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Can someone explain to me why people keep referring to "Real-Time" chat? I've seen it multiple times and don't understand why... How is this in anyway different from just... chat. Is this some sort of buzzword bingo?

It's a bit comparing apples to oranges. If you were comparing say Cake or Zend to RoR and Django then it would be a reasonable comparison.

Personally, I think Ping failed because Apple threw a party and no one cared.

Well that's a huge bonus! Wish you shipped to the US. I'd buy some tea from you!

Sort of reminds me of Asimov's Psycohistory

Minimum wage laws are there to prevent employees from being paid peanuts. They don't apply to the self-employed.

That would be what you call, a terrible job.

Sparks isn't like shared circles as I understand. They just bring up articles on selected topics to be used as conversation starters. I like the idea but I think the implementation of sparks is a bit rubbish. I think Twitter does a better job in this space actually.

Crap. Now I need to go buy some legos and relive my childhood.

I agree. It's not about creating groups of people to communicate with. It's about classifying how you think about people. The fact that circles are private is very important and keeps people getting mad because they are not in your "bestest buds" circle. When you're sharing something, you should be the one in control of who you're sharing with, not a third party.

You know, it didn't dawn on me until just now where the name circles come from.

I'm... so confused. This doesn't actually seem to have anything to do with android and everything to do with AdSense.

It's not at all an analogous situation. You're talking about offending people with the name of a package you wrote. This is talking about offending the person who originally wrote the package by suggesting a name, the connotations of which she didn't fully understand. Her name is now associated with it. This isn't a problem of someone childishly over reacting.

That makes me more upset than the original story.

Arg! I misread the title as "Why Yo-Yo Ma won't use Google+..." Interesting article anyway. I've heard more than one person say that people aren't going to switch from Facebook. As someone who doesn't use Facebook... I think I might actually use Google+ Then again I said that about Wave too.

I'm a little confused about what he's been accused of here. Are they saying he cut and pasted code from other chess bots? Or that he examined other chess bots and used the ideas they implemented? Or...? What exactly do they mean by plagiarism?

Interesting to me that they don't use a wildcard cert though.

I'm a little confused. "We actually like this company..." So why did they do this? I'd think the thing to do after finding an exploit would be to notify who has it and give them a reasonable amount of time to correct the problem. I think I'm confused about what LulzSec is all about.

All the Editors Notes were sort of irritating. "We've got a guest blogger today! We think he's the cats pajamas but that's not gonna stop us from butting in to get our two cents!" Seriously. Write a follow article next time. This editorial style makes it difficult to read. Alternatively, if you must add to this one, do it as footnotes.

Seriously? Do you have an article that talks about game consoles in a library?

I know this will never change, but I really wish people would stop using lisp as a synonym for common lisp. CL is not the only lisp.

Yes. I take license violation very seriously. Imagine if Apple was violating a Microsoft license in this way. They'd be sued in a heart beat. Companies need to realize the (L)GPL is serious. It's not something you can just ignore because it's convenient.

While this sounds like a neat idea, it's sort of annoying that people keep posting sites that don't do anything. I don't want to sign up for a newsletter and be notified/spammed later. I want to mess with it now. That's why I clicked on the link. This seems to be super common on HN these days and it drives me up a wall. I get excited by something in the headline and get let down by the lack of content. Am I alone in this? Why do people keep doing it?

Maybe I'm just dumb, but I don't really understand why video chat on a phone is a big deal. Most of the time when I'm on the phone, I'm walking around town, or what have you. The rest I'm already sitting at my desk in front of my computer. I'd think if I video chatted and tried to walk around I'd just end up hurting myself, and if I sat down, I'd rather be on my computer with a larger screen...

I agree with what you're saying, but I'm not entirely sure this is a totally conscious reflex. I'd be interested in seeing a study where comments are rated with one set showing a low or negative score, the same comment with a high score, and then again with a neutral score. Given to three different groups of course.

So wait... Who am I tipping? It seems to me this device replaced the waiter with a busser... Or am I missing something?

Be nice if this was a plugin for Jenkins

Take what I say with a large grain of salt as it's just been my experience but... I've tried Ubuntu off an on for several years but never really been satisfied.

Mostly the problems I've had have been summed up by the only partly tongue-in-cheek tag line "Ubuntu: It's like Debian Sid but without the bug fixes" When it works, it works great. When it doesn't, it's hell to try to fix.

Stability is the number one issue. Stability of the apps (due to, I think, overzealous adoption of software that just isn't ready yet) and drivers (which of course you have little control over, but maybe try recommending an older, more tested, less featurful version of the driver as an alternative for when the new hotness dies a horrible death?). The kernel has generally been fine. I fully understand the desire for the latest and greatest software, but I'd rather run a version or two behind the bleeding edge in exchange for my apps not crashing all the time.

I also don't use GNOME or KDE or XFCE so I'm not really the target of any Ubuntu releases. So I basically would just chuck away most of the UI stuff that differentiates Ubuntu from say, Debian, and run StumpWM.

I did install Ubuntu on my dad's netbook and it seems to be working great though so... Maybe I just get the bad draw of hardware?

Well, it's sort of a hard question to answer. But Google has been hacked in the past. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/01/operation-aurora/

I think the creepier (and more likely) problem is an Evil Googler. http://gawker.com/#!5637234

Not that that is a problem that just Google has, but given that Gabriel really has no way at all to link two searches together, let alone build a profile, makes it attractive to me.

I also seem to be one of the few people who actually finds that DDG returns much better results. All the people I've talked to irl seem to think the opposite. Wonder if that is a placebo effect of sorts on my part ("DDG is one, pretty cool guy so of course it's better than giant corperation!") or what.

I hate the argument of "Google is doing it too!" Just because someone else is behaving (what I would consider to be) badly doesn't make the behavior any less reprehensible.