Linus Torvalds on the Google vs Oracle verdict

Re:Linus Torvalds on the Google vs Oracle verdict by bradwestness on Wednesday May 23, 2012 @06:45PM (#4015724)

Google+ seems to have been adopted by a lot of major players in the tech industry. Quite a few notable people post on it pretty regularly, possibly because it's hard to effectively tweet about technology issues in 140 characters.

I'd probably switch to it exclusively too if I could use it to export to Twitter and Facebook.

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Re:Linus Torvalds on the Google vs Oracle verdict by icebraining on Thursday May 24, 2012 @07:05AM (#4017780)

I'd probably switch to it exclusively too if I could use it to export to Twitter and Facebook.

I don't use it, but for social media you can use IFTTT:

http://ifttt.com/recipes/search?q=google+plus

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Re:Linus Torvalds on the Google vs Oracle verdict by duaneb on Thursday May 24, 2012 @12:29AM (#4016796)

What's the point of exporting it to twitter/facebook?

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Re:Linus Torvalds on the Google vs Oracle verdict by eclark on Thursday May 24, 2012 @01:21AM (#4016954)

Lots of people who are not early adopters are still on FB and won't move for quite a while.

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Re:Linus Torvalds on the Google vs Oracle verdict by AndrewDucker on Thursday May 24, 2012 @05:01AM (#4017497)

You don't need to move. You can got to _two_ websites.

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Re:Linus Torvalds on the Google vs Oracle verdict by desas on Thursday May 24, 2012 @09:21AM (#4018234)

And read the same things twice?

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Re:Linus Torvalds on the Google vs Oracle verdict by SkyMarshal on Thursday May 24, 2012 @03:26AM (#4017275)

Linus also works at Google. I suspect he'd probably still be exclusive to lkml otherwise.

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Re:Linus Torvalds on the Google vs Oracle verdict by jemfinch on Thursday May 24, 2012 @03:39AM (#4017304)

No, he doesn't.

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Re:Linus Torvalds on the Google vs Oracle verdict by irahul on Thursday May 24, 2012 @03:39AM (#4017306)

> Linus also works at Google

Linus works at Google?

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Re:Linus Torvalds on the Google vs Oracle verdict by kinlan on Thursday May 24, 2012 @03:39AM (#4017307)

No he doesn't

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Re:Linus Torvalds on the Google vs Oracle verdict by SkyMarshal on Thursday May 24, 2012 @08:34AM (#4018040)

Oops, must have seen him at a tech talk or something and didn't realize he was a guest.

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Re:Linus Torvalds on the Google vs Oracle verdict by kristianc on Thursday May 24, 2012 @12:40AM (#4016833)

>> When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names. E.g. "That is an idiotic thing to say; 1 + 1 is 2, not 3" can be shortened to "1 + 1 is 2, not 3." [1]

HN's own style guide has sound advice for how Linus might shorten his posts to under 140 characters.

[1] http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Re:Linus Torvalds on the Google vs Oracle verdict by aptwebapps on Thursday May 24, 2012 @05:41AM (#4017596)

I've never seen him post here. Does he have an account?

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Re:Linus Torvalds on the Google vs Oracle verdict by batista on Thursday May 24, 2012 @02:14PM (#4019731)

This assumes that the "That is an idiotic thing to say;" is unimportant. On the contrary.

1) It gives a lot of pleasure to respond with it to idiotic ideas.

2) It adds emphasis and a sense of proportions to the error, ie. it's not just a simple mistake, it is an idiotic mistake.

3) It (hopefully) shames the perpetrator of the idiotic idea into thinking twice before speaking.

It's not always appropriate, but a lot of times it is just the thing.

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