Paul Buchheit

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

The first thought that came into my head was "Aircraft Carrier" to use as a Datacenter... - Stuart Woodward

حاجی مبارک باشه ،‌درسته فرندفید رو ول کردید به امون خدا ولی انشالله خوشبخت باشین :) - Conformist

Ha, Christopher, I thought April posted this until I took a second look! Happy Anniversary you guys. - Laura Norvig

What did you learn from your reverse chronology? - Eric Borisch

How did those drafts get in there from seven years ago? - Louis Gray

Paul wanted to reach you for something very important, this is going to be great TRUST ME.I am at [email protected] - Venkat Raghavan

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 blessing is a curse that has not yet been rejected and misconstrued. - Stephen Mack

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

+1 - .LAG liked that

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

MLK apparently - http://www.infoplease.com/spot... - Paul Buchheit

+1 Stephen ! - Peter Dawson

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

Third - Christopher Galtenberg

#2 is like Politician #1 like normal guy #3 looks like advertisement for Tooth Paste. - Suresh S

"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 prolamins, which are very difficult for our digestive enzymes to break down and decrease the digestibility of the associated starch." - Paul Buchheit

"Here’s a startling experiment: rats prefer saccharine and sugar to intravenous cocaine, even after previously becoming addicted to cocaine." - Gabe

I'm #36 - Paul Buchheit

like that - Shakhawat Hossain

Don't worry Paul, friendfeed will always have a special place in our hearts. You can always beat Google once again. - mehmet

Hmmmm - WoH: Professor MOTHRA

Adds me, adds me! - Laura Norvig

"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

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

"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 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

"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

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 the field seemed to regard psychopaths in this same way: inhuman, relentlessly wicked forces, whirlwinds of malevolence, forever harming society but impossible to identify unless you're trained in the subtle art of spotting them, as I now was. - Stephen Mack

It is hilarious to see this article paired with Paul's current user pic. - Spidra Webster

+1 Spidra - Mr. Gunn

"Like a diet of the mind, I just choose not to indulge certain appetites" - AJ Kohn

"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 and would bring rewards, such as candy. But the red chips, given for effeminate behavior, resulted in "physical punishment by spanking from the father."" - Paul Buchheit

The guy who did the study is this douchebag: http://www.miaminewtimes.com/2010-05... - Gabe

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 :) - piikummitus

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

--- interesting! - Susan Beebe

"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

"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

"Remembering your kindergarten days, it's really the memory of a memory of a memory." http://ff.im/EDzpw - Adriano

"The coils themselves were built by the Tesla Orchestra, which hails from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. The machines are designed to emit bolts of electricity that match the notes on a keyboard. Tesla Orchestra will be performing the best submissions to the Open Spark Project on June 11 in Cleveland. The opening act is the Blue Ribbon Glee Club, an a capella group that performs classic punk songs. Not enough awesome for you? Then check out the video below of the Tesla Orchestra performing Lady Gaga’s “Poker Face” in Croatia during a 2010 European tour." - Paul Buchheit

"With or without self-esteem interventions, most people think they are better than average on just about every trait psychologists have bothered , including self-awareness, Neff explained. And today's college students, according to a 2010 meta-analysis of past relevant research, published in the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science, are more narcissistic than they have ever been. They may also be less resilient and more fragile psychologically, according to experts such as Hara Estroff Marano, author of "A Nation of Wimps" (Broadway, 2008). Kids who, say, grow up constantly hearing "You are so smart," may start believing "smartness" is part of what makes them lovable. And therefore, anything that does not support this picture of themselves, such as a C on a test, a negative evaluation or a job rejection, causes them to become defensive, anxious or, in some extreme cases, completely fall apart, Marano contends. Rather than continuing to put stock in building self-esteem, psychologists are increasingly finding, as Gilbert put it, "the secret to success is the ability to fail." And this is exactly where self-compassion steps in." - Paul Buchheit

Why elevate self-compassion over compassion in general? - Huy Zing

I think a lot of people have problems with anxiety, but self-esteem as a cure for anxiety sounds like something a narcissist came up with. This sounds much healthier, although I'm a little troubled with the overall influence of psychological fashion as evidenced by the self-esteem movement. - Zach Baker

Today's narcissistic over-confident college grads: Meet today's job market! - Brian Johns

"Hsieh didn’t have to conform to Western standards of comportment because he adopted early on the Western value of risk-taking. Growing up, he would play recordings of himself in the morning practicing the violin, in lieu of actually practicing. He credits the experience he had running a pizza business at Harvard as more important than anything he learned in class. He had an instinctive sense of what the real world would require of him, and he knew that nothing his parents were teaching him would get him there." - Paul Buchheit

"It is a part of the bitter undercurrent of Asian-American life that meritocracy comes to an abrupt end after graduation." - A Mitchell

Or more specifically, the "merit" of test-taking is not so highly valued outside of school. - Paul Buchheit

The article’s characterization of Asian-Americans sounds vaguely similar to some job descriptions we might see for entry-level software engineers. In Asia. More quotes from the article: “The traits that got you to where you are won’t necessarily take you to the next level,” says the diversity consultant Jane Hyun, who wrote a book called Breaking the Bamboo Ceiling. To become a leader requires taking personal initiative and thinking about how an organization can work differently. It also requires networking, self-promotion, and self-assertion. - A Mitchell