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Paul Buchheit

Paul Buchheit

I am Paul. I choose to believe what I was programmed to believe.
Paul wanted to reach you for something very important, this is going to be great TRUST ME.I am at venkatraghavan7@gmail.com - Venkat Raghavan
In other words, "Freedom's just another word for 'Nothing left to lose'"... - Brian Johns
http://online.wsj.com/article... was enough for the day. I was going to keep your post for another day but then I thought, “What would Paul think? I'd better read it right away!” - Amit Patel
That is great! Nicely written............expressive one - Asha Joshi
Now who will be the first to buy a carrier, Apple or Google? Sprint market cap is just over $10B (up 8.75% today).
We can only hope one of them will. Even better: The ATT / T-Mobile merger is denied. Apple buys one of them, Google buys the other. The mobile carrier market needs some serious disruption. - Tinfoil 2.0
None of them. If anything, Microsoft will become a soft carrier, followed quickly by Apple, then Google. Here are some thoughts I had on that a few months ago: http://fury.com/2011... - Kevin Fox
Someone please. That's where we need real disruption. - Todd Hoff
Realistically, no carrier has first-class coverage everywhere, and neither Apple or Google would tie their own product image to a single carrier's coverage area (again). Everyone's learned by watching the love/hate relationship users have with Apple and AT&T the past four years. No way they hobble themselves to a single physical infrastructure. - Kevin Fox
Buying a carrier doesn't mean that they couldn't still sell phones on the other carriers and more than buying Motorola precludes them from putting Android on Samsung devices. - Paul Buchheit
Would SprintApple still sell Android and Windows phones? - Kevin Fox
Carriers are so much about commoditized physical infrastructure that I'd have to believe Apple is looking for a way to make them obsolete, rather than buying one for themselves. - Kevin Fox
Amazon? -- Since they're already using Sprint for the Kindle. Might also make for some interesting Twilio-style additions to AWS - Ken Sheppardson
Amazon no longer uses Sprint for the Kindle. It uses AT&T. It was the only way to get global coverage. - Piaw Na
Aha. Got it. Meaning the newer K3 (and K2?) use AT&T? Y'know given the differing radio/network technologies, I wonder if anybody'd want Sprint, with all the inherent coverage limitations. - Ken Sheppardson
If Amazon would build a pneumatic tube delivery service underneath everyone's homes and businesses (to replace FedEx/UPS/OnTrac), they could also put Wi-Max or LTE in their tubes, so that the Internet would actually be a series of tubes. - Amit Patel
Tubes have been replaced with solar powered automated driving delivery vehicles. Not quite as romantic, or com friendly, but it uses the existing road system. - Todd Hoff
I don't think Apple wants any part of a deal to buy plumbing. If they can cover that plumbing in gold plate and sell it as an experience, then maybe. Microsoft, on the other hand, has plenty of cash and doesn't mind being a plumber. - Eric - Too Hot
Trucks? Tubes? Pfft... Autonomous solar-powered drones that dock at giant floating fulfillment center airships are the way to go. Get around the whole state-by-state tax problem once and for all. Just float over them. - Ken Sheppardson
Ooh, delivery by airdrop. I like it. - Amit Patel
Plus you tie this in with an app on your Android device and you'd get a little alert that says "You're package is available for delivery... please step outside"... BAM - Ken Sheppardson
Airspace tax zones would be sure to follow :-) And I think the economics of lifting goods into the air will have to wait for zero-point energy devices. - Todd Hoff
Lifting goods is cheap on the space pulley. You put a chunk of asteroid on one side and you put a container of goods on the other side. Make sure the asteroid is heavier, and it will go down as the goods go up. You extract the precious metals out of the asteroid and use that money to fund development of your delivery spacecraft, which is orbiting the Earth at supersonic speeds, picking up goods from the space pulley and releasing them at just the right time to hit Ken on the head. - Amit Patel
I figure eventually they'll just have fab plants on the moon. Solar power turns moon rocks into whatever you need, and the end products get railgunned out of the moon's gravity well and fall straight to your home with a guided descent with last-minute parachute braking. The fun part is that your Amazon Prime cutoff time will be dependent on the moon's relative position to you, so it... more... - Kevin Fox
Since this conversation looks to be officially derailed, I vote for some form of Wonka-Vision to be the distribution method of choice for Amazon prime... - Ross Miller
That or skyhooks. - Kevin Fox
Until I parsed "Sprint" I was sure you are talking about the actual warship, you know, Invincible class carrier is now supposedly on closed auction in UK :) - Michael Bravo
Well, yeah, I guess that ties in with the Amazon sub-thread nicely. They probably are the most likely to be the first to buy a carrier, e.g. http://bit.ly/g55NKr - Ken Sheppardson
Although as far as sub-threads go, this'd probably be more appropriate: http://bit.ly/rjNj0i - Ken Sheppardson
The first thought that came into my head was "Aircraft Carrier" to use as a Datacenter... - Stuart Woodward
The Empathic Civilisation - YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
The Empathic Civilisation - YouTube
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So far, there has always been an other. Extending all the way would remove the "other"ness. What replaces that? - Clare Dibble
I just finished reliving the past 7 years, in reverse order. A lot has happened, and now my inbox is empty. Odd.
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What did you learn from your reverse chronology? - Eric Borisch from iPod
How did those drafts get in there from seven years ago? - Louis Gray
Thirteen years ago I met someone unusual. Nine years ago we got married. Happy anniversary my love <3
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حاجی مبارک باشه ،‌درسته فرندفید رو ول کردید به امون خدا ولی انشالله خوشبخت باشین :) - Conformist
همین که استاد کانفو فرمود، مبارکه - آقا هادی
What Conformist said. - Bruce Lewis from fftogo
Congratulations! - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
Con'grats !! - Peter Dawson
For you, I wish happiness. - Conformist
Many many years of happiness to come! - Dani Radu
Well of course Thomas Dolby has a hot girlfriend. Duh! Oh, wait. That's you... And that's your wife? Nice! Happy Anniversary! - Mark Davidson
Happy anniversary! - Eric - Too Hot
Happy anniversary! - Pixie
happy anniversary, you cute couple! - imabonehead
Happy Anniversary! - Elena
There is always a woman behind every successful man. - ThinkEzy
Congratulations :) - WoH: Professor MOTHRA
Congratulations! You picked a winner for sure. - Mary B: #TeamMonique
hatun bayağı aşıkmış sana zaten yaa, zaten kadınlar ister vealır hayat böyle. hadi mutluluklar ciğerim :) - Mehmet Soylu
Congrats to you two and the kids!!! - Kevin Fox
Happy Anniversary Paul and April! :) - Josh Haley from iPhone
up! :))) - moltogatto
Happy Anniversary Paul and April... - Sunny Gene
Were you quoting your wife? :) Happy anniversary! - Christopher Galtenberg
Ha, Christopher, I thought April posted this until I took a second look! Happy Anniversary you guys. - Laura Norvig
"Only to the extent that we expose ourselves over and over to annihilation can that which is indestructible be found in us."
Laid-back...
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With his mind on his money and his money on his mind... - Gabe
is this part of some Google doodle out there ... it could be ... - pb:
A curse is a blessing that has not yet been accepted and understood.
A blessing is a curse that has not yet been rejected and misconstrued. - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
I remember that coming to this realization was a profound experience for me. Glad you've come to the same thought and are sharing it with everyone! - Ruchira S. Datta
Though, judging from the comments not everyone sees it the same way. :-) - Ruchira S. Datta
Ruchira, sorry, I'm in a weird mood and wanted to test the aphorism through inversion. - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
No need to be sorry, nothing wrong with a little humor. :-) - Ruchira S. Datta
A lot of things in life just suck and they hurt a lot, for a long time. A big part of life is learning how to deal with that without going crazy. - Todd Hoff
Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
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Platonic. - Cliff Gerrish
All right, who is letting the fortune cookie writers study holographic string theory again? - David Lounsbury
...in bed. - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
+1 Stephen ! - Peter Dawson
"Our politicians help the terrorists every time they use fear as a campaign tactic. The press helps every time it writes scare stories about the plot and the threat. And if we're terrified, and we share that fear, we help. These actions intensify and repeat the terrorists' actions, and increase the effects of their terror." - http://www.wired.com/politic...
In other news, the Sun is really, really hot. - Akiva
Yes. Terrorists have won back in 2001 and keep winning since then :(( - 9000
«The people terrorists kill are not the targets; they are collateral damage. And blowing up planes, trains, markets or buses is not the goal; those are just tactics. The real targets of terrorism are the rest of us: the billions of us who are not killed but are terrorized because of the killing. The real point of terrorism is not the act itself, but our reaction to the act» - 9000
Mark Zuckerberg is the most popular user on Google+ - http://socialstatistics.com/ #amusing
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no circles for Larry, Vic and Sergey? - @zaps
21k users? It went up fast during the weekend! - Zu from AOD from iPhone
I can't wait until Robert hits the friend limit and starts complaining. ;-P - Jeff P. Henderson
like that - Shakhawat Hossain
Every time you victimized someone, you were victimizing yourself. Every act of kindness you’ve done, you’ve done to yourself. Every happy and sad moment ever experienced by any human was, or will be, experienced by you. - http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff...
Conversely, every time you laughed at yourself, it turns out you were being a real jerk. - Larry Hosken
I go at it the other way. Every human experience is similar, but unique to the person. You can never know what happiness, hate, or love means to another. Only what it means for you. Much human misery happens because of this gap. - Todd Hoff
New head shots. Which should I use?
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#1, then #3. Not #2. - Louis Gray
1 - Johnny
What Louis said, "#1, then #3. Not #2." - Jimminy
I like the third one. - Derrick
I vote # 3 - djchuang
#3 - pala
#2, you look thoughtful and trustworthy. - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
#3, #1 looks too mug-shotish and #2 looks a bit ... smug. #3 says you're an amiable confident guy. (Or that's what *I* see FWIW) - AJ Kohn
Love the smile in #3! - Russian Space Lizard
I'd have to say none of the above. I guess I'm officially an old fogey now, but I'd button the shirt. - David desJardins
3. i like 3. - Roberto Bonini
3 is the best. 2. looks a bit too i-made-him-an-offer-he-couldn't-refuse and 1 is all sign-up-for-my-newsletter-for-tip-on-gaming-the-google - Rahsheen
What Louis said, in that order. - manielse (Mark Nielsen)
#3 - Corinne L
#3 - Kevin L
#1 - Jérôme
#1 looks like a badge photo. #2 makes you look like you're smug and cocky. #3 is the winner. Friendly and open. - EricaJoy
I like the first one. I think you look friendly - Julie Parker
3 - tab from BuddyFeed
#1 = everything looks just right, #2 = too pompous, #3 = 笑点低 (so easy to be amused) - 落后青年李三海
I think you should use your FF profile picture, but barring that, the third one is my favorite of the three above. - Jim #TeamMonique
I thought you only wanted to use the original one you used back in the day at google. BUT 3. - Ru Viljoen
3 - Bren
That's a big brainy meditative dome. :) Lots of cogitation going on there obviously. #3. - Sean McBride
3 is more interesting. Not 2. - Louise "Weezy" Alcorn
#3, then #1. - Ruchira S. Datta
I've always been partial to http://img.labnol.org/images... especially with you being an angel and all... - Kevin Fox
Third one - AJ Batac
I like #3 the best... - Lisa | #TeamMonique from Android
do you have any of brad pitt? hee hee....just kidding.... - Morgan
3 has the best smile and looks the least posed. - Bruce Lewis
I love 'em all. :) - April Buchheit
While I am thinking of it: why I really like Paul Buchheit? He has given the world some amazing, innovative and elegant software, much of which I have used with great pleasure. Thanks, Paul! - Sean McBride
#1 - Vishy
#3, but it depends if you want to be in commercials or the theater: http://www.headshots101.com/commerc... :) - Simon
#3 if you don't go with Kevin's suggestion - Anne Bouey
#3 - Shevonne
Not 2. You look either uncomfortable or inauthentic or both. The other pics are both great. - Laura Norvig from iPod
I like 3. There is unfortunate distortion caused by your glasses in 2 and 3 but your smile is best in 3. - Benjamin Golub
#3 - didn't look at comments before I answered, but I was tempted! Never met you in person but either #1or #3 seem the most like the person I *think* you are. - Liza + = ?
Now looking at comments - this is a very cool game! We draw so many conclusions when looking at a photo! - Liza + = ?
3 - YaPaY
3, angle + smile = win - Todd Hoff
Definitely the third one! - Technogran
Third - Martha
third - Comics Forge
I like the third one. A class portrait view. The first is too standard. The second not smiling enough. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
Yes, No. 3! Extra points for multiple buttons unbuttoned. SKIN TO WIN!! - Harold Cabezas
1 and 3rd 2nd one is a bit odd to atleast - testbeta
where 'd you get that black shirt btw? - testbeta
What about using the Friendfeed avatar vs. #3 - now that is A/B testing. - Liza + = ?
#2 or #3. I like #2 - Imabug
#3 - Surya
What's the headshot for? I vote #1. #3's great too. - Dan Hsiao
#1 - Ashish
#2 is like Politician #1 like normal guy #3 looks like advertisement for Tooth Paste. - Suresh S
Why Snack Food Is Addictive: The Grand Unified Theory of Snack Appeal - http://www.gnolls.org/2074...
Why Snack Food Is Addictive: The Grand Unified Theory of Snack Appeal
Why Snack Food Is Addictive: The Grand Unified Theory of Snack Appeal
"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... more... - 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
Life can't always be good, but it can always be interesting.
Don't worry Paul, friendfeed will always have a special place in our hearts. You can always beat Google once again. - mehmet
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
I'm sure someone else will do it. :) - Oguz Serdar
@Paul: Well, don't worry, many of us are lobbying G+ folks very hard to adopt more of the FF feature set. - AJ Kohn
I want to +1 Paul's comment. - Louis Gray
I want to +1 on Louis for adding +1 on Paul's comment - victed
And i want to +1 victed's. - batuhan icoz
+1. - Nathan Chase from iPhone
I hate math. - Anika
as it's not referring to FF then? How so? - sofarsoShawn
A round of +1s for everyone. - Micah
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Adds me, adds me! - Laura Norvig
Rochester police use selective enforcement of parking laws to harass attendees at a meeting in support of woman who was arrested for video-recording a police stop from her front yard - http://www.boingboing.net/2011...
"A followup on Emily Good, the woman who was arrested for video-recording a police stop from her front yard: during a neighborhood meeting in support of Ms Good, Rochester Police came out with a ruler and measured the parking-distance of the attendees' cars. Cars that were more than 12 inches from the curb (even by half an inch) were ticketed. Needless to say, the 12 inch ordinance isn't normally enforced with this kind of vigor." - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet
wonder if somebody recorded the measurement of the 12 inches? - kartik vaithyanathan
I'm surprised that the person videotaping these cops didn't get arrested, too! - Gabe
27 pages and 291 questions, many of which are multi-part. This "American Community Survey" seems excessive. I thought the census was about counting people?
How do they know what kind of person you are without lots and lots of questions? - Clare Dibble
Apparently it's also useful to know what sort of people have jobs, health insurance, and lots of other stuff. - Gabe
why the gmail creator needs to be SOOOOOO bored while writing something. Live ... buddy!!! - ThinkEzy
How much time does the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) estimate for completing it? - John Lam
"What is discord at one level of your being, is harmony at a higher level" - Alan Watts - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
"What is discord at one level of your being, is harmony at a higher level" - Alan Watts
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"You are something that the whole universe is doing in the same way a wave is something the whole ocean is doing." - Clare Dibble
How to spot a psychopath - http://www.guardian.co.uk/books...
How to spot a psychopath
"Tony said faking madness was the easy part, especially when you're 17 and you take drugs and watch a lot of scary movies. You don't need to know how authentically crazy people behave. You just plagiarise the character Dennis Hopper played in the movie Blue Velvet. That's what Tony did. He told a visiting psychiatrist he liked sending people love letters straight from his heart, and a love letter was a bullet from a gun, and if you received a love letter from him, you'd go straight to hell. ... Tony said the day he arrived at the dangerous and severe personality disorder (DSPD) unit, he took one look at the place and realised he'd made a spectacularly bad decision. He asked to speak urgently to psychiatrists. "I'm not mentally ill," he told them. It is an awful lot harder, Tony told me, to convince people you're sane than it is to convince them you're crazy." - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet
The terrifying part of this article is midway: "'Serial killers ruin families,' shrugged Hare. 'Corporate and political and religious psychopaths ruin economies. They ruin societies.' It wasn't only Hare who believed that a disproportionate number of psychopaths can be found in high places. Over the following months, I spoke to scores of psychologists who all said the same. Everyone in... more... - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
It is hilarious to see this article paired with Paul's current user pic. - Spidra Webster
+1 Spidra - Mr. Gunn
"That sounds pretty convenient, actually, but it's Facebook so it must be violating my privacy somehow." - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
"That sounds pretty convenient, actually, but it's Facebook so it must be violating my privacy somehow." - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfjRmuFQFUc
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I think it's actually the convenience of the thing that people have a problem with. - Gabe
no, convenience is only attraction - problem is people want to have cake and eat it too: they know they will be lured in to be used, they know about free cheese and entrepreneurs, yet they repeatedly come in for somerthing attractive. and yes, this is not an excuse for Facebook to be huge black privacy hole :) - A. T.
The problem with convenience is that it makes it too easy to bring light things that you don't want anybody to know about which would ordinarily languish in some dark corner of the Internet. - Gabe
Therapy to change 'feminine' boy created a troubled man, family says - http://www.cnn.com/2011...
Therapy to change 'feminine' boy created a troubled man, family says
"At one table Kirk could choose between what were considered masculine toys like plastic guns and handcuffs, and what were meant to be feminine toys like dolls and a play crib. At the other table, Kirk could choose between boys' clothing and a toy electric razor or items like dress-up jewelry and a wig. According to the case study, Kaytee Murphy was told to ignore her son when he played with feminine toys and compliment him when he played with masculine toys. "They pretty much told him he wasn't right the way that he was, but they never really explained it to him what the issue was. They did it through play," Maris said. Rekers wrote that Kirk would cry out for attention, even throwing tantrums, but Kaytee Murphy was told to keep going. At home, the punishment for feminine behavior would become more severe. The therapists instructed Kirk's parents to use poker chips as a system of rewards and punishments. According to Rekers' case study, blue chips were given for masculine behavior... more... - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet
That is so heartbreaking :(( - WoH: Professor MOTHRA
Sounds like someone read about animal training and didn't consider the fact that kids aren't pets. - Heather
Sigh. :( - Derrick
Wow. Poor guy. :( - Rochelle
So messed up. Guessing this was about not raising a gay kid? I've known very masculine gay guys and very feminine straight guys. - iTad from iPhone
This is just abuse. - AJ Kohn
either way.. treating ones kids as an experiment is a no no - for any decent parent ! - Peter Dawson
The guy who did the study is this douchebag: http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2010-05... - Gabe
Your mind can never change Unless you ask it to Lovingly re-arrange The thoughts that make you blue The things that bring you down Only do harm to you And so make your choice joy The joy belongs to you - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Your mind can never change
Unless you ask it to
Lovingly re-arrange
The thoughts that make you blue
The things that bring you down
Only do harm to you
And so make your choice joy
The joy belongs to you - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX0uBrde6rI
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"Like a diet of the mind, I just choose not to indulge certain appetites" - AJ Kohn
"You are marinating yourself in the conventional wisdom. You are creating a cacophony in which it is impossible to hear your own voice, whether it’s yourself you’re thinking about or anything else." - http://www.theamericanscholar.org/solitud...
--- interesting! - Susan Beebe
Ads Implant False Memories - http://www.wired.com/wiredsc...
Ads Implant False Memories
"One week later, all the subjects were quizzed about their memory of the product. Here’s where things get disturbing: While students who saw the low-imagery ad were extremely unlikely to report having tried the popcorn, those who watched the slick commercial were just as likely to have said they tried the popcorn as those who actually did. Furthermore, their ratings of the product were as favorable as those who sampled the salty, buttery treat. Most troubling, perhaps, is that these subjects were extremely confident in these made-up memories. The delusion felt true. They didn’t like the popcorn because they’d seen a good ad. They liked the popcorn because it was delicious. The scientists refer to this as the “false experience effect,” since the ads are slyly weaving fictional experiences into our very real lives." - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet
And that sir, is what Advertising is still the industry that it is. - AJ Kohn
Advertising isn't related paid hyperlinks in the right column, it's the production of desire, the production of memory. Reality *is* delusions that feel true. - Cliff Gerrish
But I *want* a pizza! - Amit Patel
"Our memories are a “Save As”: They are files that get rewritten every time we remember them, which is why the more we remember something, the less accurate the memory becomes. ... We steal our stories from everywhere." - Clare Dibble
@clare - that's a keeper. "Save as" - lovey. - zeroinfluencer
Blade Runner went real :) - A. T.
"Do advertisers dream of electric sheep?" - zeroinfluencer
"Remembering your kindergarten days, it's really the memory of a memory of a memory." http://ff.im/EDzpw - Adriano
"Which is scarier, hanging on or letting go?" - http://dharmacomics.com/2011...
"Which is scarier, hanging on or letting go?"
That octopus looks menacing. - Mark Trapp
Y Combinator Numbers (the first 316 startups!) - http://ycombinator.com/nums...
"I was recently asked in an interview how YC is doing. We're old enough now (6 years) and have enough data (316 startups including this summer's) that we should be able to start to answer that." - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet
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