I worked at Google from 2005-2010, and saw the company go through many changes, and a huge increase in staff. Most importantly, I saw the company go from a place where engineers were seen as violent disruptors and innovators, to a place where doing things “The Google Way” was king, and where thinking outside the box was discouraged and even chastised.
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Soaring Over the Alps on Homemade Jet Wings | Autopia from Wired.com - 0 views
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crazy swiss ....
Non-Answer on Armed Robot Pullout From Iraq Reveals Fragile Bot Industry - Popular Mechanics - 0 views
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oups ... pretty smart, they seem to have found the real aggressors :-)
Scientists Create First Memristor: Missing Fourth Electronic Circuit Element | Gadget Lab from Wired.com - 0 views
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what can we do with it ? any ideas? a memo?
U.S. Spies Want to Find Terrorists in World of Warcraft | Threat Level from Wired.com - 0 views
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another aspect of VW
UgoTrade - 0 views
OpenID » Blog Archive » OpenID 2.0…Final(ly)! - 0 views
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we should use this ..... for ariadna ...
Solar Company Says Its Tech Can Power 90 Percent of Grid and Cars | Wired Science from Wired.com - 0 views
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interesting energy/SPS paper
$2 Multi-Touch Pad for Mac - 0 views
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Amazing Multi-Touch Pad
Zero Email Friday - 0 views
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like this particularly and would even go one step further: take one day or one half day during the week internet free - just unplug the cable. We did this during my PhD in our lab and it really helped! LS
Scientists Use Google Widget to Improve Image Labeling on Wired Science - 0 views
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something for Marco ...
"God Machine" Critics to U.N.: Experiment an Affront to Human Rights - 3 views
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The end of the world is for this month...
Google Code Blog: Introducing Closure Tools - 1 views
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new open source tool from google .... Francesco: of any interest to us?
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I don't think so, it is just a code optimizer for JavaScript, unless there are somewhere big JavaScript (web2.0) applications running that is not of much interest for us Other google labs systems e.g. FriendConnect could be useful for Ariadnet, maybe also the visualization and social graph API -
and it seems to have some rather big flaws: http://www.pheedcontent.com/click.phdo?i=6a00fd034f6a8cf464e2d9fbb83dc321
GetRobo Blog: Toyota's humanoid to explore moon by 2020? - 1 views
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"slides which were presented by an executive at Toyota during some kind of task force meeting that discusses Japan's direction/strategy in space exploration"
Make: Online : Regular GPS not accurate enough? Try RTK-GPS! - 1 views
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an open-source real time kinematic GPS receiver, allowing way better accuracy
Orbiting Dust Storm Could Remove Space Junk - 6 views
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A good example of how loosing perspective makes so-called "novel ways" actually "rubish ways"
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here the paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/1104.1401 well spent defence funding ....
Physics anniversaries: How Professor Maxwell changed the world | The Economist - 1 views
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Maxwell remains the great unsung hero of human progress, the physicists' physicist whose name means little to those without a scientific bent. His life's work [....] is among the most enduring scientific legacies of all time, on a par with those of his more widely acclaimed peers, Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein.
What Larry Page really needs to do to return Google to its startup roots - 0 views
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Let engineers do what they do best, and forget the rest.
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This is probably the most important single point. Engineers at Google spend way too much time fussing about with everything other than engineering and product design.
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An opinion piece by an ex-Googler, talking, among other things, about how corporate culture is creeping into Google. I've highlighted some snippets which I've found eerily familiar :)
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