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The "Share" button needs to be re-aligned. But, maybe it was placed that way intentionally, to call it out and increase sharing.

I suppose attractive != effectiveness.
From somebody who has actually worried about such anachronisms as air gapped networks, I can tell you that in a lot of secure environments usb and ieee io was actually physically disconnected. This has taken a pretty hard hit recently, as many many systems no longer ship with DIN connectors for keyboard and mouse. For a variety of reasons it's much easier to lock down the available drivers in the os than to try to keep sourcing systems that can operate entirely without usb. And even that was rather difficult under windows until recently.

I don't have a real wrapped up conclusion here, except to say that if these quite security conscious organizations that pay close attention to these issues have found it a pain to implement IO restricted general desk PC's, it's no wonder at all that most private organizations are having trouble.
> Monads as commonly explained on blog posts are cargo cult mathematics, and monads used in languages like C++ where they make code longer and more complicated instead of simpler, are cargo cult programming.

I upvoted both of your comments because of that statement. Explaining your position (although, it is a fairly weak argument) is enough.

My trigger for cargo-cultism was him stating that you want to lay out your templates in Haskell first.
This is assuming the hardware is as presents itself.
If anyone does benchmarking, please include litespeed as I am curious. I suspect it's much faster than nginx at ssl. Even with the connection limit on the free version I suspect it will still be feasible for testing.
Agreed, but an engineering degree does give you a stronger framework for noticing, observing, planning, building and acting than most other non-scientific degrees. (That said, as I noted elsewhere, I do have an MBA and appreciate the knowledge.)
The problem is that people who might want to follow might want to follow about different topics.

For instance people want to follow him because they are interested in minecraft, or because they are interested in game progamming. The overlap between those groups is not that large.

People might want to follow John Baez because they are interested in his math/physics blog or because they are interested in Project Azimuth. The overlap between those groups is not that large.

People might want to follow Randal Schwartz because of his Perl stuff, or karaoke. The overlap between those groups is not that large.

People might want to follow Matt Cutts because of interest in SEO or exercise. The overlap between those groups is not that large.

All of the above might be comfortable with some personal stuff being public. But people who want to see their personal stuff has a fairly small overlap with what they have.

In short all of the problems that circles try to solve for private stuff exist for content people are willing to have be public. The simple public/following labels don't address the need.
He wants a circle that he doesn't have to maintain, which the interested audience "subscribe" to. He can then post Minecraft updates to this. He wouldn't know who they are (even if they add him to a circle, he wouldn't know if they are interested in Minecraft and that would be a lot of work for a big circle) to add them himself.

I want this too, not necessarily as proposed, but at least the use case supported, somehow.
Incidentally, I could make a very effective denial-of-service attack by putting a high-voltage battery inside what appears to be a USB stick. And no software is going to protect you from the results of massively overvolting sensitive electronics.
I've seen multiple variations of similar requests. It seems that there's two separate problems that need to be addressed. There's the broadcasters problem where people want to broadcast information only to select groups of people. Facebook has taken a stab at this, Google+ has done it much better, and the concept is merely Public/Private for Twitter.

Then there's the subscriber problem where people want to read relevant information on a specific topic. This problem only seems to exist when connections only need to go in one direction, i.e. following. Here users want to be able to view posts on specific subjects by those with "celebrity" type persona's. Twitter solves this (IMO, poorly) with the use of hashtags and multiple accounts. The hashtags don't solve this problem completely because you can't subscribe to a specific user's hashtag. I don't personally care that @pydanny is drunk at a wedding with Audrey, but I'm super interested in his DjangoCon talk. I also don't care about Joe Schmoe learned the power of decorators in his #django views.

To me, tags don't seem like the right approach because of the reasons above. I personally like the concept of "Channels". Users can create any number of channels for whatever they want to post about. When you are adding a user to your circle, you can select which channels you'd like to subscribe to. Then when they post they can select which channel the post is relevant to. Now, some of you may say: Whats the difference between this and tagging? Well, the distinguishing factor is that you need to create channels prior to posting to them. It forces users to categorize their subjects consistently, and it allows subscribers specific choices on what they'd like to see.
I agree. See my other reply here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2751754

Somehow we got sidetracked onto the issue of whether it's ever ok to use a gendered description of someone's bad behavior.
Your comment didn't add anything that taught anybody else.
http://www.kevinrose.com/ should read this.
It is case sensitive; -W enables more warnings, not -w, which as you noticed suppresses them.
Also worth noting, he's no longer using Tumblr for Marco.org: http://www.marco.org/secondcrack
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It's trivial if you don't mind the extra compilation time.

If you're trying to make sure that your compile times are also short, it might not be worth it.... yet.
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It's not just individuals that need to own their identity. I work with small businesses and have helped numerous clients move from @aol.com or @hotmail.com addresses to their own domains. And it's not just businesses, either. I have worked in third-world countries and seen governments print "countryforeignerregistration@yahoo.com" on official documents.

The only reason I don't own my identity online is that I've been too cheap to pay for domain registration. And that's an ever less meaningful excuse.
Such a neat and simple site design and the shirts, oh god the shirts. I love you man <3
If an attacker can get the USB ID of a device physically attached to your computer then he probably already has access to your computer.
The key idea of a circle is that I have different kinds of content that I want to send to different audiences.

Google+ currently handles that fact when it comes to private content. It does not handle that fact with public content.

I agree that the whole public/private distinction is important to keep clear. But there are a lot of ways to do this. For instance make public circles blue when you add them, and private ones green. And add a tooltip to make it clear what the colors mean.

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. And that matters disproportionately to the top content producers.
unfortunately having a domain is not enough
you have to be on twitter
maybe youll have to be on g+ sometime soon too
then you dont own it anymore

additionally, ive always worried about the fact that the dns registar generally own your dns and just let you use it for a fee.
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Over 300 HTTP requests required to load the new techcrunch. While this is much better than the previous ~800 HTTP requests on the techcrunch homepage, it's still pretty ridiculous.
Or advice.
If you're serving the javascript yourself, then combining 3 javascripts into a single file might drop your RPS from 1000 to 500.

Maybe worth a quick twiddle.
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It's not pedantry. Linking directly to the content's author makes sure that he is properly credited and gets the exposure.
He should just stick to a reddit subgroup or facebook or twitter or something. I kinda like the privacy and simplicity of circles. And in this realm there is no one size fits all. Google+ can be more small, closed group oriented, someone else can fill your broadcasting desires. Emphasis on everything is emphasis on nothing, and google circles fills a void between email and broadcast (twittter/FB feed) that I love. Keep it that way.
Don't waste your time. This is a pretty crappy article. It will be old hat for you if you've been following this area in any depth.

Misleading discussions: the proportion of patents that are overturned compared to the number that aren't, what makes a bad patent bad, who files for patents, what is a patent troll, who are the patent trolls.

Missing discussions: the distinction between software patents and non-software patents, the consequences of in re Bilski, the proportion of software patents vs non-software patents, the current misguided "reform" efforts in Congress, the nuclear war in the mobile industry, Google vs. Oracle.
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Yeah, hotmail just has a bad reputation because it was pretty average for a time, so people look down on others when they give out their @hotmail email address. I use it, mainly because it was what everyone used back when I created in high school. I have a gmail to but at my volume of email never really felt compelled to totally switch over.
I want them both. And a blog. And something like Twitter but with better ability to follow a conversation (something like the way identi.ca works).

I have only briefly played with Google+, but with some tweaks and some enhancements to the publishing aspect of one's outgoing stream of posts and some way to follow subsets of people's public posts (maybe integrate with Blogger?), I think they could make a serious run at ALL current services that are based on organizing and presenting user-generated content.

That would be a very ambitious project, though. I wonder if Google has the cojones for something that big?
Ok so the new design is much faster. Great, that's awesome. But I feel completely disgusted by this. Default html colours with arial font-face would be better than this.
I don't think you're reading it correctly. When it says part of the deal price is debt, that means the purchaser is using debt to finance the acquisition (taking loans or issuing bonds). It's nothing to do with GoDaddy's balance sheet.
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Yes, for some reason we say we "own" our domains, but I always seem to have to renew my lease.
The ONLY effective method of paid acquisition for us thus far has been highly targeted Facebook ads, and they have been extremely effective.

Facebook is far and away the most powerful way to target people socially based on actual interests (likes) vs. just casual searches (goog).
I'm not a fan of the overall design, but the way the logo disappears into the top bar (scroll slowly) is pretty darn cool.
That is almost a counter example though, he has 32000 people in circles while g+ is still quiet limited. If g+ was to go away he could easily redirect the domain and build his core following back up fairly quickly.

This of course is a lot different for say a company that has worked very hard building up something like a Facebook following that while susceptible to marketing messages aren't likely to go out of their way to follow the company to whatever online presences they create.
I wonder if TLD's will ever be perceived as government lock-in e.g. bit.ly, ow.ly, 3.ly are at the whims of Libya and yourname.com is subject to US legislation and enforcement. Great post and 100% agree.
Using a system that's built for receiving job applications, like JobScore/JobVite/Resumator, let's jobseekers communicate with you the way you want to hear them.

Using the hacked-to-fit solution in LinkedIn to receive applications and complaining about the quality is like using Facebook as your company's main site and then complaining about the lack of control you have.

Also, you can't complain about how people apply for jobs if clicking the "View Job" button makes you login first (Good luck pitching that requirement to privacy-savvy people...)
You'd think the former CEO of Jobster would know better...
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What is M? In order for n people to connect to n-1 other people (n-1 number of additions of people to circles), it approximates to n*n, or n^2.
I have to wonder why they haven't added a "+1" button.
Perhaps hotmail is fine. but to be honest, coming from the AIM generation, the biggest gmail pull for me is the fact that all my previous aim buddies are now on google chat. You might be able to tell me to move on, but i still love just siting down and doing the old "what are u doing, what are u doing" checking of statuses, that I grew up doing every day in high school and college... yeah FB and twitter took some of that, but I tend to have smaller, tighter circles of friends, and g-chat is still one of the best ways I keep up with close friends (fb and twitter are more "aquantiences" than friends u could say) now scattered all over the globe. And they are all there. game. set. match. google.
Ashton Kutcher and Ryan Seacrest can't join G+ until they fix this. Well, they could, but they couldn't use it for personal stuff. Try sorting through ~5 million notifications looking for the thousand or so that you actually know.
I wish green theme lasts temporarily..
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Ill-fitting shirt pictures aside, the bigger problem is sizing availability. I'm willing to overlook what looks like a total lack of womens shirts, but the near lack of anything but large-size (and a handful of XL) shirts is pretty disappointing.
I rather like it.
I used to have a bash script that would automatically comment out and uncomment lines in /etc/hosts (using sed, as I recall), as well as having an automatic timer so it would block access after ten minutes or so. Come to think of it, I could probably have also set it up so it would only run during certain blocks of time (it wasn't effective because it was too easy to run).

(It's probably predictable that my response to this was wondering why it's superior to host-file blocking).
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If there's a place anywhere on G+ for a reddit-style up/downvote system, it is Sparks. Let me teach it what I am interested in.
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I still have a hotmail account that I check periodically, and while it may be ok in IE, it's a terrible experience in Chrome. All the AJAX interface is really slow to the point where you can easily end up deleting messages that aren't even the message that you're currently viewing. I have no idea how it is in Firefox, but, I don't care enough about my Hotmail account to bother using a different browser for it.
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Are the black boxes instead of images on purpose?

http://imgur.com/fw52e
And, as discussed in his podcast - Build and Analyze http://5by5.tv/buildanalyze/18 (ep. 18), this has nothing to do with Marco developing a sudden aversion to Tumblr and everything to do with his desire to be able to roll his own CMS as he has been doing since far before that CMS turned into Tumblr.
The way the copy reads it immediately makes me suspicious tech crunch did a redesign solely to milk the "outrage" publicity. It's really not that far beyond linkbait.
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I am a recent MBA grad currently working on an education start up.

This lecture was filmed in 2009. I learned more from this (highly entertaining) video than from graduate school.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgMclXX5msc

The lecturer is Peter Schiff - most famous for predicting the dot com bubble and the housing bubble.

There are several themes in this lecture you guys may find interesting and relevant:

-Sustainable businesses make decisions based on current and future cash flow. Real Estate and Tech are no different

-Bubbles are predictable

-Keynesian economics (low interest rates, stimulus, money printing, bailouts, subsidies, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac) fuels bubbles

-The 'boom' is the problem, the 'bust' is the solution
-Moral Hazard (too big too fail) is not conducive to prudent, long term decision making

-When it comes to frothy markets, "this time is different" is not an advisable mentality

I hope this serves as an introduction to Austrian Economics and a wake up call to those who ignore the powerful effects loose monetary policy.
Another great reason to ignore the site.
But from a data portability standpoint:

+ Your contacts are easily exportable

- Non-webmail access: exchange-push protocol for smart phones, POP3 (aka Inbox-only), Outlook/OutlookExpress-only access (using, I presume, private APIs).

- If you decide to move your identity off of hotmail, you can't disable spam filtering, which combined with basically POP3-only access means you are forced to login to check you spam folder. At least with Gmail/GoogleApps you can use IMAP to automatically check/sync your spam folder, even though you can't turn off the filtering. The only plus here is that you can dial down the spam filter slightly, which you can't do on Google.

- Since access is POP3 only, the only way to export all of your email is to move all of it into your Inbox and pull it down (or alternate between moving a folder in and pulling it down, then sorting it on the other end back into folders).
For fun I did a trivial translation of the C++ version to Go.

Results (with gcc 4.2 -03 -mtune=native -DNDEBUG, head Go -B, Ocamlopt 3.12.0 -unsafe -rectypes -inline 1000):

C++: 0m0.611s

OCaml: 0m1.457s

Go: 0m1.043s

This is on a Macbook Pro 2.53 Ghz Core 2 Duo running OS X 10.5.8.

Go source: http://pastie.org/2199969

(With a trivial optimization, the Go version can be improved by ~13%, but I decided not to do that because it'd be a slightly different algorithm.)
I'm relatively sure that if there's enough public outrage and media coverage, some of the bought politicians might reconsider. I mean, COICA didn't pass after all, right?
its funny that i get minus karma for this post lol.
but yeah id prefer some decentralized dns system where i would own my domain somehow

well then again, dns depends also on static ips which we dont really own. with ipv6 we can be one step closer to owning the ip without being an isp however. can also setup rdns more easily.
CDNs often balance by returning an IP address for a server near you when you do a DNS lookp for the CDN. Servers near you generally download faster because of less time wasted waiting on round trip time latency.

Problem is, the CDN returns a server near the IP address of the machine doing the DNS lookup, and that's generally your DNS server, not your own box. If you use your local ISP DNS server, that's close enough you do get a nearby server. But if you use a third party DNS server, your DNS lookup might happen from a DNS server in Ashburn VA while you're actually in Chicago. The CDN would balance you to VA instead of Chicago.

That's why using a local DNS provider gives faster downloads when the download comes from a multi-POP CDN.
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Cheers!
I learned C# and ASP.NET this way. Emacs, csc.exe, and Microsoft .NET for Programmers by Fergal Grimes (Manning). Great book if you like learning languages this way.
Unfortuantely, we are all very vulnerable to malfeasance by governments, especially our own. Governments have done far worse things to their citizens than revoke their domains.
Well, it's better then the Gawker redesign
True, but you're not paying Google for your @gmail.com address, so you have less say, than if you are a paying customer.
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Flickr has a pretty good solution to this. You can create public groups, private groups and invite-only groups.
I don't understand: DJ Patil joined Color five months ago (according to his LinkedIn profile), yet Color is more than one year old.

Why is he called a co-founder? He doesn't even say so on his LinkedIn profile (a lot of people claim to be a Color co-founder, though).
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I LOL'd to that. Ah Bush. I should put that on my resume.
Can you show us a DirectCompute one?

Btw, introducing C++ introduces problems too: RTTI, exceptions, and the fact that templates are to be used (would tend to create bigger code).
Well, I live in Argentina and here the default chat application is MSN. Since MSN from hotmail's page works exactly as good as gtalk from gmail, the reason you us gmail is aprt of the reason I use hotmail.
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That looks like quite an interesting piece of tech. I'd be keen to see it in action.
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Whenever you are using a computer, you are facing a huge and continuous information flow: new emails, Facebook updates, Twitter, IM messages, and so on. Considering this, how can you focus on doing anything meaningful?
An outdated look that shouldn't have got past concept stage. More importantly though, it still feels super sluggish for me in the latest version of Safari. I won't be visiting anymore that normally do, which is about 1-2x a month, despite knowing there is some decent content there.
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If you don't like the jaggies in your HTML Canvas pictures, you can make the canvas size be twice as big and use CSS to set its size on the screen back to what you want.

Then you get nicely antialiased graphics.

Don't go crazy on the expansion though or iPhone users will hate you.

You should also be careful to drop your endpoints of horizontal and vertical lines on the xxxx.5 boundaries (in screen space) to keep nice sharp lines, otherwise you get a two pixel wide smear.
That would be great. It seems like Google has the brainpower to figure out a way to use up and down votes to target ads better as well. I would love to see ads based on things that I am actually interested in.
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