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by paul 19y ago
Apparently Twitter is big in Japan. Coincidence?
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by paul 19y ago
I had a hard time explaining the web to my father in 1994. I guess that will never take off either.
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by paul 19y ago
I was talking about the Facebook messages, which are very similar to email. The App invites are pure spam, so they can simply be ignored. Spam is only a problem when it gets mixed in with something useful.
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by paul 19y ago
Neither, actually. FriendFeed doesn't gather much identity information, certainly not like Facebook. FriendFeed is more content oriented, which is valuable for different reasons. I wrote the blog post because I thought people might be inter
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by paul 19y ago
I was working at Intel in Santa Clara. As for skepticism, I'm always skeptical, but I liked the people and product, so...
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by paul 19y ago
:) Semantic web jokes are the best..
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by paul 19y ago
Google will be obsolete once the semantic web arrives ;) I remember being pretty skeptical of Google. Better search seemed like a nice idea, but it wasn't clear how they were going to compete with the established players who all had more mo
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by paul 19y ago
That's a great quote, but I can't find the source. Do you have one?
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by paul 19y ago
Actually, Olympic pole-vaulters would probably make much better fireman than the average person -- think of the strength and determination required to become an Olympic pole-vaulter. Plus they could just pole-vault in and out of burning bui
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by paul 19y ago
'm not a big fan of "brain teaser" questions, but the logic of this rant isn't very solid. It's a little like complaining that the Olympics are completely stupid and irrelevant because in reality I never need to pole-vault or whatever. Diff
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by paul 19y ago
Exactly. It would be nice to see a product before declaring victory.
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by paul 19y ago
Is it a train?
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by paul 19y ago
I love reading old opinions and predictions. "During my summer, I created Print Promotion, worked on a top secret project with Adaptive Path that will soon change the way you feel about blogging, and am now working with O’Reilly on an amaz
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by paul 19y ago
Eliminating bad options is a good thing. (Also, 90% is way off)
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by paul 19y ago
Actually, the "two more weeks" attitude can hurt a lot.
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by paul 19y ago
Those ideas are obviously good in hindsight, but at the time a lot people thought that they were bad ideas or businesses. (what "idea" is Yahoo btw?)
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by paul 19y ago
Yes, the metaphor is imperfect. Perhaps you can imagine that the top of the mountain is in the clouds, so although the initial idea is to "go that way", you don't really know exactly where you are going until you've arrive.
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by paul 19y ago
I was mainly just trying to resolve an apparent contradiction and find a good metaphor to structure my thoughts. It's not advice, so much as understanding. Ultimately, understanding is better than advice anyway.
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Paul Buchheit: Ideas vs Judgment and Execution: Climbing the Mountain(paulbuchheit.blogspot.com)
114 points by paul 19y ago|42 comments
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by paul 19y ago
You are misunderstanding the purpose of FriendFeed. FriendFeed provides an easy way to share and discuss things with friends. It's not a work-around for anything. Of course only time will reveal how "mass market" sharing is, but obviously I
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FriendFeed API: Extend and improve FriendFeed(blog.friendfeed.com)
6 points by paul 19y ago|0 comments
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by paul 19y ago
Not yet, but we may do that in the future.
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by paul 19y ago
I remember thinking that SMS seemed kind of dumb. If I have a cell phone, and the person I'm messaging has a cell phone, why wouldn't I just make a phone call? Now I probably SMS more than I call...
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by paul 19y ago
Yup, Python and Javascript primarily. We're all fairly pragmatic and will use whatever works though. The indexing engine is Lucene, which is of course written in Java. There's also a little bit of c++ around, but we try to minimize that.
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by paul 19y ago
Yes, exactly. Because it's fragmented, it's also possible for it to be personal, and inside jokes or off topic comments are fun instead of annoying.
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by paul 19y ago
I use the word fragmentation because that's how a lot of other people are describing it. Also, decentralized already means a lot of things to other people.
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by paul 19y ago
Digg, I believe.
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by paul 19y ago
Not me, though perhaps I don't count because I only use Linux for development (running in a vm) and osx for everything else.
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by paul 19y ago
That does seem like one of the sillier objections.
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by paul 19y ago
I bet $100 trillion that this isn't as big of a problem as they are claiming.. Oops, now it's a $616 trillion bubble! The fact that this is going on outside of the regular banking system seems like a feature to me.

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