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With Paul's departure from Facebook today (November 12, 2010), I've heard several FFers talk about who's still at Facebook. I've seen various different numbers, none of which I think are accurate. This is my attempt to be more accurate. Information comes from publicly available sources where available. I drew on the list of FF employees from http://friendfeed.com/about... and http://blog.friendfeed.com/. - Stephen Mack

:-) - Mary B, VALUE author from iPhone

e.g. if I'm likely to run late, but I'd like to leave on time, decide to leave early because of what's likely - Amit Patel

e.g. if I'm likely to sneeze being outside, but I'd like to spend time outdoors, decide to stay indoors because of what's likely - Amit Patel

(I'm writing this while sneezing and being late) - Amit Patel

Is that why there's a big ribbon and bow wrapped around me? - Kevin Fox

Your presence was requested, though. :) - Micah from FFHound(roid)!

The things you own own you, maaaan. #tweet4newvzninspire4g - Mark Trapp

This message motivated by the announcement that AOL is shutting down Brizzly after 18 months. - Kevin Fox

Maybe we shouldn't have said anything. Seems flakey today. Maybe they're getting things cleaned up to release it as OSS! :-) - Ken Sheppardson

Now we use itty bitty bits. - Amit Patel

I once tried to explain to my kids size and capacity. They didn't get it. I grabbed a 250MB chip and compared that to a 16GB micro-SD. They didn't get it. After all, 250 is bigger than 16, so it made sense the chip was bigger. =) - Anika

Give them 10 pennies for 1 quarter. ;) - Amit Patel

(Don't say it's the difference between the speed of light and the speed of sound, because the speed of light is basically instantaneous for storm distances.) - Stephen Mack from Bookmarklet

I was taught to divide by 3 for miles. Then again, my mother always confused stuff. - Anika

What Steve Jobs says in 1997 sounds like what Google's trying to do with Chromebooks. - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

"Slippery slope is usually a bad property in a game. If a game has a powerful slippery slope effect, that means that when one player gets a small early lead, he is more likely to get an even bigger lead, which in turn makes him more likely still to get yet an even bigger lead, and so on. In a game like this, the real victor of the game is decided early on, and the rest of the game is futile to play out (or to watch)." - Amit Patel

"This is a blog about my research on privacy and anonymity. The title refers to the fact that there are only 6.6 billion people in the world, so you only need 33 bits (more precisely, 32.6 bits) of information about a person to determine who they are. This fact has two related consequences. First, a lot of traditional thinking about anonymous data relied on the fact that you can hide in a crowd that’s too big to search through. That notion completely breaks down given today’s computing power: as long as the bad guy has enough information about his target, he can simply examine every possible entry in the database and select the best match." - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

From 2002: "A court has rejected a 60-year-old man's attempt to invoke the ancient right to trial by combat, rather than pay a £25 fine for a minor motoring offence. Leon Humphreys remained adamant yesterday that his right to fight a champion nominated by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA) was still valid under European human rights legislation." - Tudor Bosman from Bookmarklet

Andy Bakun voted up an answer. Slava Akhmechet, Founder at RethinkDB I think there are four independent factors that are easy to mistakenly conflate because they look treacherously similar from afar (distance being age here). First, most people tend to lose their natural curiosity as they age. The reasons for this are psychological – people start feeling the weight of life on their shoulders as they get older. Perhaps their professional aspirations were shattered, perhaps their spouse left them, perhaps they lost someone very close to them to a disease or an accident. For most people, shedding this weight is extremely difficult, and you're just not going to be hacking Haskell if you feel this weight on your shoulders. Picasso famously remarked how his biggest strength is maintaining a child's curiosity into old age – very few people can pull this off. The second aspect is that as people grow older they tend to recognize and appreciate the distinction between programming for a purpose,... - Andy Bakun

Yah, it's probably more the corporate world than programming itself that wears you down. - Todd Hoff

Spotify is excellent. - Louis Gray

My European friends have been raving about Spotify for some time. Now I get it -- it's great. Within 30 minutes I had starred for easy access dozens of my favorite songs. (And thanks, Louis Gray, for the Spotify invite.) - Sean McBride

Have you tried the Tumblr bookmarklet? - Adewale Oshineye

No, but I assume that since you mention it, it's pretty solid. The thing is, sites like Friendfeed and Tumblr want you to share things from around the internet, but Facebook and Google+ want you to spend time on their sites mainly, so it makes sense that their bookmarklets and random sharing functionality are subpar. - Andy Bakun

At the MIT 150 symposium, Chomsky said that the notion of success used by statistical language models (namely, that they successfully predict the world and allow programs to accomplish tasks) was "very novel ... I don't know of anything like it in the history of science." This essay argues that it is not novel at all, but perfectly commonplace. - Peter Norvig

if I didn't already use screen, I'd probably play with this - Jeremy Zawodny

It's hard to believe that talk happened six years ago. Passages from it so clearly memorable, i recognized it from the first six words. - John Lam from Android

Open source java library to do fulltext extraction from HTML pages. - Michael Nielsen

of course i am biased by not being on it, but still, all the articles about it elicit a "so what?" in me - Iphigenie

I think that if you don't want to see stuff from "the usual suspects", but still want to be somewhat plugged into interesting discussion, you would do best by subscribing to smart folks, and not subscribe to topics, or at least not broad topics. Subscribe based on insightful answers you see. You can also subscribe to very narrow topics, or those with an academic bend. But I bet you can find better answers to your question on Quora. Otherwise, ask. :) - Meryn Stol

There exist products of which I am a fanboy. It's a coping process to realize this. - Kevin Fox

This thing is better because I have this thing and I don't have the other thing. - Amit Patel

It has allowed me to learn things that I wouldn't even have otherwise thought about. It has shown me that there is more to this universe than my small little space in it. It has connected me to all of you and for that I am thankful. - Scoble, Alex Scoble

<3 LB - Scoble, Alex Scoble

"Playboy: One of the experts in the field says that for this industry to really flourish, and for it to benefit the consumer, one standard has to prevail. Jobs: That's simply untrue. Insisting that we need one standard now is like saying that they needed one standard for automobiles in 1920." - Simon

To find a way to actually go out and create that masterpiece it takes more than ability and talent. It takes time and money. Its when this power is given to the artist, the magic begins to manifest. Damn these days. damn em to hell. Things need to change, so much can happen on the basis of a single idea. Its like that wise man said, Plans are worthless, but planning is essential. There... more... - Keith

I think it's the other way around. Nikon has been doing this way longer. - Tudor Bosman

You can always buy external grips for many of Nikon's cameras today, and those will take AAs. - Piaw Na

Congratulations! Doing what? - Mark Trapp

Congrats! - DeWitt Clinton

"It’s taking something everyone knows on the web (your email address) and making it immensely more valuable as a way to identify yourself and information about you. Exactly what kind of information? Here are some of the ideas from the WebFinger Google Code page: * public profile data * pointer to identity provider (e.g. OpenID server) * a public key * other services used by that email address (e.g. Flickr, Picasa, Smugmug, Twitter, Facebook, and usernames for each) * a URL to an avatar * profile data (nickname, full name, etc) * whether the email address is also a JID, or explicitly declare that it’s NOT an email, and ONLY a JID, or any combination to disambiguate all the addresses that look like something@somewhere.com * or even a public declaration that the email address doesn’t have public metadata, but has a pointer to an endpoint that, provided authentication, will tell you some protected metadata, depending on who you authenticate as." - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

Years ago I experimented with FOAF. I didn't fully understand nor appreciate what I was doing. To serve as a warning, if you take this example, ensure that it is blocked. #Example: I sent a file to Adobe which in turn, was sent to another email account I had at the time. I verified it's sender (ME) and sent it back in the direction of travel. A signed FOAF (API KEY) was then returned... more... - frank burns