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by joebadmo 15y ago
It doesn't quite map to any known mental model, though, because when someone replies to your post, it's broadcast to your friends instead of their friends. I think this is potentially extremely confusing and weird. I think "Places" are
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by joebadmo 15y ago
After having played with Google+ for a few hours, I find that the Circles feature is deceptively complicated, and can lead to unintended information leakage. I've described it further here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2714333
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A New Metaphor for Social Networking: "Places"(blog.byjoemoon.com)
4 points by joebadmo 15y ago|2 comments
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Well, that's encouraging, but I think part of the problem is that I didn't know that. And I think part of why I didn't know that is because "Circles" isn't actually a metaphor that helps me understand how it works. Places, OTOH, is, and I t
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Not sure what you'd consider evidence, but the Wired article by Steven Levy (the guy who wrote In the Plex) contains this quote: No one expects an instant success. But even if this week’s launch evokes snark or yawns, Google will keep at i
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by joebadmo 15y ago
That's basically how Google Reader does it, too. The problem is, as you said, if I comment on something someone shared, I have no idea who can see that comment. I was definitely a bit weirded out the first time someone I'd never met replied
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Yes, that is another great illustration of how complex and unclear this system of individual lists is. Now imagine the same scenario under the Places metaphor. You go to the "Work Friends" place and share an item. Jill, who is also in that
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Right, but that still leaves me not having any idea who can see my comments. Which is fine in Google Reader because I don't expect any level of privacy there, but in Google+, esp. after having explicitly set up Circles, I might expect some
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by joebadmo 15y ago
That's one of the first things I noticed, too. I imagine something this full-featured will be hard to open-source/make open protocols for/federate like they tried with Wave and Buzz, but I hope they aren't abandoning those ideas after the d
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by joebadmo 15y ago
That doesn't seem like an accurate analogy to me. Google was being investigated for what were basically accidental breeches of privacy, not for anything that was actively malicious.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
The problem I see with user-defined groups implementation is conversations. If I share an item with my "work friends" group, and someone replies to it, who can see the reply? Is it only my work friends, or can the replier choose others to e
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Doesn't that mean they're going to be more trustworthy than anyone else? They've got direct supervision from the federal government.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
It's more natural with an email client, though, because email is already federated, so interoperable with the existing email system. This doesn't appear to be.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
These Cringely articles make me see the value in the HN filters people ask for periodically.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Consider me enlightened. Thanks.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Yeah, the 3 to 1 ration he cites is, when I think about, surprisingly low, considering where the money comes from, and how easy being a PR flack is compared to being a serious journalist who breaks actual news.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Seems like a simple matter of signal to noise ratio to me. That single comment by itself does no real harm, but if it's not discouraged, the practice will proliferate. The situations you cite do not include the potential for noise overwhelm
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I was a Comparative Literature major specifically because it allowed me to take the broadest range of courses. I studied everything from critical theory to linguistics (which led me to a ling minor) to art history to epic oral poetic tradit
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by joebadmo 15y ago
"Give me your tired, your poor,/ Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,/ The wretched refuse of your teeming shore." While I don't grant your premise (that open borders in a welfare state lead to financial ruin), I think the US has a
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Depth on the Web (Liberal Arts major thinks about the Web)(blog.byjoemoon.com)
1 points by joebadmo 15y ago|0 comments
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I think you're misunderstanding the author's intention. He's not trying to describe how the terms are used, he's trying to classify what he sees as more or less distinct disciplines of the field. He's also not trying to classify types of jo
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by joebadmo 15y ago
This is Gruber at his best. He correctly points out that the distinction people (including me) seem to be drawing is basically an arbitrary one. I think the more abstract distinction comes from what each company wants you to do with their p
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IOS highlights(ignorethecode.net)
3 points by joebadmo 15y ago|0 comments
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How 2nd init works to bypass Motorola's boot loader(cvpcs.org)
3 points by joebadmo 15y ago|0 comments
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Whenever there are Facebook stories, some people talk about how well designed it is. I'm not a user, but whenever I've tried to use my wife's account I've experienced it as a horribly confusing clutterfest. People talk about the clean UI de
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by joebadmo 15y ago
The effects of this vocationalization of the university extend beyond school, too. It used to be that just having a college degree meant a good chance of getting a job in a wide range of fields. Now, though, if you don't specialize or targe
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Sorry, OT, but this was in fact almost my exact experience with military recruiters. I signed papers with the Marines on the spot. And I don't know about honest and effective, but it does I think target a specific type of person.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Thanks for the comment. Yes, my plan is to try to release a working app as soon as possible, but starting from scratch, it's taking a while. Enrolling in a class or workshop sounds like a great idea, I'll do some research on that and see wh
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Wow, thanks, that's actually pretty inspiring. Can you elaborate on how you approaced the web-dev company, and how many you approached? That was one of my first strategies, thinking that a college degree and my... unconventional background
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Ask HN: My character sheet makes no sense
10 points by joebadmo 15y ago|6 comments

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