I have a better question. How many of these people are actually <i>posting</i>? It feels a little pointless to follow a bunch of people who have no public posts.<p>I've gone through all the links in this thread (at the time of writing) and included only those where I can see posts (i.e more than just uploading a profile photo). I've simply copy/pasted the links from the original submitters into this post. Hope it's useful. (edit: I also put them all in a spreadsheet which anyone can edit <a href="http://bit.ly/nBqc8e" rel="nofollow">http://bit.ly/nBqc8e</a>)<p>Guido van Rossum: <a href="https://plus.google.com/115212051037621986145/posts" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/115212051037621986145/posts</a><p>Ian Bicking: <a href="https://plus.google.com/104537541227697934010/posts" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/104537541227697934010/posts</a><p>Michael Foord: <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/1/114852031032123777881/posts" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/u/1/114852031032123777881/posts</a><p>Simon Willison: <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/1/106366615678321494423/posts" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/u/1/106366615678321494423/posts</a><p>Brett Cannon: <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/1/115362263245161504841/posts" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/u/1/115362263245161504841/posts</a><p>Graham Dumpleton: <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/1/114657481176404420131/posts" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/u/1/114657481176404420131/posts</a><p>Waldemar Kornewald: <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/1/112495598999878465094/posts" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/u/1/112495598999878465094/posts</a><p>Eric Florenzano: <a href="https://plus.google.com/u/1/109591387819364984777/posts" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/u/1/109591387819364984777/posts</a><p>Randall Munroe: XKCD. <a href="https://plus.google.com/111588569124648292310/posts" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/111588569124648292310/posts</a><p>Matt Cutts: <a href="https://plus.google.com/109412257237874861202/posts" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/109412257237874861202/posts</a><p>Brad Fitzpatrick: <a href="https://plus.google.com/115863474911002159675/posts" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/115863474911002159675/posts</a><p>Scott Hanselman: <a href="https://plus.google.com/113698589973698283456/posts" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/113698589973698283456/posts</a><p>Ryan Dahl: <a href="https://plus.google.com/115094562986465477143/posts" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/115094562986465477143/posts</a><p>Andy Hertzfeld: <a href="https://plus.google.com/117840649766034848455/posts" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/117840649766034848455/posts</a><p>Adrian Holovaty: <a href="https://plus.google.com/113607435918549143249/posts" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/113607435918549143249/posts</a><p>Armin Ronacher: <a href="https://plus.google.com/116865269069705863179/posts" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/116865269069705863179/posts</a><p>Don Stewart: <a href="https://plus.google.com/115274377971493973150/posts" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/115274377971493973150/posts</a><p>Paul Buchheit: <a href="https://plus.google.com/111732375221065535359/posts" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/111732375221065535359/posts</a>
So, how are these hackers sharing their technical insights on G+ without bothering their real-life friends and family?<p>That's right, they aren't.<p>Unless you manually add all your followers to a 'followers' circle and share to that (and subsequently pollute your default stream with your followers' posts) there's currently no way on G+ to keep your technical public persona apart from your more personal, private one.
It seems to me that the most active use for G+ at the moment is as a broadcasting system, very much like Twitter. Maybe Google has envisioned this, maybe not. I admit I didn't. I thought Google would have done whatever it takes to promote more intimate and private communication among close friend circles.<p>But while G+ is arguably a better broadcasting system than Twitter, it is still broken. A tech celeb would love to consistently post tech stuffs, but while this activity satisfies his geeky followers, it would annoy his friends and families. And there is no way a tech celeb can manually add his followers into different circles.<p>I imagine if G+ fixes this problem, it will completely replace Twitter in no time at all.<p>One solution is to introduce a concept called <i>Channels</i>.<p>Suppose I follow DHH. The problem is DHH has a lot of interests, ranging from Ruby, entrepreneurship, to Forbes bashing (DHH fans bear it with me here). Now DHH doesn't know who among his followers cares about which of his interests, but he creates some <i>Channels</i>, namely "Ruby", "Entrepreneurship", "Forbes Bashing", etc anyway, so followers can filter themselves.<p>Now a Rails guy found DHH's G+ page. He would like to follow DHH, but he doesn't care so much about DHH's financial insight. Now that when he adds DHH to his "Follow" Circle, he can choose to pick some among many DHH's <i>Channels</i> and everyone is happy.<p>Finally, DHH's "public" posts are only visible to those who specifically added him to the "Follow" circle.
Randall Munroe: XKCD.
<a href="https://plus.google.com/111588569124648292310/posts" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/111588569124648292310/posts</a><p>Matt Cutts: head of the webspam team at Google. <a href="https://plus.google.com/109412257237874861202/posts" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/109412257237874861202/posts</a>
Brad Fitzpatrick: Googler, creator of Livejournal; author of Memcached, and bunch of other stuff. <a href="https://plus.google.com/115863474911002159675/posts" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/115863474911002159675/posts</a><p>Scott Hanselman's profile, Principal Program Manager @ Microsoft. Prolific online presence:
<a href="https://plus.google.com/113698589973698283456/posts" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/113698589973698283456/posts</a>
Adrian Holovaty - one of the creators of Django, founder of Everyblock <a href="https://plus.google.com/113607435918549143249/posts" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/113607435918549143249/posts</a><p>Armin Ronacher - creator of Flask (Python web framework) <a href="https://plus.google.com/116865269069705863179/posts" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/116865269069705863179/posts</a>
Don Stewart- Author of Real World Haskell and quant <a href="https://plus.google.com/115274377971493973150/posts" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/115274377971493973150/posts</a>
Very few infosec and IT security peeps yet that I have found. A few so far:<p>Bob Rudis: <a href="https://plus.google.com/106858596733931987499/posts" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/106858596733931987499/posts</a><p>Graham Cluley: <a href="https://plus.google.com/102593062779602837630/posts" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/102593062779602837630/posts</a><p>Naked security (Sophos): <a href="https://plus.google.com/109804632067529299377/posts" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/109804632067529299377/posts</a>
Joe Hewitt <a href="https://plus.google.com/113111163133053240092/" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/113111163133053240092/</a><p>Also, just came across this post <a href="https://plus.google.com/111379026657101157995/posts/Sirk5KSbgYM" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/111379026657101157995/posts/Sirk5KSb...</a> though those recommendations are mostly tech industry and blogger types not really hackers.
Also, here is a list of hacker news folks on G+. You can add the emails into Google Contacts and we'll all appear in find and invite or you can dd people one by one.
<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lQACCsE19tzBjRrfgmAcU25mfVGsPNPgsoWQeFMvnaQ/edit?hl=en_US" rel="nofollow">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lQACCsE19tzBjRrfgmAcU25m...</a>
Martin Odersky Creator of Scala <a href="https://plus.google.com/117708211719030258230/posts" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/117708211719030258230/posts</a><p>David Pollak Creator of Lift
<a href="https://plus.google.com/105156943245180312120/posts" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/105156943245180312120/posts</a>
Ryan Dahl (maker of Node.js): <a href="https://plus.google.com/115094562986465477143/posts" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/115094562986465477143/posts</a>
Andy Hertzfeld member of the original Apple Macintosh development team during the 1980s, now doing lead designer of Google+ (the circles UI? that's his and his team's code)<p><a href="https://plus.google.com/117840649766034848455" rel="nofollow">https://plus.google.com/117840649766034848455</a>