013-12-22 19:15:15 (5 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

speedbar in same frame?

I typically use GNU Emacs (24) in fullscreen mode on my Mac; that creates a single fullscreen frame. If Emacs tries to open a new frame, that causes a new desktop screen to be instantiated, so it isn't possible to see two frames at once on a fullscreen desktop¹. That makes speedbar in its default new-frame mode pretty useless.

http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SpeedBar#toc1 has a number of examples of ways to try to get speedbar to not create a separate frame, but none of them are working for me. Does anyone have a working configuration on Mac they could share?

¹ Unless you have two monitors configured to manage fullscreen apps separately.﻿

2013-12-21 21:29:04 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 6 +1s)

Before leaving for the Christmas holiday, Rep. Paul Ryan and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell both put it on the record that, having passed a budget deal preventing another government shutdown next year, they intend to use the debt ceiling to extract concessions from the President. (The debt limit under current law will be reached in February.) Here we go again....

In polls, people who favor breaching the debt ceiling also claim to be in favor of government fiscal responsibility. So either a) they're being disingenuous when they claim the fiscal responsibility mantle, or b) they don't understand what the debt ceiling is. While there are some people who fall into the first category (many of whom work on Capitol Hill), there are enough in the second category that I still hold hope against hope that we'll somehow find a way to explain the debt ceiling that clarifies how... more »

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2013-12-21 20:04:36 (10 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

J. +Bryan Lowder articulates a nagging feeling I've long had but been unable to put into words. I can't help but think the wishy-washiness of so many celebrities' coming-out announcements must lead some in the public to imagine sexual orientation is like being vegan or something.

Of course it's a wonderful development that coming out is no longer the bombshell it once was. But it's still, to paraphrase Joe Biden, a Big Something Deal. Minimizing it in the same breath in which you publicize it doesn't do anyone any good, and it sends the implicit message that one's homosexuality is still a slightly shameful character trait.

(Imagine an African American celebrity saying, "being black is a small, small part of who I am." I don't think it would come off as trying to highlight one's achievements as bigger than race; instead, it would seem to... more »

2013-12-21 17:43:47 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Hah! Last night Rachel Maddow blasted Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), chairman of the House Oversight Committee, for selectively leaking confidential documents given to the committee repeatedly—to the point that the Department of Health and Human Services has warned the committee it will not be turning over any more confidential documents without a subpoena because so many have been leaked.

The selectivity has been so egregious that Maddow joked that, if Issa leaked the transcript of the Gettysburg Address, it would be the following shocking exposé: "1) Four... men... conceived, and... gave... birth; 2) ... and... Now... The world will... perish."﻿

2013-12-21 17:26:38 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 1 +1s)

Anyone want to suggest a good refresher for Ruby? I picked up my old Ruby books and they're too slow, I went back to my old Ruby code and I'm a bit lost on the idioms and specifics. A comprehensive but short tour, especially one that can catch me up on what's happened in Ruby in the past five or six years, would be exactly what I'm looking for; something like the first section of Programming Perl or Learn You a Haskell. (Note: not Rails. Ruby.)﻿

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2013-12-21 17:18:22 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

#GoogleCrossword solved in 0:13:40﻿


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