MattCruikshank

I don't want to design anything in any UI.

I want to use a game engine as a library.

I'm curious, as a primarily C# developer, how do you feel about Godot, in this respect?

An okay unity app for tracking:

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/artemis-ii/arow/

Don't do the "noise" thing this web page does. It hurts my eyes so bad. Why would you purposefully make your page look like a low-quality JPG?

And I just taught Claude to read the Discussion notes on a page, and to make updates to the page accordingly...

I'm like, "Here's all of the obituaries," and Claude is like, "I'll make all the pages of all of the people and link them together." Pretty neat.

For anyone who thinks diff / merge should be better - try Beyond Compare from Scooter Software.

I hear there's no legislation called "Protecting Unified Monetary Products & Distributing Usury Monetary Profits."

In this new legislation, some stocks will not be associated with any corporations. There will be no reporting requirements. The stock will move as the market dictates.

And people who have more money than you can buy access to trade it seconds faster than you can.

Good luck everyone! I hope the PUMP & DUMP bill works out!

Amazing. I'm building almost the exact same thing. I'll share mine when it's mature enough. :D

I think the best analogy for Google is that it's like being accepted at a University. And they think it's going to take you a while to declare your major. You may not like your weeder classes. You may not like your first few professors. But pretty soon, you'll find a home for yourself, if you want to make the best of it.

In my hiring process, I interviewed with multiple managers. I picked my favorite, and I ended up working for him. It didn't work out. Within a few weeks I was working for a new manager.

And frankly, I've never once worked for a company where I was immune from re-orgs.

"Every review I hear about working at Google makes me want to stay away"

I loved working there. Sure, who your boss is has a huge impact on your happiness. I ended up with a boss I enjoyed working for.

Does that review make you want to stay away, too?

I used to work at Google as well, and frankly I was so abstracted from all of this that it's absurd.

It's like finally reading how my car is an "intern-al comb-usti-on eng-ine" whatever that means.

On some things, yes, very much so.

I'll just use my Facebook browser on my Facebook phone running Facebook Operating System to Facebook search for job openings where I can post my resume that I wrote in Facebook Docs, and hope the recruiter will send me a Facebook email or leave a Facebook voicemail. After that, I'll open up Facebook maps to find a take-out restaurant my friends reviewed, then I'll rent some Facebook movies my friends recommended. Or maybe I'll talk a walk, if Facebook Now says the weather is good where I am. While I'm walking, maybe I can record a video of the loons on my lake again, and post it to Facebook video. Oh, I better Facebook Keep a reminder to myself to pick up some milk.

My identity was subtly integrated into each of those things.

It's table stakes for a company to know how to do social integration.

Not all products that a company offers need social integration.

I'm okay with people believing G+ is dead if they want to.

But this is a news article concluding G+ is dead, based on stated arguments.

Except the arguments are lousy.

Lousy journalism is bad for everyone.

Knowing who you are, knowing you you like to Follow, knowing who you like to share with, those are "table stakes," to use your term.

Google didn't know who you were, who you followed, who you shared with, and so Google+ looked a lot like a product to you.

In Search, I see results I personally +1d. I also see blog posts from friends in my Circles.

In Maps, I see reviews of places written by my friends.

I rarely share YouTube videos publicly. Most of my videos are shared privately with Circles.

Google Play shows me reviews for Aps from people I've Circled. That affects my Android use.

I upload photos to Google. I want to chose who I share them with, that's Google+'s Circles.

I also upload videos, create documents, write blog posts, etc.

If I couldn't chose who I share those things with, I wouldn't be using those things.

The value G+ adds... makes those other services usable.

I used to work at Google, as stated in the last line of the article. I'm not getting any information from Googlers that isn't publicly visible.

Is "security" your first priority, or is adding features your first priority? How about uptime? How about profitability?

Only one of those can be your first priority, so which is it?

I think Google+ is also one of their first priorities.

Let me be very clear:

Anyone is welcome to conclude that Google+ is dead. Facebook still exists as a company. You personally don't use it. You don't like the font. Whatever...

I don't think it's dead. I use Google+ every day, and I'm looking forward to more of it.

But if a news site is going to make a conclusion, the arguments they use should be logical.

I assert that TechCrunch's specific arguments are not good ones.

I greatly enjoyed my experience of self-publishing on Lulu.com. It is truly satisfying to hold a physical copy of your own book, in my case it was my National Novel Writing Month book.