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by widget 15y ago
Smear campaigns are, in fact, standard. Swift boat veterans, Birthers, Abortion doctors as baby killers, comparing homosexuals to pedophiles are all examples of exactly this sort of behavior on the right. Similar examples exist on the left,
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by widget 15y ago
You may disapprove of these tactics, but they are more or less standard. Applying labels to one's political opponents is a huge part of politics. I fail to see what is particularly sick about this tactic. The new meaning of santorum is fair
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by widget 15y ago
Sadly, I don't think there's any way to make the public really care about this. For one thing, it's a sufficiently rare pain in the ass that virtually no one worries about what the latest nonsense from the TSA is on a day to day basis. I al
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by widget 15y ago
Well yes, if the users don't want the product then nothing else matters, but I don't see what that has to do with innovation. I have no problem with your argument that Google+ will need to be useful in some sense to be successful, but origi
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by widget 15y ago
Innovation isn't the only thing that leads to success, not by a long shot. Polish, ease of use, a large feature set, security, and any number of other factors can have just as big an impact on users as innovation. People don't use Google se
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by widget 15y ago
If your criteria for failure is that the company is more interested in making money than you, personally, then there isn't a successful product on the face of the earth. Of course Google is trying to use Google+ to make ad revenue. You know
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by widget 15y ago
The iPod wasn't the first mp3 player. Facebook wasn't the first social networking site. Google wasn't the first search engine. Windows/Mac/Unix weren't the first operating systems. Taking ideas from competitors and improving upon them is a
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by widget 15y ago
Why would it be surprising to see him on there? Dogfooding is a good idea, but in this case, there's nothing stopping someone from using both Facebook and Google+. He'd be foolish to not be on Google+, how else is he supposed to know where
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by widget 15y ago
In general, a shop that wanted to make very much money off of interns would have to have them work on new code(any sizable code base is going to take a while to get up to speed on), and/or hire only excellent students (though in this case t
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by widget 15y ago
I don't think that's necessarily any better. Ever played Telephone?
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by widget 15y ago
This may be true, but it doesn't really address the point of the article. The argument is that modern games could take a lesson from text adventure games in engaging the players' imaginations.
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by widget 15y ago
Worse, honestly, the value of your wasted time is almost certainly higher than that of the person on the other end of the call.
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by widget 15y ago
It's not necessarily a matter of them being cheap, good developers are hard to find, and the only people who can tell the difference are/were good developers themselves. This is doubly true with security. There is no cosmetic or usability d
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by widget 15y ago
That's not the point. It's possible what he did should be protected by fair use. It's also possible that it shouldn't be and that he owed money. The point is, there was never a trial to decide it one way or another, he had to settle, not be
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by widget 15y ago
I'm sorry, but this isn't exactly stuff that's going to go over most readers' heads. The efficiency of a new device like this is pretty much the most important information about it. At 0.4% efficiency, this is currently just going to make y
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by widget 15y ago
Of course Google can't read minds, that does not mean they should ignore information that they have when deciding which results to show or what order to show them in. Sufficient data to provide a better filter for a given user is not the sa
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by widget 15y ago
I cannot see a problem here. Who exactly is being hurt by the "filter bubble"? The end user is fine - they are more likely to see results they are actually interested in. If a user doesn't trust a source and won't click on their links, they
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by widget 15y ago
Any filter at all will result in a "Filter Bubble" as defined here (except, I suppose, returning a randomly sorted list of all sites on the internet). Whether the filter is personalized or not doesn't change that fact. What is the actual be