On: Bad USB-C cable destroys laptop

[kentonv → hartator]

Honestly G+ is amazing for technical discussion. Examples from my feed:

https://plus.google.com/+KentonVarda/posts/cFsgVBuXinb

https://plus.google.com/+KentonVarda/posts/JDwHfAiLGNQ

At least in my experience, FB and Twitter simply don't produce anything like that.

[simoncion → kentonv]

> Honestly G+ is amazing for technical discussion.

If and only if you're okay with the horribly limited formatting that Plus offers. There's no way in hell you can ever post code snippets, for example.

[kentonv → simoncion]

Code snippets are reasonably OK ever since they made indentation work, which was like 4 years ago.

[reitanqild → hartator]

Full disclosure: Not a Google employee, not even a fanboy anymore after some of the stuff I have seen over the last few years. That said I'm FED UP with this Google+ bashing.

Two major annoyances: no api access and centralized. Otherwise nice. Have used it a lot, but not much lately.

Generally it seems to be nicer and more focused on topics than twitter.

[s0rce → hartator]

I think he works for Google.

[masklinn → s0rce]

Yep, not sure what he does these days but on some of his old reviews he noted that he's a software engineer on the ChromeOS/Pixel team: http://www.amazon.com/gp/review/R2DQ7OH7PQG24F