Kenny Sanders

I was totally expecting a 2-bit adder by the end. - Mihai Parparita

good way to teach the gateway and circuit building - Peter Dawson

That was great, and I wasn't even sure how that last XOR was going to work out. - Nick Munson

I would have liked to see Not, Nor, Nand, and Sqrt(Not). Then we can see about building minimal domino speed-independent circuits. - John Lam

"Here's a real-life example, a challenge a team of our engineers once faced: designing a spell-checker for the Google search engine. The routine solution would be to run queries through a dictionary. The non-routine, creative solution is to use the query corrections and refinements that other users have made in the past to offer spelling suggestions for new queries. This approach enables us to correct all the words that aren't in the dictionary, helping many more users in the process." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet

I've found that companies that ask interview questions about problems they've actually faced or solved have a better chance of understanding the candidate than those that make a question up. - Robin Barooah

It's interesting to see Google saying "Major in learning" on their blog, when it seems like the first step in filtering for many of their jobs is "Did you major in computer science?" I guess saying "Major in computer science with a minor in learning" is a bit more awkward. ;-) - Keith Pelczarski

Damnit. This is why I need my Comcast DVR to support remote programming. I'm not home till Weds, yet I would like to record this on my DVR. FAIL. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

@Brian: This should be available On Demand on your Comcast. They usually put up the new episodes fairly quickly. - Niranjan Tulpule

Brian, Slingbox works well for this. - Chris White

"Protocol buffers are Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data – think XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler. You define how you want your data to be structured once, then you can use special generated source code to easily write and read your structured data to and from a variety of data streams and using a variety of languages – Java, C++, or Python." - DeWitt Clinton via Bookmarklet

Of all the things to go open source since I've been at Google, this ranks near or at the very top of my list of favorites. A huge congrats to Kenton and everybody involved for pulling it off. May your data serialize efficiently and extensibly forevermore! - DeWitt Clinton

Thrift includes a whole RPC framework (including thread managers and so on). Protocol buffers are just a serialization mechanism. Otherwise, the differences are mostly in the details of the way things like versioning are handled. - ⓞnor

That's awesome, and I think it will speed up darwinism - Blackopsmanners

this is fantastic - long live This Guy so my pyro bend can continue vicariously through his efforts (realizing, of course, that he may already be dead) - Nate

diy + do-not-try-this-at-home = hero - Pete Delucchi

It's up -- all of the Google I/O sessions. Which were your favorites? - DeWitt Clinton

Not yet, but I was waiting for it to be out and this video told me is out. - Elias Torres

Best Practices for Spreading Your App without Ruining the User Experience is a win. :) I love this quote: "If you behave like a disease, people develop an immune system" Someone needs to tell that to the app devs on facebook. - Erica Baker

Mine is shift-apple-4 - Paul Buchheit

Ctrl+Alr+Delete... because I NEVER HAVE TO USE IT - Pat Hawks

@edythe a typical freudian projection made by female holders of English degrees. - Zach Landes

"Pet boys are real guys that put themselves up for "adoption" by South Korean women... The idea came from a Japanese anime story that was popular about 5 years ago. It was about a business woman who always had bad luck in relationships. One day, she decided to take home a young man off the street to live with her as her pet... Huh? Apparently Pet Boy services are popping up around Korea, and recently a TV show had over 2,200 applicants after advertising Pet Boy positions... Ha, good luck guys -- too bad there's a universal taboo against having sex with pets." - Bret Taylor

i think that picture is deceiving. i doubt all the girls that do this are that hot. - Chris Harris

seems like Korean boys lack some serious testosterone. - Chris Hofmann

"If Java were to fade away in CS departments, what would be the cause? ... Microsoft has been trying for years to push C# instead of Java, with very limited success. Switching from C++ to Java solved a huge problem that professors had—students couldn't get their projects done because they wasted endless hours chasing pointer bugs. And it gave a rich set of libraries for GUIs, database programming, networking, etc. etc. ... There is some unhappiness about Java in the first course—see this taxonomy. One pain point is public static void main. It is tough to explain this to a beginner, when in Python you can just write print "Hello, World!"" - Robert Konigsberg

sounds similar to Dalvik in some ways - ⓞnor

Paul: reg. your experiments, did you also look into effect lifetime of objects (from creation to gc)? - ref: http://java.sun.com/docs/hotsp... - Amund Tveit

Paul: 20-30 GB heap wow that is impressive, how much physical memory and was this a standard off the shelf jvm? - Shakeel Mahate

Drool; I wish I was still in school and could apply for this. I'm sure you all know how much I <3 Google Reader given RSSmeme and all. - Benjamin Golub

"G1 will be the local garbage collector that will ultimately replace the Concurrent Mark-Sweep (CMS) garbage collector, Sun's current low-pause garbage collector in the HotSpot JVM. CMS is widely used today by customers and, hopefully, G1 will also be widely used when it replaces CMS. G1 is a departure from what we've done in the past. All our previous collectors have had a physical separation between the young and old generations. With G1, even though it is generational, there is no physical separation between the two generations. The heap is split into fixed size regions and the separation between the two generations is basically logical. So some regions are considered to be young, some old. All space reclamation in G1 is done through copying. G1 selects a set of regions, pick the surviving object from those regions and copy them to another set of regions. This is how all space reclamation happens in G1, instead of the combination of copying and in-place de-allocation that CMS does." - Paul Buchheit

"Java developers tell us that they want to do their best to optimize their applications to help the garbage collector. However, the garbage collector generally performs well without this help. I recommend that developers keep their code simple and understandable, and the garbage collector will do just fine in most cases." - Mustafa K. Isik

And http://blogs.sun.com/tony/entr... links to a list where you might actually be able to find out what those crazy +XX JVM options do... - Nick Lothian

Blimey, that's a post that links to another site that links to other sites before you actually get to any icons. :) - Dewald Pretorius

Jeffro (as I said in the post) is a great resource for where to find good quality icons - he doesn't host them himself .. sorry you had to take a few extra steps. - Steven Hodson

No problem. I "liked" this FF entry. That should tell you something. :-) - Dewald Pretorius

yup :) ty - Steven Hodson

He's using window.name for object storage. This is a really interesting and potentially useful hack. I'm surprised that I've never heard of it before. - Paul Buchheit

This is interesting for limited applications, but the security flaw is troubling. Perhaps it would be useful for "one-page" or "flash" session data where you have a multipage form and don't want to POST between pages. - Gary Burge

The second comment notes that both Firefox and Safari *crashed* if you tried to stuff > 32 MB into window.name. Sooooo I'm not sure the security implications are limited to XSS ;-) - Karim

"When King learned he would be the recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, the FBI decided to take its harassment of King one step further, sending him an insulting and threatening note anonymously. A draft was found in the FBI files years later. In it the FBI wrote, "You are a colossal fraud and an evil, vicious one at that." The letter went on to say, "The American public ... will know you for what you are -- an evil, abnormal beast," and "Satan could not do more."" - niniane

Amen to m13a. Gandhi was a terrorist to Churchill. If we look at the Islamic world, they might say the same about many leaders from western world. - Krishnan Hussein Subraman

I found this article disturbing, especially the part where they sent a message to him saying he was evil and abnormal. Also, hard to believe that Robert Kennedy okayed the surveillance. :( - Chris White