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I'm a technical lead on the Google+ team. Ask me anything.

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Re: I'm a technical lead on the Google+ team. Ask me anything.

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Post by GraffitiTim »

paliopolis wrote: post #2

But why do need to use my twitter info to login !! And on top of that "anyasq" can tweet on my behalf !Sorry !! Aint gonna happen.

Sorry, we're working on allowing other login mechanisms. The publishing permission is so you can tweet out questions you ask easily if the box is checked. We never misuse any permissions.

Re: I'm a technical lead on the Google+ team. Ask me anything.

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Post by GraffitiTim »

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We're not republishing content and I don't think we're ripping off r/iama. I think there's a lot of advantages to the "Ask me anything" concept being its own site, as I mentioned in the previous thread. And reddit also isn't the first to implement that idea.

I love feedback about AnyAsq but I think the most important thing about this link being on HN is the opportunity to ask questions of someone on the Google+ team and see his answers.

Re: I'm a technical lead on the Google+ team. Ask me anything.

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Post by dtran »

Unless you have a good reason for forcing really terse questions (even shorter than Twitter's 140-character limit), please, please make the tiny text input into a textarea. Or if you want to be fancy, start it off as a one-line textarea but expand it if I start typing more. I have to write my question somewhere else and paste it to actually be able to read it back. Otherwise, really great job hustling to get great people for these AMAs.

Edit: I guess the questions do have to be short, but there wasn't proper validation/notification when my question was too long (it just took me to a blank page to reask a question).

Re: I'm a technical lead on the Google+ team. Ask me anything.

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Post by GraffitiTim »

dtran wrote: post #6

Unless you have a good reason for forcing really terse questions (even shorter than Twitter's 140-character limit), please, please make the tiny text input into a textarea. Or if you want to be fancy, start it off as a one-line textarea but expand it if I start typing more. I have to write my question somewhere else and paste it to actually be able to read it back. Otherwise, really great job hustling to get great pe…

Thanks. I think we're going to lift or lessen the constraint on question length. We were trying to have them fit in a tweet, and also we noticed that most interview questions are relatively short, but we've gotten that feedback quite a lot.

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GraffitiTim wrote: post #5
[deleted] wrote: post #4

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We're not republishing content and I don't think we're ripping off r/iama. I think there's a lot of advantages to the "Ask me anything" concept being its own site, as I mentioned in the previous thread. And reddit also isn't the first to implement that idea. I love feedback about AnyAsq but I think the most important thing about this link being on HN is the opportunity to ask questions of someone on the Google+ team…

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Re: I'm a technical lead on the Google+ team. Ask me anything.

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Post by mirkules »

Seems like most of the questions are watered down, and the answers are typical PR-speak. One of the tell-tale signs is the lack of any negative learning experiences, for example how explosive growth forced them to consider other architectural designs. "There's a ton of stuff to do" is neither informative nor all that forthcoming, IMO.
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