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"But wouldn't just really-really reading it do the same thing more efficiently."

If it works for you, go nuts. It's a surprisingly rare skill, but I think it exists. Every once in a while I can reach that level (mostly in code reviews; for some reason that makes it easier).
This is an awesome analysis. I think the best thing to come out of Google+ is the clarification of kinds of digital social interactions and how we might tackle those in the (short-term) future. Maybe even Facebook or Google will iterate and offer robust solutions here.
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> Google+, the Facebook clone

Really? Just because a product is competing in the same space doesn't mean it's a clone.
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Dismissing a well-written and elaborate post in a one-liner with no convincing arguments is usually considered bad form.

Cargo cult programming itself seems to be an overused term. According to wikipedia it means "a style of computer programming that is characterized by the ritual inclusion of code or program structures that serve no real purpose. Cargo cult programming is typically symptomatic of a programmer not understanding either a bug he or she was attempting to solve or the apparent solution". I've seen this done. I knew programmers who would call the same (side-effecting) function twice in a row, "just in case, since it might fail the first time", instead of actually checking the function's return code etc.

Do you really think the post's author has no idea of what is talking about? That he copy-pasted some code and ended up with an EDSL in C++? The particular code he shows might not be practical, but that doesn't mean it's "cargo cult". For instance, perl-golf, obfuscated C contests and implementing X in Javascript aren't practical-minded activities either, but you can't call it "cargo cult": programmers engaging in them aren't exactly clueless.

Again, monads may be perceived as "hyped" but that doesn't mean they're "cargo cult mathematics" any more than the Y combinator is.
I agree on the backlash against facebook, I think this would be understandable user behavior. The problems I still have with Google+ are two:

1. the name, there is not a simple way to make it a verb, would you say you are "plusing" or how would you say that you want to plus me?

2. it would be difficult for it to become as popular as facebook because there are alreasy lots of social graphs in facebook already established. The argument that users would change because of the privacy TOS is flawed, because many users don't care about the privacy stuff.
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No, but lets face it, there isn't a whole lot that differentiates google + from facebook at this time.
I'm not holding it against him: I'm just questioning the statement. The Gates foundation is great, but its not innovative: Rockefeller/Carnegie/etc did similar things in their time. And I have no clue what Micheal Dell has done in the last decade that is noteworthy. So to all the folks voting my comment down: in the last 10 years what about the things Bill Gates and Micheal Dell have done is innovative?
Google+ is like a Facebook-Twitter hybrid, and it won't kill Facebook
How callous is this man? 44% cut in funding to who? Not to the Banks and Institutions that caused the GFC and the whole problem in the first place. Please name me one ill or unemployed person who had a hand in this whole mess?
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My new DVR holds so few shows [...] It holds now about 20 shows, and a few movies, and is basically useless in that it fills up every few days ...

I think the author needs to stop watching so much TV.

Does anyone identify with this piece? It seems largely exaggerated to me. I watched the first 4 episodes of The Inbetweeners, season 3, on demand last night. I have FiOS, and even with its clunky menu navigation, it was easy to find and watch the shows. The alternate is. what, download a 1GB torrent? I don't see how that's easier.

If Hollywood wants to improve box office receipts, they could stop making so many sequels, movies from comic books, movies from TV shows, and 3D for the sake of 3D.
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Because those of us who hack code tend to be abysmal at managing business and other people. So it's a specialization thing.

Musicians are legendary for having this problem.
I'd go to a lawyer. If you have a signed contract and can prove that they agreed to pay, you can win in court. But firstly, if you haven't already, send a cease and desist letter to them, mentioning the contract and that you will take the matter to court if they do not cooperate. I've been in this kind of trouble before and a C&D usually does the trick (as companies are intimidated by lawsuits).

Also, try sending a DMCA takedown notice to the host, notifying them of your situation. They might pull the website in question.
That's pretty much the only thing that is holding me back at the moment. I've already completely switched to using G+ over FB (I was lucky to get my entire immediate social circle in quite early so we all switched), and the only thing missing is some form of Groups function.

Other things that i'd like to see ASAP are threaded discussions, show my +1'd items on my public wall, merge buzz into my public posts, events, and letting me pick which circles I see by default on the main page.
They seem to have no idea about site optimization. The home page gets a C in Google's Page Speed and a D from YSlow: http://gtmetrix.com/reports/techcrunch.com/yUjb1zjR
I'm sure this is common practice, but I don't like that Tucows (Hover) is squating 200k premium domains and auctioning expiring domains. I have too much disdain for cyber squatters to respect Hover as a registrar.

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This headline is some serious editorializing.
The article says "The Congressional Budget Office predicts that by 2019, about 24 million people will have insurance through exchanges, with four-fifths of them getting federal subsidies that average $6,400 a year per person."

The $6400 is referring to subsidies, not premium costs.
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Arguably this drives up the values of everyone who is otherwise at Facebook's mercy though. Zynga on Google+ and Facebook is less subject to Zuckerberg "cutting off their air supply" - to repurpose a phrase from the 90s bubble.
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Public circles are different than private circles, but I don't find the difference disconcerting. Both are "I am publishing" but in private circles (text, email, conversation) "I indicate who is my audience" and public circles (twitter, blog, presentation) "The audience is self-selecting". Allowing the audience to merely filter by author is not sufficient.

The need to solve this problem is palpable, although Google is not clear when or how they will address this problem.
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IMO Facebook is not in any great danger from Google plus. Smaller start ups maybe, but Facebook has the not-tech-savvy market by the balls and google plus certainly isn't going to take them away. My brother, sister and father all use Facebook, none will be switching to google plus unless all their friends do, their friends won't switch unless their friends do... the Myspace/Facebook comparison doesn't work either, a large portion of Facebook users now didn't ever use Myspace, it's not as if they've moved away. Myspace was popular in the era where social networking was for teens and "nerds", Facebook rose to popularity when social networking was for everyone, google plus can't just waltz in and take all those users. Google plus is just another tech industry circle jerk, it'll be a long time before it ever comes close to harming Facebook (if it does). How many people are using google plus and not Facebook? That's what matters most. Everyone I know who uses google plus (which is a small group) is still using Facebook.
So you are saying premiums will actually cost more than that.

Note that the $6400+ is for INSURANCE not actual health care.

So pay $300-$600 a month for an annual checkup and maybe a flu visit which they can do nothing for.
More than any other software company, I think that Google's patents are purely defensive. I don't think Google wants to sue anyone.

I think that's largely true for Microsoft and Apple as well. Although Apple does get a little snippy when people copy too closely. And Oracle seems to relish a good lawsuit.
Surely the premium costs will be higher than the subsidy, so in some sense the headline is right, although I'm not quite sure what point it's trying to make. Health care costs money. In Canada in 2009, it cost $5452 per person. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_Canada#Economics
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I took a fact that was buried in the article and made it the title because it's the most important - the actual cost expected to be expended per person on average.

It's a fact from the article, it's not editorializing.
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That seems like a journalistic misunderstanding; I'm pretty sure Azure is designed to replace Cairo as the layer between Firefox and Direct2D or Quartz.
That's for actual health care (in Canada).

This is for insurance company payoffs, not actual money spent on health care, which will be a fraction of $6400 after they take their cut.
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is there a tool out there that can automtaically go through an entire site experience every day and record differences?
Upvoted because this is a great debate!

I think the circumstances are different in this case. Many people I know don't like Facebook or the idea of Facebook anymore, so Google may have a hard time persuading people Social Networks are still the new-new thing. In the case of Netscape, browser use was growing like crazy and still is 17 years later.

In a way Netscape helped tear it's own head off. There was the Netscape 6 nail in the coffin. The team rewrote the entire product from scratch. It's been oft quoted as an example of why not to do a rewrite. Facebook's engineering team appears to be strong on the surface.

There is no network effect with browsers and social networks have the strongest network effect of them all. So Google has to overcome that too.

Google does use second-mover advantage to great effect though, as MS has. Imitating is fun when you're a monopoly with a great engineering team. Companies they've taken ideas from:

Symbian

Nokia

Hotmail

Apple's App Store

iOS

MapQuest

Yahoo Finance

Altavista and all other search engines.

GoTo.com (first PPC ads)
And of course for comprehensive coverage when you need major medical care (cancer treatments, surgery, etc.). Part of the health care reform forbids health insurance companies from denying you care based on pre-existing conditions, from kicking off your plan when you get sick, or from imposing lifetime benefit caps.
Circles, Huddles, Hangouts: Those all seem pretty different from Facebook to me. The only part of + that seems similar to Facebook is the interface of streams (which admittedly, is very similar.)
I think this was the more important bit:

Again, to belabor the obvious: The illegal version isn't just free. It's better.
What do you mean? Tracking how many times a site is changed each day? Not that I know of...
"2. it would be difficult for it to become as popular as facebook because there are alreasy [sic] lots of social graphs in facebook already established."

A few points to consider:

1. I'm not an early adopter, of anything, ever.

2. I've managed to mirror 100% of the Facebook contacts I give a shit about in Google+ in less than 24 hours, with substantially improved organization & compartmentalization, not to mention a noticeable lack of ads or Zynga spam.

3. A full third of my FB contacts have requested a G+ invite as soon as they heard I was already in.

4. All of the people I've invited or otherwise added to my circles are active in their G+ accounts.
Let me guess - it is not nginx code which is slow but one from openssl? ^_^
I've had dealings with paybuyer and Mike Rosides. I will never have anything to do with them ever again. Just the thought of it makes my skin crawl.
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Going on a tangent, but hotmail is really good nowadays.

I hope you're joking. Live Mail (which subsumed Hotmail) is atrocious, the interface sucks. Live Mail also doesn't do a good job of catching spam.

The only thing worse I've used interface-wise is Yahoo! Mail.
1. I think Google's ultimate goal is to bring you into an environment where you are just "Googling". This is evidenced by the top bar whenever you are on a Google site. They aren't trying to make it so that you are actively participating in a social media site like when you are facebooking, they are trying to make your entire presence on the net a social experience. There is no need for you to be "plusing" as you will be "plusing" simply by being online. No longer do you need to have a tab left open for your Facebook, your social media experience is fulfilled by leaving your email open.

2. One interesting counterpoint to this is how Google+ is growing. Certainly there are some people coming from websites/forums asking for invites but I would bet money that at least as many are coming from people posting on facebooks themselves. Facebook's own established network is working against them here.

The privacy debate is really not that important in the end. People who care about the privacy will end up posting on their facebook and inviting their friends to try Google+ (which they most likely will, it's a Google product afterall) and once they are on Google+ they will either like it more than facebook or they won't (because we have already established they don't care about the privacy aspects). In the end it comes down to which one can provide a better experience for most users and Google+ once again has the lead here because of how it can insert itself into your entire online experience.
Paybuyer has been around for, I think, 3 years now, maybe 4. I think they may just be desperate for attention.
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>1. the name, there is not a simple way to make it a verb, would you say you are "plusing" or how would you say that you want to plus me?

I think you "add" people and "+1" content.
I tend to think that the similarity of 'Streams' is mainly due to the fact that that is what a social information feed looks like. It's kinda of like saying "Those word processors all copying each other with their large text areas and blinking cursors and menus" That's just because that is what works for a word processor, as the 'Stream' feed works for social updates. Just my thoughts anyhow.
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Note: I use and support open-source software.

People do this all the time, it's called open-source software
and people come upon it by merit of the quality of the code.

Name one piece of interesting open-source software you've heard of that hasn't been marketed (e.g. they didn't write a good README and everyone "came upon it" somehow).

You've also dismissed all of the activities of Business because they're done in Business, but some activities are done in almost all groups-of-people.

It doesn't need buzzwords, jargon, sales, and demographics numbers.

So you'd say that NodeJS, Rails, Django, etc do not have any buzzwords, jargon, sales or demographics numbers? It seems unpossible to read DHH or anything about Clojure and maintain that opinion.
Ask HN: Now that Google+ is out, is there a need for Diaspora?
I feel a bit for the guys at Diaspora. What a roller coaster they had!

They first got a lot of press coverage and they got funded.
Then for several months the press started to be negative become perceived progress was too slow.

And now Google+ is out and everybody loves it.

Is there any way Diaspora can succeed?
You have a point there. I went through all the trouble of owning my identity (I don't even use Gmail) and then someone told me that he can't read my blog unless I pipe it into Twitter, because he only reads Twitter now. Am I a free man or a crackpot? I'm not even sure any more.
My curiosity with G+ increases. Anyone has an invite for me?
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Peter Schiff seems to be a classic story of survivor bias and confirmation bias. His Wikipedia entry has a section on "Investment Advice" that is chock full of examples.
Yeah, I was influenced by my previous comment. Original article didn't mention JVM.

But there is a bigger view - if most of the modules are mere wrappers around plain C libraries it is very ineffective approach to try to use some complicated VM while you must do zillions of FFI calls. That is of no use.

So, in my opinion, for a scripting language fast and efficient module calls are more important that any modern JIT stuff, while your modules mostly are mere plain .so

btw, this is yet another point where Java sucks. If you are re-implementing everything in Java, that is probably OK (if you don't care about performance. NIO2 is still just a spec), but if you wish to call any code outside JVM - it sucks. The approach itself is deeply flawed. Look what mess JDBC is.

It is so obvious, that I really disappointed by the level of discussions on HN.
Google+ is still centralized, and compared to Diaspora it's downright evil. It does nothing to advance the conversation about distributed social networking.
Yeah, so downloading torrents is still the easiest way to obtain selected works despite its complexity. He's right in that we'll just probably have to wait for a decade or so for things to get better, given the track record of the MAFIAA.

However, there should still be an explicit law that allows people to legally make free copies of content that isn't available for sale in any standard format. There's never enough supply as there's demand; there's always a niche that just isn't reasonably satisfied by commerce itself. A number of various collections or redistribution of minor series can thrive on the proverbial pirate bay because there are non-commercial incentives only to support them in the first place.
Sounds like all you really want is a search function where you could search on a person/circle and a hashtag, then save it.

person:Markus Persson tag:#minecraft

Of course, this would require the ability to search the stream, which isn't possible yet.
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Since gPlus has been integrated into the entire google experience, from gmail to blogspot, I think they have a chance against fb, but it will take a while.

Second, they have to make gPlus extremely easy to use to ensure that people will switch and stay with one product.

Third, gPlus has better video chat (multiple at a time I believe) than fb, so they have to encourage this as often as possible to keep users engaged and returning.
Nice point. And, as you noted, I might have missed the real point of TFA, but it was so generally written it was difficult to see the point of it (wasn't the point kinda: listen to the customer ?). And I completely agree about the "MBA disease", but ...

that without knowledge of the business you're [XYZing],
you can't make valid decisions

Agreed, but this is true of all disciplines (XYZ). How often have you seen random software or features because the product, dev, QA, whatever group didn't understand the business or were wrapped up in politics? The biggest difference between the "MBA disease" and the "computer science disease" was that we identified the "computer science disease" and proposed a number of cures (e.g. waterfall, agile, scrum, nom du jour). "Business" is less well-defined, so we're just discovering and looking to cure the "MBA disease".

That said, we got too damn many MBAs...
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Coincidentally the "Slopegraphs" article currently at the top of the front page has this graph http://charliepark.org/images/slopegraphs/natgeo.jpg which pegs 2007 spending at $7290 per person and shows that American health care is extremely expensive and inefficient.

I only support the health care law because anything is better than the status quo, but by trying to find a compromise it will continue a lot of the current inefficiencies.
Why do you think the fact they don't use reddit matters?

On a side note: I think they managed to come up with a good UI targeted at the use case of asking questions to one person.
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Google IO needs this badly. The conference is starting to bring out a different crowd: investors. Folks paid $450 per ticket and received close to $1000 in gear. People with a professional investment in the technology should get priority. The free ticket contest helped out 100 developers this year, which was awesome, but some standard needs to be applied to the conference as a whole.
tl;dr: Write like crap, get passed over.
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