Bret Taylor

Co-founder and CEO of Quip. Ex-CTO of Facebook. Previously co-founder and CEO of FriendFeed. Programmer, food lover.
Parenting in the age of Paranoia: A Small Manifesto « Quinn Said - http://www.quinnnorton.com/said...
Stanford Football : 11/18/2009 : Toby Gerhart Heisman Trophy Candidate - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
I could do that. - Jim Norris
Louis, really? He's been a key component (along with Luck this year and of course, Harbaugh) in one of the biggest turnarounds of an NCAA football team I can recall and he produces yards like nobody's business (got a school high record 2 weeks ago). National name or not, a player that has done that much for a team should definitely be considered seriously. - Chieze Okoye
Has anyone built a VMWare image of Chrome OS yet so I can try it out?
and what about the "custom firmware" in that case? mmmh... I'm a little concerned - Claudio Cicali
I tried it but I had to install vmware workstation to work it out. I am not able to get the native resolution. It is stuck at 800x600. - Ashish
Chrome OS source code - http://src.chromium.org/cgi-bin....
WOW. best news of the day - Tzury Bar Yochay
Nice, I want a build :) - Orlando Pozo
A clock made out of browser scrollbars - http://toki-woki.net/p...
superb! - Ashish
That's awesome but completely locked up my iPhone. I should've known better than to try it in a browser without scrollbars... - Tony Ruscoe
More on The Reality of a Times Bestseller | GENREALITY - http://www.genreality.net/more-on...
I am unicorn, destroyer of ponies - Boing Boing - http://www.boingboing.net/2009...
Libtask: a Coroutine Library for C and Unix - http://swtch.com/libtask/
SPDY: An experimental protocol for a faster web (Chromium Developer Documentation) - http://dev.chromium.org/spdy...
Ken Thompson fixes O_CREAT in Go. I wonder how many years he has been wanting to do that? - http://code.google.com/p...
Looks like he only fixed this yesterday :). - Private Sanjeev
Beautiful. The universe has been fixed. - Tudor Bosman
If you use the FriendFeed Facebook application make sure you've configured it properly. We are switching to a new method of publishing in the not too distant future. If you see this message at http://apps.facebook.com/friendf... just click on the link to provide the proper permissions. (via http://friendfeed.com/bgolub...)
A little late on the info as I deleted this link last week at I was told I was pushing all of my FF to FB people were not happy. - Ed Mason
Not wroking.. i get error. ive ent email ur not respongin even 1y ago and totaly 4 - Janis Ķengurs
Go (http://golang.org/) looks pretty cool. I love channels and interfaces. It captures a lot of the things I wanted to see in a modern programming language.
Interesting that "goroutines" are implemented with heap-allocated stack segments. Does that mean continuations are a possibility? You could use them to implement a kind of exceptions. - Gabe
Google to Acquire AdMob - http://www.google.com/intl...
"Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire AdMob, a mobile display ad technology provider, for $750 million in stock." Congrats to Kevin Scott and the other folks I know at AdMob. - Bret Taylor
Oh my god...the world is about to implode. - Devlin Dunsmore
That's a lot of change. - τorƍue
WOW! Another homerun. - charlie larson
Google Chart API can generate LaTeX equations - http://moultano.blogspot.com/2009...
love! - Ashwin Bharambe
I didn't like Computer Modern or Times. I used Century Schoolbook for my stuff, I think (\usepackage{newcent}). - Amit Patel
Mad Men was crazy tonight (in a good way). I always feel nothing happens on that show until everything happens at once.
Sounds kinda like life... - Clare Dibble
LOL @ Paul. - John Craft
Luck, Gerhart & Stanford aren't afraid of the Ducks - http://espn.go.com/blog...
Go Stanford! - Louis Gray
Go Stanford! (It's 16-7 Cardinal now)... said the Cal fan. - Louis Gray
31-14 Stanford nearing the end of the first half. An interesting Pac 10 season, to say the least. - Louis Gray
So... here's one option... * USC crushes Cal, then Oregon crushes USC, then Stanford crushes Oregon, and then Cal crushes Stanford. Weirder things have happened. - Louis Gray
TV Finds That a Mortal Foe, the DVR, Is Really a Best Friend - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/glogin...
Dave Chappelle-- Killing Them Softly - http://video.google.com/videopl...
Watching the Oregon - USC game. The Ducks look pretty awesome so far.
So what are your thoughts on Cal and Stanford this year, Bret? Cal got toasted by both USC and Oregon, but has won elsewhere. - Louis Gray
Louis: hopefully going to be a good game. Two great running backs, defenses that are inconsistent. It is really hard to predict given how inconsistent both teams have been, though. - Bret Taylor
Google Redefines Disruption: The “Less Than Free” Business Model « abovethecrowd.com - http://abovethecrowd.com/2009...
"While it is obvious that this maneuver creates a problem for the multi-billion dollar GPS market, it also poses real challenges for the leading smart phone players – RIM’s Blackberry and Apple’s iPhone. Without access to their own mapping data, these vendors now face an interesting dilemma. Do you risk flying naked without free navigation or do you suck it up and swallow the above average royalty fee for each and every handset? Neither option is stellar. This problem isn’t nearly as daunting as the one now faced by the Windows Mobile and Symbian teams. As software providers, they are lucky to get a per unit royalty equal to that extracted by the GPS data guys. If they are now forced to integrate this data merely to keep their product competitive, their gross margin just went negative. Ouch!" - Bret Taylor
@hayes yes, you're darn rite about Navteq thingie... - A. T.
Arnold Schwarzenegger's coded F-bomb in veto - Boing Boing - http://www.boingboing.net/2009...
Use Google Voice with your existing number - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009...
Awesome! Thanks for the heads up! - Piaw Na
Add a Facebook share count to your blog / site - http://developers.facebook.com/news...
Switched to Chrome developer release for Mac OS X (http://www.google.com/chrome...), and it was the best decision I have made recently. Firefox/Flash wouldn't stop crashing since my upgrade to Snow Leopard.
What about Safari? Why Chrome over Safari? - Jesse Stay
I hate Flash in OS X no matter which browser, but maybe Chrome's process separation manages to minimize the damage when Flash blows up? - Victor Ganata
Which Religion Should I Follow? - http://friendlyatheist.com/2009...
Hopefully nobody takes this too seriously - as it's offensive. - Louis Gray
There's got to be a joke about the social media term of "followers" here, somewhere. - Steve Lynch
Watching The Big Lebowski with Jim and Karen.
Oh, so you roll on shabbos, then? Bret, my friend, you are entering a world of pain. - Keith Pelczarski
The Dude abides. - Mark Krynsky
synchronicity - Andrej
again? ;-) - Tzury Bar Yochay