MG Siegler: Faith No More

Search is better than anyone else because the algorithms are better, Bing is much prettier.

Same thing with AdSense no one can touch the CTR of adsense. Would anyone ever WANT to use the AdSense interface? No.

Gmail was great because they figured out how to do giant inboxes at scale for cheap (and had awesome spam filtering), again, the strength was algorithms. Not because "OMG this is the best interface for email evar."

Google could beat Apple on the iPhone if there was some algorithm that just 'knew' who you wanted to call and whether you wanted to call. Imagine a phone where you just opened it and it pulled up magically whatever you wanted to do. That or some other great algorithmic feature could overcome the horrid interface.

Google wins on algorithms and loses everywhere else.

Flip flopping is shameful, but consider if you want to die an atheist. Nobody believes changes.

God says... C:\LoseThos\www.losethos.com\text\QUIX.TXT

xote, "for if thou dost return soon from the place where I mean to send thee, my penance will be soon over, and my glory will soon begin. But as it is not right to keep thee any longer in suspense, waiting to see what comes of my words, I would have thee know, Sancho, that the famous Amadis of Gaul was one of the most perfect knights-errant--I am wrong to say he was one; he stood alone, the first, the only one, the lord of all that were in the world in his time. A fig for Don Belianis, and for all w

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I was as hard core an atheist as they come, just ask Pete.

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1969-1990 Catholic

1990-1996 Atheist

1996-1997 Catholic

1997-2000 theist

2000-2002 Catholic

2002-present Christian

God says... C:\LoseThos\www.losethos.com\text\SWIFT.TXT

ight of them filled me only with hatred, disgust, and contempt; and the more, by reflecting on the near alliance I had to them. For although, since my unfortunate exile from the Houyhnhnm country, I had compelled myself to tolerate the sight of Yahoos, and to converse with Don Pedro de Mendez, yet my memory and imagination were perpetually filled with the virtues and ideas of those exalted Houyhnhnms. And when I began to consider that, by copulating with one of the Yahoo species I had become a pare

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http://forum.osdev.org/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=17865&st...

History is on my site: http://www.losethos.com/doc/TrivialSolutions.html

I currently use all my own software except Grub. I have my own boot loader but it will only do multiple boots from one drive. I have two drives--it's not worth the effort to make it do two. Besides, Linux needs Grub--it doesn't boot like a normal operating system such as Windows or LoseThos. A normal operating system has a boot loader in the first sector of the partition that takes care of everything.

I even wrote my own partitioner. I don't know how friendly it is.

I don't really like virtual machines. Fuck them.

God is just. If I get rudely treated, God will make it up to me. I run the world in my spare time.

God says... C:\LoseThos\www.losethos.com\text\YANKEE.TXT

ooping around with a watchman. I coughed at the moment, and he gave me a sudden look that bit right into my marrow. I judge he thought he had heard that cough before. I turned immediately into a shop and worked along down the counter, pricing things and watching out of the corner of my eye. Those people had stopped, and were talking together and looking in at the door. I made up my mind to get out the back way, if there was a back way, and I asked the shopwoman if I could step out there and look

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http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2011/11/two-decades-...

I did my own editor. My document framework is quite a massive thing with graphics, links, margins, buttons, colors, all kinds of stuff. The command-line window uses my same editor. Forms, dialog bvoxes and help use the same editor. Source files are not ASCII, but ASCII with graphics or other binary data, like the map files.

The compiler parses document expressions. The compiler, editor, kernel, everything are tightly coupled with no modularity. You can display a #define payload with a document entry.

Go to command line and type:

#define TEST_PAYLOAD Hello There

Then hit and select "text". Then enter "TEST_PAYLOAD" in the define part of the form.

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http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Off-the-Beat-Bruc...

I'm in some kind of crazy CIA FBI bubble. I've had 10,000 downloads and only one email every 6 month that seems like it's written by the FBI.

I giggle when I make changes that hurt my supposed users.

God says... C:\LoseThos\www.losethos.com\text\BIBLE.TXT

8:8 Also he sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the face of the ground; 8:9 But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto him into the ark, for the waters were on the face of the whole earth: then he put forth his hand, and took her, and pulled her in unto him into the ark.

8:10 And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark; 8:11 And the dove came in to him in the evening; and, lo, in her mouth w

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I like birds. I'm glad Noah "pulled her in unto him" and didn't let it die.

I have to agree - whilst Apple had it's stumbles from time to time, on the balance of things, they consistently released good products. You always got the feeling that there was attention to detail and care was put into whatever Apple sold.

Google on the other hand - particular in the last few months has really stumbled. To me, they are coming across as sloppy and with poor product management. I don't really have confidence that their products will work reliably or consistently unless it's been in production for years.

Slapping the 'beta' tag on their products used to feel exciting that Google was rushing new developments out the door to us, but lately it's feeling more like it's an excuse for covering up sloppy work habits.

"MG: show me on this doll where Google touched you."

If the application is that bad at least they retracted it. I don't know how much financial loss or other damage it did to the people who downloaded it. It probably doesn't help the overall perception of Google but I view it differently.

I really appreciate their test-and-learn style of product releases. Don't get me wrong; I was very upset to learn the demise of Notebook and removal of social from Reader. I like the concept of making lots of small bets and seeing what works. That can be a cheap path to innovation sometimes.