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"Because they don't have four pointers." - NBA player Antoine Walker, on why he shoots so many three pointers
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1080p HD Is Coming to YouTube - http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2009...
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wow. so cool
- Dylan Casey
Facebook iPhone Dev Quits Project Over Apple Tyranny - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Peter Renshaw, Daniel Rowley, imabonehead and 8 other people liked this
"“My decision to stop iPhone development has had everything to do with Apple’s policies.” – Joe Hewitt"
- Gary Burd
from Bookmarklet
Asteroid scrapes past Earth just 8,700miles away - with only 15 hours warning | Mail Online - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/science...
April Buchheit, Christopher Chung, imabonehead and 8 other people liked this
"rock was only 23ft across. Similar sized objects pass by this close to Earth about twice a year and impact on the planet about once every five years. Astronomers believe the object, called 2009 VA, would have almost completely burned up while entering Earth's atmosphere, causing a brilliant fireball in the sky but no major damage to the surface...Its orbit brought it 30 times nearer than the Moon, which is 250,000 miles away."
- bob
from Bookmarklet
Underground bunkers++. Just sayin.
- Private Sanjeev
OMG, ASTEROID BARELY MISSES EARTH, AND WE DIDN'T SEE IT COMING!!!... well, actually, it was but a pebble, utterly benign and harmless, and kinda, sorta happens all the time. Thanks for reading!
- Phil Essing
My First Month With Google Wave: Can’t Even Stand On the Board - http://webworkerdaily.com/2009...
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Got my first "Reconnect with this person" suggestion on Facebook for a friend that had passed away. Wow, this feature sucks.
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Dear RIM: Please put your trays in the locked, upright position. Then put your head between your knees and kiss your ass goodbye - http://www.fakesteve.net/2009...
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I've Discovered Something Amazing! - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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You're going to do this for Halloween, aren't you, Kevin?
- Anne Bouey
This guy needs a show.
- Stephen Mack
Anne: That's an amazing idea. I hadn't thought of that.
- Kevin Fox
:)
- Anne Bouey
Check out the street view guy when you position him in Legoland
Gabe, Keith Pelczarski, Lizunlong and 16 other people liked this
"A Library to Last Forever" - NYTimes op-ed by Sergey Brin - http://www.nytimes.com/glogin...
Bruce Johnson, Mahesh CR, Kevin Cearns and 5 other people liked this
"Others have questioned the impact of the agreement on competition, or asserted that it would limit consumer choice with respect to out-of-print books. In reality, nothing in this agreement precludes any other company or organization from pursuing their own similar effort. The agreement limits consumer choice in out-of-print books about as much as it limits consumer choice in unicorns. Today, if you want to access a typical out-of-print book, you have only one choice — fly to one of a handful of leading libraries in the country and hope to find it in the stacks."
- Tom Stocky
from Bookmarklet
Sergey Brin - A Library to Last Forever - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
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A Central Place for All Your Google Files - http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009...
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Sebastian, Tony Ruscoe, Louis Gray and 2 other people liked this
one more step to Google Drive ?
- Stanislas Jourdan
Google: US Flu Activity Already Nearing Seasonal Peak - http://www.steverubel.com/google-...
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Steven Cains, Alex Gawley, Huseyin Savas and 2 other people liked this
I disagree. Speaking for myself and not my employer, I think activity is determined by measuring search trends. Unfortunately, when we have an irregular event (swine flu) with heightened awareness and concern, lots of people who *don't* have the flu are doing searches about the flu, thus increasing the activity on that chart. IMO, H1N1 broke the functionality of the flu trends tool. Of course, very smart people at The Company are working on this so perhaps they've already normalized for lookie-loos.
- EricaJoy
Looking at the bottom graph on http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/ ( http://www.cdc.gov/flu... ) the trend does seem very high at the moment. That graph seems to somewhat match Flu-Trends. I imagine media does influence this a bit though, but I'd be surprised if our team didn't take that into account ... somehow :-)
- John μller
I do wonder if the heightened awareness is causing more people to report cases of the flu when they previously wouldn't have? Maybe this *is* normal flu activity, we just didn't ever hear about all cases before.
- EricaJoy
I don't know how it's like in the US (where these trends are from), but here (in Switzerland) they tell people not to even call doctors if they think they just have a normal case of the swine flu (or, I guess, the flu in general). So if anything, they're telling people here to report fewer cases of the flu. If the overall trend is still higher despite that, then I think it's probably a pretty visible trend :-). What do they say in the US?
- John μller
They say the same thing in the US, however, I don't think people are paying much attention to that.
- EricaJoy
People have this mistaken impression that "Swine Flu" is somehow more dangerous, and so it's going to be reported more. That's what you get when you get a lot of news reporting on a subject: mistaken impressions.
- Otto
How Google Just Hurt Itself A Whole Lot - http://techgeist.net/2009...
Alex Gawley, k0nan, Mike Chelen and 5 other people liked this
Agreed. After reading the post by Dan Morrill, I'd have to say that it's pretty clear that Android is not only not open source, but that developers of Android apps are clearly wasting their time. Google is simply not serious about developing a true open mobile platform. So I'd advise those developers to abandon Android and look elsewhere, since Google isn't going to carry through to the...
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- Otto
keeping software such as gmail applications closed source unfortunately ends up creating these kind of issues
- Mike Chelen
AppJet Makes Simple Web Apps A Breeze - http://www.techcrunch.com/2007...
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Rishabh Mishra (p248), Mike Chelen, Tweet Feeds and 7 other people liked this
Anyone try this? Is it actually good?
- ⓞnor
I've played with it a bit but haven't had the chance to do much. I invested in it last summer because I love the idea and think the founders are really smart.
- Paul Buchheit
As an IT teacher, I find this to be a very good and quick "test bed" for my students. They can learn the Web development paradigm through immediate "try/error" iterations. Thumbs up!
- Claudio Cicali ♋
I really love the site and the idea. Especially for devs like me, who don't have money or people to work with. Still, I'm having to go with Google App Engine, just on the offhand chance that my idea works so well that it has to scale higher. But for someone building a free app with a small-med-sized audience, I'd be extremely open to AppJet.
- Christopher Galtenberg
appjet has unfortunately shut down, but the technology lead to the lovely http://etherpad.com and the much of the server software was open source allowing replacements such as http://apps.jgate.de/
- Mike Chelen
Christopher: one nice thing about appjet was that it was possible to download the source .js to a private server host and run on any of several server side javascript engines, including the one released by appjet. this is similar to google app engine, because the python or java code is portable, although both platforms include special storage libraries
- Mike Chelen
UK government database of all 1,841,177 post codes together with precise geographic coordinates and other information, 8 Jul 2009 - Wikileaks - http://wikileaks.org/wiki...
sseeaann, Isaac Hepworth, cheran and 2 other people liked this
There's no way this will be allowed to stay up. I imagine they'll just sue anyone who uses the data rather than trying to take on WikiLeaks. If not...
- Adewale Oshineye
surely this is a public good?
- Alex Gawley
Royal Mail is a company. They make a _lot_ of money from their exclusive access to this data.
- Adewale Oshineye
from iPhone
Royal Mail makes money from exclusive access (or licensing access) to the Postcode Address File which includes not just the postcodes but the names or numbers of each address within. This file doesn't have that detail.
- Isaac Hepworth
The technology behind Tornado, FriendFeed's web server - Bret Taylor's blog - http://bret.appspot.com/entry...
Bryan Tsai, Sebastian, Thierry R. Andriamirado and 293 other people liked this
We have open sourced our web server. Download it at http://www.tornadoweb.org/. Check out the Facebook announcement at http://developers.facebook.com/news...
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
See a live chat demo: http://chan.friendfeed.com:8888/
- Casey Muller
*have no idea what I am looking at*
- Joe
Wow! Thanks so much, Bret and co!
- Doug
this was very interesting; good job
- RAPatton
neat
- anna sauce
I wonder what the engineering decision was to not use a WSGI interface.
- mikepk
mikepk: it supports WSGI, but it is not WSGI by default because WSGI does not support non-blocking I/O for things like hanging connections. See http://www.tornadoweb.org/documen....
- Bret Taylor
This actually is a very good piece of code! Thanks folks!
- directeur
cool, Bret, thanks :) I was just heading through the docs now.
- mikepk
Thanks for doing this, Bret! That's some pretty cool stuff.
- Keith Bourgoin
that's great. thanks..
- Onur Gündüz
oh man, this is so awesome, thanks guys!
- Charles Ying
Is "tonado" a typo?
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
I'm hacking my own python web framework at the moment, so now the choice on whether I want to switch gears to this or not. I'm liking what I see so far.
- mikepk
Bruce: Yes
- Casey Muller
Wow.. Thanks!! pretty much makes my day.. which is scary in it's own rite.
- Chris Myles
Great news! Cheers to the FF team!
- Egon Willighagen
Nice new title Brett.."Facebook Director of Products".. a good sign of things to come!
- Chris Myles
very very glad to hear this bit: "Tornado is a core piece of infrastructure that powers FriendFeed's real-time functionality, which we plan to actively maintain."
- Chris Heath
Great work
- James Myatt
does this have any implications for friendfeed.com in terms of competition and shelf-life?
- Franz Sittampalam
Franz: enables widespread adoption which leads to greater influence of the technique
- Mike Chelen
So excited this is out. So many personal projects I have been wanting to build with it :)
- Bret Taylor
Bret, do you have a set of coding conventions you use? E.g. looks like you use mixed case for classes and underbar separators for methods.
- Cristo
Fantastic, Bret (and team)!
- Micah Wittman
A very good project!...you know if will be possibile to use Tornado with other technogies except Python (such as JEE, Ruby On Rails, etc.)?
- Nicola Junior Vitto
Cristo: we tried to use the official Python coding conventions, though we may have inadvertently strayed. Those conventions are: ClassNames, method_names, variable_names
- Bret Taylor
Brilliant! I hope you can provide very valuable input for the next round of #python WSGI, which desperately needs a next round ;)
- Uche Ogbuji
Re: WSGI needing help, see http://www.b-list.org/weblog...
- Uche Ogbuji
grt
- Xitong Liu
"Facebook's opensource technologies" link is broken on tornadoweb.org ..
- Onur Gündüz
Onur, worked for me - and still works now
- Chris Heath
Very cool, in case someone needs a high-end Web Server for a project, FriendFeed just open-sourced theirs, & apparently, it screams..
- Alex Schleber
Nicola: there is a Ruby example - http://gist.github.com/184760
- Mike Chelen
thx Mike, but this is a kind of eventmachine (that sounds good) for Ruby, not a Tornado client or wrapper...isn't it?
- Nicola Junior Vitto
Excellent! Thank you. Was eagerly waiting for the day to come after looking this just 1 month ago; "changeset: 5afb8a445cad / date: 2009-08-11 16:34:48 / description: Initial open source packages" http://changelog.friendfeed.com/2009...
- NaHi
from f2p
Chris, yes it is fixed.. I swear it was broken ..
- Onur Gündüz
Good catch, NaHi. :)
- Micah Wittman
Thanks guys. Really appriciated.
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
That's great. thanks Bret :-)
- Nimaa
Nice job on the non-blocking stuff Bret!
- Mitchell Tsai
"We have open sourced our web server" @bret took over a year but is worth the wait. thx for the follow through ~ http://bret.appspot.com/entry...
- Peter Renshaw
Ohhh, ummm, btw, your underhanded behind the scenes sell out still rankles my human decency, & a lot of others too, as should yours...thumbs down/dislike x 47.5 million dollars, however not being bitter of course, keep ignorance & bliss
- sofarsoShawn
As I expected :) brilliant
- FFTornado
that's the sound of I believe 100000000? or so hands clapping...& giving you the BOOOO-URNS if I'm not mistaken...
- sofarsoShawn
oh you sonsabitchez this fscking rules! why so badass, ff? thank. you. :)
- mike
So, can we say; Python is the future?
- Ozkan Altuner
Nice code. Started to look at it today. Thanks for doing this. Now to start testing this on some projects I had been working on.
- Altan Khendup
What OS do you guys run FF on?
- Diego Barros
Diego: we run on Linux.
- Bret Taylor
from email
@bret just out of curiosity - what would necessitate usage of such an engine for a *personal* project? :)
- Michael Bravo
Michael: it is a nice framework to use for any project in my opinion (though I am clearly biased). If you are doing anything real-time like the chat demo, something like Tornado is certainly necessary/useful regardless of the size of the project.
- Bret Taylor
from email
@bret and for little-sized hardware? should have try it on Maemo based :)))
- A.T.
@silpol I kinda fail to see Maemo devices being used for servers (unless it's some kind of satellite-based or other covert server maybe :) )
- Michael Bravo
from IM
@mbravo you never know... there are some unusual (and cool) apps for web servers, granted you abstain (on purpose) from classical models, e.g.server farm somewhere there and herds of clients connecting to it...
- A.T.
Bret: Cool, thanks. Just out of curiosity, which flavour of Linux is preferred by FriendFeed?
- Diego Barros
I think this is the best answer for the ultimate question: "Does python needs yet another web framework?" While most of us would say why, when one come across this, a real world proven technology, serving zillions of pages a day, one would say, well, why not. actually, why not even take it an try to integrate out next web app with it? great job! seems like joining FB won't do you any harm ;-)
- Tzury Bar Yochay
We've seen tornado vs twisted, how about tornado vs rails? http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Tzury Bar Yochay
http://chan.friendfeed.com:8888/ It doesn't work. I'd like to see chat.js :)
- Анатолий Шарифулин
FriendFeed's web server, open sourced? This is great! Welcoome, Tornado!
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
Bret: how do you proxy long-living connections through nginx? Vanilla nginx buffers everything.
- Alex Kapranoff
nginx has a configuration option to turn off buffering.
- Tristan Seligmann
Friendfeed's Tornado.... one word: sweet
Nispell, Daniel J. Pritchett, Haggis (Sean Loyless) and 4 other people liked this
can't say a better word ^^
- David Guyon
Agreed, I'm pretty psyched about this one.
- Ted Roden
RT @most_alive wondering if more children will be born 9 months after #gmail is down
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AMC - Blogs - SciFi Scanner - John Scalzi's Guide to the Most Epic FAILs in Star Wars Design - http://blogs.amctv.com/scifi-s...
Type Micah, Hutch Carpenter, Erich Zirnhelt and 21 other people liked this
"I'll come right out and say it: Star Wars has a badly-designed universe; so poorly-designed, in fact, that one can say that a significant goal of all those Star Wars novels is to rationalize and mitigate the bad design choices of the movies. Need examples? Here's ten."
- Jim Norris
from Bookmarklet
But maybe it was that that gave it it's edge.
- Kevin J Hatton
kevin's "that that it it" made my head hurt. good point though.
- Jessie
Heh, loved this. Written by John Scalzi, and if you liked his non-fiction, you'll really dig his fiction: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- Stephen Mack
Love the comments on this article: If R2 spoke, they would have gotten an R rating. I believe that most of the time, he is screaming obscenities at all of the other characters.
- Brian Chang
ha! "Add it all up and you have to wonder why stormtroopers don't just walk around naked, save for blinders and flip-flops."
- Felicia Yue
If you want to import your Facebook status, you must have "Allow friends to subscribe to my status" checked on the "Status Updates" custom privacy setting at http://www.facebook.com/login.... This is the default, but a few people have customized it away.
Levi Breederland, Cliff Gerrish, Mark Douglass and 54 other people liked this
Will "my network and friends" work too?
- JA Castillo
I think that's fine JA. They key is to have the "Allow friends to subscribe to my status" checkbox checked (the one right above the red bar in the second screenshot). That dialog appears when you select "Customize..." from the "Status Updates" pulldown on the first screenshot.
- Paul Buchheit
Wow, that totally fixed my issue. Thanks, Paul (and FriendFeed)!
- Mark Trapp
Thanks!
- GЗФЯGЭ KЗЯ
Thank you.
- Guillermo Esteves
Thank you !
- Joan Dossetto
Awesome! Thanks for the tip.
- Reuben Thum
Sorry - this doesn't work. I have that box checked. Unimpressed.
- Mathew
Matthew, Facebook has been through at least one major redesign since this entry was posted on 21st October. Anyone help Matthew in getting his FB imported in FF?
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol is correct, Facebook has changed their interface since these instructions were posted. Unfortunately, they seem to have eliminated the "Status Updates" RSS feed entirely. If you can find it, let me know.
- Paul Buchheit
The feed itself can't be gone - people who added it to FriendFeed before Facebook's UI changed are still having updates pulled in here. But as far as finding it now to add it...I've been unsuccessful. And modifying the URL of a working feed doesn't seem to work, either.
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
Yes, the RSS feeds still exist at some level, but the UI for discovering their secret urls seems to have been removed.
- Paul Buchheit
I'd love to know what the FFers think about all the changes that Facebook seems to be doing lately.
- Eric Florenzano
this link might help [http://www.techlifeweb.com/2008...].
- MikeAmundsen
btw - what i want to do is get my "wall" feed into FF. can't seem to get that, either.
- MikeAmundsen
alas, seems like the Facebook people continue to want it to be a walled garden.
- holly
I spent like half an hour last week trying to find my custom feed URL so I could import FB status into FriendFeed. No luck. =(
- Darren
Looks like FB is kind of blocking FF. Kind of showing teeth =)
- Durukan Duru
@Paul: do you anticipate Fb's announce this coming week about third-parties will give FF a chance to improve FF-Fb integration at all?
- MikeAmundsen
Yeah, mine was already enabled so it doesn't help me. Thanks for the idea though.
- Brad
Wondered how to do this when adding all my services. Thanks for the explanantion :)
- Charlotte M
I was able to find my FB status feed recently (but can't any longer), so FB must have recently tinkered with this.
- Kevin Whalen
FB status is gone!
- Lonnie Robinson
FB is making all this hoopla recently just because they finally "opened" up to 3rd party apps, and they take away the rss feed to our status updates.
- Kevin Whalen
from email
so how do we get facebook updates to friendfeed?
- Noel Nuguid
Would like to know how to enable status, too!
- Andreas Stolze
so, FB buys FF, I think status feeds will be back soon
- Hakan İyice
@Hakan Agreed, they should be back soon, hopefully with the option to "CC Facebook" like you can with Twitter.
- Nathan Snyder
For now this does not work at all. Let's hope, now that 'status' of pages can be synched with Twitter, that what used to funcntion will resume activity again.
- lelapin
@mamund Thanks for the link, but it didn't really help me. You wouldn't think it would be that hard to reenable this feed.
- Nathan Snyder
from IM
Extrapolating - http://xkcd.com/605/
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"By the third trimester, there will be hundreds of babies inside you."
- Tom Stocky
from Bookmarklet
Somedays you win some and some days Russian cyberhackers spoil your plans due to their ongoing war with a break-away republic.
Daniel Dulitz, Joel Webber, Alex Gawley and 8 other people liked this
Heads in different (decimal) places
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I want to believe this.
- Kevin Fox
brilliant :-)
- Alex Gawley
Bullet vs Wall - http://pixdaus.com/single...
Casey Muller, April Buchheit, Michal Cierniak and 12 other people liked this
Nirvana vs Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give Your Teen Spirit up - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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This is so well done... amazing.
- Michael Leggett
mattsly: uber-provocative post: app store's are a temporary distraction - the "Yahoo! Directory phase of the application web" http://tr.im/vgTB - http://twitter.com/mattsly...
Joel Webber, Josh Wills and Alex Gawley liked this
So true. Anyone here remember the (admittedly much smaller) gold rush around app stores like Handango for Palm, PocketPC, and Symbian? For a brief while, people were making buckets of money with stupid little apps like tip calculators and the like, then the novelty wore off, competition set in, and everyone wandered off to do other things.
- Joel Webber
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