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Re:Claude for Google Sheets on Tuesday December 12, 2023 @05:17PM (#38619455)
I'm the developer of CfSh. AMA.
Interesting use cases
Re:Airbnb: A fan legally constitutes an air conditioner on Thursday September 12, 2019 @12:02AM (#20947843)
That's how Airbnb agents are trained. It's exactly the kind of phrase used in the famous "How I Got Banned for Life from AirBnB" post:

> Additionally, we consider this matter closed and will no longer reply to any inquiries regarding your account.

Source: https://medium.com/@jacksoncunningham/digital-exile-how-i-go...

Re:Airbnb: A fan legally constitutes an air conditioner on Thursday September 12, 2019 @12:01AM (#20947837)
No. The Airbnb rep said EXACTLY that, as seen in the screenshot.

Context: I'm the OP's roommate. See my detailed reply at https://www.reddit.com/r/digitalnomad/comments/d1i53n/its_10....

See also https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/44524/can-a-fan-be-c...

See also https://airhostsforum.com/t/do-fans-count-as-airconditioning...

Re:Airbnb: A fan legally constitutes an air conditioner on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @11:59PM (#20947831)
How much of a refund did they ask for, and how much did they get?

Before that stay (I'm the OP's roommate), we stayed at another apartment that had 0.5Mbps Internet instead of the claimed 10Mbps, no hot water, no computer desks when there were desks in the photos, no trash cans - for the first 3 to 5 days until all these issues got fixed through us bugging the building's management. All Airbnb was willing to refund was 10% of the nightly cost, times some number of nights, which amounted to USD 57. That was for a $2100/mo apartment.

Re:Airbnb: A fan legally constitutes an air conditioner on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @11:56PM (#20947805)
I won't delete it.
Re:Airbnb: A fan legally constitutes an air conditioner on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @11:54PM (#20947789)
Because there was no "laptop-friendly workspace" in the bedrooms. The host claimed that in the listing, and the only thing that remotely qualified was the dining table in the kitchen.

Context: I'm the OP's roommate. See my detailed reply at https://www.reddit.com/r/digitalnomad/comments/d1i53n/its_10....

Re:Airbnb: A fan legally constitutes an air conditioner on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @11:52PM (#20947780)
Not having the ability to specify 'Partial A/C' is exactly my suggestion to Airbnb.

The "reasonable solution" didn't work - we waited longer than what the host claimed it would take to make the place "cool as a fridge".

Why would we not be supposed to work in the apartment?

Right, it wasn't anyone's hard fault, so if I were the host, I'd charge 3 nights' worth and leave the situation with a clean conscience and quite a bit of cash for spending 30 minutes.

See my detailed reply at https://www.reddit.com/r/digitalnomad/comments/d1i53n/its_10... (I'm the OP's roommate).

Re:Airbnb: A fan legally constitutes an air conditioner on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @11:49PM (#20947758)
Nobody complained of no A/C in the bathrooms. You've misread Airbnb's social media agent's misguided reply. I'm the OP's roommate and I've clarified things at https://www.reddit.com/r/digitalnomad/comments/d1i53n/its_10...
Re:Chrome OS: Ready for Web Development [video] on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @07:11PM (#18455600)
Tabs being killed is most likely due to the low RAM on your Chromebook. I've been having 100+ open tabs for several weeks on my 8GB RAM Pixelbook, without problems.
Re:Chrome OS: Ready for Web Development [video] on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @07:01PM (#18455516)
Yes, the top row of keys map to F1 - F10. You can activate them if you hold the Search key while pressing them, or you can have Chrome OS "Treat top-row keys as function keys" (Settings -> Keyboard).

Pixelbooks: https://support.google.com/pixelbook/answer/7504061 Chrome OS in general: https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/1047364

Re:Chrome OS: Ready for Web Development [video] on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @06:57PM (#18455481)
Speaker here. The discount codes were intended for the attendees, are unique, and they can not be redeemed twice. That said, I'd keep an eye for any Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals.
Re:Chrome OS: Ready for Web Development [video] on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @06:50PM (#18455439)
The remote debugging part does require developer mode.

https://medium.com/@dandv/remote-debugging-web-apps-running-...

Re:Chrome OS: Ready for Web Development [video] on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @06:37PM (#18455341)
$50 buys you a very beefy VPS, IMO overkill if you're just trying to learn Linux. Digital Ocean and Linode both have $5/mo VPSes with 1GB of RAM and 25GB of SSD storage.

But yes, as the other commenter said, your experience might be different if you tried Crostini. I use a Pixelbook at work (I'm one of the speakers) daily and have abandoned the MBP.

Re:Chrome OS: Ready for Web Development [video] on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @06:32PM (#18455293)
Re. Atom, have you tried running it on Crostini? Or running VS Code?
Re:Chrome OS: Ready for Web Development [video] on Wednesday November 14, 2018 @06:20PM (#18455203)
You can also add to home screen/install Progressive Web Apps from Android Firefox, and they'll appear in the Chrome OS launcher. Should've demo-ed that during the talk :)
Re:Google Pay on Monday January 08, 2018 @07:44PM (#16102451)
I don't know how excellent Google Photos is.

https://productforums.google.com/d/msg/photos/9so7okdj1ZA/2k...

When it comes to organization beyond shoving photos at it and hoping for the AI's best, Photos is deeply disappointing. Competitors like Fotki has nested albums 10 years ago. Photos doesn't show your device folders on the web, and can't move files locally without crashing or duplicating them.

Re:Google Pay on Monday January 08, 2018 @07:38PM (#16102412)
Maps has been improving at an amazing rate, and some people are quite excited about it:

https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat

Re:Google Pay on Monday January 08, 2018 @07:33PM (#16102380)
It was probably via [this Quora answer](http://www.businessinsider.com/google-employees-worst-things...).

I don't think that's entirely accurate. There are efforts to reward Product Excellence, for example, which involved UX polish, performance tuning etc.

Re:Google AMP Cache, AMP Lite, and the Need for Speed on Thursday January 26, 2017 @06:59PM (#13496580)
This post explains very well the #1 benefit of AMP caches (yes, there can be more than Google's, and Cloudflare has just released their own cache): pre-rendering:

https://medium.com/@pbakaus/why-amp-caches-exist-cd7938da245...

Re:Google AMP Cache, AMP Lite, and the Need for Speed on Thursday January 26, 2017 @06:45PM (#13496482)
Furthermore, all the traffic is clearly attributed to publisher, and <amp-analytics> lets you measure that.

https://medium.com/@pbakaus/why-amp-caches-exist-cd7938da245...

Re:Google AMP Cache, AMP Lite, and the Need for Speed on Thursday January 26, 2017 @06:08PM (#13496227)
No, they weren't. Apache mod-pagespeed is and has been a completely different effort.
Re:Google AMP Cache, AMP Lite, and the Need for Speed on Thursday January 26, 2017 @06:06PM (#13496214)
Or Request Desktop Site from your browser.

Or edit the URL to remove the beginning from "http" to "/amp/s".

Or View Source and go to the link in "link rel='canonical'".

Re:Google AMP Cache, AMP Lite, and the Need for Speed on Thursday January 26, 2017 @05:57PM (#13496156)
I agree that having access to the original source is valuable. For that reason I went to Cloudflare's original post (as opposed to the Business Insider article you've linked to). Their original post (https://blog.cloudflare.com/accelerated-mobile/) links to the AMP cache guidelines on the AMP GitHub repo. The guidelines start like this:

> In the AMP ecosystem, the platform that links to content may freely choose which AMP Cache (if any) to use. It is an inversion of the typical model where content delivery is the responsibility of the publisher.

Re:I have no side code projects to show on Friday December 16, 2016 @11:26PM (#13199197)
Seeing what the codebase is like for just a week may not be something many larger companies would be too happy with (think IP theft).
Re:I have no side code projects to show on Friday December 16, 2016 @11:24PM (#13199187)
[Google owns any IP you develop, even on your own time](http://startups.stackexchange.com/questions/7822/working-leg...), and you can't easily work on those interview-worthy side projects after you get hired.

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