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Eliza Piticari
a good piece of advice :)
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If you don't use it, your show is canceled? - Amit Patel
♣ - Sima
Jason Wehmhoener
RT @waxpancake: Absolutely blown away by @worrydream's talk on reactive coding, with art by Braid artist @davidhellman. https://t.co/TO4v5AXa
RT @waxpancake: Absolutely blown away by @worrydream's talk on reactive coding, with art by Braid artist @davidhellman. https://t.co/TO4v5AXa
Well, it's worrydream. Expect to be blown away :) - Amit Patel
I hope Bret plans to share some of those tools with us. Open source, commercial, whatever works for him. - Jason Wehmhoener
Nothing like Bret's tools, but still pretty interesting: http://livecoder.net/ - Jason Wehmhoener
Jason Wehmhoener
This is the most sensible thing I've read about vendor prefixes. http://infrequently.org/2012... That's also the last thing I'm going to say about them
I'd love to see webkit remove prefixes soon after the testing period is over. - Amit Patel
I can't fix CSSWG, but I don't think Tantek's proposal is an answer to anything. - Jason Wehmhoener
Amit Patel
ROFLCon III Confirmed Guests @ ROFLCon - http://roflcon.org/roflcon...
Scumbag Steve, My Drunk Kitchen, SMBC, Andy Baio, Nyan Cat, 4Chan, Leeroy Jenkins, … - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet
Andy Baio
Bret Victor's Inventing on Principle - https://vimeo.com/36579366
amazing talk that gets increasingly amazing; I want that code editor and iPad app - Andy Baio
I agree, amazing talk. - Amit Patel
Amit Patel
JPEG XR has better quality and color for the same file size compared to JPEG. Supported in IE9; not sure about other browsers. - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet
Stephen Mack
The future is so wide and unexplored. Anything seems possible.
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Although despite my thinking about the future, I just spent half an hour loading and reviewing reports from 10/27/2010 instead of today, so maybe I should also think about the present. - Stephen Mack
zombo.com? - Mike Nencetti
THE ONLY LIMIT IS YOURSELF WELCOME TO ZOMBOCOMMMMMM - Stephen Mack
I love it. :) - Jenny R
Jenny, thank you. I love this random photo so much. Nothing is as limitless as the sense of possibility from the open road. - Stephen Mack
It speaks volumes. :) - Jenny R
Thanksgiving bump. I am thankful for my kids and for you but most of all for the future. - Stephen Mack from iPhone
“Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads.” - Amit Patel
I am thankful for the opportunities that lay before me and the people that will stand beside me as I explore them. - Georgia
I'm still following that road -- looking to see what's far ahead, but loving the scenery right here right now. - Stephen Mack
How would one go about exploring the future? - Bren from iPhone
We get closer to it every second. - Stephen Mack
Every time I see this pop up, I get all ... "Is it my birthday again? Do I get presents?" - Lix
Lix: YES! and YES! ... just not today. - Stephen Mack
Darn. :D - Lix
That reminds me of one of the final shots from The Terminator. - Akiva
Amit Patel
Minecraft Like Rendering Experiments in OpenGL 4 - Codeflow - http://codeflow.org/entries...
Lighting for games like Minecraft - Amit Patel
Amit Patel
IGF Factor 2012: Realm of the Mad God | Rock, Paper, Shotgun - http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2012...
IGF Factor 2012: Realm of the Mad God | Rock, Paper, Shotgun
"We are Alex Carobus and Rob Shillingsburg, founders of Wild Shadow Studios. We met ten years ago when we both worked at Google as software engineers. We’d both wanted to do games since we were kids, and after leaving Google we decided to go for it." - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet
Louis Gray
Storming the Googleplex at 8 wearing the uniform of social networking history. :)
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Tell them, tell them the stories. Tell the children about the great social network. Let them learn and build a better future. #soapbox - Eric
We are all Friendfeed. - WoH: Minding her Steves
By 8:30, Louis will be wearing a Google+ shirt. :) - Cristo
Hush, Chris. - Kelli H.
How long shall I stay hushed for, Kelli? - Cristo
*dusts historic self off* - Laura Norvig
I <3 Cristo. - Louis Gray
And no, I am not wearing a Google+ shirt. I am wearing a FriendFeed shirt. :) - Louis Gray
Dont 4get, underall that SAWG.. he's wearing his Google+ boxers !! - Peter Dawson
Prove it, Peter. :) - Louis Gray
I'll leave that to Barry of SEW to prove !! ..LOL - Peter Dawson
do you have spare t-shirt? I'd be happy to spread FF round Groupon - Bojan Babic
Woot! - Kevin Fox from iPhone
Ich bin ein Friendfeeder... - RobertoC
Apparently FriendFeed shirts attract the opposite sex… - Amit Patel
h... - Key Rabara
I am so happy that I am not the only one who still likes this site so much! - Space Cowboy
I don't have any Friendfeed swag but I cherish my FFundercats coffee mug - G Dub of the Carolinas
OMG YOU LOOK SO MORMON - Akiva
Amit Patel
Interactive Animation Brings Starry Night to Life - http://thenextweb.com/dd...
Interactive Animation Brings Starry Night to Life
"In what I can only describe as perhaps the most impressive application of openFrameworks I have ever seen, Petros Vrellis‘s interactive animation of Starry Night will surely blow your mind. Just when I thought that everything has been done, something like this pops up and knocks me off my pessimistic high-horse." - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet
Thomas Page
TED (conference) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
There's a “TED Great Pacific Garbage Patch”?! - Amit Patel
Better hook than Pacific Pollution Problem probably? - Thomas Page
Changing the Way We Eat 2-12-11 http://tedxmanhattan.org/speaker... - Thomas Page
TED Talks Psychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies: freedom of choice. http://www.ted.com/talks... , Do You Suffer From Decision Fatigue? http://www.nytimes.com/2011... - Thomas Page
pstp anthro Svante Paabo: DNA clues to our inner neanderthal http://www.ted.com/talks... , Spencer Wells builds a family tree for humanity http://www.ted.com/talks... , Neanderthal genome project http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... , Neanderthal... more... - Thomas Page
Anne Bouey
Why ravens, crows are more common now in Bay Area - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin...
Why ravens, crows are more common now in Bay Area
Why ravens, crows are more common now in Bay Area
"Not so long ago, common ravens were uncommon in the Bay Area. A 1927 reference calls them "rare" except at Point Reyes. American crows lived mostly along the Marin County coast, not in the East Bay. In 1991, Audubon Christmas Bird Counts tallied 17 crows and 54 ravens in San Francisco; 60 crows and 23 ravens in Oakland. The 2011 San Francisco count reported 599 ravens and 566 crows; Oakland had 1,152 crows and 193 ravens. Remarkable, especially considering that crows, if not ravens, are highly susceptible to the West Nile virus. California Department of Public Health statistics show more dead crows than any other bird species testing positive for West Nile: 1,792 in 2008; 468 last year. (Raven mortality was minor.) The disease devastated crow populations in the East and Midwest, but California populations weren't dented. Much of the crow and raven boom is urban. Birder Josiah Clark has seen flocks of 90 ravens in San Francisco. City crows are hard to miss in Berkeley and elsewhere in the East Bay; they're certainly, noisily, all over our neighborhood." - Anne Bouey from Bookmarklet
"What brings them here? Kevin McGowan of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology notes that they don't get shot in cities; they benefit from both federal protected status and local firearms ordinances. That alone may encourage boldness. Also, he says, cities tend to be warmer than the countryside, and have large trees for night roosting. Urban crows are less likely to encounter their mortal... more... - Anne Bouey
I looove these birds! - esther
You can have them esther. They're all over my part of California, too. We used to have crows. Now, I rarely see them. Still, I have to admit, it was beautiful watching one glide from the top of our hill on down a few hundred feet. - Anika
Some of them would be fine, Anika :) We have so many crows in Vienna and not one raven (I've never seen one, and I look out a lot) - esther
Hm, I need to get some owls… - Amit Patel
I get these birds in my backyard every morning (in san jose). As an old indian habit, my wife leaves them food on the concrete in the backyard and the birds come in around 7:30 am and then again in the afternoon. By the evening, all the food is gone. That has become on the ways to wake up my kid in the morning so that he can leave food for the birds and then watch them eat from indoors - kartik vaithyanathan
kartik, does he get up early on weekends, too? - Anne Bouey
saturdays yes - because he goes for basketball, alas not on sundays - kartik vaithyanathan
:) - Anne Bouey
Larry Hosken
How do you find time to read so many books? Are you not spending all your time on reddit and friendfeed? - Amit Patel
This is a backlog from when I bus-commuted 2.5 hours a day. Expect my rate of book reportage to drop off sharply at some point. - Larry Hosken
DGentry
"In software development sometimes you spend time on an implementation which you are unreasonably proud of, but ultimately decide not to use in the product. This is one such story." - Amit Patel
Reading the title, I first thought of modem commands, where ATA was “answer”… - Amit Patel
+++ATH - DGentry
Kevin Fox
This is a great new Powers of 10-style viz: http://htwins.net/scale2/ This is the bit that blew my mind: http://yfrog.com/o0ru3yp
This is a great new Powers of 10-style viz: http://t.co/JFQFfGwL This is the bit that blew my mind: http://t.co/PJMwPieU
This is fantastic. - Stephen Mack
Wow. That's awesome. - Amit Patel
Amit Patel
On my Internship at Khan Academy | David Hu - http://david-hu.com/2012...
On my Internship at Khan Academy | David Hu
On my Internship at Khan Academy | David Hu
"In true Khan Academy fashion I made a video to sum up my internship, at the suggestion of our lead developer Bengineer Kamens. I was not very good at emulating Sal Khan, so the video just evolved in my own style. As I became more and more sleep-deprived, I became less and less rational, and re-recorded some parts I thought were boring. Consequently, some speech is difficult to make out, so you can just read the transcript below or enable captions." - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet
What an awesome sounding internship! - Amit Patel
Nine
…oh, wait! Well. There are no cupcakes. - http://dataangel.tumblr.com/post...
…oh, wait!
 
Well. There are no cupcakes.
But no Oxford comma. Failure ensues. - Akiva
This ain't Oxford, my friend. - Eivind
Why is it only Oxford that can communicate correctly, Eivind? The Oxford comma is for everyone! - Andy Bakun
I'm a big fan of Oxford commas. But http://languagehippie.blogspot.com/2011... - Amit Patel
Amit Patel
Realm of the Mad God Trailer on Vimeo - http://vimeo.com/35967858
"Realm of the Mad God Trailer" - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet
Whoops, misspelled "heroes" - Rob Shillingsburg
Andy Baio
Help me with a blog post? Go here and tell me the non-Google apps with access to Gmail or "Full Account Access": https://t.co/mAD0ARTA
just 2 - boomerang for gmail and swiftkey X - Karl Rosaen
Picasa is the only one I have with full account / gmail access. - Amit Patel
feedly - Roberto Bonini
I don't have any. I am unhelpful. - Larry Hosken
Amit Patel
Bucking Convention with RotMG | Game Tycoon - http://www.edery.org/2012...
Bucking Convention with RotMG | Game Tycoon
"What would the typical publishing executive do if someone came to them and said, “We’ve taken open source, 8-bit art and created a f2p, nethack-inspired MMO with permadeath. You can attain the maximum character level in just 30 minutes of play. The game currently has no means of generating revenue and can only accommodate 60 concurrent players per server. Will you work with us on it?” That’s essentially the question posed to Spry Fox one year ago by Alex and Rob, co-creators of Wild Shadow Studios, when they presented us with an early build of Realm of the Mad God (RotMG). And I can guess what others might have said to them, because when we subsequently described the project to contacts of ours, the reaction was inevitably one of skepticism. Permadeath? In 2011? How the heck are you going to retain users? And surely you mean 600 concurrent players per server, not 60?!" - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet
Stephen Mack
Between them, Johnny and Josh have lost more than 85 pounds over the last 7 months. Congrats to them! - http://friendfeed.com/search...
Between them, Johnny and Josh have lost more than 85 pounds over the last 7 months. Congrats to them!
Between them, Johnny and Josh have lost more than 85 pounds over the last 7 months. Congrats to them!
Now I'd like to request a "Thindercats" podcast where you two share your weight loss secrets. Make it so? - Stephen Mack from Bookmarklet
We are on the road to nothingness! - Josh Haley
THINDERCATS! - Amit Patel
Have you extrapolated a date for the Singularity, when you reach 0 mass and have ∞ energy? - Amit Patel
INFINITE ENERGY! Then I can stay awake and play Skyrim 24/7! - Josh Haley
That's why they say "Ho" and not "Ho Ho." - John E. Bredehoft
Amit Patel
Unreleased Prisoner Finale - YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Unreleased Prisoner Finale - YouTube
Play
Number SIX is the one who breaks out of prison, where others have failed. - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet
Amit Patel
Gamasutra - News - Road to the IGF: Spry Fox's and Wild Shadow Studios' Realm of the Mad God - http://www.gamasutra.com/view...
Gamasutra - News - Road to the IGF: Spry Fox's and Wild Shadow Studios' Realm of the Mad God
"Realm of the Mad God currently sits as the second-highest rated multiplayer game on Kongregate, with almost 2 million plays since it was published mere months ago on October 31, 2011. Where most games revel in heaps of (often forced) customization, players need only click on the mouse once to start playing Realm." - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet
Amit Patel
The PopSci Flash Arcade | Popular Science - http://www.popsci.com/technol...
The PopSci Flash Arcade | Popular Science
"When Rob Shillingsburg and Alex Carobus started Wild Shadow Studios after leaving Google in 2007, they decided to go big right away with Realm of the Mad God. Big studio games like World of Warcraft or Everquest demand large amounts of the players' time to learn all the nuances and methodically increase characters' power. Shillingburg and Carobus wanted to make their game as easy to get into as possible." - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet
Kelli H.
I don't watch tv shows when they first air. I typically discover them after they've been off the air for many years (e.g. Twin Peaks, Veronica Mars, Arrested Development) or after they are several seasons in (e.g. Fringe). Then I download them and watch entire seasons at once. #instantgratification #SaturdayFF
I also don't like commercials and don't like having to set my schedule to watch a tv show. Or own a DVR. :) - Kelli H.
These things are also true for me, except for the downloading and watching entire seasons part. Usually I'll see a rerun now and then. - John (bird whisperer)
I don't think anyone watches tv shows when they air as much as they used to in the past. Hulu, Netflix, On Demand, even some network websites show full episodes (Big Bang Theory on cbs.com for example). Speaking of Fringe, hulu shows the latest episode a full week after it airs. Yesterday's episode won't be posted until NEXT Friday. - Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart from Android
Sorry to go on a tangent but it goes to show that the audience wants to watch shows when they have time not when the network thinks is best. Having more shows available to the audience on the widest possible devices is ideal. Even with commercials. - Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart from Android
Tell 'em why you mad, girl. ;) - Kelli H. from Android
All the good shows are canceled because you're not watching them when they're on! ;) - Amit Patel
good shows get canceled anyway - because it takes time for awesomess to get established, because mediocre stuff is cheaper, because it's not about the value of the show but if it gets the right demographic in sufficient numbers... - Iphigenie
Me too. I haven't had cable or satellite since 2006. - teleken from BuddyFeed
Botts: Beware of generalizations. Some of us do watch shows when they're originally on: "I don't think anyone" is almost always wrong. And when we watch shows via DVD (three currently), it's one. episode. at. a. time, since that seems most congruent with the makers' plans. - Walt Crawford
I don't even have a tv any more. Stopped watching back in 2003. Somewhere between then and 2006 a power surge killed my tv and a clock. Replaced tv with another computer. Occasionally download tv shows and watch them on the other pc. I pretty much do what you do, binge on a show till I have seen it from start to finish, every season. Don't like watching things that are still on the air, since I will end up having to wait for the next episode once I get caught up. - April
That reminds me. I still haven't finished watching the third season of VERONICA MARS. - Steven Perez
Steven, be prepared for disappointment, though lots of good stuff too. - Jimminy, CoG of FF
6 years works best for me :) (currently discovering the joys of Dexter) - Ken Morley
*fistbumps Ken* *also makes note to self to check out Dexter* :D - Kelli H.
Amit Patel
Bin packing, texture atlasing, glyph caching, how do you do it? - GameDev.net - http://www.gamedev.net/topic...
2d bin packing algorithms, useful in games (e.g. texture atlas creation) - Amit Patel
Amit Patel
Zod 2008 - General Zod - 2008 Presidential Candidate - http://www.zod2008.com/
Zod 2008 - General Zod - 2008 Presidential Candidate
Zod 2008 - General Zod - 2008 Presidential Candidate
"When I first came to your planet and demanded your homes, property and very lives, I didn't know you were already doing so, willingly, with your own government. I can win no tribute from a bankrupted nation populated by feeble flag-waving plebians. In 2008 I shall restore your dignity and make you servants worthy of my rule. This new government shall become a tool of my oppression. Instead of hidden agendas and waffling policies, I offer you direct candor and brutal certainty. I only ask for your tribute, your lives, and your vote." - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet
Amit Patel
Deferred Rendering Demystified - http://www.gamedev.net/page...
"This article is a design article about implementing deferred rendering. The motive behind it is that while there have been many articles and presentations about the concepts behind deferred rendering (for example, the article about deferred rendering in Killzone 2), there is very little information about how to approach it from a design standpoint. This article aims to do just that. The article is accompanied by code that implements a deferred rendering framework, and is somewhat a development journal of that framework. " - Amit Patel
Amit Patel
Leaked Zynga Memo Justifies Copycat Strategy - Forbes - http://www.forbes.com/sites...
Leaked Zynga Memo Justifies Copycat Strategy - Forbes
"The company scavenges through the most popular titles on the social market and harvests them for their own. To use an analogy I’ve drawn on before, the gap between Tiny Tower and Sim Tower might be the difference between James Cameron‘s sci-fi Avatar and the similarly themed Dances with Wolves. However, the space between Tiny Tower and Zynga’s Dream Heights would be the difference between Dances with Wolves and another film set in the 1800s about Native Americans with the exact same plot, lookalike actors and titled “Cavorting with Bears.”" - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet
"You can repeat that analogy for countless Zynga titles, Farmville with Farmtown, Hidden Chronicles with Gardens of Time, Zynga Bingo with Bingo Blitz, Words with Friends with Scrabble. There’s no “inspiration” here, only thievery. Yes, they change the code and draw up new artwork to avoid any legal trouble (after getting in hot water for not doing that when they stole Farmville), but... more... - Amit Patel
:-( - Amit Patel
Up 8% today. Investors say, "What a great business strategy." - Stephen Mack
Boo, Zynga, and screw them, anyway, I don't want to play Tiny Tower on Facebook and annoy everybody (or are they making iPhone apps now?). Pretty disgusted with the comments that defend what Zynga did. Oh, I see, it *is* for iPhone. Those jerks. Tiny Tower is my favorite game. - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)
It worked for Hollywood. Well, not really. - Victor Ganata
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