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We launched a community translation tool for Polyvore just 6 days ago and now thanks to translations from our users, Polyvore is available in 2 new languages. We added Turkish to the tool yesterday and it's already 50% translated! - Jess Lee via Bookmarklet

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Raptr Blog » Raptr Public Beta Launch!

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“we're live! sign up at raptr.com”

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Congratulations Raptr peoples! - David Tom

Nick Nguyen posted a message

“I just started playing Hello Kitty: Cutie World.”

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No comment. - Patrick Li

pansy - Wally Punsapy

Shihao Liu updated their status message on Gmail/Google Talk

“Yesterday was my last day in Google.”

July 16 at 12:23 pm - Link

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What next? - Sanjeev Singh

What next ? FF is next :)- - Peter Dawson

@Sanjeev, Don't have a solid plan yet. - Shihao Liu

DeWitt Clinton posted a link

Protocol Buffers - Google Code

July 7 at 3:19 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"Protocol buffers are Google's language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible mechanism for serializing structured data – think XML, but smaller, faster, and simpler. You define how you want your data to be structured once, then you can use special generated source code to easily write and read your structured data to and from a variety of data streams and using a variety of languages – Java, C++, or Python." - DeWitt Clinton via Bookmarklet

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And for ex-Googlers, come check out the version that we open sourced. All the awesome from before, but cleaned up and even tighter (see the Java apis now). - DeWitt Clinton

Very happy this finally happened. - Bret Taylor

Any chance of a high level comparison with Facebook Thrift? - Nick Lothian

support Java, C++, or Python. cool - accesine

interesting, I'm glad they supported python, looks a little like JSON - Bjorn Tipling

or like a struct - Bjorn Tipling

Of all the things to go open source since I've been at Google, this ranks near or at the very top of my list of favorites. A huge congrats to Kenton and everybody involved for pulling it off. May your data serialize efficiently and extensibly forevermore! - DeWitt Clinton

Thrift includes a whole RPC framework (including thread managers and so on). Protocol buffers are just a serialization mechanism. Otherwise, the differences are mostly in the details of the way things like versioning are handled. - ⓞnor

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Deep V-Necks: Destroying America?

June 26 at 1:08 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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lol - Jess Lee via Bookmarklet

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haha. Douchebag neck.... - minus3

I'm not really amused, but I am impressed that the writer was able to put nearly 1,500 words against this subject. - AJ Kohn

"As with many dubious fashion choices (see: leggings as pants), much of the blame can be placed on American Apparel." True. - Erica Baker

"At Urban Outfitters, there are eight different options for guys, including the "Super V," which boasts a 27-inch neckline from shoulder to hem. A 27-inch neckline." - David Vasileff

funny - Chad

I just forwarded this link to all my friends who own the douchbag neck shirts. - Patrick Li

I started only buttoning the last button on my shirts and calling them Super V's is that acceptable? - Marco (aureliusmaximus)

Okay, what happened to v-neck undershirts in boys' sizes? They're getting scarce. - ha3rvey

hehe - Joel Alenchery

I want a "Like" button for all these hilarious comments : ) - Jess Lee

that story is classic - I must admit I find the shirts repulsive and strangely hard not to look at the same time.. are you gay? - ben rogers via twhirl

Ugh, I physically shuddered the first time I saw one of those American Apparel ads. Was hoping that this trend was going to stay firmly ensconced in the fern bars of Three's Company on TVLand reruns. Some trends should *never* be resurrected. And to the men reading this: ixnay on any thought of the gold medallions. - Casey

Slow news day, although I agree "Women demand men look a certain way". Or else we cannot enter the fern bars of our choice. - Russellreno

"It's, like, another three inches and that's a vest, motherfucker." LOL - Jeanette Martinez

http://www.affiliatejunktion.c... - john

I have a douchebag shirt. I'm ashamed - Rob Schonberger

Hilarious... oops i own a couple of these too - Shaw

Bryan Power posted a message on Twitter

“Google should carve out No Name and run it as a separate business. This place would mint money as a lunch spot in Silicon Valley.”

June 24 at 1:20 pm - Link

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No Name is usually disgusting. - niniane

Andrew Wooldridge posted a message on Twitter

“I would tweet more but those are keystrokes I could be using to code Raptr stuff :)”

June 18 at 6:07 pm - Link

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Done, and Gets Things Smart

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Looooong, but great read. I often felt at Google, on the sales side of things, we were so smart that we were stupid. I can't tell you how many meetings I sat through where simple solutions (and, probably, the right solutions!) were ignored because they sounded too simple. And we'd spend a full hour coming up with complicated, convoluted, confusing solutions because that's what smart people do, right? Come up with arcane stuff? Agh. It was all gas. Not throwing anyone under the bus -- I was as guilty as anyone else. - Ginger Makela

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100-word version: "You're not as smart as you think you are. You need to find people way smarter and more effective than you. You can't find them with normal interviews. A six-month trial period might work, but what super smart person will stand for that? Your only real hope is that you've bumped into them some time in the past, or maybe you can find them by asking around. Good luck, and also I made up this weird phrase which doesn't help." - ⓞnor

Ginger, thanks for sharing your experience at Google. - Mike Reynolds

First page down, giving a Like for that. Continuing to read... - Hutch Carpenter

Really great read, and a true take on the types of "smart" out there. Also, I liked this little add-on Steve had in the comments section: "The Dunning-Kruger Effect has a fourth principle that I didn't mention, which is that as your competence increases, your self-evaluation diminishes. The most competent people apparently tend to rate themselves below their skill level. " Interesting thought. - Hutch Carpenter

The core of any good engineering culture is deeply allergic to unnecessary complexity. "Fancy" is a bad word; "complicated" is a really, really bad word. Design doc templates have a section asking you to explain why a simpler solution would work. Half my interviewers (having convinced themselves that I could code) were making sure that I wasn't the type to build giant rickety abominations. But a company like Google is too big for any single generalization to apply. - ⓞnor

ⓞnor: "and also I made up this weird phrase which doesn't help" Ha! :) - Bret Taylor

@nor if you do that for every Steve Yegge post you might have a high-traffic blog on your hands - Jeremy Raines

ⓞnor-notes.blogspot.com - Ginger Makela

@Ginger: I see that everywhere, not only in Sales… :( - Amit Patel

very cool...that is probably why friendfeed is ramping so smoothly and getting intelligent new features vs. another nameless service that is having severe growing pains. - Pokai

That's excellent hiring criteria -- would you hire them for your start-up. I know from experience that you can't really understand how important it is to work with A-players until you work at a company with mainly B-players. - Tödd Nëmët

I really prefer to work with @-players and ideally ?-players - ⓞnor

What about cos-players? - Jim Norris

And who is super-heroic dude? - Jim Norris

cos-players tend to be irrational unless you get exactly the right angle. - ⓞnor

Question: Why would one of these super-heroic programmers want to work for you rather than launching their own thing? - Adewale Oshineye

Dan should publish a blog with 100-word versions of all of Stevey's posts. I don't have the patience for the long versions. - Jeremy Hylton

I want high quality generic collaborative summarization in general. Not sure how it would work, it's really easy to warp and distort things when boiling them down, and way too easy to take cheap shots at the author (as I did above). - ⓞnor

Is that a bad thing? - j1m

ⓞnor, use a wiki. Also, i know an infinite number of rational cos-players. Take 60º for example. - John Lam

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i put this in SYTYCD room...check it out. - Pokai

that is awesome... - Emily Miller

niniane posted an entry on Niniane's Blog

great speech

June 6 at 1:44 am - Link

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so what she's saying is that you have to fail in order to win? finally the question scientists have been pondering for ages has been resolved: FAIL == FTW. - Biao

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There is some truth to that and worth rumination. Failure is not essential, but it can help. Most "games" in life require some amount of gambling. That said, it is human nature to be conservative and try to preserve the resources we have in hand (time, $$, self-respect) - especially as we see these as the ultimate measure of success. That keeps many from betting big and going FTW - whatever W is. - torque

"Delivering a commencement address is a great responsibility; or so I thought until I cast my mind back to my own graduation. The commencement speaker that day was the distinguished British philosopher Baroness Mary Warnock. Reflecting on her speech has helped me enormously in writing this one, because it turns out that I can’t remember a single word she said." - Alex Barbara

When I read the first comment I thought this was about Hillary Clinton. :) - sebmos

This makes me think of the exploration-exploitation dilemma. Learning, exploring, requires that we occasionally make mistakes. - Laurence Gonsalves

Kind of reminds me of a line someone once told me "into every life a little rain must fall " Thanks for sharing this - its brilliant - and I just sent the link to my 19 yr old who is a sophomore - viki saigal

Rowling rocks- I remember reading an article about when she was starting out- She was so so down, that she lived in her car. She is one extraordinary lady !! - Peter Dawson

sebmos - HRC didn't fail. The votes just weren't counted correctly. :) - Ontario Emperor via fftogo

"You might never fail on the scale I did, but some failure in life is inevitable. It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all - in which case, you fail by default." - Erhan Erdogan

Loved the speech, the video captures so much of the depth of emotion behind her words! - Pokai

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i would've asked it 500 questions already

May 14 at 6:59 pm - Link

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brilliant idea! - Jess Lee

so when are you launching this? - j1m

Sounds like a good app to put on appengine. :) - Erica Baker

It is a good idea; I don't think it would take to long to implement either. - RAPatton

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Man Grows Old Right Before Your Eyes

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