I remember svbtle's rocky "launch" on HN. People were upset with the exclusivity, the fact that "kudos" couldn't be taken away, and someone actually made a clone of svbtle, called obtvse. The creator of svbtle definitely came across as a jerk. I think the representation of svbtle as a blogging platform hurt it overall, since when most people think blogging nowadays, they think of open platform, not something that takes pride in being closed and implicitly insults anyone not invited.

I have yet to be sold on the concept.

This is some impressively fast turnaround. Being able to hide posts sounds like it could be useful.

So what's in tomorrow's update? ;)

If you go to the big island in Hawai'i there are stringent anti-light pollution laws (due to the observatory) and the nights are beautiful. If you can get out there I highly recommend checking out the skies at night.

At my workplace it's hotly contested. Unfortunately, I'm outnumbered.

Other hot topics are whether .gif should be pronounced like jif or gift sans the 't' and whether pizza can be cute.

I'm firmly in team jif and pizza most certainly cannot be cute.

I do begrudgingly respect people who pronounce it like gift. No respect for people who think pieces of pizza are cute, however.

I found the explanation of iff as used in the pdf somewhat confusing. It seemed more intuitive to me to think of it as an XNOR or it returns true if EITHER both inputs are true OR if both inputs are false.

I also think drawing down the truth tables for each condition was helpful but I still don't completely get it. That was a pretty damn hard math problem.

The book was based off an early short story that the author wrote, called "I am a Zombie filled with love". Unfortunately, the site that it was hosted on (the author's blog) seems to be down. If you can find it, it's a fun read.

Definitely, although maybe for a different reason. I enjoy the segregation of my interests in different social networks. The less crossover there is, the better. Maybe paradoxically, I've found that I can't be truly open without being able to segregate parts of my social experience from one another. Hacker News is good for my tech discussion, Google+ for talking to a certain group of friends, Facebook for another, reddit for complaining about reddit, etc. Once you introduce another variable into the mix like, say, family or coworkers, what I say changes dramatically.

It isn't so much me censoring myself to appear more palatable to other groups insomuch as it is attempting to cultivate different personas with different people which, now that I'm typing it out, seems a bit duplicitous, but I think most people would agree that they act different with their family and their friends.

I am, however, going off on a bit of a tangent. I didn't sign up to Facebook in order to see which companies people liked. I signed up, well, because of peer pressure, but also because I wanted to be able to keep in touch with people I don't see every day. As Facebook trended more and more away from that, I've used Facebook less.

I like my online life to be able to be divided into discrete, modular chunks.