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Benjamin Golub
FriendFeeder. I work here
I know you can't read this one in FriendFeed because it is so tall but click for a great SMBC - http://www.smbc-comics.com/index...
The Story of Google's Closure: Advanced JavaScript Tools - http://blog.louisgray.com/2009...
I'm at Shadyside - Cappy's Cafe (5431 Walnut St, Pittsburgh). http://foursquare.com/venue...
I'm sorry for everyone who noticed Netflix overwhelming their feed recently. RSS GUIDs are supposed to stay unique and constant but some services change them every few months. We have some logic in place at FriendFeed to minimize the impact but it still sucks :(
Walt Ruppar, Jenna Bilotta, endiaferon and 20 other people liked this
Thank you Ben. It is annoying, but I'm not blaming anyone at FF directly.
- Derrick
I have always ignored the GUID, choosing instead of figure out rss entry uniqueness based on a combination of title, content, author, date published, and, of course, permalink. I found that too many things change to be able to rely on something like a publisher-provided ID. I'm sure GUID works well 99% of the time, but for some reason, I found it a fun problem to just attack entries by...
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- Samuel Clay
ah - thanks ben (solid community alerting award)...
- mike "glemak" dunn
Samuel (it is hard writing that name, you will always be Rob in my head): It's a tough call. For private things (aggregators, readers) I think it's ok to have a fancy algorithm that tries to be smart. But for FriendFeed I think false positives would annoy users just as much as duplicates. Can you imagine the frustration if your Tweet never appeared but you *know* it's there? The...
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- Benjamin Golub
Ben: I uploaded some stuff to Flickr on Halloween and it never showed up, so you're right -- it is frustrating!
- Gabe
Another successful meal at Good Luck - http://bgolub.posterous.com/another...
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Susan Beebe liked this
We gotta try that place out :)
- Susan Beebe
Guster concert - http://bgolub.posterous.com/guster-...
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Alex Scrivener, Rachel Lea Fox and Mo Kargas liked this
From far away I think GMC looks a lot like Civic. Split the M into IVI and ignore the hook on the G
See-ming Lee 李思明 SML, Anika, Xitong Liu and 8 other people liked this
Yup.
- AJ Batac
/deep/
- Josh Haley
Wow!
- Gary Burd
Conspiracy! ;)
- Maxamad (Amazigh)
yep, they are so alike
- Xitong Liu
Don't you have work to do? </sarcasm>
- Anika
Well I don't see it that way until I read your description, and it's interesting. Though I do think that the V stand out sharp as an arrow and I liked the rebrand. They could do a better job making it less M-ish though - but I really only noticed it after you said it. And now I just couldn't not see it anymore!
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
Ooo I have the Retweet Beta
Keith Bourgoin, Brandon Titus, NaHi and 2 other people liked this
Me too. Let's create a loop!
- joey
NYC subway system on Google Maps - http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009...
Mona Nomura, ronin and NaHi liked this
Nice, Google Maps has a transit layer, including bus routes for Portland. Unfortunately, the MAX lines (Red, Blue, Green, Yellow) aren't color coded like they are on the NYC map.
- Mark Trapp
Indiana Says Save The Kitties - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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OhGizmo! » Archive » Fish Tank Friday: Shark On A Water Slide - http://www.ohgizmo.com/2008...
Kishore Balakrishnan, Felicia Yue, Dan Hsiao and 3 other people liked this
"Somehow, an intrepid reef shark on display at a resort in the Bahamas was able to escape her pen by jumping over an 18 inch wide, foot high wall. She landed on an adjacent waterslide (called “The Leap of Faith”) and made it all the way down to the bottom, presumably doing whatever the shark equivalent is of shouting “wheeee!” the whole time. Right before splashdown, one of those automatic thrill-ride cameras snapped the above picture." The shark died :(
- Benjamin Golub
from Bookmarklet
Also I saw this slide on the Amazing Race...except the resort was in Dubai: http://www.atlantis.com/
- Benjamin Golub
That is insane, sorry to hear that the shark died though :(
- Nicholas Kreidberg
:(
- joey
poor shark.. imagine if it had been open.. "is that a kid with a shark fin?" "um... run!"
- alphaxion
I get the feeling more complicated simulations react like this to "minor" changes to libraries after a few years and odd stuff starts happening. "What happened?" "Shark jumped the fence, down the slide" "???"
- Mark Essel
i laughed my ass off until i read the shark died from chlorine poisoning. :(
- Felicia Yue
Cupcakes from The Cupcake Dreamery - http://bgolub.posterous.com/cupcake...
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April Buchheit, Mark Essel, zʍıɔ and 3 other people liked this
Is that store available in Rochester? If so, I gotta check it out. :)
- Susan Beebe
Cool. that is here. What do you guys recommend? Any favorites?
- Susan Beebe
holy cow - there is NO Store address on their website.... googling for it LOL
- Susan Beebe
Thanks for the pic Ben! We don't have a store front at this moment. We specialize in wholesale and events.
- The Cupcake Dreamery
Let Obama show you what to wear - http://obama-weather.com/
Mona Nomura, Maxamad (Amazigh) and Dan Hsiao liked this
LMAO
- Maxamad (Amazigh)
Mo Kargas, Maxamad (Amazigh), Robert Felty and 3 other people liked this
Did you get to eat it too?
- Robert Felty
Translations of My hovercraft is full of eels in many languages - http://www.omniglot.com/languag...
18" Tongue - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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How Loki and I have dinner when Megen's on long call - http://bgolub.posterous.com/how-lok...
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Anne Bouey, Susan Beebe, NaHi and Gary Burd liked this
Can someone explain to me why Buffett has kept BRK.A so expensive and not split it? What does Berkshire Hathaway have to gain from it? - http://www.google.com/finance...
Roney Smith, Jérôme Flipo, Dan Hsiao and 5 other people liked this
I understand it keeps smaller, "inferior" investors out but I'm not sure why you'd want this.
- Benjamin Golub
from Bookmarklet
It also keeps trading down - which apparently has kept Berkshire Hathaway from entering the S&P 500 because there is a minimum trading threshold. I can't really think of a negative to being in the S&P 500. There are probably some short turn positives though (any index fund tracking it would have to start purchasing BRK and drive up the price a bit)
- Benjamin Golub
“Were we to split the stock or take other actions focusing on stock price rather than business value, we would attract an entering class of buyers inferior to the existing class of sellers,” Buffett wrote in his 1983 annual report, when the Class A shares traded for about $1,300. “Would a potential one- share purchaser be better off if we split 100-for-1 so he could buy 100 shares?...
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- Ken Sheppardson
...based on what I've read and seen, I think your first impression is right: it's about keeping out the smaller "inferior" investors. i don't think he's exactly a man of the people. two uninformed cents.
- .LAG liked that
Yeah I read that too (which is where I got the "inferior" in quotes from). I think at some point you just can't ignore that ridiculous price though. (and I think that point has come and gone long ago :P)
- Benjamin Golub
"Buffett has long been opposed to stock splits for Berkshire’s class A shares...Buffett’s opposition to the move stems from his theory that investors should think of themselves as partners in a company and not short-term traders" from http://blogs.wsj.com/marketb...
- Shea
Well, keeping the price high keeps volume a whole lot lower and probably dampens out a lot of volatility that really doesn't have any benefit to the company. It's really more of a "private" company with an open pool of investors than a "public" company.
- Ken Sheppardson
If I owned a single share I wouldn't feel like a partner. I'd feel like a prisoner.
- Benjamin Golub
I'll bet if you owned a share you'd probably have enough money that you'd never actually think about it. ;-)
- Ken Sheppardson
...ha! One share, at $100K+ ...yeah, that would make you feel like barging into a board meeting and demanding changes... I mean, the $100K part. And then, you realize: you only hold ONE share. jeez!
- .LAG liked that
Holding a BRKA also grants you admission to the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting, which is supposed to be awesome. If you want to buy less, there are brokers that let you buy fractional shares, like sharebuilder, and mutual funds that hold a lot of BRK, for example BTF: http://www.boulderfunds.net/BTF%20H...
- Casey Muller
Benjamin - Why don't you buy BRK.b? http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/compab.... 1/30th price but 1/200 the privileges :)
- Atul Arora
Casey, what's supposed to be awesome about the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting?
- Dan Hsiao
IMHO, the liquidity advantages of B shares are a selling point.
- Sean O'Connor
Sergey Brin: "As much as some people mentioned that it appears unattractive to investors, it appears it benefits us marketing-wise for our end-consumers to see the financial success of the company by virtue of a higher stock price (...) Google won't rule out a split in the future" http://www.bloomberg.com/apps...
- Jérôme Flipo
Dan, I've heard it called the woodstock of investing, that kind of thing. And all of the BRK subsidiaries have a big fair with discounts for shareholders.
- Casey Muller
The App Garden - http://blog.flickr.net/en...
Introducing Resque - http://github.com/blog...
NaHi liked this
I love GitHub's technical blog posts. I think experience is one of the most valuable things you get out of working at a startup and it sounds like they have a ton
- Benjamin Golub
Carpet cleaners in my apartment hallway: "At least this one smells like American food; I hate that Hindu crap" :(
Said loud enough for me to hear from inside my apartment.
- Benjamin Golub
nicely done...that's one of those "now I know your name and I will share it with others" situations, isn't it?
- Tobin Truog
I don't know their names but I know the company
- Benjamin Golub
ugh
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Yea, that's what I meant. If that doesn't happen, you probably don't even pay attention to the company name. This is what Seth Godin means when he says that everything is marketing.
- Tobin Truog
In all fairness, Indian food smells pretty strongly, and I can easily imagine someone hating it. Calling it Hindu instead of Indian shows a bit of ignorance that might be easily corrected.
- Tudor Bosman
Also this complex has many Indian families so they probably actually do encounter that smell often and the company is the one the complex provides to clean for free every year (so they probably don't really care about making residents happy). Still bothered me though
- Benjamin Golub
Qu'est-ce que c'est?
rowlikeagirl, hecho en eu, Kol Tregaskes, April Buchheit and 4 other people liked this
Je ne sais pas. Qu'est-ce que vous racontez?
- April Buchheit
You just shook up repressed memories of 8th grade French class. Our teacher would spend 20 minutes every day pointing to various things, vigorously asking, "qu'est-ce que c'est?"
- Mark Trapp
fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa better Run run run run run run run away
- LogEx
Comment?
- Ruchira S. Datta
Sur la pont, d'Avignon, on y danse on y danse
- Steve
I remember the alphabet and fermez votre bouche
- Marci Golub
That's "LE pont" Steve ;-)
- directeur
It's also "l'on y danse" ;-)
- Ruchira S. Datta
N'y a-t-il pas de vrais francophones à FriendFeed? Où sont-ils?
- Ruchira S. Datta
Ruchira, si, si! À vot' service! :)
- directeur
Directeur, enchantée. :)
- Ruchira S. Datta
Très enchanté aussi, Ruchira! :)
- directeur
Btw, guys, there's a group here on FF http://friendfeed.com/la-sall... I, and other members will gladly help you anytime :) Vous n'avez qu'à demander!
- directeur
Merci beaucoup!
- Ruchira S. Datta
salut, bien, les gars!
- T. Brent, technopeasant
C'est une pipe!
- T. Brent, technopeasant
Ceci n'est pas une pipe.
- Ruchira S. Datta
Non. C'est la! Une pipe!
- T. Brent, technopeasant
"Fronch bread, Fronch dressing, Fronch fries, and to drink, Peroo!"
- Josh Haley
"I'm French! Why do you think I have this outrageous accent! Now go away, or..."
- T. Brent, technopeasant
sorry directeur and Ruchira, that song is the only (partial obviously) thing that stuck with me from a french class many years ago.
- Steve
chevalier de la table ronde.... :)
- T. Brent, technopeasant
Amis ! Il faut faire une pause...
- Jérôme Flipo
Pause café! C'est un ordre!
- directeur
Oh, il est cool ce directeur. C'est le boss qui paie le café j'espère! :)
- Jérôme Flipo
:p C'est ma tournée... virtuelle! Je paie avec des smilies! Je vous en prie, ne soyez pas timides! :)
- directeur
cafe au lait, svp. merci.
- T. Brent, technopeasant
Ça fera trois :) et deux :D
- Jérôme Flipo
Who is still up on the west coast? I am getting emails and Twitter updates from people who are up way past my bedtime
Why do we have an IMG element? - http://diveintomark.org/archive...
Maxamad (Amazigh) liked this
Took about 16 years.
- Maxamad (Amazigh)
"The ones that win are the ones that ship."
- Maxamad (Amazigh)
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