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by blakeross 11y ago
Thanks!
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Don't Outsource Your Thinking(medium.com)
3 points by blakeross 11y ago|0 comments
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by blakeross 11y ago
I actually completely forgot that TC is owned by AOL during that interview, and you're the first person to bring it to my attention. Thanks for the laugh.
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by blakeross 11y ago
The honest answer is that I have no idea. My process here was, I was on vacation in Big Sur and started jotting down things I thought would be funny for a Silicon Valley episode. When I got home, I downloaded a trial version of Scrivener an
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by blakeross 11y ago
Oh, I misread your comment, I think. You're talking about the showrunners themselves incorporating ideas from the community, right? That would be great, although unfortunately Hollywood is so concerned about lawsuits that show staffs a
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by blakeross 11y ago
It's a great idea. To be fair, there's plenty of this happening already for most shows (check their subreddits, etc). I think what's a little different here is actually writing it out as a script. I'm intrigued by the id
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by blakeross 11y ago
I think there's plenty of support for Erlich caring about Richard. For example, when he spots Richard crying and then immediately goes and beats up the kids who scammed him out of Adderall :)
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by blakeross 11y ago
Thanks guys. This is my first stab at writing a tv script, and I'm open to feedback or ideas for future 'episodes'.
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by blakeross 12y ago
Not an Uber employee, not an Uber investor. Just had a terrible cab experience in Vegas last month and it finally spilled out on a plane ride yesterday.
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by blakeross 14y ago
Those were virtual gifts. These are physical gifts.
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by blakeross 15y ago
That's incorrect. The hardcoded Google+ results in the "People and Pages" box, as well as the other two hardcoded locations outlined on this page ( http://www.focusontheuser.org/examples.php ), appear for all Google users -- whether or not
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by blakeross 15y ago
We are not touching the organic results. The code for the bookmarklet is freely available; anyone can verify that.
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by blakeross 15y ago
The tool isn't limited to celebrity queries. Install it and use it on whatever queries you wish.
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by blakeross 15y ago
> If you don't allow them to index your data for free, > why would you expect them to include them in their search > results? This tool demonstrates that Google is already accessing and indexing the data it says it needs to impr
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by blakeross 15y ago
The Google+ page is moved up within the natural search results.
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by blakeross 15y ago
This is incorrect, as the second section on this page demonstrates: http://www.focusontheuser.org/examples.php
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by blakeross 15y ago
You don't have to guess how well such a service would work. It has been built and is available on the site. Google has access to the same information about other social profiles that it does about its own profiles, as the tool on the site d
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Google: Focus on the User(focusontheuser.org)
188 points by blakeross 15y ago|55 comments
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by blakeross 15y ago
Hey - I'm a director of product at Facebook. The "main reason...the app is being launched more than 18 months after the iPad was first launched" is because we have a lot of things to do and few engineers to do them. We've got about one engi
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by blakeross 15y ago
We have not intentionally leaked anything in the run-up to f8.
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by blakeross 15y ago
Hey - My name is Blake Ross and I'm a director of product at Facebook. Your statement is wrong. Facebook pushes code every day of the week, and our big weekly push is on Tuesday.
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by blakeross 16y ago
I ran out of time to write, and then -- to be frank -- I forgot to pay my web hosting bill. Was pretty bummed to lose all that writing, thank god for the wayback machine. I hope to restart my blog in the near future.
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by blakeross 16y ago
BTW, some news from today that's relevant :) http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=748155473273&set=...
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by blakeross 16y ago
Hah, didn't expect to see that while reading this thread. The post is here, although it's missing CSS and the images from that evening: http://web.archive.org/web/20060613002629/http://blakeross.c... Was definitely a crazy night. I enjoye
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by blakeross 16y ago
Great job writing an article about other people's alleged delusions and then basing it on delusions of your own. Facebook didn't raise a Series E from Elevation Partners; that firm purchased secondary shares. Seriously, you can't ride in on
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by blakeross 16y ago
Where are you located?
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by blakeross 16y ago
I'm not sure what this means: "When Facebook pushed Questions and then retracted it" We didn't ship and then retract. We just started with an extremely small seed community and are rolling it out very slowly over time.
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by blakeross 16y ago
> unfortunately it's difficult to gain traction without a compelling headline. The difficulties of the journalism industry don't excuse bad reporting.
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by blakeross 16y ago
Thanks for the acknowledgment Cory. FYI, we collaborated with Google and these pages are no longer indexed as an extra precaution: http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Afacebook.com%2Fo.php
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by blakeross 16y ago
Hi Cory - Can you see my response below regarding Posterous? Also, it does appear that your email address is available on the Internet, e.g. http://groups.google.com/groups/profile?enc_user=nBw3lBQAAAA... Thanks, Blake

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