HN has terrible opinions and ideas about exercise. For a group that is generally pretty critical, they are surprisingly naive and uncritical when it comes to exercise. Go figure.
What if you programmed in a different programming language every week or so? Roughly the same result. You'd know a little bit about a lot of languages, but never enough to be very productive, and you'd never build anything worth using.
That's pretty much the route Facebook took so it just might work but I too remain sceptical after mentioning G+ to a few people over coffee, beer or at the university and having to explain what I'm even talking about every single time.
that doesn't relate to the way Facebook took off AT ALL. The only "similarity" is .edu email addresses - in Facebook's case, it worked as an incentive because it was an exclusive club. Plus, it was an entirely different beast back then (and the "social network world" changed dramatically too)...
Without commenting on the validity of the argument, the point that you're missing (not your fault, the post wasn't clear) is that there will be separate ("siloed") G+ instances for these universities. The distinction will be the same as Googlers having access to both public and internal/corp G+.
One use case for this is that I can make a G+ event (e.g. a party) public, and know that only fellow students will see it.
Doesn't that also mean that all their data and connections will disappear after they leave the university? How easy is it to migrate the connections and data to a personal account?
I cut cable, but now I'm going back to it. Not having cable has been expensive. For sports, the only viable alternative has been services like NFL Game Pass and NHL Game Center, both of which clock in at around $250 a season, and that's just for hockey and football (and BOTH services still have blackout games). On top of that I pay for a VPN account to get around geographic restrictions, otherwise both services would be close to useless. Add in a Netflix subscription on top of it and I'm up to about $700 just to watch football, hockey and Netflix; I'm still missing out on every other sport and anything that isn't available on Netflix.
"Cutting the cable" still isn't that viable an option for a lot of people, and traditional broadcasting and media companies are still very much in control of most media consumption.
I basically stopped following the NBA because there wasn't a pain-free way of watching it.
I bought the online seasons pass last year. It had a clunky video player and half the games I wanted to watch were blacked out.
They also had a scumbag cancellation process where the cancel button, that was buried on the NBA site, mysteriously had a 500 error for over a week and required talking to 3 different people on the phone.
NHL Game Center is even worse—there is NO online cancellation process and don't let you cancel your subscription partway through the season. I live in Canada an pretty much any game that is aired on TSN or TSN2 is blacked out for me.
Watching sports online could be such a great experience, but most sports leagues seem to have their hands tied by their traditional broadcasting contracts unfortunately.
Do you not root for your home team? If you do, you'll be able to get most of your teams' Football games OTA, on FOX, CBS or NBC. You'll just miss out on the odd NFLN or ESPN game. I mean, if you live out of market, you'll have to get a similar package anyway...
Otherwise, can I suggest going to a bar to watch games (if you root for your home team)? I thought I wouldn't be able to live without live sports when I cut my cable, but I was always able to go to a friend's house, a bar or somewhere else to catch a game.
The upside to you is that your photographs are tagged and categorized in more and more useful ways. Without this suggestion what is the likelihood that you would go back to old albums and tag them in such a way? I know for me, it's almost zero. When it's presented in such a frictionless manner (and is eerily accurate) it becomes a hell of a lot more likely. I think that the typical HN user is either too cynical or too tech-savvy to really find this useful. Most users have huge collections of photos that aren't necessarily categorized in useful ways.
Facebook wants its users to catalog their lives. For them, this data is marketing gold. For end users, it means their content (photos, status updates, life events, etc) are categorized more thoroughly and in a more meaningful fashion (geographically, chronologically, etc).
I was thinking the same thing. On government contracts we're still required to support IE6 even though we can't seem to find an actual computer running IE6.
It's not just larger organizations. I've seen exactly what you're citing — where even the most trivial objects were injected — in an organization with roughly 5 developers.
This is my biggest complaint as well. The new features of the UI are great, but it still looks pretty bad. There's a lot of white space and very little contrast between elements are groups of elements. The "Compose Mail" but just sort of hangs there awkwardly. The top row of action buttons are aligned to the left, so at higher resolutions there's just a chunk of whitespace to their right, even though the inbox itself fills the entire width of the container.
