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Bret Taylor
Co-founder of FriendFeed, programmer, food lover
Luck, Gerhart & Stanford aren't afraid of the Ducks - http://espn.go.com/blog...
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Go Stanford!
- Louis Gray
Stanford LB Clinton Snyder out for the year, to be replaced by FB Owen Marecic. Not good timing with LaMichael James coming to town. http://twitter.com/BFeldma... ... UO 42 - Stanford 23
- Christopher A Carr
Go Stanford! (It's 16-7 Cardinal now)... said the Cal fan.
- Louis Gray
31-14 Stanford nearing the end of the first half. An interesting Pac 10 season, to say the least.
- Louis Gray
Thing of Beauty by Stanford thus far. Wow! Great plan. Great execution.
- Christopher A Carr
Needless to say, I'm shocked.
- Christopher A Carr
So... here's one option... * USC crushes Cal, then Oregon crushes USC, then Stanford crushes Oregon, and then Cal crushes Stanford. Weirder things have happened.
- Louis Gray
This game ain't over. But I love Stanford's plan. Going to be tough for UO to get this back. Spectacular coaching for Stanford.
- Christopher A Carr
Google - http://www.google.com/
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Yes, indeed.
- Ozkan Altuner
It'll never catch on.
- Glen Campbell
"Why would anyone join Google now? Search is DONE." <-- me in 2002. (I joined Google 3 years later)
- Tudor Bosman
just googled it. nice site.
- Mike Nencetti
I don't know, they might be able to go mainstream someday if they just change their goofy name and boring home page. They need a Flash intro or something.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
@Bruce, Flash intro would be nice, right. They have to use the web2.0 stuff, too.
- Ozkan Altuner
COOKIE!
- Joel Webber
nomnomnomnom
- Ruchira S. Datta
Just show me the way of eating a cookie, monster!
- Ozkan Altuner
http://justfuckinggoogleit.com <<< this is better.
- Mücahit Yılmaz
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=google <<< this is even better
- Адский Блондин
Mockingbird - http://gomockingbird.com/
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That looks fantastic.
- Kevin Fox
Omg I love it! Lately I've been doing more wireframes than actual mockups, and I wanted them to be team-editable as well, so I was using Google Doc's drawing tool. This is way better. Great find!
- Jess Lee
It's Hypercard! (edit: no it's not)
- Hayes Haugen
Neat. It's a canvas app.
- Scott Ludwig
Anyone had experience with Balsamiq? Wondering how mockingbird compares
- Adam Kazwell
Nice, but I don't think many clients are going to enjoy being told to 'just upgrade to a PROPER browser!' when they discover they can't view the wireframes in IE
- Duncan
"Proper: Of the required type; suitable or appropriate" Could have chosen a less aggressive word, but it sounds like IE isn't a browser of the required type, so the word is technically correct in this context. The question of whether IE *should* be improper is another matter.
- Kevin Fox
I don't think it's a case of whether it's a proper browser or not, regardless of the definition; the usefulness of the app would be somewhat stunted if one half of team have problems using it. Or at least, I hope I'm not the only one who's had clients who still use IE6, and, for one reason or another, can't upgrade. Anyway, I'll shut up now, this is beta software, just hope that moving forward, they at least support IE8!
- Duncan
Watching the Oregon - USC game. The Ducks look pretty awesome so far.
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Rare to see SC smacked like that and -- from the vantage point of this UO fan -- pleasurable.
- Christopher A Carr
So what are your thoughts on Cal and Stanford this year, Bret? Cal got toasted by both USC and Oregon, but has won elsewhere.
- Louis Gray
Louis: hopefully going to be a good game. Two great running backs, defenses that are inconsistent. It is really hard to predict given how inconsistent both teams have been, though.
- Bret Taylor
Evidently the University of Oregon PK Ducks Pro Team are not well liked by Stanford message board guys...some good comedy there. :-)
- Christopher A Carr
TV Finds That a Mortal Foe, the DVR, Is Really a Best Friend - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/glogin...
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Dave Chappelle-- Killing Them Softly - http://video.google.com/videopl...
Google Redefines Disruption: The “Less Than Free” Business Model « abovethecrowd.com - http://abovethecrowd.com/2009...
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"While it is obvious that this maneuver creates a problem for the multi-billion dollar GPS market, it also poses real challenges for the leading smart phone players – RIM’s Blackberry and Apple’s iPhone. Without access to their own mapping data, these vendors now face an interesting dilemma. Do you risk flying naked without free navigation or do you suck it up and swallow the above average royalty fee for each and every handset? Neither option is stellar. This problem isn’t nearly as daunting as the one now faced by the Windows Mobile and Symbian teams. As software providers, they are lucky to get a per unit royalty equal to that extracted by the GPS data guys. If they are now forced to integrate this data merely to keep their product competitive, their gross margin just went negative. Ouch!"
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
I would love to be a fly on the wall in Redmond
- Ray Cromwell
I'm psyched to get Google maps powered navigation. they provide much better directions than tom tom ever could... and if they calculate live traffic as well thats good. but i'm curious as to why Verizon doesn't seem to mind since their nav package is normally $15/month.
- Matt Ellsworth
My experience with Google has been completely different. They were notably subpar when they stopped licensing the leader in map data a year or two ago, and their directions now are as bad or worse than MapQuest. I split the difference now between them and a GPS unit when I need to, but generally prefer to use an actual map for most accurate directions.
- Cole Jolley
I think this is likely to change in a big way once they fully leverage their Street View database. Still, I can't argue with free when the errors are few IMHO.
- Ray Cromwell
Is this an example of "open" systems putting people out of business? (of course, it's not personal, it's just business..."
- Cliff Gerrish
Does Google actually make any money from their maps? How many Google behaviors are enabled by their huge search revenues and how many of those can continue as their dominance wanes? Also as the article mentions Nokia owns Navteq so the "Symbian" problem is a non issue (unless you think there is a viable Symbian outside of a Nokia context).
- Hayes Haugen
Now the droid initiative on verizon finally makes sense to me. I watched the demos as they showed off feature after feature that verizon likes to charge extra for thinking no way is this not going to be expensive. But with google paying verizon on search ad revenue, verizon doesn't have to nickel and dime their customers for every added feature.
- dthree
"I would love to be a fly on the wall in Redmond" - things may be just as interesting in Cupertino.
- John Craft
Google's move is similar to MSFT's free browser play.
- Cliff Gerrish
I'm wondering how Apple's purchase of PlaceBace is going to play out. Are they going to ditch Google Maps on the iPhone?
- Matt Mastracci
I also have issue with the "less than free" thing as a new disruptive thing. Pay-to-play on a platform or a device is not new (e.g. anti-virus software).
- Hayes Haugen
@hayes yes, you're darn rite about Navteq thingie...
- A.T.
Arnold Schwarzenegger's coded F-bomb in veto - Boing Boing - http://www.boingboing.net/2009...
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Love and harmony out in Sacramento
- Hutch Carpenter
Sadly, his is totally right about the CA state legislature being an ugly, ineffectual mess. So sad.
- Keith Pelczarski
DARPA Network Challenge - http://networkchallenge.darpa.mil/
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"The challenge is to be the first to submit the locations of ten moored, 8 foot, red weather balloons located at ten fixed locations in the continental United States." Seems like someone could easily subvert this by introducing their own red weather balloons into the mix?
- Matt Cutts
I wish that they also posted pictures of the balloons and the surrounding area. I can easily win that challenge.
- Gary Burd
+gary :)
- Private Sanjeev
Use Google Voice with your existing number - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009...
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Awesome! Thanks for the heads up!
- Piaw Na
What? Wow!
- Anthony K. Valley ©
from iPhone
Still want to know when it will come to the UK though.
- Travis Koger
from iPhone
I like this very much.
- Kevin Fox
"Note: Sprint is currently rolling out the ability to enable free call forwarding. Until that is completed, this feature may not work or you may be charged every time someone leaves a voicemail." I'll give it a shot and see what happens.
- Benjamin Golub
Yeah, I'm going to need to look into T-Mobile's call forwarding rate. I'm sure there will be one.
- 1x29
Sweeeeeeeeeet!
- David Cook
How about using Google voice in Canada?
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
from iPhone
Yeah, how about that?
- Jan Ole Peek
Sprint users beware: https://www.google.com/voice...
- Ted Gilchrist
Which Religion Should I Follow? - http://friendlyatheist.com/2009...
Jess Lee, ana, Tzury Bar Yochay and 29 other people liked this
Hopefully nobody takes this too seriously - as it's offensive.
- Louis Gray
Romans 14:11
- Randy Pollock
I can see some Hindu's having issues with this. I know many who prefer Chinese takeout
- Deepak Singh
Turns out I'm of the Mayan persuasion. Who knew?
- AJCann
Atheism as a religion ?
- Ozgur Demir
Louis: the important part of religious humor is that it is equally offensive to all religions ;)
- Bret Taylor
I agree with Louis (and have been cringing every time I see this shared)
- Jesse Stay
Bret, that's understood. Jokes are jokes, but some religions fare worse in this one, and rely on old stereotypes/falsehoods that should go away.
- Louis Gray
ow funny. Randy: myth
- Christopher Galtenberg
But what if you like hummus, bacon, and want to be reincarnated? :)
- Cristo
Like, on Twitter?
- Steve Lynch
from twhirl
There's got to be a joke about the social media term of "followers" here, somewhere.
- Steve Lynch
from twhirl
Add a Facebook share count to your blog / site - http://developers.facebook.com/news...
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facebook is now working properly at least two weeks. whats going on. did you do stg to facebook, not to work :)
- alper*
Switched to Chrome developer release for Mac OS X (http://www.google.com/chrome...), and it was the best decision I have made recently. Firefox/Flash wouldn't stop crashing since my upgrade to Snow Leopard.
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What about Safari? Why Chrome over Safari?
- Jesse Stay
Flash slaughters my wife's Air, but does so on Safari, too. We've learned more about kernel_task than we ever wanted to.
- Christopher Galtenberg
It is a problem with Flash I am pretty sure, and it crashes both Firefox and Safari. Chrome does not crash for whatever reason, so I am using it despite its quirks.
- Bret Taylor
Good to know - I've been noticing similar issues with Flash - interesting that Chrome works fine
- Jesse Stay
I like Chrome, but it has its quirks... Personally, I use WebKit nightlies and love it. I also couldn't live without 1Password.
- Chris Messina
Chris, I hear you on 1Password. I do wish there had been a smoother transition regarding the 64-bit issue. I upgraded my keychain but my data wouldn't convert properly, so I downgraded off the beta and have to run Safari in 32-bit mode. But it's still a great app.
- Micah Wittman
I have all three browsers open every day as part of my work, but Chrome is the one I like the best. Safari's quality is pretty high, but it has some weird quirks like the developer tools not allowing you to inspect off-domain iframes and auto-unzipping downloaded .zip files (horrible feature for trying to update your Android ROM). Chrome also got me used to tabs on top, something I couldn't go back on now.
- Matt Mastracci
Does not bode well for Firefox.
- τorƍue
I hate Flash in OS X no matter which browser, but maybe Chrome's process separation manages to minimize the damage when Flash blows up?
- Victor Ganata
Play framework - the first reasonable Java web framework I have personally seen. - http://www.playframework.org/documen...
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"However Play is a very unique Java framework. It does not really rely on the so-called Java Enterprise standards. It uses Java but tries to push all the good things from the frameworks based on scripting languages like Ruby On Rails, Django, ... etc. to the Java world. We really tried to get the best of the Java platform without getting the pain of traditional Java web development: slow development cycle, too much abstraction, too much configuration..."
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
And Bret is probably the first reasonable evaluator of existing Java web frameworks I see. Because 95% of those are in fact unreasonable. Bret! I will appreciate if you also try to find some reasons in HybridJava - http://www.hybridserverpages.com/ Alex
- Alex Serov
Watching The Big Lebowski with Jim and Karen.
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Oh, so you roll on shabbos, then? Bret, my friend, you are entering a world of pain.
- Keith Pelczarski
The Dude abides.
- Mark Krynsky
synchronicity
- Andrej
again? ;-)
- Tzury Bar Yochay
Cheating for a $20 - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com - http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2009...
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A reply - http://lesswrong.com/lw...
- Tim Tyler
This shouldn’t be the image of Hack Day - Simon Willison - http://simonwillison.net/2009...
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"I’ve heard arguments that this kind of thing is culturally acceptable in Taiwan—in fact it may even be expected for technology events, though I’d love to hear further confirmation. I don’t care. ... If we want an all-encompassing technology scene, we need to actively work to cultivate an inclusive environment. This means a zero tolerance approach to this kind of entertainment. Booth babes, tequila girls, and scantily clad gyrating women simply set the wrong tone, here or abroad. Heck, this isn’t just about offending women—many guy geeks I know would be mortified by this kind of thing." Amen
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
yuck. those are some sad photos.
- Jason Wehmhoener
Really? This kind of makes me want to go. :P
- Cristo
Too true. Friends of Lulu has been trying to make this point to the comics industry for years.
- Spidra Webster
This was company sanctioned? Wow, someone needs to have their head read.
- Kenton
It's expected that the "coolest" guys get bitches all through history. See Fonzie, and that begat rock stars and today it's rappers. In Asia, the geeks are as cool there as rappers are here, so in Asia, the geeks get the bitches.
- Matthew DeVries
*packing his bags* :)
- Cristo
I think it is absolutely appalling and I can't believe HR allowed it. Makes me not want to support anything that Yahoo touches. Ever.
- joey
Well, this just strikes me as funny, and I doubt I'd want to go to one of these without those girls there.
- Cristo
Yahoo! has issued an apology via Twitter: http://twitter.com/yahoo... I would presume that a longer response is forthcoming.
- Glen Campbell
Very difficult to believe the sincerity of an apology that clearly comes in response to outcry. However, I do believe them when they say it won't happen again.
- Spidra Webster
:(
- Cristo
Don't worry, Cristo. There are still plenty of places where you can get jiggle and blow.
- Spidra Webster
Spidra , but I want to write code at the same time. ;)
- Cristo
You can take your laptop when you go for a lapdance. In the winter, the goils might be esp happy to grind on your laptop. If your machine is anything like mine, it's plenty warm for winter!
- Spidra Webster
There's a lot of sharp edges on the Macbook Air though.
- Cristo
So would it make it all better if they added male strippers?
- Rodfather
Yes, just what the world needs is more zero-tolerance policies!
- Gabe
No it should, that's hawwwwwt
- sofarsoShawn
Well, if they're going to ban the girls, I think they should ban PHP programming too.
- Cristo
This event, and responses on this thread are pretty appalling. As a female in tech, and regularly attending meetings as the only female in a room of 10-30 males, this just illustrates one of the reasons. It's hard enough to just do your job and get heard, much less go to "company tech events" that are clearly geared in every way toward men. sickening.
- Jenna Bilotta
Most of the responses on this thread were intended as humor, which tends to be a hard thing to convey through text. Calling them appalling seems like an over-reaction.
- Cristo
Cristo, in this case, you're pretty much just wrong.
- Jason Wehmhoener
Most humor is wrong.
- Cristo
I thought humor was supposed to be funny? Also, your humor is not original and I'm exposed to this kind of joke day in and day out. It's yet another reason women might feel alienated in tech.
- Jenna Bilotta
Jenna, I fully agree I'm not always funny. It's a risk. I'm sorry if I offended you, and although making light of it, I was not supporting the Taiwan Hack Day performance. But to be honest, I really wouldn't go to one of these anyway regardless of what was there.
- Cristo
Did Carol Bartz address this yet?
- Red Label
Red Label, see Glen Campbell's comment above.
- Jason Wehmhoener
Can they ban PHP instead of women? Afterall, the women are mostly offensive only to women, but PHP should be offensive to everybody.
- Gabe
Why are people such prudes?
- Tanath
"Well, this just strikes me as funny, and I doubt I'd want to go to one of these without those girls there" ~ do you mean it's funny like dwarf throwing is to short people or minstrels to people of colour or how about sheep jokes to new zealanders? The excuse of "hey we're geeks and if you don't understand *cognitive dissonance* - like we respect women hackers but also like naked chicks on stage" is wearing a bit thin.
- Peter Renshaw
as long as woman play no bigger role in tech you will see male related stuff on such events. why should we bend reality. you should pity the lack of interest of femals regarding tech-development (and not just sales) if you feel the need for pity
- Chris Hofmann
I'm pretty sure the guy who wrote this article is gay. Hot chicks in short skirts FTW!
- Garin Kilpatrick
I dunno.. my lesbian friend kinda liked it. (me too).
- Martynas
We're simply a nation of Puritans who say one thing and indulge in the opposite...in secret.
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
The problem here is not a society that craves "bitches" but women who raised to think that being one is an acceptable way to spend one's life, or even a portion of one's life. If there are no "bitches" to consume, then the "bitches" consumer will need to learn to adapt. Mamas don't let your daughters grow up to be "bitches"
- Matthew DeVries
FFS, people. This wasn't just dancing girls - it was lap dancing. http://news.ycombinator.com/item... tries to spell out why that is wrong as clearly as possible, but I think Jenna said it pretty clearly, too.
- Nick Lothian
+1 Jenna - Your comment, and the responses to it illustrate well how little effort is sometimes put in to what it may be like for women and minorities working in tech. It's sad that it needs to be so difficult, and how global this professional bias is.
- Michelle Darnell
Save me a Seat at the DRIP RAIL!! ;PPP
- Billy Warhol
@Tanath I'm far from prudish, believe me, but when this tactic is used to promote something, it makes me feel like they're promoting it to someone other than me. I went through the same thing in the '80s with marketing of musical equipment; it was very clearly pitched to guys. Just not very smart marketing if you want a wider audience!
- Eph Zero
"Well, this just strikes me as funny, and I doubt I'd want to go to one of these without those girls there." -- Funny, as in I wouldn't have gone to this anyway, those guys look really uncomfortable, and just like any number of things on FriendFeed and Youtube, it made me laugh. Also, my wife is in tech, and she thought it was funny too, so I guess I married the right person.
- Cristo
This has nothing to do with being prudish. It has everything to do with being professional. As a woman who works in technology, I work significantly harder than my male counterparts to be heard and respected simply because I'm female. I worked harder to be respected in engineering school and was often told to go do something that 'girls' do better. It's not that women aren't interested...
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- joey
+1 Eph Zero.
- joey
joey, I think the using the term "hack" and "professional" are at odds to me. I agree this shouldn't be in the corporate workplace. I don't go to strip clubs, despite my joking. I also don't like "hacking" to becoming a professional corporate watered-down concept. It's like skateboarding, Yahoo! Taiwan was apparently trying to do both together. They failed, and it was funny to me.
- Cristo
Hacker news claims sexual discrimination. It seems as though the result would be to put the female dancers out of a job. Let's hope they find some other employment.
- Tim Tyler
Cristo, that's true, too, but 'hack days' happen at Microsoft, Expedia, etc. and they're very corporate environments. It was sponsored by Yahoo, it wasn't an impromptu gathering of 'hackers' at a local bar or something (and as a female I'd feel put off by lap dances there as well but not angry as I am that this had corporate backing).
- joey
I'm put off by corporate environments. In fact, it offends me when I'm subjected to it. E.g. I'm offended by most marketing programs, be them politically correct or not. It's their lack of authenticity that offends me.
- Cristo
joey, also you should know a group of hackers would never meet at a local bar and they would never have lap dancers. Didn't you see my list? :) http://friendfeed.com/cristob...
- Cristo
++joey I've experienced everything she mentions in tech, and constantly being called agressive, while my male counterparts are called "enthusiastic" its not ok. And no matter how hard I try to get male coworkers to see this, they just think its all in my head... it sucks.
- Jenna Bilotta
from Android
Jenna, you are aggressive in a good way only. Aggressive people change the world. Empathetic aggressive people change the world for the better.
- Daniel Dulitz
Oh yeaaah, porno chicks sooooooo hawwwwwwwwt
- sofarsoShawn
And it's not just missing the mark with women...what about gay men? Surely there are one or two in tech...
- Eph Zero
Eph, also a good point.
- joey
Marketing departments care little about pleasing small minorities.
- Tim Tyler
@Tim - Behold! The land Non Sequiters has a new king!
- Matthew DeVries
That was a reply to the two comments immediately preceding it.
- Tim Tyler
Tim, marketing a product and recruiting talent should not be the same thing. One can market a product primarily to men or women, but one should not discriminate in who they hire to create said product.
- joey
@Jenna In my experience "he/she is aggressive" is often an excuse by people who can't stand up for themselves. Daniel is right.
- Nick Lothian
++jenna Have you had the 1:1s where you've been asked to tone down your opinions because people get the wrong idea? What idea would that be, I sometimes wonder. Anyway, back on topic, I am far from a prude and I enjoy taking my boyfriends out for lap dances when the mood strikes but this? Not even close to being ok. A professional event should remain professional.
- EricaJoy
Let us also not forget that Yahoo is a publicly traded company that has shareholders to answer to. You really think shareholders want to be paying for lap dances? Doubtful.
- EricaJoy
As for the "booth babe" reference... just remember that judging anyone on appearance can quickly render one a fool. Don't assume. There are a lot of women in tech (growing?) and those women attending an event that are working a booth is no indication they were hired just as bait for men. Ask about the product, and based on the answer -- remember that the vendor cared or didn't care about how they spent marketing dollars.... Yes, a trade show floor is the perfect Roddenberry social fabric encapsulation ;-)
- Jay Cuthrell
Alternatively: print up an official "You wasted my time with your offensive and sexist use of unscripted talent on your booth -- Sincerely, A no longer potential customer" as needed... booth babes and booth boys apply
- Jay Cuthrell
I expect Yahoo shareholders appreciate the value of holding and pulling in young male developers by using sexual stimuli - but don't much care for the resulting international attention.
- Tim Tyler
Re: hiring discrimination - let's not forget that this was a hack day, not a job interview. If they had paid for a creche instead, would we see a similar outcry about discrimination in favour of women?
- Tim Tyler
I am an so call 'male developer' here in Taiwan. In my point of view, I felt that comments about the 'sexual' and 'hr to blame' note should be some kind of misunderstand. I think the hack day@tw is hosted like big event and its a contest between hackers.,In big contest, people do have something temporary transfer/release their tension. Take superball for example, half-time show is one...
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- marx
Vatican Plan to Oversee Conversion of Anglicans - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/glogin...
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Meet future woman: shorter, plumper, more fertile - New Scientist - http://www.newscientist.com/article...
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"Women of the future are likely to be slightly shorter and plumper, have healthier hearts and longer reproductive windows. These changes are predicted by the strongest proof to date that humans are still evolving."
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
I am the woman of the future, today! =D
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I wonder if the same trend would hold up if they tracked women who didn't live in Framingham, Massachusetts.
- Brian Chang
Making chicken with Porcini sauce for dinner tonight... - http://www.cooksillustrated.com/recipes...
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Side dish is roasted carrots, potatoes, and shallots (http://www.cooksillustrated.com/recipes...). FYI, Cooks Illustrated is subscription-only... Sorry about that!
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
Sounds yummy!
- Shannon Jiménez
Thanks for the brilliant idea for dinner, Bret!! :)
- Skye Miller
they dont look like chicken:|
- İlkay TURAN
Stevey's Blog Rants: Good Agile, Bad Agile - http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006...
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""This nickel-a-line-of-code gig is lame. You know where the real money is at? You start your own religion." And that's how both Extreme Programming and Scientology were born."
- Bret Taylor
From 2006, but just read it today. So many classic lines...
- Bret Taylor
"Norvig’s writeup is a short essay explaining about 100 lines of Python that can solve any Sudoku. Jeffries [inventor of XP] writeup, by contrast, is spread over five lengthy blog postings here, here, here, here, and here and ends without coming anywhere close to actually producing a program that can solve any but a tiny subset of all Sudoku problems." http://www.gigamonkeys.com/blog...
- Bret Taylor
This is so bizarre. A Sudoku board is a 9x9 grid of integers. Most basic brute force solvers can easily solve any Sudoku game. The Siebel guy talks about the representation problem as if it were some sort of question where it's reasonable that serious working programmers would have any trouble at all representing it. Hello. NINE BY NINE ARRAY. And yes, Python has two dimensional arrays: you just make an array of arrays. (Norvig's hash table is also fine, mind you.)
- ⓞnor
A cat is fine, too.
- Jim Norris
But yeah, it's the difference between writing code and solving problems.
- Jim Norris
ⓞnor, it wasn't a serious working programmer, it was some kind of TDD consultant :)
- Paul Buchheit
The Norvig vs TDD guy story is hilarious btw.
- Paul Buchheit
Funny, just the other day my friend George and I were making fun of TDD nuts. While I'm all for unit tests, it doesn't make sense to write them before you know what the code will do yet!
- Gabe
I think maybe some people are just drawn to absolutes. If something is sometimes good, then it must always be good and is the only true and right way.
- Paul Buchheit
"I think maybe some people are just drawn to absolutes." That's absurd, and I categorically disagree. Those people are absolute morons.
- Jim Norris
Paul, I remember discussing this post with you back when he wrote it, and wondering what Steve has against pair programming. I now do most of my coding with a partner, and spend a lot less time debugging than before. It's great to code review as you type -- it saves tons of testing, debugging, refactoring, and redesigning.
- Gabe
OMG... that norvig code makes me so happy in my face. <3 <3 <3
- ௸ (k2g)
I am not an expert on agile programming, but I had always thought that a big part of it was to start coding as soon as possible, instead of spending days writing up specifications. Stevey mentions that design documents are taken very seriously at google.
- Robert Felty
/2006/09/ - that's ages back then...
- A.T.
Microsoft’s Future, Beyond Windows 7 and the PC - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/glogin...
Mark Stahl, Maxamad (Amazigh), Anna Lynn M. and 8 other people liked this
"While Mr. Ozzie welcomes the gizmo revolution, much of what it appears to entail runs counter to Microsoft’s historical strengths. The revolution stretches well beyond a fascination with the aesthetic appeal of a computing device; it also marks a transition in which the consumer, not the office worker, is the dominant force shaping the tech landscape."
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
PS: I Love You. Get Your Free Email at Hotmail - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Steve Crossan, Benjamin Golub, Dan Hsiao and 3 other people liked this
Paul Buchheit: Applied Philosophy, a.k.a. "Hacking" - http://paulbuchheit.blogspot.com/2009...
Mike Chelen, wchs, Robert Felty and 10 other people liked this
senin tip fena deilmiş. boynunun altlarından anladıım kadarıylan biraz kilo vermen lazım ama vücut kitle endeksin obezite tehlikesinden uzak olduunu söylüyo.
- Ministrable
Want That Early Chrome OS Build? You Got It. - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Anton, minus-one, Joel Webber and 3 other people liked this
What Happened to Argentina? - Economix Blog - NYTimes.com - http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009...
Sunny (The Geek Lord), Anthony Citrano, Simon and 8 other people liked this
"A century ago, there were only seven countries in the world that were more prosperous than Argentina... Over the course of the 20th century, Argentina’s relative standing in world incomes fell sharply. By 2000, Argentina’s income was less than half that of Italy or Japan."
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
Uff.. tell me.. It's really sad to see how everything is going in the wrong direction in your country.
- Leandro Ardissone ⍨
Argentinians still talk about those days
- Hutch Carpenter
though my question is not related to the post, i am writing to ask about FF, what changes can we expect in the present version of FF, think search needs to be made more comprehensive...what new features can we expect? or is it too early? or you have forgot FF after joining facebook? waiting....
- ffcode
Kevin: "Sometimes a big shift can help a person gain perspective." Jim: "I just got off the toilet and realized I misread Kevin's comment."
Darren Heydon, Johan Bakken, Tanath and 19 other people liked this
Jim did say he was down in the dumps.
- Louis Gray
hehe
- WorldofHiglet
And I wonder what you guys do all day.
- anna sauce
Did Jim gain any new perspective?
- Otto
cabel.name: Kashiwa Mystery Cafe - http://www.cabel.name/2009...
Lizunlong, Pandu ● IT Optimizer, Anne Bouey and 2 other people liked this
A very interesting concept. I don't believe many mainstream Americans would like the results. It's no question many of us (them) are a finicky bunch who don't like uncertainty. (or losing out on an exchange)
- Louis Gray
Some commenters on the blogpost echo my thought: It's most definitely a 'happening art' kind of thing, not meant for ongoing business. And one commenter actually confirmed that.
- Pandu ● IT Optimizer
from fftogo
Facebook Just Made It Super Easy To Put Connect On Your Site - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
April Buchheit, Mike Chelen, Darren Heydon and 56 other people liked this
Will give it a bash!
- Sean Kelly
Hmmm, Just tried this, but keep getting an error on Step 2 when I "Test Setup"... I'd better get Googling..
- Andrew Terry
The process doesn't really work on wordpress.
- Jason Williams
from iPhone
I see no reason that it wouldn't work on WordPress. I integrated FB Connect into my theme a while back, and it's easy enough to do. This would just take the "create a FB App" out of the process.
- Otto
I don't know how to do the upload file part. Would be better to have a way to do this via WordPress.
- Thomas Hawk
Google Friend Connect had this process for a while, now they improved over FC again by eliminating the file-upload part. No uploads needed now.
- Ray Cromwell
The whole file upload thing is necessary for allowing FB to set cookies on your site (cross-domain). It's not hard, just upload the file to your web host in the normal manner, like FTP or what have you. I mean, you had to upload WordPress to the site the first time, right? Google gets around it by not storing cookies on your domain, they just call back to their servers on every hit instead.
- Otto
actually Otto somebody else uploaded WordPress to my site for the first time. I'm not sure how to upload files to my domain. It would be nice if they had a WP widget that you could just install that did all of this for you.
- Thomas Hawk
Unfortunately, it just doesn't work that way, Thomas. WordPress doesn't really have the same kind of control over your website that you do, in many cases. And if you don't have the ability to put files on and off your site, then it's really questionable as to whether it's "your" site at all. I'd highly recommend getting that level of control, ASAP.
- Otto
I'm sure I have the ability. I just don't have the know how.
- Thomas Hawk
That's why we have documentation: http://codex.wordpress.org/FTP_Cli...
- Otto
Depending on your host Thomas... they might have a flash based ftp client. I know Godaddy does.
- Jason Williams
We have received numerous reports of excessive FriendFeed posts showing up in Facebook this evening. While we are not 100% sure, it appears to be an issue on Facebook's end due to ignoring application settings. We have disabled all FriendFeed updates to Facebook until we are sure the problem is resolved.
Jordi Soler, Stanislas Jourdan, Nicholas James and 63 other people liked this
See http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... for more information - it seems to also have impacted Twitter's Facebook app. Again, we are not sure if it is a problem on our end or not, but we are investigating now.
- Bret Taylor
Thanks Bret! FWIW when I checked the FF app settings in FB they were not the same options as I saw when I first set the app up.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
my freindfeed application is not working on facebook, and fr rest of..
- Madhav Tripathi
Click. Flip a switch and that's it. You guys rule.
- Pete Delucchi
Thanks, Bret. I've disabled it on my FB page and hope that cures what ails me. Appreciate the FF peeps being on top of it.
- Derrick
Yet another reason I'm happy I don't have a FaceBook. :P
- Trey Crossan
Good thing I only posted once to Twitter tonight. The duplication only happened once. Thanks for letting me know.
- Louis Gray
Yay for communicative admins!
- Brett Kelly
from iPhone
*looks at own FB account* HOLY SHIT, WTF?!?
- Joe Silence is not dead
Yep, I have drug references now due to not having context. Thanks alot FB. Thanks alot.
- Jimminy
I had the same with Twitter
- Mo Kargas
Thanks Bret!
- Andrew C
No problem, if I knew it was on your end, I wouldn't have cared, but thanks for letting me know about the situation. I was confused because it happened right as I was trying out a new twitter game. This was compounded by the fact that the game has no controls for turning off public messages. I'll bet they plan to add them later, but right now they want everyone to hear about it. It’s a...
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- Michael Fidler
Is it fixed? I'm afraid to go look:)
- Michael Fidler
So, is it fixed?Every tweet, every everything is showing up as individual news feed posts for all my friends, this is too much and I'm likely to piss them all off. Options ... 1.Stop tweeting etc. 2.Ditch the FF Facebook application. Hmmm, it's a no brainer. Anyone got any updates on this?
- Michael M Bailey
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