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duTrieux. posted:within a year we'll probably see google fund some film where google glass is an integral part of the plot, almost a character the plot could be that the murder footage is saved on it but the investigator has to keep recharging it to watch the whole thing.
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May 14, 2014 03:49
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hobbesmaster posted:i look forward to google glass integrated segway tours aaaaaaaaahhhh no jesus save me
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Shifty Pony posted:the plot could be that the murder footage is saved on it but the investigator has to keep recharging it to watch the whole thing. hmm, that's good but it needs more ghost the murder footage is saved on it and it's also haunted and when the battery runs out the ghost will disappear
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May 14, 2014 03:52
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duTrieux. posted:aaaaaaaaahhhh no jesus save me google glass integrated segway tours but with bitcoin!
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May 14, 2014 03:52
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I'll start the wiki.
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May 14, 2014 03:53
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~rolls on floor, dying~ ~is dead~
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duTrieux. posted:aaaaaaaaahhhh no jesus save me where is your god now?! 
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May 14, 2014 03:59
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Shifty Pony posted:where is your god now?! incredible
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May 14, 2014 04:03
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that photo manages to encapsulate everything i hate about austin. startup douchebags, traffic, and endless luxury construction projects. it is a short list tho because i like this city actually. ever visit hit me up we'll get bbq and/or pie.
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May 14, 2014 04:08
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iirc one of those teardown websites figured a BOM for glass under a hundred bucks in parts
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May 14, 2014 04:16
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austin's hosed up because its got like 64 blocks of actual city
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May 14, 2014 04:17
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uncurable mlady posted:iirc one of those teardown websites figured a BOM for glass under a hundred bucks in parts sounds about right, it even uses a lovely bulky prism for the display instead of something actually interesting/expensive/groundbreaking such as a holographic screen. Install Windows posted:austin's hosed up because its got like 64 blocks of actual city surrounded on all sides by 10 miles of some of the worst anti-density NIMBY idiots you can imagine. but we don't have Prop 13 in Texas so that will work its way out eventually even if it is painful.
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May 14, 2014 04:24
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Install Windows posted:austin's hosed up because its got like 64 blocks of actual city that's because that's all that austin was 40 years ago from my dad's descriptions austin and UT sounded like a pretty crazy place circa 68-76
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May 14, 2014 04:24
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Shifty Pony posted:
this is always why it's funny to me when texans complain that it must be all the rural areas loving up their politics. no you idiots, its all the suburban rpeublicans who are in the heart of your sprawling rear end cities
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May 14, 2014 04:29
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hobbesmaster posted:that's because that's all that austin was 40 years ago that's texas in general houston was smaller than Minneapolis in 1970
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May 14, 2014 04:30
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most texas cities are only slightly bigger than new york city in land area despite being so sprawled out, its kinda funny.
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May 14, 2014 04:32
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hobbesmaster posted:that's because that's all that austin was 40 years ago it still had a few good parts well into the 90s. the first tech boom was the beginning of it's decline
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May 14, 2014 04:37
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austin's main problem is that people move there from some horrid small town, notice that it isn't as actively poo poo as said small town, and assume it must be the best thing ever and should never change.
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May 14, 2014 04:40
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Smythe posted:give me a glass and ill xplore w/ it (cave... mountain... sea.. the mall .. sewer... etc) do it
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May 14, 2014 04:41
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Install Windows posted:this is always why it's funny to me when texans complain that it must be all the rural areas loving up their politics. i wish i could disagree with this but it is true. the Texas independent spirit apparently includes the directive to make sure that you never have to interact with your neighbors beyond reporting them to the HOA for having a slightly different shade of limestone in their new planter.
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May 14, 2014 04:48
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Fuzzy Mammal posted:i take like 60% of the blame for it being called hangouts. when the team was split between seattle and sweden we had an internal vchat room where we would idle in the background and ask questions occasionally just like irc that i named hangout. 2 years later, welp. they did realize that talk was a better brand name, but i forget what the other reasons were to switch. they managed to convince the people whose opinions that mattered though. this is why google is ridiculous to me. there's zero adult supervision. engineers just ~do things~ until something is successful. valve is the same way. there's this giant huge cash fountain and they've used that to make a playground for engineers with blind faith that this will produce something worthwhile. So far, not so much.
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May 14, 2014 05:01
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uhh go??? dart??
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btw as long as you're taking g+ feature requests:
ps: thank you for the soundcloud integration
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pram posted:uhh go??? closure compiler is nice
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Shifty Pony posted:that photo manages to encapsulate everything i hate about austin. you forgot 'is in texas'
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May 14, 2014 07:09
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duTrieux. posted:aaaaaaaaahhhh no jesus save me no atheists in glassholes 
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duTrieux. posted:within a year we'll probably see google fund some film where google glass is an integral part of the plot, almost a character sounds like the sort of poo poo that csi would pick up. if they are even making new episodes idk.
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rotor posted:this is why google is ridiculous to me. there's zero adult supervision. engineers just ~do things~ until something is successful. valve is the same way. this model actually works for valve, though
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May 14, 2014 13:22
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google glass makes me think of the local computer store in everytown, usa, that started out as a little place that didn't advertise much, had the best prices on things, some neat computer related things, maybe a few games on the wall, a clerk who could have a civilized human conversation then they started bringing in pink kittycat cases and boob mouse pads and they hired fifty college students to stand around and play quake then the next thing you know they're on the radio every ten minutes selling phones and rice cookers and loving toasters and six months later the place is closed because they ran out of money trying to hock stupid bullshit instead of just selling loving computers
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May 14, 2014 13:38
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flakeloaf posted:google glass makes me think of the local computer store in everytown, usa, that started out as a little place that didn't advertise much, had the best prices on things, some neat computer related things, maybe a few games on the wall, a clerk who could have a civilized human conversation this is probably the worst analogy ive ever heard fwiw
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May 14, 2014 13:52
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Necc0 posted:this model actually works for valve, though it also worked for the institute for advanced studies but i guess experimental physicists and game designers have more self-motivation than the likes of the googlenauts
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Forums Terrorist posted:it also worked for the institute for advanced studies but i guess experimental physicists and game designers have more self-motivation than the likes of the googlenauts i'm guessing valve and the physicists are a lot smaller than google -- it's got to be tougher to handle all that randomness as you add more and more people
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May 14, 2014 14:02
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it's mostly because the vast majority of their work needs to be creative so hierarchical models will only slow them down / harm that process. the only real 'legacy' stuff they need to support is steam. all their games, once published, can pretty much be ignored as they move onto the next thing. that's not the same for google. sure they have some departments that need tons of license in order to foster creativity but they spread that mantra to the whole company. being able to do w/e you want does not work for most companies. but google is a unique snowflake and they want to believe that they're the exception
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May 14, 2014 14:11
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oh come on like 99% of SV startups also believe that. which is why if you are in the market for a ball pit or pingpong table you'll probably be able to get one cheap once some other place to pour money pops up for capital funds.
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May 14, 2014 14:34
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Necc0 posted:this model actually works for valve, though id say results are pending tbh
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May 14, 2014 14:48
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valve needs a separate group of people for their storefront/customer service stuff let the game devs play in their ball pit if they want but there are some things that need organization
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May 14, 2014 14:58
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maybe theres a lotta engineers thinking "ugh business things? that's not engineering things so its clearly dumb poo poo for idiots"
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