Tag Archives: google

You wouldn’t reimplement an API

posted on 22 May, 2016 also tagged , ,

I’ve been attending (and livetweeting) the Oracle v. Google jury trial for the last two weeks, and have had a lot of conversations and made a lot of jokes about it. One joke that went surprisingly well was an image I made and tweeted without context: pic.twitter.com/EuUZSH9PKh — Parker Higgins (@xor) May 13, 2016 In […]

My corner in history

posted on 7 October, 2013 also tagged ,

I moved a month ago, September 1, to a new corner in San Francisco. In two years here, I’ve lived in the Mission, in Noe Valley, in Bernal Heights, in Pacific Heights, and now in Hayes Valley. The picture above is my corner, as photographed by the Google Street View car in April 2011. Courtesy […]

The impossibility of imagining information retrieval in the past

posted on 28 April, 2012 also tagged , , , , ,

It’s harder to imagine the past that went away than it is to imagine the future. What we were prior to our latest batch of technology is, in a way, unknowable. It would be harder to accurately imagine what New York City was like the day before the advent of broadcast television than to imagine […]