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Designer secretly builds amazing architectural cipher into $8.5m apartment

June 13 at 12:48 am - Link

ana, John Mueller, Huy Zing and Adam Lasnik liked this

Louis Gray shared an item on Google Reader

Note to startups: Turn off “track changes”

May 9 at 1:18 pm - Link

Huy Zing, Thomas Brox Røst, Amund Tveit, Mike Fruchter and 8 other people liked this

Hilarious: “When you talk through this point on your slides, make Chanukah jokes, he is Jewish and will get them” - Alex Haar

Too funny! - Jody C

The other examples at the bottom of that post are worth a read, too. - Slippy Lane

Ionut shared an item on Google Reader

tinydb.org - store some tiny data in a tiny url

May 11 at 8:01 am - Link

immaterial, Huy Zing, Aaron Myers, John Mueller and possible248 liked this

The only thing now is what it's good for. - possible248

John Resig posted an entry on John Resig

Processing.js

May 8 at 2:50 pm - Link

Glen Murphy, Huy Zing, Erik Arvidsson, Eric Florenzano and 10 other people liked this

This one is fun http://ejohn.org/apps/processi... - Andrew Smith

Amazing! - Sanjeev Singh

Ginger Makela posted a link

Polaroid unveils ZINK (Zero-Ink) technology instant printer

May 6 at 2:12 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Huy Zing, Mitchell Tsai, Atul Arora, Adam Kazwell and 3 other people liked this

According to the DC Views site: "Polaroid introduces new ZINK (Zero-Ink) technology instant printers. This new line of printers and cameras creates full-color digital photos without the use of ink cartridges or ribbons. The Digital Instant ZINK Photo Paper is a composite material that houses cyan, yellow and magenta dye crystals in a protective polymer overcoat. Before printing, the dye crystals are colorless, so the photo paper appears white. Heat activates and colorizes the dye crystals, so photos can be shared in less time than a traditional Polaroid photo..." - Ginger Makela

cool - Steven Hodson

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neato - d e f c o n

very cool - edythe

What happens to the photos if you leave them in your car on a summer day? - RAPatton

Robert, same thing that happens to your cassette tapes. - Ginger Makela

I don't use cassettte tapes. I would be concerned that heat would activate some of the unused crystals which would make the color less perfect over time. - RAPatton

Robert, sorry, I was just kidding. Irony is hard to convey online. I actually have no idea what happens to these photos on a summer day. - Ginger Makela

Ginger, don't worry, I am a bit dense and distracted. - RAPatton

Any word on pricing, for the product or the paper? Is this just transferring the cost of ink to the paper? This is cool because printing is faster, or you don't have to wait for it to dry, or what? - ⓞnor

Talking about playing your product's negative into a positive. "photos can be shared in less time than a traditional Polaroid photo' is funny when you think about how much longer it takes a 'traditional Polaroid photo' to develop than it takes a printer to print a photo. - Kevin Fox

Bret Taylor posted a link

Seth's Blog: Avoiding the Passion Pop Gulf

May 6 at 11:00 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Aydin Senkut, Huy Zing, Paresh Jain, Trisha Okubo and 7 other people liked this

"The reason you need to care is that gap in the middle. Every day, millions of businesses get stuck in that gap. They either move to the right in search of the masses or move to the left in search of authenticity, but they compromise. And they get stuck with neither.... A delta blues guy who plays for tiny audiences in Memphis is in the sweet spot of the passionate. John Mayer is in the sweet spot of pop. Both are great guitarists, neither is too edgy or too trite. Both made a choice. But there are a thousand guitarists who are neither. They're afraid to embrace one curve or the other and end up with neither." - Bret Taylor

Pound for pound, Seth is the smartest guy on the Internet and a great guy, too. Even though he doesn't allow comments on his blog, he is actually ALL about the conversation... - Robert Seidman

Same could be said about Green Day, I read an article about them in NME and they constantly look for the authenticity. Searching for the passion, the sound that gives them the authenticity. Yes they have their loyal fan base that will buy two million but in going back to rediscover themselves with side projects and groups they come forward with popular sound that appeals to the masses! - Joe Dawson

Louis Gray posted a message on Twitter

“Nielsen's BlogPulse does a fantastic job of tracking conversations, like this weekend's discussion: http://tinyurl.com/59h2bk”

April 14 at 9:26 am - Link

Ryan Svoboda, Martin Recke, Kevin D. White, Mike Reynolds and 5 other people liked this

That is really interesting. The one problem I saw was that my blog was not included ;) - Rob Diana

Amit Patel bookmarked a page on delicious

Friendly Fuedalism - The Tibet Myth

March 16 at 10:32 am - Link

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Tibet before China was a feudal society, with rich aristocrats, serfs, slavery, sexual abuse, torture, warfare, religious persecution. China stole land away from aristocrats and gave it to serfs, provided education and health care, and destroyed the old c - Amit Patel

"Here is a historical irony: the first Dalai Lama was installed by a Chinese army." - Sanjeev Singh

Jams Levy posted an entry on Jam Today?

Why students make terrible social media marketers

March 19 at 2:01 am - Link

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Ionut posted an entry on Google Operating System

Google Spreadsheets Adds Gadgets, a Directory of Features

March 19 at 2:33 am - Link

Huy Zing, Andrew Bonventre, David Th, Alex Gawley and Cyvros/fyc liked this

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Meatscapes

March 19 at 9:21 am - Link

Huy Zing and ⓞnor liked this

Art and meat ...together again - Nelson Minar

deliciously gross - Huy Zing

Sanjeev Singh posted a link

Emperors Club: All About Eliot Spitzer's Prostitution Ring

March 10 at 2:33 pm - Link

Wayne, Abhilash Patel, Rajeev Mantri, fiorano and 5 other people liked this

"Scroll Down For Pictures" - Sanjeev Singh

wow, $31K/day?! that's like 77 iphones. or a car. i think a Prius with all the options costs less than that. - Jess Lee

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That does seem like a lot of money. Is Spitzer independently wealthy, or did he just bill it to the state? - Paul Buchheit

Do you think the wife gets more mad that he paid so much? - Chris White

@Chris: Probably so, as that reduces available cash for future alimony... - Louis Gray

he's independently wealthy. real estate developer family i believe. - Larry Greenfield

beautiful form the sky giving,and not the after giving - qian

"Note that each model has place in her schedule for a select number of appointments per month, so your date will be a special one for both of you." I only have place in my schedule for a select number of meetings with PMs each week . . . - Mike Yang

The rating icons, the fake user names, the social pitch, this has all the makings of a successful two-point-oh startup. - Philipp Lenssen

More 1.0ish. It is the oldest profession after all. - Chris White

Wait, are you suggesting that web-two-oh sites are based on truly novel ideas? ;) - Philipp Lenssen

yes its safe, the only one that can see your monitor right now is me anyways - so go for it nina! :-) - minus3

They're getting so much traffic now. 1.0 or not. - Abhilash Patel

Saw the site pictured in German TV today, so the news definitely travels. Is prostitution illegal in the US? (Not to say a German politician wouldn't be in trouble if they're married and seeing prostitutes!) - Philipp Lenssen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P... (I had no idea Rhode Island was a haven of legal prostitution!). - ⓞnor

Paul Buchheit posted a link

TaffyDB: A Javascript database for your browser

March 10 at 9:17 pm - Link

Huy Zing and Voyagerfan5761 liked this

"TaffyDB reduces acres of custom JavaScript data handling code to single line commands, giving you more time to work on interface. Examples: * Create a contact collection: var contacts = new TAFFY([]); * Add a contact: contacts.insert({id:1,first_name:”John”,last_name:”Smith”,age:29}); * Find contacts with a last name of Smith than are older than 22: contact.find({last_name:”Smith”,age:{greaterthan:22}});" - Paul Buchheit

It's all in-memory on the page? - ⓞnor

It sounds that way. It seems like it might be more useful if attached to server-side storage. - Paul Buchheit

Speaking of which, how come we can't program within ff comments? - j1m

Andrew Chen posted an entry on Futuristic Play by Andrew Chen

Too many social networking aggregators?

March 10 at 11:53 pm - Link

Voyagerfan5761, Alex Kapranoff and Huy Zing liked this

Hmm.... http://www.friendfeedfeed.com/ - Louis Gray

Meta, and then some. Kinda reminds me of a discussion today about how do we test our unit test code. I guess we've got to write some tests for that. - Todd McKinney

Missed the pointcast icon on the first look - nice touch! - Todd McKinney

hahah funny - Huy Zing

Nivi posted a message on Twitter

“"Entrepreneurs do more than anyone thinks possible, with less than anyone thinks possible." – John Doerr, http://tinyurl.com/2j8m6u”

March 6 at 8:36 pm - Link

Michelle Fullwood, Chris White, Vishal M, Huy Zing and 6 other people liked this

Can't have that quote get lost. I enjoyed the iPhone SDK presentation, but I guess you can't expect everybody to watch a one hour and eighteen minutes long Apple event. Here's the video snippet of John Doerr making this statement http://dotplan.codesurgeonblog... - Mustafa K. Isik

Paul Buchheit liked a story on Reddit

Damien Katz: What Sucks About Erlang

March 9 at 7:02 pm - Link

David Vasileff, Adam D'Angelo, Huy Zing, Adewale Oshineye and 2 other people liked this

Here's a response to "What Sucks About Erlang": http://yarivsblog.com/articles.... - Gary Burd

what about greenlet or stackless python instead? - Amund Tveit

paulm posted a link

warren buffet has the best quotes ever

March 4 at 6:42 pm - Link

Sophie Yip, Huy Zing, Paul Buchheit and Jeremy Raines liked this

"He explains that he prefers companies with an “enduring moat” to provide protection from the competitors that will inevitably assault any “business ‘castle’ that is earning high returns.” That moat can be low costs or a powerful global brand, for example." - Sophie Yip

i liked all of them, but i think i laughed at loud when he compared sleeping with women (while drunk?) to investing is bad companies. - paulm

Louis Gray shared an item on Google Reader

Keeping the Blogging Fires Burning

March 5 at 12:03 am - Link

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Paul Buchheit posted a link

Crest Pro-Health Mouthwash: "I Woke Up With Brown Spots On My Teeth"

March 5 at 1:44 am - Link

Voyagerfan5761, Karl Rosaen, Huy Zing and Adewale Oshineye liked this

This happened to me too. It wasn't spots, but rather stains between my teeth. I had thought that it was due to a particular type of tea, but this makes a lot more sense. The stains were very tough and I had to have the dentist scrape them off, which took quite a while. - Paul Buchheit

Seriously?? I just bought a two-pack of ENORMOUS BOTTLES that were on sale at Costco two weeks ago. Hard to tell if it's a real issue or just hysteria but I'm inclined to play it safe... - Jennie Lin

Yes, this happened to me. It's crazy that they're still selling this product. - Paul Buchheit

Yikes, I use this stuff too! - Benjamin Golub

Glad I've always stuck with Listerine for mouth-wash stuff. - Voyagerfan5761

bob posted a link

Moses was high on drugs: Israeli researcher

March 4 at 2:49 pm - Link

Huy Zing, Clare Dibble and Rob Schonberger liked this

"He said the psychedelic effects of ayahuasca were comparable to those produced by concoctions based on bark of the acacia tree, that is frequently mentioned in the Bible." - bob

not very informative but kind of amusing - bob

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I've always wondered how much of the Bible was written under the influence. - April Buchheit

This then proves: Being high doesn't mess with your ethics :) Also note the researcher tested this stuff ;) - Rob Schonberger

Apparently some species of acacia contain DMT: http://www.erowid.org/plants/a... - Paul Buchheit

"The aqueous phase was extracted twice into CH2Cl2, and the solvent evaporated as before. The last stage of evaporation was accomplished with a hair drier, to leave about a gram or so of pale yellow liquid. On standing 24 hours, this liquid crystallised as circular arrangements of needles. Preliminary attempts at smoking small amounts of the alkaloids gave varying mild effects, and a friend and I decided to try a larger dose. He took a cone in one toke, and was immediately on the ground, making strange sounds and looking odd. He hugged me and told me to meet him in that place, and said it was very strong. I managed to finish a large cone in 3 tokes, and was instantly blown apart as if by a large brick through the head." - Paul Buchheit

high or insane - Huy Zing

Man has been getting wasted and having "religious" experiences ever since Ug left some fruit in a corner of the cave for too long and, out of curiosity consumed the fermented mass - the event which led to the world's first cave-painting - Slippy Lane

Laurence Gonsalves shared an item on Google Reader

TDD leads to an architectural meltdown around iteration thre

March 3 at 11:58 am - Link

Ed Zwart, Huy Zing, David Vasileff, Igor Krivokon and Paul Buchheit liked this

Paul Buchheit posted a link

Coding Horror: Actual Performance, Perceived Performance

March 3 at 11:46 am - Link

Eugene, Kirill Maximov, Dmitry Skavish, ani625 and 17 other people liked this

"Although all the progress bars took exactly the same amount of time in the test, two characteristics made users think the process was faster, even if it wasn't: 1. progress bars that moved smoothly towards completion 2. progress bars that sped up towards the end " - Paul Buchheit

I'd love to see how more real-world style progress bars fare, like the 'go to 30% really fast and just sit there before jumping to 100%', quickly go to 99% and wait for completion, or my absolute favorite: a limit function that is constantly moving towards completion at a constantly decreasing rate until task completion, when it jumps to the end (great when completion time is unknown). - Kevin Fox

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I wonder if there's a visual equivalent of a Shepard tone (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...). - ⓞnor

Egnor: Yep. It's a barberpole. :-) - Kevin Fox

Ha, of course. - ⓞnor

I also wonder whether perceived performance ("how fast did you think it went?") tracks affinity (how much you choose to come back to use something). The affinity effect seems at least partly unconscious, so it might not match exactly, or even at all. YouTube, for example, could totally conduct some sort of experiment on this. - ⓞnor

I did a similar type of experiment in my undergrad, but compared existence of progress bar to no progress bar. For certain time spans (less than 5 seconds or so), things appear to take *less* time if there's no progress bar. I love this stuff. - Julian Missig

I always try to be as granular and precise as possible with progress reporting. I never liked progress bars that showed erratic behaviour, not even for relatively short tasks. - Mustafa K. Isik

Paul Buchheit posted a link

Is Facebook the Future of Search? - TIME

March 3 at 2:52 pm - Link

Huy Zing, Anton Noginov, paulm, Alex Gawley and Sriram Krishnan liked this

"Back to my kitchen caper. As I explained to my wife that I had concocted a free-form rustic tart (read, one very messed-up tarte tatin), one of my new Facebook friends, Alex, who lives in France, seeing my Facebook baking status, sent me a message informing me that the cookbook How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman had the best tarte tatin recipe around, and that I could find it on page 700. In a sense, Alex's message summed up my vision for the future of search: I don't just want the information faster, I want it before I even ask for it." - Paul Buchheit

Chris Wetherell shared an item on Google Reader

PHP Tip

March 3 at 7:04 pm - Link

Huy Zing, Kevin Fox and Voyagerfan5761 liked this

This is a good trick. I know for a fact that MediaWiki (one large PHP app) does this. - Voyagerfan5761

I did not know this, and have assiduously removed whitespace after the closing ?> for years. (Short version: you can omit the closing "?>" in PHP includes and requireds.) - Kevin Fox

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I read about this in our coding standards documentation. So I've been doing it forever but figured it was just a style thing...never thought about the white space issues - Benjamin Golub

The interesting thing is that header issues can be avoided by using ob_start() (I think that's the function) to start buffering output, even if you have whitespace in your includes. But this is easier. - Voyagerfan5761

Why not just remove white space after the "?>" then? I prefer that to having to leave tags open :) - Philipp Lenssen

It's a matter of convention. Whitespace can be accidentally inserted at the end of a file, and it's hard to notice when compared to a ?> that any decent editor will highlight in some color (for mine, Notepad++, it's bright red). - Voyagerfan5761

I'm psychologically incapable of omitting the ?>, but some commenter claims you can just end every file with "return; ?>" for the same effect. Anyone know if that's true? - ƃuɐʞ

Yeah, but convention actually says you need to close a PHP tag, and that's how it's explained in books and how you often see it in source samples etc... so I wonderf if perhaps not having it there would actually confuse more people than it might help. Not sure though, apparently the Drupal standards suggest it, so... - Philipp Lenssen

I love convention - it says you need to close <li> tags, but the major browsers will render the page just fine if you don't. (I'm not talking XHTML here; just lax HTML.) Code examples do include the closer, true, but perhaps there's something that requires it for files that are executed but not included and allows omission from included files... Whatever it is, the trick works. - Voyagerfan5761

niniane posted a link

ABC News: Mini-Pigs

March 4 at 3:15 am - Link

Kevin Johnson, Charles Hudson, Kevin Fox, ƃuɐʞ and 2 other people liked this

Do they stay black-matted through maturity? - Voyagerfan5761

are they mini forever or just piglets? - bob

cooool - carlo

is ugly the new cute? - j1m

Louis Gray shared an item on Google Reader

Is Facebook’s Platform a Strategic Mistake?

March 3 at 8:29 am - Link

Lizunlong, Voyagerfan5761, Huy Zing and Edwin Khodabakchian liked this

i have to say i agree with most of that article. FB's platform is turning into a disappointment to me. not sure if they can fix it or the experiment is over - Huy Zing

/me traverses the Oregon Trail, becomes a Zombie, and forces Huy to play Scrabulous to determine if our Colors are a Match. - Adam Lasnik

On the flip side, I never would have ever gotten a FB account had they not developed the API. I joined almost solely for Feedheads. - Louis Gray

I don't have to read the post to answer: Yes, in that they allow apps to force people to invite their friends to even do anything. - Voyagerfan5761

Bret Taylor posted a link

New York Times Movies Graphic (Data Mining blog)

March 2 at 9:20 am - Link

Huy Zing, tomio geron, JAbbott, Neil and Kevin Fox liked this

I agree with this: "The problem - to me - is that absolute height has weight here. So it looks like National Treasure: Book of Secrets is really, really important. National Treasure's first two weekends brought in $45MM and $65MM ($110MM) where as I Am Legend brought in $77MM and $33MM ($110MM)." - Bret Taylor

Thats fun to look at... - Ross Miller

Stacked plots always have that problem. The "new films pile on top" rule makes sense here; they try to reduce skew by stacking both above and below the line, but that goes awry with an odd number of simultaneous blockbusters. Also, their centerline wiggles around for no apparent reason. Unfortunately, the shapes look like overlapping scales, but don't actually overlap. - ⓞnor

Karen Padham Taylor posted a link

How a Computer Mouse Works

March 2 at 10:10 pm - Link

brendan, Anne Bouey, Huy Zing, marco borgna and 4 other people liked this

ƃuɐʞ posted a link

YouTube - Japanese Sex Doll

March 2 at 7:42 pm - Link

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what would you spend US$170k on? how about 100 girlfriends made of rubber. - ƃuɐʞ

Every time Kang posts, I have to flip my laptop over to read it. - Louis Gray

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http://video.google.com/videop... - Philipp Lenssen

you can buy them here: http://aidoll.4woods.jp/galler... they even have ones with elf ears. - Jess Lee

@Louis: Isn't is just his display name that's upside down? And am I the only one having trouble with YouTube the last few days? - Voyagerfan5761

kang is a she : ) - Jess Lee

philipp: thanks for the link; i just watched that whole documentary. CHILLING. informal poll: who did you think was the creepiest? - ƃuɐʞ

are these any different than the realdolls? - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

@Jess: D'oh! Thanks. Hope you won't hate me for that, kang. :-) - Voyagerfan5761

is it just me or does anyone else find it disturbing that those dolls look like a minor? I know it's a sex doll and the age of consent in Japan is 13 (or is it 14) but still..... -_-||| - Alvin Woon

Before watching "Lars and the Real Girl" last year, I dug up this (fun, sick) review, where a guy can't resist and tries out one of those Real Dolls http://friendfeed.com/e/d04eb6... - Mustafa K. Isik

I would spend US$170k on visiting and living in foreign countries where beautiful, available, loyal girlfriends are plentiful - Huy Zing

Tudor Bosman posted a message

“The "me" tab should (optionally?) include the items I commented on, in addition to the items I posted.”

February 25 at 7:12 pm - Link

engtech, Neil Dunn, Huy Zing, Shannon Jiménez and 8 other people liked this

would you want your "likes" here as well? - Sanjeev Singh

Sounds good to me. Then it becomes a favorites. - Chris White

Yes, Likes would be helpful as well. This way I can start using FF as a bookmarking tool (ie. run some script to query FF and get a list of Likes) - Aviv

most definitely agree. including all my site activity in the me tab would be hugely helpful. - Carla Thompson