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Paul Buchheit liked a story on Reddit

Diary of a Failed Startup

June 24 at 12:15 am - Link

Gabor Cselle, AJ Batac, bhavesh, Patrick Lightbody and 33 other people liked this

Great quote - "It's very, very difficult to wear both the developer and the evangelist hats at the same time: being a developer requires that you be very pessimistic, so you can see and fix all the problems in your design, while being an evangelist requires that you be very optimistic, so others can feed off your passion. I suspect that if I tried to do both, the cost would be my sanity" - Eric Kerr

"Linux started as a terminal emulator".. !!!? Or not. - Nick Lothian

Definitely a lot of points that rang true for me, especially the "Chicken and Egg" point. - Adam Thorsen

I myself have worked on two start-up concepts and a revitalization effort, each of which bombed, but each one taught me something different. I finally threw in the towel on my last start-up and picked up a full-time day-job because I couldn't find anyone willing to share hats. We were already incorporated, so I was the CEO, book keeper, technology evangelist, sales guy, support tech, development lead, and development team. Needless to say I fried myself within a year and nearly went off the deep end. On a happy note, I'm loving my work now and haven't given up the entrepreneurial bug yet; I'm preparing myself to be the best co-founder in the world, knowing that the time will be right when the right team comes together to solve the right problem. - Chris Stewart via twhirl

Haven't read the article yet, Nick, but Linux didn't start out as a terminal emulator. Linus Torvalds deliberately started working on implementing a "practice OS" called "Minix" from a book, and it grew from there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L... - J. Phil

@J. Phil - exactly my point. - Nick Lothian

Kevin Fox posted a message on Twitter

“My favorite Firefox3 feature: letting me decide whether or not to save my password until *after* I find out if it works. What's yours?”

June 18 at 2:11 pm - Link

John Lam, Karl, Brian Bufalo, acedanger and 31 other people liked this

the Awesome Bar ;) Just kidding, it's the improved overall stability, memory usage, and UI on the mac. - Jake

AMEN to that! - Susan Beebe

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that is great, i HATE that on camino - MG Siegler

Um... you pegged it... - Ross Miller

Actually, I was just thinking the same thing. I waited before committing to "Remember", but figured the little pop-up would disappear. Very pleased it sticks around until after log-in. - Hutch Carpenter

Is it my imagination, or do the fonts look better? - Greg Clinton

yes, I like that the remember password box hangs at the top now instead of bothering you. - Tim Hoeck

one-click bookmarking: Just click on the star in the awesome bar - Stephen Mack

fonts look awesome - paulm

Non-continuous text selection is cool. - Vinay

Still playing around, but i like how the pop-up blocker "Allow" flow is much smoother now. - Dan Hsiao

No memory leaks. I didn't notice the password thing yet but that's great. As a minus though are the UI on Mac and missing Go buttton in address bar - Andrew Smith

yup, absolutely - Shey

It's so hard to tell which is the best feature. It would have to be a tie between the awesome bar and the save password bar. - possible248

Memory is MY favorite improvement... I'm still with 512MB on my ibook :-( - directeur

I ALWAYS pause to make sure the password works. Such an EPIC feature! - Anthony Farrior

When I bookmark something that is already bookmarked, it doesn't double bookmark. - nadim

i'm now on safari full time. FF is too slow. - peter

Wonderful context search while typing in address bar - explanent via twhirl

Definitely much faster rendering pages. How about triple clicking to select a paragraph, or pasting in multiple lines of text automatically coming in as one line in a one-line text area such as Google maps? So much great stuff. - Stephen Mack

I wish it was still a pop-up box though - I can't just press a letter on the keyboard anymore to respond. (Is there a hack to change it back? let me know @sarahintampa) - Sarah Perez

totally. - Chris Pallé

toss up between much faster page rendering and the awesome bar. - Chieze Okoye

I *love* the feature where it doesn't crash if I open one tab too many! - felix

Each tab has its own session, so I can finally log into multiple gmail (and other) accounts in different tabs. Very useful for sites where I have multiple accounts on the same site that I want to login to without opening up another browser. Especially useful for web app dev where you need to login as multiple users, etc. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

Let me repeat... I have man love for Firefox 3 .... Though lord knows Firefox 4 will be out by the time the IT folks at the office install it at work.... - Chris Reed

directeur - right there with you. my classic mac mini has 512mb of ram as well. - J. Phil

Chris: Our IT guys are praising FF3 and telling everybody to go install it... awesome! i love my job! - Susan Beebe

Jeremy Zawodny posted an entry on Jeremy Zawodny's blog

Leaving Yahoo!

June 12 at 6:42 am - Link

accesine, Jeremiah Owyang, My Blog Posts, Gabor Cselle and 72 other people liked this

Good luck at your new gig! - J. Phil

From somebody who's Internet experience has been heavily influenced by you (you were one of the first blogs I ever followed), best of luck and I look forward to seeing the results of your new opportunity! - Damon via twhirl

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yahoo won't be the same without you.. :( - Augusto Becciu via twhirl

Just to hope you all good to your new work, whatever it is. - Daniel Schildt

Where are you going? Anywhere we've heard of? - Tony Ruscoe

Jeremy. Good luck. I can only echo what Damon said above - Deepak

good luck - Andreas Gohr

shocked to know that u'r leaving. good luck. - Jansen Lu via twhirl

:) - Sarath via Alert Thingy

shocked. And happy for you :) - John Mueller

woo. crazy. all the best to you. - Josh via twhirl

Congrats on a huge move, and all the best, Jeremy. You'll be deeply missed as a Yahoo, even by those of us that don't work there. - DeWitt Clinton

Welcome to the ex-Yahoo club, Jeremy, and congratulations on the move. Looking forward to seeing what comes next for you. - Ryan Kuder

Congrats! - Ginger Makela

Best of luck! - Mike Reynolds

Who's the next lucky one to hire you!? :) - directeur

Good luck! - Matt Wood

Reading this in Friendfeed. Doesn't seem appropriate to "like" it. More "ackknowledge that it is news". You seemed like a force for good in a good company Jeremy. - Scott Koon via twhirl

Congratulations ;) What's next ? Google or Own project ;) - David Berrebi via twhirl

@Jeremy startup please!! ;-) - Erhan Erdogan

He said a 'smaller' company. So that rules out Google. - Adewale Oshineye

Best of luck Jeremy ! - Charlie Anzman

Good luck Jeremy, can't wait to see what your up to next. - Barry Schwartz

Wow! All the best man! - Robert Cooper via twhirl

Wow! Good luck Jeremy! - Niranjan Tulpule

The problem with having an ! in your company name is people always sound so excited when they write about leaving - Christian Anderson

oh, dear. - edythe

Good Luck, Jeremy. - Krish

All the best to you Jeremy....I'm looking forward to the next chapter. in your book. - Jerry Chacon

Good luck and thank you for your great work at Yahoo! I always enjoyed the developer video podcasts you did. - Lars Trieloff

After Yahoo-Google deal day; I understand better why more than 59 people have "Like"d a leaving post :-) - Erhan Erdogan

Kevin Fox posted a link

Amar's blog: The science of keyboard design

May 23 at 1:15 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Бозон Хиггса, Gabor Cselle, SteJules, anand and 21 other people liked this

A nice post from a nice blog. I wish more of the web were like this. - Kevin Fox

"I have to agree with many others that the Apple Extended Keyboard II is the finest keyboard I have used in terms of key feel. I used it for a couple of years in the late 90s, and it was the first to even make me aware of how good a keyboard could feel. I have not found a match since." - Sanjeev Singh

My favorite keyboard is still the IBM AT keyboard. For years, my brother and I would hunt through fry's looking for those exact keyboards and refused to use any other. - Piaw Na

For those of you looking for Model M's -- http://pckeyboard.com has the patent and makes NEW USB ones. They are super-nice. I am typing this on a black Model M keyboard from pckeyboards right now! - Erica Douglass

I use a DVORAK keyboard and it sure as hell beats QWERTY! - Siddharth Deb

If I could get the Microsoft ergo keyboard form factor with buckling spring feedback, that would be One Badass QWERTY Rig. - matt shobe

Kevin Fox posted a link

Innovative Aircraft Seats | Cozy Suite

April 18 at 2:24 pm - Link

d e f c o n, Karen Padham Taylor, Gabor Cselle, Fred Chung and 23 other people liked this

Starting in 2010, Delta will be the first carrier to try a new seat layout. I wasn't a believer until I saw the photo of people leaning to the side to sleep, and when my concerns about cleavage-spying were mostly laid to rest. It kinda looks like the seats don't recline though, which has big pros and cons. - Kevin Fox

Have you had problems with cleavage-spying before, Kevin? :) - Chris White

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I can't help it if I get checked-out... Well, maybe with this seat I can. - Kevin Fox

Lol, I thought you were trying to prevent yourself from spying! - Chris White

Fantastic idea... Being a tall guy, it's nearly impossible for me to sleep on a plane since there's nowhere for my head to lay on... I want this now! - Chris Reed

I can imagine though that for window-seat passengers, it might be a bit tougher to slide out of your seat during the flight with the angles. You'd be running into the person's knee/leg next to you. - Zal

I love this. Another "how come no one thought of this before?" idea. - Tudor Bosman

Fantastic idea! The NBA Star Yao ming will love this! ...via AlertThingy - fiorano

@Kevin:"The patented seat recline which slides down and forward, reclines you to your perfect lounging position." - Anne Bouey

Wow wow wow. Want. - Adam Lasnik

Sacca posted a link

DHH Talk - Startup School 2008 - HackerTV - Live Streaming Video

April 20 at 6:30 pm - Link

Adam Kazwell and Gabor Cselle liked this

Great talk about creating startups that build services for which customers will pay. I am increasingly investing in companies that accept payment and don't just rely upon ads. - Sacca

Paul Buchheit posted a link

You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss

March 21 at 12:25 am - Link

Nikpay, Scotty Allen, Pete Morici, Derek Collison and 24 other people liked this

"If people have to choose between something that's cheap, heavily marketed, and appealing in the short term, and something that's expensive, obscure, and appealing in the long term, which do you think most will choose? It's the same with work. The average MIT graduate wants to work at Google or Microsoft, because it's a recognized brand, it's safe, and they'll get paid a good salary right away. It's the job equivalent of the pizza they had for lunch. The drawbacks will only become apparent later, and then only in a vague sense of malaise." - Paul Buchheit

I think I saw the scavenger hunt people (they were from Yahoo! btw). I assumed they were migrating en masse to facebook. lol. but seriously, I think they were scavenging using location-based mobile devices, doing some fire eagle thing perhaps. what struck me was there were so many of them. I came across six herds of 10 or so, all wearing company t-shirts. - David Vasileff

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Blegh. I find PG to be tiresome and his argumentation to be self-serving. I liked some of the comments I read (ironically) on Reddit, such as the one asking whether you'd rather be the "cog" that helps Genentech come up with cancer treatments, or whether you'd prefer to be the lord of yet another web 2.0'ish startup domain. In fact, I just took a look at y combinator companies (http://ycombinator.com/faq.htm...) and can't say I spotted one that's been even mildly life-changing. - Adam Lasnik

Adam, life-changing isn't always obvious before the fact. Would "yet another search engine" have seemed life changing in 1998? - Paul Buchheit

Paul Graham is one of those people who had one successful startup, and generalized it to all startups. Having worked at startups all my career (except when I joined Google), it's not always true that startups are better. There are plenty of startups that were dysfunctional in ways that even Google at 10000 people wasn't. In fact, one of the things that impressed me about Google the most was that at 1500 people, it was easier for me to get things done than at the 200 person startup I had just come from. - Piaw Na

One thing that I don't miss from my startup is all the bureaucracy. Not having a boss means filling out tax forms, paying income tax, paying salaries with all their complications, negotiating & haggling with suppliers, keeping food in the office, making sure the coffee machine works, fixing office machines, installing lighting ... making sure the bathrooms are clean and cleaning them yourself if they aren't. It's great to be able to focus 100% on the actual job, without having to worry about all the bleh. Maybe a 5-15 year cycle is optimal? - John Mueller

There's almost certainly an excellent argument to be made for working at startups, but I don't think this is it. The arguments are too hand-wavey (evolutionary biological arguments are almost always BS and this one isn't even supported by any data) and the conflict of interest is too apparent. - ƃuɐʞ

PaulB, good point, though I think in many cases company founders DO have a long-term vision to change the world in a substantial, positive way. Not always, admittedly, but it's Paul's smugness and overgeneralizations that annoy me. I've worked for startups, I'm working for a "big company" now and while I concede there are typically some organizational truisms one can rightly assume based upon company size, there are few absolutes, much less Paul's oft-argued "startups rock, larger companies suck." - Adam Lasnik

This has one of my favorite themes: natural tribe size/organization explains all sorts of things, including why friendfeed is so much more fun than many other commenting environments. - j1m

@j1m, this has one of my least favorite themes. I love being a programmer, but in the "natural" way of things I would have died in childbirth during my twenties without even having had the chance to do a geometry proof. To hell with the natural. - ƃuɐʞ

Thanks Nina! Now I wish friend feed has a way for me to express that I like a comment! - Piaw Na

....."a large organization could only avoid slowing down if they avoided tree structure. And since human nature limits the size of group that can work together, the only way I can imagine for larger groups to avoid tree structure would be to have no structure: to have each group actually be independent, and to work together the way components of a market economy do"....rightly said - - Abdul Jaleel KK

Piaw, I don't think he says that startups are always better, just that they have the potential to be better, which I believe is correct. "Working for a small company doesn't ensure freedom. The tree structure of large organizations sets an upper bound on freedom, not a lower bound. The head of a small company may still choose to be a tyrant. The point is that a large organization is compelled by its structure to be one." - Paul Buchheit

Yes Paul, I saw that caveat, but I've seen many more dysfunctional startups than I've seen properly working startups. Big companies aren't any better, but when a startup is dysfunctional, it's disproportionately bad, because you're pouring years of your life into it, while few people working at big companies think it's a lot more than a 9-to-5 job. - Piaw Na

Are the people at the dysfunctional startup slaves? It seems like people stay at bad jobs for too long (both startups and big companies). I wish I could figure out how to get people to quit their jobs more easily. At Google, I used to always ask the people joining us from MS, "what took you so long?" They never had good answers. - Paul Buchheit

I think that it's very difficult for people to let go of sunk costs. Plus, when you stay somewhere a long time, you acquire seniority, which is not worthless. Now, you might think that the extra week or two of vacation isn't a big deal, but when negotiating with startups, I've never been able to get the extra week of vacation, whereas getting more salary or more stock was relatively easy. In any case, even badly run companies can dangle "you'll get a promotion next round" in front of you. - Piaw Na

I think a mix of both is a good balance. Besides just knowing if the grass is greener on the other side, they offer different benefits. Startups give you the ability to work quickly, concentrate more, and yet also the chance to wear many hats. Big companies allow you to network, learn new processes and culture and sometimes reach more customers. All companies are different. Your mileage may vary. - Chris White

absolutely, Chris, re: the mix. I've worked for startups and bigger companies, and I'm the richer for the variety of experiences :) - Adam Lasnik

Whilst PG overrates start-up life he doesn't emphasise enough just how dysfunctional things can get in very large (think greater 100k employees) companies. But that's probably a consequence of his very limited experience - Adewale Oshineye