Randon ASCII

MARCH 30, 2020

As always, this blog is mine and I do not speak for Google. The color coding scheme (and the basis of my graphing code) that I used in my plots comes from this excellent 2012 post by thakis. is designed to give a twenty line summary of where time went in a ninja build. I learned how to use d3.js These are my opinions.

C++ 87

C++ Code Open Source Programming 87

O'Reilly

JULY 25, 2023

To provide some coherence to the music, I decided to use Taylor Swift songs since her discography covers the time span of most papers that I typically read: Her main albums were released in 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017, 2019, 2020, and 2022. This choice also inspired me to call my project Swift Papers.

Programming 98

Programming Code Design Benchmarking 98

Alex Russell

JULY 14, 2021

Google's Search App and Facebook's various apps for Android undermine these choices in slightly different ways. [3] Developers also suffer higher costs and reduced opportunities to escape Google, Facebook, and Apple's walled gardens. Et Tu, Google? #. For a browser to serve as the user's agent, it must also receive navigations.

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Google Mobile Engineering Internet 121

Alex Russell

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

In leaner years (2012-2015), a single Fall release was all we'd get. This lack of transparency is by design and provides Apple deniability while simultaneously setting low expectations, making them easier to exceed. Two releases per year meant that, for a decade, progress on WebKit bugs was a roulette that developers lost by default.

Energy 79

Energy Games Engineering Design 79

Smashing Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2021

On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. CSS is designed to not lose content, to not cause harm. Another common trigger for overflow has to do with one of the recognized mistakes in the design of CSS by the CSS Working Group. More after jump! With Carie Fisher, Stefan Baumgartner and so many others. Jump to online workshops ?.

Design 145

Design Availability Mobile Website 145

O'Reilly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

” There’s as much Keras, TensorFlow, and Torch today as there was Hadoop back in 2010-2012. Between Google (Vertex AI and Colab) and Amazon (SageMaker), you can now get all of the GPU power your credit card can handle. Google goes a step further in offering compute instances with its specialized TPU hardware.

Hardware 99

Hardware Storage Big Data Blockchain 99

Alex Russell

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Therefore, with my deep and enthusiastic support, Google has nominated Alice Boxhall in the current election. Back in 2012, a slate of reformers (including myself) ran with a few goals in mind: Refocusing the group on the APIs that most impacted web developers; namely DOM, CSS, and interaction with JS.

Logistics 40

Logistics Google Government Design 40

Alex Russell

MARCH 6, 2021

The cheapest (high volume) Androids perform like 2012/2013 iPhones, respectively. If those specs sound eerily familiar, it's perhaps because they're identical to 2016's $200USD Moto G4 , all the way down to the 2011-vintage 28nm SoC process node used to fab the chip's anemic, 2012-vintage A53 cores. Tap for a larger version.

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Tim Kadlec

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

…we love Pointer Events because they support all of the common input devices today – mouse, pen/stylus, and fingers – but they’re also designed in such a way that future devices can easily be added, and existing code will automatically support the new device. To quote Jeremy’s 2012 post : It can change. And I’m optimistic.

Google 40

Google Mobile Design Code 40

Tim Kadlec

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

13 billion mobile commerce in 2012 on eBay. Polar specifically designed for one-handed use. Design for the extremes and the middle works itself out. How can you design your service without forcing people to use the keyboard. Example: Polar on Google Glass would be cumbersome as it requires multiple voice input.

Mobile 60

Mobile Wireless Education Traffic 60

Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Enchanted Objects: Design, Human Desire, and the Internet of Things by David Rose 4 ⁄ 5 Rose’s book is a very clearly organized look at how widespread and cheap computing could impact objects from our everyday lives. Adaptive Web Design, 2nd Edition by Aaron Gustafson 5 ⁄ 5 Full review here. Well worth a read.

Social Media 40

Social Media Education Design Technology 40

Alex Russell

AUGUST 20, 2015

Recall that in 2012, Google, Apple, Blackberry, and a host of other vendors were all shipping browsers based on a single CSS engine (WebKit) without changing the -webkit- prefixes to be vendor-specific ; e.g. We know from experience developing software of all kinds that more iteration yields better results. but one we sorely need.

Programming 54

Programming Google Infrastructure Engineering 54

Percona

JANUARY 14, 2019

This time I’m trying to find the news keywords of the year using all reddit comments: basically I’m calculating the most frequently used new words for the specific year (algorithm based on an article about finding trending topics using Google Books n-grams data ). At the same time, it was not originally designed that way.

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