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I know females that say "guys" referring to both males and females.


Sorry but I don't see how you got through a degree (and a masters) without having to do unpleasant stuff.


I think there are some reasons for this:

- I am always very lucky. Even if I put almost no effort in any kind of project it always comes out at least ok.

- My bachelor course was more or less a joke. The description of the single classes always sounded totally impressive but in the end most it was just rubbish and very easy.

- The master course I attended was a pure joke. If I had put any effort in it it would have been possible to pass it with almost perfect grade.

- I got my PhD position through pure luck and some personal connections.

- I am VERY good at pretending that I am actually working

So all in all I just perfected the art of procrastination. For example, when I was in the military service (not US), I more or less had to smuggle myself into a local military base for a few weeks because I was just to lazy to get a new id card.


when I was in the military service (not US)

So, how did you make it into the military service without learning to do unpleasant things?


I totally forgot about this: This whole military thing itself was just the result of procrastination.

Getting in the military was not the problem. Not getting drawn and doing something alternative was just too much effort for me at that time.


You know, in some countries you're still drawn into the service, no questions asked


I'll second janjan's comment. I can completely believe that you can get through a degree being a total procrastinator.

Somehow during the course of my university I've perfected my skills of presenting projects. I recently realized that I can get even a totally half-baked, barely working project to get a good grade, just by talking and spending an hour more on design than everybody else[1]. It wasn't until recently that my friend pointed out that I've learned to subconsciously depend on this and thus not working hard on anything.

Also, I find doing presentations, talking, doing design touches, or implementing weird things (like animations in MATLAB[2]) - pretty much anything except what I'm supposed to be doing at the moment - much more pleasant, much more fun. And I see that you can get far this way at university...

[1] - it's not about faking things, etc. - it's that people really underestimate how much depends on the general 'look and feel' of software, and the way it's presented.

[2] - did you know that MATLAB plot can give you stable 60FPS? ;)


Same for me. Nearly all posts so far have been about Google+ or testing its features.

The problem is, with G+, you will see less posts on general because people will be posting to their specific circles which you might not be in.


Have you nicknamed the Google bar as the "funeral bar" because it's dark? Are all dark things funeral things?


Never thought about it that way but it does start with a cross and my first name, kinda fits the nickname.


Is that how nicknames work? If a nickname is a reference to a specific aspect of someone or something need it apply to all people or things sharing that characteristic?


Both are bad because it's hard to share something that is not good but might be important. Murder stats for where you live, for example.


There's nothing wrong with your comment and yet it is downvoted. What's going on?

Anyway, I think Google+ will stay around and replace/fulfill communication needs for a lot of people but it won't beat Facebook. People LIKE seeing everything their friends post - even if they complain about it.


Check Scobles updates. The account is legit and not surprising. Do you think nobody at Twitter has a Facebook account and nobody in Google has Twitter or Facebook?


It certainly is a feature. I often browse Facebook on a netbook which has a smaller screen. Before, photos didn't fit on my screen. Now they do.

You'll notice that Google+ has the same type of viewer.


"Why is it so bad to have your sex duration published but its okay that your jogging performance visible to the world?"

They are completely different. Maybe not to you but if you can't see how it would bother some people then you're not thinking very hard.


They are completely different to me as well, which is why I don't record rumpy-pumpy on runkeeper, or wear my HRM/Cadence/GPS watch for it.

They are evidently not completely different to the users of fitbit who are telling the world about it, because otherwise they wouldn't be overtly and deliberately stating (on a website whose purpose is to share activity details with the world) that any particular 2m52s of increased activity was due to squelching.

Please let me know if I've missed some crucial point regarding fitbit usage, because I really can't see how this is "unwitting".


That's not the real question at all. If the website didn't explicitly state that this information would be private then it is a privacy issue.


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