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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.

#11
If you're going to spam my favourite technical website with pr for an application that I'm not even allowed to use, are you at least going to send me an invite?

Seriously, there's a lot of people that are on the "in" already here, but for the rest of us, either let me see what all the fuss is about already or STFU with the incessant "I'm cool you're not" posts about this thing.

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

#13

If you're going to spam my favourite technical website with pr for an application that I'm not even allowed to use, are you at least going to send me an invite? Seriously, there's a lot of people that are on the "in" already here, but for the rest of us, either let me see what all the fuss is about already or STFU with the incessant "I'm cool you're not" posts about this thing.

Hey everyone, let's all completely stop talking about G+ until run4yourlives gets an account.

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

#14
post #13

If you're going to spam my favourite technical website with pr for an application that I'm not even allowed to use, are you at least going to send me an invite? Seriously, there's a lot of people that are on the "in" already here, but for the rest of us, either let me see what all the fuss is about already or STFU with the incessant "I'm cool you're not" posts about this thing.

Hey everyone, let's all completely stop talking about G+ until run4yourlives gets an account.

Too late, somebody invited me as a result of that comment. :-)

Point still stands though. I'd prefer that we not turn this site into a "look what I have that you don't" PR session. It's so much more than that.

Especially since you can provide a wonderful amount of feedback to the team by, ironically, using Google+ itself.

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

#15

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.

While I realize that part of this comes from the structure that Twitter's authorization takes, which doesn't allow fine-grained permissions, ideally I'd love to see more sites asking which permissions you want to grant them. I almost never want to allow a site to tweet on my behalf (though I don't mind if it wants to send me over to Twitter with a suggested tweet), and I don't want to trust the site itself to not abuse the permission; I'd rather just not grant that permission in the first place.

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

#17
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.

"See who I follow, and follow new people. / Update your profile."

No thanks.

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

#18
post #12

Personal fave: "How many people did you work with on Google+? We're a surprisingly small team (esp. by Google's standards), but we try to make up for it with passion and speed." To which I ask, how many people did you work with on Google+?

Heh, since Google is famous (infamous?) for saying most products are small teams, just 3 or 4 people. It sounds like they are working all by themselves :-)

That being said, given all the products that had to co-operate somewhat for this to be released I doubt they were 'small'.

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

#19
post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

"See who I follow, and follow new people. / Update your profile." No thanks.

We don't use those, twitter doesn't have a fine-grained permissions system.

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

#20
post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hey everyone, let's all completely stop talking about G+ until run4yourlives gets an account.

Too late, somebody invited me as a result of that comment. :-) Point still stands though. I'd prefer that we not turn this site into a "look what I have that you don't" PR session. It's so much more than that. Especially since you can provide a wonderful amount of feedback to the team by, ironically, using Google+ itself.

It's one of the biggest pieces of mainstream technology news right now, and though that might be because of the exclusive aspect of it (remember the PR firm that offered invites to other PR firms as a way of getting contacts?), it's also because a battle between Google and Facebook will be really interesting, leading to everyone with an opinion writing an article. It will probably blow over in a week or two - just like the Bitcoin stories did, though they lasted for several months. Or the Color stories (slight resurgence as the company continues self-destructing, but it's the first I've seen of them on HN in months).

It's a really standard cycle on HN - not the first or last time it will happen. If it gets too irritating, then someone will write a browser extension to hide all stories about Google+, or adapt an existing extension (as they did with Bitcoin and a bunch of other topics that briefly took over the site).

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