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Biggest Android gripe: scrolling. It's not smooth, inertial animation feels wrong, and no elastic bounce. Somebody show Google an iPhone!
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Google's Broken Hiring Process - Google - Gawker - http://gawker.com/5392947...
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What do you know? Valleywag got everything wrong. Google is hiring, not laying off. Also, our interview scores actually correlate very well with on-the-job performance. Peter Seibel asked me if there was anything counterintuitive about the process and I said that people who got one low score but were hired anyway did well on-the-job. To me, that means the interview process is doing very well, not that it is broken. It means that we don't let one bad interview blackball a candidate. We'll keep interviewing, keep hiring, and keep analyzing the results to improve the process. And I guess Valleywag will keep doing what they do...
- Peter Norvig
from Bookmarklet
Nice shirt!
- Jim Norris
That is a nice shirt.
- τorƍue
You had at least three rounds of layoffs this year, Peter. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009...
- Ryan Tate
Further, while you hired a rare few people who got "1" scores on one their interviews, you rejected 99 percent of those people, and you have no idea how they would have performed. Those you did hire turned out to be top performers. Sounds broken to me. (I am the author of the Valleywag post in question.)
- Ryan Tate
Hi Ryan, thanks for commenting. First: we get over 1000 resumes a day. We can't hire all of them. I am painfully aware that a few of the people we don't hire would be as good or better than a few of the people we do. I feel bad for the people we have to reject who are equally qualified, but that is the nature of uncertain decision-making. Now what I said in the Seibel interview: we try...
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- Peter Norvig
It's a great shirt. Google is tops. No system is perfect -- so long as there's a weighting for intangibles and accounting for style differences between interviewer and interviewee, all should be fine.
- Christopher Galtenberg
Bump. Maybe Ryan didn't get a chance to see that you'd responded, Peter.
- Matt Cutts
Could you recommend any literature on data driven hiring practices? Google seems to use many analogical reasoning questions for screening applicants. It would be interesting if there was a relationship between analogical reasoning and productivity.
- Brandon Smietana
Peter, did you ever read Malcolm Gladwell's book Blink? Seems to me the other piece of the hiring process to analyze is the cost-benefit analysis - is it worth doing so many interviews and so much testing if people's first hunch is often the best indicator? (Which isn't exactly what Gladwell said, but partially).
- Laura Norvig
I'm very suspicious of relying on the first hunch. If you hired everyone based on your first hunches, you would discover that most of the time you are wrong. I've lost count of the number of times I've interviewed someone (either on-site or as a second phone interview), and learned that the previous interviewer did not ask them to write code, despite the position being one that required...
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- Piaw Na
Yeah! Always go with the _second_ hunch.
- Andrew C (✓)
While I respect G for maintaining it's high standards for selection of new employees, one must caution against becoming myopic from seeking an image cast from itself. I've always thought that brainteasers were gimmicks and not real tests of one's ability, and using them in real-world hiring is just plain juvenile! While I don't know the details of their hiring process, I'd be curious to...
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- Sir Roxalot
People talk a lot about the brainteasers, but I know I've never used one in the hundreds of interviews I've done, and when we consider hiring someone, I'm not influenced if they miss a brainteaser question that someone else asked. I am influenced if they refuse to engage, or discuss the question. -Peter Norvig
- Peter Norvig
from email
I've never used a brainteaser in my interviews either. I don't like them, and discount interviewers who use them heavily.
- Piaw Na
It's important to beware of survivor bias when reviewing the outcomes of your processes. Sure most of the 1's did well, but how about the 4's? It's easy to overtrain a system, and in any group of workers I've been in, I've shielded the slightly less competent Peacemakers from ridicule by the other Smart Guys because we need them just as much as they need us.
- Jason Marshall
Note to Google: I will never buy a phone with the carrier's logo on the front, so please try to talk some sense into Verizon.
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Some of the most talented people I know are also the most humble. It's the insecure ones that let ego get in the way.
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Some of the smartest and most talented people I know are working for others.
- Emre Sevinc
Criticizing things you can not change is worth it if you can influence the next generation to do better.
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The GMail ads indicate that this was quite an interesting email thread...
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The children who ride a 40mph zip wire a quarter of a mile high to get to school
| Mail Online - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news...
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"School run: Nine-year-old Daisy Mora makes the trip every day to get to lessons, with her five-year-old brother riding in a cloth bag"
- April Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Andrew C (✓)
The girl day dreams of telling stories of getting to school to her kids "When I was your age..."
- surf guitar
So how does she get back up after school?
- Gabe
Gabe++
- Rahsheen the Dream
That's not in India unfortunately... that's here in Colombia. That video is part of a special made by "Pirry", who specializes in stories like these. His website is http://www.pirry.com.co.
- Juan Pablo González
@Gabe - she doesn't go down a mountain - the zip line is to cross a valley. They zip line both ways. I assume they climb a tower or something.
- Andrew C (✓)
Awesome!
- Alistair (alpinefolk)
OK, it looks like they have 2 one-way zip lines. They carry around their own pulley, so they probably just have to carry their pulley uphill to get home.
- Gabe
"They zip line both ways".. is that like "When I was your age, I had to go to and from school barefoot, in the snow,.uphill BOTH WAYS!!"
- Roger N
My grandfather always had a good "getting to school story." He was raised in Houma, Louisiana and had to take a boat through the bayou to get to school. Loved that.
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
Looks like the cables stretch between mountains across a valley, so the cable coming back is just higher up the mountain on the other side. Still, very cool, and seems safe enough. I assume the villagers would notice any obvious wear on the cables with 60 trips per day occurring.
- Otto
This is my dream.
- Christopher Chung
I think about taking a zipline on my commute about once every two weeks.
- Christopher Chung
You kids are lucky! In my day, we didn't even HAVE zip lines! We had to WALK! 20 miles! in 73 feet of show! On our hands! While being whipped by enormous fish! AND WE WERE THANKFUL!
- Ciaoenrico
Luxury.
- Otto
Liked "Running A Software Business On 5 Hours A Week" by @patio11: http://bit.ly/9hZYxh and http://bit.ly/bbIAo8
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Over 4,000 developers at Google I/O 2010 - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010...
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Steve Jobs: "We've always been shameless about stealing great ideas." http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Дадада, "хорошие художники воруют, плохие - копируют"
- Ildar Karimov
from Android
This Apple-HTC patent suit may be just the motivation we need to take down the software patent system. Thanks, Steve.
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Photographer captures amazing images of lions at watering hole after submerging himself for three months | Mail Online - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news...
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"final desperate effort, the 32-year-old decided to take the plunge and climb into the murky pool with his camera and ended up contracting several tropical diseases. [...] It came at a huge price for the photographer who was diagnosed with Bilharzia and contracted several parasites which he soaked up through the dirty water in the drinking hole. Mr du Toit was also diagnosed with deadly malaria twice after contracting it through mosquitoes breeding in the pool."
- Simon
from Bookmarklet
RT @brainpicker: #TED Brin: "A lot of people think I'm naive, may be true. But I wouldn't have started a search engine in 1998 if I wasn't."
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RT @jessewilson: Vs. iPhone, iPad has 5x the pixels at 5x the weight. Nexus One has 2.5x the pixels at 0.96x the weight.
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Hiya! RT @cbeust Open your Nexus One box in style: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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interesting landscape - http://pixdaus.com/single...
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Looks like Thailand.. any idea where it was taken?
- Chris Myles
Looks very similar to the view from the top of Bich Dong Temple in Tam Coc near Hanoi, Vietnam: http://chiuki.smugmug.com/Vacatio...
- Chiu-Ki Chan
Sure does.. the difference might be monsoon vs dry season. I love the Karst topography (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...).
- Chris Myles
Hey Reddit - reddit alien + a narwhal. - artwork by Lawrence Yang - http://www.suckatlife.com/heyRedd...
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Upload your files and access them anywhere with Google Docs - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010...
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Who cares about total # of apps? I care about Google Goggles, Maps Nav, Voice, Layar, that apps can run in the background, etc.
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Finally, an earthquake I actually felt. And realized that it is an earthquake, not shoddy construction + a bus driving by.
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That one started to scare me a little, was rocking the shower doors in my bathroom like crazy.
- Ray Cromwell
I thought I felt something early this morning. I thought I was just having a bad dream.
- April Buchheit
from iPhone
You were gone when the earthquake happened April.
- Paul Buchheit
Waving Goodbye to 2009 - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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I like how Google Chrome deals with OpenSearch. It appears to cache the XML definition as it auto-discovers them. Just start typing the domain and then hit tab to search it. Much nicer than manually installing a new search for each domain like Firefox does.
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DeWitt Clinton, Iván Abrego, Nathan Snyder and 44 other people liked this
It also appears to work for sites that don't publish an OpenSearch spec. I think it does something smart to figure out where your result endpoint is and what your query parameter is.
- no name
This has always been one of my most favorite features of Chrome. I'd like to see them fold in Opera's method as well so I can configure a given search if Chrome's auto-discovery doesn't work exactly right.
- Akiva
Don't know what I'd do without it. Saves me lots of time when doing research across blogs.
- Rahsheen the Dream
or, it's just doing the google site:
- Chris Heath
@Chris Heath it's a site search trick, not google search...
- İsmail Aşcı
i see.. just tried it...
- Chris Heath
it works greatly
- Xitong Liu
bitchin' camaro!
- Josh Haley
I'm not sure I like it. I often use Google site search to bypass a site's own search because Google is often better. Now when I type in site:sitename.com it automatically defaults to the site's own search.
- Jesse Stay
Haven't been able to live without it, feel lost when I'm using other browsers.
- Andrew Trinh
Akiva, configure by right clicking the location field, "Edit search engines..."
- Vezquex
Vezquex, excellent!
- Akiva
Jesse, strange. I just tried doing a site:site.com search and it worked as expected. The behavior might be different in Windows.
- Akiva
You can also add one manually, just use the url and "%s" (minus quotes) where the query goes, and it adds "search+term+goes+here" if your search is "search term goes here"
- Nathan Snyder
Dear Java Installer, I don't want the Yahoo! Toolbar installed. EVER. Deal with it. Thanks, Jeremy.
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Google will talk about launch plans for Chrome OS at 10am Pacific. You can watch the webcast: http://www.google.com/intl...
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Imagine that you are about to be reincarnated (as a baby human) and can pass along 140 characters of advice. What would you say?
TobiasVerhoog.com, Barbara R. S., Raymond Marr aka Knatchwa and 54 other people liked this
Assume that the baby will be born into circumstances similar to your own, if necessary...
- Paul Buchheit
Wow, that's a stumper of a question! :)
- Susan Beebe
Learn all that you can, be noble, true, humble, love much. Seek wisdom from your family and friends
- Susan Beebe
Floss. :)
- AJ Batac (/-_-)
"It's mostly an illusion"
- Paul Buchheit
Never stop learning, enjoy the little things, cherish friends & family, try your best, keep an open mind, and indulge yourself occasionally.
- Nathan Chase
chase your passions, the rest follows. observe everything. work, love and play hard. change happens. live full and balanced. 3
- Charles Ying
What goes around comes around.
- imabonehead
I think Nathan has it! At least he said exactly what I would have written. :-)
- Victoria Plautia
Risk is not an option. And eat your vegetables.
- Micah
Study Thomas, he has more answers than anyone else you will read.
- Alex Scrivener
.....so are we trying to guess the meaning of life here? essentially I think that's what this question boils down to. I only need two characters:
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
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- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
Fear the fail whale.
- Jim Norris
"If you think you already know the answer, you will never know the answer"
- Paul Buchheit
Alex, which Thomas?
- Paul Buchheit
You're a towel!
- Vezquex
Don't fear the fail whale.
- Paul Buchheit
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, if you were in their position.
- Ruchira S. Datta
Everything is transitory.
- John E. Bredehoft
Don't tell them I told you this. They'll think you're nuts!
- Larry Hosken
"There's always an easier way"
- Paul Buchheit
I'm surprised no one's quoted Kurt Vonnegut yet. :)
- April Buchheit
April, is that your advice or an observation?
- Clare Dibble
Observation.
- April Buchheit
Stay away from the mohel.
- Leo Laporte
Crush the enemy. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of the women.
- iTad
"Think big. Code small."
- Paul Buchheit
For April: "There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind."
- Paul Buchheit
Phase 1: Collect Handerpants; Phase 2: ?; and Phase 3: Profit
- imabonehead
Just wing it. It'll be cool.
- April Buchheit
Let's git rid of 140 chars nonsense limid.
- pb:
"Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men."
- Paul Buchheit
Paul, try telling April that next time she is frustrated with you; I'm sure it will help ;)
- Clare Dibble
Just told my son this tonight -- Leave the earth better than the way you found it.
- Joe
Don't be such an asshole, asshole.
- Rodfather
@Paul, Aquinas
- Alex Scrivener
Assuming my reincarnated self has wifi and a smartphone, I might point him to Des'ree's 1990s pop hit: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Doug Beeferman
Treat others with respect. Feed your intellectual curiosity. Don't accept limits others place upon you and often, patience is required.
- Louis Gray
"Nobody else knows what's really going on either."
- The Amber
LCD is better than plasma
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
"Its not that bad, stop sh*tting yourself, ;)"
- chaz2b
++Leo, that sounds like very useful advice. :)
- Ruchira S. Datta
In the end it really doesn't matter, enjoy it while it lasts, do what makes you happy, try not to sabotage the happiness of others.
- April
Don’t sweat the small stuff. It’s all small stuff.
- Laura Norvig
"Dear Reincarnated Self: my head is frozen with the Life Extension Foundation. To get cool advice pls unfreeze me at ur earliest convenience."
- Philipp Lenssen
"Dont be afraid to take chances or march to a different beat. In the end only the soul counts, don't sweat the small stuff. Listen, learn."
- Grant Bierman
Dr. Cable. Watch it. ;-)
- Ac0n (former Franc)
I dare you to do better.
- Charles Ying
"Please ask the next generation to increase maximum message length."
- Ray Cromwell
BTW, Commander Data was able to get away with sending only 2 *bits* of information into the future/past to break out of a 'groundhog day' scenario. The message: 3
- Ray Cromwell
There once was a site called Twitter. It was worth a billion dollars...
- Sean Kelly
Exercise every day, learn to program asap. I have discovered a truly marvellous proof that these are the right things to do which this twee
- j1m
"I've finally discovered the secret to a contented and effective life, which for you, begins now. This joy can be yours. Just claim it by t" <snipped by character limit>
- Kurtiss Hare
Search for the will of the creator. Prefer the heaven of love to the hell of power.Every moment is unique.Train empathy. Give. [ yeah, I kept in the character limit! Twitter is like life sometimes, only, hu, more limitted :-]
- Willi Schroll
L^2>∞ love of life is greater then time and space. Compassion destroys the destroyer peace above me below me around me down me radiate peace
- Robert Higgins
That's easy: Join friendfeed as soon as possible.
- Jim the Blatant
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- Edward Coffey
"Propose multiple solutions to every problem. Or choose your own life."
- Ivo Danihelka
Learn Math.
- Comics Forge
"Context is everything."
- Bruce Johnson
from BuddyFeed
@RayCromwell - see my first comment ;)
- Charles Ying
"Listen." The other 133 characters are superfluous.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
Ray Cromwell has said it best *rofl* please increase message length!! It doesn't get any better than that! Words of wisdom!! :)
- John Tastad
Seek truth
- Shakeel Mahate
Love always wins. Don't sweat happiness: find joy. (ponders how to translate the "becoming a man" speech from Secondhand Lions into 140 characters...)
- Ordinarybug Heather
Remember to save often...data and money. Live life like you have a reset button.
- Brian Merriman
Ignore advice. You'll figure it out.
- Todd Hoff
I won't develop the ability to type until years later, so I guess my only advice is "Ga Ga" and "Ball."
- Fleagle
Frankie says RELAX
- VALZ new eye sees you
It's not just you, they're all crazy. Make as many friends outside the family as you can. You'll want to leave home. Do it. Don't look back. (this is a seriously awesome topic!)
- Lo the Baker
Follow your heart. Don't worry about failure because apparently reincarnation is real. Snooches!
- Kevin Fox
Dont let others decide for you what is good and right for you. Not even this message.
- Iphigenie
Learn your math. Especially Geometry. It will make your coding SO much more compelling!
- Joe Nickence
"Don't tweet"?
- Marcos
Actually, I prefer FF..
- ★ Soner Gönül
Well I won't list all 140 but 1 I will is: Do not live your life to live..Live it to die. In other words, prepare for death because all life is about is another chance to get it right so you can end Samsara.
- Merlyn Seeley
"In your past life, you never understood why people liked Twitter."
- Ryan Kaisoglus
the world is made of atoms
- bob
Crawl back in?
- dannysullivan
Use the force. Search your feelings. Live long and prosper.
- Charles Ying
When the time comes, cut the blue wire.
- David Gaw
There's always something bigger than you.
- Daisy
Dear new self: whatever you do, don't make all the same mistakes with your life that I did with mine. For example, you should never ever try [MAXIMUM MESSAGE LENGTH REACHED]
- Don't feed the Steve
Don't put twinkies on your Pizza.
- Will Higgins™
Find Stuart Diamond and take his negotiation course when you're 16. Love yourself so you can love others. Also, reincarnation exists, and you were a geek in your previous life.
- Daniel Dulitz
Don't wish for what you aren't. Life will be far more interesting than you could ever expect. Play with the cards you're dealt, and have fun
- Bette Cooper
don't play safe gamble every day
- WarLord
Focus, be patient. Never give up. Timing is crucial.
- Jason (not an Argonaut)
from iPod
Call me Stewie, bow now and pay later. Put another coal in the power plant so you can continue watching this homage and choke on the fumes. [140 and referenced Family Guy, ideology, commerce, ecology, choice, and lost will.]
- William 'Bill' McPhe
"Tom Cruise must be stopped. By any means necessary."
- Otto
Otto, you have room to add "--your mission, if you choose to accept it."
- Micah
Life is all about ass. You're either covering it, kicking it, kissing it, busting it, laughing it off, or trying to get a piece of it.
- Mona Nomura
Mona, you forgot the part about being one.
- April
live!
- Barbara R. S.
Be kind to animals, nature, others & yourself. Do what you love. Love what you do. Never stop learning about the world around you.
- Bronson Harrington
Try to find the 140 characters you would pass along to your reincarnation.
- Eszter Susánszky
Nap.
- A Mitchell
doesnt fit
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Dream big.
- Mark Alves
Or die suffocating. :)
- Space Cowboy
iGEM 2009 on Flickr - Photo Sharing! - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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"The Stanford team – teens and 20-year-olds – presented their summer project this evening. They genetically engineered a pair of E.Coli bacteria to detect inflammation in the gut, and release Interleukin-6 for local treatment of IBS and Crohn’s Disease. These bacteria thrive in your colon, and they can be hijacked to be probiotic in novel ways."
- Amit Patel
from Bookmarklet
kids these days...
- Amit Patel
Time for me to try something new. I've handed the Facebook iPhone app off to another engineer, and I'm onto a new project.
anil madamala, Peter Renshaw, Paul Buchheit and 13 other people liked this
Please tell me he can get video working on there lol
- Jason Williams
from iPhone
could I hope you are workin' on a better Windows Mobile Facebook client? a Facebook client for Wii ;))) ???
- Maurizio Mazzanti
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