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Or the Woods Knoll!! - Herman D. Lawson

"Lindenbaum says the platform that’s closest to Heroku’s is probably the Google App Engine, but there are two key differences. For one thing, rather than supporting a swath of languages, Heroku is focused on delivering the best experience for Ruby on Rails, a framework that’s known for fast development. (App Engine currently supports Python and Java, with plans to add more languages.) Also, Heroku is open, meaning that it’s easy to move apps and data in and out of its platform, while App Engine includes a number of proprietary technologies that make that more difficult." - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

Anyone who hasn't tried to deploy a rails app with heroku should check it out. It is extremely easy. Sure I can do my own ec2 management, but I think I would rather pay a little more to avoid the hassel. Database management alone with their simple system could be worth the extra cost. - Tom Mancino

"41. Jason Kidd The most efficient NBA player, according to Mark Cuban's new adjusted plus-minus statistical formula, or as it's more commonly known, "Guys, go in there, start crunching numbers, and I don't want to see any of you again until you find me a formula that justifies the Kidd-Harris trade." Meanwhile, check out the splits of the NBA's six quickest point guards against Dallas this season: Tony Parker (31.3 ppg, 7.3 apg, 52 percent FG); Paul (33.3 ppg, 12.5 apg, 57 percent FG); Rondo (16.0 ppg, 14.0 apg, 62.5 percent FG); Harris (29.5 ppg, 10.0 apg); D. Williams (24.8 ppg, 11.5 apg); and D. Rose (19.0 ppg, 7.5 apg). Egads. The good news: Kidd and Nash tied for "Most Fun Teammate To Have" honors for something like the 10th straight year." - Richard Lawler from Bookmarklet

What's Stanley Roberts doing there? - Rodfather

read the greg oden section. it's at least a little unfair, but funny. - Richard Lawler

like tennis too :) - Mohsin

its world matrix day. - D. Eda Goze

Just realized, FriendFeed is run by the Robot Army from the Area 01. Humans can't pull of this so easily. - Swaroop

Such a good movie - MG Siegler from Likaholix

Bindu, that works for me with books sometimes, too! - Anne Bouey

What do you like about the show? Why would you recommend it? - Anne Bouey

Yes. FNL is teh awesome. - Derrick

"It is a little-known fact that the only book Eminem read as a child was the dictionary. He pored over it, searching for words that rhymed with each other that could later be pulled out of the bag during the freestyle rap "battles" that provided his education in hip-hop. The years spent studying the English language lie at the core of his technical brilliance. They turned him into the greatest rapper of his time. But they did so at a personal cost: for Eminem could be uncharitably described as an anorak. His life starts and ends with music. He writes constantly, scrawling lines on sheets of notepaper in a crabby handwriting. When he's not composing new verse, or messing around in a studio, he'll be listening to hip-hop. "The guy's a studio rat," says producer Terry Simaan, the owner of Oh Trey 9, one of the Detroit's most influential hip-hop labels. "If he feels like it, he'll spend 12, 15 hours a day in a studio." " - bob from Bookmarklet

"spend 12, 15 hours" Pfff. Some FFers post for 15 hours then polish off another 4hrs of comments, then a few likes as a night cap. - Micah Wittman

one of my favorite quotes about Hendrix is that he would wake up, and immediately, before anything, even food, start playing. I've been thinking about it a lot as more and more people tell me about that 'outliers' book. - paulm

"Too big to fail" is my new goal in life. No downsides once you get there! - Michael

I heard Jack Welch on the Charlie Rose Show last night describe Wall Street types as people for whom it is all about the money. He described them as people who chose that line of work for one reason...to get rich. If you take away their bonuses we lose leverage over them (in the right climate), to make money. Taxpayers own too much of those investment banks. Allowing some bonuses may keep the incentive to get back some of our $$$. Welch didn't like it either, but said it's pragmatic. - Lynn

His rationale is ridiculous. Welch is yet another one of these types. Left GE just in time for it to blow up on his successor who had to spend a few years getting them out of the business of "financially engineering" their earnings. What business do we so deseperately need to sustain on Wall Street? These aren't commercial bankers getting these bonuses, these are Investment bankers. Their business is dead/gone, and they are just ripping taxpayers off since they can't do the same to their clients anymore. - Christian

"The way Donnell Herrington tells it, there was no warning. One second he was trudging through the heat. The next he was lying prostrate on the pavement, his life spilling out of a hole in his throat, his body racked with pain, his vision blurred and distorted." - Jim Norris from Bookmarklet

I guess the different-colored hats really whet their appetite for alternative apparel sales. - Keith Pelczarski

I still love the St. Paddy's green hat with the clover on the back. - Tom Stocky

That was great! I wish I could identify all those movies. - Anne Bouey

jeff's a funny, intelligent and very witty person. he rolls with the punches when jackson gets on his case. i like him a lot - Cee Bee