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But I only learned about this from Thomas Hawk first because of reverse chronological posting. ;-) Had I been reading in the order posted, Kevin Fox would have been my "news source." - michael silverton

No, we weren't talking about ewing2001. There was a spammer (username suatuigamala) leaving commentspam in the post. It's an unfortunate artifact that Micah's calling-out now points to an innocent commenter after the spam was removed. :-) - Kevin Fox

This is amazing. I think we should automatically apply it to all profile photos ;) - Paul Buchheit

cannot open this link,404 is there~ - 阿石

Not lucky - well deserved Paul - Jesse Stay

Larry Niven had an interesting treatment of luck in one of his novels, Ringworld, if I recall correctly. A planet with a population problem created a lottery such that the winner was allowed to have a third child. This made luck a survival trait, so intelligent beings wanting to staff an important space mission sought out an nth-generation lottery winner, in order to bring luck to the mission. In the end, though, it turned out they hadn't thought through this luck concept fully. - Bruce Lewis

Totally agree with this. - Guy Vander Heyden

MaryB, about that thought I asked you to hold, there's a place for it now if you please: http://friendfeed.com/brlewis... - Bruce Lewis

While the Alexa numbers are not accurate in absolute terms, it is true that Turkey is now officially the largest source of traffic for FriendFeed by all metrics (unique users and page views) - Bret Taylor from Bookmarklet

Onur i think you misunderstood.. i am talking about the traffic on a site i run.. - t toring

NexusOne ad perhaps? Google is no longer a startup! heh :P - Susan Beebe

As long as I will keep reminding friends and colleagues to google before they ask, I consider that Google should be advertised with even more intensity! - philos

"On Google: We did not enter the search business, Jobs said. They entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won’t let them, he says. Someone else asks something on a different topic, but there’s no getting Jobs off this rant. I want to go back to that other question first and say one more thing, he says. This don’t be evil mantra: “It’s bullshit.” Audience roars." - Kevin Fox from Bookmarklet

Sure, I see a problem, but the problem is too MUCH implicit collusion between Google and Apple, not too little. I do think that it is probably true that the close relationship between Google and Apple led them to compete less than they otherwise would have, and that was a bit "evil". But that makes it GOOD that that is changing. - David desJardins

"My friend Chris Dixon wrote about what everyone should know about their equity grants. Following up on that, I wrote a simple python program that helps you simulate what your stock would be worth in the event someone buys your company." - Michael R. Bernstein from Bookmarklet

good tips - Jeremy Zawodny

Good article, there was a similar one that I read sometime back on realsoftwaredevelopment.com - Krishna Gade from FreshFeed

One of my all time favorite re-enactments of a literary character has to be Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes in the BBC series. Have been re-watching a lot of this lately as our Roku/Netflix box has the whole series on demand. Jeremy Brett is everything I imagined Sherlock Holmes to be and more. David Suchet as Hercule Poirot comes close. - Arvind Sundararajan from MyLikes

Kynetx launch of their developer platform. Seriously - you really need to look at what they're doing. It's the biggest thing I've seen since the Facebook platform launch. - Jesse Stay

Silverlight 4 & Seesmic - Judah Richardson

I agree: "Google is playing a different game. Google Chrome OS is NOT about killing Microsoft or Apple". - l'Ego di Gigi

Google OS is all together interesting 2 use together w/other OS, but 2 use as lone nay, I would not - polou/indigo_bow

"Moreover, our algorithm is conceptually simple: we use transactions to manipulate B-tree nodes so that clients need not use complicated concurrency and locking protocols used in prior work. To execute these transactions quickly, we rely on three techniques: (1) We use optimistic concurrency control, so that B-tree nodes are not locked during transaction execution, only during commit. This well-known technique works well because B-trees have little contention on update. (2) We replicate inner nodes at clients. These replicas are lazy, and hence lightweight, and they are very helpful to re- duce client-server communication while traversing the B-tree. (3) We replicate version numbers of inner nodes across servers, so that clients can validate their transactions efficiently, without creating bottlenecks at the root node and other upper levels in the tree." - Paul Buchheit

The design seems reasonable. The only part that is under-specified is the way they switch from a master node to a slave. I'm curious why they don't use transactions to maintain replicas but instead rely on some unspecified master/slave replication scheme. - Private Sanjeev

handy stuff that gives me an idea for a new monitoring metric at work - Jeremy Zawodny

That article has great tips. - imabonehead

"RethinkDB is a new startup that’s looking to capitalize on this problem by building a storage engine for mySQL databases that’s fully optimized for SSD drives, bringing with it large speed boosts and a number of features sure to catch the eye of many developers. The company, which is part of the latest batch of Y Combinator-funded startups, is in fairly early stages (it started developing the product only two months ago), but it’s already making some substantial headway in the features it can offer. Among these are live schema changes, which allow developers to make significant modifications to their database structure without having to go through complex sync and backup procedures. It also offers lock-free concurrency, which means users will be able to read from the database even while other users are writing to it. And it’s an append-only database, which means developers can quickly recover in the event of a system failure." - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

http://www.rethinkdb.com/ - Paul Buchheit

They need to get with the FusionIO guys - Jesse Stay

"It is fair to say if you do not like baseball, then you will not like cricket. But if you do, read on a little longer. There are many similarities between baseball and cricket. They are duels of batter (batsman) and pitcher (bowler). They showcase highly individualized, skillful players striving for a collective goal. They are slow, staccato games with plenty of pauses for the audience (and indeed players) to consider what could happen next. Both can move from the seemingly pedestrian to vibrant excitement in less than a second." - Brad Williamson from Bookmarklet

At least we can watch a football game in an afternoon! Cricket? When does a match end? - Bill Sodeman

"But civilizations have thrived on diets of varying macronutrient proportions throughout history. The Inuit ate a diet of almost no carbs and mostly fat with no ill effects. The Masai drink cow blood and milk and eat meat like it’s going out of style. As the nutritionists gasp, I’ll mention that the Masai achieve prime health too. The diet on the island of Okinawa is heavily weighted towards vegetables and rice with some fish and little meat, high in carbs, low in fat. Again, very good health; Okinawans have excellent longevity. So it’s not so much about the macronutrients, as long as you’re getting enough protein and fat to allow the body to function properly. It’s about the types of food being consumed. Dr. Weston Price noted that traditional civilizations thrived until they were introduced to processed grains and sugars, at which point, health declined markedly. Have you ever known someone that dutifully follows a low-fat diet or low-carb diet by eating every processed product in... more... - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

Paul, please share your thoughts when done. - Daniel Dulitz

That will bring in new FF users too as they click on the links and realize the value :) - Vishy

Always wanted this feature. - Andrew Trinh from iPhone

Thanks for the suggestions Vishy! - Ross Miller

I would love to hear which searches you tried and especially liked. I think Bing shows your previous queries on the bottom-left of the search results page. Plus you can click and see all your previous searches in the same spot--sharing the queries you liked would be wonderful. :) - Matt Cutts

you da man! - Mark Harai from email

"Named for their lack of interest in sex and their preference for quieter, less competitive lives, Japan's "herbivores" are provoking a national debate about how the country's economic stagnation since the early 1990s has altered men's behavior." - Jon McAlister from Bookmarklet

"Office lechery, which had been socially acceptable, became stigmatized as seku hara, or sexual harassment." Seku hara! - Peter Reavy

I'd like to compile a list of classics - say a top 30 that could be read as a way of getting a good overview of the key ideas. If you have two or three favourite papers that don't obviously already appear here, could you please add them below? What I'm most looking for is the gems - papers that really have a high payoff per unit time spent. Learning of underappreciated gems would be especially helpful! - Michael Nielsen

Thankyou, everyone, it's good stuff! Keep them coming in. - Michael Nielsen