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I have a better question. How many of these people are actually posting? It feels a little pointless to follow a bunch of people who have no public posts.

I've gone through all the links in this thread (at the time of writing) and included only those where I can see posts (i.e more than just uploading a profile photo). I've simply copy/pasted the links from the original submitters into this post. Hope it's useful. (edit: I also put them all in a spreadsheet which anyone can edit http://bit.ly/nBqc8e)

Guido van Rossum: https://plus.google.com/115212051037621986145/posts

Ian Bicking: https://plus.google.com/104537541227697934010/posts

Michael Foord: https://plus.google.com/u/1/114852031032123777881/posts

Simon Willison: https://plus.google.com/u/1/106366615678321494423/posts

Brett Cannon: https://plus.google.com/u/1/115362263245161504841/posts

Graham Dumpleton: https://plus.google.com/u/1/114657481176404420131/posts

Waldemar Kornewald: https://plus.google.com/u/1/112495598999878465094/posts

Eric Florenzano: https://plus.google.com/u/1/109591387819364984777/posts

Randall Munroe: XKCD. https://plus.google.com/111588569124648292310/posts

Matt Cutts: https://plus.google.com/109412257237874861202/posts

Brad Fitzpatrick: https://plus.google.com/115863474911002159675/posts

Scott Hanselman: https://plus.google.com/113698589973698283456/posts

Ryan Dahl: https://plus.google.com/115094562986465477143/posts

Andy Hertzfeld: https://plus.google.com/117840649766034848455/posts

Adrian Holovaty: https://plus.google.com/113607435918549143249/posts

Armin Ronacher: https://plus.google.com/116865269069705863179/posts

Don Stewart: https://plus.google.com/115274377971493973150/posts

Paul Buchheit: https://plus.google.com/111732375221065535359/posts
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Facebook has the same sharing relationship in the form of lists. Aren't facebook lists more similar to google circles than facebook groups are?
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didn't you mean plus.google.com ? :)
This game is similar to Mortal Coil (flash frontend to a programmable backend)

http://hacker.org/coil/

But that allows automated solutions. As far as I know, all of the best solvers there use a greedy algo, although there are some cases where you can prune massively by using logical deductions as well.
Hey, David, didn't you work with Eric at there.com? Were any of the lean practices in their infancy yet?
A couple of years ago, I set my 73yr old father up with his first ever computer. It was a frustrating yet fascinating experience to see how someone who had never interacted with a computer actually did so. It certainly made me aware of usability issues that I would (as someone that sits at a computer every day) have never considered to be anything other than obvious.
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Group video chat with distinct circles of friends.
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I agree with what I think Boriss' point is – that our interfaces are not natural. They require us to build a new system of patterns to match with encountered interfaces of a similar kind, in order to know what we're doing. Same is easily said of learning any new language, visual, written, or spoken.

But to suggest that iconography and buttons in general are unique to digital interfaces is inaccurate, and recounting one man's first interaction with a computer as "user testing of browsers" comes across as a sensational misrepresentation of what user testing is, and what education-by-interface should be.

Let's not show an entrenched English speaker Japanese and claim that it is the language's responsibility to immediately map to his mental model of English. Learning falls on a motivated student (which Joe, with self-proclaimed "no excuse[s]" for never using a computer, was not) matched with an expert evangelist like Jennifer Boriss, in the event of a total failure of comprehension.
I gave my grandma (who’d never used a computer before) an iPad for christmas. She still doesn’t use it much (just email really) but she grasped the direct touch interaction straight away. Swipes as well were fine - there’s a direct feedback model where if you start dragging a webpage it animates during the process.

Where she has difficulty is understanding what you’d use the net for (“You can get recipes on the internet?”). She needed it though - her current way of getting information is Teletext (UK-wide information system built into analogue TV broadcasts). That gives her weather, stocks+shares, TV listings and news, but is being turned off next year when they turn off analogue broadcasts to free up spectrum space. Digital terrestrial TV has the 'red button' info system but it contains dramatically less information.
Congrats on shipping, Tito. Glad to see you carrying the iGEM(-inspired) torch onward.
Doesn't Apple's policy not allow Pay-per-install Ads or something? I remember Tapjoy ran into issues because of that.
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I'm impressed with how fast it is, even though there is so much going on in the same time. I also think real-time comments is probably the major reason it's so easy to have a lot of comments on a post.
(I was at IMVU for almost four years, just left last week, and was originally on-boarded there during the last six months of Eric's stay.)

The tone of testing everything, revalidating assumptions, and relentlessly refining process after mistakes stayed with the company well after Eric left, and is going strong to this day.

Just because he self-promotes doesn't invalidate the fact that he has keen insights worth learning. After practicing these "lean startup" habits for the past four years, I can't imagine working without them.

(Was going to respond to the grandparent message before I saw Dusty's response, figured I'd chime in anyway after seeing it.)
I'm no writer but have a number of passions I write about often -- just one idea: I would continue to promote the ideas of the book (after all, it's the ideas I would be passionate about, not the book itself), and include a passive mention of the book at the end.
Well - maybe it's marketing driven. But maybe it's testing driven as they claim. In a way it's a bit catch-22. If they let everyone in - and they run into problems - then they've obliterated themselves instantly. And that's just what happened with Wave. Invites weren't hard to come by... and people just bailed on it and didn't come back.

But not opening it up - as you say - risks expectations that are too high as the buzz continues to build.

Mind you - I never heard anyone complain about the quality of the iphone after they waited in line several days before hand. Not saying the google+ will meet expectations in the same way. But you know - it's seems preferable to have maximal buzz than minimal in just about all scenarios.
Yes, generally when "Help" opens the documentation for all the features of the program. Last time I used it was circa 2000, microsoft word, I think.

I now use man pages and google mostly.
Very few infosec and IT security peeps yet that I have found. A few so far:

Bob Rudis: https://plus.google.com/106858596733931987499/posts

Graham Cluley: https://plus.google.com/102593062779602837630/posts

Naked security (Sophos): https://plus.google.com/109804632067529299377/posts
Yeah...maybe we'll make our money back.

But this comment stream has taught me a alot, we want to run a considerably larger experiment with our free application and will report back.
There are a LOT more buttons than that, and I enjoy how descriptive they are. There is educational, interesting, funny, agree, disagree, and love for each post.

I have to say I really appreciate Ravelry having so many options for voting. I used to post a lot in one of the tech forums on Ravelry, especially in reply to one person that kept posting information that was secondhand and wildly inaccurate. Unfortunately, she would have her own groupies (for lack of a better term) that would vote her comment as educational/agree/love. I would also have people that backed me up in the same way. If you didn't have any disagrees (for which I had far less than she did) you wouldn't be able to easily tell who to listen to. Nor is a straightforward up/down type voting system the best in a discussion.

I think that system is fabulous especially for forums and discussion mediums (see also: slashdot). Not so much for something like reddit or twitter where only one or two options is probably the only sane option to provide for many reasons.
Dissection of Google+ UI and my wishlist for it.
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Like is good +1 is bit geeky
Very interesting experience. The real issue is deciding on what assumptions you want to make about your audience. Even people who are not completely new to computers may act like people who have never used one before so making as few assumptions as possible is probably best unless you have a strong degree of confidence.

A few weeks ago, I visited a cousin who had recently bought a new fridge with "high-tech" water dispenser. I'm a big water drinker. When I went to the fridge to get some cold water, I felt really stupid for not knowing how to work a freaken water dispenser. It had a ton of buttons the real button to make it give you water looked like it was part of the door, not a press-able thing. The design could have been done better.

How many times have you been at someone's house and needed to use their microwave and it takes more time figuring out how to make the thing go than to actually heat the food? And even if you've used the exact same microwave 4 weeks ago, it still feels brand new and you feel just as lost.

Whether it's directions to a location or how to use an app/device, it may not stick.

Designing for computer illiterates but decently intelligent people seems like a worthy ideal to strive for. You may never get to a point where someone brand new to computers will feel comfortable with your app but keeping it in mind might help guide us into making small tweaks that can add up a big difference.

One example: With WordPress, you can add a search element to your site/blog. The default language of the label is "To search, type and hit enter." This is probably more clear than "Search this site" or plain "Search" but maybe not as clear as "To search, click here, type and hit enter."

Yes, it's more verbose. No, I'm not suggesting that WP should change the default text.

You have to strike a balance between being clear and not boring your audience by telling them what they already know but when in doubt, err on the side of clarity.
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For some statistics: 2,095,006,005 or 30.2 % of the world are Internet users.

http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats3.htm

I couldn't find any statistics on computer use, so the number is likely higher.
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That is bananas. Especially the 8x8 version he links to.
Wait, do you mean both the caller and the answerer pay for the call? Really, aren't you confusing something?
No they're not, because they're the people who don't have a cent to spend, and if they do they'll spend it on food.

There are millions who do have some money, but those already know how phones, computers etc. work.
There should be 3 levels of high score lists should be 1. personal 2. friends 3. global

this actually applies everywhere you are showing group merged data related to a particular person.

i.e. your height, your friends heights, and global heights

imagine a news article that has interactive graphs that query g+ or fb and use the info to put a friends layer next to the global info.
Yes, they are, but both might be wrong answers to the question of how to share to a limited number of people.

For example if I would like to share with my colleagues I would much prefer a centrally organized group instead of everyone keeping their own "work circles" up to date (eg when new interns come and go).
Yes, quite often. Usually it has a link to the manual which is what one is really looking for.
And I was a pro with a mouse (Apple Mac Plus) at 2. Young minds are very good at learning how things work.
In an economics textbook, yes. But in reality people have a notion of fairness, and this influences behaviour. For example, see this American Economic Review paper: http://www.lrz.de/~u516262/webserver/webdata/rabin1993_incor...

Anecdotally, this kind of what-it-costs consideration certainly influences my behaviour.

For instance, Easyjet doesn't pre-allocate seats on its planes, and offers 'speedy boarding' for something like £15 ($25). This means you get to board before those who didn't buy it (and, incidentally, sets up a game theoretic-type problem, in that it's only worth buying if enough others don't buy).

Irrespective of the value of this to me, I on principle never buy it. In fact, the very fact that they offer to take £15 off my hands for something that's transparently and utterly free to them lowers my opinion of them as a company.

(Note: obviously the price is set to engineer scarcity -- it wouldn't work if they charged £1 -- and from a rational/economic perspective it's a brilliant little wheeze).
I am a physicist from origin, so I haven't had a lot of specialized classes. I always used imperative languages. In physics c++ and c are leading.

Two years ago I found Haskell. It was difficult to learn, until I realized in Haskell you are just doing mathematics. In functional languages a function is a mathematical function. You can actually reason about code and even prove your code. This is extremely cool (from my point of view).

I purchased some books on lambda calculus, logic, category theory and did the SICP thing. Now functional programming feels more natural to me. I used it as day to day tool.
With postgresql, create index does not block read, only write. You can also use the CONCURRENTLY parameter and writes/updates won't be blocked, but the index creation takes longer (the db has to wait until no transaction potentially involving the index has stopped).

Not sure what other strategies exist to reliably build an index.

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/sql-createinde...
Annoyingly, I have an invite, but it won't let me sign up :(
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White text on black background people should not talk about fixing other UIs.
Scribd is blocked. Not surprised though.
Oh, but I should add that it is cool to see something headlining as "user testing" making its way up the HN ranks.
They don't allow incentivized downloads. (Ie. we'll give you in-game credits if you download the app that this ad advertises.)
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Answered here, somewhat: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId=...

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The "virtual lab" animation on bottom this page actually does a great job of showing how PCR works: http://openpcr.org/what-is-openpcr/
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plus.google.com is blocked already! That's quick
Yes, that's closer to my perspective: The strangling walled garden.
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Now that I think about it, in the last ten years, after ubiquitous internet access and Google, I don't think I've ever clicked on the Help link in any app. It never even occurred to me to do so until you asked just now.

I do recall using it a long time ago, say, 15 years earlier to, to find my way around Excel and Word, but not in the last decade.
So, how are these hackers sharing their technical insights on G+ without bothering their real-life friends and family?

That's right, they aren't.

Unless you manually add all your followers to a 'followers' circle and share to that (and subsequently pollute your default stream with your followers' posts) there's currently no way on G+ to keep your technical public persona apart from your more personal, private one.
So we have a popular social website, 1.4 million registered users, huge amounts of content, innovative discussion and a fanatical userbase, and it's all been coded and maintained by one person? Awesome!
Interesting fact about the VA's location. That wasn't what I meant though, I was just referring to the SEO part of Noels job.

Also, it sounds like you're at risk of getting too hung up on the old-fashioned way of strictly splitting design and code (recommended reading: http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1061-why-we-skip-photoshop).
I've shared links with friends. Most of them got invites even though I didn't have any Invite link on the UI.

But it looks like this doesn't work anymore.
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heh :) Was fooling around in the themes library. Liked this theme. Will keep it for a while.

[edit] Although I do agree that it tires the eyes after a while.
Me and a friend helped out with a smaller sum each in the early phase of their Kickstarter campaign - we're really glad to see the project was finalized!
The company I work for produces software for users with zero computer literacy. We're a very small outfit serving a very specific niche. We produce new and highly specialized/distinct programs at a rate of about one or two per week. Our users are often subjected to very tight time requirements, so we can't expect them to develop familiarity over a gradual learning curve. They must immediately know what to do, and our software must support them, computer skills be damned.

Almost ironically, I struggle to hold our team to our own UI best practices; to ensure our interfaces and content are approachable. We're always crushed by deadlines — the time it takes to be sure we haven't made any literacy assumptions is time we don't have. It's my job to make developing this sort of UI/UX absolutely painless. Unfortunately, I get almost no opportunities to actually test with our zero-experience users. This article was a wonderful read, and gave me a very specific type of knowing satisfaction. It's a rare opportunity indeed.

As for those best practices, here are a few examples:

• Emphasize actionable items with animations, and textual and pictorial descriptions of the actions that must be taken. Instead of saying "right click", we might show a picture of the mouse with the right button highlighted, with a "clicking" animation indicating the action to be performed.

• Use iconography and terminology derived from the subject matter or real-world objects, instead of common "abstract" UI elements. For instance, a light switch (indicated as actionable, of course) instead of a check box.

• Simplify user interactions and interfaces to the absolute minimum. Reduce the actions the user must perform in order to be satisfied. Reduce the number of options presented to the user at any one time.

In many ways, designing an interface for a zero-experience user is like choosing a programming language: You want the language that lets you describe exactly the program you need to make in as few instructions as possible. Likewise, you want an interface that lets your users describe exactly the action they need the program to perform in as few interactions as possible.
Congrats on shipping Tito!

(This is Mike Katsevman btw :>)
I actually got the exact opposite feeling: he was cocky at first, but then realized he was wrong. And even wrote a blog post about it. That's pretty humble. :)
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As far as I know, I've never met the guy. I did my time in the Bay Area in 99-00 (Linuxcare) and again in 02-03 (freelancing). I've never heard of 'there.com' either.
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so if I'm new to this, how can I use this machine to test out for diseases? That seems like a good first practical use.
I'd definitely like to know, since the WaPo guys use a lot of django. If (big if, I don't acutally know) the jobs site was built on django, and if they could figure out how it was compromised it would be beneficial for the wider django community to know. I hope they share when the dust settles.
Not even then. My kid was 6 weeks old when I first put the iPad in front of him. Babies get visual feedback right away, especially when it happens right a the point they're touching. It took maybe 30 seconds of training before he was pounding on the screen to make stuff happen.

This was even before he figured out real world things like stuffed animals.
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I liked the first comment (in the post) by Andrew Maine. Basically, it's simple math. If you expect a 5% conversion on a $1.99 app (which will earn you $1.39 after Apple's cut), the most you can spend for a viable business model is 6 or 7 cents per click.

Less if you want to make an actual profit on the app and not just get more users. But then, if you want more users, maybe the app should be free?
"I pored over our existing code, seeing the word node on what felt like every other line. As an experiment, I changed that word node to baseObj in a few high-level files, and suddenly a whole world of solutions opened up to me — the name of a thing had limiting my thinking."

Really? Wow. :-)
I don't understand the negative response towards someone who is trying to make money by improving peoples lives on a site which is focused on just that.

I find there are lessons to be learned from everyone, even the most scammy looking of internet marketers. The hard part is to control ourselves from having the knee-jerk reaction of rejecting the person, and just taking from the material what we think will be useful. Or in other words, take everything with a pinch of salt and keep an open mind.