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I don't understand what you mean. The article was posted 20h ago by a guy who has over 50,000[0] followers, in to a collection that has almost 100,000[1] followers. Of course a lot of people saw it.

[0] https://plus.google.com/+GideonRosenblatt [1] https://plus.google.com/collection/UgYzY

I still log in about twice a week to check on the two interesting guys (both Linux devs) who post on there :)

This is actually more often than I log in to Facebook because I get more interesting content from those two guys than I do from my friends and family.

I saw it on Mastodon.

Though I follow Gideon on G+, and ran across it on one of my Circles as well, later on.

It's now been shared something like 190 times (a tremendous re-share rate for G+), and is apparently being discussed inside Google itself.