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First of all, for practical reasons, do not learn C++. Sure, dive into C, it'll teach you a great deal about programming close to the metal. But I consider C++ unnecessary these days, outside niches such as game programming. You'll be an order of magnitude more productive if you go with a higher level language and drop down to pure C when you need performance.

That being said, if you insist on C++, Visual Studio on Windows, XCode on Mac and KDevelop on Linux would be my IDEs of choice. On Linux and Mac most people use vim or emacs though. Libraries to look into would be the standard STL and Boost. Qt or wxWidgets for GUIs.

COBOL? I'm sure you can run it on a modern computer, hell, my iphone is an order of magnitude more powerful than the mainframes from 30-40 years ago... but in the name of all that's good and holy, why would you ever want to do that?
Isn't it because of privacy issues? Google probably tried to avoid any Buzz-like backlash of people creeped out by them knowing who's who in their lives. Integration efforts like that can only succeed if people feel it's ok, which will come naturally if Plus succeeds.
I'm often a part of the design sessions at my work, and all the questions that look like so much in text are covered in an audio chat in 5-10 minutes, and for something like adding an error dialog and character counter, another half an hour turnaround from our designer for the graphics. I'd say any feature that takes less than an hour to design is a small change.
This is not Mozilla's project: http://www.instantbird.com/faq.html#mozilla
True, I haven't tried it (yet). There may be different use cases but there are still extra hurdles to using skype e.g sharing SkypeIDs and 'connecting', whereas on Hangout, that part is already covered. I can see that being pretty valuable once there are more people on the platform.

However, if I have the option, I think I'd rather run a conference call in Hangout than in Skype. The one issue would be that Hangouts are displayed to a circle whereas a Skype call is private to the people invited. Of course it would be trivial to set up a circle just for one hangout but that's still an extra step.
If a technology is truly revolutionary, then there is most certainly a business case for putting it into mass production quickly. If you can disrupt an old industry or technology and replace it en masse with your new product, you will achieve market dominance in the new market. On the other hand, if you phase your product in slowly from the high end, your competitors will have time to copy you and grow their market share apace with yours.
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I completly agree. Also, I think it would be really fun that Facebook implement video chat using Google's open technologies and make it compatible, just to say "meh" to Google.
I have two Google accounts as well:
- one Google Apps account (main, day-to-day email, first@lastname.org)
- one plain vanilla Gmail account (old, mostly unused)

When I learned that Google+ wouldn't work with Google Apps, I signed up using my old, vanilla Gmail account.

At this point, I really do feel like Google Apps account are second-class citizens in the Google world. I'm seriously considering switching back to my vanilla Gmail account for most things, and setting up email forwarding from my vanity email account.
I assumed the concept had come from Google's own research, which I first saw a year ago in this slide deck: http://www.slideshare.net/padday/the-real-life-social-networ...

According to Wikipedia, Diaspora was initially funded in April 2010 and a developer preview was released in September 2010. The Google slide deck was published in July 2010, so presumably this is an idea they had been kicking around for a while before then.

It seems that the notion of friend (circles|aspects) is just one of those obvious ideas that everybody had, but nobody executed properly until now.
This past year I followed a web development course. I'm now supposed to work 3 months for free. I don't mind it because I've been jobless for a long time before. The problem is, I just can't find an employer (in France). I get the interviews, but my interviewer always assumes that I'm supposed to know everything by heart, have nothing more to learn, and more importantly, they want to see a portfolio of sites I've done before other than the one I've done in class. Basically, they don't want an intern, they want a real, super-fast worker for free. So I'm going to fail at my diploma because nobody wants me to work for free for them. To make it worse, I'm the best student of my class. Those who can't code found an internship. Are we supposed to lie and bluff to be allowed to be exploited?
Startup.com is a good one about the rapid rise and failure of govworks.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startup.com
In software, if your company is any good, you hire good iterns and pay them a good wage to get an edge on hiring them once they graduate.

Plus, if you're hiring good interns, they will absolutely benefit you if you let them. Sometimes hugely.

An intern made Joel Spolsky several million dollars: http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090101/how-hard-could-it-be-th...

Not saying I was any good or my employer was any good, but at my first internship I wrote software in my free time that ended up saving the company tens of thousands of dollars a month.
I didn't know that Sweden had any oil - unlike Norway next door that is practically floating on the stuff.
This problem has now been fixed. If you've downloaded the book earlier, you can go to your pragprog account and download the updated version that fixes the formatting issues.
Facebook plays nice with other sites? Have you seen the dozens of news about Facebook developers having their app banned for no reason and with no explanation? What about user accounts being terminated with also no explanation and for no reason (this happened to my account once, and Facebook takes weeks before answering you!)

Facebook is a nightmare, it's built around the concept of spam but since all your friends are on it, you have to be on it. Every app tries to force you to click on things you don't want, so that they will end up in your news feed and attract more sheep. Every few months, they add a new concept that raises tons of questions about privacy and yet their default settings is almost always to allow every user into the new thing (think auto-tagging via facial recognition). The best part of all? They don't even tell you there's a new feature and that YOUR PERSONAL privacy settings have been set to "allow all" for that new feature.

I have been waiting for something like G+ to kick facebook in the face for so long, now I only need an invite!
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Can I try it? If there was something good like this, I would probably use it.

Sparks doesn't do anything interesting right now. It's like Google search results but from a tiny subset of the web, so at least right now, you need not worry about it.
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The Swedes had a serious financial crisis in the mid 90's and learnt their lesson. They've been running a sound fiscal policy ever since.
Erlang syntax is just that, a (quirky, different, non-mainstream) syntax. Takes about 2 weeks to get used to, and it's simpler than, say, C syntax. The core concepts, such as functional programming and the Actor model will be harder to grok for an imperative-bred programmer, but I think it's totally worth it, at least for the perspective that it will give you.

Speaking of Reia, its author just announced he's stopping development on it. There's another, similar project called Elixir that is considered to be Reia's spiritual successor.
I couldn't find anything definitive on Google, but I don't think Sweden has that much oil, and if they do, it's not in the North Sea (which isn't bordering Sweden). (You might have meant to refer to Norway or Denmark which fits your description quite well)
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I'm not sure if you can be on the unemployment register and still work in an internship. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the government isn't looking too deeply into the situation because it keeps the dole numbers down.
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I didn't realize that the unpaid internship situation is as bad in Ireland as it is here in the U.S.

Ireland has been hit by a strong recession. Unemployment is high (~15%), and particularly high amount young people. Many are emigrating to find other work. The media is full of stories about how there are no jobs.

Which is a shame because there is a massive skill shortage if you know programming/sysadmining in Ireland. Companies spend months trying to find employees.
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Perhaps there was a discount for allowing him to use the photo in the blog post? Also, I'd say that $500-$1000 is comfortably in the "want" (rather than need) range for something like this.
please send me an invite: vzhou218@gmail.com
The article suggest reading code, which I agree is a good way to improve programming skills. But I'm a bit unsure what to do with the advice to read the linux source code. Where would you start? I find the only way to actually get to reading code, is if you have a need to understand some part of it (e.g. to fix a bug or add a feature).

So perhaps a more actionable proposal is to try to fix a bug, preferably one you care about, in some open source project.
In general, a shop that wanted to make very much money off of interns would have to have them work on new code(any sizable code base is going to take a while to get up to speed on), and/or hire only excellent students (though in this case they wouldn't have the option of not paying, good programmers never have to work cheap).
Diaspora was going down the toilet anyways.. why not recycle some of their ideas?
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If people don't get enough from employers, who pays ?

I have a couple of problems with this, and will do my best to explain my reaction, but am not entirely happy with clarity.

I think you're making a static view of the world, and are not considering the dynamic of the system. Legislation like the minimum wage has an effect on the economic systems that you apply it to. It changes the numer and nature of employers, and the number and nature of employees.

It's impossible to measure the opportunity cost, but we can talk about the sort of costs we'll be taking. There are potential businesses that would exist if they could pay less than they do. This would create greater economic activity in general, and skill development. Both of these things which would feed back into stronger businesses and ultimately demand for labour, higher wages, lower tax.

The Internet should offer us awesome opportunities to reduce knowledge asymetry coming from labour being misallocated, or taken advantage of. Consider a version of linked-in that was oriented around networks that tried to offer and make contracts. You could see who worked with who, and then the contracts that were on offer. I doubt Linked-in will go in this direction - it would piss off recruiters. It'll happen though.

Since when did a living wage for a day's work
become a controversial issue ?

Outside of America, questioning this is one of those "things you can't say".

A politician who made these arguments in I'm putting is remarkable to survive at all, and definitely hated for life - Thatcher is the obvious example. The last change of power in Australia was caused by exactly these issues. Chile is lining up to have it out on these lines in the next year and will be interesting to watch.

The caricature of the right wing leader who's out to screw the workers to help the big end of town is like honey to the mindset of people who see themselves as victims, and who don't recognise that they are in control of their own fate.

There's always a labour movement party (run by teachers, lawyers and party workers) in there reminding people that they are victims, pushing those images, and suckling on the milk of votes that this easy play delivers.

Except in American - a country where labour flexibility and entreprenerialism are central to the culture.

Another evil I forgot to mention about minimum wage earier is the trap effect. Imagine your effective wage is worth less than minimum wage, but you've managed to land a dead-end job making minimum wage. Now you have a disincentive to refocus on something that would make you more valuable than minimum wage.

That pattern repeats at other levels of the economy. You sometimes see areas of government, banks or protected "national champion" businesses dominated by people who don't do much but also don't make trouble. They're keeping a low profile because the employer is able to pay too much because of the luxury of its legislative protections. Left unchecked, the good staff (who care about what they do) gradually leave for other gigs, and you get overrun by pretenders.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Startup.com

Chronicles the build up and ultimate failure of govworks.com in 2000-2001
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"Certainly a lot of hackers have done much more with much less." +1 insightful.

At the risk of repeating myself, the Diaspora team had a great opportunity to do something more than put out rails code. With that money, they could have done the hard work of coordinating real world meetings with various existing projects to hash out federation issues, schema differences, etc., and been able to get dozens of indie social networks to agree on a common standard.

Yes, it's a pipe dream, but there are already dozens of decent SN platforms out there - we didn't need one more, we needed a way to make them all talk and exchange appropriate data. The big thing holding back many of them seems to be time/effort to coordinate the cooperation. There may be some NIH in there too, but Diaspora was just more one contribution to the NIH pile.

Much thought/work had already gone in to the problem space - using the $200k to help unite that previous work would have been far more productive than another Rails app.
My only fear with the invite only launch is that Facebook will have enough time to announce some of it's own changes before people get an invite to Google+. Although Facebook users are unlikely to (attempt to) delete their account unless google+ gains huge popularity. Google+ may just become a compliment for must Facebook users who use circles for their inner circles (perhaps family or co-workers). With hangouts I personally would only video chat with a select group of people falling into three circles, close Friends, family, and for work. But in the end those small groups will overlap with other circle to create one circle including everyone. Let's just hope the transition to google plus happens quickly and smoothly.
Kind of funny that in 2011, not having an invite two days after the service is announced counts as a "slow roll out"
https://www.google.com/takeout

Currently it supports Contacts and Circles, and Stream. I haven't got a G+ login, so I can't say what form the data takes, but the other data I have looked at was IIRC in CSV format.
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I definitely agree. Google+ isn't that revolutionary that people will continue talking about it months from now when it's open to the public. They should've made it open to anyone and capitalized on all the press happening.

And I don't think Google+ will come anywhere close to overthrowing Facebook. Yes, the circles thing sounds cool and all, but it sounds cool to us rationalized hackers. For normal people, they just want a place to see what others are up to, to showcase their narcissistic profile, and to make witty comments. That's all. We don't need Circles. We don't even care about privacy.. it's just something us geeks cry about. The one thing Google probably didn't give as much thought to is how the user profile will look like. They probably put too much effort on the Circles feature.. well the Circles feature ain't gonna help make you look good to other people.. a fancy profile page will though, so there goes your traction.
They tried to make it "fun" with the drag'n'drop UI.

Personally I think circles is the biggest part of the +. I can finally interact properly with my Family, Buddies, Coworkers and so on.
You could pull from the Twitter playbook.
I know I would drop by paulgraham.com/feed a few times per week if I could get the same PG wisdom in just a few hundred characters.
I've been trying to get better at this myself. Although, you do feel foolish when you bang your head against something for six hours, and then you get your first (correct) answer on stack overflow five minutes after you post.

Still, if you're not feeling foolish often, you're not learning. Competence is deadly that way.
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Pretty sure the Diaspora guys should be pleased about this as it validates their idea. Also, they can finally give up on Diaspora now since their dream has been realized elsewhere.
Thanks for the interest and the reply. :-) When the product is more ready, I'll definitely let you know.
-The name inspires a lot of trust to a layperson

-There's a lot of software with no equivalent in other OSs (including computer games, which are a selling point for a lot of people, and Visual Studio)

-Many companies are reluctant to change software they've been using for any length of time. Changing the OS is specially unlikely.

-It's really not that bad an OS...
Learning Javascript changed my Perl for the ... more fun to write. Possibly better, too. I've started passing around coderefs as arguments to functions a lot more recently, and allowing people who use my APIs to do just that...

I've been writing code that allows you to describe a website in data and at a high level recently, and builds you up all the methods you need to interact with it. In general, when people need to provide parameters, I also let them pass in coderefs that can be executed to provide those eg:

my $name = ref($args{'form_name'}) eq 'CODE' ?
$args{'form_name'}->( $self, @user_options ) :
$args{'form_name'};
my $form = $self->mech->form_name( $name );
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I agree also. I also think we all need to appreciate the fact that 99% of the world uses Facebook BECAUSE it is a agnostic platform. I have a Gmail account - most of friends "lay persons" in the tech world - use Yahoo or Hotmail, and sure, some use Gmail. They check Facebook on their mobiles and website daily - they don't particularly care about [or even know really] the "wars of technology companies"

Facebook works. All their friends exist on it - it does everything they could possibly want it to do "connect to their friends".
In my mind - it's "Google and Bing" all over. Bing works and is arguably just as good as Google these days yet everyone continues to use Google.

Google+ - great for technology people who want to "control their data". Most of my friends don't even understand what "exporting data for portability" even means. They use Facebook, see their friends posts, upload photos, check-in to places and they love that.

It's going to take a LOT MORE "innovation" to move them across to another platform because "it's new, pretty and contains some nifty features that Facebook already contains or will contain in the next 3 months of 'lock-down' in response to Google+". I'm not on Google+ [outrageous request for invite via my profile :D] - but I just can't see my friends moving to it - particularly when they don't even login to Google anyway when they are searching.

Facebook will "win" in my mind - because they are agnostic to email and that's where your "connections" lie and the reason you use Google "mostly" [outrageous generalization again] is because you host your email on Gmail.
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Learning to find the answer yourself is -way- more helpful than having it provided to you. Don't regret those 6 hours. It's a process.
It's not so much that they know the format... they are the format. Joel Spolsky (who used to work on Excel and now runs Fog Creek) talks about the issue here:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2008/02/19.html
>"Google+ will succeed"

>"Google+ will fail"

This is a bit incoherent because success and failure for Google is radically different than success and failure for people who consume Google's services. If after six months Google+ provides an important data set which enhances ad revenues, they can shut it down or let it die off (which would be more likely) and still claim success even though this would constitute a failure for people who consume Google's services.

Likewise, if the implementation favors Android over iOS this increases the odds of success for Google while increasing the odds of Google+'s failure among people who consume Google's services.

Perhaps nothing better illustrates this divergence of interests more clearly that the current hype surrounding Google+ coupled with the lack of widespread availability among people who consume Google's services.