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moultano
11,022karma·1,963submissions·May 20, 2009
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I work at Google trying to make your search results not suck.
rmoulton@google.com
I write articles here: http://moultano.wordpress.com/
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What's the purpose of the text-indent: -9999em?
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Poorer people on average probably take less care of their environment than richer people, but that's not what I'm talking about. Them _becoming poorer_ isn't harming their environment. It's the deriva…
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There are some forms of poverty that are created by wealth. Poverty didn't destroy the environment; The creation of wealth did. Virtually every productive activity has negative externalities, and to d…
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Can I click a button more than once?
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They ensured that open access provisions were included.
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Most people can't figure out RSS readers, and twitter lets you read and write in the same interface. Everything else about twitter is an anti-feature, including the post length limit.
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If you aren't willing to link to the pages in question I don't believe you.
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It's hard?
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I think most people in most companies feel similarly. Unfortunately they don't have Google's cash, so "keep the lights on" becomes a more important consideration than "don't be evil."
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Frankly, being sued at all is a pretty big punishment. It's not fun.
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The argument in that article can be applied to say that _all_ things are discovered and not invented, which doesn't correspond at all to how we used those words. I can enumerate all songs as easily as…
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Promotion at Google is based on peer feedback, so I'd guess that's what they use.