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by joebadmo 15y ago
Google is less flexible and less responsive on this and similar issues than they could or should be. But. This discussion should be about COPPA. See danah boyd's illuminating research and analysis on the subject here: http://www.zephoria.o
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I just tried it. Changing it in the G+ chatbox also changes it in gmail. Which is good, because I use the gmail one (since I have gmail open all the time) and not the G+ one.
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Divisive Devices(nytimes.com)
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by joebadmo 15y ago
As tonfa points out here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3331505 You can actually select which Circles show up in your gchat list. Which is really useful!
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Completely agree. I assume that's coming. It's another obvious use of Circles.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
I think you miscontrue the premise. It's not that the company relies on group lunch. It just helps to integrate the group and improve communication. It also helps people get to know each other, which can be hard for introverts to do witho
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Not sure how you're coming to that conclusion. It gives you G+ data when you look at a contact in Gmail. It automatically updates your contacts' info. It seems like a really good set of pretty obvious integrations that makes all of the prod
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by joebadmo 15y ago
It's integrated with Android pretty deeply, so I imagine a lot of Android users are, even if they don't know it.
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In Defense of the New Gmail(theatlantic.com)
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Gmail and Contacts integrated into Google+(googleblog.blogspot.com)
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Come on. Seriously? Not being gregarious or socially outgoing isn't the same as anti-social or misanthropic. Some of us welcome and appreciate a structured way in which to socialize. Without a group lunch, a hypothetical nerdy new employee
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Hey, I have to say that as much as I don't like about your presentation, I admire your willingness to engage and your openness to criticism. If you'd like any specific help, like notes on how your site and writing looks from my side of thin
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Listen, Jason, please don't take this as an attack. You seem like a nice, earnest guy who in many ways is really trying to help. But your inability to distinguish between bullshit and demonstration of value is abhorrent to me. If you make a
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Great point, and as an illustration of the same mentality, I find something inside myself recoil at the thought of compromising even a little on bullshit. And I totally agree with you that it often seems like bullshitting talent and skills
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Joel Spolsky made a good case for eating lunch together in a blog post earlier this year: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2011/04/28.html There are many cultures, too, in which eating together has a lot of significance for a relations
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by joebadmo 15y ago
As much as I kind of despise sales and salesmanship, I'm slowly realizing that it's an essential skill to getting the things you want in life. A friend of mind helped me rework my resume recently, and the fundamental point she finally got t
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by joebadmo 15y ago
That's the beauty of Google's spaghetti-at-the-wall approach, isn't it? To me, it's kind of a refreshing, child-like approach to things, with an investigative curiosity and implicit acknowledgment of an ignorance of what will become importa
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Interesting. I got the contrary impression: that from top to bottom this looks like a serious company that's going for a sustainable freemium business model, with no intention of flipping. I mean, this isn't a consumer-facing mobile-social-
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Funny, my reaction was more like: It seems like every year a product comes along that "changes everything", just when all seems lost to boring, staid, centralized services that I don't have control over. Yay!
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Thanks, that's awesome!
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by joebadmo 15y ago
This makes me kind of tingly inside. It feels like the beginning of a viable 'personal cloud.' http://blog.byjoemoon.com/post/6277876911/the-personal-cloud I can't seem to find anything about access control, though, (who can see which pho
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Cash isn't the only way to pay for a product. Notice in TFA he mentions ads as a perfectly legitimate source of income.
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by joebadmo 15y ago
"First of all, thanks for sticking to the point and keeping this discussion civil. Would be nice to have a little debate over a couple beers." Likewise! I don't really enjoy drinking, but if you're ever in Portland, OR, let me know! "I woul
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by joebadmo 15y ago
My wife and her friend each got a 4S on opening weekend, and neither used Siri for longer that a few days. Nothing has changed since our last discussion on that here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3156590 Further, I think the differ
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by joebadmo 15y ago
"gets rewarded proportionally to the value people place on their work, then I might be convinced that copyright should go away." Of course, there is no such system, but capitalism is the closest we've gotten. Copyright is an attempt to get
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Your point about added services is interesting, but a bit askew, I think. For a performing artist, the actual creative activity is the performance. For no one is the actual creative act the distribution of recordings. A 40 y/o musician with
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by joebadmo 15y ago
It's not no system at all. It's capitalism. I guess I think capitalism is a sufficient system for people to get rewarded, generally. And I think copyright introduces lots of opportunity for abuse, as well as introducing weird notions (like
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If I conflate the two, it's because big labels are generally the only ones with enough resources to enforce their copyrights. "Copyright does not give people the right to get compensated for what they want to do. It compensates people if th
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by joebadmo 15y ago
Yes, another, maybe even more important point that Christensen makes is that smart people get sucked into these metrics not because they haven't been educated well enough in the tools that business school programs give them, but because the
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by joebadmo 15y ago
"The copyright model and the arts have thrived for the last few centuries because copyright was such a vast improvement on what came before it. It led to an explosion of creativity and entertainment industry." You keep saying this and I kee

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