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Seth's Blog: Do you have 16 boxes? - http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_b...
The problem with whining is this: human beings like to be right. If you persuade yourself and your friends that times are really tough and that you're bound to fail, you'll probably do the things you need to do to make that true in the long run.
- Space Cowboy
I Don’t Do That Job Anymore | Danielle Morrill - http://www.daniellemorrill.com/2013...
I love hackathons and always will, because they were the first place where I really felt the warm embrace of the hacker community. I came to developers I respected, hat in hand, and asked for help and advice and a safe place to ask stupid questions and I am so grateful. I didn’t have to worry about my code being elegant, and I only built little prototypes to demo the Twilio API for cool videos and live demos at conferences. Now I write code 50% or more of my time, and it has to work. So I don’t do that job (of being a professional hobbyist) anymore.
- Space Cowboy
Buster got a new home for Christmas! He has gone to live with one of FriendFeed's own founder. Paul an April!! He took right to his new home. He is a lucky little kitty! #foxfosterkittens
Lessa, Micah, Eric - seven eleven and 68 other people liked this
That second one is by April looking down at her lap. :)
- Rachel Lea Fox
Cute! Congrats to the Buchheits and Foxes. (and the kitties)
- Louis Gray
Awww! That looks like a great match <3
- Jennifer Dittrich
I hope Pablo can find a forever home that is just as nice.
- Nicky Bliss
Yeah!! Happy New Kitteh Parent Day!!
- Janet:#TeamMonique
Maybe the Gray's can adopt one :D
- Mo Kargas
Awesome
- Christopher William Crawl
from Android
Cats sleep a lot. Might not be the best match for Louis Gray.
- Amit Patel
Oh good, I might see him as he grows :-) I can't get over how adorable he is!
- Starmama
from FFHound(roid)!
Aww, I had three kitties once, two brothers and a sister, named Angel, Devil, and Buster. Buster was a stumpy-tailed guy and not the sharpest crayon in the box, but so loving. Dang I miss those kitties.
- Laura Norvig
Cute Laura!
- Rachel Lea Fox
from iPhone
Paul - sorry for asking - why is there nail paint on your finger-nails ?
- Space Cowboy
Why not? :)
- Amit Patel
Amit, on facebook he answered that question -that he wanted to look good for Buster- :)
- Rachel Lea Fox
I suspect Camilla had a part in the nail-painting too ...
- Mary B: #TeamMonique
Just Finish Everything - http://statspotting.com/2012...
Hmm, that’s a hard question. I guess that the best answer is that by the time you are old enough to understand that you are NOT going to be a rock start or a unique, beautiful snowflake, it will be too late. Lack of motivation fundamentally comes from fear — you are afraid to do things since you don’t think you can do them internally — which is 99% true.However, the good news is that if you REALLY try to do anything, there is nothing that you can’t do within reason of course. So my suggestion is simple and basically how I start anyone I mentor — start with ANYTHING that you want to do, something small. Then start it, work on it everything single day until its done, I don’t care if you are sick, haev to work, goto school, your girlfriend wants to do something, whatever, just work on it everyday — at some point you will get to a point where you find your own mental limits, this is usually the point where every single person quits and then sells themselves the bullshit concept, “I could...
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- Space Cowboy
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Everything that happens in your life is for your own good
- Space Cowboy
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Everything that happens in your life is for your own good
- Space Cowboy
'05 Annual Performance Review: Albert Einstein - http://www.norvig.com/perform...
This is mind-blowing.
- Space Cowboy
THE LAST LIONS ★ 2011 ★ p5-6★ HD ★CAUSEANUPROAR.ORG★ - YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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This video is heart-warming and a must watch.
- Space Cowboy
DataGenetics - http://datagenetics.com/blog...
This blog is the awesomest collection of fun data pattern articles.
- Space Cowboy
Letters of Note: Whatever you like doing, do it! - http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012...
Whatever you like doing, do it! And keep doing it. Work hard! In the end, passion and hard work beats out natural talent.
- Space Cowboy
OpenhackIndia2012 - 91 | Flickr - Photo Sharing! - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
Demoing PhotoSense (Overlaying Ads on Images) at Yahoo! Open India Hack 2012
- Space Cowboy
_MG_7282 | Flickr - Photo Sharing! - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
The PhotoSense Team ideating at Yahoo! Open Hack 2012
- Space Cowboy
You are destined for what you relentlessly pursue
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Super-like this quote.
- Space Cowboy
Here's What Happens To Google Employees When They Die - Forbes - http://www.forbes.com/sites...
When it comes down to it, it’s better to work for a company who cares about you than a company who doesn’t. And from a company standpoint, that makes it better to care than not to care.
- Space Cowboy
MySQL Windows Install Troubleshooting « Managing Data - http://lstigile.wordpress.com/2009...
grr.
- Space Cowboy
Things Marissa Mayer should do on her first day at Yahoo! Go.
Maggie, ᏓᏰ #team Monique, Clare Dibble and 12 other people liked this
Bring cupcakes for all employees.
- Tudor Bosman
Parachute into the office.
- Tudor Bosman
Open a Flickr account. And use it. (If she doesn't have one already, that is.)
- John (bird whisperer)
She just got there and you told her to go. That's mean :-)
- Todd Hoff
ALL THE THINGS.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
Fire Glen Campbell.
- Josh Haley
Read Gulliver's Travels for context :)
- Eivind
Change the default home screen on Yahoo! Mail to actually show my mail and not a home-page where they show links to news and other Yahoo! properties.
- Space Cowboy
Start adding a nursery to the CEO executive suite Unless it already has one ;-)
- Clare Dibble
Charlie Rose - Exclusive Interview with Facebook Leadership: Mark Zuckerberg/Sheryl Sandberg - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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It's so refreshing (and inspiring) to see Mark so excited about Facebook's potential.
- Space Cowboy
12 weeks with Geeks - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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This video was pretty underwhelming. I remember when it first came out, that one had to pay for it to watch and I was quite enthusiastic about how it would involve learning what the interns were doing at FogCreek but unfortunately this video is very superficial and takes the approach of treating the interns as some sort of movie stars with almost zero learning for the user.
- Space Cowboy
Last friday I taped an iPhone to my head and ran around Paris capturing the most famous sights in a single (somewhat shaky) shot. Here's the video: http://vimeo.com/12906858
Mahmoud Boba, thelarimarshop, Amine Madi and 95 other people liked this
Now we know what that 94 minute video was. :)
- Gimminy
that explain other FF posts, looking for tapes and where can one upload large video files ;-).
- Tzury Bar Yochay
Yeah, I never did get the duct tape though, so I had to use clear packaging tape instead (with a sock stuffed between the iPhone and my hat to get the correctish angle).
- Paul Buchheit
Patent it NOW
- Josh Haley
Well, this is just genius!
- Eric - seven eleven
When you said you ran you weren't speaking metaphorically.
- Eric - seven eleven
Very Cool Paul!
- Jeff P. Henderson
great and inspiring
- Nenko Ivanov
this was perfect, I opened up my Paris map and followed you :)
- İpek Aral Kişioğlu
I'm surprised you were able to follow. I didn't have a map (my iPhone was taped to my head!) so I made a number of wrong turns, though the high-level route was pretty basic.
- Paul Buchheit
Saw the vimeo on your stream and watched a little of it. Great stuff! Cool to see new iphone vid quality. (er 3gs? quality, hmm) Oh yeah, and enjoy Paris!
- Jay
It's actually a 3GS, not an iphone 4.
- Paul Buchheit
I think I might tape a photo of Paul with an iPhone taped to his head to my head because I want to get arrested for being a menace.
- Akiva
You can fit an iPad on my forehead.
- Josh Haley
Ahhh this explains the "ducktape in Paris" stuff LOL :D (that picture is full of geeky win!)
- Susan Beebe
@Paul just curious how much battery did you have left after you were done recording?
- BRҰANSAҰS
Something like 22%, as I recall. I had put the phone in airplane mode to reduce wireless consumption and also because I'm concerned that an incoming call would stop the video or something.
- Paul Buchheit
Nice idea, OP
- LANjackal
this is definitely on the list of 'quirkiest things ever done with an iPhone'. :-)
- Olivia Lovag
this is so romantic
- τorƍue
awesome, you just needed a gun and it would make a cool REAL-time FPS :)
- Emil Kirichev
oh thanks you soo much!!! I love it!
- Bojan Babic
surprisingly un-shaky
- Sally Relton Shakespeare
Avg. speed: 9.48 km/h (9.23 mi in 94 min, see red track http://maps.google.com/maps...)
- Jérôme
Paul had the initial idea for Google Glass exactly two years before Google launched Glass. :)
- Space Cowboy
Now, if only he had thought of Gmail.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
I hope this isn't the start of a "people walk around cities w/smartphones taped to their hats" trend.
- ronin
I hope it is
- Mo Kargas
If so, it'll just be transitional until smartphones are replaced by glasses-phones. Or smart glasses. Do we have an official name for those yet?
- Andrew C (✓)
Wimbledon 2012: Venus Williams Crashes Fast in First Round - The Daily Fix - WSJ - http://blogs.wsj.com/dailyfi...
“I feel like I am a great player. I am a great player. Unfortunately, I had to deal with circumstances that people don’t normally have to deal with in this sport. But I can’t be discouraged by that, so I’m up for challenges. I have great tennis in me. I just need the opportunity. There’s no way I’m just going to sit down and give up just because I have a hard time the first five or six freakin’ tournaments back. You know, that’s just not me.”
- Space Cowboy
Caine's Arcade on Vimeo - http://vimeo.com/40000072
Learning from a 9-year old
- Space Cowboy
Why I left Google - JW on Tech - Site Home - MSDN Blogs - http://blogs.msdn.com/b...
Igor Sereda, imabonehead, engcmreng and 7 other people liked this
In such an environment you don’t have to be part of some executive’s inner circle to succeed. You don’t have to get lucky and land on a sexy project to have a great career. Anyone with ideas or the skills to contribute could get involved. I had any number of opportunities to leave Google during this period, but it was hard to imagine a better place to work. But that was then, as the saying goes, and this is now.
- Piaw Na
My experience doesn't mirror James'. Clearly Google isn't the same company it was when I joined 7.5 years ago. In some ways it is actually better. If I am going to work at a big company, Google is the best I've seen. Honestly, you couldn't pay me enough to go back to Microsoft. At some point I'll leave Google... but to Microsoft? Of course, the 'you couldn't pay me enough' might be just...
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- Joe Beda
Joe, what does a level 70 mean ?
- Space Cowboy
They're cleansed of all operating thetans?
- Andrew C (✓)
Ah -- the mysterious Microsoft level system. Back in the old days, they had levels that were pretty chunky and are similar in some ways to Google. Things started at 9 for engineers out of school and everyone was expected to make it to 12. Moving past 12 was hard and those were considered super senior engineers. Lots of times doing that really, practically required moving into management. Note that management at Microsoft at that time might be one guy managing a single other guy. Pretty lame.
- Joe Beda
Starting in 2000 (Comp 2000) Microsoft did 2 things. They set the target comp to be higher (75th percentile vs. median for the industry? Don't remember the numbers) and they also expanded the levels. They doubled all of the levels and assigned everyone a new level. New engineers out of school were 59. Level 12 actually got split into three levels -- 63, 64 and 65.
- Joe Beda
As Microsoft stagnated, there were much fewer people calling in rich and the pressure on career growth increased. There was a certain amount of grade inflation and a need to provide a reward structure comparable to the old days when the stock was doubling every 18 months. They ended up introducing the 'partner program'. This started at level 68 and the comp is pretty crazy. Also...
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- Joe Beda
Now, my understanding is that the partner program is actually limited to something like 700 people. This means that competition to that level is pretty fierce and those guys have to prove themselves. Also, in recent years, they've been working on creating more of a career path for ICs. They aren't there yet but clearly things are improving.
- Joe Beda
As for level 70 -- that is the next strata above partner. It is VP level. Comp is really pretty crazy then. I've never been there so I don't have a lot of first hand experience. I think for ICs the title is Distinguished Engineer.
- Joe Beda
What's an "IC"?
- Andrew C (✓)
IC = Individual Contributor. Meaning an engineer that is concentrating on technology and not management. In my mind it is a good sign if a company has room for high level ICs. This is one of the things that attracted me to Google.
- Joe Beda
If I was into testing as much as JW sounds like he is, MS isn't necessarily a bad choice. They have some pretty awesome test technology, e.g. http://queue.acm.org/detail.... Joe, is Dave Cutler still the only senior distinguished engineer?
- Private Sanjeev
Yeah -- test is a Big Deal at Microsoft. As for Cutler being a the only senior DE -- I have no clue. It looks like he is a Technical Fellow: http://www.microsoft.com/presspa.... Here is the DE list: http://www.microsoft.com/presspa.... Dave's bio is out of date so this whole thing may be old.
- Joe Beda
It's amazing how not minting new millionaires regularly causes a re-jiggling of corporate culture and ladders. :-)
- Piaw Na
What are you talking about Piaw, Google still mints new millionaires regularly :)
- Private Sanjeev
Yes they do. But in a very weird political way that's opaque. :-)
- Piaw Na
It's completely transparent -- just get a Facebook offer :)
- Private Sanjeev
The thing with Microsoft and partners is that it is a steady state thing. These people have target comp every year going forward. I get the feeling that Google is doing a bunch of one time grants and such. It is more scatter shot than Microsoft. I can see pluses and minuses to both. The scattershot model seems random and bad for morale but keeps people on their toes to deliver. The steady target comp model encourages complacency.
- Joe Beda
No, the new Google secret packages are a steady grant every year. It's a fairly large grant. Of course, getting one requires quite a bit of political skill either on your part or on the part of your manager.
- Piaw Na
Heh -- I've only seen/heard about the one time grants. Some of them have been pretty eye popping though. I must not be cool enough :)
- Joe Beda
Why do you think I had to start charging for my negotiation services? http://books.piaw.net/negotia...
- Piaw Na
I'm pretty sure I'm doing okay. ;)
- Joe Beda
I'm sure you are. I'm always surprised by the disparity of pay amongst otherwise similar engineers playing similar roles in big companies. The spread is quite incredible, indicating that ability to play the political game is more important than just about anything else when it comes to pay.
- Piaw Na
An interesting thing that I've seen is that the game tends to be different at different companies. For instance, there are plenty of examples of high level managers and engineers at Microsoft that played that game well that flamed out when put in a new environment like Google. It takes time to learn the new game and some otherwise smart people just can't do it.
- Joe Beda
That's a phenomena well understood and documented in the book, Chasing Stars: http://piaw.blogspot.com/2010.... Highly recommended reading if you really want to understand the background behind contextual performance.
- Piaw Na
Dave Cutler -- Second-hand info: in '07 I was given to understand that he has always wanted the top title, alone. As the organization grew and he had to share it, they created a new one for him, one notch more impressive. Of course, as his bio states, he is "generally considered one of the top programmers worldwide".
- Ace
Storming the Googleplex at 8 wearing the uniform of social networking history. :)
Vezquex, Deviot, Jemm and 91 other people liked this
Tell them, tell them the stories. Tell the children about the great social network. Let them learn and build a better future. #soapbox
- Eric - seven eleven
We are all Friendfeed.
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
Hush, Chris.
- Kelli H.
*dusts historic self off*
- Laura Norvig
I <3 Cristo.
- Louis Gray
And no, I am not wearing a Google+ shirt. I am wearing a FriendFeed shirt. :)
- Louis Gray
Dont 4get, underall that SAWG.. he's wearing his Google+ boxers !!
- Peter Dawson
Prove it, Peter. :)
- Louis Gray
I'll leave that to Barry of SEW to prove !! ..LOL
- Peter Dawson
do you have spare t-shirt? I'd be happy to spread FF round Groupon
- Bojan Babic
Ich bin ein Friendfeeder...
- RobertoC
Apparently FriendFeed shirts attract the opposite sex…
- Amit Patel
h...
- Key Rabara
I am so happy that I am not the only one who still likes this site so much!
- Space Cowboy
I don't have any Friendfeed swag but I cherish my FFundercats coffee mug
- Gunnyman™
OMG YOU LOOK SO MORMON
- Akiva
hawwt
- sofarsoShawn
Some people, when confronted with a system problem, think "I know, I'll try a newer kernel." Now you have two problems...
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I'd like to push on button "like" again and again...
- A. T.
I hear that every now and then too.
- imabonehead
I thought this was true only for regexes. :)
- Space Cowboy
Google is rolling out big improvements to personalized search. Read more at http://techcrunch.com/2012... and http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
What sucks about personalized search ?
- Space Cowboy
When did Google decide to turn to shit? They may not be evil, but who cares about evil if they suck?
imabonehead, Me, Gimminy and 19 other people liked this
I'm looking at you, Gmail!
- Gabe
I don't know if it was a decision or just a happening. You get big, you get top heavy, you fall over.
- Laura Norvig
I'd argue that Google has always been shit, so many half-assed/forgetten/neglected attempts at doing something. Nothing ever feels complete and the lack of help makes the products seem more like school projects rather than an actual business. I used to wonder if having to pay for a product would make the experience better, but I doubt it.
- Anika
It sounds crazy, but the University of California is actually migrating their entire e-mail system to GMail. I think Google has always been about "worse is better" paradigm of software development. I mean, it works for most purposes. It's just never pretty or completely functional. But I totally hate all the stupid UI revamps they've been doing lately. I don't get what the advantage of the new UI is supposed to be.
- Victor Ganata
Just read a VF article from September '11 about Google's reaction to being hacked by the Chinese. This says so much: "Google executives reportedly believed that the American government monitors [China's] Internet infrastructure the same way it monitors foreign military threats to keep the geographic homeland secure. A former White House official told me, 'After Google got hacked, they...
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- Corinne L
Victor, the City of LA signed a contract with Google and it's been nothing but missteps and errors on behalf of the company. Of course, having an idiot mayor sign such a contract says a lot about him. So many public servants just scoff when you mention the Google contract. Stuff that should have been in place years ago is still not ready and as a citizen, this access Google promised is not there or half-assed.
- Anika
What about Gmail ? Context, please.
- Space Cowboy
The new interface is disgusting.
- Victor Ganata
The problem isn't that they make new interfaces every so often, it's that they don't let you stay with the old one, and the new one sucks. In this case, uses a lot more CPU (even when not doing anything) and memory, is harder to use (lower contrast, meaningless icons), and yet it appears to have no additional features. Gmail has been around for nearly 8 years and it still doesn't have real folders or the ability to sort? WTF kind of a mail reader doesn't let you sort messages?
- Gabe
Looks like the twitter team has done a good job here http://t.co/6dg4FqoJ #letsfly
A. T., Space Cowboy and социопотам liked this
Just when I was thinking Twitter isn't doing anything re: features (for sometime) they launch this awesome re-design. Wow, congrats!
- Space Cowboy
Emacs Rocks! - http://emacsrocks.com/
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These videos (especially the later ones) make me realize that after 20 years of using Emacs, there's still so much for me to learn.
- Amit Patel
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I've been using vim for the last 10+ years and have been meaning to switch. What's the best way to switch ?
- Space Cowboy
If I were a long time vim user I wouldn't switch. (Not that I think Vim is better than Emacs but the switching costs are high once you've learned one or the other.) There are several Vi key packages for Emacs (http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs...) but I suspect none of them will make a power vim user happy.
- Amit Patel
HTML5 Rocks - How Browsers Work: Behind the Scenes of Modern Web Browsers - http://www.html5rocks.com/en...
Clear introduction to browser rendering.
- Space Cowboy
We launched! Nerf guns were fired, a plan made, and our team's *ready* (great work y'all) but-- I'll be leaving AOL soon to make new things.
Private Sanjeev and Benjamin Golub liked this
Does anyone know, what AOL product Chris worked on ?
- Space Cowboy
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