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timbray: Now dead: Comet, long-poll, Ajax, keep-alive. Killed by Web Sockets, says Joe Armstrong: http://is.gd/5q9TO - http://twitter.com/timbray...
Alex Kapranoff, Pavlo Zahozhenko, Itachi and 8 other people liked this
Yes and no. Clearly WebSocket provides a clean, efficient implementation of all these things we've been hacking around. On the other hand, we won't be able to throw away the hacks until WebSocket is widely supported. Which will be a while.
- Joel Webber
Though I suppose if your goal wasn't to support all browsers back to IE6, but just modern browsers, then you could build a specialized service that depends on WebSockets very soon. Clearly something a Google or Yahoo couldn't do, but maybe something a startup would do to innovate quickly with cutting edge functionality. Honestly, if I just wanted to build a fun and functional site for a small tech-savvy demographic, I wouldn't shy away from requiring modern browser capabilities.
- DeWitt Clinton
Fair enough, but to be clear, we're talking about *all* IE's, up through 8. I.e. (no pun intended) 70-ish % of clients. IE 9 TBD, unfortunately.
- Joel Webber
Chrome Frame?
- DeWitt Clinton
Sounds good to me. If we can just get everyone to install it...
- Joel Webber
Socket can be implemented in flash and work in all major browsers (see Juggernaut Ruby on Rails plugin as an example, http://juggernaut.rubyforge.org/ )
- Pavlo Zahozhenko
I think application programmers should get together and join a "bleeding edge" consortium that agrees to freely implement the latest web standards and require the latest technology to access it. As is, sites are reluctant to deny access to users with legacy tech because they know those users will jump ship to the competing site. If all the competing sites in one space (social media, news, etc) all made the requirement at once, they may actually begin to make a dent in new browser version adoption.
- Bill Strathearn
Bleeding/Cutting Edge? How about the 'Open Razor Group'?
- Michael R. Bernstein
rel=canonical part two - http://gregable.com/2009...
nice upgrade
- Bill Strathearn
from Android
Why Are Europeans White? (E1) - a knol by Frank W Sweet - http://knol.google.com/k...
Maggie, vovasty, Space Cowboy and 15 other people liked this
"Too much UV penetrating the skin (too pale-skinned under intense sunlight) increases Vitamin D but reduces folate. Lack of folate causes neural tube defects in the fetus, causing such congenital abnormalities as craniorachischisis, anencephalus, and spina bifida, leading to many miscarriages. On the other hand, too little UV penetrating the skin (too dark-skinned under dim sunlight) increases folate but reduces vitamin D. Lack of vitamin D causes skeletal neonatal abnormalities (skull, chest, and leg malformations), rickets being the best known. Again, this causes miscarriages. And so, humans adapt very quickly to solar UV. Prehistoric groups that migrated towards the equator got darker. Prehistoric groups that migrated away from the equator got lighter. But this explanation fails for Europe. Northern Europeans are lighter than everyone to the south (Mediterraneans), to the east (Mongols and east-Asians), to the west (Native Americans across the Atlantic), and to the North (Inuit,...
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- bob
from Bookmarklet
Scandinavians ate mostly meat and fish, and they are even 'whiter' than average European: not only they were white-skinned, but also blond. This fact ruins article's theory, isn't it? ;)
- Pavlo Zahozhenko
Could it be that Scandinavians supplement their diet with rice and grains and therefore receive less vitamin D than anyone else at that latitude? They are whiter than the average European primarily because of the sunlight availability which vitamin D from fish does not easily overcome.
- Bill Strathearn
It's too bad that Knol isn't more like Wikipedia where anyone can edit -- I would trust it more ironically.
- Paul Buchheit
Yes, Paul, but is ironic trust what they're really going for here?
- Cliff Gerrish
Blonde people are blonde because of the Gulf Stream. Also, notice that the graphic on the right has been changed in the live Knol. Blonde people are now represented by a light tan rather than blue.
- Kevin Fox
I thought Google shut down Knol on October 27, 2009. Wait...
- Jérôme Flipo
Yeah, I think I read that on Wikipedia...
- Cliff Gerrish
Kevin, are you referring to separate graphics? http://knol.google.com/k... and http://knol.google.com/k... ? I think one is for hair the the other for eye color.
- Bill Strathearn
Paul, I think that open and unrestricted document collaboration works best only when there is a semi-dedicated community of editors to police the content. That exists in Wikipedia, but is hard to replicate elsewhere. Full disclosure: I lead the Knol team and am the majority code contributor.
- Bill Strathearn
I found this article very interesting, and well written to boot.
- Will Higgins™
A co-worker mentioned to me yesterday that a colleague of his is thinking about starting an online journal club type website for scientists. The idea seems to be discussions about papers, data sets, and other web-publishable materials, from any source, in a central location. It would also have discussions about scientific culture, which made me...
Anders Norgaard, suelibrarian, Bruce Lewis and 14 other people liked this
It would be a place where people (students, junior faculty, etc) could learn the ropes of academia and science without the pain and misery that traditionally is required. The differences I can see from existing services is the focus on journal club-style discussions and maybe a low barrier to entry
- Shirley Wu
from twhirl
But obviously, whatever he ends up pursuing should learn from the trials and tribulations of the many related services out there (including services like FF, which is also discussion-oriented)
- Shirley Wu
from twhirl
It's easy to immediately discount any proposal that sounds like yet another facebook for scientists, but there are still some interesting and potentially good ideas out there. Unfortunately, people who aren't as familiar with the existence of these tools always think of facebook as the ideal and as a brand new idea if applied to the scientist community. Hopefully I convinced my co-worker otherwise, while still encouraging the more innovative aspects of the concept. <end rant>
- Shirley Wu
from twhirl
Thanks for doing that.
- Mr. Gunn
AcaWiki is built around a very similar concept, and John Wilbanks makes an argument for bringing journal clubs online (cf. http://ff.im/airoV ).
- Daniel Mietchen
Shirley, Besides AcaWiki (great place to have these discussions, but I'm biased! http://acawiki.org/ ) your colleague also might be interested in GradTurkey, a journal-club discussion wiki originally aimed at grad students: http://gradturkey.fastcoder.net/
- Jodi Schneider
can discussion on AcaWiki be linkable and embeddable for public like you can do on FF? If not, so why don't do journal club on FF? Can't get it
- Alexey
I tried a site like this a few years ago. ResearchFire, or something like that? Never heard of it again.
- Neil Saunders
my comments on the topic in 08/07 http://pimm.wordpress.com/2007...
- Attila Csordas
Knol has many journal features built-in. Here is an example of a successful research journal on H1N1: http://knol.google.com/k...
- Bill Strathearn
John Wilbanks mentioned doing journal clubs online in his talk here recently: http://bit.ly/3jxnxr
- Walter Jessen
this topic came up during a discussion today with Mike Eisen of PLoS, re: why commenting hasn't really taken off - his thought is that people are more likely to comment if there's a central place to do it rather than individually at each journal website for each paper (how many of us access papers directly through journal websites except through PubMed anyway?). The whole time I was...
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- Shirley Wu
from twhirl
can somebody point to the platform for journal club online better then blog post? It's combine everything - presentation (ppt embedded from SlideShare or Gdocs, video embedded from YouTube/Vimeo...) presenter's opinion, discussion section under the post, embedded comments from FF, ranking of the presentation and number of views. Importantly you don't need to register or get account for commenting, it's public and linkable, moderatable . Whole world can participate. What can be better?
- Alexey
@Neil Saunders Were you thinking of JournalFire? We recently updated the site and are looking for feedback. I posted about it yesterday: http://friendfeed.com/the-lif...
- John Delacruz
looks nice
ovigia, Itachi, Greg Grothaus and April Buchheit liked this
From the thumbnail I thought that was computer generated. Where is that?
- Ryan Moulton
no idea, found it randomly without any label - any guesses from friendfeed?
- bob
I wouldn't completely discount the computer generated option.
- Greg Grothaus
If only we could submit an image as a query to http://similar-images.googlelabs.com/ ...
- Bill Strathearn
That's actually Palau: http://images.google.com/images... Known recently for being the setting for a Survivor season.
- Mark Trapp
Carnage4Life: For years Microsoft worried about the living room being the future of computing. Turns out what's in your pocket matters a whole lot more. - http://twitter.com/Carnage...
Henner Zeller, Piaw Na, Matt Pfefferle and 2 other people liked this
can't take the living room with you... that's for sure
- Chris Heath
I think this is only temporarily true. The living room is a much harder nut to crack, but just as valuable.
- Bill Strathearn
You know what's going to crack it Bill? Using that device you carry around in your pocket as the remote control.
- Michael R. Bernstein
I dislike the device in my pocket.
- Piaw Na
I do use the device I carry around in my pocket as my remote control.
- Henner Zeller
For the Thing Lab-ers.
- Mihai Parparita
Omg. So wrong.
- Jenna Bilotta
from Android
Much more wrong than the "Pedestrian Bear" plush toy. http://shop.desutoys.com/Product... via http://friendfeed.com/jessica...
- Bill Strathearn
What is the best gift that you have ever received? (in terms of making you happy, and purely abstract things like "love" don't count :)
Stephen Mack, Olivia Lovag, Holly Rae, FFer and 18 other people liked this
my friend molly just gave me a king size quilt that she made over a few months. She and I have been very close for the last 5 years or so, and I cried when I saw it. It was SO much work.. and I always coveted the quilts she made for others... it was truly epic.
- Jenna Bilotta
In terms of material goods for the gift itself and not solely the thought behind it...quite possibly my DLSR camera. It has opened up a new world to me. I've received lovely extravagant gifts from my fiance (like a computer) which was very useful, but it was and improvement over what was already part of my life. This was a surprise gift that showed that someone trusted my creativity and it's something that has allowed me to document my life where I was limited before.
- joey
A ticket somewhere I didnt expect =)
- Adelein Ro
oh yeah. I got kidnapped to the amalfi coast (italy) the day of my 30th birthday by my boyfriend. I didn't know where we were going until we got to DC. I had to cancel my meetings at work with a phone call from the DC airport. :) He packed for me and everything!
- Jenna Bilotta
My discharge papers from the navy.
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
steak and a bj
- Bill Strathearn
It's a tossup between my first bike and sled. Probably the bike, although the sled was more fun right away with several feet of snow on the ground at Christmas.
- Cristo
still thinking.........
- VAL D. Zone
My dog
- Benjamin Golub
Probably the trip to Antarctica, though there may be a recency bias there. Also, I'd have to say 'college'. Thanks Mom!
- Kevin Fox
The chance to prove to others that I'm not a quitter. After terminal illness kicked me out of my career path I received college paid in full for journalism.
- H0llywoodWh0re
My mother-in-law donated a kidney to me so I could live.
- Travis B. Hartwell
I hope my best gift is yet to come :)
- ashish
omg Travis that is wonderful
- VAL D. Zone
Travis wins. It's a gift you use every day!
- Kevin Fox
Travis, that is so awesome. Made my day.
- joey
Wow, Travis. *cries*
- Derrick
You can't top pure unselfish giving like that Travis. Glad you're with us to share. =)
- Junebug (aka Sarah Jill)
Thanks everyone! I'm glad to be here too. It's amazing. I'm coming up on my 6 month new-kidney birthday.
- Travis B. Hartwell
My first iPhone, in '07. It was even better than I'd anticipated. Runner-up was the experience of standing in line at the Apple Store this past June with my daughter, on my birthday, for the upgrade. There aren't a lot of things she and I can really share in our somewhat difficult relationship - we don't exactly speak the same language despite having somewhat similar interests. But that was a great morning and a great birthday for us, ages 19 and 49. (Hers is June 24...)
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
My dog. Otto was a gift from Mom, and he's the love of my life :)
- ωαřмaiden, MFA'd poet
I got nothing on Travis. He wins... All Hail the King! (and his cool Mother in Law)
- Morgan Haley
Updates to the FriendFeed platform, including favicons for fed services.
- Matthew DeVries
Simon and Garfunkel's Greatest Hits. May sound lame, but at 11 I was in heaven.
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
and Bill is a very close second place!!! Not much beats a good steak and a bj
- Morgan Haley
Can't think of one - not that I can't narrow it down, but because I am the best gift giver EVER. :P
- Mona Nomura
from iPhone
I remember getting my first computer. A 286. Compudyne, I think. Without that, I wouldn't be here right now. If I recieved anything else that year, I couldn't tell you what. I was too busy installing a bootleg copy of LogoWriter and learning how to make the computer do stuff using machine code.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
My NES and my first bike. I can remember those two gifts like it just happened to me yesterday.
- Chieze Okoye
Tivo...my best friend.
- Lenny Mahnke
One Christmas eve, Andrew and I realized we hadn't bought each other presents yet. We went to a store and independently picked out gifts. Turns out we each got the same Lego set. I like the warm fuzzy feeling of knowing we have such compatible tastes (plus having 2x the legos)
- Lexi Baugher
from iPhone
@Lexi - wonderful!
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
from iPhone
1996... a swatch ironi from my father... it was quite surprise. At that time only some of frnds in school had one...
- Amir
Remainder of payments on a hastily-bought minivan. That was a life-changing gift, financially speaking.
- Josh Haley
Scott. (http://www.friendfeed.com/maplest...) :-D
- Ladybug Heather
Honda Unicorn from my friend shashank as marriage gift.
- sirishkumar
my 24'' monitor
- funkyboy
Do you and our beautiful babies count, Paul? Thanks for making them so adorable, by the way. :)
- April Buchheit
from iPhone
I think my Acer netbook last year. My BlackBerry this year runs a very close second. When I dig a little deeper though, the original NES that my siblings and I got from one of our grandmothers back in the 80s did have us all pretty ecstatic.
- Kamilah Gill
Are you trying to say that love doesn't make you happy? (Oh, April sad!)
- April Buchheit
Last year Kris took me to NYC to see the Yankees and Red Sox at old Yankee stadium. That was probably the most epic birthday gift I've ever received.
- Bren, Not Grinchy
from iPhone
I made a 1,000 cranes as a wedding gift for my best friend. She still talks about how much she loves it. It took a long time, but was worth it when I saw the look on her face when she opened it.
- Georgia Diehl
My childhood dog would be #1, but my best nonliving gift would be my Tivo. Best invention ever and still going strong after 5 years!
- Shannon Jiménez
And for me, my daughter of course. It does also help that she's just so damn cute! BEST GIFT EVER!
- Georgia Diehl
When I graduated from high school my dad gave me $1,000 cash as a gift. I had never seen so much money in my life. I was overwhelmed with possibilities and gratitude. I had a big party for the entire graduating class, and I bought a 35 mm camera to replace the one that had been stolen from me.
- Call me Bronco
Honestly I'm not sure, I can't remember anything. All the things that I really liked getting it, I gave it to myself. But I vividly remember the presents I loved the most to give. :)
- Olivia Lovag
I think the best was a night at a comedy club in Harvard Square. The comedienne was so funny that I had to stop twice and just close my eyes and breath deeply, to survive. Also playing a large factor was that it was the first birthday present I ever got from a girlfriend.
- Jorg Brown
By contrast, I think the best present I ever *gave* was tickets to a Broncos game in December. My brother & my dad went, and it was cold, and the game was a long string of disappointments, with fans streaming out of the stadium during the fourth quarter because Denver was two touchdowns behind. Why was it such a good present? Because Elway was QB, and he won the game.
- Jorg Brown
Engagement ring.
- Renchin(Reina)Wang
Note to self: always resist the temptation to do a line by line analysis of someone else's writing and indicate the logical fallacies
But, when someone is wrong on the Internet, they must be corrected!
- Bill Strathearn
http://www.theinvisibl.com/news... - I had never noticed this "feature" of chrome's tabs, but now I'm very impressed.
Jérôme Flipo, Joel Webber, Henner Zeller and 9 other people liked this
Sometimes it's the little things that matter most in user interfaces
- Bill Strathearn
I noticed it, but what I noticed moreover is that chrome's tabs almost never make me angry. The only additional thing I'd like is a highlight around the last opened tab so I can find it more easily in the stack.
- Ryan Moulton
from Android
I imagine that could be done with an extension.
- Greg Grothaus
Or a bug report
- Bill Strathearn
I'm pretty sure this is all deliberate. I remember a Chrome person pointing out this subtlety a long time ago.
- Matt Cutts
from iPhone
This one one of my favorite features of Chrome. The default tab behavior is spot on!
- Jeremy Clark
Neat. But I use the middle click to close tabs, so it really doesn't matter where the close button is to me.
- Otto
Me too, Otto, but even then the "keep tabs the same size but slide them over" lets you keep hitting the middle button to close tabs. The "don't resize the tabs until the mouse leaves the tab area" idea is pretty clever.
- Matt Cutts
Middle click on desktop mice, ctrl+w when normal browsing, x out when I have lots of tabs open.
- Itachi
Regular Expression Matching: the Virtual Machine Approach - http://swtch.com/~rsc...
Matt Mastracci liked this
"This article presents two strategies as two different ways to implement a virtual machine that executes a regular expression that has been compiled into text-matching bytecodes, just like .NET and Mono are different ways to implement a virtual machine that executes a program that has been compiled into CLI bytecodes." -Russ Cox. Another must read for all programmers.
- DeWitt Clinton
Russ Cox is always worth reading.
- Amit Patel
for ((a=1; a<=26; ++a)); do for d in 1109 1102 1026 1019 1013 1005 0928 0921 0914 0907 0831 0824 0817; do echo -O "ht""tp://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/photo-contest/2009/img/wallpaper/${d}wallpaper-${a}_1600.jpg"; done; done | xargs curl
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http://lifehacker.com/5416007... but better (fixed)
- Jim Norris
Also, this explains my profile pic =)
- Jim Norris
: 2008 winners; for ((a=1; a<=26; ++a)); do for d in 11{07,03} 10{27,20,14,06} 09{29,22,15,08,01} 08{25,18,11}; do echo -O "ht""tp://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/photo-contest/img/wallpaper/${d}wallpaper-${a}_1280.jpg"; done; done | xargs curl
- Jim Norris
Great! Now if only they'd pre-cropped 16:10 versions :)
- Tudor Bosman
Tudor: sips -c 800 1280 test.jpg --out test2.jpg
- Jim Norris
Great job!
- Jacopod
wtf! I feel so old ... nice pics though.
- Jessie
for ((month = 5; month <12; month++)) do for ((day=1; day<31; day++))do for count in uk us nz au cn de jp; do f_month=`printf "%.2d" $month`; f_day=`printf "%.2d" $day`; curl http://www.istartedsomething.com/bingima... >> images; echo " :::$count-$f_month-$f_day" >> images; done; done; done
- Baboon
all bing images till December , but its easy to tweak alg ;) njoy
- Baboon
Reminds me of when I used to dial into to the internet. I wrote scripts to download p0rn in this way so that I could view it offline without having to wait for each jpg to load. Speed matters, even with the naughty stuff. Especially with the naughty stuff?
- Bill Strathearn
Mailman Forgets to put Truck in Park With Amazing Results - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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So unlikely you can't believe it's not fake, but I don't think it is. Music is cool, too. Any ideas what it is?
- DeWitt Clinton
So for the truck to roll backwards that way, how much slope does there need to be at the beginning. If its any significant amount, the truck won't roll uphill coming back into the station.
- EricaJoy
It's possible that he left in "R" with a weak parking brake on. If the parking brake let loose, the truck would idle in reverse up or down most grades.
- Bill Strathearn
Official Gmail Blog: Offline Gmail graduates from Labs - http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009...
Louis Gray, Lawrence Oluyede, Paul Buchheit and 3 other people liked this
Congrats everyone! Nice to see this finally emerging from Labs!!
- Jenna Bilotta
So is this using HTML5 or Gears, or both?
- Kevin Fox
Gears for now.
- Daniel Dulitz
Hence nothing on Chrome for Mac yet... and for some time :(
- Jérôme Flipo
This is odd timing. I thought that Google had just announced the deprecation of Gears. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archive...
- Bill Strathearn
Deprecation != "not using anymore." More like, "Will eventually not use anymore."
- Daniel Dulitz
First Look At The JooJoo Tablet - Would You Spend $500 For This Device? - http://www.lockergnome.com/blade...
No! Put an Apple logo on it and maybe. :)
- Khürt Williams
Not on your life.
- EricaJoy
The screen looks poopy
- Bill Strathearn
What percentage of the desktop shortcuts on your smartphone are bookmarks of webapps?
10%
- Bill Strathearn
from Android
I like how Google Chrome deals with OpenSearch. It appears to cache the XML definition as it auto-discovers them. Just start typing the domain and then hit tab to search it. Much nicer than manually installing a new search for each domain like Firefox does.
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Iván Abrego, Nathan Snyder, WingsOfFlo and 48 other people liked this
It also appears to work for sites that don't publish an OpenSearch spec. I think it does something smart to figure out where your result endpoint is and what your query parameter is.
- Bill Strathearn
This has always been one of my most favorite features of Chrome. I'd like to see them fold in Opera's method as well so I can configure a given search if Chrome's auto-discovery doesn't work exactly right.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Don't know what I'd do without it. Saves me lots of time when doing research across blogs.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
or, it's just doing the google site:
- Chris Heath
@Chris Heath it's a site search trick, not google search...
- İsmail Aşcı
i see.. just tried it...
- Chris Heath
it works greatly
- Xitong Liu
bitchin' camaro!
- Josh Haley
I'm not sure I like it. I often use Google site search to bypass a site's own search because Google is often better. Now when I type in site:sitename.com it automatically defaults to the site's own search.
- Jesse Stay
Haven't been able to live without it, feel lost when I'm using other browsers.
- Andrew Trinh
Akiva, configure by right clicking the location field, "Edit search engines..."
- Vezquex: God of FF
Vezquex, excellent!
- Akiva Moskovitz
Jesse, strange. I just tried doing a site:site.com search and it worked as expected. The behavior might be different in Windows.
- Akiva Moskovitz
You can also add one manually, just use the url and "%s" (minus quotes) where the query goes, and it adds "search+term+goes+here" if your search is "search term goes here"
- Nathan Snyder
Google Public DNS - http://code.google.com/speed...
Henner Zeller, Louis Gray, Private Sanjeev and 6 other people liked this
"Google Public DNS is a free, global Domain Name System (DNS) resolution service, that you can use as an alternative to your current DNS provider. To try it out: Configure your network settings to use the IP addresses 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 as your DNS servers"
- DeWitt Clinton
OMG this is sooo..... much better than the AT&T DNS severs that I was stuck on. I was starting to wonder why every bandwidth test site measured accurate throughput, but pages that pull content from multiple domains were incredibly slow to load. After flipping over to these DNS servers, the latency on each page dropped dramatically.
- Bill Strathearn
Why There Are No Girls In San Francisco - http://whytherearenogirls.blogspot.com/
A Meshkatian, Jon, the Chilled Beartato, Dominic Yang and 7 other people liked this
"This blog is devoted to understanding why there are no girls in San Francisco*"
- Jim Norris
from Bookmarklet
Heh.
- Derrick
Wow, there's a whole lot of offensive going on at that blog.
- Soup
There are PLENTY of girls in SF - go to the library or something. ;)
- Mona Nomura
The post about the Hipsters was kind of humorous. :P
- Jon, the Chilled Beartato
Hipsters exist to be mocked though, Jon!
- Soup
See also: http://www.latfh.com/ (Look at This F*cking Hipster) .com
- Bill Strathearn
It looks like AT&T doesn't offer a femtocell/microcell (device to boost cell phone signal) option in my area. I can't pay to fix failings in the network? @$#%. It also looks like AT&T doesn't support a MiFi device to turn 3G into a wireless network. #@$%. Also, Verizon doesn't support FiOS where I live. @!$%. Isn't this Silicon #@$%ing Valley?
Alisha Wright, Hein Roehrig, Amit Patel and 12 other people liked this
Also, last year DirecTV said that they'd have a HD TiVo this year. Nope. All these companies could get some money if they'd offer what I wanted.
- Matt Cutts
I am told that AT&T does offer a special type of microcell or "repeater" for some customers here -- not the femtocell it is rolling out slowly elsewhere. I haven't looked into this earlier because they had said their femtocell would be here "soon," but I don't believe them anymore. Droid does...
- Daniel Dulitz
If only there were one magical company located just outside of Shoreline that could solve everything! :)
- Louis Gray
The DirecTV Tivo is scheduled for 2010, not 2009. They announced that back in May: http://hd.engadget.com/2009...
- Otto
Right Otto, but if you follow the link in that story to http://hd.engadget.com/2008... you see that in 2008 they promised the DirecTV TiVo "in the second half of 2009." :(
- Matt Cutts
On the bleeding edge, big media/cable CEOs can't hear you scream.
- Bill Strathearn
To be fair, I was reading that the femtocell offerings were largely a "beta" test at this point, so they weren't offering them everywhere. It actually kind of makes more sense that they would first offer/test this in less population dense areas than in places where cell tower coverage is already overall pretty solid like the bay area.
- Greg Grothaus
The whole microcell thing doesn't make sense to me anyway. If I'm going to pay to operate my own phone tower over my own internet access, then why not go with a VoIP solution like Vonage or something instead of paying extra fees to my already-too-expensive cell phone company? With Google Voice, an extra phone number doesn't matter. (BTW, this is why Google Voice needs to support voice-over-ip solutions better, just Gizmo alone doesn't cut the mustard...)
- Otto
The filibuster has gone from affecting 8 percent of big bills in the 1950s to 70 percent in the 2000s - http://www.pheedcontent.com/click...
This begs the question: If someone were to introduce legislation to end the practice of filibusters, would it be filibustered on principal?
- Bill Strathearn
Embrace, extend and extinguish - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
Michael R. Bernstein liked this
""Embrace, extend and extinguish," also known as "Embrace, extend, and exterminate," is a phrase that the U.S. Department of Justice found was used internally by Microsoft to describe its strategy for entering product categories involving widely used standards, extending those standards with proprietary capabilities, and then using those differences to disadvantage its competitors."
- Bill Strathearn
from Bookmarklet
Google This! | Newsweek.com - http://www.newsweek.com/id...
barbietamanna, Private Sanjeev, Anne Bouey and 2 other people liked this
"Google appears to be gaining ground by making knockoffs of Microsoft products and giving them away. [...] The sad truth is that Google and Microsoft care less about making cool products than they do about hurting each other. Their fighting has little to do with helping customers and a lot to do with helping themselves [...] At the end of the day, they both seem like overgrown nerdy schoolboys fighting over each other's toys."
- Simon
from Bookmarklet
"I'm afraid we may be headed toward a world where some devices will be free or really cheap, but when you use them you'll be bombarded by ads." Well of course. Because Google does that all the time in their existing products. ???
- Daniel Dulitz
Yeah, I think Dan Lyons was off on this article. Neither Chrome nor Android bombard you with ads, and they're open-source, so if Google tried to do this, someone would fork the project(s).
- Matt Cutts
Why is it journalists have such a hard time seeing the difference between "Google supporting development of free and open systems like Android and ChromeOS" and "Google owning your computer just like Microsoft, but they want your eyeballs instead of your cash"? The latter is precisely the tack taken by this article, and it's obviously and patently false. Do these guys just not...
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- Joel Webber
Yeah, that's really annoying. I think reporters often start with the story and then just grab "facts" to support it instead of working the other way around. Google owning your computer makes for a much better story I guess.
- Paul Buchheit
Lucky for consumers, both companies care *a lot* about making great products and competition really serves to increase the quality of offerings from both. Consumers would worry if the two top search engines and office product makers didn't compete for some reason. Thank goodness there is competition in editorial commentary.
- Bill Strathearn
from Android
For the most part, what Google is doing is simply commoditizing their complements, as well as something else which we don't have a good phrase for, which is to ensure that those commoditized complements ratchet up to ever higher levels of competition, value, and *use*. Microsoft hasn't quite learned how to play this game yet, though they do get plain ol' commoditization of complements as well as de-commoditization (ie. 'Embrace and Extend'), but de-commoditization is much harder to pull off now.
- Michael R. Bernstein
both are great at creating wealth for stockholder, rest is small detail
- imran
Imran, Microsoft's (traditional) approach has been to commoditize complements in order to suck the profit margins out of adjacent markets (this ensured that the only healthy margins were in markets they dominated), even at the cost of stagnation. Google's approach (generally) leads to growth of the overall market and more competition. That's not a small detail.
- Michael R. Bernstein
The years pass and here I am once again using Rome for RSS/Atom parsing
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Rome?
- Michael R. Bernstein
Sun Micro ROME. https://rome.dev.java.net/ Amazing that it's the best and only java library for handling both RSS and Atom.
- Bill Strathearn
I keep coming back to this library as well. It does what it does very well, though its API could use a bit of decrufting.
- Matt Mastracci
For a long time there were two competing parsers. Rome (started by Patrick Chanezon et al) and Informa: http://informa.sourceforge.net/ Somewhere along the way Informa stopped being updated.
- Adewale Oshineye
:/ There are many proposals for a decrufted ROME 2. Sometimes it seems there are more proposals than there are people who work on it. Someday I hope to put out a version with an API which uses generics. I think that would make the easy use-cases easier, and is somewhat achievable.
- Nick Lothian
I always tend to struggle to remember the difference between SyndFeed and WireFeed.
- Adewale Oshineye
I do too
- Nick Lothian
If you use Informa, it's probably good to be aware of the security issue linked to from http://nicklothian.com/blog.... I fixed ROME and got a fix committed for Jakarta feedparser, but didn't get around to doing Informa.
- Nick Lothian
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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
Playing “Track Change” at the Wall Street Journal - http://paul.kedrosky.com/archive...
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"Brazil Stocks (Drop) Climb as Dubai Debt (Concern Fuels Risk Aversion) Concerns Ease."
- Simon
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Seems like a UID problem
- Bill Strathearn
Wii ordered. Yay!
Wheee!
- Bill Strathearn
Did you order any games with it?
- Gary Burd
New Mario bros with it. Going to hook it up to the 100" screen. :)
- Joe Beda ()
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"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/
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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.
- Itachi
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
Geek And Poke: Constants - http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekand...
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140? I don't get it.
- Bill Strathearn
Bill - I am sure you are kidding. 140 as in 140 characters of twitter :)
- Atul Arora
Oh my, I must have been out of it. I started reading the first part and got into the mode of mathematical constants and completely forgot about social media constants. Besides, 512 is the new 140. http://friendfeed.com/friendf...
- Bill Strathearn
Bing negative cashback: http://bountii.com/blog...
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good to know.
- Ryan Moulton
Microsoft claims that it's a bug, not a business model, but what are the chances that this developer finds the one case of mistaken pricing?
- Bill Strathearn
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