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FriendFeed should be faster again. We were had some network issues which caused a lot of slowness this past week, but I think it's fixed now. Let me know if you are still encountering any extreme slowness.
Adriano, Jeremy (on vacation), Michela Cimnaghi /cimny and 120 other people liked this
Will this mean I'll be able to upload pictures again? EDIT This does not mean I can upload photos now.
- Admiral Anika
Thanks for the update Paul! ;)
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
Mainly just had problems with email posting and the bookmarklet. The rest seemed fairly okay.
- Jason Huebel
I've been told that I'm extremely slow much of the time, but I don't think that's what you meant. Thanks for taking care of the issue, Paul.
- Jim: Dead Like FF
Does seem very zippy, thanks team!
- Stephen Mack
Time to time, it's slow. Overall fast (again), however.
- Ozkan Altuner
I think the issues were directly related to Cristo's 11 MB PDF upload.
- Louis Gray
Thank you, Paul!
- Holly Rae
it looks faster now. thanks
- Hakan İyice
I still see Twitter updates coming in here 10 -15 minutes later
- Jorge Escobar
Thanks Paul. Much better.
- Roberto Bonini
Im experiencing extreme slowness ,,,, but then again , Im 53
- johnpiercy
nice also to know your not Boarding up the Windows
- johnpiercy
It did seem a little faster this afternoon.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
The Twitter issue is a separate problem Jorge -- our realtime feed from them is gone, but we hope to get it restored soon.
- Paul Buchheit
The Twitter feed went entirely???? o_O
- Roberto Bonini
It would be great if you could speed up importing of Twitter feeds. The slowness has been an issue for me lately.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
Got it, Paul. Thanks!
- Jorge Escobar
Nice to know that there is indeed a problem with Twitter importing being slow, and I'm not just going crazy.
- Tyson Key
Awesome news!
- manielse (Mark Nielsen)
Sweet
- Josh Haley
Meanwhile, Dad's kids with his new wife get what kind of toys?
- Matthew DeVries
Matthew, FriendFeed users have no reason to complain about our toys. And even if we did, bitterness doesn't help.
- Bruce Lewis
FriendFeed is dying for me. In fact. it's just about gone. I use it as a control room and discussion space for my Twitter feed, and a searchable archive. Discussion threads are down about 80 percent. "Likes" are off about 90 percent. There's no real time feed in from Twitter any more. Sad.
- Jay Rosen
Agreed, Jay. My personal life is in a bit of an upheaval right now, which hasn't helped, but the FB acquisition took the wind out of the sails for me. It feels like there's no future, or worse, a future wired up to the "friending" criteria of my Facebook account. I use the services COMPLETELY differently, however. Inbound updates continue, since they're automatic, but this is the first comment I've posted in weeks. Sad, indeed.
- Ken Kennedy
+1 Jay
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I am using Twitter and FB more and more lately. On the plus side, it's strengthening some real world connections. I'm missing out on the cool new stuff but I think I had gone overboard on that front.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
I like FriendFeed, but I happen to find myself using Twitter and IRC more as of late. I guess I've probably just burnt myself and others out, given that I don't seem to have much in the way of compelling content and commentary these days, and that I just don't feel as motivated as I'd like to. :(
- Tyson Key
Thanks
- zizukabi
Thanks for the info and the update.
- giuseppe c. | markgreene
Still seems to be some slowness. The Innovation Management Room (er...Group) hasn't updated for several hours: http://friendfeed.com/innovat...
- Hutch Carpenter
Thanks for throwing some love over to FF :)
- Susan Beebe
Is there currently an issue with posting from FF to update Facebook -or is Facebook broken after the re-design ? i dont get anything posted to FB anymore which worked fine before yd
- Del_
Hi Paul, I know it has been a while since this post. But over the last 48 hours my Twitter updates have quit showing up in FF. I tried manually refreshing. Then I removed the account so I could just add it back in. When trying to do that I get the following message: "We could not find the given account" I haven't changed anything. Any thoughts on why this is happening? I haven't had any trouble until now. Thanks.
- Mary-Lynn
My Twitter feed is coming into FF much faster now - thanks! *Edit - Blog feed, too!
- Kurt Starnes
Ah, yes, search is much faster now. Thank you.
- April Russo (app103)
RT @chrismessina: And then there was OpenID. Circa May 2005: http://lists.danga.com/piperma... /cc @bradfitz @ ...
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Introducing… The 27-inch iLemon - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
ǝuǝƃnǝ, TH Schee, مـــــــــمد and 7 other people liked this
Those of who'd suspected Apple would have trouble maintaining quality as shipment volumes rose are now being proven correct
- LANjackal
SoilderKnowsBest did a video about people saying their new iMac was broken or DOA
- Outsanity
macrumours site is full of slightly upset people with flickering issues after the update, yellow tinges, cracked screens when opening the boxes...
- Terry O'Fee
Orderly - JSON - http://orderly-json.org/
Daniel Rowley, ǝuǝƃnǝ, Sean McBride and 8 other people liked this
"Orderly is a textual format for describing JSON. Orderly can be compiled into JSONSchema. It is designed to be easy to read and write."
- DeWitt Clinton
This is making the rounds. Clean syntax. Wondering if it makes sense for us to publish Orderly descriptions of our various JSON-based protocols.
- DeWitt Clinton
I forwarded this around earlier and within minutes one of our engineers had documented a rather complex protocol with Orderly. Very positive sign.
- DeWitt Clinton
More concise and descriptive than protobuf and thrift, IMHO. Looks nice. It does miss out on the useful set and map types which I've found useful in protocol descriptions that interface with web applications (unfortunately protobuf misses these as well).
- Matt Mastracci
@Matt - not quite apples to apples, though. Protobufs not only define the description format (which I like), but also the wire format and idiomatic codegen mechanisms in several languages. Thrift also defines an RPC mechanism. As it turns out, the engineer who wrote up the Orderly description based it on the protobuf descriptions that were used to store and pass around the underlying data that ultimately gets turned into the JSON.
- DeWitt Clinton
And speaking of RPC, did you know that Kenton is working on an unofficial RPC implementation for protobufs? Still in the early phases, but check out: http://code.google.com/p...
- DeWitt Clinton
Re: RPC for protobuf, nice. I've used both protobuf and Thrift and each of them has their own strengths and weaknesses. Protobuf wins on ease of construction via the builder pattern and on speed. Thrift wins on providing extra collection types (map/set) and optional integration of services in the IDL. The Thrift Java libraries are poorly written and the whole thing is a bit shaky. Both of them lose by forcing me to compile their C++ parsers just to compile my IDL. :)
- Matt Mastracci
Looking at it further, this is going to be a really useful format for describing pure-JSON RPC. I'll look at generating this sort of schema automatically for the JSON RPC endpoints that we'll be publishing.
- Matt Mastracci
Kudos to RWW for doing some actual, you know, *reporting* on their post about Joseph joining Google: http://j.mp/6VuP3n. Instead of just writing a personal opinion or some hand-wavy speculation about what the future might hold, Marshall talked to *real, knowledgeable people* and quoted their statements. Good for RWW!
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RWW is one of the few tech blogs with good journalistic habits. Even though they're not always (come to think of it, rarely) singing Google's praises, I still prefer Marshall's old-school work ethic over just about anyone else in the business.
- DeWitt Clinton
^^^^^ hmmm, maybe I should read them more often then - I'm old skool in this area ...
- A.T.
Often, as previously noted, such additional effort is not rewarded in a way that benefits the writer. It's recognized by a small, influential, minority, but that doesn't always impact the site or author the way they would like. I am glad that you care.
- Louis Gray
@Louis - I'm more glad that you care. : ) Thanks for investing the time to write about this on your site last night.
- DeWitt Clinton
Hey DeWitt, thanks for the kind words. And Louis, you're so right - this post didn't get many page views at all! Sometimes you gotta write about the important stuff anyway :) On a good day, those two categories intersect.
- Marshall Kirkpatrick
Survival of the Kindest: Empathy in Our Genes http://huehueteotl.wordpress.com/2009...
Jenny Morman, T. Brent, technopeasant, Eric Logan and 10 other people liked this
Take that, Ayn Rand :D
- Victor Ganata
Victor, lol :)
- Melanie Reed
Imago Dei
- Melanie Reed
“Given how much is to be gained through generosity, social scientists increasingly wonder less why people are ever generous and more why they are ever selfish,"
- Clare Dibble
“Sympathy is indeed wired into our brains and bodies; and it spreads from one person to another through touch,”
- Clare Dibble
Perhaps I am genetically defective, then...
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
from iPod
Well, to paraphrase Charles Darwin, "Variety is the keystone to man's success." Like all traits, empathy exists in a spectrum. Certainly, we wouldn't be at the top of the food chain if every human being were completely self-interested and had no capacity for altruism. But I think humanity would also die out if everyone were completely altruistic and exhibited no self-interest. It takes all kinds :D
- Victor Ganata
Awww... Victor is trying to make me feel warm and fuzzy about the fact that I don't care.
- MVB (Grinch of FF)
from iPod
LOL. I'm also saying you're wrong. :) Defective really isn't the right word for it, nor for most other genetic variations, at least as far as reproductive fitness is concerned.
- Victor Ganata
"For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them." - Eph 2:10
- Jeremy (on vacation)
Intuitive Coin Design for International Visitors - http://flowingdata.com/2009...
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"You know when you go to another country and have no clue what the coins of the local currency are worth? ... Designer Mac Funamizu puts an idea out there that might solve the woes of international visitors. se wedges and proportions to indicate how much the money is worth."
- Tom Stocky
from Bookmarklet
"Nevermind the increased production costs, storage, and people cutting themselves on coin wedges. They look awesome. Plus - the one- and five-cent pieces can double as bottle openers."
- Tudor Bosman
Very clever
- Ozkan Altuner
from iPhone
Very clever. I love the 2.
- Kevin Fox
Isn't this problem solved by putting numbers on the coins?
- Andrew C
Andrew: not really. 1. not for blind people, and 2. not when fumbling around in your pocket; you end up pulling a handful of coins, and then slowly sifting through them reading every single number, while people behind you in the checkout line are tapping their feet -- an all-too-common event for international travelers.
- Tudor Bosman
Something noted by the designer (http://twitter.com/mac_fun...) is that angular coins might hurt your hand ... but still a cool idea.
- Tom Stocky
Non-round coins are also highly impractical for coin-operated machines that depend on the ability of a coin to roll through a mechanism.
- Kevin Fox
I think it is about time to get rid of most coins. Do we really need pennies and nickles or even dimes? They are almost useless and have very little value. Does anything actually cost 1, 5 or 10 cents anymore? Would be a lot easier if prices were rounded up or down to the nearest quarter or dime.
- Jeff P. Henderson
Currency for the hard of thinking? You could take your eye out with that quarter!
- Ken Morley
Damn Cool Algorithms: Log structured storage - Nick's Blog - http://blog.notdot.net/2009...
Google Code Blog: Introducing Google Browser Size - http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009...
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"We are now making this tool available to the public on Google Labs. To try it, simply visit browsersize.googlelabs.com and enter the URL of a page you'd like to examine. The size overlay you see is using latest data from visitors to google.com, so this should give you a pretty good indication of what parts of your UI are generally visible and what aren't."
- DeWitt Clinton
from Bookmarklet
Visit the kickassitude at: http://browsersize.googlelabs.com/
- DeWitt Clinton
There is an odd perception bias with pages that have a floating width layout. If you visit the tool in a very large screen, it makes it seem as though the content is out of the normal view, but if you re-size the browser down to that view size, the content floats back into the visible range.
- Bill Strathearn
why is this not part of the Google Analytics suite?
- Gabe
Gabe, that would be awesome. However, Google Analytics currently only includes stats for screen resolution rather than browser window size.
- Tony Ruscoe
Freudian slip: instead of books.google.com, I've typed boobs.google.com
Hand-made by shy Chinese women: adult toys for the world market - Shenzhen Shaki makes dolphin dildos for the Japanese and blow-up sheep for the American market - but only after permits from 36 different Chinese ministries and departments - http://www.hs.fi/english...
"The bionic penises are baked for around one and a half minutes in a kiln at 220°C. Men shovel the dough-like jelly rubber into charred moulds that resemble sausages, and then thrust them into the kilns. The baked bionic penis shells or sheaths are set out on a long table to cool down. Batches of two different vibrators are being manufactured at the adult-toy factory of Shaki Industrial in Shenzhen, in Guangdong Province, close to Hong Kong: there are battery-powered dildos in the shape of animals or cartoon characters for the Japanese market and ones that look just like "the real thing" for consumers in the land of Coca-Cola."
- A.T.
from Bookmarklet
Google LatLong: Google & Audi take Google services in a car to the next level in the new Audi A8 http://google-latlong.blogspot.com/2009... tip @techmeme
Joel Webber, Brook White, Susan Beebe and 4 other people liked this
Really impressed by everything that the OpenID community accomplished this year! It's a bit surprising. :) http://openid.net/2009...
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Erasing fear memories - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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"A drug free, non-invasive method for semi-permanently blocking the return of fear memories in humans is reported in this week's Nature. The finding may have important implications for the clinical treatment of fear-related disorders."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
RadioLab did a program a few years ago about the research by this NYU team. Found the link: http://www.wnyc.org/shows....
- ǝuǝƃnǝ
A not-so-brief chat with Randall Stephenson of AT&T - http://www.fakesteve.net/2009...
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"And when I say that “we” have a hit on our hands, I’m really giving you way too much credit, because let’s be honest, the success of iPhone has nothing to do with you. In fact, iPhone is a smash hit in spite of your network, not because of it. That’s how good we are here at Apple — we’re so good that even you and your team of Bell System frigtards can’t stop us. You know what it’s like being your business partner? It’s like trying to swim the English Channel with a boat anchor tied to my legs. And yes, in case you’re not following me, in that analogy, you, my friend, are the fucking boat anchor."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
"While I’m ranting, let me ask you something, Randall. At the risk of sounding like Glenn Beck Jr. — what the fuck has gone wrong with our country? Used to be, we were innovators. We were leaders. We were builders. We were engineers. We were the best and brightest. We were the kind of guys who, if they were running the biggest mobile network in the U.S., would say it’s not enough to be...
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- Paul Buchheit
Nice rant :)
- Paul Buchheit
"See, when you run the numbers what you find is that we’re actually better off running a shitty network than making the investment to build a good one. It’s just numbers, Steve. You can’t charge enough to get a return on the investment." I just couldn't find the words to explain this to the guy who came to my door trying to sell me some AT&T crap a few weeks ago.
- Gabe
Test your web browser for #WebSocket support http://jimbergman.net/websock... (my blog post and sample code)
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Incredible Underground Residence in Switzerland - http://freshome.com/2009...
pallina60 Loon, Opensource Obscure, Joel Webber and 3 other people liked this
That is an amazing structure!
- Anne Bouey
The countryside looks gorgeous as well. Paradise.
- DeWitt Clinton
The Swiss have a history of hiding stuff in the mountains :-). See http://www.polarinertia.com/july06... & http://www.claustra.ch/
- John μller
Want. I desperately want a house like this. But I'm betting my wife would hate it :(
- Joel Webber
The Difference Between Motion And Action - http://steveblank.com/2009...
Jason Adam Young and ǝuǝƃnǝ liked this
yes, I agree
- Jeremy Zawodny
What's your favorite TED talk? - http://origin.reddit.com/r...
Tracy, ANick, Никита Васильев and 71 other people liked this
Nearly impossible to single one out.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Jennifer 8 Lee's talk on General Tso's Chicken was fascinating. It's really hard to pick out just one, though.
- ha3rvey (Ho)^3
Dave Eggers, hands down. http://www.ted.com/talks... ... I watch this a lot and love it each time.
- pea
Malcom Gladwell on Spaghetti sauce ... http://www.ted.com/talks...
- Olivier Castets
Mark Bittman on what's wrong with what we eat and Brian Greene on string theory
- Carlos Ayala
Neurologist Dr.Ramachandran's talk on the brain, phantom limb syndrome.
- Kamath (नमः)
I can't believe I forgot Mark Bittman's talk!
- ha3rvey (Ho)^3
Bill Gates on Philanthropy.
- Eric Logan
Malcolm Gladwell (http://www.youtube.com/watch...), Seth Godin (http://www.youtube.com/watch...), Hans Roslin (http://www.youtube.com/watch...), Nate Silver (http://www.youtube.com/watch...), Richard Dawkins (http://www.youtube.com/watch...), Barry Schwartz (http://www.youtube.com/watch...)
- Evan Solomon
Also James Howard Kunstler (http://www.youtube.com/watch...)
- Evan Solomon
I just watched http://www.ted.com/talks...
- Paul Buchheit
It's between the stroke one from the neuroanatomist - Jill Barad, I now remember - and the very first one I ever saw, on Seadragon out of MSFT.
- MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF
from iPhone
J.J. Abrams' mystery box http://www.ted.com/talks...
- irem
Sir Ken Robinson's about education was the best ever, IMO.
- Rodrigo Jaroszewski
Agree with Rodrigo. Its here: http://www.ted.com/talks...
- Roberto Bonini
I really liked Brian Cox about LHC: http://www.ted.com/talks...
- Mark Layton
Also the demo of SixthSense from MIT: http://www.ted.com/index...
- Mark Layton
stefan sagmeister's speech on having sabbaticals for 1 year in every 7 years.the power of time off.
- taner tarlakazan
from iPod
Jonathan Haidt - "The real difference between liberals and conservatives" - http://blog.ted.com/2008...
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
I haven't watched many of them - but, I absolutely liked Bill Gates on "mosquitoes, malaria and education" - http://www.ted.com/talks...
- Space Cowboy
+1 for Ken Robinson's talk.
- Ivan Zuzak
Kevin Kelly: "Predicting the next 5,000 days of the web" -- http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Phil Smirnov
What a great list...*bump*
- SAM
Murray Gell-Mann: "Beauty and truth in physics" -- http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Phil Smirnov
Pranav Mistry: The thrilling potential of SixthSense technology http://www.ted.com/talks...
- Sankt Nikolaus
Multi-touch interface by Jeff Han (02/2006)
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
Have to do top 3 - Rodney Brooks says robots will invade our lives http://www.ted.com/index... Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation http://www.ted.com/talks... and Joshua Klein on the intelligence of crows http://www.ted.com/talks...
- Andrew Smith
was just watching/listening to one :) helps a lot
- ffcode
Sir Ken Robinson, without doubt...
- Berci Mesko, MD
If you can pick a favorite TED talk, you haven't explored the available TED talks enough.
- ana
+1 ana.
- Alex Schleber
Sagmeister and Ramachandran talks.
- \(*_*)/
Sir Ken Robinson
- Kevin Borders
Itay Talgam: Lead like the great conductors - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Bertrand Doux
Another +1 for Sir Ken Robinson's talk. http://www.ted.com/talks... It perfectly embodies what TED is really about.
- Chris Lasher
TED talks spreadsheet: http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub... via http://sharingdocs.blogspot.com/2009...
- Mona Nomura
Thanks Mona Nomura.
- ashish
Margaret Wertheim on the beautiful math of coral http://blog.ted.com/2009... . My comments at http://ff.im/5Gs6m .
- Daniel Mietchen
William Kamkwamba, the boy who built windmills. http://www.ted.com/talks...
- Andrew Leyden
Itay Talgam: http://www.ted.com/talks...
- SBV
alaindebotton about the most important problem of the last 10-15 years http://www.ted.com/talks...
- Doruk Demirsar
An Engineer's Guide to DNS - http://developer.yahoo.net/blog...
ǝuǝƃnǝ, Alex Kapranoff, Dusty Wilson and 3 other people liked this
good background info from YDN
- Jeremy Zawodny
Love this article. You solved the "problem" the same way I would have, which is cool. I never really even though about this, but now that it's been presented, I want to (and feel I must) do this test.
- Dusty Wilson
Бублик Мёбиуса — красивый пример к идущему в последние месяцы (годы и десятилетия) разговору об инновациях и исследованиях в повседневном. У топологически модифицированного бублика чуть больше поверхность намазывания и он несравнимо удивительнее, чем обычные бублики. - http://untitled.urbansheep.ru/post...
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Плюс у него поверхность намазывания совпадает с поверхностью хватания, что делает ситуацию еще интересней
- Ayoshi
гм... да, бублики - коварная вещь")) для того, что бы не запутаться в резьбе по бублику, могу предложить след. методику: режем бублик не в гориз., а в вертикальной плоскости, оставаясь в ней как можно дольше, а 'разворот' на 180° делаем на относительно коротком участке. не распадется. для удобства намазывания, можно будет растянуть до 8-ки. но разделить на две независимых части не выйдет, ага.
- kroll.globemaster
xkcd - 154 - http://xkcd.com/154/
Joel Webber and ǝuǝƃnǝ liked this
sad but true
- Jeremy Zawodny
on the positive side, who cares in mountains about US senators nowadays? ;)
- A.T.
Questions for Jeffrey P. Bezos - Book Learning - Interview - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/glogin...
ashish, Roberto Bonini, Jérôme Flipo and 5 other people liked this
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
Why doesn't aluminium foil get hot?
Kol Tregaskes, ǝuǝƃnǝ, Micah Wittman and 4 other people liked this
Of course it does. In what circumstances is it not getting hot for you?
- Michael R. Bernstein
Large surface area and ability to dissipate heat makes it cool quickly.
- Brian Sullivan
shiny side _reflects_ heat
- MikeAmundsen
Brian, that's assuming it's been dissociated from a heat source. If, say, it's still wrapped around the baked potato, you'll find that it's pretty good at dissipating heat into your fingers.
- Michael R. Bernstein
That's because the foil is directly touching the—pardon the pun—hot potato as opposed to being tented.
- Akiva Moskovitz
We're baking a pie right now at 375 °F and I put foil along the edges to prevent them from burning. About halfway through I took the foil off, and within seconds it was cool enough to crumple up by hand. In fact, it wasn't even warm. That surprises me every time.
- DeWitt Clinton
(Sitting here with my aluminium foil hat on)
- Joe
DeWitt, so what you're really asking is "why doesn't foil stay hot?". In which case Brian's answer is correct.
- Michael R. Bernstein
Ahh, so the foil was hot while in the oven, but because it is so thin and so good at conducting heat that it dissipated nearly instantaneously. Thanks, everyone. I can sleep at ease now.
- DeWitt Clinton
Will this become a Googe interview question? :P
- imabonehead
Not now, we spoiled it for everyone.
- DeWitt Clinton
BTW Akiva, that wasn't a pun.
- Michael R. Bernstein
I used to have this metal (unknown alloy) oven pizza plate that was pretty amazing like this. After taking it out of the oven and removing the pizza, it was almost instantly room temperature.
- Ray Cromwell
DeWitt, one correction -- aluminum has very low specific heat, 0.9 J/gK. Thus it is a very _poor_ conductor of heat. Foil also has very little mass. So 20g cooling by 200K only releases 4000J. If your 100g fingertips were mainly water (4 J/gK), they would gain only 10K from that 4000J, a condition which our nerves describe to us as "not hot."
- Daniel Dulitz
Daniel - that's not a correction, that's a freshman year physics class in comment form. You win FriendFeed.
- DeWitt Clinton
This was like a mini stackoverflow-style Q&A in a friendfeed thread - who knew the ff team built-in that in that kind of virtualization!
- Micah Wittman
Daniel Wins the Internets!!!
- Roberto Bonini
I'm going to memorise that comment for the next time I'm cooking.......
- Roberto Bonini
Well, if this is freshman physics quiz... Aluminium is a good conductor, it just can't store heat. Conduction and heat storage are different (like resistance and capacitance). cpu heat sinks are often aluminium because they quickly conduct heat to the surface of the fins.
- Tracy
So aluminum is the opposite of the space shuttle tiles?
- Amit Patel
Тема Куклачева раскрыта - http://lj.rossia.org/users...
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спасибо за ссылку на Аксела, он замечательный.
- ǝuǝƃnǝ
Animated map by county of U.S unemployment from Jan 07 to Sept 09 - http://www.reddit.com/r...
10 Huge Successes Built On Second Ideas - http://www.businessinsider.com/10-huge...
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It takes a lot of faith in an idea to start a company around it. But for companies to succeed in the long run, their founders also need to be ready for those ideas to fail. They need to be ready to learn from those failures and adapt.
- Hutch Carpenter
Amen. Perseverance. One of my favorite quotes : "“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race”-Calvin Coolidge
- Melanie Reed
Introducing Google Public DNS, for a faster, and safer, internet experience: http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009...
ǝuǝƃnǝ, Jaap Willem, ffcode and 41 other people liked this
Yay!
- DeWitt Clinton
I'm also pleased with the Privacy Policy: http://code.google.com/speed.... Full IP logs are deleted within 24-48 hours. This is a very good thing.
- DeWitt Clinton
And Google Public DNS telephone support! http://code.google.com/speed...
- Tony Ruscoe
I'll have to do some tests to see if this is any faster than my local ISP DNS.
- Benjamin Golub
hmmm... and the reason behind this offer?
- MikeAmundsen
They will then know every single domain name that every user is trying to resolve, and how often, etc.
- Mistletoe Glen
DeWitt that doesn't mean they aren't copied elsewhere or they will actually follow through with the policy.
- Todd Hoff
anyone know what appears when the domain request is invalid? i.e. will i see a google search page w/ ads?
- MikeAmundsen
Yay! This is super cool. I'm using it to work around my ISP (Comcast) hijacking DNS requests.
- Joe Beda ()
Another cool thing are the vanity IP addresses that were obtained for this: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. '8' is a lucky number, you know.
- Joe Beda ()
@Todd: Actually, the privacy policy is pretty clear about what's temporary and what's permanent. If temporary logs were "copied elsewhere" as you suggest, it would be a pretty obvious violation of this policy. And I think it's pretty unreasonable to suggest that Google wouldn't "actually follow through" on its own privacy policy.
- Joel Webber
Joe, do you know who had 8.8.8.8 prior?
- Micah Wittman
Fast, doesn't seem to hijack 404s in any way. But I will have to go over the privacy policy carefully, in the context of Google's broader privacy policy. I wish we knew if the NSA had direct access to Google's traffic like they do for ISPs. This will certainly give Google a lot of data about web use.
- LogEx
Joel, it's just a policy. If the NSA or some other agency says Google won't get this slice of spectrum etc then don't be surprised of all that traffic is split off some switch somewhere into total information awareness.
- Todd Hoff
@Todd - half the company would quit in protest on the spot if Google even contemplated doing something like that. Including our own founders. But here's a question -- what could a company do that would reduce your fear? Clearly you use the Internet, and DNS, today. What assurances did your ISP make that cause you to trust them? Personally speaking, I find the Google DNS privacy policy a heck of a lot more reassuring than my ISP's. At least Google is promising in writing to do the right thing.
- DeWitt Clinton
People don't know DeWitt. All those fat internet pipes hook into switches that have tap lines on them. And are there any examples of people quitting en masse in protest? I've not seen it. There's nothing people can do to reduce my fear because I know too much about it. Those promises don't matter. They can change at anytime and there's no external verification and as I said, the data is...
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- Todd Hoff
I wonder how much this gets traction beyond things like Chrome OS where Google can require the client to use their name servers. DNS is an abstract concept to most people, and for businesses, Google Public DNS doesn't offer the level of control other managed DNS services offer (like OpenDNS, for example). As an IT guy, one thing that I see missing is the ability to manually refresh the cache. I'm also interested to see how Google respects TTLs.
- Mark Trapp
BTW, here's the Speakeasy Privacy Policy: http://www.speakeasy.net/tos.... Here is Comcast's: http://www.comcast.net/privacy.... Here is AT&T/SBC's: http://www.att.com/gen.... Guess what? None of them publish a log deletion policy and ALL of them reserve the right to do nearly whatever they want (even sell) your personally identifiable information, including IP addresses. Those ISPs are seeing every bit of traffic from our machines today.
- DeWitt Clinton
@Mark - technical details, including TTL policy, can be found here: http://code.google.com/speed...
- DeWitt Clinton
DeWitt, I went through that, and I'm still left wondering what Google's caching does. It doesn't explicitly say that Google will always respect the TTL on a record, and I don't see a remedy to resolve an outdated cache (for example, if Google fetches a record with a TTL of 86400 10 minutes before I change that record, if there's no way to force a manual lookup, even changing the TTL to...
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- Mark Trapp
@Mark -- I can't see how to force a manual refresh either, but I'll find out. I agree that it's necessary in some situations.
- DeWitt Clinton
Mark, that page DeWitt linked to seems to infer that they respect TTL for prefetches: "The complexity of the name selection problem makes it impossible to solve online, so we have separated the prefetch system into two components: a pipeline component, which runs as an external, offline, periodic process that selects the names to commit to the prefetch system; and a runtime component, that regularly resolves the selected names according to their TTL windows."
- Matt Mastracci
@micah Level3 owns 8.0.0.0/8 and Google has 8.8.8.0/24. BTW, 7.7.7.7 is owned by the US Dept. of Defense.
- Joe Beda ()
Matt, what concerns me about that is it seems they interpret the TTL as a range of times they're allowed to ask for a new record; that is, if they automatically refresh records faster than the TTL, that's okay, as long as they don't hold onto it for longer than the TTL. A TTL shouldn't be a guideline: if I set a TTL to 86400, unless I manually tell you to fetch it again, you shouldn't...
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- Mark Trapp
Cool, added them to my list of servers that dnsmasq is to use.
- Grant Bierman
The RFC does specify TTLs as "a 32 bit unsigned integer that specifies the time interval ... that the resource record *may be* cached before it should be discarded" I don't know if there's ever going to be a rock-solid guarantee that a resolver will cache your records (its cache could always overflow or become corrupted). Jumping TTLs isn't half as annoying as the broken resolvers that cache one of your round-robin DNS responses for all their customers for days, though. ;)
- Matt Mastracci
Oh yes, checking too quickly is definitely a better problem than checking too slowly. One of the things we used to deal with was managed DNS that charged by the record lookup; in cases like that, you absolutely want people to respect the TTLs you specify or it can wind up costing you dearly. I don't really know if companies still get away with that (we get managed DNS for free now), but...
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- Mark Trapp
seems pretty good to me so far
- Logan Lindquist
http://OpenDNS.com have been doing the same thing for a while if you are worried about Google owing all your data!
- John Cooper
OpenDNS FTW
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
I'm not happy with this. I feel it is a step too far. They could know and control way too much... from the OS Chrome to DNS/ mweh! And then what about a system fail! Laugh! I'm sure Murphy is working on it. How much of the network could go down with it. #don't-put-all-your-eggs-in-one-basket
- DC Crowley
4.3.2.1
- Itachi
@Glenc +1
- Serkan Unsal
I like how Google Chrome deals with OpenSearch. It appears to cache the XML definition as it auto-discovers them. Just start typing the domain and then hit tab to search it. Much nicer than manually installing a new search for each domain like Firefox does.
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Iván Abrego, Nathan Snyder, WingsOfFlo and 48 other people liked this
It also appears to work for sites that don't publish an OpenSearch spec. I think it does something smart to figure out where your result endpoint is and what your query parameter is.
- Bill Strathearn
This has always been one of my most favorite features of Chrome. I'd like to see them fold in Opera's method as well so I can configure a given search if Chrome's auto-discovery doesn't work exactly right.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Don't know what I'd do without it. Saves me lots of time when doing research across blogs.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
or, it's just doing the google site:
- Chris Heath
@Chris Heath it's a site search trick, not google search...
- İsmail Aşcı
i see.. just tried it...
- Chris Heath
it works greatly
- Xitong Liu
bitchin' camaro!
- Josh Haley
I'm not sure I like it. I often use Google site search to bypass a site's own search because Google is often better. Now when I type in site:sitename.com it automatically defaults to the site's own search.
- Jesse Stay
Haven't been able to live without it, feel lost when I'm using other browsers.
- Andrew Trinh
Akiva, configure by right clicking the location field, "Edit search engines..."
- Raphael, Raphael
Vezquex, excellent!
- Akiva Moskovitz
Jesse, strange. I just tried doing a site:site.com search and it worked as expected. The behavior might be different in Windows.
- Akiva Moskovitz
You can also add one manually, just use the url and "%s" (minus quotes) where the query goes, and it adds "search+term+goes+here" if your search is "search term goes here"
- Nathan Snyder
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