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by Lewisham 14y ago
What I find particularly disconcerting about this Van Horn story is not that he wanted to present it (which is terrible in and of itself), but that this guy is 28, went through Digg (who never struck me as a company of idiots), already pres
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by Lewisham 14y ago
I had severe difficulty getting Ubuntu to appear as a bootable partition when installed from a USB stick. Don't install from stick, install from a disc. Whatever it did with EFI didn't work right, there were partitions on my hard drive that
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by Lewisham 14y ago
This appears to have worked; my CPU is going crazy from GDrive activity, which I am guessing is some pre-processing compression step from GDrive before upload. I am marginally more worried about whether the same reasons that GDrive didn't w
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by Lewisham 14y ago
Google actually used to do verification on people with Knol; you'd type in a credit card number and it would look up your name on the CC and match it against the name in your profile. I think that functionality got retired. It would be nice
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by Lewisham 14y ago
I have the same problem. I've pinged my friends at Google to see if a feature request can be put in. It's really annoying that this use case wasn't thought about.
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by Lewisham 14y ago
What on earth are you talking about? Google's infrastructure is so large it can handle the same sort of influx that Gmail would have generated, whereas back then they couldn't. Why on earth does that mean the company is run by marketing con
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by Lewisham 14y ago
On Mac OS X, the application doesn't respect symlinks. Does anyone have any ideas how I can get it to auto-mirror my Documents/ directory without me actually moving my Documents/ under the Google Drive/ directory?
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by Lewisham 15y ago
G+'s Takeout seems to do better. I don't think it has all you want, like friend requests or photos you tagged, but it has a lot.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Furthermore, Google+ can implement algorithms that affect the prominence of the content based on various quality factors. There's evidence that Facebook has such algorithms in place (1) ...which don't work in most cases that I've seen. S
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by Lewisham 15y ago
You can do this with +1 -> Share. For sites that don't implement a +1 button, there are browser extensions (at least for Chrome) that will do it for you.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
The penny drops at the author's conclusion: "By updating its API to support posting, users of clients and plugins would start to actively publish to Google+. This would quickly increase the amount and quality of content available on this pl
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by Lewisham 15y ago
The DRM on the Kindle was largely forced by the publishers, was it not?
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by Lewisham 15y ago
The idea that online is riskier than offline is a joke (competitive yes, but because there is less risk to online). It's easier now than ever before to start a business, fail, then pivot, pivot, pivot (who even heard of companies pivoting
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by Lewisham 15y ago
You sound like you're describing the LA area (with the exception of the city center gentrifying). It seems that what has happened is that, for the majority of American cities, they grew as an either/or option: you're either in the city, or
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I've seen it, it can do this. I've seen it first-hand navigate it's way around the Google campus, go into a left turn lane, turn left into one of the Google buildings. The entrance has a prominent bump, and the car slowed down so as not to
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by Lewisham 15y ago
What's totally bizarre about the publishers pricing is that other goods that have gone digital have benefitted by lower prices, or at least, temporary price drops. My knowledge is particularly in video games, but those Steam sales that ke
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by Lewisham 15y ago
You're discounting the big difference here: online makes moving fast easy. Big box stores win because they are unassailable, Amazon surely is not. If enough authors don't like Amazon's policies, BAM, up pops a new site as a collective of au
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by Lewisham 15y ago
What surprises me is not that Fat is a bit of a jerk (note, I "get" it, but I don't respect it), but that Twitter lets him keep being a jerk and actively hostile while acting as a representative of the company. If he wrote Bootstrap by hims
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Except all your comments amount to "They should have told us/me that they were doing this beforehand" which is akin to either "They should retard iteration in order to tell me to change my unsupported extension" or "They should release thin
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Here is some criticism: 1. Your extension overpromises to users its abilities. You are responsible for that, not the users. You make no comment in your extension's description that it relies on undocumented, unsupported DOM manipulation. 2.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
This is plain wrong. No-one manipulating the DOM is because of read-only restrictions. They're modifying the interface. Read-only is a choice, and it's one G+ is willing to stick to (look back at Vic Gundorota's posts about "curation").
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by Lewisham 15y ago
This is the reason: https://plus.google.com/107117483540235115863/posts/FXaGHpa1... It's a not very thinly-veiled shot at frictionless sharing and the like. Having seen the hellhole my Facebook stream has become (while I've tried hard, it
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I'm 28. I remember Walkmans/Trinitrons/Microstereos. You wanted Sony. It's possible that there was some sort of four year cut-off, but when I grew up Sony was king.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
"I think Microsoft is just too focused on the phone market to give it a serious try." My read of WP7 has been that the OS is super-chatty by design, live tiles and such. It seems a huge part of it will be knee-capped by not having an alwa
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Yeah, Microsoft did the same thing with the Xbox. They threw lots of money to developers in a climate when I think most people thought there was no way Microsoft could be cool enough to sell a console, particularly when it was going up agai
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by Lewisham 15y ago
When he was last talked about on HN, I think he was with Google for about 3 or 4 years before he left to return to Microsoft earlier this year. He seems to have an axe to grind on Google, he seems to write negative stuff about them.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I'm too much of a Math idiot to understand that paper. Have you seen a code implementation of it anywhere?
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by Lewisham 15y ago
I'm part of the Center for Games and Playable Media at UC Santa Cruz, which is a video game research center. You're right that this research isn't particularly pure CS. When I started it was very much focused on social games and whether the
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by Lewisham 15y ago
Depends on your POV. "How can we make the product better?" is usually synonymous with "What do users want?", which, following the rabbit hole down enough, you reach those psych things. Look at all the terrible gamification implementations.
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by Lewisham 15y ago
This was my response as well. I've been researching all of this stuff for a while now for my PhD thesis. I'm a CS guy, not a Psych guy. I'm largely interested in what works, not why. I've largely steered towards behavioral economics because

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