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“Engineering achievements (an email forward from my dad)”

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I had seen a few of these before, but not all... Pretty funny. - Bret Taylor

You don't have to be an engineer to appreciate these! - Sheila Taylor

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I work at a place that has something to do with one of these pictures :P - imabonehead

=)) - shandiz

شاندیز با این معماری و طراحیت!!! - zos

به من چه:))))))))) توالترو دیدی؟=))))))))) - shandiz

اینا دست اورد های مهندسی هست:)) اسمایلی کوچه علی چپ:)) - shandiz

Looks like our contractor's work - Chris White

@shandiz cannnnot compputte - Kyle Lacy

This reminds me of a house I saw in Calcutta with a second-story door leading out into thin air...the staircase had been stolen. - Ruchira S. Datta

FAIL :) - Vamsee

huh, I fail to see the problem with the urinal picture. aren't all men's restrooms this way? ☺ - Bob Blunk

Here is an engineering fail I saw on Isla Mujeres (near Cancun), Mexico. The ledge was literally less than a foot wide. An unsuspecting person could very easily walk right off the second story. http://bit.ly/1ln63 - Jauder Ho

There must be a secret door tho the lower balcony; return to that level and try poking at the right wall... (: - 9000

@Bob Blunk, I pity you if all restrooms in your town force you to stay buttcheek-to-buttcheek with another male. - Rodrigo Jaroszewski

@Rodrigo Jaroszewski, well I would like to say you get used to it after a while, but then again, at least you can stay warm in the winter ☺ - Bob Blunk

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Total Immersion: How I Learned to Swim Effortlessly in 10 Days and You Can Too - The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss

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nice! - minus3

<3 <3 <3 *swoons* - Mandi

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Building a Software Company: How to hire an idiot

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It reads like a tragedy. Things are going fine in the beginning, but you know it's going to end badly. - Chris White

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Paul, good find! - imabonehead

OMG this guy totally fell for the loser salesguy ...how sad! - Susan Beebe

hiring decisions can kill your firm - Bill Sodeman

Really enjoyed this, though felt bad of course for the author. Really shows that doing as much legwork/homework/digging up front as possible is a good thing and well worth the time put in - Eric Berlin

While reading this, I kept thinking about your job titles "senior executive vice director of VP coordination & vision".... funny - but sad article. - Erin

Similar experience: My employer hired a supposed "expert" from a BIG 5 consulting firm. This person was a Global Manager and was going to come to our 30 person IT shop and do us right! Boy, that hiring manager was sooo excited! I about died when I learned that person was coming on board to be my new boss. Long story short: She left 90 days later with her tail between her legs when it was abundantly clear that she completely lacked requisite skills for her position. Couldn't even use PPT or email! - Susan Beebe

we need a salesperson for our business and this is exactly why we haven't hired anyone over the past 4 years. we're terror-frozen. - faboo mama

Interesting story. Thanks for sharing Paul. The hardest thing for an entrepreneur is to ask the hard questions. - Edwin Khodabakchian

Lesson 5: A turkey was chatting with a bull. 'I would love to be able to get to the top of that tree' sighed the turkey, 'but I haven't got the energy.' 'Well, why don't you nibble on some of my droppings?' replied the bull. They're packed with nutrients.' The turkey pecked at a lump of dung, and found it actually gave him enough strength to reach the lowest branch of the tree. The next day, after eating some more dung, he reached the second branch. Finally after a fourth night, the turkey was proudly perched at the top of the tree. He was promptly spotted by a farmer, who shot him out of the tree. Moral of the story: Bull Shit might get you to the top, but it won't keep you there.. - Alan Cheslow

This is why I'm not usually impressed by resumes/titles. I want to see real work. Then I'm impressed. It can be a catch-22 though hiring people (for a guy, like getting a date with a beautiful lady - how do you have conversations, until you've had some). "Consultant" can be for real...or mean that someone is "out of work". - Mitchell Tsai

As a 19-yr-old college grad, how did we get clients that $500 million companies couldn't get? Well, the experienced CEOs know that McKinsey and other consultants just hire sharp (but inexperienced) people from Harvard, Stanford, etc..., and it's a total crap-shoot who you get (for $500-1,000/hr). If we did a good job for CEO of X company, he told VP friend at Y company, and we got the work. There are so many fly-by-nights in this world. Experience isn't worth much if it's "bad experience". - Mitchell Tsai

Another example of how people with great charisma but no skills can be promoted far beyond where they should be. Another great example is a guy who will be leaving his current job on Jan. 20th. - Robert Felty

This is really sad isn't it. So difficult to get it right, yet it is the most important success/fail factor for any company. It starts with great people. - Alexander van Elsas

Dang, that story was rough. I mean did you even proof read it? (LOL) - Drew Lucas

man, this could've been taken straight out of the E-myth revisited. Definitely a book that guy should read. - Vincent van Wylick

i just wish i couldn't tell so many similar stories of hiring senior execs w/ great looking experience, resumes, and references who turned out to be completely incompetent - Deva Hazarika

Actually he was lucky that the guy was so obviously lame and came clean in the end, and that his business wasn't destroyed. What's far worse is a somewhat competent person with great political skills. Much harder to detect and so they have time to do a lot more subtle and potentially fatal damage to the fabric of an company. - Robin Barooah

"$25K in stuff he said we absolutely needed -- slick brochures, sponsor some conference, ads in the trade journal, coffee mugs, pens with our logo -- I readily paid for." This entrepreneur should have been tipped off right then. Mugs? Brochures? Everyone knows you close the most business with T-shirts. - Ginger Makela

It raises an important question... how long do you need to wait for your hire to deliver. This guy had to wait for an year, since most startup founders dont have time to baby-sit their employees... how long do they wait before concluding, that they have a bad-hire. Is it 1 month, 3 months, 6 months ( sounds too much for a startup ) - Krishna Gade

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I knew Jon from college. Great article. I hope his game succeeds. - Piaw Na

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blasphemy, the game

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This is just too cool. - Piaw Na

"Each player maneuvers one would-be Messiah through six phases in the life of Jesus. Whoever can attain baptism in the Jordan (you have to catch John the Baptist first), resist the devil in the wilderness (without losing all of your Faith cards), give the greatest sermons, perform the most impressive miracles, discredit his rivals, and make his way first to the cross wins the game." - Paul Buchheit

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“I was just reading the grep man page but it was really big. I couldn't find what I wanted. So I piped it through grep.”

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Weird, normally "man" uses a pager (less by default), which has its own search command... - ⓞnor

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"Human eggs are produced by follicles, fluid-filled sacs on the side of the ovary, which, around the time of ovulation, produce a reddish protrusion seen in the pictures. The egg comes from the end of this, surrounded by a jelly-like substance containing cells." - bob

Wow! That's amazing! - April Buchheit

I wonder if they delayed completing the surgery in order to take these pictures? - Paul Buchheit

WOW!!! That is really cool! - Brad

Scientists were reported as saying that the equivalent moment for the human male had already been captured on film "numerous times." - Karim

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Fake bus stop keeps Alzheimer's patients from escaping

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Really good idea - Matt Casey

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David Alpert: Blogger of the Month - Washington Post

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"Alpert has been in Washington for less than a year, yet he has already sunk his roots in deep enough that he can write with authority on matters of land use, transportation, zoning, development and the constant tug of war between the smart growth crowd and the NIMBYs who square off in one neighborhood after another in this region." - Ana

Wow, I had no idea that he had even left Google. - Paul Buchheit

Heh. Google and Craigslist have been criticized for the decline in newspaper profitability and the likely consequential reduction in jobs for investigative reporters. The Washington Post recognizing the investigative blog of an ex-Googler is amusing. - Ranjit Mathoda

when is there going to be a "friendfeed'er of the month"? - eviltom

You can't stop that guy. - Danny Howard

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Cities and Ambition

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"When you ask what message a city sends, you sometimes get surprising answers. As much as they respect brains in Silicon Valley, the message the Valley sends is: you should be more powerful. That's not quite the same message New York sends. Power matters in New York too of course, but New York is pretty impressed by a billion dollars even if you merely inherited it. In Silicon Valley no one would care except a few real estate agents. What matters in Silicon Valley is how much effect you have on the world. The reason people there care about Larry and Sergey is not their wealth but the fact that they control Google, which affects practically everyone." - Paul Buchheit

I've been thinking about this a lot lately. I'm kind of dissatisfied with this area, but every other place I've been has other problems. SF, for example, is just too cold and windy. - Paul Buchheit

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I'd rather a city favor power over money. I don't yet live in SF, but will be moving there in a month. Will have to re-evaluate my thoughts on this subject after that. - Eric Florenzano

I wonder what Dallas says. "You should act as if you have more money" or "Nobody here knows you, so you can't work here." - Harvey Simmons

Funny, I never think of Silicon Valley as a city. I find living in SF and working in Silicon Valley a good balance though. Santa Monica's pretty nice, but Hanalei Bay is probably my favorite climate. - Chris White

Paul B., I used to think that about SF too and held out for many years on the peninsula. But, there really are two halves to this city. Most of the weather stops on the ridge (creating the rainy, cold, foggy, depressing to live in but wonderful to visit western half) and, in contrast, the Mission and SOMA end up being delightfully sunny and mild. - Sacca

Also, I would add that I think Silicon Valley values the influence and impact you have. This isn't quite the same as power. You can be a star engineer or founder of a startup and have impact. You might not be able to get an appointment with a VC, but you end up building something of tremendous value. That means you're both smart and can apply it to improving other people lives. - Chris White

Great comments about this article. I wonder if my feelings about Dallas are related to my lack of a real network outside of church and a very small group of friends. I've lived here 18 years, and I've never really felt as if I belonged here. Not sure why. - Harvey Simmons

@Paul - Sacca's got it right. The Mission and SOMA maintain generally warmer, sunnier climes. From someone living in the foggier, cooler part of the city near Twin Peaks. - Hutch Carpenter

I like SF because Stanford/Silicon Valley is a technology nexus, Marin County is a spiritual nexus, and mountains & wilderness are nearby. About 50% of my friends don't lock their houses or apartments (amazing...). That said...I miss the Los Angeles beaches. Warm weather. Some say the fastest growing cities are places like Phoenix which have much lower costs of living. Other fav cities are Osaka, Munich, Vieques (wild horses & beaches), Krakow, Bucharest, Rio, Paris, London, NYC, Boston, Seattle. - Mitchell Tsai

There is a lot more to New York than cowboys in power suits, and if you can't see it, you haven't spent enough time here. - Tom Harrison

Washington DC also favors power over money. But it acquires it by co-opting the pre-existing monopoly of government, rather than trying to craft influence out of usefulness. - Ranjit Mathoda

There are cowboys in NY? I lived there for 6 years, and I never even saw any cattle. - j1m

Er, also, yes, Silicon Valley is not a city. It's not even a valley! - j1m

He mentions that :) "New York is a classic great city. But Cambridge is just part of a city, and Silicon Valley is not even that. (San Jose is not, as it sometimes claims, the capital of Silicon Valley. It's just 178 square miles at one end of it.)" - Paul Buchheit

...though it is made of Silicon. Great post, Paul - Andrew Dobrow

I'm suprised there was no mention of Seattle or Portland. Both amazing cities which combine many of the elements of ambitious business and healthy lifestyle (at half the price!). - Nick

I've been to Seattle and Portland, neither of them have the energy that's in Silicon Valley, and cycling in both cities suck. - Piaw Na

Silicon Valley is a Valley. If you don't know that, you probably have been spending too much time in an office. - Piaw Na

Piaw -- we've had this out on internal Google lists before ;) You really have something against the Pacific NW. I don't cycle, but bicycle magazine listed Seattle and Portland as top cities for cycling. I know a lot of cyclists that love the city. I'm not sure what message Seattle sends, but it definitely has a different vibe than the valley. I feel like people are much more centered here, from what I've seen. - Joe Beda

I just read Richard Florida's "Who's Your City" so this issue is something I've been thinking about a lot: am I in the right city? I've come to the conclusion that I am in the city that's right for me. Denver/Boulder is not perfect of course. No city is. But it meets my requirements: cheap to live, lots of sunshine, occasional snowstorms, innovative companies and start-ups, high altitude (for athletic training), innovative city government, ethical non-pretentious people, organic food, NORAD, etc. - Ginger Makela

That's right. Bicycle magazine is authoritative (they really measure it by how many bike paths there are in a city, which is a suspect measurement ). I lived in a Seattle for a year. Sorry, it's no contest. The cycling in the Bay Area is better. In fact, to get better cycling, you'd have to go to the Alps in Europe. And the Alps does not have a winter cycling season. :) Remember, mountain biking was invented in the Bay Area, and all the interesting innovation in cycling are still Bay Area innovations. - Piaw Na

If it weren't for my attachment to Google HQ, I'd split out on the Bay Area as fast as I could. It's an overpriced echo-chamber with pretty crappy public transit and too many workaholics. Seattle's got a much better quality of life, Sydney and Stockholm are tons more beautiful, Austin has good art and is far more affordable... - Adam Lasnik

You should consider Munich. I'm there right now. It's gorgeous. The cycling is not bad, but German drivers aren't the most comfortable to be with --- they drive extremely fast. - Piaw Na

Oh, and I considered Norway as well. I backed out when Eric told me he had to buy a sun lamp to get over the jet lag, because in his first 2 months there he didn't see enough sun to reset his body clock. - Piaw Na

I need to pick up "Who's Your City?" It sounds like an interesting read. - Harvey Simmons

I love Scandinavia & would gladly live there again...in later life.Not now. "Great cities attract ambitious people" - Copenhagen is a charming, beautiful, clean city but its not ambitious. The feel of Copenhagen is one of conformity & not questioning, it is very difficult to live there if you are foreign. Unless you live in a city - and I mean *live*, as in there for at least 10mnths & make the effort to live as locals do & get out beyond the coy that sent you there - you can only ever view it as a tourist. - Patricia Hanrahan

I grew up in tourist town (Noosa - go there some day, its a beautiful spot in the world) and saw numerous people fall in love with the town and the lifestyle. They'd sell everything they had and move up north to what was their promise land ... only to find it was hard to get work, the kids weren't settling in the schools, the beach is great but the novelty wears off, they missed the 'culture' of Melbourne (nearly all of them were from Melbs) etc. It sounds trite but it is all about the balance. Reading the comments here with interest as I hope to be moving to SF (or the peninsula) within the next month. It will be the fourth country I've lived in yet for some reason I have a feeling I'll end up back 'home' in Brisbane before too long. It has its problems but they are ones with which I am familiar - Patricia Hanrahan

Harvey: Regarding Dallas - I lived in Central California, LA, SF, Reno and Altanta. I felt like I belonged here from day one. Great weather, it is green, and the people are friendly. - Russellreno

Ginger: My parents grew up in Durango. We visited often from Ca and once in Denver. Denver is high on my "Let's check it out" list. - Russellreno

What Paul writes about NYC is dead-on. For young college graduates, it's a place of intangible awe. More here: http://datainsightsideas.com/p... - David Ambrose

j1m: There's the Naked Cowboy who plays guitar in Times Square every day. - Morton Fox

I have never felt like I belong in the San Francisco area. After 10 years here, I expect that I will never feel like this is home. - Jeremy Brooks

I want a way to permalink this discussion. - Amit Patel

Well, you can use 'More: Link to this entry" and bookmark it, or you can Like it. - Chris White

Harvey: I just moved to Dallas after 12 years in LA in Silicon Valley. People in Dallas have this combination of small-town midwestern friendliness and southern hospitality. - Daisy

Paul: This article made me think a lot about Steve. I think his ambition was freedom, and he moved wherever he did to mitigate whatever factors he perceived as reducing his freedom. I don't think he had a firm idea what level of freedom he ultimately wanted to attain. But he was always good about gauging it according to his own personal standards and not any external influences or expectations. - Daisy

This is the longest thread ever!!!!!! - Diana Thai

Humans a very social creatures, and we become more like those we spend time with. I've recently been reflecting on how important this is/was in selecting a mate. But it is probably also true in aggregate for selecting your city. - Clare Dibble

Daisy, I would say freedom is on of the key attributes I like to maximize as well. How did Steve satisfy that ambition through place? - Clare Dibble

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Cute Overload! :)

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YouTube - Cooperation and Engagement: What can board games teach us?

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A good talk, now I just have to wait for the reprint. - Matthew

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stacking - j1m

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"All of the streets in the lower 48 United States: an image of 26 million individual road segments." - Evan Parker

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If you’re working in a big group, you’re fighting human nature

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I agree with the assertion to a large extent, but I have to admit that 37signals' stuff routinely makes me squirm; so much of it seems self-serving (e.g., "Here's something that is a driver/sign/requirement of successful companies. Oh, and what do you know, that describes *US*!") - Adam Lasnik

Like Adam's comment. - Amit Patel

Also like Adam's comment. 37S stuff always implies that there are two ways to do things. Their way, and not their way. - JonathanJoseph

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“The seeds from a slice of lemon are always in greater hurry to leave the lemon than is the juice.”

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"Our enormously productive economy demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals, that we seek our spiritual satisfaction, our ego satisfaction, in consumption. . . . We need things consumed, burned up, replaced and discarded at an ever-accelerating rate."--economist Victor Lebow, 1955 - Ruchira S. Datta

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Why voters pick Bugs Bunny over Daffy Duck. - By Jeff Greenfield - Slate Magazine

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A surprisingly approachable analogy to describe the voter mindset. - Kevin Fox

People sometimes talk about their childhood heroes. I always thought that I didn't have any, but I just realized that I did. WWBBD? - Paul Buchheit

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Papercut Art Is Stunning And Made Of Paper - Geekologie

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“˙ʇɐɥʍ ʇno ǝɹnƃıɟ ǝʇınb ʇ,uɐɔ ˙˙˙ǝƃɐssǝɯ sıɥʇ ɥʇıʍ ƃuoɹʍ slǝǝɟ ƃuıɥʇǝɯos”

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Unicode is full of surprises, is there a tool to generate this? - Philipp Lenssen

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10 points for actually getting me to sit here and figure out what it said :) - Steven Hodson

aha, I found the problem -- the quotation marks are in the wrong place! - ⓞnor

http://www.revfad.com/flip - Bret Taylor

looɔ ʎɹǝʌ - Karen Padham Taylor

reading this on my iPhone made it quite convenient to read this - Brian Sloane

uosɐǝɹ ǝƃuɐɹʇs ǝɯos ɹoɟ looɔ ʎɹǝʌ sı sıɥʇ - Christopher Black

ɯoɯ 'ʍoʍ - Christopher Black

ɹɐʇs lıʌǝ ou uo ǝʌıl sʇɐɹ - Philipp Lenssen

I think I may have started a disturbing FriendFeed trend :) - Bret Taylor

dnʎ - Chris White

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just as an apropos to Unicode, I hope I'm still on-topic here :) - Philipp Lenssen

One comment - Paul Buchheit

And a second, and yours is hidden :) - Paul Buchheit

ƃuıuɹoɯ pooƃ ! ppl ! - Swaroop

˙˙˙sɹetcɐrɐhɔ ǝhʇ pn xıɯ uoʎ fı paeɹ oʇ dɹaɥ - Ross Miller

ǝʇıs ǝɥʇ pǝuodnǝlqɯnʇs ı - Ontario Emperor

ooʇ ʇı ʇnoqɐ pǝƃƃolq puɐ http://mrontemp.blogspot.com/2... - Ontario Emperor

Ooh: http://www.google.com/search?q...: "Results 1 - 10 of about 45,200 for uʍop-ǝpısdn." Sadly, the obvious punycode domains such as http://uʍop-ǝpısdn.com/ are taken. - ⓞnor

This thing is taking off like wildfire, although I guess it's been around for a while. I probably just missed it the first time around, being my non-trendy self. Upside down memetagging, anyone? (Yes, I'm kidding.) - Ontario Emperor

my head hurts - Mark Douglass

I just discovered that the flipped characters don't display in my work ie6 browser. - Ontario Emperor

@Ontario Emperor: Ha ha, IE6 sucks! :D I never liked M$ browsers anyway. - Voyagerfan5761

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