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Ideas (algorithms and data structures) are what matters. Language is just a language, you can translate ideas (not code) between them if you're familiar with both languages and the field. ^_^
how would you say that you want to plus me?

"I want to circle you."
User-Submitted Feedback: When Does It Matter?
Tonight, I submitted my first ever piece of feedback to Google re: a feature-suggestion for Google+. While constructing my feedback, my mind was thrown into a brief war with itself. The source of the conflict? Whether or not the time I was spending piecing together my feedback was worth it or not.

Because I know the "Send feedback" button is there for a reason, I ignored the conflict I was going through and submitted my opinion on principal anyway. Regardless of this fact, I'm _still_ questioning whether or not what I just submitted was worth the time I spent putting it together.

So, I've come to the ever-intelligent members of HN to ask the question, "When does user-submitted feedback matter?" I would like to think that user-submitted feedback is handled democratically, wherein the majority rules and once a specific number of people have weighed in on a specific thing, action is taken.

But, honestly, I can only see user-submitted feedback being handled democratically if the feedback is inherently negative, i.e a bug that completely decimates the user-experience in it's entirety, rather than feedback that is inherently positive, i.e a feature request.

That said, although I ended up submitting my feedback to Google for a feature I think would add positively to the user-experience of Google+, taken what I've said above, I'm almost positive it's a textbook example of grasping at straws.

So, what do you guys and gals think? Does user-submitted feedback matter? If so, when? If not, why not?
Mostly agreed (just speaking for myself) on your #1.
Could not agree more on #2-4.

Still, I'm a bit uncertain how Circles will pan out once G+ gains traction, but it's without a doubt more manageable than FB.
Yeah, most of amateurs think that they must have Eclipse^Wa typewriter to write a poetry. ^_^
I would be very happy if I could pay $6400 / year for health insurance for the family.
+1 for RSS if you are asking about content..

for layout change, not sure..
The post says "There’s absolutely zero non-data ink."

The names of the countries are printed twice. As far as data is concerned, one set contains none. The second printing may help readability, but readability isn't data.

You can tell one set isn't necessary because the cancer graph at the bottom leaves them out of the middle columns.

The bullet point at the bottom "Include both the names of the items and their values on both the left-hand and right-hand axes" could add "If your goal is zero non-data ink or your space is tight, you can leave out one set of names."
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I'm sorry, but acting like torrenting is a superior user experience to Netflix is not credible. Sure pirating has its advantages, but it's no panacaea. For one thing, who wants to wait hours to download something before they can watch it? The disk space requirements are huge, and the quality and availability issues are problematic. Netflix may not have everything streaming, but they have a pretty good selection at your fingertips, and with DVD coverage you can fill in the gaps of most stuff that you really want to watch.

The problem is the "industry" is not monolithic, and if you think about Netflix cannibalizing $200/month cable subscriptions (for all premium channels) into $10/month streaming, you can see where some of the players are gonna drag their feet. It'd be great if big content could come together a create an amazing service for everyone, but they don't have the chops or the incentive.
Yes, I look back fondly on the innocent days of 2009 when corporations couldn't influence politics.

Citizens United was a nonprofit organization specifically formed to express the views of its members. You can't stop that without trampling all over the 1st Amendment. And you really wouldn't like the negation of "money is speech". Sure, you can support candidate Smith: just don't spend any money in the process, including but not limited to campaign supplies, web hosting, and the imputed value of your labor.
what about nearlyfreespeach.net ? I'm surprise no one has mentioned them. I've been quite happy with them and they're seemingly on the pretty aggressive side of nice pricing and digital rights.
I'll certainly use circles if enough of my friends, family, coworkers, etc. start using Google+.

If Facebook had that feature, I'd be using it frequently to post geeky technical stuff to my work friends without boring my non-tech relatives, posting pictures of my kids to my relatives and close friends without boring my work friends, posting politically charged stuff to only those friends I know are on the same side of the political fence, and posting about my side business without my boss and my coworkers being able to read it! :-)

As it stands now though, most of the people I know are on Facebook, relatively few are on Google+ (yet at least), and I just end up occasionally posting fairly bland, watered down stuff that's unlikely to bother anyone, etc.
Google+ is another iteration towards a fuller understanding of what people want for "social networking" online. Eventually, our understanding will stabilize somewhat, and we'll have a pretty good idea of what it means to "provide a social networking service."

Today we now know what it means to "provide an email service", and you can choose from a variety of email service providers that all interoperate. That's the vision of Diaspora (and a number of similar efforts): to enable you to choose from a variety of interoperating service providers (communicating with each other by standard protocols).
Going to once again reinvent IRC? ^_^
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not very hard at all, at least in my experience.
The best reason for being employee #20 is the chance to grow with the organization and take on a leadership role in a company early on so you can be sitting pretty when the company is a 1000 people (assuming you are competent enough to grow with the company). Small growing companies provide more vertical mobility than a 1000 person company (unless that 1000 person company is growing the same % YoY as the small company, but this is unlikely, since the % YoY growth typically slows as a company grows.)
Ashton Kutcher is an entrepreneur now and "makes stuff" ?
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"I want to plus you"? Kind of corny I know.
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I had looked at your site some months ago but saw you were a reseller for 1 API at the time. Are you guys ICANN accredited now?
Your post is very condescending but also very light on facts. To someone successfully using C++ metaprogramming you just sound like you failed to find how and when to use it.
(I do agree that it can get ugly wrt error messages and syntax as neither the compilers nor the language were designed with metaprogramming in mind.)
Take his arguments farther and you reach Eben Moglen's (co-creator of free software licenses) goal of the FreedomBox, which would enable all to own all their data currently in the cloud.

The project is getting started. It's bold and far-reaching, but so was a free encyclopedia anyone could edit. This page http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox gives more background and the videos it links to are inspirational.

If you agree with owning your identity, you may like what you read.
We turned a profit on bailing out the banks, actually. Or close to one, maybe lost a negligible amount when you weigh AIG against the profitable bailouts.

The issue with stimulus via tax cuts (which actually constituted 1/3 of the stimulus bill we did get, you don't hear about that much, because it undercuts the obama as devil-socialist narrative), is that, as pointed out above, you're primarily putting money back in the pockets of rich people. They'll invest it and maybe that will trickle down a little but it's nowhere near the multiplier effect for the economy that direct consumer spending gets you. Poorer people spend the money, that gets it bouncing around in the economy.

As a general ideological predisposition, tax cuts for the rich as a primary policy goal could theoretically make sense (although I'd suggest a hard look at the last 30 years first), but as fiscal stimulus for a down economy it just plain doesn't add up.
It's not like you have to choose Facebook xor Google+. You can use both.

For me, it's looking like I'll use Facebook to keep up with old schoolmates and relatives, and I'll use Google+ for keeping up with other circles (e.g. photographers and tech reporters).

TV didn't kill radio.
Sure, but there's no e-mail address in your profile.
I agree. I was thinking about it and even if I wanted to use Google+ I couldn't just because there are so many people I have connections with that don't even realize it exists and they won't switch till there friends switch.
Facebook does exactly the same thing. Not sure what the fuss is about. If you want to role play - pretend to be somebody or something else and post in disguise - do it somewhere else.
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> Monads are already overused and misunderstood- using them in C++ templates just makes things worse.

Where are they overused?
> who wants to wait hours to download something before they can watch it

I don't know how fast your internet is, but I can get an hour-long TV show in 720p in <10 minutes from torrents, and I'm paying $45/month for internet (in America).

> The disk space requirements are huge

Are they? 2 TB hard drives are now $70 a pop, and who says you have to save everything like a pack rat anyway?

> quality and availability issues are problematic

They've never been for me. There have always been plenty of seeds, and there has always been a high quality version that has been easy to find (usually because it has the most seeds & snatches). If anything, the quality is MUCH higher when torrenting than it is when streaming (legally or illegally).
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And they don't need to make everybody follow a different paradigm. They just need to support the new one and the existing one.
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Cool, can I bags this line on the next google+ article?
Facebook used to do with "Lists" the same thing Google+ is doing with circles. The option to add someone to a list/circle right after friending them.

They removed it 6+ months ago... presumably because no one took the time to add their friends to lists. It's highly relevant to the article.
Sorry for the typo. I like G+. And I agree with your #2 and #3.

Maybe am seeing it the wrong way. Maybe there will be a time when there will be two or more big social networks. And you will have to use all of them.

I can see how G+ could become part of the Google services. Enhancing what you already do with the google services.

But still, I just don't see G+ being a Facebook killer.
Disk space is incredibly cheap. Are you seriously discouting quality on downloading vs. streaming? Quality is the entire reason behind local media. ISP's simply don't provide consistent service for all customers. Streaming is not an option for vast media consuming throngs.

Torrenting isn't a superior user experience, it's a giant pain in the ass. Sharing files with friends, however, is the piracy experience for most people. Pretending torrent users end the file sharing line, is ridiculous.
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In Facebook, to limit a post to a list, near the new post field you click the lock and downward arrow icon which displays a drop-down of choices such as "Everyone", "Friends", or "Custom". Click "Edit" next to "Custom". This brings up a modal box. In the "Make this Visible to" section, under "These People:", from the dropdown select "Specific People...". This makes a textfield appear. Type the name of the friend list (hopefully you have the names of all of your lists committed to memory, or at least the letter they start with) and a typeahead will display suggestions. From the typeahead suggestions, choose a list by clicking it. Click "Save Setting" to exit the modal box and return to the post editor. Hover over the lock and downward arrow icon again to display a tooltip of what lists the pending post will be shared with to confirm you have done everything correctly. Create the post and click "Share".

So Facebook does have the option but it is hidden away below 'mystery meat navigation' [1] and is generally not at all intuitive for the average user. Google+ is receiving (deserving) credit for the concept because the implementation is present and forward in the UI.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_meat_navigation
An exception to this is library code, which should typically check for malloc failures and return an error to the client code.
One minor point in an otherwise excellent post:

> Another difference I should note: This type of forced-rank chart
> doesn’t have any obvious allowance for ties. [...] In Fry’s case,
> he uses the team with the lower salary as the “winner” of the tie.
> But this isn’t obvious to the reader.

I wonder if this isn't random. It appears to be the case for the 91-71, 90-72, and the 69-93 ties. In the 80-81 and 80-82 ties the higher salary team is on top.
I see what you mean. And I'm eager to see how it works out. If its substantially better and easier and pulls in enough of the people I care about, I'll stop using Facebook too.
In my experience, CS 101 was easy to get into and seemed to be designed to get students excited about computer science. Heck, one of the final projects was to implement an Asteroids game. We even used a beginner Java IDE developed by one of the professors -- http://sourceforge.net/projects/jigsaw-ide/
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I only have a couple of personal projects, which are still under way, and there is definitely room to add another one.

Thanks for the feedback though, I guess my hobby would be 'tinkering' so putting it that way, no I wouldn't feel bad enjoying my hobby instead of studying ... which is still tinkering in a way.
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You are really scraping the bottom of the barrel. Instructions on how to use something, i.e. README, don't really qualify as marketing. Since it is not what is doing the marketing and it is part of the product. Word of mouth and a site announcing the product would be marketing. You do have to let somebody know about your product of course if you want them to use it but you can hardly call that marketing.
I agree with you, in that the seamless integration into the Google experience is definitely a plus (I could not help adding the word "plus" into the sentence).
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>And I've never had DNS issues with them.

And neither did any of the many others, until they did.

Google "GoDaddy domain problem", "GoDaddy horror stor(y/ies)", etc (I'm too lazy to hyperlink the first 5 links I found in less than a minute of searching). It's just silly to rely on GoDaddy at all these days, in my opinion.
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Well, they can't force anything if only she knows the password. For what I've read they can only threaten with and convict for obstruction of justice, a felony.

So, depending on her mindset she can choose whether to become a convicted fraudster or a convicted but potentially innocent freedom and privacy fighter (with that 10-year sentence). I'm not saying that doing time isn't easy but...
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In short, I don't buy the idea that "grandma can't understand this" as a reason to deny a feature that a lot of people want.

Along those lines, what people are asking for here is pretty much the ability to make Google+ a bit more like Twitter.

From conversations with grandma and her ilk, grandma doesn't get Twitter, either, so I don't think you're losing very much.

Google+ seems to be positioning itself as the Android to Facebook's iPhone, for people that want more control and don't mind jumping through a few more hoops as long as they have it. I think they've still got some complexity to burn, especially if they continue to make the UI as easy to comprehend as it's been thus far.
Depends a lot on the school, and how much prior experience you have. As far as rigor and workload, that really depends on the professor. That said, intro courses are usually designed to be at least survivable by someone with no background at all.

Strictly talking about the difficulty of concepts, a curriculum based off of SICP (or something with a similar emphasis on functional programming or math) will probably be full of new concepts even for those who've had some experience programming. I'd say this is a good thing for everyone involved, because it both levels the playing field for those without experience, and ensures that those who have some still get something out of the course.

Most schools, though, start with imperative concepts (as does AP Comp Sci), which isn't a bad thing either, but someone with experience won't get as much out of it until later in the course.

If you're applying to schools or about to start a class, it wouldn't be a bad idea to dig through the department website and see if you can find the site for the class to see what it entails.
I've been a community manager since 1996 and at all the companies I've worked, even the biggest ones, we did look at that feedback and use it. It was usually my job to read it all over and report back to the product team with numbers and suggestions. Granted, sometimes it didn't make business sense to implement a feature so we didn't act on it, but for the most part it is the desire of companies to make products that are appealing to their users. So, yes, companies look at and discuss your feedback.

Unless it's just 'this sucks', people are reading and using your feedback.
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This has to be one of the most myopic economic pieces I have seen in a while.

I am not even American - heck I don't even live in America - but I shudder at the thought of America not being able to honor all legal obligations.

It's not about the money. It's not about how much money the US gov't will collect in August vs how much it has to pay out. America is the largest economy on the planet with the largest bond market and subsequently the largest government bond market. It also happens to enjoy, as the french put it, exhorbitant privilege - because not only can it borrow in it's own currency, but it can print new money to repay outstanding obligations. No other country on the planet has that ability to do that.

The entire bond markets have rated the US gov't's abilities to repay said bonds at the highest rating for at least the last 30 years.

A 'minor' disruption like this, at a time when job numbers in the US consistently disappoint. When only God HE knows what will happen with the Euro, all it takes is some event like this to send the entire global economy back into recession and possibly worse.

If the economy goes into a whirlwind now, where sovereign bond markets are threatened, the repercussions could be even more severe than the credit market freeze we just saw.

Imagine if it escalates - although it is easy to say, it will never escalate, well I always said we would never reach this point, and look at where we are now - and creditor countries don't want to invest in Treasuries any more, the repercussions could be disastrous and could lead to Nuclear War.

I know it sounds hyperbolic, but imagine if America can't pay it's bills and China doesn't want to lend it money to pay it's bills...what choice does America have but to go to war with China? Especially when the government is under intense domestic pressure because they never extended the damn debt ceiling and avoided this in the whole place. It almost becomes the least worse choice. War with China or domestic revolt.

Sure you say, Americans would never revolt - but when SS checks stop arriving and tons of old people can't get their health care taken care of, let's see if you still say that.

Not to mention that if America defaults on the debt, it could send ripples all throughout China and cause significant issues there leading to an implosion of economic activity - which would actually incentivize China to go to war with America.

Again, I know it sounds very hyperbolic and VERY far-fetched, but so did the real estate market collapsing in the middle of the worst credit bubble burst America has ever seen.

It's all about timing.

The world is not in a position to deal with a default like this in a measured manner.

God help us all, if it ever comes to a default right now.

Talk about the perfect storm.
We've been working on Paydirt for about four months while juggling our regular consulting work. It's been in open beta since it was even close to MVP and we had useful feedback from the users so far.

Now we'd love the feedback of the HN community. Thanks!