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DeWitt Clinton

DeWitt Clinton

Google developer products and other fun things.
Artist - Kseniya Simonova - Sand Animation - Ukraine's Got Talent 2009 Winner - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Artist - Kseniya Simonova - Sand Animation - Ukraine's Got Talent 2009 Winner
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Via @kurrik, @kottke - DeWitt Clinton
That's about 1000 times more amazing than I expected it to be. I would never have imagined someone drawing in sand could have half the audience in tears. - Joel Webber
@gwhitescarver Congrats on the Droids. I'm tempted to switch @yes over to Verizon just to get her one.
I'm sorry, those ShareThis buttons are awful. Popping up on mouse over?
Of 18,425 MP3s, Lala successfully fingerprinted 13,113 of them. Not bad when you consider how esoteric some of the collection is.
Now Lala, that's a service that needs an Android app.
Missed this earlier, the new F*** Buttons album _Tarot Sport_ is up on Lala: http://www.lala.com/#album...
Secret Knock Detecting Lock - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
Secret Knock Detecting Lock
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On being laid off from Microsoft - http://faganm.com/blog...
If you're looking for a very sharp PM -- Michael and I worked closely together at Amazon/A9 -- let me know and I'll make introductions. - DeWitt Clinton
Reaffirmation that, in America, money can triumph over any adversity. #yankees
@davewiner Or download the excellent Pandora app. I upgraded to Pandora Pro I liked it so much.
More suggestions: InfiniDB, CouchDB, and graph paper. (Via @sogrady and @adamse.)
Ruby on Rails developers, @waxpancake is hiring at Kickstarter in NYC: http://blog.kickstarter.com/post...
Recommendations for hbase, Cassandra, and MongoDB. (Via @jpatanooga, @briantwodotoh.) More?
@noahharlan What's in a name? That which we call a Droid by any other name would smell as sweet.
What's your favorite open source, distributed, column-oriented datastore?
"The Droid is the coolest mobile phone to exist to date." Wow, very nice words from @arrington: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
@edsu Yes, all our GData APIs support OpenSearch metadata. We don't always provide description documents yet, though.
robot dancing wondergirls' nobody - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
robot dancing wondergirls' nobody
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@edsu I don't know much about OPDS (will look), but adding rel="search" in more places is definitely on my TODO list.
"Transparency, choice and control have become a key part of Google's philosophy. Today we're doing even more." https://www.google.com/account...
Happy beyond words that this is happening. Read the introductory post here: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009... - DeWitt Clinton
This really rocks -- not just about transparency, but I also find it pretty useful as a tool for remembering stuff. - Joel Webber
So true! I had no idea I had an Orkut profile or followers on Reader or a problem with using too many Google products. - dju
"Closure Templates are a client- and server-side templating system that helps you dynamically build reusable HTML and UI elements. They have a simple syntax that is natural for programmers, and you can customize them to fit your application's needs. In contrast to traditional templating systems, in which you must create one monolithic template per page, you can think of Closure Templates as small components that you compose to form your user interface. You can also use the built-in message support to easily localize your applications." - DeWitt Clinton
"The Closure Library is a broad, well-tested, modular, and cross-browser JavaScript library. You can pull just what you need from a large set of reusable UI widgets and controls, and from lower-level utilities for DOM manipulation, server communication, animation, data structures, unit testing, rich-text editing, and more." - DeWitt Clinton
"The Closure Compiler is a tool for making JavaScript download and run faster. It is a true compiler for JavaScript. Instead of compiling from a source language to machine code, it compiles from JavaScript to better JavaScript. It parses your JavaScript, analyzes it, removes dead code and rewrites and minimizes what's left. It also checks syntax, variable references, and types, and warns about common JavaScript pitfalls." - DeWitt Clinton
Introducing Closure Tools from Google - the Closure Compiler, the Closure Library, and Closure Templates: http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009...
Satisfying one of @paul's longest-standing requests! - DeWitt Clinton
jeresig: Huh, http://WebPageTest.org is really cool. The data dump you get is quite impressive. Thanks @souders. http://j.mp/3pUQD8 - http://twitter.com/jeresig...
simonw: Reminder: if your site has a crossdomain.xml file with <allow-access-from domain="*"> in it, you probably have a nasty security hole - http://twitter.com/simonw...
Facebook and MySpace security: backdoor wide open, millions of accounts exploitable - http://simonwillison.net/2009...
Reminds me of something I read in a security discussion the other day: "Fixing acrobat and flash would obviously be a simpler path." So basically, ugh. - DeWitt Clinton
Amazon should partner with the ACM for one-click Kindle downloads of Digital Library research papers http://portal.acm.org/dl.cfm. @werner
Right now it is a several step process. Log in to ACM, download PDF, email to Kindle (at $0.15/MB). Not that hard, but a partnership would encourage more people to read more research papers. - DeWitt Clinton
A very good idea, indeed. - Alex Kapranoff
Xbox 360 120GB hard drive? $134. Typical 1TB external hd? $99. Value of proprietary hardware? $1/GB, apparently.
Maybe it's got some DRM stuff in the firmware for your "protection" :) - Ray Cromwell
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