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Jess Lee
This year I got the best Christmas presents ever. An Amazon Kindle! Oh and an engagement ring : ).
Congratulations!! - Daniel Dulitz
Congrats! - Andrew C
Those Kindles are amazing! - Cliff Gerrish
Congrats! - John Wang
Yeah but can you download things to your ring? - Akiva Moskovitz
congrats! - imabonehead
Congrats on the engagement! Oh and I guess the kindle is cool too. :) - Evan Parker
How exciting! - Anne Bouey
Wow! Congratulations, Jess! - Louis Gray
Congratulations and I like how you think; first the Amazon Kindle and then your engagement ring. Best of Luck this coming year! - Tom Awtry
Congratulations Jess! - Jim Norris
Way to edit your comment and make me look like an idiot, JimNorrisButtface!!! - Mona Nomura
Apple may replace the Kindle, but can it replace the engagement ring? I think not - Congrats! - Jesse Stay
let's just hope Kindles will still be allowed on airplanes now... growl... - Juho Tunkelo
Congrats :) - Rodfather
Congratulations!!! - Hameedullah Khan
Congratulations! - Ruchira S. Datta
i don't care kindle but the ring is worth the world - Kemalettin Bulamacı
congratulations!!! - Anna Lynn M.
Congrats, Jess. :) - AJ Batac
I gave my girlfriend an engagement ring for Christmas once. She's not my girlfriend anymore. - Gabe
YAY JESS!! - Helen Sventitsky
pics or didn't happen - sofarsoShawn
Congrats! - RAPatton from iPhone
cong'rats !! Need Pics :)- - Peter Dawson
Louis Gray
Huge congratulations to Bret Taylor and Karen Padham Taylor on the birth of their baby girl, Jasmine, this morning, starting off the new year in a fantastic way. Wonderful news. (Photos on Facebook)
Some photos on Sheila Taylor's feed, here: http://ff.im/dJSLP - Louis Gray
EricaJoy
RT @whereistanya: I will pay $$$ for the 1st twitter app that allows me to filter out foursquare. I DO NOT CARE WHERE YOU ALL ARE MAYORS OF.
niniane
@neha You ran out of space due to social networking invites? Each one is, what, a few kb? How many million invites did you get?
@neha has won the internet - Jim Norris
++Jim - Mona Nomura
@jnorris ahem. proof! this is from august 2008: http://bit.ly/6YBd3R - Neha Narula
Neha, is that yours or from College Humor because that cannot be real! 10k chat invites?! Wow! - Mona Nomura
Your inbox looks like my spam folder. I'm scared of what your spam folder looks like. - Rob Haas
Haha to Rob's comment - niniane
Rob++ - Andrew C
Neha, I bet if you put a "Mrs." in front of your name those invites will stop coming. (I'm afraid "Dr." won't suffice, alas.) - Ruchira S. Datta
Bret Taylor
Happy New Year!
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That was cute! - Admiral Anika
Cute, but is there an off button? - Rochelle
#اردک Just kill duck ! :D - Armin
Happy New Year Bret - VAL D. Zone
Quack! - Louis Gray
Go Ducks! Rose Bowl 1:30PM Pacific ;-) ....ah, now, wait, I didn't realize you could shoot him. :-( - Christopher A Carr
Happy New Year! - Mycaptain
Alpha can compute 2010! : http://www.wolframalpha.com/input...! It's a big number. - Amit Patel
Oh I try so hard to capture this duckie with the bookmarklet but failed. Thanks for posting this :D - See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
I shot the sheriff!! and he died :) haha love the duck!! :D - Susan Beebe
Happy New Year, Bret! I'll be thinking of you and Karen all night! - Anne Bouey
nice idea :) Happy new year everyone ! - Stanislas Jourdan
I dare you to put it on Facebook. - Bruce Lewis
Loved it, happy new year to all the FriendFeed team - Jorge Escobar
Happy New Year, team :) - Micah Wittman
هپی نیو یٍر برت :دی - Jan Valjan
Happy New Year! - Ruchira S. Datta
why we kill ducks for new year ;) happy new years everybody - alper*
hahahaha ;) thanks!!! - A.T.
super :) - Umut Çetinkaya
Happy New Year Friendfeeders! : D - Francisco
You too ! - ★ Soner Gönül
(((: - yasin ghasemi
I killed a duck ! Is this your new year present ? - Murat Can Demir
Happy New Year and may it be the best for you, your family and friends bring you the most and best! - Tom Awtry
why don't you make it 1 session??? this shit made me nervous! - Şenay Şen
It made me smile ;) Happy new year Bret:) - Shandiz
Happy New Year and may it be the best for you, your family and friends bring you the most and best! - Tom Awtry
But I swear it was in self defence http://ff.im/dDI6y - Murat Can Demir
Bonne Année, tout le monde! - John Craft
at first it was cute, but it becomes annoying :) - Sertac Tomac
this is the little tyke that runs across my screen today when i am on here lol .. happy new year!! - Tatty Gibson
adamlar ne pozitif yahu, huysuzluğu hep biz yapıyoruz - Murat Can Demir
ahaha ben de varım ff de :) çok hoş - ''sewimsizbilgin'' :P
we don't like the duck bret :) - Sinem Co
inşallah 400 üncü aboneliğini bana yapar :) - ''sewimsizbilgin'' :P
cool duck! happy new year. - Carolyn Chan
من هم با تير زدمش! تا حالا دو تا ... - Mohammad Mirzaie
I'm shooting! I knocked up two ... - Mohammad Mirzaie
bret bu ördeği kaldır aradan hemen ! - Muhammet Ali DEMİR
bretcan ördeği vejeteryan oldugum halde hayvan delisi oldugum halde ben bile sevemedim öldürüyorum sürekli.kaldır bret sunu. - Selen.
Bret, Turkish people say they liked the duck and they absolutely want more. Maybe a female version of it. - Murat Can Demir
vay anam murat yardıma geldi bak selen... bretin anladığı dilden yediriyor ördeğe yemi - Muhammet Ali DEMİR
please remove it, bret. at least, get a limit. - Yalçın Erdemir
Bret, I want DarkWing Duck, that would be the best of all. - Murat Can Demir
we hate it. enough with the duck :( please..... - ozztrojen
please remove it :) - Stefigno
Happy NY to everybody ;) - alfred westerveld
we dont want to shot it , but its gone be so annoyin - sunipeyk
Ya bu ne elitistlik anlamadım ki, ne istediniz garibim ördekten, buradan hepinizi kınıyorum !! - Murat Can Demir
Hi, Happy New Year - AɖoɱidƏ
Happy New Year :) Have a nice days - سولماز
Happy New Year to you too :) .. wish you the best and most fruitfull year - Medad Rangi
it's not funny :) - vincenzo
happy new year but please remove the duck! - Alessandra Farabegoli
happy new year Bret! But please, can you kill that pretty f***in' duck? Thank you so much :) I love you - v per vitzbank
A good idea,relaxing.Let's be fair, and thank Bret .Biraz olumlu olsak bir şey kaybetmeyiz...Bardak doluyken de,boşken de kırılabilir.Önemli olan kırmamaktır.Sevgi-Saygılarımla... - Dedegi
I love it.don't remove it for me:)))) - Mel♥♪y_H
We don't want to see duck.Please, stop this! - halit altunterim
Duck Hunt 2010: The Quackening - Michael R. Bernstein
Happy New Year!!! - Sheila Taylor
Hey Bret, that duck.. it is pretty :) but i get angry it..some disturbing :) - Betül Şahin
duck bu değil arkadaş! - "Fìkrét"
@Murat Can Demir : female version :))))) - Betül Şahin
happy new year ;) - Shinilii
Bret, Stop this massacre :) - alper*
i dont love your present actually i hate it and i wanna kill it but it doesnt work. İts immortal. So could you please remove your fucking duck? And also its not lovely. By the way, Happy new year Bret, may it be the best for you - özge gürçay
if you have firefox and AdBlock, you can get rid of the damn duck blocking http://friendfeed.com/static... - LaMucci
saw it once... was i not supposed to shoot the duck? - Chris Heath
Oh no, Chris, you shot it!?! Now we have to start over. - Bruce Lewis
Bret, does this mean you are rooting for Ohio State? - Cristo
Happy New Year - echostreamer
Happy New Year - victed from iPhone
I WANT THE DUCKY BACK !! HOW COULD YOU LET HIM DIE, BRET ? HOW COULD YOU ?? !!!11!!!!!!1!!! - Murat Can Demir
Happy New Year, Daddy. Congrats on the beautiful baby. - amelia arapoff
Happy New Year and congratz on the new baby! - MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
Ruchira S. Datta
Happy New Year everyone!
Thanks and a very and sincere Happy New Year to you, hoping the coming year brings the most and best for you! - Tom Awtry
happy new year Ruchira S. Datta ,here is already 2nd January. - Ami Iida
Happy New Year - VAL D. Zone
Tim O'Reilly
Is aviation security mostly for show? Good piece by Bruce Schneier http://www.cnn.com/2009... Why our over-reactions serve terrorists, not us.
Tim O'Reilly
Android Rising fast. Android #ebook sales for O'Reilly titles now nearly 1/4 size of iphone sales, http://radar.oreilly.com/2009...
"especially if Google makes some sorely needed improvements to the Market -- a 30-character limit on app titles? Really? And how about a non-Android Web view of the market -- Google of all companies should know the importance of linking." - ⓞnor from Android
How is there still no web interface to the market? Ridiculous! - Larry Greenfield
What Larry said. I really enjoyed developing for iPhone this year, while the Android dev cycle was a bit frustrating for me and my clients. I'm still cheering Google on though! I expect the dev and pub experiences to improve, and I'm confident they'll do what needs doing. Remember, in the end, healthy competition is a good thing. (Accent on healthy.) - Joe D'Andrea
Joe: I'm curious as to what aspects of Android development you found frustrating. Was it actual development or something in the deployment process? I'm no expert on Android but did find the Eclipse development process to be really easy, mostly just stumbling through the APIs using ctrl-space until I got something working. - Joel Webber from BuddyFeed
Joel: This go-round, it was the dev experience. Deployment was a cinch by comparison. Without airing API-bug/IDE-snag/Wrong-documentation nits (which I've raised with appropriate folks), and to put this in perspective, keep in mind I wrote "developing for iPhone _this_ year" vs. last year. Big difference! iPhone's not all wine and roses either, but this year there were some very pleasant dev strides vs. Android. I'm plenty happy when I read of Android success stories. It means there's hope for me yet! :) - Joe D'Andrea
Aydin Senkut
Happy 2010 !
Happy New Year! - Ruchira S. Datta
Neha Narula
trying to recover my < 6 characters gmail account. it ran out of space due to unsolicited orkut and KshatriyaMatrimony requests.
Neha Narula
RT @bradfordcross: Attacking Jeff & Sanjay = unwise: "MapReduce: A Flexible Data Processing Tool" http://cacm.acm.org/magazin... (via @matt_massie)
I kind of wondered about that at the time -- there were some pretty silly assumptions in the original paper that violated the "assume the designers of the system you're attacking wouldn't do incredibly stupid things" principle. - Joel Webber
Well, the authors of the original paper were mostly looking at commercial database systems, so that principle might not apply. - Jim Norris
Fair point, Jim :) Although one of the authors is apparently involved in a company *making* a commercial database, so I guess that implies that he assumes himself to be unreasonable? - Joel Webber
what original paper are you guys talking about? the original map reduce paper? - Neha Narula
I thought this was it - but now i get a 404. http://databasecolumn.vertica.com/2008... - kartik vaithyanathan
oh, the blog post. stonebraker is very entertaining :) i think that whole back-and-forth was a confusion over what the goals of map reduce are, and how they differ from the goals and uses of RDBMSs. - Neha Narula
I think there's just some confusion over how much RDBMSs suck when you want to do something innovative. They want to control everything, and so of course you can say that that black box "could" be better than MapReduce in some theoretical way, but MapReduce scales from both a data and an engineering standpoint in ways that cause the more intricate and complex foundations of RDBMSs to collapse and beg for mercy. - Jim Norris
that's because traditional RDBMSs do waaay more. Like joins. and most of SQL. I think old-school db researchers get annoyed because they thought map-reduce like things way back in the 80s, but didn't build them out, and forged ahead to make what you describe as these black boxes instead. - Neha Narula
Neha, that's fair. What's not is attacking new systems (with pseudo ad-hominems to boot) without putting enough of an effort to understand why they might be useful - perhaps in under different environments than what the old systems were suitable for. - Ashwin Bharambe
What seems strange to me is that, given how hard you have to squint to make an analysis tool like MR look like a database, that they would bother to attack it at all. Unless they truly believe that data should only ever be analyzed in an RDBMS, which is a pretty absurd stance to take. - Joel Webber from BuddyFeed
That's why I say the conflict is really confusion over goals. I definitely have heard people talk about Hadoop replacing RDBMSs, and I'm not even sure what that means. They are two very different tools. I think the authors of the blog post were starting from the premise that people thought that map reduce could *replace* a traditional RDBMS, and they were pointing out why it couldn't.... more... - Neha Narula
DeWitt Clinton
I bet the Apple rumors crack Apple employees up as much as Google rumors crack us up.
Come to think of it, according to the rumors, Apple employees might be in the dark, too. - DeWitt Clinton
Absolutely. I would also assume that Google is big enough that depts can easily keep secrets from one another. - Louis Gray
@Louis - big enough, perhaps. But easy? Not at all. Secret projects are rather antithetical to the dominant paradigm at Google. It's only happened on a few occasions that I can recall, and those were truly exceptional cases (that each had to be justified). Besides, the engineering culture favors a large shared codebase with a tremendous degree of code reuse and common tools -- more so than anywhere else I've worked -- it is hard to keep projects secret for long in such an environment. - DeWitt Clinton
Understood. I just don't always assume that the team working on GMail, for example, knows the Android product roadmap, for example. I know that certain more involved and visible folks, such as yourself or Mr. Cutts, may be more cross-functional, I would not ask Matt for updates on Blogger or Reader. - Louis Gray
Oh, certainly. And I wouldn't personally presume to speak for a team I wasn't working closely with. Though for most teams I bet all I would have to do is look at their team roadmap, which they'd likely share internally anyway. I think we've seen more value unlocked by having a culture of transparency and opportunistic collaboration (and to be honest, some drive-by critique) than we would by locking down too tightly. On the balance I know I much prefer it the way Google operates. - DeWitt Clinton
DeWitt's description is in line with my experience as well. With rare exceptions, if I don't know about a project it's because I just haven't heard about it, or haven't had time to look. It's a very, very open culture, and it's very rare to keep code hidden. - Joel Webber
My brother-in-law was an Apple employee. He usually didn't know what Apple was announcing until they announced it. He worked on the chip set of the iPhone and never saw a completed iPhone until Steve showed it off on stage. He told me before the iPhone came out that it would be "thin" and a "phone." Well, yes. - Robert Scoble
Google's development tools and processes don't lend themselves to maintaining an Apple-esque degree of internal secrecy, even if the company wanted to. Its a unique environment, in my experience (and I'm old). The toolchain was built with searchability and discoverability of code as a goal. - DGentry
Susan Beebe
Happy Birthday to me :)
Happy Birthday Susan have a great day - VAL D. Zone
Woot! Happy Birthday! - Josh Haley from iPhone
happy birthday/boxing day/st. stephen day! - barbarars
Happy birthday!! - Kevin Fox from iPhone
Happy Birthday!!!! - Hameedullah Khan
Happy Birthday Susan ... Enjoy the Season !! - johnpiercy
Have a good birthday! - SuezanneC Baskerville
Happy Birthday to you! :) - phil baumann from Android
Happy Birthday, Susan! - ha3rvey (sayin' nothin')
Happy Birthday! Have a great day! - Trish R
Happy Birthday! - Shevonne
Bon anniversaire! - rowlikeagirl
happy birthday - Mehmet Fatih YILDIZ
Happy Birthday, Susan. - Derrick from iPhone
Happy birthday! Have a wonderful day! - B. LB.
Happy Birthday! :) - WorldofHiglet
Happiest of birthday wishes to you, Susan! - Admiral Anika
Happy Birthday, Susan! - Ayşe E. from iPhone
Happy Birthday! - Tracy Benham
Happy birthday! :) - Rochelle
happy b-day ms beebe, :) - chaz2b
Happy Birthday, Susan! :-D - Kol Tregaskes
WOW, thanks everybody!! This just made my day!! - Susan Beebe
Happy Birthday :) - Rodfather
Happy birthday; December babies rule - RAPatton from iPhone
Happy Birthday, Susan! - Lisa L. Seifert
Happy birthday! - Spidra Webster
Happy birthday - Meral Alabaz
Indeed, a Happy Birthday to you! :-) - Mathew A. Koeneker
happy bday susan! - Marco(aureliusmaximus)
Happy Birthday! - Jim: Now With Caffeine
FriendFeed is a virtual birthday card app too ... - Susan Beebe
Happy social B'day, Susan :-) - Roberto.aka.tornosubito from fftogo
Happy birthday, dear Susan :) - Lora Lufark
happy birthday :) - zʍıɔ
Happy your birthday Susan :) - Mahdi Ebrahimi
Happy Birthday :) - Jimminy Fuller
Thanks everyone for such wonderful b-day wishes!! :) - Susan Beebe
Happy birthday! - Mitchell Tsai
Happy Birthday! - T. Brent, technopeasant
Happy, Birthday, Susan! - Micah Wittman
Happy Birthday! - Alix Whitmire
Happy Birthday! :-) - vicster is...
Happy Birthday! :-) - ... - ساختار شکن
Happy happy bhirtday ;) - ★ Soner Gönül
Happy Birthday indeed - Richard A.
Happy belated birthday, thanks for everything you've done for me in past year too, really great. - Robert Scoble
All the best and many happy returns, Susan! - Prolific Programmer
Happy birthday Susan! :) - Darren Heydon
Happy Birthday ! - Guy Vander Heyden
Happy Birthday from Turkey!!! - The Hocca
Happy Birthday, Susan! Many blessings throughout the coming year! - Melanie Reed
Wow, even more nice comments and birthday wishies... thanks again everyone, until next year! :) - Susan Beebe
Happy Birthday Susan:)) - Seydi Yeşilyurt
DeWitt Clinton
Great. Now I'm standing next to a naked yak and I can't remember what I was doing to begin with.
I really hate when that happens. - EricaJoy
It's such a great time of the year for yak shaving. - Bill Strathearn from Android
Scott Beale
President Obama, It's Time To Fire the TSA (Gizmodo) - http://gizmodo.com/5435675...
Nick Fox
Wow -- of 422 pictures it could have chosen, FriendFeed somehow knew to put the picture of me and Allan first. The future has arrived! - Doug Beeferman
Keith Pelczarski
A rare Christmas sight : Discovery News - http://news.discovery.com/earth...
A rare Christmas sight : Discovery News
"The stretch of blizzard conditions alone ranges from Texas to the south and Ontario on the north, with every one of the lower 48 states influenced by the gyre!" - Keith Pelczarski from Bookmarklet
Nivi
“We do not seek to challenge why we are feeling a particular emotion; instead, we seek to confirm it.” – Paul Ekman, http://www.amazon.com/gp...
Speak for yourself, Ekman. - Mr. Gunn
I hate all that hollow motivational crap - Mark
I've read this book, it's quite good. Mr. Gunn, Prof. Ekman has spent many years studying emotion across many cultures. He's making a statement of fact that's based on many more than himself. Mark, I don't see anything particularly motivational in the quoted statement, and there's nothing particularly motivational about the book--it teaches a skill. - Ruchira S. Datta
Living in a left-brain world, people seem unable to talk sensibly about emotion. Hopefully things like this book can help, by leading to discussion... - Daniel Dulitz
Lauren Weinstein
TSA: I don't object to security being imperfect - it always will be especially in a "free" society. I object to being lied to like an idiot.
April Buchheit
Lexi Baugher
Merry Christmas from Kirkwood! Wish you were here, it's empty. :) http://twitpic.com/v63qf
Merry Christmas from Kirkwood! Wish you were here, it's empty. :) http://twitpic.com/v63qf
Lexi Baugher
First time in the final table of a poker tournament tonight! Placed 4th, won $277.
Michael Masnick
Hungarian Copyright Treaty Author Insists That Those Who Don't Like Anti-Circumvention Clauses Are 'Hatred-Driven' Maoists - http://techdirt.com/article...
Jon Wiley
Enya – The River Sings - http://www.last.fm/music...
Wtf?! - Jenna Bilotta from Android
I like Enya. - Jon Wiley
Chad Orzel
Say a little prior for me: more on climate change - Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science - http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~cook...
"I have a PhD in physics, and although much of what I do at work is statistical data analysis and some engineering-type modeling I still have a physicists' outlook in general. I don't think a really simple physical model can tell us exactly what the doubling the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will do...but I do think it can tell us a lot. So, let's take a look. " - Chad Orzel
Akiva Moskovitz
where is the super like button on this? - Harold
You forgot orange for Muslims Take Over - Tad
i agree with Tad. - Mahmood Padura Aval
THIS IS BEYOND AWESOME. - Lis
Tad, that's only because nothing rhymes with 'orange'. - Akiva Moskovitz
Kevin Fox
Nerd courtship. This is really cute. - http://bash.org/?904301
Awesome!!! - Rachel Lea Fox
Jeff
Welcome @jsmarr to Google! (http://josephsmarr.com/2009...) Get lots of rest over the holidays, you're going to be busy making the web better in '10!
Ruchira S. Datta
Enjoying my new nook.
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Also deriving a great deal of satisfaction from removing the air bubbles from under the protective film, probably because it's hard work. - Ruchira S. Datta
Your hands-on review to counter Pogue's is pretty important to me, thanks. - Daniel Dulitz
How does it feel to read PDFs of papers on it? Is the size and clarity good enough? - Karthik Raman
Haven't done that yet, though I've downloaded epubs from the 19-th century from Google Books. (There are a few OCR errors, but this is otherwise very nice.) - Ruchira S. Datta
Just tried reading a PDF of a paper. The text is much more pleasant to read than on the Macbook Air, but there are too many snafus associated with reformatting the PDF (in two column format) to fit the form factor of the nook, so I probably won't be doing this. I expect the Que would be better for that sort of thing. - Ruchira S. Datta
I am waiting for Que since last year. - ashish
Thanks a lot for the update! - Karthik Raman
That's a shame. Some ebook reader should try to get some special formatting hooks into LaTeX. :) - Ryan Moulton
In case of a large amount of Ebook , I worry about eyestrain.It's good to read about time gap, I think. - Ami Iida
Ami, I've read plenty of e-books on computer screens and the eyestrain with e-ink is much less, as the display is not backlit. - Ruchira S. Datta
Second what Ruchira said about eye strain. You can read an e-ink based device for hours - Deepak Singh
I mostly want one to carry/read articles (PDF) but I haven't decided on one. I could go for the DX if the price drops a bit. - Pedro Beltrao
I agree with Pedro -- if the DX weren't so expensive I would have one already. I have a 2-hour commute and a huge stack of literature to read, and the DX would make it very easy to put the two together. - Bill Hooker
Pedro the kindle2 does native PDF now (or so I think) - Deepak Singh from iPhone
Will the Kindle2 display pdf files that contains graphs and illustration in "proper" manner? I had one but returned it because it could not display pdf files properly. I am waiting for Ebook reader that would do that. kindle Dx does that but I am waiting for Que and other ebook readers so that I can compare and buy the one that suits my need. Also, I would love to have functionality of having to print straight to ebook reader using wifi or even USB will work. - ashish
within limits. One of my friends has his entire library on his Kindle. The new firmware is the same as the DX to the best of my knowledge. - Deepak Singh from IM
To be fair, I had Kindle2 before the firmware update for pdf was pushed. I am compelled to try it again but probably wait for reasons mentioned before. - ashish
Not a bad idea. The scientific capable reader is still a bit away - Deepak Singh
There is a website that will convert any pdf on the web to be viewed an an ebook on the Stanza iPhone app http://epub2go.com/ - Christian Burns
I am waiting for the ebook reader that syncs with Papers in with the same ease an ipods syncs with iTunes. Oh Apple, where is your ebook reader? - Matt Leifer
and you haven't put in line ordinary book... - A.T.
Iddo Friedberg
Imagine If 'Genomics Denialists' Get Their Grubby Hands on the Top Sekrit Microbiome Emails : Mike the Mad Biologist - http://scienceblogs.com/mikethe...
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