FAKE!! The Internet needs an uppercased "I" i It's The Internet, not the internet :) - directeur
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@directeur: ...but I read from the internets, that... - Jemm
I've read style guides that allow for "internet" as opposed to "Internet" - Jack Carlson
view source: <!-- YOU PEEPED UNDER THE INTERNET'S SKIRT, YOU PERVERT! THE INTERNET IS NOT HAPPY! YES, THE INTERNET USES TABLES, NOT CSS. SHE IS OLD-FASHIONED! --> - Brandon
All points are o_O Especially missing Foreign Key constraints... - Jemm
These make sense: nested transactions, grant and revoke, and materialized views. The rest are just wtf? Especially right and full outer join, that implies they did left outer -- what you can't flip the table references? Worst offender has to be lack of FKs though, then they say to use triggers but those aren't fully implemented either? Yeah... guess we wait on version 3... - xero
Dogs. Cats are fine and all but they're not dogs. - Timothy Griffin
Cats for me. Dogs are unconditionally loving animals, perhaps better pets. But Cats are moody and naughty - more interesting to live with. :) - Parth Awasthi
Dogs represent faith. Cats represent knowledge and practical intelligence. I choose faith. - Vijayendra Mohanty
That was an amazing perspective Vijayendra. And I second that. - Parth Awasthi
Our cats are watching what I write here.. This is my truthful opinion: I prefer cats :) - Jemm
How about a dog that uses a litter box? No? A cat that can defend your home? Oh, yeah, the second sounds great. Is it possible to get a panther to use a litter box? - MiniMage LightBlueRanger
Cats! Cats are uber cute, make funny noises, don't have icky drool and take literally 5 minutes a day to take care of. And they don't take up half the bed. Oh and good cats don't scratch except on accident, which is rare...same with biting if they were socialized properly when young. - Alex "Gamerpoints" Scoble
You just gave me another reason to love dogs Grant. LOL - JMakesAwesomeSauce
To be fair, I've been bitten by both dogs and cats. (Not my own though, and I've had both.) - JMakesAwesomeSauce
cats rule and dogs drool -- sally field in homeward bound (I saw it in the theater years before I had kids!) - RAPatton
I'm pretty sure cats were blamed for stealing the breath of babies. However, my dog will bite me if I hand him a treat. He's so greedy he takes half my arm off to get the food. I'm not talking about tiny dog biscuits, either. Good thing he can catch what I toss him. - MiniMage LightBlueRanger
I prefer cats because they are low maintenance but I have both - Lindsey Smith
I like my cats, but they cause my wife to stop breathing and die. - Wichita Lineman
I'd love it...just the security in knowing a heavyweight is behind the service (especially through the hard times ahead) and let's face it -they have got skills when it comes to bringing companies together (Facebook aside). And fingers crossed, it will push Friendfeed towards a more mainstream audience, ie. growth. - Zee from WeDoCreative
Jailu was close to dead before google took over - imo. Plus, Ive been a member for ages and thd community & features on FF are far superior. - Zee from WeDoCreative
@Jemm, funny but ads are coming anyway. And google definitely has the least intrusive advertising out there. - Zee from WeDoCreative
jaiku is miles behind friendfeed, but was better than twitter - Dobromir Hadzhiev
@Zee: Yeah, I'm sure here will be ads someday. Or maybe they (FF) make us addicted and then require membership fee to continue ;) - Jemm
Being bought by Google doesn't automatically confer greatness nor service quality - Mo 'Killer Sauce' Kargas
You don't think the Googlers would try to take over what the ex-Googlers are doing? IMHO, the FF dev teams are already heavyweights, not because of their names. The site keeps on improving with hardly any downtime, and they're taking time to think things through to actually developing a site that is far superior than a lot of the other sites and service. (both front and back end) - Mona N.
@Mona - no doubt. Bret, Paul & the rest of the team have & are doing an incredible job but times are going to get harder...that's for certain and more often than not heavyweights survive over the smaller guys during these times. And in comparing friendfeed vs google, as superb the FF team are - there are few (if any) company you can compare to the likes of google at the mo - Zee from WeDoCreative
Is that assuming FF founders want to join Google? I am assuming they left for a reason :) - Tim Hoeck
NO. I am hoping that they do great things on their own instead. Google has Jaiku and it is not doing very well. - Vijayendra Mohanty
Just after reading the comments.. Do you really think it is in Google's interest to buy Friendfeed.. I don't believe it is there interest I think Google has it's head elsewhere right now? - Ian Cleasby
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I have 2 hopes for FF. 1) It stays. 2) The folks I've come to consider pals stay around as well. :) - Yolanda
Only if FF is going broke. Otherwise, NO. Besides Writely, what good has Google brought to startups? - Christopher Galtenberg
you may be right Ian but i'm not sure - I think if google are adding to their organise the worlds information...friendfeed could definitely contribute - Zee from WeDoCreative
No. Google is a clusterfuck and their products are designed by committee. FF is obviously the lovechild of a few people with a very clear and focussed vision for it. - Nadine Schaeffer
This is how the pros do it. :D One of those rare cases when part 2 is actually better than part 1(http://braingoodbye.com/people...). Great find! +1 John LOL - vijay
You can catch this on ESPN8 ... The Ocho - tj hanton
Microsoft SQL Server, just to be contrary and everyone keeps telling me it's Microsoft's best product whenever I say Exchange is. - Alex "Gamerpoints" Scoble
Although I'm not a database guy, I like SQL Server. - Alan Le
I hate SQL but I used to use MySQL because it was easy but then I migrated to Postgresql (probably just to be different). However, now I try to avoid database work whenever I can. - Akiva Moskovitz
I want to say Access just to be contrary ;-) Dunno, I've dealt with Oracle, MSSQL and MySQL more than Postgre SQL. Of those three, I prefer the interface MSSQL offers, MySQL for size and speed, and Oracle for sheer unadulterated power. - Stupid Emoo (aka Tina)
For what purpose? For corporate work like data warehousing I want Oracle. For anything smaller it would be MySql. - Rob Diana
I really like Oracle, but it's overkill for most stuff. I have a special place in my heart for PostgreSQL, but my workhorse RDBMS is MySQL. - Mark Trapp
MS SQL is my default. MySQL when I'm going for free or w/ PHP. Oracle if I need a huge cluster and several terabytes, though MSSQL is catching up on that. Access or SQLExpress if I only have one user. - xero
“Commenters on FF are so far superior to that which typically add their tightly coiled piles to the bottom of news sites it is astonishing. Just saying, I <3.”
Get off my lawn, you elitist college going hipster MBA wannabe who thinks he knows everything about the markets and our economy! Gah! - Alex "Gamerpoints" Scoble
I've noticed that too, and have often wondered why. Social news sites (Youtube excepted) just seem to attract a more intelligent, better informed audience and comments than do newspaper sites themselves, which seem to attract the worst of the worst. Even Digg looks like a bastion of intellectualism by comparison. But I can't think of any reason why it should be like that. - Eric
@Eric -- The majority of people on FF are trying to encourage good discussion. They are sharing items of interest and in turn hope to get new followers. Acting like an ass is counterproductive on most social networking sites - Lindsey Smith
@Eric: Social sites invariably provide more content than users can consume in real time. This means we've got to choose to read stuff we're actually interested in and might have something to say about. Contrast this to a traditional news site where you get a new story every hour and *everyone* spends the next hour arguing about the one story. - Daniel J. Pritchett
FF is great for driving interesting conversations. As Lindsey mentioned, most of us are here trying to encourage discussion (in one way or another). - Mark Wilson
If I've been away for a while, I don't even try to catch up. - Morton Fox
If it's beyond page 10 you can't anyway. :-( - Kol Tregaskes
Kol, go to the 'best of' for the day. In the link, change days=1 to days=2 and you'll get the best of items for the past two days. - Stupid Emoo (aka Tina)
oooh, Tina! +1 for the awesome tip. hadn't thought about that at.all. - .·*♥pea♥*·.
Due to hourly-stuff, you probably need "days=3&num=100". If you're a maniac, (1) search by service "service=internal&days=3&num=100" will give you tons of stuff. (2) Then you can do the same thing on subgroups of friends... (3) Sometimes when catching up I do (a) day 1 (b) day 1, num=100 (c) day 2 (d) day 2, num=100 (etc...) - Mitchell Tsai
"Pistachio farmers in Iran are going nuts: Colder-than-normal weather has harmed this year's crop, whose harvest could end up being 75 percent lower than last year's. If so, the United States could dethrone Iran from its proud position of being the world's top producer of pistachios.
There's reason for Iranian optimism, though: If Mother Nature cooperates, the Islamic Republic could reclaim the top spot next year. Plus, Iranian farmers say their pistachios taste the best." - Cee Bee
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"Simply put, the Energy Seed is "an LED lamp post powered by trashed alkaline batteries." No word yet on pricing or availability." - Jemm
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