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This cannot stand. Somebody help, please. - Ted Gilchrist

Agreed. Not permissible. And my GPS doesn't even work right now. [EDIT] Interesting passage from the article: (quote) Tom Coates, the head of Yahoo's Fire Eagle system – which lets users share their location data from their mobile – said he was sceptical that US officials would let the system fall into total disrepair because it was important to so many people and companies. "I'd be... more... - Heather

So, working from that little island in Maine just became more feasible. Can I boost my Blackberry too? - Ted Gilchrist

i'm not sure, but i'd assume so - Zee.

He says: "Regarding Python’s pluses, the significant whitespace turned out to be a much bigger one than I’ve ever expected. Over the last year I’ve read the code of many libraries, and almost always found it quite readable and simple to follow. Python’s PEP-8 is a good set of rules that’s followed to some extent by virtually everyone in the community, which adds a lot." - Uche Ogbuji from Bookmarklet

I've never for one moment understood why anyone would think significant whitespace a problem. In 1996 when I first discovered Python by accident, through a stack trace of a Red Hat system tool, the first thing that struck me about the language, positively, was the whitespace for marking code blocks. Maybe it's my literary side, but it told me something about the intuition of the language's designers, something that still holds up 13 years later with Python as my main programing language. - Uche Ogbuji

PSD = "Rube Goldberg of a file format" - Pat Hawks

thanks for the pointer Louis - there's a treasure trove of collected comments here http://stackoverflow.com/questio... - ian kennedy

The spot behind that red car is where I normally park. That tree brought down a bunch of power lines on top of a car with two guys in it. They were pretty freaked out until the power company got there to turn off the power! - Joel Webber from email

None in my neighborhood but keeping fingers crossed. - Moushumi Kabir

The Gillmor Gang - Michael Arrington, Leo Laporte, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Andrew Keen and Dan Farber - talk about FriendFeed 2.0 with Paul Buchheit. Recorded Monday, April 6, 2009. - Steve Gillmor

I listened to this today and really enjoyed it. It felt like Arrington was much more focused on things like market share, whereas Paul (and to some extent Steve and Leo) is really looking at a much bigger picture: where is the web and digital communication going? Paul seems to have the luxury of just wanting to be part of faciliating a new form of communication - he doesn't need to assure fthat his company will be at the forefront of the revolution, just that the revolution takes place. - Laura Norvig

I don't really care about Java on App Engine but they've finally got scheduled tasks! It's implemented exactly how I thought it would be: a YAML configuration file and each "task" is just a URL that is hit according to your configuration. - Benjamin Golub from Bookmarklet

this will open the door to interesting developing issue, can't wait to see the XMMP introduction. - abdellah

Pixar has always been a cut above the rest of the Disney empire and I applaud their apprpach to movie making, as opposed to the "check the box" approach of many Dreamworks' CG animated movies. Shrek, Madagascar and Kung Fu Panda all being exceptions of that approach that worked. - Lon Cohen

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There is no way at all I'd be able to start SocialToo with a family of 4 kids and a wife in Silicon Valley. Her tips are right-on! - Jesse Stay

We run our company remotely. It's not as hard as it seems on paper. Most issues are resolved in a couple of months. - Mark Trapp

Big like. - DeWitt Clinton

"Recently I've been looking at the International Barcode of Life project. The idea is take DNA samples from animals and plants to help identify known species and discover new ones. While other projects strive to identify the complete genome for a few species, such as humans, dogs, red flour beetles and others, the barcoding project looks at a short 650-base sequence from a single gene. The idea is that this short sequence may not tell the whole story of an organism, but it should be enough to identify and distinguish between species. It will be successful as a barcode if (a) all (or most) members of a species have the same (or very similar) sequences and (b) members of different species have very different sequences." - Bret Taylor from Bookmarklet

"In addition to policy advocacy, we're building consumer tools, too. Over the last several months, our engineers have developed a software tool called Google PowerMeter, which will show consumers their home energy information almost in real time, right on their computer. Google PowerMeter is not yet available to the public since we're testing it out with Googlers first." - Atul Arora from Bookmarklet

luis - Schlumberger, among others. I think GE too. - Brian Johns

"# Support for running scheduled tasks # Task queues for performing background processing # Ability to receive and process incoming email # Support for sending and receiving XMPP (Jabber) messages" - Benjamin Golub from Bookmarklet

That is really really exciting - Tim Costantino

Even better, the macbook wheel - 19 full minutes of power!!! - ◄ani625Ξ ಠ_ಠ

Fences is a program that helps you organize your desktop, and can hide your icons when they're not in use. It's FREE for personal use, so try it out today, and change how you use your desktop forever! - Morton Fox

Wow, so the energy required to accelerate the Titanic to half lightspeed is 300 times the energy consumed by humanity since Nikolai Tesla. The Enterprise makes full impulse look so easy! - Kevin Fox

It seems 1997 was a banner year for gamma ray bursts. - Gabe

I hope you're having the pasta bar... - EricaJoy