"But ask any startup around what they really do need right now, and the answer is clear — great technical talent. Startups of all sizes are competing for a small pool of highly skilled candidates, and in startup hubs like San Francisco and New York the competition for engineers is fierce. This scarcity has persisted despite consistently high national unemployment rates. And because it has become so easy and cheap to start a startup, convincing great engineers to join an existing startup has gotten much harder."
- Amit Patel
from Bookmarklet
Well, you could locate in Mountain View. :-) But startups aren't doing that, which leads to twitter's situation, for instance. http://piaw.blogspot.com/2011...
- Piaw Na
a fantastic introduction to getting started with python stuff. I wish most languages (hello Ruby and JavaScript/node.js) had a document like this
- Jeremy Zawodny
"Besides the potential financial gains of getting out and coming back, there is a more important aspect, in my opinion, of getting a new job, career or opportunity and that’s learning new ways of doing things, new methodologies, new work styles, new technologies, new work environments, etc. It’s much harder to know how to improve your city if you only lived in the same place your entire life. Once you lived in multiple places, you start to form a much better understanding: what’s important, what’s not, what could be improved, what you like and what you don’t like."
- Amit Patel
from Bookmarklet
Wow, thanks a ton for sharing this.
- Space Cowboy
Facebook doesn't have to worry, but Twitter does.
- Piaw Na
I still find the Tweetdeck acquisition mildly confusing, in that the speed of app updates has slowed to a crawl since. Shouldn't Twitter want its app team to keep the app up to date?
- Andrew C (✓)
I do, as does, I suspect, anyone else who doesn't wish to live in a fish bowl. Facebook makes it hard to share and view sublists, Google+ makes it an integral part of the experience.
- Tinfoil 2.0
I do and was doing it with email distribution lists long before 'social' networks and likely doing it in my head well before that. I do admit I'm abnormal and not likely in any 'target market'
- John
Oddly enough, LogEx, until a few days ago my Google Profile said I lived in a Fish Bowl. To me the Google+'s Circles aren't any different from Facebook's Groups, or Friendfeed's Rooms, in functionality. Really hate curating friend lists, but Circles do make it easier.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Come live in in a country where the divides between people really force you to curate such lists.
- Can Özmen
All of the Friendfeed librarians (FFribrarians?).
- Laura Norvig
It's the new hobby, yo. Everyone sits at home and sorts their friends. It's groovy.
- I like big Botts
One of the reasons Gmail succeeded is that people really hated sorting email messages into folders. Now Google+ wants us to sort people into folders.
- Tudor Bosman
Tudor: First thing I did upon switching from Y! to Gmail was set up filters to imitate all my folders from Y! Most of them skip the inbox & go right to their folder.
- Lisa L. Seifert | FHG™
from Android
Friend lists are very valuable - to you. Because of my friend lists, most of you are spared from seeing all of my Facebook game updates.
- John E. Bredehoft
Err, Gmail didn't have folders, instead if had/has labels, so there's no exclusivity. Similarly with circles -- I have many people in 2 or more circles. I just want set operations!
- Phil Pennock
Phil: If you set up the filters in Gmail, the labels act like folders. That's all I was saying. Clearly, not very well...
- Lisa L. Seifert | FHG™
from Android
I do. And have been since FriendFeed arrived on the since. Works just great. There not groups btw, they are friends lists. G+ doesn't have groups yet, but desperately needs them to compete with FriendFeed,
- Kol Tregaskes
I know friends who WON'T use Gmail because it doesn't have folders.
- Lisa L. Seifert | FHG™
Seems simple to me. If you only have six friends, you make six circles and suddenly you feel like you have a page full of friends
- Slippy
I want to remind you guys something, GMail is not the most popular free web based mail product. It is still Yahoo Mail.
- Ozgur Demir
Cristo, Phil: it's not about labels vs. folders, it's the fact that you don't have to categorize your email; archive now, search later.
- Tudor Bosman
Friends, not acquaintances, basically come in two flavors: one, they're interested in you for what you mean to them regardless of topic; two, they're interested in you for what you share in interest(s), i.e. topics. With circles one can deal with that division well.
- Sharon Stevenson
"Complete protein is satiating. Our bodies absolutely require complete protein—but they also have a limited capacity to process protein in excess of our requirement. This shows up as what’s called “protein leverage”: people tend to consume food until they’ve ingested about 360 calories worth of complete protein. All other things being equal, if we eat foods high in protein, we consume less calories, and if we eat foods low in protein, we consume more. Therefore, if we want to sell an addictive and non-satiating food, we should keep it very low in protein (e.g. candy, cookies, potato chips). If it does contain protein, that protein should be incomplete—deficient in at least one essential amino acid—since the limiting factor for protein utilization is the least abundant essential amino acid. Guess what? Corn and wheat, the foundation of chips, crackers, cookies, and over 90% of the breakfast aisle, are both deficient in lysine. And both zein (corn protein) and gluten (wheat protein) are...
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- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
"Here’s a startling experiment: rats prefer saccharine and sugar to intravenous cocaine, even after previously becoming addicted to cocaine."
- Gabe
It was actually a more general thought, nothing to do with FriendFeed. On the topic of ff, my only real complaint is that people haven't copied it enough :)
- Paul Buchheit