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Really cool, any plans to add other data sources? FB might be harder, but I think G+ has a public search API. I see it's just a demo for now, but a dashboard view would be great as that "go-to source" for top breaking news.

Loophole 2 is called a product - what's wrong with being able to analyze public information? It's true that Palantir's software can enable wrong doing, but at that point you might as well blame computer manufacturers for building machines to run the software.

This isn't a legal document, it's a press statement. Go look for conspiracies elsewhere.

My wording may have been off. By "keep open" I didn't mean to imply that all doors were open - just that we should make an active effort to prevent doors from closing.

And women-specific events reinforce a divided image by presenting the events as specific to a group. It highlights a division between groups, and not based on a functional difference relevant to the field. What's different from a women-specific coding meetup and a meetup open to all? I can see sexual harassment / feeling out of place as something that may happen. And that sucks. But retreating to exclusive events (in name and branding at least) is not the solution.

and what about when you want to mention someone? will you reply to their profile? pick an arbitrary tweet? Twitter has a unique distributed, free-form environment where topics and interactions aren't aggregated in a page - it lets the users make these connections with @ and #

While I'd agree that the root cause is unfair treatment, "ladies-specific events" only server to further divide groups. I like the parent's use of "organic" - let's keep the doors open to everyone, and let the system reach equilibrium on its own.

If we're discussing semantics here, when a browser parses it for rendering what would it mean to "add them?" After all, the HTML is only a textual representation of the rendered DOM tree. I think it's perfectly valid to say the inspector is adding them in, since the browser doesn't really bother to adjust the HTML if it can already parse it.

At the risk of feeding the frenzy that is calling out each article title as link bait:

Linux Mint is the "top distro" _on Distrowatch_, which is much worse than sampling from, say, Google, which might have a more representative sample. Visitors of Distrowatch are significantly more likely to be not just tech-savvy but also interested enough to draw distinctions between different flavors of Linux. I see myself as being pretty "tech-savvy", yet I never cared enough to look into distros outside of Ubuntu 11.04.

Especially given the fact that a Facebook survey suggested 90%(!) of users are still using Ubuntu, seems like the article even discredits itself.

I'm curious as to why there's a need for a startup accelerator for underrepresented minorities. Why are those minorities underrepresented in the first place?

If the answer is because of discrimination, then I would argue that creating an accelerator for these minorities is just as discriminating, is it not? If it's not discrimination then, well, my assertion about it being discrimination still holds.

While you're asserting that it's not so useful to you, at the same time you're hinting at why others may appreciate it (if they use it frequently).

Looks like they read the big yellow disclaimer:

Your account is managed by ____.com. Your administrator can access, modify or delete your data at any time without your permission. -Learn more-

If you've seen the other videos, they seemed to have heard users' concerns. There's a dropdown to control density, and on top of that density is automatically adjusted based on windows size. So shrinking a window naturally causes the UI to collapse, complete with subtle animations as it does so.

I'm sick of these posts. What I got out of the article was "I think I know how Google should design its product, and thus I deem decisions not in agreement to be total bullshit."

Personally, I prefer to respect the work they've put into the product and to accept that they may have insights deeper than mine. It's evident from Google's announcement that they see more complex issues around pseudonyms, and I will form an opinion after I see their changes. I do not understand this attitude of "Fuck those guys" - so much anger over a social network!

I assume you mean FB lists, as the groups feature is quite different. /pedantic

Is there any reason why Microsoft isn't going after Google? I recall reading somewhere that it's because Google isn't actually producing the phone. Can anyone confirm this, or is just cowardice?

According to Chris Chabot (Developer Advocate at Google), "We're only just starting down the road of the Google+ project, but we love our Google Apps users so please stay tuned"

[from comments on http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/28/google-plus/]

I don't think joblessjunkie is criticizing the command key (I personally don't mind either the Windows or Mac placement).

He's saying that the ctrl and the fn key (used to access the function keys instead of brightness/expose/volume/etc) should be swapped. I completely agree; I never use the fn key and my pinkie ends up bending for the control key.

"I'm no programmer and can't speak to the qualitative differences of writing software with JSON versus Big Table."

That's just embarrassing.

I'm inclined to agree. Dropbox has made some hard decisions to be so simple and easy to use, decisions probably made after a lot of usability testing. (Smaller) open source projects usually don't have this luxury.

What I get from this article is a) apt-get is awesome and b) there's subcategories in the launcher. I completely agree that apt-get is great, and subcategories aren't bad either. However, this has nothing to do with "app stores." apt-get has been around way before the ubuntu software center, and if anything it goes way deeper than just "apps." If anything, this article is just bringing up the point that software management on linux (for the more technically inclined) is better than on mac, something that isn't quite exciting or new.

I think articles like these are just looking for trouble. It immediately stands as being biased, and screenshots completely skew things in Ubuntu's favor. Seriously, "pushiness?" It's a bad thing now to be showing users applications on the home page of a store? Maybe it might get cluttered, but I definitely don't prefer Ubuntu's "Nice clean and unassuming" main page with just a category listing. "The listing is pretty simple?" Now you're just looking for things to say; I'm going to end my comment here before I make the same mistake.

And why should he mention Apple? It's not like he's making a pro-patent argument and just failing to address a huge counterexample. He's disagreeing with Google's behavior - should he take the chance to bash every large company other there?

Maybe you should try this new idea of not overdramatizing to create link bait. :-)

What exactly is the best refrigerator test? Searching for it on other sites (Google, Wikipedia) just return refrigerator results in the former and nothing really useful in the latter...

Oh wow, that makes a lot of sense actually. Sorry for my bias, snobby iphone user here.

Suggestion, change * for commands to something else. I like to use * to correct typos.

Ouch, does Your Groups work? I typed in my mobile number and it said it couldn't be found, now it's alerting THROTTLE since I probably tried too many times haha.

pak definitely knew what an iTouch was, and I similarly cringe when I hear people refer to it like so.

Awesome idea, maybe biased because my friend and I were talking about a similar idea maybe just a week ago. :) Maybe some way to import contacts? Not sure if it's overkill, but maybe worth considering.

I get all kinds of crazy widths in chrome - check the width on your elements.

What the speaker said went along the lines of "after awhile the engineers settled on 48." It seemed like there wasn't a clear reason behind it, although my lack of chem knowledge could be why.