chrstphrwrght

I'm interested to hear how much penetration G+ has had amongst everyone's social groups.

Personally I just have one circle right now made up of work friends. They're all pretty technical; about 60% of them were on both my Facebook and Twitter, and the other 40% were just on Facebook. I was looking forward to using a social tool where I could share and hear more from that other 40%, but they haven't been posting much at all. My reasoning is that if they were big sharers they'd probably already be on Twitter.

My friends who aren't in web or game development have shown no interest in G+ though. I feel like the tool's purpose is to connect with people that I know in real life, so I'm less likely to connect with random but interesting people like on Twitter.

As a result of all this I don't get a lot of updates on G+, and those people who are posting seem to be doing it out of hope that it'll encourage use of the service - they're getting more engagement on Twitter.

Early days and all that jazz, I'm just curious to see if it's taken off for anyone yet.

Good start! Don't be afraid to increase the font size - my eye sight is okay, but it's not easy for me to read the text surrounding the headlines unless I focus on it.

I've tinkered with Rails projects on and off since 2005, but it's never been my main gig. I'm sure if I was using it full-time I'd be okay keeping up to date with the latest trends and conventions, but as it stands I wind up Googling before almost every decision to ask "Okay, so how are we doing this now?"

I figure that infrequent users like us aren't who the Rails core is catering for, and that's fine. It does feel like a slow reboot coming back to Rails every 6-12 months for small projects, but I still recognise that it's a great framework that solves a lot of problems.

When making a decision on what technology to use, I often consider Sinatra for its simplicity. Rails feels like a black box to me at times - again, likely not a problem if it's your bread and butter.

He said he had lived in Asia, not that he was currently living there.

"I've lived in the Mid-East and Asia, and I know what real poor people look like."

It seems like the host thought you were stringing them along and has overreacted. I'd try to imagine how they were feeling before we call them crazy though, whether you book or not might affect them in all sorts of ways. Do they need to change their plans for the weekend to accommodate you being there? Did they decline a booking from someone else while waiting for you to commit? Are they hard up for cash and really need the extra dollars your booking could bring? They might be pressured by all sorts of things and just waiting for that confirmation email. For a weekend booking, still no commitment by Thursday would have made me a bit nervous as a host too.

Of course they could just be imbalanced, and that's a risk you take. Part of Airbnb's appeal is that it creates experiences for you that you wouldn't get staying at a hotel. If you are travelling with children, this might be less of a draw for you as safety becomes a bigger concern; you can minimise the risk by only booking somewhere that has a lot of positive reviews and a good feel to it.

First, searched for: ppa in pbuilder

I received an eFreedom result on the second page of results, and no corresponding Stack Overflow article. The title of the eFreedom page is "DEBIAN - pbuilder storing dependencies - efreedom"

I then searched for: ppa in pbuilder site:stackoverflow.com

This gives one response - not the same article that was scraped by eFreedom. So that seems a little off - as a user I'd expect the Stack Overflow article that was scraped to meet the query if eFreedom does.

Finally, based on the title of the Stack Overflow article that was scraped in my first query, I searched for: pbuilder storing dependencies

Here the original Stack Overflow article is listed first, eFreedom second, so that's good. Unfortunately when you scan a little further down the page, the article "UBUNTU - pbuilder create fail - efreedom" is above "pbuilder create fail - Stack Overflow".

As a side point, my search is not made more valuable by the scraped versions appearing in the results. Making Stack Overflow appear before eFreedom is one thing, but why should I see eFreedom at all? I'd rather the other results be different content, that way I don't have to mentally parse everything to work out if it's the same content with a different skin.

I'll switch when it can convert image attachments to ascii inline, I don't want to open a separate program to look at all those adorable pictures of kittens in my inbox.