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FriendFeed Blog: FriendFeed now available in فارسی - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
http://www.oactivista.com, superpultdu, مبارز 110 and 190 other people liked this
FriendFeed is now available in Persian! Thanks again to all of our Persian users — it has been extremely exciting for us to see FriendFeed so widely used around the world. You can set your language preference here: http://friendfeed.com/...
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
Any way we could auto-translate (or even have a link with the option to?)? It'd be great to really be able to collaborate with the non-English speaking world...
- Chris Reichow
Thank you all .
- MohammadReza
wow, another language... I can't read it, but that is cool! :)
- Susan Beebe
Now if we could only filter out languages other then our own and have the lang:en search filter.
- DarknessFalls
You're welcome! We are excited to better support our Persian users.
- Bret Taylor
This feels so good to be able to view the pages in a way are eyes used to see Persian writings. Thank you so much! We really appreciate your effort! Thanks again ! :)
- انجل
Yay!
- Mitchell Tsai
that just looks so beautiful :D
- Iphigenie
محشره / غافلگیر شدم
- Shandiz
wow! thanks!
- Pasparto
Anybody know of good Farsi to English web translation tools? Google Translate doesn't seem to do it.
- Ted Gilchrist
蝌蚪文~~~
- junrxu
Great! thanks thanks :)
- Mehrdad
Thanks Dude
- Jimbooo™و لب های یار
Agora precisamos da versão em Português.
- Carlos Brefe
thanks ((((((((:
- yasin ghasemi
Thanks ممنون ;)
- Exir
merci bcp .
- Afra
ممنون
- mohammad mahdi kazzazi
Good job, Bret... Thanks a lot...
- کرگدن
Thanks
- Arash
;) It's FriendFeed.. Bravo - این فرندفید است... براوو
- امیروفسکی
Ok.
- wowfreeze.blogspot.com
Great Bret! I remember that in the past some persian people wrote here that whould be nice to have FF interface also in persian, probabilly because their language is very different and english isn't so diffused such in Europe. A welcome to persian friends! :)
- Roberto
from fftogo
Hebrew please. ^^
- David C. Cooper
تشکر جیگر
- سیدیونس
kiss to you honey
- جواد
bretçim herkes google plus'a gidiyor ama ben seni bırakmam ^^
- S. Aynebilim Beder
Aynebilim'e katılıyorum Bret. Bir sürü idiotla paylaşsam da burayı, vazgeçemiyorum işte. - Ben bu yüzden hiç kimseden gidemem gitmemmmm.. la la laaa
- pippi haşmet
bretçim sana dm atamıyorum..bana abone olur musun ^^
- S. Aynebilim Beder
interesting! but when will FF users have something like googe's http://www.dataliberation.org/ so we can backup our feeds?
- ovigia
تیلور دوستت داریم :خز
- DiazePam
میلاد الاغ :))))))
- || بهاره ||
کوفت چرا میخندی؟ :))))))))))
- DiazePam
روانی :))))))
- || بهاره ||
bu vesileyle mübarek ramazana hoş geldin demek istiyorum..bretçim iftara ne yapayım canım^^
- S. Aynebilim Beder
:)
- Sahin.Toprak
Have a good day to all of u......
- weerah
your looking good
- Chavez Cecilia
ulan bide sitenin sahibisin arada güncelle bir şeyler yap at kafası.
- Anıl Çağlar SAKA
lan gundi öyle maaş alıp göt büyüteceğine gel de şu insanların çığlığını duy! bankamatik lolipop..
- iwfx!
On friendfeed: People talking about stuff and doing stuff. On Google+: People talking about Google+
David Cook, Aaron Draczynski, Stephen Mack #TeamMomo and 42 other people liked this
It's less than a week old for most of us. Give it time. It will settle down.
- Jack&Cleo
Alex is just balancing his brother. BY BEING A HATER WITH HIS HATER PANTS
- Mike Nayyar
I hope the g+ talk dies down on g+. Right now it just feels like a giant tech blog on how to g+
- Tamara
Where do you expect people to talk about Google+?
- Rochelle
I thought that the first rule of Google+ was...
- Julian
Honestly, I think that's what G+ needs during its Field Test. Once they have a bookmarklet, conversations will turn away from trying to sneak people in.
- Curtis (a) Jackson
I remember when Friendfeed used to launch new features, all people would talk about were the new features. happens with everything.
- chrisofspades
I'm not hating on Google+, heh...I'm just making an observation.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
apples, oranges, yada yada yada
- chrisofspades
I talk about food and music. *shrug*
- Derrick
Heh, D, you are so much more than that. :D
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Just wait til the honeymoon phase is over.
- imabonehead
I'm talking more about other stuff than I am about G+ over there.
- DAMMIT, MR. NOODLE
It just depends on your friends, but yes the biggest buzz seems to be about Google+. Had to put someone out of circles and block since he was just self promoting and touting google+ with a developer on every post. It's about everyone and not just about the "me" so to speak.
- James Stratford
Hehe, Joe...touche.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
from YouFeed
Further proof?
- Liza + = ?
ROFL
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
from YouFeed
Talking about stuff..doing stuff....
- Liza + = ?
I'm not talking about anything interesting in either place. I win.
- Jim #TeamMonique
Nor on turntable, multiple networks talking about stuff...doing stuff...further proof
- Liza + = ?
No bot can be Liza
- Liza + = ?
*back from G+* All the talking about Google+ there is starting to die down, at least relatively. Still, it's been only a few days and we're still figuring out what to do. Most of my G+ talk is in the comments on other people's posts. And people are talking about FF there too...
- Dennis Jernberg
Err, really think I am a fake account, Joe? I was live in a G+ hangout, so that must count for something.
- Liza + = ?
I am further prooooofff!
- Liza + = ?
LMAO Joe, she's a real girl, she was commenting on my headboard earlier.
- Jimminy
o' why did you have this conversation at google+? theres so many comments i want to plus in this thread
- chaz2b
No, I can see lots of different topics being discussed on Google+ now.
- Kol Tregaskes
But remember all we talked about on FF at first was FF
- Leo Laporte
As cools as G+ is or could be I still think FF is better for conversations. You see a lot more conversation per screen area on FF. G+ has a lot of white space and space used for comments and meta data.
- Todd Hoff
We were in a hangout, not bed together.
- Jimminy
*shocked* Leo is here again. :)
- Gunnyman™
Yep, just noticed that too Gunny.
- Jimminy
I saw someone mention that Google+ is the return of Friendfeed. Which is funny, since it never went anywhere. (I get the sentiment but it's still inaccurate.)
- Curtis (a) Jackson
Our baby is going to be a girl!! - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Za Zaw, AJ Batac, ᏓᏰ #team Monique and 66 other people liked this
Congratulations, you guys!
- Anika
Congratulations!
- Alan (Giraffes)
Congrats Girls are awesome :0
- Gunnyman™
YAY for cute little girl outfits!!!
- Miriella
Awesome. Best to you and the Mrs. :)
- Derrick
The previous due date was the 8th of December. The doctor today told us that he puts her as due on the 27th of November and it's going to be a girl! I'm so excited!!! =D
- David Cook
Congratulations!!!
- Sarah Lane
Congrats
- Robert Burgin
Congratulations, David!!
- Mona Nomura
Congratulations!
- joey
Can i ask, the Dr told you it was a girl from the above scan? In the UK, they arent allowed to tell you the sex anymore unless you ask for the 4D scan which costs!
- Alan (Giraffes)
Congrats!
- Rachel Lea Fox
The doc was very confident in the scan. He showed us the lack of boy parts and moved on. He said no one has ever come back and told him he was wrong.
- David Cook
from fftogo
congrads, :)
- chaz2b
Congrats!!! I wish you all the luck and pray she is nothing like her great Aunt Karen!! HA! =D
- Katt
Congrats!
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Congratulations, David!
- Micah
Fantastic News. Congrats.
- Brent - Yes I am
Wonderful. Take care.
- ThinkEzy
Congrats!
- Mark Douglass
Congratulations!!
- Kazumoto
hey congrats!
- (jeff)isageek
Congrats David :D
- Praveen Vasudev
Mazel Tov! :-)
- Mathew A. Koeneker
Yay!
- FFing Enigma
Congratulations David!!!!!!! that is great news!! :)
- Susan Beebe
Thank you everyone! =D Debbie is already planning the girly clothes and we're going through our name book tomorrow. We both agree that we want something pretty short. Nothing more than 2 syllables.
- David Cook
Tunnel Of Terror - http://alejandroz.soup.io/post...
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/sg, Neal Krummell, Michael Leggett and 38 other people liked this
LOL!
- Lindsay
BAHAHA, the transformation is hilarious!
- Jonathan Hardesty
Weird how we posted this at the same time !
- Mo Kargas
We did? You just won a like. :)
- Alejandro
Hilarious!
- Son of Groucho
Hehehehe....
- AJ Batac
:))
- Vicey
Some people should not have children! // Algunas personas no deben tener hijos!
- sistema428
@sistema428 - LOL! Love how this child's parents' parenting ability is somehow diminished by the fact that their drive took them through a tunnel. I would agree with your statement in many circumstances, but not in the context of this video.
- Lindsay
Heheheheeee, reminds me of the Mummy ride at Universal
- sofarsoShawn
LOL!
- Bad Romance
RT @aegies: who's funding the tea party movement? these guys: http://www.nytimes.com/2010...
Edward Nigma, Nils Sandin, Leo Laporte and FALOB liked this
Read the New Yorker article about the Koch's http://www.newyorker.com/reporti...
- Leo Laporte
Scrabble iPad App Uses iPhones As Tile Racks - http://laughingsquid.com/scrabbl...
Daniel Rowley, Victor Panlilio, Akiva and Leo Laporte liked this
"This Game of Scrabble Will Set You Back A Grand" or "Only Apple Fanboys Allowed"
- Matthew Wayne Selznick
Fish oil can head off first psychotic episodes - http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/booster...
Craig Deakin, Myrna, Maximum Health and 29 other people liked this
"In the lives of young people at high risk for developing serious mental illness, heading off that first psychotic episode can mean a world of difference. A new study has found that for a year after it was completed,12 weeks of dietary supplementation with Omega-3 fish oil reduced progression to full-blown psychosis in a large group of adolescents and young adults. The study subjects were young people who did not yet meet the criteria for full-blown mental illness, but whose grip on reality had begun to come loose, prompting them to seek psychiatric care. At the same time, Omega-3 long-chain fatty acids--found in a range of ocean-going fish and edible sea life--improved many of the symptoms that identified these young patients as likely schizophrenics and bipolar disorder sufferers. Among the 81 young patients under observation for psychosis in an Austrian hospital, those taking fish oil supplements for two weeks showed fewer signs of disorganized or delusional thinking, more motivation, and better overall functioning than those in a comparison group, who got psychotherapy alone. "
- RAPatton
"Psychiatrists are actively debating how--and how aggressively--to treat patients with so-called "pro-dromal" signs of mental illness, or symptoms that are considered warning signs of full-blown illness to come. Studies, among them some funded by the companies that make antipsychotic medications, have found preliminary evidence that prescribing antipsychotic medication for early...
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- RAPatton
"In a measure of relative effectiveness, the present study found that fish oil supplements--which come with a wide range of unrelated health benefits (among them cardiovascular disease prevention) and no more serious side effects than "fish burps," were as effective at preventing psychotic episodes as antipsychotic medications."
- RAPatton
This story uses the actual numbers, rather than just %, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1...
- Wilka Hudson
So the 5% is really 2, from a group of 40 (half of the 81 people taking part in the study). And the 28% is 11, from the other group of 40.
- Wilka Hudson
My midwife was telling me about a study that showed that pregnant women who took fish oil during pregnancy had babies that more easily regulated their sleep/wake cycles after they were born. Pretty cool!
- Rochelle
My kids are going to be taking fish oil supplements as soon as they're able. I'm going to be passing on a genetic cesspool so anything to prevent them from developing a full blown mental illness would be good.
- Lis
And antipsychotics, even at low doses, are crazy with the weight gain and metabolic changes. I take an extremely low dose of an atypical antipsychotic (for bipolar mania) and I've gained 15 lbs in one month and just want to eat junk.
- Lis
been taking fish oil caps for over a decade now. i'm still a total nutjob. :P
- Unholy Joe Silence
Um...yeah. Fail on this one. BIG fail.
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Tutivillus Grift, why?
- Rochelle
GEE, THANKS TUT! :P
- Unholy Joe Silence
admittedly, tho, i haven't had a psychotic ep.
- Unholy Joe Silence
Oh...heheh. Didn't see the follow-up. 3 months vs. a lifetime? You may be able to delay the inevitable...but it will likely still happen. I didn't have a psychotic break until my late 20's.
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Psychosis is a symptom, not a disease in of itself. Whether you can stave anything off depends entirely on the underlying condition.
- Victor Ganata
Righto Victor. People will read this, start downing Fish Oil and not looking for the root cause.
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Mental Illness is a very tricky thing...we are just scratching the surface. This reminds me of the St. John's Wort articles from a few years back.
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
I need to take these because I don't eat seafood. I'm wondering if individuals eat seafood on a regular basis, can that alone provide the same inhibitor that the pills do? It's difficult for me to decide whether it's a good thing or a bad thing.
- Arlan K.
Tutivillus - This is different from St. John's Wort, though, in that fish oil has no interactions with prescription meds and its health benefits have been documented for quite some time. And, no, it's not going to cure someone with bipolar disorder or schizophrenia, but anything that can help is a good thing.
- Lis
Lis, actually Omega-3 fatty acids may still have side effects, although probably not as commonly or as dramatically as St. John's Wort. It affects the same metabolic pathways that aspirin does, so in theory you can end up with abnormal bleeding, especially if you're already on blood thinners or anti-platelet agents. Still, this would probably require extremely high doses of fish oil, and there doesn't seem to be any reports of this actually happening.
- Victor Ganata
walnuts are high in Omega 3 as well, and a more sustainable source, they are not an endangered species, and they also don;t come with the dreaded fishy burps,,
- daveeza
But walnuts are gross.
- Rochelle
I take it all the time
- orionstarr
from iPhone
the main reasons i take fish oil caps have nothing to do with mental health.
- Unholy Joe Silence
i should look into how much walnut meat i'd need to ingest for a similar benefit, tho.
- Unholy Joe Silence
Another reason why the NO poly-unsaturated fat idea sucks (e.g. Eat MUFAs Mono-unsaturated fats diet). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Omega-3s generally have 2+ double-bonds. The 18 carbon α-linolenic acid has not been shown to have the same cardiovascular benefits as DHA or EPA. Currently there are many products on the market which claim to contain health promoting...
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- Mitchell Tsai
[Me] People are unable to add double-bonds very far into the fatty acids it eats, thus humans can't produce most Omega-3s. [Wikipedia] Although fish is a dietary source of n−3 fatty acids, fish do not synthesize them; they obtain them from the algae or plankton in their diet. Six times richer than most fish oils in n−3, flax (or linseed) (Linum usitatissimum) and its oil are perhaps the most widely available botanical source of n−3. Flaxseed oil consists of approximately 55% ALA (alpha-linolenic acid).
- Mitchell Tsai
Clinical studies indicate that the ingested ratio of n−6 to n−3 (especially Linoleic vs Alpha Linolenic) fatty acids is important to maintaining cardiovascular health. However, two studies published in 2005 and 2007 found no such correlations in humans. The n−6 to n−3 ratio of grass-fed beef is about 2:1, making it a more useful source of n−3 than grain-fed beef, which usually has a...
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- Mitchell Tsai
Milk and cheese from grass-fed cows may also be good sources of n−3. One UK study showed that half a pint of milk provides 10% of the recommended daily intake (RDI) of ALA, while a piece of organic cheese the size of a matchbox may provide up to 88%". The microalgae Crypthecodinium cohnii and Schizochytrium are rich sources of DHA (22:6 n−3) and can be produced commercially in...
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- Mitchell Tsai
Some vegetables contain a noteworthy amount of n-3, including strawberries and broccoli. Typical Western diets provide ratios of between 10:1 and 30:1 - i.e., dramatically skewed toward n−6. Healthy ratios of n−6:n−3 range from 1:1 to 4:1. Studies suggest that the evolutionary human diet, rich in game animals, seafood and other sources of n−3, may have provided such a ratio.
- Mitchell Tsai
What's on page 56?
Jimminy, Christian (Simply X), Josh Haley and 13 other people liked this
Rules: Grab the book nearest you. Right now. Turn to page 56. Find the fifth sentence. Post that sentence here. Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.
- Shey
"The art direction and design follows on from this with simple, clean layouts, a subtle color palette, and the use of Helvetica and Univers typefaces." -- Innovation in Magazine Design
- Shey
So, at any given time there are at least five copies of my database that are no more than three days old or so.
- Rob Diana
In other words, DTML uses tags to do its work.
- Brian Sullivan
Exodus 9:25 - "All over Egypt the hail struck down every living thing in the open, including all the people and the animals."
- tehKenny
Genesis 43:7 Do you have another brother?
- Jasmin Smith
@genieyclo use the next closest :)
- Shey
If you select the Do no respond to unknown client computers option, the RIS server will only respond to prestaged clients.
- Eric - Too Hot
"The children waste 30 minutes dawdling and 10 minutes arguing." (I can't believe this sentence is in a book on C# programming.)
- Morton Fox
"If you don't have a financial safety net, you can end up selling an investment that you've worked hard for." --Investing For Dummies 1997
- Rahsheen
Michael descended the last two steps as if sliding on a track, her blade glaring savage green-white as she cut air. (Whiskey & Water by Elizabeth Bear)
- Nine Ferdinand
"In Battle, there are not more than two methods of attack- the direct and indirect; yet these two in combination give rise to an endless series of maneuvers."
- Aaron Krug
Nahmanides, in the year 1250, described the process with uncanny accuracy: the initial creation produced an entity so thin it had no substance to it.
- FFing Enigma
"The book begins with a section titled 'How to Look Things Up,' which includes a reference to an online index at <www.gregg.com>."
- Micah
"aturdimiento m. confusion, bewilderment" (the nearest book was my Spanish/English medical dictionary)
- Shannon Jiménez
"She ruined my lunch."
- Yolanda
I googleized this challenge (1st result, 5th sentence), which came up with "* Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions." http://www.google.com/search...
- Micah
"At the close the motto chord gives way to pure F-sharp major, which, in light of what has gone before, sounds bizarre and surreal." - Alex Ross' "The Rest is Noise."
- George Kelly
"I've had an accident... Mialem wypadek."
- Tinfoil 2.0
For more information about dealing with pipeline input in your own scripts, functions, and script blocks, see Recipe 10.7, "Access Pipeline Input." (From "Windows PowerShell Cookbook" by Lee Holmes).
- Tommy Williams
Remember the Good Samaritan.
- David HC Soul
Calvin "Any monsters under my bed tonight??" /Under Bed "Nope!" "No!" "Uh-uh." /Calvin "Well there'd better not be! I'd hate to have to torch one with my flame thrower!" / Hobbes "You have a flame thrower?" Calvin "They lie. I lie"
- SteVe C
The closest book is my husband's Demosthenis Orationes--In GREEK. I can't do it.
- MiniMage
It's a God damn, well I declare, have you seen the like? -- Grateful Dead Anthology.
- Thomas Hawk
Grabbed the nearest book... Turns out page 56 is BLANK! Blank! What are the odds?
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
"Whether a verb is used to link words or to express action depends on its meaning in a sentence." Holt Handbook - Mastering the California Standards in English-Language Conventions.
- Leo Laporte
This is what the Lord has commanded, 'Gather of it every man as much as he should eat; you shall take an omer apeice according to the number of persons each of you has in his tent." - NASB Bible
- Hal
"The general formula is now figure dependent so applicable to whatever arrangement of letters as labels to resistor elements." - The ECE Handbook, Excel Academic Council 2007
- Philip V.
"Apa ini buku saudara?" (Is this your book? In Indonesian)
- David Adam
" 'Right, who's causing it - who knows what could happen.' " - Grave Peril, Jim Butcher
- Chris Maughan
Motors require no maintenance, and should operate indefinitely without attention.
- ThePicMan
For Pharaoh will say of the people of Israel, "They are wandering in the land; the wilderness has shut them in." ESV bible
- Tommy Garwood
*BUMP*
- Shey
'"We've all killed others in our minds, " Tessa laughed, "but they don't serve wine in American prisons. How horrid."'
- Trish Haley
"This is why we wrap the code in a while to pick a new random number and try again."
- Scott. Cat Herder.
"Her family was even wealthier than the Schneiders."
- Jandy
"Add the stock, tomato purée, Worcestershire sauce, 8 gingersnaps, onions, and garlic."
- Shey
*blank page*. It's a sign.
- Josh Haley
Uh uh. Off-limits.
- Great Scott! Snow!
"tures a health-care professional wearing a stethoscope and apparently counseling a patient." (verbatim from the top of page)
- Micah
"Enjoy 15% off all bistro meals on presentation of a valid voucher located in the voucher section of this book"
- Bryce Roney
"If no LAN cable is attached to the motherboard, the Status fields of all four pairs of wires will show Open and the Length fields show 0m, as shown in the figure above."
- Ken Sheppardson
The responsibility of community management does not necessarily need to lie in the hands of a single individual.
- Rob Diana
What book is that Rob?
- Shey
"Henry, a touchy man, did not find it funny."
- Rochelle
The closet book too me right now...is instructions for Origami. No words.
- Christian (Simply X)
"Fowler left."
- DJ Stevie Steve
"I took these two pictures of lions while on safari in Tanzania with a 400mm lens."
- ronin
"'Yes, it is about Miss Williams, I am sure.'" - Sense and Sensibility by Austen
- Lis
Taking the book in hand, he moved me close against him, and rubbed his cheek against mine.
- Dave Winer
Shey, that was New Community Rules by Tamar Weinberg.
- Rob Diana
press the SET button...
- daveeza
:)
- Tamar Weinberg
Technically, the nearest book to me was an open PDF: 'We’ve seen that value bindings have to be treated specially, if we want every valid F# code to be an expression.'
- Akiva
"The 1935 Streamline Moderne Hepburn Building is located on the north side of the studio lot."
- Drew
"They don't become intelligent, because they lack the biological, neuron-centered pathway in which a human child masters herself and the physical world." (on machines' capacity to develop artificial intelligence, from "Stage 2: The Student" in Bruce Sterling's "Tomorrow Now")
- George Kelly
"They were stalkers, but benign ones."
- Derrick
We guess that the solution is O(n), and we try to show that T(n) <= cn for an appropriate choice of the constant c. (Introduction to Algorithms, yeah goin hard-core old school today.)
- Rob Diana
Well damn, I guess I'll have to grab the second closest book, because mine is the same as Rob's.
- Jimminy
Would you believe it? Page 56 is blank! Blank, I tell you, blank! (Look up through this thread and you'll find that the other book I tried, many moons ago, had the same issue.)
- Carlos Granier-Phelps
Ok, book 2. "One can find plenty of 'counterevidence' to the points in this book, the best being that newspapers are excellent at predicting movie and theater schedules." The Black Swan, The Impact of the HIGHLY IMPROBABLE by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Jimminy
Metamorphosis is complete.
- John (bird whisperer)
Jimminy, why are you reading Intro to Algorithms?
- Rob Diana
Rob, I use it as reference for data structures, it sits on the corner of the table beside me at all times.
- Jimminy
ah, ok. That makes sense. Very similar reasoning here. Need to review some advanced structures for some work.
- Rob Diana
"But on Monday, first thing, you can call a towing service about your car"
- Nathalie
"The conclusion he reached as an eight-year-old child, entirely on his own, was to contribute to his lifelong hypochondria."
- Ken Morley
Rob, what edition, I just opened mine and it's different, 2nd Ed. here. "Fibonacci numbers are related to the golden ratio ϕ and to it's conjugate Φ, which are given by the following formulas: ϕ = (1+sqrt(5))/2 = 1.61803... Φ = (1-sqrt(5))/2 = -.61803... " I guess I should have checked the book first. Your line doesn't come up until page 65, line 14 in it. Heh
- Jimminy
"But you took the money, babe," Pell said. - Futureland by Walter Mosley, "The Greatest"
- Renee Hendricks
Jimminy, I believe I have the first edition, with only three authors.
- Rob Diana
bump
- Jimminy
Oh, so THAT's where this started. And oh look, Jumminy's still reading the same math book :-)
- Slippy like shiny things.
"But when asked about domestic beers, one of Rockslide's bartenders is famous for pointing at the tanks in the glass-walled room next to the bar and remarking: "It really doesn't get much more domestic than that."
- Eric - Too Hot
San Francisco’s Answer to Westboro Baptist Church - http://laughingsquid.com/san-fra...
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Aaron Draczynski, Kelly W. Peavey, Michael R. Bernstein and 97 other people liked this
"Westboro Baptist Church showed up to protest in front of Twitter’s San Francisco office on Thursday, but found themselves severely outnumbered by a crowd of absurdist pranksters, including guest blogger EDW Lynch above. WBC’s hate-promoting signs were answered by multiple signs of randomness, nonsensical yelling, and even a unicorn. A portable stereo blared Lady GaGa, while press and people passing by ignored the WBC signs and took pictures and videos of the more entertaining signs. I was also there and turned on the video camera while holding my sign."
- April Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
This is a total WIN!
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
a unicorn :)
- ۳۰ مرغ Loves Y'ALLLLL
The best way to counter protests (KKK, Neonazis, WBC, etc.) is with absurdity, because it turns the issue into a joke.
- Gabe
What Gabe said.
- Ken Morley
The "I'm Tired" sign kills me.
- Ayşe E.
That's why the Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster is so awesome. When school boards start talking about teaching creationism in schools, you can bet some Pirate are gonna show up and demand that THEIR creation myths are given equal time. :)
- iTad
Hahaha, damn
- Mo Kargas
I ❤ my crazy surreal WBC-disarming bay area neighbors.
- Wirehead
Love it. I think I'd go with "GOD HATES PANTS" if they came to my town.
- Steele Lawman
haha "i like a sign" !
- dominic
ROFL!!!! Love it!!! "God hates flags" and "God hates kittens" And the RickRoll!
- rowlikeagirl
excellent!
- Jim
That's just beautiful. I don't even know what the hell Westboro was protesting, and that's exactly the way I like it!
- Joel Webber
This is absolutely brilliant.
- DAMMIT, MR. NOODLE
I WAS PROMISED DONUTS
- Otto
They needed a "Down With This Sort of Thing" sign though. Every silly protest needs one of those.
- Otto
"Sporks are Evil" :)
- Eivind
oh man i love these ppl
- Felicia Yue
Google’s ‘Don’t Be Evil’ Mantra is ‘Bullshit,’ Adobe Is Lazy: Apple’s Steve Jobs | Wired.com - http://www.wired.com/epicent...
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"On Google: We did not enter the search business, Jobs said. They entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won’t let them, he says. Someone else asks something on a different topic, but there’s no getting Jobs off this rant. I want to go back to that other question first and say one more thing, he says. This don’t be evil mantra: “It’s bullshit.” Audience roars."
- Kevin Fox
from Bookmarklet
Funny how evil is in the eye of the beholder. I don't doubt that Google would like Android to make the iPhone irrelevant, but that's not evil; it's competition. And not even as harsh a competitive tactic as Apple's holding Google's iPhone apps in limbo because Apple is afraid they might succeed.
- Kevin Fox
I think Jobs sees all competition as zero-sum, so he seems to think Google's out to destroy the iPhone. But I don't know anyone at Google (including on the Android team) that thinks this way. A healthy, heterogeneous market is good for everyone, Google and Apple included.
- Joel Webber
from BuddyFeed
Totally agree, Kevin. It's all psychological bullshit to appeal to incite the fanboys.
- Amy
Agreed, Joel. Google's certainly trying harder than Apple to broaden the smartphone market beyond the high-end. I think Google would be a lot more satisfied if they covered Nokia's global footprint than if they surpassed Apple in unit shipments.
- Kevin Fox
Also, not that it matters but Google bought Android two years before Apple started selling the iPhone. It's not like Google suddenly decide to infringe on Apple's turf.
- Kevin Fox
Jobs' rant is bullshit. It is, indeed.
- Claudio Cicali
Isn't "don't be evil" about how you treat your customers, not your competitors, anyway? Paul?
- Jim Norris
I don't know where people get the idea that competition is evil. I say competition is good :)
- Paul Buchheit
Jobs is afraid of a strong competitor.
- devran
It saddens me how most of the comments on all the articles covering this story agree with Steve that Google is somehow evil. Le sigh...
- Michael Leggett
Google was so lost in the browser for many years. Most of the companies who are not Web oriented were not even interested in what Google was doing. And now current acts such as Android and Chrome OS get their reactions, because all suddenly Google changed roadmaps -- suddenly means last 2-3 years in my scale.
- Burcu Dogan
Nokia didn't enter Apple's market and sell iPods or iMacs or MacBooks, I wonder how Nokia feels about Apple's entry into smartphones? ;-p
- Ray Cromwell
do we really need to compare companies? http://bit.ly/nokiashistory
- mehmet t. akalın
also any developer dealing with apple found. and adobe-flash plugin could get the idea what steve says..
- mehmet t. akalın
Yeah - those are the types of things a cult leader says to his cult to get them to rally against the enemies ;-)
- Jesse Stay
I say.. even this cute company called Apple is bullshit too.. They are lazy bastards as well..
- Pico Seno
Well said, Aaron - motivation is good for us all :-) I like new Google AND Apple technology.
- Jesse Stay
If I were sitting there at the iPad announcement, I would have been waiting for a runner to come down the aisle to throw a sledgehammer through the screen with Jobs's face on it.
- Gabe
@Paul, you're starting to sound a little too much like Gordon Gecko
- Fleagle
Are you implying that competition is bad Fleagle? Monopolies tend to be abusive, or at best lazy. Google competing with the iPhone may not be what's best for Apple, but it's better for the rest of the world. I declare it 99.9% good :)
- Paul Buchheit
No @Paul, I actually don't care to be honest. I just love the movie "Wall Street."
- Fleagle
Oh yeah, cool movie :)
- Paul Buchheit
@Paul as a matter of fact, there had been historical records of true business competition had been causing more harm than good (water supply services few centuries back in London, UK), but you probably won't agree for sake of "competition being good by definition" :) (oh, and I am "all pro competition" too, but I do like historical facts)
- A. T.
@Paul also Apple vs Google vs very-few-more-key-players vs rest-is-negligible fits perfectly oligopoly case - do you like oligopoly? :)
- A. T.
There's competition where each company tries to out-innovate the other and there's competition where they try to undermine the other. In my experience Google represents the former.
- Kevin Fox
Jerome, that's crazy.
- Kevin Fox
The nice thing about Android is that it is monopoly/oligopoly resistant because it is open source. If Google pushes it too far, or stops innovating, someone else (e.g. Microsoft) can fork it and create their own competitive strain of Android. The same is not true of iPhone obviously.
- Paul Buchheit
is that really true Paul? Isn't this Google slamming into MS and Apple trying to take market share with another prop system?
- Thomas Power
Yes, I think there are already some non-Google Android devices, though none of the popular ones are. I doubt Microsoft will ever do it for the same reason that they aren't adopting WebKit for IE, but technically they could (and perhaps should).
- Paul Buchheit
Android's already being used in several non-cellphone devices like media players from Archos and Barnes & Noble's Nook e-reader.
- Kevin Fox
How's it feel to be, according to Valleywag, the face of Google's counter-Apple strategy post-Jobs lashing out? http://gawker.com/5461539... Bloggers are silly.
- Mark Trapp
I think it's funny that Ryan Tate didn't mention my staunch advocacy of Apple's stance on Flash.
- Kevin Fox
I'm rolling my eyes at that gawker article. (Nice find, Mark.)
- Stephen Mack #TeamMomo
I want to know when Facebook is going to build their own Android phone. ;-)
- Jesse Stay
O sweet so this thread is a developing news story about a news story about a #headexplodes
- LANjackal
Or what I really want to know is when Ryan Tate is going to start using FriendFeed ;-)
- Jesse Stay
You guys might want to check out Gruber's additional perspective on what Jobs said. http://www.wired.com/epicent... Note, in particular, the updates. It sounds like the original report painted his comments more harshly than they were delivered.
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
For the record (and since there are now a lot of people reading this thread who don't know me, my stance and my tone) I totally get why Steve said the things he said, and I don't really begrudge him for it. It's sad that he chose to rally his troops by implying that the other guy's got it in for them, so they'd better fight back hard, but it's nothing compared to calling your competitors Nazis: http://fury.com/2005...
- Kevin Fox
I'd like to ask Apple about their thoughts and plans about Maps, and about online advertising, two businesses that Google entered first.
- Kevin Fox
Really? I thought he was mad at Microsoft and IBM a *lot* in the 80s. The whole 1984 ad was a poke at IBM. It is funny though that externally he says that nobody's come close to where the iPhone was 3 years ago, but to his own troops he's saying 'Google's out to get us, so watch out.'
- Kevin Fox
Not that old-mindsets are particularly constructive, but I think Jobs, in particular his mindset, is a product of the OS wars of the '80s and '90s. Microsoft was out to get Apple with its second-rate products and infinite cash reserves: Apple was the last stand between Microsoft, the death of innovation, and the proliferation of mediocrity. Now that Microsoft has been vanquished, the...
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- Mark Trapp
I think the only thing standing in the way of Google-targeted ad campaigns like Apple's "Redmond: Start your photocopiers" ads is the fact that Google's brand is viewed even more favorably than Apple's. Apple can't publicly attack a company that people love without taking a serious hit.
- Kevin Fox
Very true! Check this out: http://www.google.com/search...
- Kevin Fox
Apple is afraid. They don't enter the search business because they know they can't win. Google sees a way to put customers/devs first and does see a way to succeed.
- Nathan Snyder
Kevin: I think the 1984 ad was a poke at what Apple was to become in 2010.
- Gabe
++Gabe
- April Buchheit
Respectfully, I think the level of Google fanboi-ism is equal to that of Apple. Google is an innovative company. So is Apple. Neither is devoid of warts.
- Kevin (aka ThreadKilla)
I love both Apple and Google, but I hate it when they fight or act spoiled.
- Kevin Fox
Yes, and despite (or because of) SJ being kind of a nut, Apple is still awesome and I'll be buying a tablet :)
- Paul Buchheit
It's fun to watch extremely controlling people throw tantrums when they don't get their way. Waaaaaah!
- Garmon Estes
Just curious: Paul, will you buy it because you need it or because you trust Apple for having designed the tablet you'll love?
- Jérôme
Apparently there can only be one maker of phones. Does that mean that phones with keyboards are evil?
- Sam Levine
Jérôme, both :)
- Paul Buchheit
Schmidt should have excused himself from Apple's board conversations on the iPhone, when he was well aware that Google is (secretly) working on Android & Nexus One. This definitely falls within the definition of evil. I'm actually surprised it's legal.
- Tal Broda
I don't think Android was secret -- Google bought the company a long time ago.
- Paul Buchheit
Tal, he did: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008...
- Kevin Fox
Kevin, isn't this 1-2 years too late?
- Tal Broda
None of you feel that Eric Schmidt sitting on Apple's board while developing competing technology is evil?
- Richard Luther
It was disclosed to Apple and they chose to continue having him on the board (or do you think he just make up a random excuse to leave the room every time the iPhone was discussed?) Why would that be evil Richard?
- Paul Buchheit
I don't get it. Why do Apple fanboys hate competition? I personally love it that the iPad is perceived as competition to the Kindle. Competition is good for the consumer!
- Piaw Na
@Piaw Okay, fine. Let Jobs sit on the Google board while developing an Apple search engine.
- Richard Luther
Richard, if he disclosed that fact, and Google still wanted him on the board, then there would be nothing wrong with doing that.
- Paul Buchheit
And I wouldn't mind at all if Apple tried its hand at a search engine. In fact, they did do spotlight. :-)
- Piaw Na
Here's the deal, folks. It's not about hating competition, it's about hating working together. Apple and Google have historically had strong ties. The two companies have worked closely on many products. Both companies have benefitted, and IMO consumers have benefitted. Do you think Google helped or harmed that relationship when they decided to compete directly with Apple?
- Richard Luther
They harmed the relationship but helped the world. That seems like a fair deal to me. We should be nervous when big companies get too close.
- Paul Buchheit
I was always uncomfortable with that relationship.
- Piaw Na
Richard, Google decided to enter the mobile OS space before Apple had a phone.
- Daniel Dulitz
This is a movie we've seen before: http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Richard Luther
Paul, I agree that the competition this situation created is great for us, the consumers, but if you look at when Eric recused himself, and consider when the first iPhone shipped, you will see a problem.
- Tal Broda
Sure, I see a problem, but the problem is too MUCH implicit collusion between Google and Apple, not too little. I do think that it is probably true that the close relationship between Google and Apple led them to compete less than they otherwise would have, and that was a bit "evil". But that makes it GOOD that that is changing.
- David desJardins
I'm celebrating 5 months as a non-smoker today. Yay me!
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way to go Michael
- VALZ/TT/TM
Cool and 5 years for me last week.
- M F
Congrats!
- Tracy Benham
M F, congrats! Quite an accomplishment.
- Michael Hocter
Well done.
- SAM
Thanks, I only commented as an encouragement that it can be done and after the first couple of months it can only get better :) what made it for me was to realise that cigarettes did not relieve my tension or stress but they only relieved the stress of not having a cigarette.
- M F
Nice one, Michael! :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
good job!
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
Well Done!
- Mahdi E
I gave up for 3 years and started again :/
- Halil
Yay Michael!!!! :)
- Myrna
Halil & CL1PS & anyone else who wants to quit: I highly recommend Allen Carr's book "The Easy Way to Stop Smoking". It's only about $10 and it really helped me when I was getting ready to quit.
- Michael Hocter
Yay You, indeed!
- comix aka martha
My Extravagant Zsh Prompt - http://stevelosh.com/blog...
imabonehead, Leo Laporte, Michael R. Bernstein and 3 other people liked this
well, now that's impressive
- Jeremy Zawodny
I have my bash prompt show my git branch if in a git repository, but that's about it. His is pretty impressive, indeed.
- Tudor Bosman
InstaMapper - Free Real-Time GPS Tracking - http://www.instamapper.com/
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simple web app for tracking your position if you have a GPS enabled phone that's not from a shitty carrier
- Jeremy Zawodny
Works like a dream on Android. Got it installed on my Nexus One.
- Leo Laporte
Gruber nails it: Who Can Do Something About Those Blue Boxes? - http://daringfireball.net/2010...
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Yeah: users don't blame first parties for their sites not working; they blame the websites for not working with their browser of choice. I've had users demand our stuff works in obscure browsers or browsers we wouldn't normally support: the "blame the person who made your browser or switch to something else" respond never gets very far; if we want those users, we support what they want to use.
- Mark Trapp
Once Hulu switches, the game is over.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Feeling old right now - read "Blue Boxes" and assumed there was a new wave of people getting free phone calls.
- Ryan Kaisoglus
Or a slew of timelords.
- Kevin Fox
Isn't blue boxes (in the sense of free phone calls) the genesis of Steve Jobs and Wozniack's career?
- Shakeel Mahate
You're absolutely right, Shakeel - this is coming full circle!
- Ryan Kaisoglus
Apple doesn't want Flash because they can't monetize Flash-based interactive experiences, but they can monetize iPhone apps. So a site that wants to offer a richer experience on the iPhone has to develop an app and sell it on the App Store. And I think Apple has the clout to pull this off.
- Tudor Bosman
from email
Tudor: I've heard that argument a lot and while I think it's a nice by-product, I don't think it's the primary reason. If people start making quality games using HTML5 only, I don't think Apple would take any action against that.
- Kevin Fox
Tudor the one counter argument to that is Apple does have a LOT of free apps on the app store which they don't monetize at all. There is probably a monetary element but I imagine its more about controlling the user experience than pure greed. Fact is Flash is a leading vector for exploits and crashes none of which Jobs wants on his platform. Will also make his platforms sluggish and kill the battery.
- Ed Millard
IMHO: apps are dangerous and they will hurt the Web but also website owners. You probably know Dailymotion, the French Youtube, and you probably often use it through embedded players. It's a nice website, it streams fast and has some high quality content. I instinctively downloaded the app to watch occasional videos. But the mobile experience is no exception: if I can neither play the...
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- Jérôme
It is true its pretty hard to monetize web sites. Its take a lot of resources to maintain a 24/7 server, you are constantly fighting hackers and its hard to break even on ads unless you are Google. I agree its a pretty bad trend that Apple is creating a shadow web with a combination of apps and iPhone centric mobile versions of web sites. But then too a lot of web sites and Flash content just don't work in phones due to memory and CPU limits
- Ed Millard
It's not just handheld computers like the iPad though, it's all devices that aren't quite full computers. It's actually much worse with game consoles, TVs and cable/satellite boxes with internet widgets, etc. Fine for someone who uses these devices as a secondary tool, but not a good situation for anyone who relies on one of these devices as their main means of accessing the "internet".
- Tinfoil 2.0
Well I wasted years trying to push Flash players on to devices like those but Adobe frustrated my business at every turn. From 2002 until very recently all they gave me was FlashLite and it completely sucked as a browser plugin. If Adobe had been focused on making Flash 9/10 device friendly for the last 4 years they wouldn't be in the bad position they are in today.
- Ed Millard
Obama Cancels Bush Moon Initiative - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Bigcontact feed player : A great tool to inject your external podcast feed in blogs, social networks etc.. - http://www.bigcontact.com
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Thanks for the tip. Just put it on my blog - http://leoville.com/blog
- Leo Laporte
u welcome :) if anyone know another feedplayer, i'm interested, ning.com feedplayer is another one, wich is good also :)
- Ben Borges
Podhawk is a nice self hosted solution to run your own podcast
- Ben Borges
Very cool! I use PodPress player on our blog. But may use this on FB to showcase all our shows.
- Mary-Lynn
yep this service is really great :) the only hic for me is i' have been going trough some weird problem with the player on myspace and my website, so i decided to stick with the JWplayer, this way i host the player, the mp3 episodes, and no more downtime ever !
- Ben Borges
from IM
Here's another one too: http://musicplayer.sourceforge.net/
- Mary-Lynn
Yes the XSPF one, i dunno i never really enjoyed this one...i suppose with a nice skin it could be great..
- Ben Borges
from email
floored to see my Twitter name in an NYT sidebar; thx @carr2n! http://www.nytimes.com/2010...
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You'll have to tell us how many followers you pick up from this...
- Mike Koss
You are worthy of the favorable comments. Keep up the great work, girl!
- Kelly J
It looks like you historically gain about 60 followers/day - but had a 500 follower day yesterday! http://twittercounter.com/ginatra...
- Mike Koss
UPDATE: NYT Fires Columnist After NYTPicker Uncovers Ethics Breach. Public Editor Clark Hoyt Calls Situation "An Embarrassment" To NYT. - http://www.nytpick.com/2010...
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EtherPad Open Source Release - http://etherpad.com/ep...
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Awesome.
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
Yay, +1 for Scala
- Ray Cromwell
Yeah, I noticed all the Scala, too. Nice.
- Joel Webber
To download source you have to get mercurial (similar to git) http://hgbook.red-bean.com/read... then you can run: hg clone https://etherpad.googlecode.com/hg... etherpad
- Jeremy Heslop
This week's TWiT is classic. I might have to listen to it again :D @leolaporte @jason @therealdvorak
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Mom needs to be a regular segment. :-D
- Joe Nickence
With the Roku box, Leo Laporte finds living-room wedge | Your Tech Weblog - http://blogs.twincities.com/yourtec...
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""It's a thrill for me to see the TWiT logo right up there next to Amazon, Netflix and Major League Baseball" via the Roku, Laporte told me in a phone interview. "I want to be seen as a (media) peer." Laporte is ramping up how much programming he offers per week, from about 30 to 40 hours to 100 or 200 hours. He has just hired the popular Dr. Kiki Sanford to be a host on some shows, since he can no longer do it all. Eventually, he says, he aims to be come the "CNN for geeks," with a laser focus on his nerdier audience, and no ambitions to duplicate the super-expensive production values of a top TV network."
- Chris Heath
from Bookmarklet
very cool.
- Marc Ostrick
yes, this IPTV stuff is going to the TV in 2010 - yahoo widget enabled tv's will have the content via the mediafly widget, roku, popcorn hour, all the mobile apps (bb, android, pre, etc) -- hopefully mediafly will be on the ps3 and xbox soon -- revision 3 is also moving in this direction (not sure if they're dealing thru mediafly or not, but i know they're moving onto tv's as well
- Chris Heath
OMG, shock announcement from Mark Zuckerberg about FarmVille! (ref last image on this post: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...)
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Awesome! RT @schillmoeller: Sunset in NYC. http://twitpic.com/qaxj6
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"If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament." - Florynce Kennedy - Wikiquote http://silas216.tumblr.com/post...
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No freaking kidding... The most vocal group opposing women's right to choose is the gender that doesn't have to endure pregnancy, labor and delivery or even stick around for the next 18 years to financially and mentally support the child while putting aside their own life goals. It seems very hypocritical to me.
- Lindsay
Preach it.
- ωαřмaiden ❤Marrit Woman❤
Love it. No idea why Florynce Kennedy is, but I'm about to look it up.
- amygeek
MAGFest 7 - The Smash Brothers - Microsoft Windows - canyon.mid - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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@acedtect - Is CNET River be positioned as an alternative to the CNET homepage? Are homepages obsolete?
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CNET is thinking beyond the homepage with new CNET River that combines everything they do & tweet in one place. http://news.cnet.com/river/
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StatusNet (Of Identi.ca Fame) Raises $875,000 To Become The WordPress Of Microblogging - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
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Project to watch. It hasn't even hit 1.0 yet, and the software is already very compelling.
- Daniel Bachhuber
Fantastic news!
- Leo Laporte
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