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Here's a couple of long range shots of our loft with the LED lights changing
Bryan Lee, vicster, Daniel Rowley and 60 other people liked this
Haha. You have a poofy dog.
- Rochelle
Rochelle, correction. My wife has a poofy dog. :)
- Cristo
Cool.... is this a re-construction building? Oriental warehouse?
- Bindu Reddy
Cristo, I want to make out with your loft.
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
I still want to see a picture of you and your wife. I'm not yet convinced you're not a bot and she's not made up.
- Rochelle
Your place looks fabulous! And the puppy is cute, too.
- Katy S
Rochelle, yeah, well some people want to see a photo of Akiva also.
- Cristo
You've seen some. They've been posted before. I posted one of us on our anniversary two months ago, in fact.
- Rochelle
Actually, we're both in the photos here. Some beings can't be captured by mirrors or cameras. ;)
- Cristo
Vampires?
- Akiva Moskovitz
You need to get into hoarding. There's lots of empty space there.
- Hayes Haugen
Hayes: http://friendfeed.com/cristob...
- Cristo
Cool!
- Anne Bouey
WOW.
- Mona Nomura
PIMP.
- Shey, Jamaican of FF
Absolutely swank. Give me your place.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
Cristo, your place is pure bad ass. 8^D
- Chieze Okoye
Drool.
- Rachel Garb
That would be a great place to party when Friendfeed will shut down :)
- Jérôme Flipo
Very cool! What kind of LED lights are you using? We have old rope lighting that we are planning to change out for color changing LED rope lighting in in several rooms, but we have a bunch or research before we begin that project. Any tips from your experience?
- Rachel Lea Fox
Also, are the color changes tied to any data or just rotating on a cycle?
- Kevin Fox
We're using Color Kinetics: http://www.colorkinetics.com/. Beti actually ordered these, and I haven't investigated them deeply. There are two types of controls, one which is a dial on the wall that changes color, modes, and frequency of change. The other is an ethernet/RS-232 solution. We don't have the advanced one right now, but we may upgrade to it sometime after I look into it. I'm not sure how much work needs to be done to time the lights to something like Sonos.
- Cristo
I want one that ties to my brain according to my mood
- Jesse Stay
Ewww dats Purdy!
- Bryan Lee
Bryan, is that good?
- Cristo
Thank you Cristo!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Google vs presse française : le clash a bien eu lieu http://www.lavoixdudodo.info/2009...
Jérôme Flipo liked this
Wow, qui est arrogant déjà?
- Jérôme Flipo
le grand méchant google ;-)
- Stanislas Jourdan
D'un côté je me dis "c'est terrible de ne pas vouloir comprendre le pourquoi de ce changement", de l'autre je me rassure en me rappelant que le transfert de valeur a bien lieu et qu'il n'y a que ça qui compte. Que le NYT et le WP travaille avec Google au plus au sommet me rassure beaucoup sur l'avenir du journalisme, mais pauvre France, je crains qu'on se prépare à polémiques sur polémiques.
- Jérôme Flipo
Quelqu'un aurait une bonne liste de 10 média français qui font les bons effort côté UI et techno? Qu'importe la couleur politique et le thème. J'ai radicalement diminué ma conso de news ces derniers temps (et Reader couvre l'essentiel de mes besoins), mais je tiens à pouvoir suivre les meilleures volontés et leur évolution. J'avais 20m (qui update et link un max, un peu trop buzz et pas très investigateur mais avec un bon suivi tech).
- Jérôme Flipo
Wikinews semble perdre de la vitesse, NowPublic ne fait toujours pas de vague, Current a rapatrié ses reporteurs, The Observers semblent toujours trop "brandés" F24, Friendfeed se meurt, Reddit se geekise toujours autant, etc.
- Jérôme Flipo
J'ai envie d'écrire une petite histoire là-dessus...
- Thierry Lhôte
Moi je me suis déjà lâché cette aprem :)
- Stanislas Jourdan
c'est en ligne Stanislas http://netsansdetour.blogspot.com/2009...
- Thierry Lhôte
Wondering if we really need to see these tweets in real time on Google search results.... the quality of these tweets seems to be very low. Maybe Google should be filtering tweets.. Not sure how this is useful at all to someone searching Google for "Tiger Woods"
Vipul Rawat, Sean McBride, Kol Tregaskes and 17 other people liked this
I was dreading this, knowing it was coming sooner or later, it degrades your search precision
- sofarsoShawn
I think this will only increase twitter spam :(( Google is usually very very religious about their search result quality... not sure how this got through...
- Bindu Reddy
Exactly, the more you tweet, the better your chances are for a site hit
- sofarsoShawn
interesting. didn't even realize there's these kinds of google search results now. thanks for the heads up!
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
Yup, I am writing a bot that scrapes Google trends, extracts search terms and writes tweets every 2 minutes with those search terms :)
- Bindu Reddy
New SEO pioneering! I want in! & it's also not just Twitter, but also Jaiku, identi.ca Myspace, FriendFeed & Facebook. & Bing (except for FB & TW) won't be including them in their search results.
- sofarsoShawn
I the quality of all tweets seems to be very low.
- Gabe
Oh bleh. Just tried a search for "snow". The realtime results are very distracting. Let us opt out, or put it on the side somewhere.
- Laura Norvig
from iPod
It's good to bring more users to twitter though, as they keep getting twitter rubbed into their face. That being said I should try that search.
- Richard A.
Interesting. So you can try spam these services, and get a high position on Google immediately. But filtering... based on what? The usual filters work on authority which in turn often works on ratings, citations, backlinks etc., and these won't be real-time because people first have to see and digest the message in question in order to link, cite and rate it.
- Philipp Lenssen
It auto-updates and that is an interesting feature. That's something I could see some use for :-)
- Richard A.
On the spam and SEO topic. Don't you think it'd measure retweet strength. If a lot of people retweet a subject then the link would be more relevant/interesting than if just one person retweets. Sorry for going slightly off topic. As an aside do retweets move back up to the top of the search? Should try cop15 and see how it behaves.
- Richard A.
@Philipp: smart question (as usual). I guess that Google's rank/filter could be based not on the tweet, but on the tweeter: e.g. someone who has many followers is a good source, etc. E.g. Google too should (in this case) change its paradigm, switching from a "web of pages" to a "web of people".
- milivella
@Philipp You have nailed the issue :) It is really really difficult to get a good grip on "quality" if the information/data is real-time. I still can't really figure out what the motivation behind doing something like this on the Google main search results is.
- Bindu Reddy
Am I the only one here who is using Topsy http://www.topsy.com on a daily basis to cut through Twitter noise? Works like a charm. News recommender systems are the Next Big Thing.
- Sean McBride
Great ! Facebook new posting settings !
mjc and Jérôme Flipo liked this
I've been waiting for that for a looooong time :)
- Stanislas Jourdan
Your Fb page looks terrible IMO. Not because of the content, but the way it shows up. FF is so clean it has become a pain to read Facebook.
- Jérôme Flipo
now i can become totally schizophrenic :D
- Stanislas Jourdan
Agreed, Jérôme... I especially miss the "my discussions" feature...
- Stanislas Jourdan
Le fait qu'aucun de la FF team soit publique sur Facebook en dit long.
- Jérôme Flipo
incompréhensible, le formulaire est positivement incompréhensible... big fail à mon avis
- Thierry Lhôte
Je me créé un événement Gcal pour checker la proportion de mes contacts qui se mettent en public dans 30 jours. Je ne vois aucune incitation pour l'utilisateurs lambda, je crains aussi le fail, au moins à court terme.
- Jérôme Flipo
Ah merci Thierry, je me demandais si j'étais un peu con ou si c'était eux ;-)
- Stanislas Jourdan
Non Jérôme ça va strictement rien changer à court terme, mais pour moi c'est une bonne chose car entre mes contacts familiaux (de plus en plus nombreux), mes potes d'école, et mes contacts blogosphériques, ce n'est pas vraiment le même publique on va dire ;-)
- Stanislas Jourdan
L'idée est "quand même" louable car demandée. Pourquoi ils font pas comme Google, une petite vidéo explicative et pédagogique sur Youtube ou ailleurs... Facebook veut passer pour un cador du Net ou quoi ?
- Thierry Lhôte
J'avoue les vidéos google c'est top
- Stanislas Jourdan
Waterfall with ducks - http://vi.sualize.us/view...
Nicholas Kreidberg, Jérôme Flipo, Alistair (alpinefolk) and Alex Scoble liked this
Loading Adobe Photoshop CS3 - http://www.dailyhaggis.com/2009...
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ashish, Osman Aydın, Burçak Çubukçu and 58 other people liked this
Almost there..
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Ha!
- Micah Wittman
Hah.
- Fulaan, inna Hebel
I hate that bloody thing.
- EricaJoy
looool :D
- Can Mert Bozkurt
has it loaded yet?
- Mike Nencetti
Keep watching, it shows you a brilliant feature that is hidden in the program after it loads.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
from IM
I think it's almost finished loading....
- Mike Nencetti
Waaaaiiittt for iiiittttt....
- rowlikeagirl
So close! It's on the final load now, I just know it..
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
PS3 - it's CrashTastic!
- Morgan Haley
AWESOME
- Jorge Escobar
Look at that name just under the watch cursor... YEAH BITCHES!!!
- Johnny Worthington
Youze famous.
- Jeremy (cropmarks)
@Johnny I'll be seeing you with my pitchfork soon, good sir.
- EricaJoy
(It's not me... but still!!!)
- Johnny Worthington
*gathers angry designers and torches*
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Now, rather than from a hard drive, imagine PS loading from an audio cassette tape - a whole truck load of them. You wouldn't need an animated GIF, you'd just need a GIF.
- Micah Wittman
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
- Josh Haley
:)) cool
- Shandiz
omg it's very scary looking at this for too long
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
at this time i'd be tempted to reset my computer
- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
almost there :)
- ★ Soner Gönül
Go get a cup of coffee while it's loading. Fly to Columbia for a cup.
- Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)
Adobe Reader also does that. One of the reasons why I use Foxit Reader for PDF's.
- Vishy
Vishy: Try Adobe Reader 9. They fixed that issue, it doesn't load all its crap on launch any more. Now it loads it on demand instead. Adobe Reader 8 did the slow load you're talking about.
- Otto
:)))
- Armand
What the hell is it loading?
- Xitong Liu
I think.. and i'm not sure here.. but I don't think it's supposed to be loading still after 3 days. Should I Force Quit? :D
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
from IM
give it a few more minutes....
- Mike Nencetti
Just hold the whole system under warm water for about 7 1/2 minutes. that should help complete things once and for all.
- Morgan Haley
Reticulating splines?
- LogEx
+100000000 LE
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
from IM
I am still waiting :)
- ashish
how warm was the water?? :-)
- Morgan Haley
Going to attempt right now! #%*&%@#NO CARRIER
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
from IM
Remember when we all used to comment on each other's blogs? That was all of about two years ago. What the heck happened?
Sean McBride, Tracy, Jérôme Flipo and 17 other people liked this
I actually have very high hopes for solutions like Salmon (http://www.salmon-protocol.org/) to bring us back to the best of both worlds. Rich, detailed posts with topical comments on the original site, intermixed seamlessly with the discussions taking place on aggregators like FriendFeed and Facebook. It's possible -- we just need a little bit of tech to make it happen.
- DeWitt Clinton
Me too - I miss those days, and I worry Twitter has distracted us
- Jesse Stay
Some of my best relationships have been built by commenting on others' blogs - it still works even today, but now I guess it's more a secret than it was before.
- Jesse Stay
I'm hoping for a return to the usenet days, where I could follow a conservation from one client. Conservation is so fragmented since the blog era. Hopefully, this upstreaming of comments will allow a more integrated view and lower the probability of fragmentation.
- Ray Cromwell
Part of the problem is people simply taking less time to comment. There's a - relative - abundance of good content. Finding a good article is less special nowadays than it was some years ago. Less reason for a reader to engage with one specific author. There are other strong posts waiting for him in his reader, FriendFeed or Twitter stream.
- Meryn Stol
Imagine a world where people could follow blogs wherever the like (Reader, FriendFeed, on the original site, whatever) and all the comments made in each place would swim upstream and back out to where people were reading. We're super close. Would love to have FriendFeed be an early adopter of this.
- DeWitt Clinton
I think FriendFeed in part countervails that problem by making commenting so easy, and by "nudging" towards short comments, more intuitive responses. I think the old days of thoughtful responses in the comment section are not coming back. A true thoughtful response can be made into a blog post by itself.
- Meryn Stol
Assuming one has a blog anymore...
- DeWitt Clinton
I need to bring mine back. Almost a year gone by with no posts. I just got frustrated with my blogging software around the same time Twitter took off. But every time I tweet a little piece of me dies. I need to fix that.
- DeWitt Clinton
My main point is that I think new technology, better integration between blogs and aggregators and such can only do so much for us.
- Meryn Stol
A counterpoint, at least some new technology has brought more people together than ever before (plenty of examples right here).
- DeWitt Clinton
Oh I don't doubt that tech can bring us together, it's just that it's bringing us together in a different way than before. While twitter - imo - hurts thoughtful discussion, it has brought us "ambient intimacy". FriendFeed also have given rise to a new *kind* of conversation.
- Meryn Stol
The comments "swim upstream" idea is nice in theory, but there's the pesky problem of threading when a side conversation develops in one of the outposts. I suppose sticking with the @name convention helps a bit for sorting things out ...
- Laura Norvig
from iPod
I love the phrase "ambient intimacy", Meryn. But I partly disagree -- Twitter has brought us a Society of the Spectacle (in the Guy Debord sense). Nothing intimate about that.
- DeWitt Clinton
DeWitt, hmm allright, maybe I'm romanticizing Twitter somewhat. FYI: The term ambient intimacy was originally coined by Leisa Reichelt: http://www.disambiguity.com/ambient... - kind of must read essay I guess.
- Meryn Stol
I have the same complaint: http://piaw.blogspot.com/2009...
- Piaw Na
I still have an active blog, but most comments seem to be coming from facebook.
- Piaw Na
No question it has changed. Salmon is a cool option, which I like a lot, but you can't undo the trend. Many folks believe that retweeting, bookmarking and Google Reader sharing is enough. I recognize I do this a lot, but I do try to participate in as many community conversations as there are, wherever they are.
- Louis Gray
Cuz Scoble says blogging's dead #thusithasbecomelaw
- sofarsoShawn
Salmon will be a very valuable solution. By allowing people to add comments in the environment they feel most comfortable with (and propagating them) I think the depth of conversation can/will increase.
- Chris Myles
What is the ideal number of 30" monitors, ignoring cost?
Никита Васильев, Jimminy, Yann Ropars and 34 other people liked this
For a moment there, I thought Al Gore had decided to go into radiology.
- Victor Ganata
Well, let's see... the Apple 30" is 27 inches wide, and standard ergo recommendations says you want a viewing distance of 20-40"... 6 would give you a polygon with a 23" viewing distance... 7 would give you you 28"... I'd say 7. Actually 14. Two "rows" of 7.
- Ken Sheppardson
It's really the 360 degree chair/desk rig that's the hard part, btw.
- Ken Sheppardson
Doesn't that leave you stuck inside, Ken?
- Tim Tyler
I too thought it was Al Gore & a post about his many computers' effects on global warming!
- beersage
I think the right number ignoring cost is the same as the right number including cost -- the massive energy consumption exerts downward pressure, just like the cost. But now the ideal number of 30" monitors if you ignore both cost and the effect on the environment...well I still think it's 1. Doing what Al Gore's doing here, to me, is like sitting in the very front row of the movie theatre.
- j1m
30" monitors are very effective internal wall insulation.
- Bernie Goldbach
I think maybe a 10' high by 30' wide wall of them would be about ideal. I can't decide if I would want the wall to be linear or circular, though, or what kind of seating choices I would like.
- ⓞnor
He should convert all those books and papers in his office into electronic format. Use his bookcase as a monitor wall with nine 30" monitors. A setup like this would rock: http://friendfeed.com/imabone...
- imabonehead
Put some of them on a hinged or sliding wall and the trapped problem goes away.
- Andrew C
I just hope his computer desktop isn't as messy as his actual desktop.
- j1m
I am only staring at two at the moment... (actually 2x30"+23"+20")
- Paulo Gaspar
I was thinking of some sort of turret-like setup where you climb up into the ring of monitors... or better yet: hydraulics
- Ken Sheppardson
Yes, ideally you'd want something that would make Professor X jealous. Maybe they could fold down from a petal-like ring arrangement from the ceiling.
- Andrew C
Aha... or think Darth Vader meditation chamber.
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken, now I'm picturing Al Vader surrounded by monitors, hilarious!!
- Lo is a Quitter
I'd say 3. Anymore and you'll start neglecting one of them.
- Mr. Gunn
Whoa—check out the flip chart!
- Glen Mistletoe
Empirically speaking, zero. I've stopped plugging my laptop into my 30" monitor at work. All the windows get messed up. Plus, I have this theory that sticking to a single laptop screen helps me focus better.
- Jim Norris
Fighting climate change one flat screen at a time. Just think how much power he is saving when he turns it all off to go out. Does he have eyes in the back of his head or is the TV on just because he hates polar bears?
- John Cooper
Jim, I agree with you. When I had two monitors, I used one for actual work and the other for mail, friendfeed and other distractions. I do prefer using a 24" screen to my laptop screen.
- Gary Burd
@Jim, personally, I find that my laptop screen is too confining. I plug into a 23" LCD at work. I use the LCD for TextMate and a couple of Terminals, then I keep a browser open on the laptop for testing and search. That works really well for me. If all I have is my laptop screen, I spend a lot of time Alt-TABing between apps.
- Jason Huebel
Why get 30" monitors when you could just get a couple CRVD monitors (since we're ignoring cost, and all)? http://www.ostendotech.com/crvd...
- Curtiss Grymala
I've settled in on a 3-screen setup: Center (24") has 2-4 terminal windows, either half of 1/4 of the screen each; Right (22") has a Chrome window, IM, and often a couple more terminal windows monitoring processes or logs; Left (20") has either media player software or live.twit.tv in a Chrome window :-)
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken - Are you using any special software to organize the windows on your screen? I'm using a 30" monitor at work as my main screen and my 17" laptop screen as my secondary. On the 30" screen, I use a proggie called WinSplit Revolution to split my screen into sections. It's a lifesaver. Keyboard shortcuts automatically move and size the focused window to any portion of the screen you choose.
- Curtiss Grymala
No, Curtiss. I've tried different apps over the years, but nothing ever really clicked. However, I just discovered that the Windows key plus arrow keys in Windows 7 will now resize windows, e.g. Win+Left expands the window to the left half of the screen, Win+Left again moves it to the next monitor, etc.
- Ken Sheppardson
Nice. That's kind of the way winsplit works, except it uses ctrl+alt. Ctrl+alt+left moves window to left monitor, ca+rt moves to right screen. It also uses ctrl+alt plus any key on the number pad to move the window to any quadrant/half of the screen.
- Curtiss Grymala
from iPhone
OMG. His secretary must hate him.
- Kate Schmidt
The ideal number is as many monitors as he needs to lecture us about saving the environment.
- Morton Fox
Paris :: Photography Served - http://www.photographyserved.com/Gallery...
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pitlord, Reza, Kol Tregaskes and 16 other people liked this
Falling in Love Rocks
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Alfredo, Nathalie, Dreamer of FF, ★ Soner Gönül and 60 other people liked this
:-)
- Kol Tregaskes
that it does
- Chieze Okoye
yes. yes it does. and then the rest of the process begins....
- Morgan Haley
is that splattered blood?
- T. Brent, technopeasant
That's technically vandalism.
- Fulaan, inna Hebel
Vandalism is my favorite petty crime.
- The Letter M
Vandalism helped make me what I am today. but I lived by a code back when I vandalized things: public property only.
- Morgan Haley
what are love rocks?
- Andrew C
Ovaries
- Kittyburgers
I read that as rocks used for falling in love. Like cupid's arrow. Just hurl them at the one you want to fall in love with. This is how my mind works, people.
- Fleagle
"They're only stoning you because they love you..."
- T. Brent, technopeasant
It's about time: Google Chrome for Linux (this page is called w00t.html and therefore owns your face). - http://www.google.com/chrome...
Joel Webber, Vlado Handziski, Riona MacNamara and 5 other people liked this
w00t :-)
- John μller
Surprised it hasn't made the Reddit FP yet.
- Jérôme Flipo
YouTube - Louis Armstrong - Potato Head Blues - Crazy Jazz - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Jérôme Flipo, Eric @ CSTechcast.com and Derrick liked this
Mr. 7 read a book featuring Louis Armstrong last week, so I tried to share "Potato Head Blues" with him. It wasn't the religious experience I'd hoped for. But now he's blowing like mad on a tin whistle, so perhaps it made some impression.
- s t e v e
from Bookmarklet
Better watch out. In many cases, blowing like mad on a tin whistle is a precursor to taking up the clarinet, freaking out your parents by going to conservatory, getting a useless degree, going to grad school, getting another useless degree, and eventually winding up a librarian. Not that I would have any personal experience with any of that, of course.
- Catherine Pellegrino
Tony Ruscoe: Going Google - http://blogoscoped.com/archive...
DeWitt Clinton, Can Demirezen, Mark Trapp and 7 other people liked this
Congratulations :)
- Simon
Congratulations, welcome on board!
- Can Demirezen
Vinyl Record Albums and Turntables Are Gaining Sales - http://www.nytimes.com/2009...
Adrian Scicluna, Jérôme Flipo, Jesse Stay and imabonehead liked this
LP sales are rising. CD sales are declining.
- Gary Burd
from Bookmarklet
How's wax cylinder doing?
- ⓞnor
Great! Now all I need is a turntable in my truck.
- Stephan Planken
@Stephan, lol
- j1m
Yeah! I can play my Beatles album.
- Lynn Colton
@ⓞnor, this is serious! vinyl is up over 15%!
- j1m
Why can't I just program an A/V remote control with a language like Python or Javascript?
jcunwired, Jérôme Flipo, Vezquex: God of FF and 5 other people liked this
These A/V remote control companies pretend they have such sophisticated capabilities, but all I see is backwardness and mediocrity.
- Cristo
Someone should bill these companies for all the time wasted by these activities and macro programing systems. This could be so much better. Too bad there's probably no money in it.
- Cristo
No money in it? Because these guys aren't selling millions of dollars worth of remotes now? You make a remote that's easy to program for the layman (means no Python or Javascript) and you could make bank.
- Alex Scoble
I'm not interested in making a remote that's easy to program by the layman. It's called programming for a reason. And it doesn't have the kind of money in it that I'm interested in making.
- Cristo
Yes, there's no money in making a remote that you can program with Python or Javascript.
- Alex Scoble
That's why all the Python and Javascript programmers create websites you use instead.
- Cristo
Out of interest... What would you program it to do?
- Johnny Worthington
I would program it to drive my loft, of course. Where have you been Johnny? :)
- Cristo
"Welcome to the Concordance homepage. This software will allow you to program your Logitech Harmony universal remote control! In addition to providing software that works in UNIX (which logitech's software doesn't support), our code also aims to be cross-platform. So you can use the same program in Linux or Windows, and hopefully soon, Mac too! We currently support all models except for the 890 and 1000. Support for these will hopefully come soon though." -- http://www.phildev.net/harmony...
- Ken Sheppardson
... That would be awesome
- Johnny Worthington
Ken, interesting. I wonder if you can program it in a different way then their 'activity model', which I find kind of sucky. Also, I have the 890, so this wouldn't help me right now.
- Cristo
I'm currently "programming" the URC R-50, and I put programming in quotes for a reason. :(
- Cristo
What I want in a remote control is room based. You can choose a room from the main menu, and then drive devices (or activities if you like) from there. Furthermore, I want technology to determine your default room for you, based on the remote control's location. I still want to be able to control other rooms sources and displays though if I choose.
- Cristo
I haven't used Concordance, but I sure know what you mean, having gone through a 550 and 880 before just reverting back to individual component remotes. Anything that would let me just tell it what to do by editing and pushing a text file would be godsend.
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken, yes! The whole idea of programming is saving time. When you program in today's world, you don't retype the program every time you want to change something. You back it up, even source control it, so you know when or who caused the mistake.
- Cristo
I think if I were going to tackle another remote, I'd eBay a Nokia N810 and try out http://www.mceguru.com But that project seems pretty dated these days.
- Ken Sheppardson
In practice, it doesn't work that well. You need a few things, like instant on, and having it automatically running the remote control app. Plus, touch screens don't work that well for frequently used media controls in my experience.
- Cristo
Why not go the whole way and build it all yourself. http://zovirl.com/2008.... Are you a geek or what? :)
- Nick Lothian
Yeah, I really can't imagine any screen-based remote is going to give you stuff like intuitive 30-sec skip on your DVR. Seems like one could put together a neat little system by having a PC drive the components, then have the remote trigger events in the PC software. Particularly if you could just take any cheap, off the shelf universal remote and just have it trigger the PC.
- Ken Sheppardson
I have a Harmony 1000, and it has a touchscreen plus remappable hard buttons. I thought I'd hate it (only got it because my wife preferred it to the harmony remotes with more hard buttons), but it hasn't been bad. One of the hard buttons would be perfect for a 30 second skip.
- Nick Lothian
Nick, my motivation for writing system software for my own purposes is fairly low. When you throw hardware and industrial design into the mix, it is barely measurable. I'm excited about quick scripting I can do to save time for myself and family, but otherwise I'm motivated by reaching a lot of people and I'm not that interested in universal remote controls as a business. :)
- Cristo
Nick, I had a Harmony 1100 (which is the next model from the 1000). I returned it. I currently have a Harmony 890 (One), and a Universal Remote Control R-50. They may both be returned soon.
- Cristo
Fair enough - I don't think I'd be up for the hardware build either. Have you tried any phone based remotes? In theory there should be some decent ones which could also do uPNP/dlna control. When I took a look a year or so ago the uPNP stuff sucked pretty badly (which was what I was interested in at the time)
- Nick Lothian
If you know how to program already, programming these remotes is particularly painful. You can choose between the braindead activity based, pseudo web program that Harmony uses, or you can choose the remedial visual macro based mechanism that URC uses. Both are bad, time consuming, and limiting.
- Cristo
Nick, I've done custom uPnP programming for Sonos control on mobile phones. As I said earlier, touch-based screens are not ideal for driving media devices when skipping commercials, rewinding, fast-forwarding, changing channels, muting, and volume changes are frequent.
- Cristo
This thread makes me think about building an Arduino based remote.
- Jason Wehmhoener
Questions for Jeffrey P. Bezos - Book Learning - Interview - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/glogin...
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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
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
Who holds the best record for this? [PIC] - http://i.imgur.com/pyz0K.png
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New Study Reveals Most Children Unrepentant Sociopaths | The Onion - America's Finest News Source - http://www.theonion.com/content...
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"MINNEAPOLIS—A study published Monday in The Journal Of Child Psychology And Psychiatry has concluded that an estimated 98 percent of children under the age of 10 are remorseless sociopaths with little regard for anything other than their own egocentric interests and pleasures. According to Dr. Leonard Mateo, a developmental psychologist at the University of Minnesota and lead author of the study, most adults are completely unaware that they could be living among callous monsters who would remorselessly exploit them to obtain something as insignificant as an ice cream cone or a new toy. "The most disturbing facet of this ubiquitous childhood disorder is an utter lack of empathy," Mateo said. "These people—if you can even call them that—deliberately violate every social norm without ever pausing to consider how their selfish behavior might affect others. It's as if they have no concept of anyone but themselves.""
- William Harryman
from Bookmarklet
eeek
- Shevonne
""The depths of depravity that these tiny psychopaths are capable of reaching are really quite chilling," Mateo added. According to the Hare Psychopathy Checklist, a clinical diagnostic tool, sociopaths often display superficial charm, pathological lying, manipulative behaviors, and a grandiose sense of self-importance. After observing 700 children engaged in everyday activities, Mateo...
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- William Harryman
ONION.
- Kamilah Gill
Umm, we are born selfish. Duh.
- Jackye Chan
Am I the only one that finds this incredibly amusing?
- Jan Ole Peek
Jackye must not be familiar with The Onion.
- Rochelle
I like to read real news. I got enough jokesters around me.
- Jackye Chan
Actually I never looked at the URL. Almost belived it for a second.
- Roberto Bonini
Jackye also did not catch the 93% of non-verbal communication in this thread.
- Jackye Chan
Technically it's true. Most of the little crotch-fruits under 10 are entirely oblivious to other peoples feelings.
- MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)
I thought this was hilarious, which is why I posted it - most of the kids I've ever know, as MVB says, fit the piece
- William Harryman
New on Google: real-time results from Twitter, FriendFeed, Facebook, MySpace, Jaiku, Identi.ca, and more - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009...
Kol Tregaskes, Sean McBride, Jeff Delezen and 33 other people liked this
"The new features will be rolling out in the next few days and will be available globally in English. You can try them out today by visiting http://www.google.com/trends and clicking on a 'hot topic,' which in most cases will bring you to a search results page with the new real-time feature."
- Tom Stocky
"Of course, none of this would be possible without the support of our new partners that we're announcing today: Facebook, MySpace, FriendFeed, Jaiku and Identi.ca — along with Twitter, which we announced a few weeks ago."
- Paul Buchheit
The realtime part seems a little canned though. When I hit reload, the same results slowly scroll in every time: http://www.google.com/search...
- Paul Buchheit
Yep. They shouldn't put the "already existing" results in motion. Fortunately, Friendfeed doesn't move down each updates one by one every time you refresh a page :)
- Jérôme Flipo
The number one Hot Topic is "google real time search."
- aldenoneil
Tell me again why real-time search is valuable?
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I wish Google would put some "this entry is worthless" logic into its real-time search instead of showing everything, including irrelevant and information-less entries.
- Mark Trapp
A Twitter exec (I forget which) recently said they believed that 'the most recent result is the most relevant'. I couldn't disagree more. I think the value of realtime search is huge, but there is so much data there that could be used to score relevancy in a more sophisticated way than 'newest'. This just feels like it's a trendy me-too feature with little practical value. That said, I'm assuming this is just the 1.0 proof of concept and, like everything Google makes, it'll get much better over time.
- Kevin Fox
I hope so. I'd take a significant delay (up to a few minutes) in order to get more useful results. I wonder what the authority mechanism starts to look like, as something like PageRank seems to break down for new entries (not enough time for someone else to link back to the originating entry).
- Mark Trapp
I think entries from more popular people will be more meaningful, right?
- Gabe
I think reputation may be a good filter, but honesty, there's not a lot of information in most realtime messages outside of links. Resurrect USENET + real time search would be far more valuable. To this day, I still find valuable information in USENET. USENET was a global archive of what the public was talking about, the only difference (besides spam) was a) people wrote longer, more...
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- Ray Cromwell
Colton Harris-Moore, the barefoot boy bandit, outfoxes sheriffs - Times Online - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol...
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"Police believe he fled to Canada and then, a few weeks ago, came back across the border to Idaho where he stole a Cessna 182 and flew to Seattle. He crash-landed in a forest clearing and walked away with cuts and bruises. ... Since then he has been accused of stealing other planes for hops around the islands in the Puget Sound, including another Cessna belonging to a disc jockey who vented his frustration on radio, saying: “He still doesn’t know how to land a plane in one piece.” He evaded a police pursuit by crashing a Mercedes-Benz into a roadside gas storage tank, using the explosion as a diversion to escape back into the woods where, he says, he feels like a Native American....Kohler said she was proud her son had stolen the aircraft because he had never had a flying lesson in his life. “I was going to send him to flight school, but I guess I don’t have to,” she said. “I’d tell him the next time he took a plane: wear a parachute and practise your landing. "
- bob
from Bookmarklet
Awesome. "Kohler said she was proud her son had stolen the aircraft because he had never had a flying lesson in his life"
- Paul Buchheit
I smell a Spielberg bio-pic movie in the future.
- Ray Cromwell
xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe - http://www.xkcd.com/672/
Christopher Chung, Jérôme Flipo, Paul Buchheit and 4 other people liked this
Google's Broken Hiring Process - Google - Gawker - http://gawker.com/5392947...
Zaki Manian, Monica Anderson, Richard Chen and 35 other people liked this
What do you know? Valleywag got everything wrong. Google is hiring, not laying off. Also, our interview scores actually correlate very well with on-the-job performance. Peter Seibel asked me if there was anything counterintuitive about the process and I said that people who got one low score but were hired anyway did well on-the-job. To me, that means the interview process is doing very well, not that it is broken. It means that we don't let one bad interview blackball a candidate. We'll keep interviewing, keep hiring, and keep analyzing the results to improve the process. And I guess Valleywag will keep doing what they do...
- Peter Norvig
from Bookmarklet
Nice shirt!
- Jim Norris
That is a nice shirt.
- τorƍue
You had at least three rounds of layoffs this year, Peter. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009...
- Ryan Tate
Further, while you hired a rare few people who got "1" scores on one their interviews, you rejected 99 percent of those people, and you have no idea how they would have performed. Those you did hire turned out to be top performers. Sounds broken to me. (I am the author of the Valleywag post in question.)
- Ryan Tate
Hi Ryan, thanks for commenting. First: we get over 1000 resumes a day. We can't hire all of them. I am painfully aware that a few of the people we don't hire would be as good or better than a few of the people we do. I feel bad for the people we have to reject who are equally qualified, but that is the nature of uncertain decision-making. Now what I said in the Seibel interview: we try...
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- Peter Norvig
It's a great shirt. Google is tops. No system is perfect -- so long as there's a weighting for intangibles and accounting for style differences between interviewer and interviewee, all should be fine.
- Christopher Galtenberg
Bump. Maybe Ryan didn't get a chance to see that you'd responded, Peter.
- Matt Cutts
Could you recommend any literature on data driven hiring practices? Google seems to use many analogical reasoning questions for screening applicants. It would be interesting if there was a relationship between analogical reasoning and productivity.
- Brandon Smietana
Doesn't look like Ryan spends much time here: 5 subscriptions, 64 subscribers, 3 comments, 1 like. The like was on an old Scoble post from June.
- Ken Sheppardson
The Jobless Rate for People Like You - Interactive Graphic - NYTimes.com - http://www.nytimes.com/interac...
Jérôme Flipo, Emily Miller, Carl Haynes and 12 other people liked this
We're still alive, b*tches :)
Alfredo, Emily Miller, Artemko and 67 other people liked this
ahah
- Ozgur Demir
But once you eat the cake? Then?
- Louis Gray
Is the cake moist and delicious? :)
- Morton Fox
ZombieFeed!
- Joe Silence is not dead
This cake is not a lie.
- WorldofHiglet
if only it was really true
- j1m
+1 j1m. wish you were 100% alive though
- kartik vaithyanathan
Love cake. ;-)
- Kathy Fitch
LoL @WoH
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
friendfeed,cool
- netpiano
FriendFeed rules, b*tches!
- Mona Nomura
What's Friendfeed?
- Danny Minick
looks like my tee shirt.
- amelia arapoff
Still alive? Sorry but this remains to be proved, a post every now and then or a cake are not enough. No announcement of any new feature since Google [edit:Facebook] bought out Friendfeed, if that is not an indication that Friendfeed is quietly [but surely] put aside for a slow death I don't know what is.
- lelapin
we're too!
- aka"lefthanded"®
@lelapin: 1, Facebook, not Google. 2, no new features != slow death. First of all, community is independent of the evolution of the technology. There are tons of forums out there that haven't added new features in ages but are still highly active. 3, it could be argued that FriendFeed doesn't *need* new features: it's a very complete and functional platform, that does what it does well.
- Louis Simoneau
And, in response to the original post, Hellz Yeah!
- Louis Simoneau
@LouisSimoneau: 1 - thanks for the heads up 2 - cemeteries are extending in size and population still would you take them as example to back up your argument, as 'highly active'? 3 - could be indeed, I would not though since, no matter what sector you're in, no change, no new feature irremediably leads to obsolescence.
- lelapin
http://www.resimler.tv/data... size sondaki cümleyi diyorum. (just don't care this comment)
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
Now see, what would be cool is a run of ff tshirts with RIP and a tombstone
- j1m
Gamasutra: Mark Newheiser's Blog - Farmville, Social Gaming, and Addiction - http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs...
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"I think Farmville is more addictive than it is fun."
- Amit Patel
from Bookmarklet
"The game is also more than happy to bribe players for participating in its viral spread: cute lonely animals will show up on your farm periodically and as a player you face a dilemma in sentencing them to virtual abandonment and death unless you post on your Facebook wall that you need one of your friends to start playing Farmville and "adopt" the adorable little self-promoter. "
- bob
That's less bribery than blackmail.
- Jim Norris
True - these things are popular and addictive, but hardly social and you don't learn anything. (And I would have said so as a comment on the blog post, but woo-wee that's a lot of information they want for a registration!)
- Ciaoenrico
I'd have not problem sentencing an IMAGINARY animal to the death chamber. It's make believe! Then again, I don't spend my time playing these silly time wasting games either....
- Jeff P. Henderson
Nice review. Now I don't have to figure out what Farmville is :)
- Peng-Toh
What Facebook really needs is BRE. :)
- James Leard
from iPhone
@James: there's this group: http://www.facebook.com/group... but I don't know of anyone working on a BRE for Facebook.
- Amit Patel
"Every time I taste Ben&Jerry's, I forgive the Americans for being fat." - from a reddit comment on http://origin.reddit.com/r...
Jérôme Flipo, Bruce Lewis, Cry Zee Die Noh Mite and 9 other people liked this
If they had access to Graeter's, they would be fat with us!
- Eric Borisch
Many of the great businesses of the next decade will be about making information about our behaviors more visible.
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The Legion of Extraordinary Dancers **Amazing Choreography** - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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