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Sounds like it's working as intended.

Facebook for friends and family, Google+ for all the tech and work stuff.
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They're a Perforce shop (except some open-source-from-the-start projects, like Android). So checking something in is a pretty weighty operation (also, really slow). So actually, the statement is very likely true.
Hell yeah, I use it to access the manual for XCode.
Wait...so a self-proclaimed start-up guru dares to profit off of his own work?

If you run a company (and Eric Ries does too, don't forget) and you don't spend a significant portion of your time self-promoting, if you aren't telling everyone you know about what you're working on, and if you don't take credit for your product being the best thing since the iPod, then you're probably not going to do very well.

I am looking forward to reading his book and excited for it, but he's not an magic oracle or a god. Your own success will still come from how well you do (or don't) you apply his (and every other author's) lessons to your own business.

Keep up the good work, Eric.
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There are tools like Phabricator (http://phabricator.org/) that extract your diff and store it in a database, providing a web frontend that allows others to add inline comments and suggestions independent from the underlying revision control system. We use a version of this at Facebook for required pre-commit review, and I've found it to be quite nice.

Check out e.g. https://secure.phabricator.com/D583 for an example of a diff for phabricator itself that has some inline comments and other input.
Maybe they want users to be searching for users and sell more ads, that's their main thing anyways.
It's not "a clear implication that there are other things that should be learned using some contrasting mechanism." It's a recognition that "UI design, programming, and product strategy " is not learned in this way, and he argues that it should be.
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One side-project I made: http://hnarchive.in

You can search based on users who commented.
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I think one of the problems that we have in learning 'how' is that it is very easy to explain why you have chosen a particular solution, but it is not easy to go through and explain why you did not choose the near infinite number of other solutions that were available for the task. It is this negative knowledge that is so hard to communicate.

When I am training up junior programmers, I spend a lot of time explaining to them why I have chosen certain patterns in the code that they should use. Nevertheless, they invariably come back with 'yes, but why don't we do it this other way?" and then I have to explain to them the problems that that solution will lead to.
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>I found this really interesting since StackExchange took the opposite view and raised a ton of cash.

I think it's good that there are some successful people out there who are questioning the dogma that ambition is the superlative human trait, that it is somehow wrong to not grow everything as much as possible, or that this should be an end in itself. Good luck to them.
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The real blocker for using a Mac as a development machine is the case insensitve filesystem HFS. Nothing causes more havoc than renaming CamelHumpsAreOK.java to CamelHumpsAreOk.java. People will be blocked for hours when pulling a change like this from the repository.
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This doesn't apply here but it is interesting: there is one major player making heavy use of ogg, and that is spotify. All their streaming is done in ogg.
> My point, is that the knowledge sharing is what's important.

Definitely agree, though I think it's more than just knowledge sharing - I find it nice to know that you're "accountable" to some degree when you're writing code. Someone else is probably going to have to read it at some point (whether you do formal review or not), and making that fact explicit further drives home the importance of that last 10% effort to write quality code.

I think what I've found most useful about code review (pre-commit or otherwise) is a good way to have discussions with someone in the context of the code itself. Maybe this makes less of a difference in the super early stages of a project (though I've found it pretty useful then as well), but as your changes are increasingly modifications to existing complex systems, having the surrounding context in a discussion is really helpful.
Still no Linux support? :(

(I know about the web-based uploader, but it's super-clunky for uploading more than one or two albums - unlimited MP3 storage is no good if you have to spend a week navigating the interface, never mind the actual upload time!)
Thank-you for that dose of nostalgia.
I can't help but feel like they really want this to succeed, and are betting the entire company on it. From what I've heard, Google+ has to potential to turn out huge. And making sure there aren't any bugs before letting everybody in is simply a must for them - They just can't afford to have any problems with this last attempt at social.

I also think the hype you're talking about only happens in a very small group of geeks. The average guy on the street still hasn't heard of Google+, and until he has and is willing to try it out, Google will lose the social war. Convincing the fb masses to bother is an extremely difficult task, and Google will need all the hype it can get. Right know, I think they're doing exactly the right thing.
Is that really a concern? For now, their friends and family can ignore any posts they don't care about, just like Facebook.

Hopefully, G+ will eventually implement tagging and people can filter out tags they don't like.
Yup. Highschool / Undergraduate labs that teach PCR with two water baths and a stopwatch really kill a lot of the "magic" bestowed on these absurdly expensive machines.
Plenty of us said the same thing, e.g. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2723560
From the article:

"IT security admins must understand that a computer can be compromised by almost any hardware device plugged into it. Hardware is hardware -- the instructions coded into it and its firmware takes precedence over software. When we talk trust boundaries in computer security, you always have to remember the hardware boundary must be discussed and defended. If I, as the attacker, can convince a victim to plug in some sort of hardware or if I plug it in myself, then it is, for all intense purposes, game over. If I can plug something into your USB, DMA, FireWire, and now mouse port, I'll likely succeed in carrying off a malicious action."

Wow, what a lot of nonsense! Why would a hardware USB device necessarily have access over the whole computer? And the author doesn't even know that there is no different between a USB port and a mouse port ...
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Charging for their R&D, maybe? Sun did give out a LOT for free. Those sorts of free come with a cost to someone
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Speaking of self-promotion...

EDIT: Just fell out of my chair laughing, nevermind.
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Apologies: It turns out the place I originally linked to was ripping it off from the site now linked to.
Magic? delete and delete [] the same in Visual C++?
Some diseases will be easier to check for than others. For example, Huntington's Disease [1] is strongly associated with having multiple repeats of a short sequence (CAG) on chromosome 4.

You would start by designing PCR primers to the sequence around this repeat, typically aiming for a couple hundred base pairs total.

Then, you extract your DNA [2], and PCR out that region.

Finally, you run your PCR product on an agar gel, which will separate it by size, with smaller things running faster. If you have a sensitive enough ladder (i.e. a set of DNA pieces with known sizes), you should be able to see measure the size of the product, and from there estimate how many CAG repeats you have.

A different project might be to test whether you are infected with, for instance, H1N1/09 influenza (aka swine flu). Using sequences available online, find a segment of DNA that's unique to the strain you think you might have, collect DNA (the mouth swab may even have enough if you're contagious), then PCR out that segment of DNA. It would be nice to have a negative control as well, such that if you get a product, you know it's not just some other segment of DNA that happens to amplify off the same primers.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntingtons_disease

[2] Kits available, such as http://www.epibio.com/item.asp?ID=270 . Alternately, can do a phenol-chloroform extraction, which would require a centrifuge and access to some nasty chemicals, though might be cheaper per extraction.
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Are you from the US or have you been in the US / Bay Area much? Compared to the UK I find the eating out for lunch / catered lunch culture huge. Where I've been at a clients, I cannot believe how busy some of the restaurants are.

I wish the UK was more like this
I've liked the previous posts from betterexplained, but this one seems to be extremely unintuitive to me. I was teaching this recently, and the simpler idea that e is the function which is its own derivative is a much simpler way of expressing a meaningful truth about it, and following it through, leads you to exactly the same limit as a formal definition. It also tails very neatly into why exponentials are used in physics for decay curves. That said, obvious to me and one student is not necessarily obvious to everyone! Anyone else have an opinion on this?
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This. I love Ravelry (only conceptually, I don't actually use it) because they provide a wonderfully human element to the usual tech success story. They basically built something they love for the love of doing it, and I find that much more inspiring than any amount of VC or traction.
Of course it's a concern, it's a problem circles were supposed to resolve. I for one am still barely sharing anything, because I don't want to bother people with posts that I know will not be interesting to them.

And yes, tagging would be nice as well, but I don't think one should have to explain to his/her mother to filter out their #tech and #business posts. That just won't work.
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Although I am all for user experience testing, I also agree with you on this point. To be perfectly honest, my first thought when reading this was "well that's not really fair, as imagine the sorts of things that user would have learned before they even got to the browser?". That is to say, if they were brand new to the computer, they would have had to have learned enough to find the browser and run it, first, before the time where this user started. The things the user learned may very well have changed the reactions inside of the browser.

Even so, it's still a great article, as I think sometimes that 'first-time user experience' can also translate to 'new to English user experience', too.
Well, if Google can't make it then everybody doing any kind of social networking software should just quit. Right Now.
Yes, to get the version number. And the help in Microsoft Office is quite good, I got help there a couple of times too.
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I, too, believe this is a problem. My idea of circles is to segregate them into different, private sectors. I currently face this problem on Facebook and Twitter. I tend to use Facebook for only personal friends and family whereas I use Twitter for networking and technology. Ideally I would use both of these networks for both purposes, but there is no easy way to promote separation and ensure that my messages/tweets go to the right parties.

I have no drive to create separate accounts for each social network. My personal preference would be to have different façades publicly viewable to different groups. I would treat Facebook very differently if I was given the opportunity to separate these groups and target them individually. I have a belief that Facebook tried to accomplish this with groups but fell short on exactly what I've been waning for.

As an aside, there is a Hacker News group for those of you who may not be aware.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/114326995294656?ap=1
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The problem is thinking that the metaphors we use are actually descriptive to outsiders.

There is no such thing as an intuitive interface that isn't learned.

I had the same encounter with my mom and although she had used a computer before the experience was just as crazy.

http://000fff.org/anatomy-of-a-noob-why-your-mom-suck-at-com...

Here is an excerpt from the conversation.
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It's easy to make a program for windows run ok on XP and brilliantly on 7 (I assume, never tried, that you do something like target net 3 or something else M$ have backported). It sounds like you can't be so successful with the old android phones, even if you tried.
The first two definitely seem like things that one could easily imagine a kit for: include primers for the species of interest, a bit of positive control, and perhaps even the Taq and other reagents you'd need. Then, the user could just collect their sample and run the PCR and a gel.

The third might be a bit harder to make a commercial kit for while steering clear of patents. It's also not clear to me what kinds of samples you'd be able to test. An ear of fresh corn would probably work, but what about (un-)popped popcorn, or cornflakes, or corn starch? It would definitely take some experimentation.

To make these kits really user friendly, ideally you could figure out some quick, easy way to determine the result of the PCR without running a gel, which require a relatively high voltage DC power supply and usually use Ethidium Bromide (a chemical that, depending on who you believe, is either nasty or really, really nasty) and UV light. I'm thinking maybe some kind of spectrophotometer-like setup, which are used in things like a NanoDrop, but I don't know how easy/economical it would be to build a DIY-level work-alike.
Another reason - a bug (and there's always bugs) would probably invalidate the paper, possibly causing a recall. Recalled papers are not seen in a positive light by the science establishment.

Careers could be destroyed, if people where held to account.

People in software see this as ludicrous. Of course there's bugs, just update the conclusions, and move on! But that's not how a lot of scientists think.
Reminds of finding a tribe that has never been in contact with other humans. The importance of the internet really becomes clear when reading about people who've never tried it.
It also highlights the item found, so you can just press [Return] to activate it.

It's basically spotlight/windows search for menu items.
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Nope. I'm not saying that at all. I'm saying if you order a custom machine from Apple they build it to order. I have followed this process online from manufacture to delivery.

On a more general note…

Saying X does Y does not imply X only does Y.

However saying X was wrong in their prediction of Y doing Z can be disproven by one present example of Y doing Z.

We can argue how much the internet has been a cause of some companies adopting build-on-demand or the relative slow uptake of build-on-demand as a strategy (and whether the adoption of China as the de-facto mass-manufacturer for all modern goods and the subsequent need to bulk order in advance is a major factor in its uptake) .

However we cannot argue about whether some businesses do it. This is proven.
I've always though that personae-based would be better than circle-based. You could even have people like the former _why who have an entirely separate online presence.
I wonder if there are any SEO people out there, doing pro-bono (is that even the right term?) work for open source projects like this?

It should be possible to fight back (or, as was discussed/suggested before, search engines are just broken).
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No search engine that I could find [Google, Bing, Duck Duck Go, Dopile, Ask - though the logo is close] specifically prompts you on how to use it. For example they could say "What are you looking for?" for new users.
Seems like they didn't bother testing the first version with actual users (or an editor) rather than just running it past a lawyer.
I think I've see a few people refer to jQuery as a DSL. If you subscribe to those beliefs, sure, jQuery is a language so it's a valid claim, I guess.

I don't know a lot about this but it seems like a game changing framework/library is often seen as a DSL now. I remember reading a claim that Rails is a DSL on top of Ruby so it I do think it supports my view. For example:

jQuery is a popular library. jQuery has been called a DSL.
Rails is a popular framework. Rails has been called a DSL.

Maybe my lack of expertise shows but that's how things are playing out for me.
+1 for SICP, but I cannot really recommend C++, since it does only pseudo object orientation (plus it has a syntax jungle from hell).

I would recommend to learn Common Lisp instead.
I appreciate the tl;dr though since I've got the gist of the post and decided it's not one I want to read right now.
As a former biotech grad now starting to finding my feet at contributing on github, this just put a massive smile on my face.
I have been out of the lab for a while, but as I recall the consumables were an expensive part of PCR. Taq polymerase used to be pretty costly. Perhaps scale has caused that to come down recently? I see a lot of comments from hackers here questioning why this would be useful. In general, you can't get anything done in molecular biology without PCR. It's a critical tool for manipulating DNA. If you're going to do even the most basic biological manipulation (inserting genes into E. coli, comparing dan samples, amplifying small quantities of DNA for further work, etc...) you need PCR.
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I doubt it would be welcome, see http://jacobian.org/writing/seo-scumbags/

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I wish this kind of mentoring program would be implemented here (I work in a big research center). Often us programmers end up having to integrate code written by scientists in our apps, and it's a pain. Even a quick glance over the code is often enough to see some problems.
The article is from 2007, much has happened since then and so it does not cover important topics like poll / epoll / kqueue / IOCP performance let alone networking libraries like libevent and libev. If anyone is interested in more modern high performance networking in C I would recommend you check out -

libevent

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libev

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As other commentators have pointed out, much like the actual Great Wall of China, the Great Firewall of China is not a singular entity but rather a patchwork of potentially overlapping walls whose policies vary by ISP, city, and province.

Inner Mongolia has been having uprisings recently, it does not surprise me that reddit would be blocked there (actually, I believe most internet was severed from Inner Mongolia a month or two ago).
So in other words, Circles are backwards from Twitter, and this is a problem.

I guess G+ needs a mechanism to allow people to ask to subscribe to a Circle, and the owner can approve or deny it. (Or set an option to auto-allow.)

That keeps the privacy aspect, but also makes it easy for people to follow or be followed.

If that happened, then the circles themselves would become the tags.

Another post here on HN talks about Circles not being Groups. (The Zuckerberg one.)

Reposting my comments from there:

I would definitely like to see Google add groups as pseudo-people... And then you can put that group in a Circle and share to it.

People in the group can see who else is in the group. Groups could be curated (need approval to join) or just open to anyone, and moderated (need approval to post) or not depending on the choices made by the group owner.
Worth noting it seems many of the sites listed at the end of the post are now offline.
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To help capitalize on all the HN traffic, you might want to include a more prominent link to fotobookapp.com (probably in the first sentence when you introduce the app). It took me a while to see the link at the end of the article.

Also, the "App Store" link in your posterous profile doesn't actually link anywhere.
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