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Venison Confit | MeatWater High Efficiency Survival Beverage - http://www.dinnerinabottle.com/venison...
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"Venison with morel mushrooms (port wine) We don’t know about your neighborhood, but around the MeatWater plant, we got tons of deer! They love to nibble on the clover and dandelions that grow on our industrial park. And that’s when we hit ‘em with the Compound Bow, baby! Thwak! Arrow through the neck! We lovingly hang the bifurcated carcass from a pair of trees then butcher that buck into lean and flavorful steaks. After a long braise with imported German morels and a port wine reduction we get the gamiest MeatWater of them all! You can really taste the meadow!"
- Amit Patel
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Finally watched the video for Google Goggles. Wow, this is some seriously cool tech - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Sebastian, Adelein Ro, Werner Trotter and 7 other people liked this
Try it in real life. It's a nifty demo but it's still much easier to read the label or upc code and search on that. Going from question to answer it has about a 10% hit rate.
- Hayes Haugen
Hayes, have you seen this video? http://www.youtube.com/watch... Taking old vacation pictures and finding out what the buildings are. The good stuff starts about 4:30 minutes in. :)
- Matt Cutts
So he taking pictures of his computer using his phone, finding out what the object is, then going back to the computer and typing it in? Something seems terribly inefficient about that ;)
- Amit Patel
Amit: my point is that by the time I start the app, take the picture and get a false hit it's faster to just recognize the object myself and search on it (with my phone).
- Hayes Haugen
Matt: like I said it does cool stuff sometimes but as a general purpose tool for identifying the things I run across it has not done well. I'm not claiming anything other than how it's worked for me. Suggest people use the product instead of watching promo videos! And I'm not crapping on the concept - looking forward to its evolution.
- Hayes Haugen
From most recent search history: miss: $20 bill, Norwegian flag, a Sitar, a MacBook, an iPhone, a Leatherman tool, the box for the Leatherman, a Canon Ti, a photo of Venice with a tower. Hit: box of Pepperidge Farm Entertaining Quartet crackers because it recognized "Entertaining Quartet" in huge letters - just like I did. What I really need it to do is recognize things I don't recognize. So I'm off to do some tests....
- Hayes Haugen
JActionScripters » Blog Archive » ActionScript3/Flash10 software synthesizer SiON released - http://blog.jactionscripters.com/2009...
“The SiON library works on ActionScript3/Flash10. This provides a simple sound synchronization with DisplayObject and an easy dynamic sound generation. You can generate various sounds without any mp3 files and wave data. The musical sequence is represented as simple text data “Music Macro Language”. It makes your sounding SWF file very very small.” via Andy Baio
- Amit Patel
Google Is Adding Live Updates to Searches - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
Andrew Bowers, Ho John Lee, Matt G and 16 other people liked this
"Twitter makes a search tool available on its own site. But Biz Stone, a Twitter co-founder, said that Google would be better able to provide Tweets that were relevant to a particular user’s questions. “We’re not good at relevancy right now, and they are,” he said. “More people will get more value out of Twitter because we are doing this with Google.”" I think that would be great--easier to search Twitter means more people tweeting.
- Matt Cutts
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I suppose that if somebody wanted to search Twitter, Google would be better at it. I just can't imagine why anybody not searching Twitter would want those results in their searches.
- Gabe
Gabe - Try again. Imagine someone searching for "Honda Civic", gets regular Google results but also a few tweets on the results screen. Those tweets mentioning "Honda Civic" could be very revealing. Like, dislike, problematic, cool feature found, just bought... Can find people thinking or doing the same thing you are right now. It is the future of search, come on.... I think so anyway.
- Odi Kosmatos
Odi — I don't understand the “Honda Civic” example. What are you looking for, when you search for “Honda Civic”, that you'd rather see what was posted 5 seconds ago instead of 5 minutes or 5 hours or 5 days ago?
- Amit Patel
I'm having a hard time trying to imagine a query where I would want to see the latest out-of-context chatter about the topic.
- Gabe
Gabe, it's mainly interesting as a way to see what people are thinking about something "right now". It's fun to watch during product launches and other events.
- Paul Buchheit
I think it's most appropriate for current event and news searches. If something big has gone down in a certain location... you would be able to have real-time accounts of the action fed into your google search. That makes it cool.
- SAM
Two slider controls are needed to customize page of result set: Pagerank<Low---|---High> and Date <Old---|---New>
- Micah Wittman
That's great but when can I get a pubsubhbbadabub Google Alert feed from that search?
- Bart LePoole
Is there any NON-voyeuristic purpose?
- Gabe
Natural Earth - http://www.naturalearthdata.com/
Private Sanjeev liked this
“Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110m scales. Featuring tightly integrated vector and raster data, with Natural Earth you can make a variety of visually pleasing, well-crafted maps with cartography or GIS software.”
- Amit Patel
Eureqa | Cornell Computational Synthesis Laboratory - http://ccsl.mae.cornell.edu/eureqa
Gagan Saksena, bob, Vlado Handziski and 5 other people liked this
"Eureqa is a software tool for detecting equations and hidden mathematical relationships in your data. Its primary goal is to identify the simplest mathematical formulas which could describe the underlying mechanisms that produced the data."
- Amit Patel
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Not to be confused with Eureka, Borland's solving program from the 80s: http://www.spinstop.com/roger...
- Gabe
Eureka was cool.
- Private Sanjeev
Separately, though eye-fi is cool, their biz strategy is misguided. Overwhelming & sale-killing: http://j.mp/6kKPaU
John μller and Daniel Shaw liked this
If I didn't already have an eye-fi card, I'd take one look at that page and think, gah, maybe I'll figure this out later... and then never buy one.
- Adam Lasnik
I found eye-fi to be a frustrating experience. I simply wanted a local wi-fi connection to get photos and videos from my camera to my computer (no uploading or passing through anyone else's servers), but found that it didn't handle videos, and that I was forever tied to an external account, service, and web site to keep the tech I'd bought functioning. I ended up giving it away. What I wanted was feasible technically, but not offered.
- LogEx
I think eye-fi has developed since you last tried it. As I understand, it now uploads videos (albeit through the eye-fi servers, I believe), and you *can* choose to have the photos and videos from your camera just saved on your hard drive and not posted on any third party site like flickr or picasaweb.
- Adam Lasnik
The Eye-Fi hardware is great. The software really annoys me. It would've been great if it offered sync or acted as an ftp server. People would've been able to use it for all sorts of things (like picture frames that take SD cards). But instead of making simple software that was very flexible, they made complicated software that limited what you could do with it. I gave mine away and switched to a regular SD card.
- Amit Patel
mattcutts: Looks like that @eschmidt0 account just got reset. It now belongs to one "Felipe Barreto". Hmm.. - http://twitter.com/mattcut...
Roberto Bonini and Jesse Stay liked this
Oh good, ericschmidt is following TheOnion
- Amit Patel
The SUL is a very powerful thing indeed.
- DeWitt Clinton
But is *Eric Schmidt* following TheOnion?
- Jérôme Flipo
Why doesn't aluminium foil get hot?
Kol Tregaskes, ǝuǝƃnǝ, Micah Wittman and 4 other people liked this
Of course it does. In what circumstances is it not getting hot for you?
- Michael R. Bernstein
Large surface area and ability to dissipate heat makes it cool quickly.
- Brian Sullivan
shiny side _reflects_ heat
- MikeAmundsen
Brian, that's assuming it's been dissociated from a heat source. If, say, it's still wrapped around the baked potato, you'll find that it's pretty good at dissipating heat into your fingers.
- Michael R. Bernstein
That's because the foil is directly touching the—pardon the pun—hot potato as opposed to being tented.
- Akiva Moskovitz
We're baking a pie right now at 375 °F and I put foil along the edges to prevent them from burning. About halfway through I took the foil off, and within seconds it was cool enough to crumple up by hand. In fact, it wasn't even warm. That surprises me every time.
- DeWitt Clinton
(Sitting here with my aluminium foil hat on)
- Joe
DeWitt, so what you're really asking is "why doesn't foil stay hot?". In which case Brian's answer is correct.
- Michael R. Bernstein
Ahh, so the foil was hot while in the oven, but because it is so thin and so good at conducting heat that it dissipated nearly instantaneously. Thanks, everyone. I can sleep at ease now.
- DeWitt Clinton
Will this become a Googe interview question? :P
- imabonehead
Not now, we spoiled it for everyone.
- DeWitt Clinton
BTW Akiva, that wasn't a pun.
- Michael R. Bernstein
I used to have this metal (unknown alloy) oven pizza plate that was pretty amazing like this. After taking it out of the oven and removing the pizza, it was almost instantly room temperature.
- Ray Cromwell
DeWitt, one correction -- aluminum has very low specific heat, 0.9 J/gK. Thus it is a very _poor_ conductor of heat. Foil also has very little mass. So 20g cooling by 200K only releases 4000J. If your 100g fingertips were mainly water (4 J/gK), they would gain only 10K from that 4000J, a condition which our nerves describe to us as "not hot."
- Daniel Dulitz
Daniel - that's not a correction, that's a freshman year physics class in comment form. You win FriendFeed.
- DeWitt Clinton
This was like a mini stackoverflow-style Q&A in a friendfeed thread - who knew the ff team built-in that in that kind of virtualization!
- Micah Wittman
Daniel Wins the Internets!!!
- Roberto Bonini
I'm going to memorise that comment for the next time I'm cooking.......
- Roberto Bonini
Well, if this is freshman physics quiz... Aluminium is a good conductor, it just can't store heat. Conduction and heat storage are different (like resistance and capacitance). cpu heat sinks are often aluminium because they quickly conduct heat to the surface of the fins.
- Tracy
So aluminum is the opposite of the space shuttle tiles?
- Amit Patel
Gamasutra: Mark Newheiser's Blog - Farmville, Social Gaming, and Addiction - http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs...
Private Sanjeev, Jérôme Flipo, ta√i and 7 other people liked this
"I think Farmville is more addictive than it is fun."
- Amit Patel
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"The game is also more than happy to bribe players for participating in its viral spread: cute lonely animals will show up on your farm periodically and as a player you face a dilemma in sentencing them to virtual abandonment and death unless you post on your Facebook wall that you need one of your friends to start playing Farmville and "adopt" the adorable little self-promoter. "
- bob
That's less bribery than blackmail.
- Jim Norris
True - these things are popular and addictive, but hardly social and you don't learn anything. (And I would have said so as a comment on the blog post, but woo-wee that's a lot of information they want for a registration!)
- Ciaoenrico
I'd have not problem sentencing an IMAGINARY animal to the death chamber. It's make believe! Then again, I don't spend my time playing these silly time wasting games either....
- Jeff P. Henderson
Nice review. Now I don't have to figure out what Farmville is :)
- Peng-Toh
What Facebook really needs is BRE. :)
- James Leard
from iPhone
@James: there's this group: http://www.facebook.com/group... but I don't know of anyone working on a BRE for Facebook.
- Amit Patel
Official Google Blog: This Week in Search - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/search...
Experi Marketing and Matt Cutts liked this
Google web search is changing too fast for me to keep up with the changes.
- Amit Patel
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Barely 8 things this week, including changing the home page. Quiet week? :)
- Matt Cutts
I wonder if our occasional promotions (like the recent Droid launch, or PSA-like links) would be part of the initial clean-page, or whether they'll be part of the faded-in links.
- Aaron D'Souza
Headed to Building 46 to pay homage to the Google overlords. #twd
VAL D. Zone, DeWitt Clinton, Igor Poltavskiy and 3 other people liked this
sorry to miss it!
- Jenna Bilotta
Oh it was a total blast, Jenna. <name deleted> showed off the new <service deleted> <version number deleted> and we all drank <deleted> and ate <deleted>. <name deleted>, <name deleted> and <name deleted> were all there! You missed out! It was epic.
- Louis Gray
ooh ooh I know! You drank Diet Coke
- Jesse Stay
You got me, Jesse. Guilty as charged. Now I have to disclose that I got a free Diet Coke again!
- Louis Gray
I'm good :-)
- Jesse Stay
Google never invites me to show off cool new technologies :-(
- Jesse Stay
you aren't alone Jesse
- Allen Stern
It's a proximity thing.
- Louis Gray
I don't think so, Louis. I'm only 26 milliseconds away from www.google.com and they've never invited me.
- Bruce Lewis
Of note, be sure my comment to Jenna is teasing her, Bruce. I wanted her to feel left out.
- Louis Gray
le sigh. I had an interesting day, nonetheless... but still haven't seen <service deleted> yet!
- Jenna Bilotta
The diet coke has nanogooglebots that are busy indexing your insides.
- Amit Patel
How False Rumors Can Cost Lives http://canonical.org/~kragen...
Jeremy Hylton, Joel Webber, Amit Patel and 6 other people liked this
PLEASE RETWEET
- Jim Norris
You're such a wag, Jim. :-)
- Ruchira S. Datta
I want Kragen to write more! Or at least make it easier to discover his new posts.
- Amit Patel
Amit, do you know about Kragen's mailing list?
- Adewale Oshineye
I do, but it needs a feed ;)
- Amit Patel
Sigh. Someone signed up for a Facebook account with my email address and the "if you think this is an error" link does nothing.
Vadim Spivak, Alex Scoble, Victor Ganata and 11 other people liked this
What's interesting is that Facebook doesn't make you wait until you confirm your email address before you can start using the account. So I'm seeing her add friends, get messages, etc. The "if you are receiving this in error" link in the email takes you to a "Report Abuse" page, which has a button that does nothing but return you to the Report Abuse page.
- DeWitt Clinton
Spectacular fail.
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
People have signed up for so many services using my email addresses. I'm amazed by how many services don't require confirmation of the email account — including banks!! I'm getting people's bank statements and the bank ignores my protests.
- Amit Patel
Reported the link not working correctly as a bug. Let me know which email address of yours it was and I'll try to get it sorted out.
- David Recordon
Thanks for looking into this, @David. The email address they signed up with is 'dewitt' at gmail, which I don't use myself, but it forwards to my normal account. But the real bug isn't the Report Abuse form, of course. Why not verify email addresses before enabling the new account?
- DeWitt Clinton
The link is now fixed.
- David Recordon
Rock on. Thanks, David!
- DeWitt Clinton
Lost Garden: Three False Constraints - http://lostgarden.com/2009...
"When we talk about making games culturally meaningful we often limit the discussion in three important ways. The following constraints are completely arbitrary, yet we stick with them like they are some holy mandates from a greater god." […]
- Amit Patel
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Can someone write a haiku about the new Bing Maps for me, please? "Sorry, but Microsoft Silverlight doesn’t work with this web browser."
Schadenfreude liked this
Crashing epicly
- Schadenfreude
Microsoft fails once again
- Schadenfreude
Bing Maps really really sucks
- Schadenfreude
(I tried)
- Schadenfreude
wait - bing has maps???
- Chris Heath
See Live Maps
- Schadenfreude
I loved Live Maps until they added code to prevent it from working in my browser of choice.
- Amit Patel
Just tried it. Bing Maps is very impressive.
- Gabe
Bing maps gone from web \ To winter silverlit demoland \ Hubris or despair?
- Nick Lothian
New video card. Not by choice.
Roberto Bonini liked this
What happened? And what kind did you get?
- Bret Taylor
The old one died; after my computer was on for a few minutes, the screen would turn a uniform color (the first time it was pink, then blue, then black). I got one of these: http://www.nvidia.com/object...
- Tudor Bosman
and that was when it decided to boot; after a few reboots, it wouldn't boot at all, and the computer made the "bad video card" beep sequence during POST (1 long, 2 short).
- Tudor Bosman
896 MB! Wow things have changed since I last had a gaming desktop
- Benjamin Golub
512 MB is still the most common, I think. The new video card I got (nvidia gts 250) has 512, and Steam's survey is showing 512: http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurve...? although that's not only new systems.
- Amit Patel
How salt is associated with stroke and heart disease risk - http://www.kevinmd.com/blog...
Causality or correlation?
- Amit Patel
I don't know, I haven't read the article that this is referring to, but the claim is Causality, from my reading. The claim : 'he authors estimate that reducing daily salt intake by as little as 5 g at the population level could avert 1.25 million deaths from stroke and nearly three million deaths from cardiovascular disease annually.' is astounding
- Rob Schonberger
In vitro meat - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
April Buchheit and harry liked this
Meat takes so much space, water, and energy to produce, all because we grow animals to hold our meat while it's growing. Let's grow our meat in vats.
- Amit Patel
I doubt it would taste very good. Also the lack of bone could be a serious obstacle to some people. :-) But we could replace a portion of in vivo meat in hamburgers and hot dogs with something that has mediocre taste and a better health profile, and no one need even notice.
- Daniel Dulitz
What would make in vitro meat taste different from real meat?
- Amit Patel
How much a muscle works, how the fat and muscle fibers are joined, are key -- that's why different cuts of meat have different flavors, why foie gras tasks different from liver, and so on. Texture is also very important to flavor. Bones and marrow add their own flavor to cooked meat. And many organs besides muscle are very tasty (I can say, having recently been to Incanto's Head-to-Tail Dinner).
- Daniel Dulitz
BTW, I love having a meat discussion while I'm on the farm. It's such a... meaty thread!
- Daniel Dulitz
Perhaps we'll end up using in vitro meat to feed to carnivorous pigs. Mmm, bacon-fed bacon.
- Amit Patel
Mad pig disease!
- Daniel Dulitz
I just had delicious (!) vegetarian chicken. No bones, and has very nice texture. One thing with getting rid of our meat producing industry is that it could render some animals almost extinct as we wouldn't "need them" anymore. My feeling is that anything done on a too large scale is unhealty. Meat industry is there. Farming is there.
- Jonas S Karlsson
Also see http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol...
- Amit Patel
Yeah, I don't imagine there'll be a lot of development of vat-grown offal. =/
- Andrew C
In meatro
- Daniel Dulitz
Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: The Emerging Field of Biophotonic Communication - http://www.technologyreview.com/blog...
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"Last year, researchers at the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago showed that human cells in culture could synchronize their internal chemical processes even though they were mechanically, chemically, and electrically isolated from one another. The cells, it seemed, were communicating through the exchange of photons."
- Amit Patel
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Zombie Driver - http://zombiedriver.com/news...
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Joel Webber liked this
Imagine Crazy Taxi, but with zombies. Instead of avoiding the pedestrians you have to kill them all, since they're zombies. $10. Watch the video.
- Amit Patel
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Sounds like Carmegeddon.
- Rich
Can D.I.Y. Supplant the First-Person Shooter? - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
Tracy, Andrew C and Hein Roehrig liked this
A great profile of Jon Blow.
- Piaw Na
GDC was in March. Why is this just coming out now?
- Rob Shillingsburg
Hey, I have a little time now, so. OK, the headline is just silly. DIY will no more supplant FPSes than indie movies supplanted blockbusters.
- Andrew C
The very sentence "Braid is something you could show to Roger Ebert and say, 'Here is a work of authorial intention,' " raises my hackles, perhaps unintentionally. I really don't like the auteur theory in film and I don't think it applies to most videogames either, Braid and other ultra-small-teams aside. By analogy, there actually are great works in TV and film that come from an entire team. A great screenwriter, director, editor, DP, composer, actors, production designer, sound editor, and so forth.
- Andrew C
I guess my point is implicitly made in that sentence "Some observers say the success of Braid is an "Easy Rider" moment for video games." Indeed, there was an explosion of indie films in the 1970s. And I applaud that. But H'wood films didn't go away. And now every major movie studio also has a unit devoted to making "indie" films too. Movies, of course, have a much better system of ancillary revenue streams than games do, but I think to some degree that problem can be addressed or otherwise worked around.
- Andrew C
Have you heard Jon's talks? I think he's right in that the major games that heavily abuse gamers by using techniques such as: "using levels as candy", "forcing gamers into repetitive task that are not in aid of the game". I think that having people like Jon around is good for reminding designers of such weaknesses.
- Piaw Na
No, I haven't heard his talks, but... what's wrong with candy?
- Andrew C
Jon has been at it for a long time. It's great to see him getting recognition.
- Tracy
Why are we equating FPS with the commercial mainstream? It is now, though there are plenty of other genres on the market. Will FPS be the primary genre forever? That's a depressing thought. I find shooting kind of... tedious. Braid was, of course, awesome. Passage is meh.
- ⓞnor
I like candy.
- Amit Patel
When I think of commercial mainstream, I think of Sims, World of Warcraft, Wii Fit, Mario Kart, Grand Theft Auto. But I guess there are some big FPSes too (Halo comes to mind but I think there's a new one released last week that's getting some attention).
- Amit Patel
Richard Chen and Peng-Toh liked this
Woah.
- Amit Patel
Just picked it up a couple days ago :)
- Simon
Nice!
- Peng-Toh
Looks nice. We finally got our A4 a few weeks ago (hey, it's not the S4, but we still love it :). Audi has really started producing great cars in the last couple of years. If you look at their Consumer Reports ratings, it's like night and day from a couple of years ago. And that S4 looks like a lot of fun!
- Joel Webber
Excellent choice. I own a 2004 S4 and they've only gotten better with each rev. Did you opt for the Magna sport rear diff?
- Bill Strathearn
Bill: Yeah, I got the sports diff, the dynamic suspension and also the dual clutch gearbox. I'm used to a manual, but decided to go for the DSG this time and am pretty happy with the decision so far! :)
- Simon
HIDIHO! » Blog Archive » activator inhibitor - http://en.nicoptere.net/?p=656
Activator/inhibitor Flash demos. None of the demos are working for me at the moment. But look at the “fur” image. My eyes can't keep this steady. Is it bothering anyone else?
- Amit Patel
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Implementing a syntax-higlighting JavaScript editor in JavaScript - http://marijn.haverbeke.nl/codemir...
James Leard liked this
Syntax-highlighting in the browser is tough, because textareas match the input data (plain text) but not the output (colored text), and content-editable matches the output but not the input. Plus, content-editable is flaky. This article is about parsing, coloring, and coping with browser limitations.
- Amit Patel
"We need people to help us tackle some of the hardest software engineering and computer science problems, including developing a ground-breaking programming system that decimates the time required to build a web application end-to-end." - http://www.asana.com/
arunthampi, Hutch Carpenter, Krishna Gade and 13 other people liked this
Is Asana developing a new programming language?
- Gary Burd
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Naturally :) What does it mean to decimate time though? Is that 10% less?
- Paul Buchheit
Yeah, decimate has such an awful sound, by in most real-world situations, getting rid of 10% of something is not such a big deal.
- j1m
The historical definition of decimate was to kill 1 in 10 of a group as punishment but the current accepted definition is to kill, destroy or remove a large percentage.
- Ed Millard
So speaking of decimate, did you see this on the feeds earlier today by @FakeAPStylebook: http://friendfeed.com/glenc...
- Micah Wittman
Asana is developing a functional reactive programming based server-synchronized web development framework. It includes a mixed presentation/logic mini language which gets compiled into JS. I'm sure they'd be happy to tell you more -- they're not terribly secretive.
- ⓞnor
@Micah, the original meaning of decimate is pretty hard to resist. Suggested rejoinder for anyone arguing with FakeAPStylebook types: if you just mean reduce, then say so.
- j1m
"functional reactive"? Is that reactive like MS's reactive framework? http://codebetter.com/blogs...
- Gabe
j1m, indeed.
- Micah Wittman
"Decimators of Time" sounds like a good band name
- David Vasileff
I was just thinking a few weeks ago that a new language may be just what I need for web programming. They seem to have an all-star team. I'm looking forward to seeing what they come up with.
- Amit Patel
FRP is a formalism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...). More concretely, with Asana's system, you write a *function* that takes the model (database state, etc.) and returns presentation (HTML, etc.) -- just like a simple CGI script (only client-side). So far so ordinary, but with FRP the runtime evaluates the function *incrementally*. A small model change (a field value edit, or a new item in a list), causes only the necessary recalculation and an incremental page update.
- ⓞnor
This is coupled with a client/server sync/notification system, so real-time interfaces like FriendFeed's become the default, rather than requiring a big bundle of event listeners and careful handling of edge cases. The idea is that by eliminating event spaghetti, you can make really great interfaces much more easily. My understanding is they plan to use this to build workflow apps.
- ⓞnor
Dan, thanks for the description.
- Gary Burd
Do you have any examples of what this type of coding looks like?
- Gabe
There's been some nice work on FRP for web programming at Brown, e.g. http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk...
- Jeremy Hylton
They have quite the team and set of investors.
- Schadenfreude
Shriram's involved? That makes it even more interesting. He's a pillar of the Scheme community.
- Bruce Lewis
Three 30 inch monitors per engineer.
- Amit Patel
Yes, one for each eye.
- τorƍue
Nothing gets computer scientists excited like the possibility of developing a new programming language. Nothing makes on-the-line implementers cringe more than a new programming language. Ask Joel Splosky how Wasabi adoption is going outside of FogBugz. Of course, the probability of success is higher with languages that are more divergent than anything before it and solve real-world...
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- Bill Strathearn
As both someone who hates to have to deal with a new language, and at the same time loves coming up with new languages, the new language had better be either (a) hugely different and hugely more productive, or (b) my pet language. ;)
- Amit Patel
Easy coding of web-pages that update in real-time -- that sounds like something worth inventing a new programming language for. (I can't think of any other feature that I would consider to justify a new language :) )
- j1m
Inaugural Issue of Rejecta Mathematica Released | Rejecta Mathematica - http://math.rejecta.org/inaugur...
Private Sanjeev, Schadenfreude, Attila Csordas and 8 other people liked this
"Rejecta Mathematica is an open access, online journal that publishes only papers that have been rejected from peer-reviewed journals in the mathematical sciences. In addition, every paper appearing in Rejecta Mathematica includes an open letter from its authors discussing the paper's original review process, disclosing any known flaws in the paper, and stating the case for the paper's value to the community."
- Amit Patel
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What we need even more is a journal of null results for experimental studies.
- Robert Felty
+1 Robert.
- Daniel Dulitz
Do we still have the Journal of Irreproducible Results ? —NickZ
- NickZz
Chrome OS theorists -- you're overthinking it.
Bill de hÓra, Adewale Oshineye, Matt Cutts and 3 other people liked this
Amazing to read multipage essays about the strategy of a web browser on a laptop.
- DeWitt Clinton
I'd hope there'd be some kind of strategy to it! Though, if I were to take the "obvious" path, it's because people want less computer for their computing these days. And, as the video says, more people are spending more time in the browser, so...! why not just rid of all the other stuff that gets in the way?
- Chris Messina
Google Chrome runs web pages and applications with lightning speed. Chrome OS runs them even faster. Faster means more users on the web. More users on the web means more users using Google. That's a pretty simple, and highly effective, strategy.
- DeWitt Clinton
Well, I think the coupling of Chrome OS to specific hardware reqs is one of the more interesting things here. It gives Google a "hand to reach out into reality" in a way that it only previously had with Android/G1 devices.
- Chris Messina
(As always, speaking for myself, not Google) I assume the coupling to hardware specs is the only reasonable way to guarantee sane behavior. Encouraging people to install it on arbitrary hardware would open it up to all the problems that any non-Windows OS (and sometimes even Windows) has on arbitrary hardware -- driver hell and unpredictable performance. Very similar to Apple's approach, but without the overpriced hardware.
- Joel Webber
The manifestation of the Googlebot in your home will be the other “hand to reach out into reality”: http://www.ftrain.com/robot_e...
- Amit Patel
recastnavigation - Project Hosting on Google Code - http://code.google.com/p...
Navmesh-based pathfinding, open source
- Amit Patel
Whaoh! Did you guys feel that?!
Steve "Daddy do it!" Lacy, ashish and Roberto Bonini liked this
no.
- Rachel Lea Fox
" Magnitude: 2.9 - duration magnitude (Md); Time: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 at 1:26:17 PM (PST); Distance from: Los Altos, CA - 3 km (2 miles) SSW (203 degrees), Los Altos Hills, CA - 4 km (2 miles) SE (140 degrees), Mountain View, CA - 6 km (4 miles) SSW (205 degrees), Sunnyvale, CA - 8 km (5 miles) WSW (248 degrees), San Jose City Hall, CA - 19 km (12 miles) W (272 degrees); Coordinates: 37 deg. 20.7 min. N (37.345N), 122 deg. 6.6 min. W (122.110W); Depth: 5.5 km (3.4 miles)"
- April Buchheit
nope.
- EricaJoy
no
- Glen Mistletoe
me neither
- Ruchira S. Datta
Meh, 2.9? I can cause a 2.9 just by moving furniture around.
- DeWitt Clinton
I definitely felt my house jerk.
- April Buchheit
The epicenter was less than 1mi from our house :)
- Paul Buchheit
Possibly directly beneath our house, depending on the precision of their detectors...
- Paul Buchheit
Nope.
- Spidra Webster
Not up here.
- Anne Bouey
So, a localized Buchheit Earthquake, interesting.
- Stephen Mack
Camilla jumping up and down?
- Amit Patel
Well, our house is very near (if not right over) the Magdalena fault line...
- April Buchheit
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