I need an Advent of Vim to practice all of these

Try "Vimways":

https://vimways.org/2018/

https://vimways.org/2019/

Jesus Diaz, hadn't wondered where that guy went - but his consistency is charming

Follow @ACMQueue and @IEEESpectrum

Second this, ACMQueue is great for finding top notch papers, their latest covered HFT: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2536492

So when will Google officially make this their social network?

The Brazilians will just take it from us again :)

I tell my chinese friends I'm on QQ (their local AIM/Y!IM conglomerate) and I tell my brazilian friends I'm on Google's Urkut :-P

He doesn't work at Google any more.

~9 months after Friendfeed raises a Series B? Maybe Google will drop the billion to buy both Friendfeed and Twitter so we can get Twitter with the superior Friendfeed interface.