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hehe - I kinda want one of these. hard drive as floppy disk! - Dane

That's awesome. - Adam Thorsen

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gernika on Saddest redesign ever.

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"Definitely better before. All the info I wanted was right there on the front page." - Adam Thorsen

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yes - Adam Thorsen

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August 24 at 10:48 am - Link

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Weakest and Strongest USA Banks & Thrifts 08/11/08

August 19 at 11:33 am - Link

m. This leaves the consumer in the lurch. You may say it does not matter as long as you keep within the FDIC limits for insurance. Please remember that the FDIC is a private corporation and can go into bankruptcy due to losses exceeding their reserves. The FDIC is now lobbying Congress for more reserve money and that should tell you something. That something is more failures are on the way and those failures will be in excess of the FDIC reserves. - proee

Hmm, a panama banking company wouldn't have any conflicting interests in this story at all, would it? - Adam Thorsen

None at all.... - proee

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“the best part of waking up is...”

August 9 at 6:31 am - Link

whiskey in your coffee cup? - Adam Thorsen

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gernika on The dollar surged higher this week, hitting a five-month high against the euro

August 8 at 4:31 pm - Link

"How can the dollar be gaining value while the fed is printing money like crazy through the TAFs?" - Adam Thorsen

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gernika on The dollar surged higher this week, hitting a five-month high against the euro

August 8 at 4:31 pm - Link

"How can the dollar be gaining value while the fed is printing money like crazy through the TAFs?" - Adam Thorsen

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“Does 3g make iPhone and pandora work better?”

August 7 at 5:48 pm - Link

works quite well via 3g - Adam Thorsen

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“Recess! in San Francisco, CA http://tinyurl.com/6g3jwq”

August 6 at 1:25 pm - Link

What are you doing at South Park? - Chu Chiang

I work right by there. - Adam Thorsen

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August 5 at 8:39 am - Link

You seem to be getting outside a lot. That's good. - Adam Thorsen

sort of - I spent last week at the WV NRAO - Dane

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“@awt Hola fellow iambic survivor!”

August 4 at 12:12 pm - Link

I will survive! Hey um what's your email? - Adam Thorsen

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“is trying to get some work!”

August 4 at 12:01 pm - Link

How? - Adam Thorsen

Chu Chiang posted a message on Twitter

“@awt You're pretty observant. What the heck were they thinking?!”

August 3 at 7:41 pm - Link

I'm not sure, but it just sends a lot of mixed messages. - Adam Thorsen

It's California, so I guess it's okay. - Chu Chiang

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gernika on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger orders layoffs, steep pay cuts for thousands of state workers

July 31 at 9:09 pm - Link

"It's nice to see something positive coming out of this whole debacle. I say this, admittedly, as a former government employee, and someone who has not worked for a company that actually makes a profit in several years." - Adam Thorsen

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gernika on Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger orders layoffs, steep pay cuts for thousands of state workers

July 31 at 9:09 pm - Link

"It's nice to see something positive coming out of this whole debacle. I say this, admittedly, as a former government employee, and someone who has not worked for a company that actually makes a profit in several years." - Adam Thorsen

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“Yelp on iPhone 3G is a good thing!”

July 28 at 12:06 pm - Link

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“Preparing to do battle for my iPhone.”

July 11 at 5:22 am - Link

"The best part of waking up, is iPhone in your cup!" - proee

Why battle when you can stay home sip coffee and call ATT the very next week and have it delivered to your doorstep? :) - Chu Chiang

It was kind of fun hanging out with all of the other super geeks. - Adam Thorsen

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Extinct, my ASS! on Vimeo

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Scares the little ones. - Adam Thorsen via Bookmarklet

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iPhone 101: Hold your ".com" button for a second

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Some of those expressions look familiar... definitely a Buchheit boy. - Clare Dibble

Which expressions are you referring to, Clare? Are they being curled up, stretching, yawning, just laying there sleeping all day, or all of the above? ;) - April Buchheit

Fluid: Adam Thorsen posted a message

“Is it possible to make distributable versions of fluid apps? For example, fluid apps with userscripts pre-installed and configured, as well as with pre-set bookmarks.”

July 13 at 8:51 am - Link

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Check out the last question on the Fluid FAQ: http://fluidapp.com/about/ - Colin Sproule

configuring a fluid Ssb can be a lot of work. Just seems natural to want to share that with other users instead of duplicating the effort.. - Adam Thorsen

Hi Adam, I'd prefer you introduce your friends to Fluid and let them explore what they can do themselves. also, bookmarks and userscripts are stored in ~/Application Support/Fluid - Todd Ditchendorf

Here's my exact scenario. I work in a company, and as a team, we use several web apps together, including Jira, Fisheye, and Campfire. So, when someone new joins the team, or we hire a consultant, instead of having them go through the process of configuring their own SSBs for all these webapps, it would be cool to just make distributable versions of them and save them some time/effort. - Adam Thorsen

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iPhone: The Music Video

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LUCENE IN RUBY (name: Ferret) - this is big - pay attention - O'Reilly ONLamp Blog

July 10 at 7:17 pm - Link

I don't think Ferret is actively developed anymore, I had a lot of problems with it when we used it a year or two ago. Solr(java lucene) is a better way to go. - Kris

acts_as_solr has it's problems, but the consensus seems to be that it solr is more stable. - Adam Thorsen

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There is also Sphinx - Jauder Ho

I'm on the ferret-talk mailing list and even though things have slowed down a lot there's still activity. I think things started going wrong when they started diverging from Lucene - Adewale Oshineye

acts_as_solr is pretty bad, it puts your query through it's own query parser that is buggy and blocks a lot of solr behavior. I think it's worth the time using solr ruby directly if your doing anything serious. - Kris

i was told ferret was a c/c++ version of lucene, clearly not the case. anyone know the project to which my source was referring? - jeff hammerbacher

well, there's CLucene but your source was probably referring to the fact there's a C extension as part of ferret as well as the ruby stuff (iirc) - Andrew Chen

Maybe your source meant Lucy: http://lucene.apache.org/lucy/ It's a new C version of Lucene from the guys looking after Perl and Ruby ports. I haven't seen much progress from them though. - Adewale Oshineye

Solr is the way to go. We're a Java (& PHP) shop, and we've pretty much stopped doing native Lucene stuff at all - it's all Solr. - Nick Lothian

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Hot Russian chicks and zombie Stalin - this is the best music video ever

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love it...until the singing starts! - Matt Brooke-Smith

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"You can tap my phone or my wallet, but not both." Unsubcribe me, Obama.

July 9 at 6:13 pm - Link

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Clever headline in reaction to this: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07... - Paul Buchheit

Don't like FISA? How bout the IRS? If you are concerned about privacy, this campaign promise will interest you -- and affect many more Americans than FISA. From the Obama site: http://tinyurl.com/6p48f8 Obama will ensure that the IRS uses the information it already gets from banks and employers to give taxpayers the option of pre-filled tax forms to verify, sign and return. - Jay Tannenbaum

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How does providing me with pre-filled tax forms using info that they already have affect my privacy? It seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to do. (I understand that the income tax is itself a privacy invasion, but that's a separate issue) - Paul Buchheit

He says he'll "take his lumps." I wonder if he realizes that his "lumps" could mean a McCain victory. - Nick Dynice

Existing EZ 1040 should be easy enough. I don't want my employment records and my banking records in a giant database that sends me a bill. Just because they have the data doesn't make it right. For me it affects more people and is worse than FISA. (Closet Libertarian) - Jay Tannenbaum

Jay, the fact that H&R Block and the like exist proves that it isn't easy enough for many people. I don't like taxes either, but they already have the data -- sending a little bit of it back to me doesn't harm my privacy one bit. - Paul Buchheit

I'd check the math just to be sure. ;) - Jay Tannenbaum

Keep in mind that it's now been conclusively proven, in case anyone was still a believer that Obama was "different", that "Obama SAYS he will... " and "Obama ACTUALLY will..." are completely different things. Apply as needed to the other things he *says* he'll do to get a little more down-to-earth view. - Ryan Waldron

He says we "haven't been listening" http://tinyurl.com/5g9dup - Jay Tannenbaum

"Haven't been listening" ha! The audacity of arrogance. I'll be voting against McCain, and it just so happens that means Obama will get my vote, but I don't support his duplicity. - Jason Wehmhoener

Don't worry Jay, those of you making $8-$14 million dollars a year from 59 different income sources won't be part of that pre-filled tax form and can continue to cheat on your complicated tax returns with a tax preparer of your choosing. But for the rest of us 99.9% of Americans who have household incomes less than $80,000 and most from one source, it would be nice not to pay H&R block $80 every year just to put the X's in the box for us. - Adam Turetzky

Adam, are you really saying that I make 14 mil a year and cheat on my taxes? That you willingly want to give your private banking and employment info to the feds but freak out over FISA? The whole class warfare thing is fogging your goggles there a little. I mean, you don't want anarchists at the socialist barbecue. Haven't you ever read Kropotkin? Fill out your own taxes and you can still keep the dough to buy toys at circuit city and the apple store! ;) And I don't mind worrying. - Jay Tannenbaum

I haven't a clue what you make or cheat on. But why do you or anyone think that your banking and earnings are private? Hell I'll agree with you about abolishing personal income tax on wages earned. But as things are now, my employer, my creditors and if I had them my investment institutions already report everything I make to the IRS. The way things are now, I just regurgitate this info to them once a year for them see how good I am at reading it back to them. - Adam Turetzky

LOL well um, nader ftp (for the presidency)? - Mona N.

No thanks. - ⓞnor

So, Adam: Back to FISA. You backing Barack on this? - Jay Tannenbaum

http://www.aclu.org/ - Michael

Jay: absolutely not. I'm outraged by his decision. It doesn't make sense. My only hunch is there is some reason he did this and plans to change it down the road. His past voting record almost never breaks rank with my other Senator from Illinois Dick Durbin. I don't know what to make of this other than if he wins the white house he plans on introducing bills or using the abusive tools already exercised by this administration (signing statements) to strip all of the last 8 years out of the books. - Adam Turetzky

Adam: What he was thinking will be revealed soon enough. I miss Chicago and Chicago politics. Next time I'll buy you a hot dog at Poochy's or Herm's -- your choice. - Jay Tannenbaum

Ahhh yes, Dempster street hot dog joints. I'm more partial to Superdog! Although I hear they're moving it and tearing down the old one. This time for real. :) - Adam Turetzky

Then Superdog it is! - Jay Tannenbaum

Adam, your hunch "there is some reason he did this" may be right. :-) See the Keith Olbermann MSNBC commentary on this issue. (I am reposting the link Alexei Tolkachev shared in the Dave Winer thread on Obama & FISA) http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25... Watch the video. It is 10 minutes long but worth it. - Karim

Eh, "there is some clever secret reason this isn't awful" usually turns out to be wrong. Secret reasons in politics are hardly ever good reasons. It's just good old fashioned lameness. - ⓞnor

Did you watch the video, ⓞnor? :-) - Karim

So, Olbermann thinks there's maybe a loophole in the bill that allows criminal liability, and maybe Obama's gonna say "Ha ha! Fooled you all! BRING ON THE ATTACK DOGS OF JUSTICE" once Bush signs it. Bet you ten to one odds it doesn't go down that way. Ten to one odds the whole thing fizzles and we're all a bunch of fringe moonbats harping on some issue that's So Over. - ⓞnor

Olbermann is an apparatchik. He will justify whatever Obama does. - Jay Tannenbaum

He's got some wishful thinking going on for sure, but he's no apparatchik. - ⓞnor

What made the democrats during Watergate (or republicans too) so much tougher than today's congress? - Chris White

Karim, thanks, I hadn't seen that. It's interesting and goes along the lines of what I was thinking. But Keith said something right at the end that I think made more sense; "you're going to take the hit anyway, you're going to get beat up no matter what, do what's right". - Adam Turetzky

Well, it sounded plausible to me. :-) It's kind of the opposite of what happened in the OJ Simpson trials: he was found "not guilty" in the criminal trial, but got bankrupted in the civil trial. In this case the phone companies won't lose billions in class-action lawsuits, but maybe some of the responsible people will go to jail. Was it a flip-flop? Yes. Should he have stood his ground at the cost of losing the election? Don't think so, no. - Karim

loved the way you put that, ⓞnor - "BRING ON THE ATTACK DOGS OF JUSTICE!!!" :-D - Karim

Hey it just the Constitution, who gives a hoot...Kinda reminds me of that old adage about frogs and boiling water - if you toss one into a pot whose water is hot, it'll jump right out. But if you put one in while the water is cool, then slowly heat it up, the gradual warming will actually make the frog doze off into happily slumber... in fact, the frog will literally let himself be cooked to death without so much as a ribbit. - Will DeLuca

@Will, that's actually not true of frogs, just humans. Only in this case they aren't bothering to do it slowly. - ourdoings test

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