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by ern 15y ago
you can't be selectively offline to people (you have to un-friend them) It looks like you can, the same way you can be offline in regular FB chat: by choosing a Friend List that contains the friend, and making yourself offline to that lis
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by ern 15y ago
Facebook has "circles" but they are called "groups." I think Friend Lists is what you may be referring to. They need to make the feature easier to use/find, and they need to make the News Feed more sensitive to these.
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by ern 15y ago
He makes one very good suggestion: At the very minimum, Dropbox needs to have a thorough security audit from an independent group to ensure that it has the processes in place to back up those promises. Call it security theatre, a waste of
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by ern 15y ago
I think it's unfair that under 13s aren't allowed to use Gmail. But being able to use email, code in Python and use Powerpoint, doesn't mean he has the maturity to use social networking. The internet is a cruel place, and hysteria about onl
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Facebook engineers bring Google+ Circles to Facebook(zdnet.com)
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by ern 15y ago
That was how he IMed in 2004 when he was 20. People change.
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by ern 15y ago
I think that setting visibility of pictures and status updates to "friends only" should hide them from non-friends. Yes, I meant lists, not groups.
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by ern 15y ago
I don't know how those people with super high friend counts manage to eke any utility out of FB I don't have a super high friend count on FB, but I've set up privacy levels on the friend groups I have created. I'll usually accept a friend
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by ern 15y ago
I don't know how much code Sal has written, but, depending on the project/coding standards, I've seen a lot of code with filename comments at the top. It's not really an indicator of experience or skill.
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by ern 15y ago
I'm saying that Sal violated basic programming practice in one of the simplest 10 line programs that can be written. This is a canary. I didn't think that the video (now dead) was particularly good, but I think that this is a bit of an ov
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by ern 15y ago
When you teach basic math, do you start with introducing the student to proof theory I know that it isn't your main point, but I when Sal inevitably moved to CS, I was hoping he would start with theoretical CS first. He seems strongest on
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by ern 15y ago
refers to the interfaces to the black box with which software developers typically interact, then it is largely true that Windows is based on .NET because .NET provides control of the operating system for the vast majority of projects I a
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by ern 15y ago
If they feel threatened enough by Circles, I have no doubt that they will make it more visible, and available on all platforms. That said, it's surprising how few people, even tech savvy ones seem to know about the functionality even though
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by ern 15y ago
The slow release of Gmail accounts was an example of a great hype-building process. OTOH the product was groundbreaking (they offered a huge amount of storage compared to competitors), and it isn't 2004 anymore.
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by ern 15y ago
Google recently forced users to make their Profiles public, and announced that it was going to delete private Profiles. If Google+ requires a Profile, then count me out.
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by ern 15y ago
Why not group your friends, and restrict your posts by default to people you actually care about? The rest won't be aware they are even being filtered.
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by ern 15y ago
Google does have powerful friend grouping features, and you can hide your information/posts/photos/etc from any category of friends you want. You can hide them from specific friends, and you can hide individual items in the same way. And th
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by ern 15y ago
Does it require a public Google Profile, like Buzz now does? To me, the answer to that question would be important indicator of how much Google+ emphasizes privacy.
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by ern 15y ago
Something i do quite regularly is google search each of my passwords, and I would advise anyone to do the same. The problem with this is that your password could end up in your web history and autocomplete. The other option would be an in
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by ern 15y ago
If you use more than one browser per machine, you need to reauthenticate for each one, which multiplies the inconvenience. Also the need to generate passwords for apps that don't use 2 factor authentication (IMAP, IM clients). Although, I s
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by ern 15y ago
Lightswitch ( http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/lightswitch ) also seems to be aimed at the sort of thing you describe. RAD, but providing a solid MS architecture in the background. Have you looked at it yet?
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by ern 15y ago
I hope they add login activity to their "Recent Events" feed ASAP.
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by ern 15y ago
Another obvious weak point is not controlling access to copies of production databases. Developers getting access to copies of production databases full of personal info is terrifying, and yet not uncommon.
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by ern 15y ago
As someone pointed out elsewhere in this thread, people choose their A Levels at age 16. I had a vague idea that I wanted to study medicine at age 16. I ended up doing CS. 16 year olds tend to have very fuzzy ideas about what they want to d
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by ern 15y ago
I don't like the phrase "dumbing down". Based on the article, they are loosening their admission requirements, and seem to be allocating extra coursework to help students catch up. I think that what matters is if the students manage to acqu
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by ern 15y ago
It's interesting that you mention the "who am I related to" aspect, because Geni.com is exactly that. After altercations with unhinged second cousins-once-removed and unpleasant uncles, I set privacy to maximum and abandoned Geni (Geni's ha
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by ern 15y ago
It allows you to group/categorize your friends, and set privacy for each group for most actions. If you wanted to hide everything from your mom, you could. If you need to share an update with your nephews, but not your school friends that's
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by ern 15y ago
If you want a specialized device like a digital camera, then Facebook is not the place to look for advice from high school buddies, but for advice on what phone to buy, it could be. I asked my FB friends for advice on that very topic, and i
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by ern 15y ago
All that power and responsibility, and not being compensated for it could be dangerous. Wouldn't it deter anyone who wasn't wealthy from office, and/or make them vulnerable to corruption?
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by ern 15y ago
and his biology, he gets from pondering... Khan on Entropy: In a recent talk he explained how he prepared for his lecture on entropy: "I took two weeks off and I just pondered it, and I called every professor and everyone I could talk to

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