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Before we can change any code, we have to understand what the code currently does, and whether it's supposed to do that.

Often, a quick piece of code isn't so quick after all, and you can easily find yourself surrounded by a baffling labyrinth of code in under a day.

I worried about being seen as too young, or too brown, or too female, or too uneducated to offer the solution to the group.

But mostly, I worried about being... too wrong.

the plan seems crazy and the issue is Z, but since it's plain to me, well they must see it too.

When you try to move beyond the Hey, I'm not using Facebook! How does this work? dimension of Google+, you find there's no reason to stay. The site's worse than irrelevant: it's redundant. There's no niche, no small slice to serve, no tight community of geeks in need of a petri dish.

Facebook is stellar at what it sets out to do. It murdered photo sharing services, decimated the use of Instant Messaging, is in the ring with Twitter, and, of course, is where all your friends are. And for a social network, we want to be where our friends are

Google+ has a news feed—Facebook's is better. Google+ has a wall of some kind—Facebook's is better. Google+ had "Circles," which illicit erections across the internet for some reason—Facebook stole the idea and made Lists, which are the same thing. And that last one's crucial. No matter what Google+ might have on Facebook, Facebook can always take. They stole Twitter for statuses, they ripped AIM and Skype for Facebook Chat, and they'll ransack whatever few nuggets of worth lie in Google+ as well. They'll always be ahead.