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   by dewitt 14y ago

   Having been through similar decision making processes myself (with the Google Custom Search API, the Google Translate API, etc), this is just as likely an abuse mitigation technique as it is a revenue generation opportunity. Requiring even
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   by dewitt 14y ago

   Hi all, DeWitt from the Google+ team here. All of us sincerely appreciate developers building on the Google+ platform, and we're excited to continue to develop and support our official API over at https://developers.google.com/+ . Please
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   by dewitt 15y ago

   And if you want more technical details, the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard is the place to look: http://www.pathname.com/fhs http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html Somewhat Linux-specific, but worth reading even if you're on O
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   by dewitt 15y ago

   Sure, but his making this choice means that his work is incompatible with the much larger body of already-established work. His decision is his own, but it's a direction I wouldn't want others to follow, since we all benefit more from the
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   by dewitt 15y ago

   People may make light of this, but as the dzone.com article points out, it's what's known as a Field of Use limitation [1], and it's an actual problem. The "good" vs "evil" thing is perhaps a red herring, but you can imagine the practical c
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   by dewitt 15y ago

   Thanks—will take a look.
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   by dewitt 15y ago

   This post should be publicly visible without being logged in (at least it is for me). But this is the second HN thread in a week where I've seen a comment like this, so can you send me your details (web browser, etc), so I can debug, pleas
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   by dewitt 15y ago

   Does it matter whether HN traffic is going up or down? As far as I can tell, the point of HN isn't to drive pageviews or sell ads, it's to act as a public discussion board for the extended YC family of people with like-minded interests, an
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   by dewitt 15y ago

   True for Gmail, though Google+ renders most of the initial page view in static HTML/CSS, then progressively enhances subsequent pages using JS and a variety of techniques, including embedded frames and pushState. There's a lot that goes in
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    by dewitt 15y ago

    Email page@cs.stanford.edu and ask if he needs a hand with his PhD project.
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    by dewitt 15y ago

    The sixth amendment guarantees the right to "a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury" and the "assistance of counsel." The state must provide for the defendant in order to ensure those rights are met. Same as the state must incur th
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    by dewitt 15y ago

    One of the things that we've been emphasizing at Google of late is to ensure that each API has a sustainable model prior to launching it. By that I mean, evaluating each new surface to verify that it provides value to all parties — the end
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    by dewitt 15y ago

    The best way I found to see past the parens is to simply start writing some lisp. I recently started teaching myself by working through the problems on 4clojure.com, reading pg's _On Lisp_, and books like _Land of Lisp_, _Programming Cloju
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    by dewitt 15y ago

    Thanks, drallison. Generally speaking I agree, LOC alone is not a great metric of code quality, though it does roughly map to fewer places for bugs to be introduced when coding in the large, which is rarely a bad thing (though irrelevant f
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    by dewitt 15y ago

    You can opt-out: https://www.google.com/privacy/ads/ Or from Analytics: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout And permanently delete your web history: https://www.google.com/history And you can take your data with you when you go:
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    by dewitt 15y ago

    Regarding the first (APIs), yes, we recently launched several Google+ Platform features, such as phase one of the Google+ API last week and today's announcement of the Google+ Hangouts API. Visit http://developers.google.com/+ to get sta
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    by dewitt 16y ago

    Hi, Yes, it's being fixed and the update is being pushed out as we speak. (It should already be back up for some.) Basically, we broke the alias from 1.5 to the latest version when pushing out 1.5.2. We caught it quickly, but not fast enou
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    by dewitt 16y ago

    There are plenty of cached pages in the Internet Archive:    http://waybackmachine.org/20070221033032*/http://news.ycombi... The first one saved was on Feb 22, 2007, just after the site launched:    http://replay.waybackmachine.org/2007022
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    by dewitt 16y ago

    I don't see it elsewhere in the comments, but to be very clear, Elop's being listed there does not mean he is the 7th biggest individual shareholder at Microsoft. The headline is 100% inaccurate. Not all shareholders are publicly reporte