A great idea but one subtle complaint: I wish the rotation-return time matched the number being dialed. For instance 9 should take much longer to return than dialing 1... but in their app the return time is identical. - Dylan Parker
I think there's a 2nd implementation, though :-) (maybe more!) - j1m
That sandwich would most definitely be thrown away. - Kenya
To all of the nay sayers, I think most people *WOULD NOT TOUCH IT* so they couldn't throw it away or anything else. They would just leave it there for someone else to deal with. - Andrew Baron
@Andrew it's a possibility, but I toss stuff out in the office fridge because I don't want mold to somehow get involved with my food... - Ben Jackson
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@ben, you should be careful, you are the most likely to be exposed to unsuspecting growth, a total biohazard. Please leave that stuff alone and let someone else deal with it, you could be seriously injured. - Andrew Baron
it'd definitely going to take me a while to get to a million. I'm publishing about 200 photos to flickr a week right now and at this pace it will take 92 years to get there. I'll get the pace up to 400-500 a week in the future though. Better technology should make processing easier and someday my kids will be grown and I'll be able to quit my day job and focus on this even more. The best photos have yet to be taken. - Thomas Hawk
When I think about this I realize your best days are ahead of you. - Russellreno
What's your shot/publish ratio? I mean, on average how many shots do you take to produce those you publish? - Yuval Atzmon
atzmon, I probably average about 2,000 shots a week that I shoot. And I'm probably processing 300 or so of those a week at present, so I'm probably keeping about 15%. The other 85% never get processed and are kept in my archives. I'm trying only to process and publish the shots that I think meet a certain quality criteria. - Thomas Hawk
You upload a lot more than I do. I have about 40,000 pictures but only about 2000 uploaded. Mostly because I have not gotten around to processing more. =) - Jauder Ho
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Jauder, the good news is that processing will only get easier in the future. I've watched it get better with each successive Adobe release. Lightroom 2.0 is the best processing tool yet. It's not necessarily faster per se though because with more tools there are yet even more ways to tweak a photo hence even more time. But the tools to speed things up are coming too. auto geotagging, better anti dust tech, faster processing speeds, easier online tools with faster broadband are all around the corner. - Thomas Hawk
16,000 ?? Yikes. Cool number. Congrats. - Charlie Anzman
This photo is total awesome. It is made even more awesome by the knowledge that there are 15,999 more photos just as awesome as this one. EDIT: This photo is now my desktop background. :) - possible248
Boo. We freeze tons of fresh local fruit in season and then thaw the rest of the year. Non-flown-in blueberries in pancakes in January is a nice treat. - Dylan Parker
"Only on the web could a zero-budget, one-person project about such random shit hit the kind of hockey stick curve 43f rode in late 2004."
... and ...
"The site that had used to make me feel so good about my place on the web felt dry and brittle, and I started avoiding it like an oncologist’s waiting room. This feeling fundamentally sucked, and I had no idea what to do about it." - Dylan Parker
It says "8 hours ago" as I read this, so you're a newlywed. Congratulations! - Denton Gentry
I can confirm that the joining of Kevin and Rachel in matrimony is successful. Congrats you two! Best moment: When the maid of honor passed over the DSLR and they took a picture of each other at the altar, right after the vows. - Stephen Mack
OK, taking a picture at the altar is nice, but we want the "getting married" tweet DURING the service. (We'll pass on honeymoon videos, however.) - Ontario Emperor
I'm telling you.. a live web stream of a wedding... who wants to invest??? :-) - Kyle Lacy
I'm not sure if I like that or not... - Brian Johns
Does it help or hurt if you watch a loader dump a bucket full of superballs from the top of the hill while the PAs cower behind plexiglas riot shields? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... - Keith Pelczarski
I've always liked this ad. From the music to the tempo to the location. Perhaps I just miss SF. - Dylan Parker
So this guy This (hah) wants you to cook the eggs for an hour instead of 10 minutes? That's not going to go over easy. I'd say the yolk's on him. Let me know if you agree, I'm walking on eggshells here. It's a fertile area for discussion, though, and he may be eggsactly right. - Stephen Mack
Stephen, I'm sure you meant say that wouldn't go 'ova easy' right? - Kevin Fox
From the source: "
Next, This turns up the oven thermostat to 67°C, or 153°F, and after waiting a while for the eggs inside to reach that temperature—again, he's casual about the timing—he retrieves a second one: "The 67-degree egg!" At this temperature the yolk has just started thickening up—some of its proteins have coagulated, but the majority have not. "Look, you can mold it," he says, scooping out the yolk and manipulating the pliable orangey-yellow ball like fresh Play-Doh. He tries to mold a heart, then settles for a cube.
"Try one," he says, taking a third egg from the oven for me to play with before turning up the heat to 158°F (70°C). The 70-degree egg, when it is finally done, has a moistly set yolk and a very tender white. "So you see, you can adjust the temperature depending on what you want," says This. If you prefer a firmer egg, cook it at 167°F or 176°F. Bear in mind, though, that the most copious of the egg-white proteins sets at 184°F—hence the rubbery results of the 212-degree bath." - Erica Baker
Given the information above, I want to see pictures of what each egg looks like at each temp. Kevin, can you post photos of your results? - Erica Baker
The balloon got wrapped up in the parachute and it ended up hitting the ground at 23MPH but they did manage to capture the sunrise from 106,000 feet. Photos: http://www.hapb.net/HAPB4_file... - Dylan Parker
"Brian Rakowski walks to the whiteboard in a small conference room in Building 41 on Google's Mountain View campus. A lanky, gregarious man in his twenties, Rakowski is the product manager of a top-secret project that's been under way for more than two years." - Bret Taylor
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@john: alleyinsider is the last source i will trust as to whether it is going or not going to happen. But, really, as @slippy says, choice FTW! The rest will just pan out. - Ashwin Bharambe
That picture is great. It looks like a band photo. - Andrew Burd
Internets are the new rock'n'roll, Andrew, didn't you hear? - Slippy Lane
The photographer, Joe Pugliese, has a great website: http://www.joepug.com/ In fact it's so great I haven't got round to reading the Wired article yet - Adewale Oshineye
Enjoyable read except for this completely bizarre paragraph -- "Not long after that, Brin and Page came by to check in on the furtive beginnings of their browser. "I remember sitting at my desk, which at the time had a stuffed snake running along the back of it," says Pam Greene, an engineer on the team. "Sergey was bouncing on one of those exercise balls, watching Darin give a demo, and petting the snake." - Osi
"The snake, called Mr. Bigglesworth, seemed to purr softly in Sergey's lap, providing a calming influence during the demo. However, when one of the tabs crashed, taking the browser with it, Sergey's voice took a more strident turn. "I have gathered here before me the world's best developers," Sergey began, "and yet each of you has failed to kill Internet Explorer. That makes me angry. And when Sergey gets angry, Mr. Bigglesworth gets upset. And when Mr. Bigglesworth gets upset, people die!" - Karim
Sergey then pressed a nearby console button that retracted Darin's chair into the floor below. A flash of flame could be seen as the screaming developer vanished from the conference room. - Karim
Somebody help me!" Darin pleads. "I'm alive, only very badly burned!" This proves to be very distracting, and after being interrupted several times, Sergey picks up his phone, and reports the situation to a henchman. "I'll go deal with it," he assures Sergey. "If someone opens the retrieval hatch, I can get out," Darin explains. At this point, the hatch opens. Darin is at first grateful, but then a gunshot is heard. - Capn' "One-Eye" Longman ☠
After a pause, Sergey is satisfied Darin is dead and attempts to continue explaining his plan, only be interrupted by Darin again, who says indignantly "you shot me! You shot me right in the arm! Why did you-". Darin sentence is cut short by a second gunshot, which proves to be the end for him, as the hatch is heard to close. (http://www.moviedeaths.com/aus...) - Capn' "One-Eye" Longman ☠
Google’s Chrome is aimed at Windows, not IE
This is no longer about browser but about the an entire marketplace spread between desktop, mobile and web. With Chrome, Google’s taking a shot at Windows, not paltry Internet Explorer
I’ve covered this in more detail on my blog
http://sachendra.wordpress.com... - Sachendra
The point of Chrome is the same point one would make about the iPhone. Will iPhone outsell Nokia worlwide in total number of phones sold? Not a chance in hell! Has it changed the face of mobile phones forever...absolutely. This is where I think Chrome is a fantastic concept. By open sourcing D8 Google has literally empowered every other browser including Safari and Firefox to be Windows beaters. In actual fact IE may even implemented their own canibalised V8 to canibalise their Microsofts existing fat client business. If you ask me, Google is the master of judo in this case. google 2 MSFT 0 - John Kotsaftis
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I haven't been able to find many details about the V8 design, but it's apparently a straight JIT (no interpreter) with inline caching of property accessors. I didn't see anything about HotSpot/TraceMonkey-style optimizing compilation, and it doesn't seem to use any intermediate language. (http://code.google.com/apis/v8...) Is this the future of dynamic language runtimes? Am I a nerd? - Jim Norris
Nice to see Wired putting out a great article in a timely manner for a change - rather than spend page upon page talking about minor internet celebs and how they gatecrashed gawker media parties to build their fame. - Jonathan Beckett
Jim, tracemonkey should still be faster. Paul friendfeeded an article comparing them. I should say that tracemonkey will still be faster eventually, unless V8 adds hotspot-like tracing as well, in which case, my money would ride on V8, since Google probably has half of the hotspot team :) - Sanjeev Singh
I've been thinking a lot lately about confusion and how much information we humans throw away all the time. I think there is also a comforting side of confusion if you don't push too hard on it. - Clare Dibble
this is the same thing artists go through, making a painting is 1000 moments of dissatisfaction or confusion, and one aha at the end. it is a kind of hell if you are thinking about it as you go along. and a kind of heaven if you are simply lost in the absorption, the process, and don't mind what your mind is saying. because the mind only feels good at the end, on the way it is comparing and judging and is really an obstacle to the full creative process. - Gregory Lent
I think many of us avoid confusion the same way we avoid physical and emotional pain. Confusion is intellectual pain. And if you are highly intelligent, confusion can crush your self-concept/ego because it reveals your limitations. But there is no real logical reason to avoid confusion. It is a result of attempting to understand. - Steve Olson
I think confusion in a intellectual flowers into important thoughts and benefits everyone - Aarthy
I agree with Steve. Many people (including yours truly) go as far as trying to avoid confusion altogether by not thinking, because, yes, it's painful and it's crushing to know that you don't know all that much. But it's the realization of your own intellectual limitations that's important in fueling that desire to learn, imho. I find that intelligence is more about knowing you don't really know all that much and being open to learning. - April Buchheit
@Aarthy: I'm confused _all_ the time. I don't see how my particular brand of confusion is beneficial to anyone. I'm confused by my own confusion. - April Buchheit
April, When I was a student I was afraid of being wrong so I avoided confusion. It seems as though I was taught that not knowing was a bad thing, so I stuck with safety, what was known. Now I love confusion, because I realized later in life that feelings like confusion and anxiety mean I am approaching something worth doing or knowing. - Steve Olson
I feel that it is important to feel and not to think to much about something because that can lead to rationing your thoughts onto something and finding it hard to let go, I think that if I feel that I'm thinking then it takes you down roads which become harder because you are no longer feeling the thing you are thinking and so make decisions which mean that you plan and thus time of doing becomes a time about thinking of doing and not much gets done. Anyway I feel that I'm hungry and foodstomp time. - Jason Brooks
living in the mystery of not knowing is a great feeling, pure potential .. confusion gets a bad name when it is the opposite of knowing .. but it is a great thing when it is called openness - Gregory Lent
Feynman's writing shows a guy who had thought a lot about confusion and ignorance, and had many strategies for dealing with it. Basically, he had a theory of his own ignorance. Seems like a useful model to emulate. - Michael Nielsen
excellent example of wy microformats need to be adopted. love this! - Paulo
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the concept of Humanized Enso further developed... Aza Raskin rocks! - Adarsh
WOW! just installed and am totally blown away - Bento
Love Aza Raskin's work...always quick to show there is so much room for improvement in making all this wonderful technology usable. - Devlin Dunsmore
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This just looks fantastic. Can't wait to play around with it. - J. McConnell
This will be huge, IF we can get people to understand the power of keyboard shortcuts. Off to install! :) - Richard Goodwin
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Just tested it in Ubuntu. Awed! Way better than greasemonkey. More powerful than Yubnub. Better user experience than AlchemyPoint. And the documentation is witty too. Kudos to the good people of Ubiquity. This one promises a lot. It surely rocks in my world! That's why I like to follow Scoble. Don't know him, and probably never will, but it's less likely that I'll lose the next big thing ;) Thank you friendfeed community! - Guillaume
I've just tested it...it is a beta indeed,but really really cool! - darussol
Too bad it isn't fully supported on Linux. I wonder why they don't use Firefox functionality to display the notifications, so it could be completely cross-platform. - J. McConnell
This is completely awesome. It's like Quicksilver for everything else. - Andrew Burd
dang their logo looks like a slight rip off of mine. don't make me change my logo on another business. :( - Faboo Mama
That's the last time I make a Twitter joke that requires a click-thru. - Jason Shellen
"Blog posts are written, not defecated." Oh, touche, Merlin, that was nice. - Laura Norvig
"I’ve come to believe that creative life in the first-world comes down to those who try just a little bit harder. Then, there’s the other 98%. They’re still eating the free continental breakfast over at FriendFeed." We get free continental breakfast? - Jim Norris
Geesh, what's wrong with free breakfast? Someone's got to eat what's being served up (even if some of it is less than stellar pastry). - Laura Norvig
If you're trying to use Claritin when you need fast-acting, you're using Claritin wrong. - Amit Patel
Only on FF and with ex-Googlers could a Twitter about Drew's ad-fueled brainwashing turn into a debate about the relative merits of Claritin/Zyrtec :) - Christopher Sacca
I'm just glad neither of them gives me the soul-crushing headaches that Allegra does. That stuff could be used for torture. - ha3rvey
Claritin does nothing for me. Zyrtec on the other hand is amazing. Megen even uses it when in anatomy class because of the formaldehyde. - Benjamin Golub
Rachel says the same thing, and I don't think she's even seen the commercial, so there may be something there... Oh, but always get the 'D' version, of course. 9 out of 10 meth labs agree. - Kevin Fox
Zyrtec is a generation ahead of Claritin. Fundamentally different way of dealing with it ... just look at the size of the pills. Claritin is a horse pill, Zyrtec is the size of 2 grains of rice. - Jonathan Terleski
the size of the pill pretty much means nothing. zyrtec works really well for me, but it also puts me to bed for 14 hours straight :( - Neha Narula
After years of searching Allegra + Flonase works for me. No crazy headaches (per Harvey's comment). What TMI? - Jason Shellen
Allegra D 24, Flonase, Advair, and Albuterol for emergencies is what I take for the asthma/allergies - Mathew A. Koeneker
TV is just a media. Advertisements of drugs are the problem. - Chris White
Advertisement of drugs aren't as big a problem as people believing what they see on TV. If we could teach everyone to be skeptical, it solves all sorts of problems, not only drug company advertising. - Amit Patel
@Amit: yeah, sure it would... or so you say. - Jim Norris
@Jim: I see someone has taught you well! - Amit Patel
As long as it's not pronounced "cool" - Jim Norris
It depends on the product. Does "originally to describe an elephant gone mad, separated from its herd, running wild and causing devastation" match what you're building? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A... - Paul Buchheit
Trying to find a non-descriptive name... Yes, the association to 'amok' is a bit disturbing but testing if that is what comes to mind when you first see it. So a thumbs-down than? - Bindu Reddy
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