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Amit Patel
Flyv's Warcraft Blog: Farmville considered - http://flyv.typepad.com/warcraf...
Flyv's Warcraft Blog: Farmville considered
“FarmVille, the casual Facebook farming sim, is an important game. But no gamer nerd I read has taken it seriously (other than Tobold). 22 million people play every day, there's 60 million plus registered users. That makes it 2-5x as big as World of Warcraft. ” - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet
Amit Patel
YouTube - The Best of HK-47 (KOTOR I) - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
YouTube - The Best of HK-47 (KOTOR I)
Play
hunter walk
Chris Lasher
Clear signs Hell *is* freezing over: Houston gets snow http://www.chron.com/disp..., elects openly gay mayor http://www.nytimes.com/2009....
Matt Cutts
Reading http://www.fakesteve.net/2009... (rant by Fake Steve Jobs about AT&T). A must-read if you're in tech.
Simon
"On one hand, every single one of my ancestors going back billions of years has managed to figure it out. On the other hand, that's the mother of all sampling biases." - Simon from Bookmarklet
Best alt text ever! - Doug Beeferman
Gotta love the 'mother of all' pun as well. - Kevin Fox
I see that xkcd subscribes to the neutral theory. - Ruchira S. Datta
Amit Patel
Venison Confit | MeatWater High Efficiency Survival Beverage - http://www.dinnerinabottle.com/venison...
Venison Confit | MeatWater High Efficiency Survival Beverage
"Venison with morel mushrooms (port wine) We don’t know about your neighborhood, but around the MeatWater plant, we got tons of deer! They love to nibble on the clover and dandelions that grow on our industrial park. And that’s when we hit ‘em with the Compound Bow, baby! Thwak! Arrow through the neck! We lovingly hang the bifurcated carcass from a pair of trees then butcher that buck into lean and flavorful steaks. After a long braise with imported German morels and a port wine reduction we get the gamiest MeatWater of them all! You can really taste the meadow!" - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet
tony chang
Chrome Linux and Mac betas along with extensions beta. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009...
Piaw Na
Questions for Jeffrey P. Bezos - Book Learning - Interview - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/glogin...
Heh heh. Smart guy, that Bezos. - Piaw Na
"Q: What do you say to Kindle users who like to read in the bathtub? A: I’ll tell you what I do. I take a one-gallon Ziploc bag, and I put my Kindle in my one-gallon Ziploc bag, and it works beautifully. It’s much better than a physical book, because obviously if you put your physical book in a Ziploc bag you can’t turn the pages. But with Kindle, you can just push the buttons." - ⓞnor from Android
Wowzers: "For every 100 copies of a physical book we sell, where we have the Kindle edition, we will sell 48 copies of the Kindle edition." - Doug Beeferman
Jeff Bezos: "I like Kindle" vs. Steve Jobs: "You like *the* iPhone". Who's wrong? - Jérôme Flipo
I really want a Kindle or Nook, but am, like so many others, really irritated by the inability to lend books, and the lack of portability of books from one system to the other. I know it's early days, but it's going to be a real loss if they don't find a way to open things up a bit. - Joel Webber
Daniel Dulitz
Wishing the world had more true affairs of the heart and less violence, lying, and political favoritism.
DeWitt Clinton
After nearly two decades of programming and a dozen IDEs left by the wayside, I find myself back in emacs every time.
M-x why-cant-emacs-start-a-fire - mikepk
[No match] - mikepk
I think you misspelled vim. - Mark Trapp
Mark wins. - Itachi
niniane
Heh RT @Chippendales Congrats @niniane for being our 1000th follower! You've got hot pair of pink @Chippendales boy shorts comin your way!
Evan Parker
Google LatLong: More Street View updates: See the sea, see the world - http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009...
Stephen Colbert
sarah palin didn't finish a 5k race in kennewick, ashington. amazing - is there anything she can't quit?
Adam Lasnik
A heartwarming story about bridging the culture gap - http://www.bladam.com/main...
What a beautiful note, Adam. Thanks for sharing! - Claudia Petrilli
Wonderful experience for you! Great story! - Anne Bouey
It makes me want to do solo traveling again. - Elsa Chang
Claudia, Anne, Elsa (and like'ers), I appreciate the feedback. And admittedly, I got teary-eyed just re-reading what I had written 5+ years ago. It indeed reminded me how solo-traveling can be so emotionally intense and rewarding. - Adam Lasnik
April Buchheit
A chart to help you decide which chart to use.
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Unfortunately, there's no guidance on choosing the best chart for the data you have, which a lot of people seem to have trouble with. "What would you like to show?" is often the wrong question. - Andy Bakun
Tim O'Reilly
Automatic captions in YouTube show us what will become possible thru Google speech recognition and auto-translation: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009...
I think this may be one of the highest-impact things Google does this year, even in a busy year. - Matt Cutts
Kevin Fox
Best Reddit thread ever. http://origin.reddit.com/r...
disco ball - Tony Ruscoe
disco ball - Ertuğ Karamatlı
disco ball - Andrew C
disco ball - Tudor Bosman
disco ball - Jérôme Flipo
disco ball - Louis Gray
disco ball - ashish
disco ball - imabonehead from Android
disco ball - Micah Wittman
disco ball - Josh Haley from iPhone
disco ball - Eric Logan
so is the answer he was looking for "specular sphere"? - now i'm confused - Chris Heath
c-c-c-combo breaker! - Andrew C
Matt Cutts
I just realized that I'm on day 50 of my 30-day "stop using Microsoft OS/software" challenge. Liking it so far.
I am on year four of no Microsoft OS/software. - Gary Burd
Gary: what do you use ubuntu? or mac? Matt does a lot of 30 day challenges, sometime ago i saw book reading on his blog - ffcode
Redhat, Ubuntu for work, Mac for home. - Gary Burd
Gary: 4 years? Did they wrong you personally? I can't care enough one way or the other about a company to love/hate their products to such an extent. Now if they mess with my livelihood that's another story.... - Hayes Haugen
I primarily switched to Mac at home because I think OS X is easier to use and maintain than Windows. Microsoft did mess with my livelihood, but that's another story... - Gary Burd
After I posted I realized that I was still holding my Apple grudge. They messed with my livelihood too. But it's ancient history and I should probably move on. Probably. - Hayes Haugen
What did you use and what are you using in it's place now? - John Wang
Rather freeing, innit? - Joe D'Andrea
I would have to say that Windows 7 is the only product I feel like paying for. AFTER A LONG TIME - Nikhil Dev
Gary: any reason for not using mac @work? - sizofroid
MG Siegler
Google Turning Times Square Into A Giant Voice Search Experiment On Black Friday - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Andy Baio
Neven Mrgan's Pie Guy, impressive web game for the iPhone - http://mrgan.tumblr.com/post...
installed from a webpage, swipe controls, and works offline; 3GS only, older iPhones are too slow - Andy Baio
I have a slowpoke first-gen iPhone so I can't try this out, but I really like the concept and hope there'll be more work in this direction. - Doug Beeferman
dannysullivan
RT @tolles: An amazing love letter to San Francisco & an obituary for newspapers http://tribes.tribe.net/swimwit... Harper's via @mathewi
Beautiful. 'Unwilling to forfeit any fraction of my quarter, I even studied the classifieds—-unrelieved columns laid out like city blocks: Room for rent. Marina. No pets. File clerk position. Heavy phones. Ticket agent for busy downtown box office. Must be bonded. Norman, we’re still here. Only once did I find the titillation I was looking for, a listing worthy of a barbershop magazine, an Argosy, or a Mickey Spillane: “Ex-Green Beret will do anything legal for cash.”' - Daniel Dulitz
Chad Orzel
Hair Raiser § SEEDMAGAZINE.COM - http://seedmagazine.com/content...
"Malcolm Gladwell and Steven Pinker duel over balancing scientific rigor with relatable narrative," - Chad Orzel
Love the title and graphic. :) - Ruchira S. Datta
I hadn't read the Vanity Fair parody of Gladwell, that's awesome. - ⓞnor from Android
Daniel Dulitz
(via davidenos) Fantastic work, David. - http://sexpigeon.org/post...
This is a very creative map of SF. - Daniel Dulitz
Paul Buchheit
Imagine that you are about to be reincarnated (as a baby human) and can pass along 140 characters of advice. What would you say?
Assume that the baby will be born into circumstances similar to your own, if necessary... - Paul Buchheit
Wow, that's a stumper of a question! :) - Susan Beebe
Learn all that you can, be noble, true, humble, love much. Seek wisdom from your family and friends - Susan Beebe
I would say: pls take a picture of me using your iPhone and post it to Posterous and capture that 12sec video of reincarnation process : ) - victed from iPhone
I wouldn't need 140 characters: "in whatever you do, strive to do it as well as you possibly can." 64. - Bren -- feeling merry from iPhone
"It's mostly an illusion" - Paul Buchheit
Never stop learning, enjoy the little things, cherish friends & family, try your best, keep an open mind, and indulge yourself occasionally. - Nathan Chase
chase your passions, the rest follows. observe everything. work, love and play hard. change happens. live full and balanced. 3 - Charles Ying
What goes around comes around. - imabonehead
I think Nathan has it! At least he said exactly what I would have written. :-) - Victoria Plautia
Don't panic. - Penguin It's Cold Outside from fftogo
Risk is not an option. And eat your vegetables. - Micah Wittman
Study Thomas, he has more answers than anyone else you will read. - Alex Scrivener
Number to a Swiss bank safe containing cash, guns and numerous passports. Yes, it is from a movie. - Peng-Toh
.....so are we trying to guess the meaning of life here? essentially I think that's what this question boils down to. I only need two characters: - Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
Fear the fail whale. - Jim Norris
"If you think you already know the answer, you will never know the answer" - Paul Buchheit
Alex, which Thomas? - Paul Buchheit
Plastics, my boy. - MVB (Grinch of FF) from iPod
You're a towel! - Raphael, Raphael
Don't fear the fail whale. - Paul Buchheit
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, if you were in their position. - Ruchira S. Datta
Everything is transitory. - John E. Bredehoft
Don't tell them I told you this. They'll think you're nuts! - Larry Hosken
"There's always an easier way" - Paul Buchheit
I'm surprised no one's quoted Kurt Vonnegut yet. :) - April Buchheit
April, is that your advice or an observation? - Clare Dibble
Observation. - April Buchheit
Stay away from the mohel. - Leo Laporte
Crush the enemy. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of the women. - Chrimmus Tad
"Think big. Code small." - Paul Buchheit
For April: "There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind." - Paul Buchheit
Phase 1: Collect Handerpants; Phase 2: ?; and Phase 3: Profit - imabonehead
Just wing it. It'll be cool. - April Buchheit
Let's git rid of 140 chars nonsense limid. - Petr Buben
"Reasonable men adapt to the world around them; unreasonable men make the world adapt to them. The world is changed by unreasonable men." - Paul Buchheit
Paul, try telling April that next time she is frustrated with you; I'm sure it will help ;) - Clare Dibble
Just told my son this tonight -- Leave the earth better than the way you found it. - Joe
Don't be such an asshole, asshole. - Rodfather
@Paul, Aquinas - Alex Scrivener
"Don't believe it when people say you can't do something. Prove them wrong." - Cristo
Assuming my reincarnated self has wifi and a smartphone, I might point him to Des'ree's 1990s pop hit: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Doug Beeferman
Treat others with respect. Feed your intellectual curiosity. Don't accept limits others place upon you and often, patience is required. - Louis Gray
"Nobody else knows what's really going on either." - Amber, Random Time Lord
LCD is better than plasma - Alex Scoble
"Its not that bad, stop sh*tting yourself, ;)" - chaz2b
++Leo, that sounds like very useful advice. :) - Ruchira S. Datta
In the end it really doesn't matter, enjoy it while it lasts, do what makes you happy, try not to sabotage the happiness of others. - April Russo (app103)
Don’t sweat the small stuff. It’s all small stuff. - Laura Norvig
"Dear Reincarnated Self: my head is frozen with the Life Extension Foundation. To get cool advice pls unfreeze me at ur earliest convenience." - Philipp Lenssen
"Dont be afraid to take chances or march to a different beat. In the end only the soul counts, don't sweat the small stuff. Listen, learn." - Grant Bierman
Dr. Cable. Watch it. ;-) - 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
I dare you to do better. - Charles Ying
"Please ask the next generation to increase maximum message length." - Ray Cromwell
BTW, Commander Data was able to get away with sending only 2 *bits* of information into the future/past to break out of a 'groundhog day' scenario. The message: 3 - Ray Cromwell
There once was a site called Twitter. It was worth a billion dollars... - Sean Kelly
Exercise every day, learn to program asap. I have discovered a truly marvellous proof that these are the right things to do which this twee - j1m
"I've finally discovered the secret to a contented and effective life, which for you, begins now. This joy can be yours. Just claim it by t" <snipped by character limit> - Kurtiss Hare
Search for the will of the creator. Prefer the heaven of love to the hell of power.Every moment is unique.Train empathy. Give. [ yeah, I kept in the character limit! Twitter is like life sometimes, only, hu, more limitted :-] - Willi Schroll
L^2>∞ love of life is greater then time and space. Compassion destroys the destroyer peace above me below me around me down me radiate peace - Robert Higgins
That's easy: Join friendfeed as soon as possible. - Jim: Dead Like FF
don't sweat it kid, you just got a do over... - J. Abdul-Qahhar
H4sIABnpA0sCA+3KOw2AMBQAwB0VTwEeWHFRPhOFEgghdU91kFsvN+Qcb7m2SMcSR4kzpxp72tY7 xjQ3juVpZSq1j8F1Xdd1Xdd1Xdd1Xdd1Xdd1Xdd1Xdd1/327D0m3yMZIHwAA - Edward Coffey
"Propose multiple solutions to every problem. Or choose your own life." - Ivo Danihelka
"Context is everything." - Bruce Johnson from BuddyFeed
@RayCromwell - see my first comment ;) - Charles Ying
"Listen." The other 133 characters are superfluous. - Bruce Lewis from fftogo
Like to quote Einstein on this one," As the circle of light increases, so does the circumference of darkness." - ashish from iPhone
Ray Cromwell has said it best *rofl* please increase message length!! It doesn't get any better than that! Words of wisdom!! :) - John Tastad
Seek truth - Shakeel Mahate
Love always wins. Don't sweat happiness: find joy. (ponders how to translate the "becoming a man" speech from Secondhand Lions into 140 characters...) - Ladybug Heather
Remember to save often...data and money. Live life like you have a reset button. - Brian Merriman
Ignore advice. You'll figure it out. - Todd Hoff
I won't develop the ability to type until years later, so I guess my only advice is "Ga Ga" and "Ball." - Fleagle
Frankie says RELAX - VAL D. Zone
It's not just you, they're all crazy. Make as many friends outside the family as you can. You'll want to leave home. Do it. Don't look back. (this is a seriously awesome topic!) - Lo
Follow your heart. Don't worry about failure because apparently reincarnation is real. Snooches! - Kevin Fox
Dont let others decide for you what is good and right for you. Not even this message. - Joelle Nebbe (iphigenie)
Learn your math. Especially Geometry. It will make your coding SO much more compelling! - Joe Nickence
"Don't tweet"? - Marcos
Actually, I prefer FF.. - ★ Soner Gönül
Well I won't list all 140 but 1 I will is: Do not live your life to live..Live it to die. In other words, prepare for death because all life is about is another chance to get it right so you can end Samsara. - Merlyn Seeley
"In your past life, you never understood why people liked Twitter." - Ryan Kaisoglus
the world is made of atoms - bob
Crawl back in? - dannysullivan
Use the force. Search your feelings. Live long and prosper. - Charles Ying
When the time comes, cut the blue wire. - David Gaw
There's always something bigger than you. - Daisy
Dear new self: whatever you do, don't make all the same mistakes with your life that I did with mine. For example, you should never ever try [MAXIMUM MESSAGE LENGTH REACHED] - s t e v e
Don't put twinkies on your Pizza. - Will Higgins™
You, are fine. To hell w' 'em if they think you're not pretty/funny/smart/rich enough. - Summer
Find Stuart Diamond and take his negotiation course when you're 16. Love yourself so you can love others. Also, reincarnation exists, and you were a geek in your previous life. - Daniel Dulitz
Don't wish for what you aren't. Life will be far more interesting than you could ever expect. Play with the cards you're dealt, and have fun - Bette Cooper
don't play safe gamble every day - WarLord
Focus, be patient. Never give up. Timing is crucial. - JSNFLMNG from iPod
"Next time, duck." - Otto from iPhone
Call me Stewie, bow now and pay later. Put another coal in the power plant so you can continue watching this homage and choke on the fumes. [140 and referenced Family Guy, ideology, commerce, ecology, choice, and lost will.] - William 'Bill' McPhe
"Tom Cruise must be stopped. By any means necessary." - Otto
Otto, you have room to add "--your mission, if you choose to accept it." - Micah Wittman
Life is all about ass. You're either covering it, kicking it, kissing it, busting it, laughing it off, or trying to get a piece of it. - Mona Nomura
Mona, you forgot the part about being one. - April Russo (app103)
live! - barbarars
Be kind to animals, nature, others & yourself. Do what you love. Love what you do. Never stop learning about the world around you. - Bronson Harrington
Try to find the 140 characters you would pass along to your reincarnation. - Eszter Susánszky
Nap. - A Mitchell
A Puri
Op-Ed Columnist - Triumph of a Dreamer - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/glogin...
inspiring - A Puri
j1m
j1m
Progressive Rock | Cracked.com - http://www.cracked.com/funny-2...
Progressive Rock | Cracked.com
"You really have two options when choosing a prog band name. You can either go with something "simple but random", like Yes, Rush and Camel (may we suggest "Spinach", "Taco" or "Hat"?); or you can use a complex title if it is sufficiently outlandish. The second route is riskier, but the payoff is enormous if you nail it. Enthusiasts love to quote their favourite obscure bands, and the zanier the better. ("Oh, you haven't heard of Mr Bungle? Next you're going to tell me you aren't a fan of Van Der Graaf Generator.") Some suggestions to get you started: Interstellar Spinach The Epic Taco Project Hat Dimension" - j1m from Bookmarklet
Neha Narula
Chris Wetherell
"So I'm in Java. I guess I start by writing an AbstractBaseRepresentationClass and go from there?"
No. Start from an AbstractBaseRepresentationClassFactory. - Private Sanjeev
Or you could do what we all did before the Java "community" went apeshit will all that stuff, and write the same kinds of classes you would if you were sitting down to write Python or whatever :) - Joel Webber
I barely use classes with Python any more, closures are much nicer. - Jim Norris
Like inverse CLOS? :-) - Daniel Dulitz
I haven't actually had the pleasure of using CLOS, but probably something like that. Maybe I use python more like scheme than CLOS. - Jim Norris
Note however, the AbstractBaseRepresentationClassFactory (which should better be an interface - then you can have a AbstractBaseRepresentationClassFactoryImplementation) needs to be provided by a dependency injection framework configured with some XML configuraiton file that is partially generated from annotations in Java classes; done so via some custom ant-task. - Henner Zeller
Henner, I think you're exaggerating the verbosity of java; it could clearly be named AbstractBaseRepresentationClassFactoryImpl - Karl Rosaen
It's so sad that this caricature of Java rings true, because the architecture-astronaut crowd seems to have taken over. We need more people thinking like these guys: http://www.playframework.org/ - Joel Webber
Joel, I agree it's easy to make fun of java by finding some straw man BeanSerializerFactoryConfiguratorImpl out there and pointing and laughing, but I do think there is a tension between reusability and over design / verbosity in java since you need to depend on interfaces for your class to be reusable whereas in python or javascript, the duck typing means anything you plug in that will work just works without it having to implement an interface. - Karl Rosaen
Aren't there ways of introducing prototypal inheritance to Java now? - Jason Wehmhoener
@Karl: Agreed that Java's inheritance model (like C++'s, though at times even worse) sometimes causes people to over-design a bit. But I don't think it's anywhere near as difficult to write simple, sensible Java code as these examples would imply -- I think it has more to do with archinauts (?) finding that it's so easy to write lots of code in Java that they simply do so without considering how silly and baroque it all gets. - Joel Webber
What I do object to is the notion that I have to jump to a dynamic language to fix these problems (not obviously espoused on this thread, but on plenty of others). I want good tools, and I want a language that has a hope in hell of being optimized, and no truly dynamic language can give me either. Anyone notice that the Closure Compiler essentially defines a statically typed version of... more... - Joel Webber
The downside of duck typing though is that in a large program, for a given callsite, you don't really know what methods are available unless you know the 'greatest common duck', I find this really makes code navigation on code bases you didn't write painful. - Ray Cromwell
Funny: For various reasons I'm having to bang on some Python code I didn't write. It's such a freaking nightmare trying to figure out why it's blowing up all the time, usually because I misunderstood what properties were supposed to be available on an object, or what type a parameter is, or whatever. "Who calls this method" is a pretty damned hard question to ask of a Python code base. So is "are there any syntax errors in my code". Bah :P - Joel Webber
I'm eager to see if Go might bridge the chasm. Sound-but-lithe would be ideal in a type system. - Bruce Johnson from BuddyFeed
April Buchheit
Colour photography in Pre-Revolutionary Russia - http://eljenmajusmasodika.blogspot.com/2009...
Colour photography in Pre-Revolutionary Russia
Colour photography in Pre-Revolutionary Russia
"Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii was a chemist turned photographer ahead of his time who undertook an ambitious photographic survey of the Russian Empire for Tsar Nicholas II. Between 1909 and 1915, he completed tours of eleven regions, traveling in a specially equipped train carriage which had been provided by the Ministry of Transportation. What made this project remarkable was his use of an innovative technique for taking photographs in full and extremely vivid colour. He was able to capture colour by using a camera that exposed one oblong glass plate three times in rapid succession through three different colour filters: blue, green, and red. To view his images, he printed positive glass slides of his negatives and projected them through a triple lens magic lantern. The images were projected through the three lenses and, with the use of colour filters, superimposed in full colour on to a screen." - April Buchheit from Bookmarklet
I feel guilty that I feel this way, but color really helps me relate better to people of that period. I was just watching that link to color film footage of London in 1927 and felt the same way. There's something that makes it so much more real and empathizable even though other things you'd think would be barriers (strange hairstyles, clothing) are still there. - Spidra Webster
It's surprising that he was able to take so many good photos of people. That's almost impossible to do with multiple exposures. - Gabe
You can see the motion in the shot he took of the kids on the hillside. - Spidra Webster
Spidra: yes, the shot of kids on the hillside (http://www.loc.gov/exhibit...) appears to be the only one that isn't posed. - Gabe
I know what you mean, Spidra. Somehow the detail of color make the people more real and their way of life somehow more relevant. - April Buchheit
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