“Facebook just emailed me to say "Unfortunately, the settings that control which email notifications get sent to you were lost. We're sorry for the inconvenience."”
I also noticed no more notifications and after a couple of days (and after having read about it somewhere, maybe Mashable) I saw that all my notifications were de-activated and I had to re-set everything. They never emailed me though. - flapic
I got that Monday or Tuesday. Right before Facebook began sending me every notification in the code. In my case, all were reset to 'on', not 'off'. :-/ - Voyagerfan5761
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"The basic idea - from Buro Vormkrijgers - is genius: each minute the right side scores a point, and each hour the left side scores a point. The effect is that the score is the time." - ⓞnor
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"Palm is laying off an undetermined number of its 1,050 workers this week in an effort to stem the effects of the economy and Palm’s decreasing smartphone market share. While it’s not a shock - everyone is doing it! - Palm now has to deal with RIM and Android eating their lunch and iPhone essentially stealing the entire casual smartphone market out from under it." - Chris White
iphonization is kinda like walmartization, in US markets, palm is like K-mart - imran
Palm was practically dead in water before iPhone came out. too few products with too little innovation that took too long to make it to market. - Jon Price
That's sad. I really liked many of Palm's products. - Helen Sventitsky
Shame that they never really pulled themselves together and released one of their supposed next-generation operating system products (their Linux-based projects, the stop-go-die Access efforts, and the dead-on-arrival Cobalt product come to mind). - Tyson Key
Tyson, aren't they still working on the next-gen stuff? - Chris White
Tyson - wrong Palm. the software half was even longer ago dead inside Access. even if ALP ever ships, it won't matter. window of opportunity <closed /> - Jon Price
I like the desk, it's pretty sweet...I just noticed that the colours of the labels work well with most, if not all, of the themes. sweeeet - Rudolf Olah
Uh, you got some email there in your inbox. Like 875 of 'em. - Josh Haley
Those are just the unread ones Josh -- there are about 3000 total. In other news, if I haven't replied to your email yet, sorry about that, I'm a little behind... - Paul Buchheit
Half Dome, I go there tomorrow - I can send a post card to add to your Inbox if you'd like ;) - Nadine Schaeffer
You gotta love gmail, I run my entire business through one gmail account, crazy -- I can't tell you how good it is to NOT use Outlook any more. - Kelly Johns
Is there someone using Outlook still? Who? Who! ; ) - Didier Lahely
She's so wonderful! I don't know how you keep from just staring and playing with her for hours. She'll get to a smile one of these days :) - Jennie Lin
Wonderful indeed. She's smiling now, just not at the camera ;-) - Alex Gawley
"For 3 years you YouTubers have been ripping us off, taking tens of thousands of our videos and putting them on YouTube. Now the tables are turned. It's time for us to take matters into our own hands" - Alex Gawley
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"Turbaconducken. That’s right — a chicken stuffed in duck stuffed in a turkey, all wrapped in bacon. Otherwise known as a bacon-wrapped turducken." D: - Jess Lee
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The amazing part is that the chicken *and* the duck *and* the turkey are wrapped in separate layers of bacon. Also amazing is that an entire site is dedicated to "Daily Updates on the World of Sweet, Sweet Bacon" - Bill Strathearn
I have to say that is some seriously unattractive food, regardless of how good it might taste. I'd love to see a professional chef try to dress that thing up... - Kamilah Gill
"Do you worry that you extrapolate too much from too little?
No. It's better to err on the side of over-extrapolation. These books are playful in the sense that they regard ideas as things to experiment with. I'm happy if somebody reads my books and reaches a conclusion that is different from mine, as long as the ideas in the book cause them to think. You have to be willing to put pressure on theories, to push the envelope. That's the fun part, the exciting part. If you are writing an intellectual adventure story, why play it safe? I'm not out to convert people. I want to inspire and provoke them." - Paul Buchheit
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I often feel the same way. Ideas are so fun that it's annoying to feel limited to well supported and justified ideas (as long as we remember that they are just ideas, not facts). - Paul Buchheit
and demanding "proof" where ideas are concerned is nearly immoral .. the idea IS the proof ... "scientific" reality is a much narrower realm - Gregory Lent
Has anyone compared this book with "Talent is Overrated?" - Piaw Na
I liked that line about how "opportunity is basically a chance to practice" - Adam Kazwell
i won't bother to read anymore of this guy ... bought a couple of pirate copies of the earlier stuff on the streets of bangalore, thank god i didn't pay full price, banality in a suit or a lab coat is still banality .. he appeals to people who want to feel they are on to something ... ask them what it was a week later, they won't remember ... - Gregory Lent
Completely agree with you Gregory Lent! Not a fan of Gladwell. - Clay B.
I guess it's nice that he's having fun. I tried reading The Tipping Point, but I thought it relied too much on unwarranted conclusions. I hope his fans understand that it's just playful exploration, but the strong recommendations I heard for his books made them sound more solid than that. - seth
I've read Blink and the Tipping Point, and enjoyed both of them very much. I think he has a very nice writing style, and covers interesting topics. In my opinion, he does a pretty nice job of mixing personal stories with actual research. In this interview WSJ calls his books "business books", but I don't seem them as business books at all. - Robert Felty
reader's digest writer for the 00's - Gregory Lent
Reminds me of an old sci-fi short I once read about a guy who didn't see, and who was sitting in an empty hall for all eternity... and who then went about to basically recreate a working universe in his head. Won't spoil the ending to that one :) Anyone knows the title/ author of it, though? [cross-posted to reddit] - Philipp Lenssen
darn good comic approximation to David Deutsch's book _The Fabric of Reality_ ;) - Adriano
There's no doubt that the President of the United States needs a safe vehicle to be transported in. Various assassination attempts prove that case rather easily. President-in-waiting Barack Obama will be getting a brand-new armored "car" that will look like a Cadillac, but will really be based on the positively gigantic medium-duty GMC Topkick chassis. Nobody is quite sure what kind of armament the First Car will be equipped with, but let's just assume that there is plenty, including up to five inches of glass and ceramic ballistics materials. That should make this one heavy vehicle. In fact, a couple of heavy vehicles, as General Motors is likely building multiples so that decoys can be used. With all that weight to move around, we'd expect GM to use a version of its diesel engine (running perhaps on biodiesel? No?) and Allison transmission from its line of heavy-duty trucks. Alternatively, Obama could make a green splash by using GM's 2-Mode hybrid system. Just a thought. - grant
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