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Microsoft Turns Good Engineers Into Bad Managers, Says Ex-Employee (MSFT) - http://www.businessinsider.com/microso...
All big companies are this way.
- Piaw Na
I've been saying this for years. It is really the main reason I left. You need to manage to get ahead.
- Joe Beda
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New Year's blog redesign complete. Dumped WordPress for Jekyll in the process. Now if only I'd actually start writing... http://www.kensheppardson.com/
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I'm in the process of doing the same thing with Jekyll/Octopress. I have all the pieces in place; I've just been too lazy to do the CSS, etc.
- Akiva
The weird thing is I had a WordPress theme I'd hacked together over the past few years with a blue bar across the top that had become a little too close to Facebook's look. So over the last few weeks I've been working on this, then swapped it out earlier today. A few hours later I get a flood in GReader of posts from Bret Taylor...the sort of thing that happens when you change blogging platforms. I don't think I've visited his site in over a year, but I go there today and see this -- http://backchannel.org
- Ken Sheppardson
That looks interestingly familiar.
- Akiva
The existence of Disqus got me thinking I can use something like Jekyll for my blog. I'm already building the rest of my site with templates.
- Amit Patel
Yeah, Disqus is slick. I'd waffled back and forth between WordPress native comments and Disqus, so moving everything over to Jekyll was trivial. Now the question is really whether to bother with comments at all. Disqus is enabled now, but it just looks kinda janky, I'm not sure I want to spend a bunch of time cleaning up the CSS, and there's something appealing about the commentless Daring Fireball approach...
- Ken Sheppardson
When I visit a blog that doesn't want comments, it feels like the author doesn't want me there...
- Amit Patel
Well, that's almost the case for me, but not in a negative way... I'd sorta rather have any follow-up conversations on FriendFeed, Google+, or even Twitter than squirreled away under the blog post. I'd certainly like people to see what I wrote, but after that I've got no particular interest in trying to drive page views or anything.
- Ken Sheppardson
Amit, interesting; I've never thought if it like that before. When I relaunch The Misanthropic Geek, I'll definitely allow comments but I don't and will never allow comments on my other one.
- Akiva
I think both styles of discussion work. Using Twitter/Google+/FriendFeed feels like people at other people's houses talking about something you made. Separate smaller, more intimate conversations. Using comments on the blog feels like inviting all those people to my house to talk to each other. A big conversation among strangers.
- Amit Patel
I recently built a site for publishing some panos using Hyde. It is jekyll written in python. I used bootstrap and less along with it. Check it out: http://www.bedafamily.com. No rss or comments yet.
- Joe Beda
from iPhone
Every few years I change what I use. This conversation is making me want to change again :-) . The last major change was to XSLT (!): http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp... + http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp... = http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp... I'm pretty happy with it but I need to hook it up to emacs so that as soon as I save the input, it regenerates the output. For my blog I'd need to add categories and RSS…
- Amit Patel
Emacs? GTFO.
- Akiva
I once did C++ code gen with XSLT. I regretted it. True story.
- Joe Beda
Just saw this today: "Just over a month ago, I switched comments off for this blog. I wanted to post a very brief follow-up on that decision. In a nutshell, it was definitely the right move. For the first few days I did miss the validation of getting a flurry of comments on each new article, but I quickly realised that I was enjoying the peace and quiet. The other benefits are manifest: ..." - http://mattgemmell.com/2011...
- Ken Sheppardson
I have been pretty much anti-comments since the beginning myself. I don't write to start a dialogue. I write because I want to write. When I have had comments on a site of mine, it's been pretty much like Matt described. The better conversations I had here on FriendFeed or through some private channel. I'm now re-evaluating my previous statement about allowing comments if I ever relaunch my geek site.
- Akiva
Looks very nice, well done. I agree, I don't necessarily want discussion on my posts. Most of the time, it's just getting my thoughts out there, not really looking for input.
- Nathan Snyder
Thanks, Nathan. The anti-comment faction's pretty vocal, by the way, and can be persuasive... "Let’s be totally honest here: anyone worthwhile leaving a comment should do so on their own blog. Very few read blog comments anyway. I’m sorry, but it’s true. Commenting is a facade. It makes you think you have a voice. You don’t. Get your own blog and write how you really feel on your own site." -- http://parislemon.com/post...
- Ken Sheppardson
Free storage limits - Picasa and Picasa Web Albums Help - http://support.google.com/picasa...
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"Picasa Web Albums offers 1 GB of free storage for photos and videos. However, files under certain size limits don't count towards this free storage limit. This applies to uploads for other Google product that store photos and videos in Picasa Web Albums, including Blogger, Google+ and Google Maps."
- Amit Patel
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If you've signed up for Google+: images up to 2048x2048 don't count towards your quota.
- Amit Patel
If you haven't signed up for Google+: images up to 800x800 don't count towards your quota.
- Amit Patel
Neither limit gives you pictures worth shit. :-)
- Piaw Na
Oh?
- Amit Patel
I remember talking to Mike Herf (original author of Picasa -- @herf) before PicasaWeb shipped when he was still at Google and I was visiting the Santa Monica office. I was lamenting the small picture sizes they were planning on. He then showed me a couple of 8x10s -- one at a high megapixel count and one that was substantially lower. The end result is that appropriately sharped clean...
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- Joe Beda
I don't print at all so 2k is plenty. However, I'm not on Google+. I found it interesting that they're imposing a strategy tax here. I imagine they'll impose it on lots of other products over time, either with carrots or with sticks. Some people will end up signing up for Google+ and others will switch to competitors. For now I'll use the paid versions of both Flickr and Picasaweb but my gut says that Flickr will be around longer.
- Amit Patel
First Impressions: Canon S100 - http://piaw.blogspot.com/2011...
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I did not know the S100 went to 24mm. That is an excellent upgrade from the already impressive S90.
- Benjamin Golub
Yes. That's actually a huge feature. One reason why SLR pictures look more impressive is because 24mm focal lengths are more readily available.
- Piaw Na
I've been considering what I want to use when I don't have the 5d2 with me and the S100 looks like a good bet. (BTW -- I bought the previous S100 ~12 years ago for our honeymoon road trip -- http://www.dpreview.com/news...). However, I've been finding that I just use the camera on my phone more and more. It isn't bad (I have an iPhone 4) but the 'upload now'...
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- Joe Beda
I usually travel in places outside of 3G/Wifi coverage anyway, plus, the phone cameras suck. They really do. People ooo and ahh over my S90 pictures because they've been conditioned to poor shots from camera phones. Of course, back in the film days, they ooo and ah'd over my tripod mounted shots as well. Going the extra step always always helps your results.
- Piaw Na
The download/cull/upload loop for my 5D2 is just too much work most of the time and so pictures sit on the card. Sharing pictures with the grandparents suffer. I'd love to improve that without sacrificing the quality of a better camera. The phone cameras are poor but getting a lot better. The iPhone 4 is loads better than the 3GS (which I didn't use as it was so bad). I wonder what kind of conversations Canon/Nikon have had internally about how to handle phone cameras.
- Joe Beda
The compact cameras work very well and are loads better than the best phone cameras. The 5D2's a little more work, but not a lot more if you have a fast PC (quad-core + SSD is best). I don't have any issues with photos staying on my card and not being shared.
- Piaw Na
Two kids + work = no time for dealing with pictures :)
- Joe Beda
Yeah well, that's going to have an impact. Though with photos, I'd rather have a few good pictures than a lot of crap. There's evidence that your perception of the past is determined largely by your photos, so if you have a lot of crappy photos you'll make your self less happy in the long run.
- Piaw Na
Digital Interchangeable Lenses | PRODUCTS | LUMIX | Digital Camera | Panasonic Global - http://panasonic.net/avc...
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Micro four thirds telephoto lens. Weird: as far as I can tell (based on the animation) it doesn't extend when you zoom in, like every other lens I've seen.
- Amit Patel
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Very cool. For their next trick I want it in pancake form :)
- Eivind
Cool. I have the Lumix G3 and just bought a gorgeous Olympus 45mm lens (which is equivalent to a 90mm lens on a 35mm camera) that does f1.8. The m4/3 camera is really nice--just the right size to throw in my bag when I'm traveling for work.
- Brian Fitzpatrick
I've been a pocket camera person for the past 7 years but the micro 4:3 format is tempting me. Panasonic also has a micro 4:3 300mm lens (600mm equivalent on a 35mm camera) but it's so big that the size advantage of these cameras is negated.
- Amit Patel
I tried my brother's Olympus EPL-1 and was singularly unimpressed. It did not outperform the Canon S90. http://piaw.blogspot.com/2011...
- Piaw Na
I tried out that 300mm lens in Akiba last week when I was in Tokyo--it's crazy! And yes, it is pretty big.
- Brian Fitzpatrick
Piaw: the “entry level” micro four thirds cameras from Panasonic and Olympus seem to skimp on all the controls that I love on the S95. I don't understand why they did that.
- Amit Patel
Hacker News | It now 404's so I've posted it here:Stevey's Google Platforms RantI was at Amazo... - http://news.ycombinator.com/item...
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A rare public criticism of Google by a current Googler.
- Piaw Na
Overall, I think that Steve kept it all pretty positive. I know most outsiders don't realize it, but this type of rant is pretty common internally and (sometimes) can lead to real changes. Other times it ends with the entire company laughing at you.
- Joe Beda
Thank you DreamHost for storing my password in plaintext :(
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An interesting challenge to designing an electric jetliner is that, unlike current planes, the plane is still just as heavy when it lands.
The solution is to drop spent batteries as you fly.
- Brian Johns
Computer timed drops into drop zones along the major flight corridors would be a pretty cool idea.
- Kevin Fox
Now, if you could 'Jetson' passengers the same way too, you have a winner!
- Roger N
You also can't shift fuel around to make up for fat passengers all sitting on one side of the plane.
- Joe Beda
My chickies are starting to cluck!
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Did you get chickens too! We go four this spring and have been having a blast with them. One ended up being a rooster and we had to send him to a farm (seriously). The other three are getting pretty big and we are hoping we will start getting eggs soon! http://bedafamily.smugmug.com/Family...
- Joe Beda
I wish it was legal to have chicks where I live.
- Gabe
Gabe, you might want to call a council person about what the local ordinance states. I think it was something about not having animals in pens outside. And I interpret that to mean not chicken coop. But I could be wrong...
- Maggie
Nevermind, I looked it up again. No chicken coops allowed: http://www.conwaygreene.com/Clevela...
- Maggie
It looks like chickens are allowed, but not coops.
- Gabe
I'm browsing Bing Maps and Google Maps to see how they compare. I like the typography and the overall look of Bing's maps. Occasionally Bing's contrast is too low, as in this area. It's really hard to see Crater Rim Road, especially on the west side of the lake.
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I've long been a fan of Microsoft's maps, especially for scenic drives: http://amitp.blogspot.com/2007...
- Amit Patel
Eek! I loved that site! I didn't realize it was gone :(
- Amit Patel
Wow, Rim Drive is finally open. Have fun in Crater Lake (assuming you're actually going)! We were in Oregon in late June / early July and Rim Drive wasn't open yet.
- Tudor Bosman
Make sure you try the terrain view: http://g.co/maps/75xs
- Joe Beda
Just got tickets on TicketWeb for Day Out With Thomas (TM) at Roaring Camp Railroads on 08/05/11 - http://www.ticketweb.com/t3...
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Wot I Think – Din’s Curse: Demon War | Rock, Paper, Shotgun - http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011...
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"So, you’re a hero. A tall combine harvester of a man, with a unique knack for rolling forward and crushing and scything everything in your path, and you’re on a quest to rescue a lady, kill some monstrous boss monster and save a town. This tireless plot has been the set-up for a thousand fantasy videogames. Now, imagine if you could fail at all this. Imagine if the lady could die, the monstrous boss monster could beat a retreat, and the town relying on you could, ultimately, be laid to waste. Imagine if everything mattered. That’s Din’s Curse."
- Amit Patel
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I played the demo. Neat ideas in this game.
- Amit Patel
I played the demo for a while but then my town got invaded and my NPCs died, and I didn't know how to recover. That's when I quit. Then I played Mount & Blade: Warband (demo), and within minutes of starting I was taken prisoner, I lost all my stuff, I lost my horse, and I failed the initial quest. I didn't know how to recover. That's when I quit. I then played Hinterland the rest of the day. My town got invaded and several of my NPCs died, but I the game helped me recover, so I kept playing until bedtime.
- Amit Patel
I really like the open world games but when things go wrong and I don't know how to recover, I tend to give up. It happened to me in Dwarf Fortress as well … I had built a magnificent fortress, with irrigation, underground farms, etc., and then an army invaded and my dwarfs went mad, and I didn't know how to recover. I should try that game again.
- Amit Patel
Why your stitches cost $1500 [infographic] - http://holykaw.alltop.com/why-you...
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Via Kevin
- Piaw Na
Read this, it's good.
- Tudor Bosman
Do you really think that doctors are overpaid? It is really more complex than that. Anything that involves lots of small procedures (derm) is pretty out of control. We have a huge shortage of family and internal medicine docs due to being relatively underpaid (~100k-120k), overworked (>50hrs for full time), lots of schooling and big loans.
- Joe Beda
So. Bullying starts in Kindergarten. Crap.
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:(
- Derrick
Sorry to hear that.
- Shevonne
:(
- Michelle M
So can karate :-) seriously
- Todd Hoff
Yep. I remember that when I was in kindergarten about a thousand years ago.
- vicster
can start pre-K too
- Kevin Johnson
Wow. I don't remember getting bullied until 6th grade. Sure, there were kids you didn't get along with but I don't remember getting hassled until 6th grade. Times surely have changed.
- Akiva
I was bullied in Kindergarten-6th grade, and then my parents finally let me have my way with homeschool after years of pleading. I went back in 10th, and there was heckling, but that was about as far as bullying went, there.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
:(
- JA Castillo
She's 5 1/2 now. We'd planned to start karate at 6 or 7, but may move up the timeline now. Self-confidence seems the best solution to stopping the bullying.
- DGentry
Yep, if you don't read victim you'll hopefully be left alone.
- Todd Hoff
The trick I was taught that worked great for all non-physical confrontations was just to gladly agree with them and then up the ante a bit. Bully: 'You're a fat idiot.' Me: 'Yep! I'm the fattest, dumbest person in school. Did you know that I drool uncontrollably?' Bully: '...uh... SHUT UP.'
- Akiva
Sperm don't cut each other any slack.
- Sue - Friendfeed is best
Agreeing with the bully is possible. Right now she gets mad, which doesn't help. It just encourages them.
- DGentry
Tell her to tell the bully she has twin brothers at home who will kick her butt.
- Louis Gray
I don't remember my peers being all that articulate in kindergarten. Bunch of drool-faced nobodies.
- Andy Bakun
Articulate, no. They mostly say "you are a baby!" over and over, but thats enough at this age to upset her.
- DGentry
Our daughter is in Kindergarten had an issue like this with a couple of other girls earlier this year. We talked to the teacher and she took it very seriously and got on it right away. I was actually very impressed with how she and the school handled it. It was really hard on her though. You could see how much it upset her and she just wasn't herself when this stuff was going on.
- Joe Beda
RT @gburd:
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Really? The argument for ChromeOS is that it gives you a ton of benefits over the PC such as instant on, more secure, simpler to manage, etc but you can only run apps in the browser. iOS & Android give you the same benefits plus not being limited with regards to running only in the browser and other limitations of ChromeOS. Ergo, my summary above.
- Dare Obasanjo
The thing that I think is unique about ChromeOS is that it is as stateless as possible. It passes the "drop it in the river test". Android and iOS (and Windows) don't pass this test. Android is closer but not there yet. iOS is still has the iTunes tether and no strong cloud sync model. If there was a spectrum of stateless to stateful, I'd put ChromeOS on one end followed by Android, iOS and finally Windows/MacOS. (That being said, I think that Paul's analysis is pretty dead on.)
- Joe Beda
Another way to think about this -- a ChromeOS device is an appliance. Just like your DVD player or your TV or your Dishwasher, if it breaks you replace it and move on with your life. None of the other competitors hit that mark.
- Joe Beda
@jbeda I agree with your analysis and to make it more robust, Google allows us to easily export our content from their services. Now what we need is an ombudsmen at Google or other service providers to represent us in disputes.
- Shakeel Mahate
yuck.
- Michael Herf
Ouch
- Private Sanjeev
from iPhone
What drives were you using? and how come you lost data in your ZFS pool with one bad disk?
- Tudor Bosman
I didn't lose data with ZFS. I was able to replace the drive (WD Green, I think). The problem is that I had it unmounted while the whole thing resilvered and CrashPlan decided that I deleted it. Now that it is back, it thinks it needs to upload it all again over my broadband connection.
- Joe Beda
That is awful. Don't they have old versions?
- Michael Herf
I can't believe that the Comcast / Level 3 dispute is in the news. It's a peering issue, not a net neutrality issue.
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Large Internet Service Providers have agreements to "peer" with each other (ie. transport each other's traffic). Usually no money is involved (I'll carry your traffic to my customers, you carry mine to yours), but sometimes, especially when traffic is asymmetric (flows mainly in one direction), ISPs charge each other "settlement fees".
- Tudor Bosman
As Level 3 has become one of Netflix's main carriers, a lot of Comcast users now receive traffic from Level 3. Comcast charges Level 3 based on the traffic they need to deliver to their users (which means Comcast will have to upgrade their equipment, etc), NOT because it's Netflix or they're trying to stifle online video competition or somesuch.
- Tudor Bosman
CW: That is not what I'm saying AT ALL. These are agreements between ISPs that allow the Internet to work as you expect it to. End users are not affected.
- Tudor Bosman
Rather, "The Internet" as you call it is not a monolithic entity; it IS made of these peering relationships that ISPs have. There's no central core; it's a bunch of networks who agree to talk to each other, sometimes with money being exchanged, and sometimes not.
- Tudor Bosman
The internet is these peering relationships CW so there's no real way to escape it.
- Todd Hoff
I think the core of the issue gets muddled between content provider and ISP because Comcast is both. They're going to charge Level3 more, but it is unclear whether that would go the same for their own streaming content. Right now, the regulations have not been thoroughly tested or explored in that situation.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Settlement peering is not new and it is not unusual and not unique to Comcast / Level 3. Level 3 has chosen (in the press release) to make this about net neutrality, and that's disingenuous and inflammatory on their part.
- Tudor Bosman
I don't want to defend Comcast (as an end user, I've had my issues with them), but as someone with some network engineering experience, I want to set the record straight.
- Tudor Bosman
CW, Davis: calm down and try to understand. L3 will pay, and Comcast will carry their traffic. And if, one day, Comcast's business customers started generating a lot of traffic that the rest of the Internet is interested in, other ISPs will start charging Comcast to carry it, and Comcast will pay in return. It's business as usual, nothing more.
- Tudor Bosman
Even if Comcast stops peering with L3, L3's traffic will find its way to Comcast's customers by going through intermediate networks. The user experience will likely degrade, and these other ISPs will likely start pressuring L3 to fix their peering agreement with Comcast, but the Internet will route around the problem.
- Tudor Bosman
CW: you are assuming that Comcast is somewhat unique in this practice. Settlement peering is not uncommon. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Tudor Bosman
CW: No, I don't know this for a fact, although IF they actually blocked traffic from L3 (rather than allowing it to follow its natural path around the problem), then this would become a neutrality issue. However, this is nothing new; peering disputes have existed in the past, and peering agreements have been cut off, and traffic has always been routed around it.
- Tudor Bosman
And Jennifer: Comcast couldn't charge themselves for traffic that they themselves generate; it wouldn't really make sense from a business or accounting perspective. Yes, things were simpler (and cleaner) in The Good Old Days when network backbone operators didn't have a vested interest in the content that was flowing over their wires (just the amount of traffic and the money they could charge for it).
- Tudor Bosman
This is business more than anything else. Netflix could (and probably would) call up L3 and ask for lower rates because Comcast is giving troubles, or Netflix could go to another backbone operator altogether. Business at the tier-1 network level is very, very cutthroat.
- Tudor Bosman
Could Comcast throttle Level 3's traffic to hold it to a level that is equally peered? What is the NN position in that case?
- Tinfoil 2.0
I'm thankfully not directly involved in network engineering (and I was never involved in the business side of it, I just knew people who were). Think of Comcast as a bridge, which charges a toll of $5 for every truck that crosses it. One day, UPS starts sending twice as many trucks as FedEx, and therefore they end up paying twice as much. UPS then raises hell that FedEx has an unfair advantage, and they're lobbying for equal rates to all trucking companies rather than paying on a per-truck basis.
- Tudor Bosman
It's not about what's in the trucks (online video, Netflix); it's about the number of trucks that cross each day (amount of traffic).
- Tudor Bosman
Net neutrality disputes would be about the content of the trucks (we think that trucks carrying food should be charged differently from trucks carrying sand); peering disputes are about the number of trucks.
- Tudor Bosman
LogEx: they could, although I am not aware of any precedent when tier-1 network operators throttled each other's traffic on purpose.
- Tudor Bosman
To summarize: Don't think of this as good guys (L3) vs bad guys (Comcast). They're both big companies engaged in cutthroat negotiation. My main beef is with L3, as they turned an internal contract dispute into a public issue, blatantly misled the public into believing that the issue is something it's not, and they're using this as a negotiating tactic.
- Tudor Bosman
Also: Level 3 has used the same argument against Cogent that Comcast uses against them. (Which is fine, as it's just settlement peering as it's always been, nothing new under the sun.) See http://www.engadget.com/2010...
- Tudor Bosman
Agree with Tudor. Note that all of this dates back to telephone days where the "caller" pays. Each peering provider pays to send packets through another network. If network activity is relatively symmetric then it all ends up evening out. However, much traffic on the internet these days is now highly asymmetric and so ISPs pay to send traffic to end users.Note that when you, say, upload...
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- Joe Beda
This article says almost exactly what Tudor said - freaky. :) http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
- Ken Gidley
Ken: I know, it's as if I actually knew what I was talking about :)
- Tudor Bosman
We need a way to get high value applications to contribute to all players or there will never be enough incentive to upgrade the infrastructure.
- Todd Hoff
Their contribution is money.
- Alex Scrivener
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Essentially throttling: "The Tata Problem: Amidst all the talk of foul play with Level 3, little attention has surrounded Comcast’s relationship with Tata Communications, which I consider to be a far more egregious violation of their stated principles on Net Neutrality. As was the case with Level 3, Comcast purchases commodity IP transit service from Tata, as a means of reaching...
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- Tinfoil 2.0
That is an interesting post, LogEx. Nobody is a saint here; there's way too much at stake.
- Tudor Bosman
Tudor, your "nobody is a saint" is pretty funny considering your current avatar. :D
- Micah
Anyone notice what's missing here?
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Been gone for a while -- FF is owned by FB after all.
- Brian Sullivan
The markup is still there, but <!--commented out -->. Wonder what that says.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
Yes. Plurk and MySpace are missing. No? Ok...
- AJ Batac :)
I just noticed. The funny thing is that the text says you can still sign up using Google but the button is missing.
- Joe Beda
The battle continues. I actually prefer it that way though because I think the practice of using 'friend finders' by uploading your address book to some company violates the trust some of your contacts placed in you. I've never seen anything that leads me to believe that Facebook, for example, will ever delete any of that information even though some of those contacts: (1) are not...
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- Tinfoil 2.0
I wish that sites would let me log on using credentials like this without having them scrape contacts. I liked the one button access, not necessarily the "friend finder" stuff.
- Joe Beda
So what about the current users signing in via Google? Can they continue using their friendfeed accounts?
- Fehmi Can Saglam
I wish there was some way for different networks to coordinate on who wants to be discovered by friends. It seems like there should be some agreed upon protocol for contact export and publication.
- no name
ben bundan geçen bi feed'imde bahsetmiştim. Facebook email servisi vereceğinden büyük ihtimalle orayı onun için kullanacak normalde gmail vardı. öptüm.
- Şafak Otur
Google blocked it. If you were relying on the Google button for login, I think you should be able to do a "forgot password" on your gmail address to set a password and do regular login.
- Paul Buchheit
Ah -- this was a byproduct of that pissing match. I had a password so I was able to log in. Thanks Paul.
- Joe Beda
google is gone :)
- sabri
Thanks for clarifying, Paul.
- Micah
I thought FB was responsible for this. :-/
- JoeCamel
google started acting like microsoft in netscape days.
- Bojan Babic
@Joe Beda totally agree, but wonder influence of Mark Andreesen on latest Facebook moves. Especially, since he's been in game for a long time and can fairly predict moves of big players
- Bojan Babic
Unfortunately, you can't even sign in with your Friendfeed username from http://friendfeed.com/account... - you have to go back to the homepage to log in. It may be an minor, unintentional issue but it proves that Facebook's stubbornness is hurting Friendfeed...
- Jérôme
Ripped from Reddit: "What actor, no matter how many roles you see them play, can you imagine as one character?"
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My answer: Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho -- always
- April Buchheit
Patrick Stewart will always be Captain Picard.
- Tudor Bosman
Tudor: I totally agree!
- April Buchheit
Tom Cruise will always be Tom Cruise.
- Dan Hsiao
Dan: I feel the same way about Owen Wilson
- April Buchheit
Daniel Radcliffe IS Harry Potter...
- Ross Miller
Christopher Reeve will always be Superman.
- Dan Hsiao
Ron Perlman will always be One
- Rodfather
Jeff Bridges is and always will be The Dude.
- Joe Beda
Joe Beda: Yes!! How could I have forgotten about The Dude? And Steve Buschemi as "that funny lookin' fella" in Fargo
- April Buchheit
Bob Denver as Gilligan
- Jeff P. Henderson
I know I can just Google it, but did Bob Denver do anything else besides Gilligan?
- April Buchheit
Dave Chappelle as Achoo from "Robin Hood: Men in Tights"
- April Buchheit
2 words: Pee-wee Herman
- Micah
Keanu Reeves will always be Neo. Wesley Snipes will always be Blade. Jason Statham will always be The Transporter.
- Rah-PM 2012
Cristo: Tyrone? Yeah, I guess so... :) But I always think about that one line from RH:MIT whenever I see him -- Peasants: "A black sheriff?!" Achoo: "And why not? It worked in Blazin' Saddles..." [cocks eyebrows] Peasants: "Oh yeah.." [nodding to each other in approval, validating rebuttal]
- April Buchheit
Jackie Chan as Drunken Master. Jet Li as Wong Fei Hong.
- imabonehead
Keanu Reeves will always be Bill from Bill & Ted.
- Paul Buchheit
Jason Alexander = George Costanza
- Mike Doeff
Wilford Brimley as the Quaker Oats guy
- April Buchheit
Shatner. If I need say more, please remove yourself from FriendFeed ;)
- MiniMage, enterRUPPted
Sam Waterston as Jack McCoy from Law & Order
- April Buchheit
Shatner - as Shatner
- iTad
Lol @ minimage
- iTad
The cop from Terminator 2
- Alex
Will Smith is always the fresh prince character.
- Kevin
@ Kevin: Will Smith mostly just plays Will Smith with different names and in different settings. Don't get me wrong, he's pretty darn good at it... Also, Summer Glau is that odd chick who kicks everyone's ass.
- Brian Chang
Mini me dude = mini me dude
- SteVe C
Samuel L. Jackson as himself.
- O.Shane
Jack Bauer
- Aviv
Sean Penn as Jeff Spicoli
- April Buchheit
Bradley Cooper will always be WILL from Alias. I didn't even know his name was Bradley Cooper until he was on Conan last night.
- Trish Haley
John Cho is still Harold, or the milf dude, no matter how much he wants to be sulu.
- chrisofspades
David Carradine is still Kwai Chang Caine. :-(
- Ton Zijp
CRISTO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Go to the time out corner!
- MiniMage, enterRUPPted
Bringing this back. Yay for search working.
- Rodfather
NPH is still Doogie Howser
- Rodfather
Y Combinator announces two new partners, Paul Buchheit and Harj Taggar - http://ycombinator.posterous.com/y-combi...
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"We're delighted to announce that Y Combinator is getting two new partners, the first we've added since we started YC in 2005. In case anyone doesn't already know who he is, Paul Buchheit was responsible for three of the best things Google has done: he wrote GMail, built the original prototype of AdSense, and came up with the phrase "Don't be evil." After leaving Google he started FriendFeed, which last year became Facebook's largest acquisition to date. He's a good friend as well as one of the world's best hackers; for years we've considered him an honorary YC partner. We hired Harj Taggar earlier this year to work advising startups alongside me. He wasn't technically a partner, but we quickly realized that he was one de facto—that among us his opinion carried as much weight as any of ours—and that it would be mean of us to delay recognizing this officially. Harj's arrival significantly improved how well YC operated. He's a large part of the reason we were able to fund 36 startups in the summer 2010 cycle."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
Congratulations, Paul!
- Ross Miller
Cheers Paul. Awesome partnership.
- Christopher Galtenberg
Congratulations, Paul!!!
- AJ Batac :)
Would love if you guys devised a new concept: 2nd-shift startup. Many of us are working jobs we need and/or love, but are trying to build a new thing in the background. Having a bit of money, support, and networking would make all the difference. We're completely alone until we make the big leap. And many with families and bills can't think about leaping into Paul G's YC experience.
- Christopher Galtenberg
Congrats, Paul!
- Andrew Terry
Congrats!
- Barbara R. S.
Congrats Paul. Are you going to do that *and* stay at Facebook? And have time for the family?
- Joe Beda
You have to stay at Facebook at least long enough to get that damn search fixed!
- Gabe
No, I'll be leaving Facebook to join YC.
- Paul Buchheit
Also, I made some search changes a few days ago so it should be working a little better now.
- Paul Buchheit
Congrats and best of luck to you at YC. Sorry to hear you won't be able to make further FF tweaks in the future, though!
- Stephen Mack
Paul, was one of the changes preventing people who aren't logged in from searching? I can't believe that would have as much of an effect on search as it may have been.
- Akiva
Congratulations!
- Eric Florenzano
Wow. So much for our hope of Buchheit/Taylor running FB!
- Christopher Galtenberg
YC to acquire FB, circa 2013.
- Stephen Mack
Congrats
- Rodfather
This is fantastic news. You're in the right place, Paul.
- Louis Gray
from Android
Congrats Paul!
- DJ Stevie Steve
congrats paul
- testbeta
Congrats!!
- Bindu Reddy
Congratulations Paul!
- Atul Arora
Wow, congrats, but I didn't realize you're leaving Facebook. Wow.
- Robert Scoble
Congratulations!
- Anne Bouey
It's interesting. I remember seeing you shortly after you sold FriendFeed and hearing you advise a startup on what they should do. I thought you were great at that, and I guess that is a real passion. YCombinator is an amazing organization, can't wait to see what you do there.
- Robert Scoble
Congrats!
- John (bird whisperer)
Right on, Robert.
- Bruce Lewis
Congratulations on following your heart!
- Kevin Fox
I'm also wondering if this has any impact on FriendFeed. Certainly there's one fewer voice inside FriendFeed protecting the service. I wonder if Paul can tell the community now what he expects to happen to the service. Already a good chunk of the FriendFeed team has left.
- Robert Scoble
Paul: I doubt you can answer this one, either, but I'd love to know what it is about Facebook that is already pushing away entrepreneurial types. It looks like it's becoming a big company, with all the politics and such. I was expecting you to make a much bigger impact there long term than it looks like you've been able to make. Want to come on camera to explain why things didn't work out?
- Robert Scoble
I second that, I'd like it if he could talk. \o,
- Zu from AOD
Congrats! But who will be looking after the Friendfeed servers now? *sorry to be so selfish*
- Eric
Robert, it has less to do with Facebook and more to do with me. I'm just more excited about helping new entrepreneurs create the next Facebook or Google. I'd be glad to chat sometime.
- Paul Buchheit
Great news on one hand since you could do so much to help others but, sad news on the other since I felt you were a very positive force in Facebook's continuing development.
- AJ Kohn
Awesomeness!!! Congrats Paul!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Now you can create the next Friendfeed.
- Cristian Conti
Fantastic Paul - Y Combinator is becoming a bigger force. Congrats to you.
- Hutch Carpenter
good luck! :)
- salaros
This seems like the perfect job for you - have fun! (and thanks for fixing the search ... I thought that might have been Ben G. ... make sure he knows how to do it mmmkay??)
- Laura Norvig
Congratulations Paul
- Shakeel Mahate
congratulations, this is huge! :)
- Oguz Serdar
Excellent! Nicely done.
- Vicarbott
Congrats Paul!
- Jorge Escobar
Paul, once we get cottages up, we'd love to house start-up guys for free from time to time as part of our artist in residence program.
- SAM
Congratulations, Paul!
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
Best news of the day!
- Bo Stern
Congratulations, Paul! Do more good things.
- Mark J
Paul, congratulations! The excitement is palpable - we're happy for you that your desire and opportunity can be so well matched.
- Micah
from FFHound(roid)!
I'm ready for the cool.
- Eric
Congratulation and good luck, tell us something about FriendFeed....
- @zaps
Congratulations, Mr. Buchheit.
- Brent
congratulations
- kang
What will this mean for FF? Just curious
- LANjackal
Obi-Ben Kenolub is now our only hope. http://ff.im/pHRhj
- Josh Haley
Paul, now I need to share with you my next world-changing idea (seriously). Congrats! (is this the butterfly? ;-) )
- Jesse Stay
Congrats Paul! Right move. You are going to the right place.
- vivekian
Surprise move, nice move.
- Lizunlong
Congrats Paul - hope it goes well for you
- Martha
Congrats Paul!
- imabonehead
+1
- Thomas Amberg
Good on you Paul.
- Daniel Collins
Cheers.,.
- OT
I'm flying tomorrow and I'm not sure of my approach to these new scanners. Ug.
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Meh. Don't worry about the health issues; the amount of X-ray they put out is about the same as the amount you get from flying at cruising altitude for 1-2 minutes. And the airport check-in process already strips you of all dignity, this is but a small step.
- Tudor Bosman
Yeah -- I'm not worried about the health stuff. I did a little bit of research and came to the same conclusion. The whole "seeing you naked" thing really irks me but I can't imagine that the operator will get much out of it considering they see a gazillion people a day.
- Joe Beda
Apparently the backscatter image (with your face blurred) is sent to an operator in a different room who can signal to the operator "on the ground" whether you should be subjected to additional screening or not. No one sees both your face and your naked scan; it's one or the other.
- Tudor Bosman
I think you can ask to skip it. That's what I did. It's not that I mind being seeing naked -- I just enjoy the nice pat-down they provide instead :)
- Paul Buchheit
You should just strip naked right there as a protest. :)
- Private Sanjeev
Yeah, I'm sure they'd love that and wouldn't send me to jail or anything. That's what I love about the airport really -- it's the great sense of humor everyone there has ;)
- Paul Buchheit
Do these scanners reflect anything? You might be able to find some type of paint marker that it reflects, and write “HEY!” on your body underneath your clothing.
- Amit Patel
Paul: of course they have a sense of humor! :) https://friendfeed.com/tudor...
- Tudor Bosman
I had a chance to watch this full body scanner in action on Friday and it's a comedy. When flying, in order to reduce the number of items to take off by one I always wear my stretch belt with a plastic buckle. It turnes out these plastic buckles set off these new scanners. TSA workers are well aware of the nuisance and apparently hate the delay such false alarms cause. So, after seeing the buckle, they asked me to walk through a standard metal detector frame instead! Security FAIL.
- ✔ ǝuǝƃnǝ
Plastic buckles might be de rigeur. The TSA is making the "pat down" so invasive most people will rather go through the machines. http://www.theatlantic.com/nationa...
- Private Sanjeev
@Sanjeev, great article!
- Simon
Tudor, X-ray exposure isn't the worry. It's Terahertz waves: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog... I opted out of the scanners for that reason when I flew to my brother's wedding this year.
- Bruce Lewis
Also, I am withdrawing my comment not to worry about health issues. Backscatter X-ray machines do deliver a significantly lower dose, but that dose is disproportionately delivered to the skin. A number of UCSF professors have written a "Letter of Concern" about this to Dr. John P. Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology. PDF link: http://www.npr.org/assets...
- Tudor Bosman
The FDA replied: http://www.fda.gov/Radiati...
- Tudor Bosman
Google Points At WebFinger. Your Gmail Address Could Soon Be Your ID. - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
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"It’s taking something everyone knows on the web (your email address) and making it immensely more valuable as a way to identify yourself and information about you. Exactly what kind of information? Here are some of the ideas from the WebFinger Google Code page: * public profile data * pointer to identity provider (e.g. OpenID server) * a public key * other services used by that email address (e.g. Flickr, Picasa, Smugmug, Twitter, Facebook, and usernames for each) * a URL to an avatar * profile data (nickname, full name, etc) * whether the email address is also a JID, or explicitly declare that it’s NOT an email, and ONLY a JID, or any combination to disambiguate all the addresses that look like something@somewhere.com * or even a public declaration that the email address doesn’t have public metadata, but has a pointer to an endpoint that, provided authentication, will tell you some protected metadata, depending on who you authenticate as."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
I don't want my contact information to be my identifier. I shouldn't have to give a website my email address, just like I shouldn't have to give a store my phone number.
- Daniel Sims
Daniel, I think it just takes the form of an email address, but does not in fact have to be one (or could be a "throw away" account).
- Paul Buchheit
It would be cool if we could get our act together (as an industry) and make this stuff happen. I'd also like to see ENUM deployed to the point that my phone number can be linked to my identity. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...)
- Joe Beda
This is a bad idea in so many ways I can't even begin to list them.
- April
If a site wants my email address, it's probably in order to spam me. It's usually a bad sign. If legit sites ask for my email more, it will make it harder to identify the spammers.
- Tim Tyler
Do gmail users seriously still have problems with spam? I don't.
- Robin Barooah
Personally this sounds great - as long as it really doesn't force you to use your actual gmail address.
- Robin Barooah
I loved finger.
- j1m
Does this mean I can have a .plan again?
- Benjamin Lee
Sounds like the .plan which is (again) accessed via an id in email format and returns different information/metadata about a person depending on who's accessing it. Email id is used to do a DNS lookup in order to discover URL for the XRD file (accessed with a HTTP GET) containing the metadata about the person being, er, WebFinger-ed.
- Nenad Nikolic
it is like user authenticating, having two three ids won't hurt ;) well i don't want to be identified, they are going same as gravatar
- testbeta
It's so curious to me that people have concerns that WebFinger would lead to more spam, and yet don't like the "format" of URLs for IDs. Personally, as far as OpenID is concerned, I don't care what the identifier looks like as long as people can remember it — typically email seems easier to recall than URLs (for most people in today's world).
- Chris Messina
Some users who have an email account with Google, myself included, have oodles of incoming mail both standard and secure so it fits the bill to increase security for both vendors and marketers.
- frank burns
I have no problem with the idea, but it seems to me that it won't help the current state of affairs much. The kind of information I'd be interested in sharing via Webfinger (my OpenID, a URL to a FOAF file, etc.) will have no better adoption, so the Webfinger configuration doesn't buy me much. I'll hold out hopes that after a couple tight integrations between Webfinger and OpenID providers (say if Google, Microsoft and/or Yahoo provided and consumed both) things will improve ... here's to hoping :(
- J. McConnell
Years ago I experimented with FOAF. I didn't fully understand nor appreciate what I was doing. To serve as a warning, if you take this example, ensure that it is blocked. #Example: I sent a file to Adobe which in turn, was sent to another email account I had at the time. I verified it's sender (ME) and sent it back in the direction of travel. A signed FOAF (API KEY) was then returned...
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- frank burns
Iron Man inspired? — Ferrari SL Tech - http://www.shop.puma.com/Ferrari...
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Google Making Extraordinary Counteroffers To Stop Flow Of Employees To Facebook - http://techcrunch.com/2010...
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"One recent Googler, we’ve confirmed, was recently offered a counter offer he couldn’t refuse (except he did). He was offered a 15% raise on his $150,000 mid level developer salary, quadruple the stock benefits and…wait for it…a $500,000 cash bonus to stay for a year. He took the Facebook offer anyway."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
Google can hire me any day.....
- Roberto Bonini
Hi Paul, just out of curiosity, do you think if this story is true?
- Can Demirezen
Yes, it is. Many people at Google use Facebook offers in order to get a big raise.
- Paul Buchheit
It's the same story here in Italy, but for players of soccer...
- @zaps
and a big number of ex-Googlers transferred to Facebook.
- Ozgur Demir
It's no different than what MSFT and Yahoo! employees did in that past. At these time the destination was Google. The important metric would be their persistency in their next destination (if they made the switch) or the mean time between their "i'm leaving" bluffs.
- Berk D. Demir
seek no persistency Berk... that flow is consistent.
- Ozgur Demir
There's no way 150k is a mid level salary (without bonus). I looked at the disclosures for 2008 Google supported H-1B visas and 120k is the highest just 2 years ago.
- Doug Brooks
Doug, $150k is not uncommon for an experienced engineer in SV.
- Paul Buchheit
I think that the story is basically true, but that the numbers are somewhat exaggerated (or misinterpreted by TechCrunch), especially the $500k cash bonus.
- Tudor Bosman
I have some real numbers from recent such events, and while it's not cash, the number of GSUs being handed out are pretty astonishing. There's a serious bidding war going on.
- Piaw Na
You'd think Google could figure out the reasons people want to switch and use the money to fix the discrepancy. If you pay someone half a million dollars to stay for a year, they'll only stay for a year (and probably not be as productive in the interim).
- Kevin Fox
And I thought I did good with my 1 year stay bonus :P
- Juan Pablo González
interesting, I thought the conventional advice was to never take counter offers for fear they will just drop you at a more opportune time, but maybe if they're offering up that kind of cash, they are genuinely interested in keeping, not just blocking the exit of, the employees. also, funny how this is the exact opposite of the zappos pay people to leave approach http://blogs.hbr.org/taylor...
- Karl Rosaen
Unbelievable...
- Jonathan Beckett
"if you get 1/10 of 1%, that’s $100 million in stock." Uhh... There are only so many percents to go around...
- Brian Johns
@Kevin: Google is not stupid. They don't hand out cash. Retention packages are all in GSUs that vest over 4 years. Now, one statistic that I heard is that even people who receive the massive packages on average only stay for 2 years.
- Piaw Na
wowowowow amazing #braindrain
- Susan Beebe
Just realized that a "mid level developer" at Google makes MUCH more than a "high level program manager" at a multi-billion dollar international. Wild guess that FB would have no interest in making me an offer (and that my company would laugh at me if I presented a FB offer to them expecting a counter). Ah, Silly Valley, you're still silly!
- Ryan Kaisoglus
I still call bs. I'm in silicon valley too :) Here's some H-1B data to support my skepticism. http://www.flcdatacenter.com/CaseRes... BTW I'm not saying that engineers aren't making this, just that it's not the mid/entry level guys.
- Doug Brooks
Google isn't the only company being poached from by FB.
- Mr. Gunn
Doug, there are several ex-Googlers commenting here, and none appear to disagree enough with the reported salary to point it out. Besides, the report said "mid-level" (not "entry level") which covers a wide range. There are some (non-senior staff) software engineers on your list that earn comparable amounts: e.g.: I-07330-3751869 147,000; I-08023-3822031 140,000; I-07352-3779209 139,000.
- Simon
I wonder if Google HR is desperate or trying to bluff Facebook into overpaying for folks.
- John Piscitello
That would be a very expensive bluff.
- Tudor Bosman
It's amusing that there is so much disbelief in these comments.
- Paul Buchheit
hockey curve?
- A. T.
@lelapin Well, all those underpaid brilliant engineers better start coming out of the woodwork. :-)
- Piaw Na
Perhaps instead of Big Money, Google should be offering increased autonomy and more chances to change the world. From the outside, and far away, I'd suspect the project coolness factor may matter as much as the bigger payout.
- Andrew C (✓)
from Android
A.T, here's a graph showing a hockey stick pattern: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/article... (it's a tough subject to google because you get flooded with ice hockey or climate controversy results)
- Micah
Also... and this is Monday morning quarterbacking, I realize that... Google should've put a hole or two in the scams FB used to rely a lot on for revenue. With a multi-pronged approach: technical and PR and political lobbying. (obviously it wouldn't have been framed as anti-FB, but pro-user, anti-scam.)
- Andrew C (✓)
from Android
Andrew C: Google already offers plenty of autonomy and chances to change the world. The people who are leaving/getting massive retention packages aren't leaving because FB changes the world more. Many of them wanted to leave because they were consistently under-valued at Google.
- Piaw Na
TechCrunched: http://techcrunch.com/2010...
- Louis Gray
With all that talent, I wish FB deployed even a tiny portion of it to maintain Friendfeed
- Paola Bonomo
Why do people think 150k is over the top? $150k would be high here (Australia), but not crazy-high, and we don't have as much competition. If you include contract engineers I know quite a few people making that pretty easily. +15% + 4x stock benefits + 500K is nice though!
- Nick Lothian
Nick, I don't think $150k is over the top for Google. I think that $150k plus all the variable comp is over the top. Further, I think that outside of the small world of Google, FB, Twitter, etc, $150k for a mid-level developer is very high. Point of comparison: I work for a Fortune 5 company that also happens to be one of the 15 largest producers of software in the world (though...
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- Ryan Kaisoglus
@Ryan: http://seek.com.au/jobsear... - that's the java job market for Australia. Over 1200 jobs paying over $120K (multiple that by 1.1 to convert to US $) - and that's only including jobs where they advertise the pay. Edit: It's actually a lot more than that - a lot of the ads are for multiple positions (eg: we require 11 developers)
- Nick Lothian
Everything You Never Wanted To Know About Figs - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_dai...
Sean O'Connor and Andrew C (✓) liked this
Wow. When you eat a fig you're eating a digested wasp.
- Piaw Na
I'm pretty sure this is just some figs. We have a fig tree in our back yard but no fig wasps to be found. The HN article has tons of discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item...
- Joe Beda
Phew!
- Piaw Na
Lightning Deal! $89.99 - Seagate Barracuda 2 TB 3.5-Inch Internal Hard Drive http://www.amazon.com/gp...
Review: Breaking Windows - http://piaw.blogspot.com/2010...
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When I joined Google ~6 years ago out from Microsoft I too was surprised by the arrogance of not realizing that Google could easily go down the same path Microsoft went down.
- Joe Beda
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