Cute’s good. But cute only lasts for so long, and then it’s, Who are you as a person? That’s the advice I would give to women: Don’t look at the bankbook or the title. Look at the heart. Look at the soul. Look at how the guy treats his mother and what he says about women. How he acts with children he doesn’t know. And, more important, how does he... - http://tumblelog.sarahlane.com/post...
I've seen your YouTube submission, Jerry. Don't sell yourself short. You could very well be a jerk, though.
- aldenoneil
i am with Jerry but it is good to read it and her advice to the women i wonder how good this lady (Sarah Lane) is. i don't usually listen to celebrities but you surprised me
- ffcode
The quotation's actually from Michelle Obama, ffcode.
- aldenoneil
There is evidence to support the jerk theory. Just ask my offline friends.
- Jerry Perez
Is it too late for a "That's What She Said" comment in response to Chad??
- Jerry Perez
I'm definitely not cute. Molly (the cat) at age 11 is still pretty cute. The late Basil (the cat) started losing his cute at age 17 when his condition started to deteriorate.
- George Brickner
Yeah. LOL. I just made it official, like in the Thriller video...except that I didn't turn into a werewolf and chase her through the woods....
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
Not fair that the lady gets to wear a fancy ring before we even do the church thing. What's the point of being engaged if you can't flaunt it? LOL. Thanks everyone :)
- Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF
Congratulations, Rahsheen! I had a similar thought for Harold when he gave me my ring: "Gee, kind of unfair the guy doesn't get to wear something too until the wedding."
- Kamilah Gill
A rather excessive list of articles providing advice on working with grids. Enough reading to keep you entertained through the long winter nights.
- Paul Boag
Hmmm thats sounds good but what if there is someone that you don't want it to find, does it find them and add them or just find them and let you select those that you want to add?
- Xavier Mathews
from email
that review didn't sound as glowing as it started by the time i got to the end... first you have to end up paying, then it doesn't do it all in one shot and you've gotta hunt and find your contacts by name .... what about my friends with common names like Jennifer Smith? i'll never find her or it will take forever... thanks for the review Z (seriously) - based on it i'll pass on fbfriendfinder
- Chris Heath
I actually had a pretty good / easy Monday - daughter off school and providing laughs all day etc - do I still qualify for bunny viewing?
- Patrick Jordan
I had an employee who used to get quad shot venti mochas. I honestly thought he was going to burst into flames at some point during the day. On the up side, he was incredibly productive for a good four hours solid.
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
bio: http://everydaydesign.ca/index... "The Practice of Everyday Design is a new partnership founded in 2009 with a focus on installation art, product design, and architecture. The Practice is committed to the merging of seemingly irreconcilable ideas to form new design opportunities. The practice is not afraid of pushing the boundaries of convention, the status quo, or the constraints imposed by current technologies. Ideas emerge from the desire to reevaluate the banality of the everyday and reinvent them to create innovative and playful designs. Using art as a means to investigate process and design - there is no clear boundary between our design practice and our art pieces. Antoine Morris is currently finishing up a Masters of Architecture at the University of Toronto. Last summer he worked in China for the internationally recognized artist and co-architect of the Beijing Olympic’s Bird’s Nest, Ai Weiwei. There, he focused on conceptual product design commissions that...
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- See-ming Lee 李思明 SML
from Bookmarklet
SUT KUTUSU - Duygusal Çizgiler Diyarında: Amy Sol - The Wilderness Buffet, Stella Im Hultberg - Penumbra ve Nicoletta Ceccoli - Babes in Toyland - http://www.sutkutusu.com/post...
Oh uhh...*hides circa 1995 animated 7-up guy*
- Candace McCarty
Sometimes 100s of 140 character messages make me want to do the same.
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
Mona, you're right - I take that back. I remember JoshHaley's background in fact :-)
- Jesse Stay
"Keep that noise off my stream?" I post them every now and again, on *MY* stream, and no one tells me what I can and cannot do on *MY* stream :) I think Mona's been taking lessons from Scobleizer on how to dictate to people what to do with their streams.
- Mo Kargas
Well, Johnny. You can filter the 100s of 140 characters but not animated GIFs. Why are you such a Twitter hater anyway? Not complaining, just asking.
- Mona Nomura
from iPhone
Because just like tweets, you can hide all the services that pipe in Animated GIFs (like soup.io). I don't hate Twitter at all, I am just not drinking the Kool Aid.
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
I am an animated gif hater as well - if I get too many from one person at the wrong time I just block them -- no questions asked. It wouldn't be so bad if they would just play once but they visually drone on and on. I put the animated gif inventor in the same class as the blink tag inventor -- they both deserve a special place in hell.
- Brian Sullivan
<blink><marquee><font-color="cayenne"> WHAT DO YOU MEAN??? </blink></font-color></marquee> #GeoCities
- Mona Nomura
ha ha ha. Your anger makes me happy. Animated gifs are a cornerstone of pop culture, and not just on FF.
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
Press the escape key to stop all animated GIFs on the page. Then hide the service they come from.
- Mo Kargas
This wasn't even meant for FriendFeed - it was for people on my Twitter stream who have GIFs as their avatars. Sorry to get ya'll worked up.
- Mona Nomura
You can animate your avatar in twitter? Cool, I did not know that.
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
Now too many people know about the Evil. Where is that minderasing button?
- Sasha Kovaliov(.com)
Mona, you should do a comparison shot (video, I guess?) of Best of Day to prove which is better.
- Andrew C
Just tried to change avatar on Twitter to animated gif. DOES NOT WORK. What app are you talking about, then?
- Josh Haley
Josh, if you try enough it will - it's hit and miss
- Jesse Stay
Really? Not doubting you, Jesse, but just now I got a message saying "There was a problem with your picture. Is it an animated GIF? We don't support those."
- Josh Haley
I shall press forward! Thanks, Mona. That's mighty kind of you, being against it and all.
- Josh Haley
No dice. according to this blog: "NOTE: Unfortunately, Twitter has stated that they will no longer allow animated avatars to be uploaded to their site. If you already have one, NEVER change your avatar or you won’t be able to make a new one. They grandfathered those who already had it, so if you have one, you can keep it, but if you don’t, you’re out of luck" http://www.tiffanydow.com/blog...
- Josh Haley
um, Josh, not to encourage everyone to do it but this person -> http://twitter.com/souljab... didn't have an animated avatar just a few days ago. I should know, I follow him. uh [ducks]. EDIT: seems like it was a week ago.
- Bicentennial (Franc)
But no one makes love like Neil Patrick Harris is dancing? FAIL!
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
My brother in law in the Philippines can't be dissuaded from naming his son Elmo. I hope that unborn boy is ready to be tormented for the rest of his life. Why do parents do that to their kids?
- Bradley Farless
You know, in my heart I hope that people like NPH who seem just so damn awesome on the screen are just as cool in real life. Anyone met the fellow in person?
- Adam Lasnik
I'm sure he's a decent guy. Never met him, though.
- Josh Haley
But he sure can dance, just look at him go!
- Zulema ◕ ◡ ◕
Love him when he's unicorn watching.
- Gabrielle V
Okay, I swear I am not just pimpin' good swing music, but I was looking at this GIF and listening to this song - http://lala.com/zPe9 ("Billie's Bounce" performed live by Buddy Rich) - and it matches! :o
- Adam Lasnik
Gross. I just unliked to be contrary. Yet another reason why I pulled back from FriendFeed. And why getting swallowed up by Facebook, the great leveler, couldn't make more sense.
- Rick Powell
That's right, all you horrible time-wasters you! Get back to talking about kernels and APIs! Have you no Protestant work-ethic? /sarcasm
- Neal Jansons
"comment out"? you mean like #if 0 #end or /* */?
- Cristo
I like white space EXCEPT on If statements where there's no else and a short body... that should just go on one line... irks me to see otherwise.
- Her Lindsay-ness
I don't! I have some preferences. Separate function/methods with one line. Classes with two... and other rules :)
- directeur
Yes, Cristo, It's that thing Programming Instructors try in vain to get students to do when learning programming so the next poor soul who has to update their app knows what they were trying to do.
- Melanie Reed
Melanie, not sure what you're talking about.
- Cristo
Actually, not having horizontal white space is what bothers me most. Using 80 characters on every line would would be unreadable (e.g. APL)
- Cristo
C allows you to put as many statements as you want on one line :) C# allows you to do an if statement in two lines without the curly braces, provided the body of the if statement is a single line and immediately follows the IF statement. I comment, but only for clarification when its not clear exactly what I'm doing. And the more readable your code, the better.
- Roberto Bonini
I like white space. Consistent white space. When I see inconsistent spacing - one char here, three chars there, one line space here, none or four there - that's when it bothers me.
- Mark H
Um... I know this isn't exactly "coding" up to y'alls standards.. but I hated when people didn't leave white space in CSS templates.......
- Holden Page
It just seems like the majority of code reviews I do, there's rarely any vertical white space so it requires more effort (especially when there's a dearth of comments) to figure out what the code is doing. If related code is separated by blank lines, it makes it easier. And it just looks better.
- Akiva Moskovitz
Whitespace FTW. My only complaint is if whitespace gets excessive enough that you can't get a good overview of a code block because it doesn't fit onscreen all at once.
- Jason Huebel
Cristo commenting your code blocks :sub-routines and custom classes. Keeping your error code commented and so forth. Using some architecture on top of that if its a custom project and creating a read me file
- Melanie Reed
But I suppose that's what collapsing code blocks are for.
- Jason Huebel
Melanie, I typically just call that "commenting my code" as opposed to "commenting out my code." It avoids confusion with the term "commenting out my code", which means to put comment delimiters around or in front of the code to prevent it from executing.
- Cristo
I hear people say it either way, one really means your not using the code block for some reason.
- Melanie Reed
When I did Turbo Pascal at school (the only programming I have done) I got in trouble from my teacher for to much white space. I liked to go to town on the comments so I knew what each part did and referenced to... That and I use to do massive and epic wrtieln intro screens
- Johnny Worthington
from iPhone
Well, I like them both and if you are grading and debugging 30 some apps: white space and comments are much easier on the eyes.
- Melanie Reed
BTW, many people who comment their code profusely write useless comments and their code isn't readable. If you use good variable, function, method, and class names, and you don't write tricky code when it's not more efficient, then you only need to comment the high level and non-obvious aspects of a program.
- Cristo
If your teacher was anything like mine, Johnny, she'd been teaching exactly the same stuff for 15 years and knew it like the back of her hand but any variation or "new" problems to solve and she couldn't program her way out of a wet paper bag... So when you didn't just put the code that she was expecting to see it irked her... (side note, why am I so suddenly fond of the word "irked"?)
- Her Lindsay-ness
I got kicked out of a programming class for pointing out to the teacher that a conditional was unnecessary in that instance. Of course, they probably got mad when they argued with me, and my response was that they might as well check if 1 was equal to 1 and TRUE was actually true. :P
- Cristo
Cristo you're absolutely spot on with naming conventions. But I still endorse the other two. And Lindsay, that is a problem. The issue that I saw most often was that 1) students weren't learning to code but as we like to call it "using the cruise control" objects in VS to get it done. and 2) They wouldn't at least try and show some debugging effort like at least setting a breakpoint.
- Melanie Reed
Lindsay, I take it that your app was executing? And she still counted you off?
- Melanie Reed
Comments aren't a position to support, they are a tool to be used. I can type words that communicate, are redundant, or make no sense. BTW, the best comment I ever saw in code was this: "If you understand how we got here, you're a better man than I." :D
- Cristo
I like commenting for explaining complicated business logic. Most of the time, the code explains itself.
- Rodfather
+1 Rodfather, I prefer to write more readable code rather than rely on a comment block here and there to explain what's going on. It's better in the long run that way, particularly when someone else could potentially end up maintaining the code you wrote.
- Jason Huebel
Old, what we would like for them to do is both. :) To avoid what Cristo mentioned as his favorite comment.
- Melanie Reed
Anybody who suggests Hungarian Notation as a naming convention will be bound, convicted by a jury of their superiors (us) and shot.
- Roberto Bonini
Back in the MS Professional Basic days, I used Hungarian notation. Nowadays, never.
- Jason Huebel
I suspect there's programmers out there who cut their teeth on old-fashioned BASIC back in school (like me on the TRS-80s and Apple II's in the early 1980s) and got so used to not having white space that they can't stand seeing it. Also goes for some C programmers; remember, you can also have spaghetti code in C, since it has a "goto" statement too. In my case, I also learned Pascal, and that made the difference. Borland-type Pascal remains my second favorite programming language after Python.
- Dennis Jernberg
@Roberto, do I get points off for using 2-space tabs? ;-) To clarify, I represent tabs as 2-spaces. I don't actually use spaces themselves.
- Jason Huebel
Roberto the problem in universities is textbook adoption: off the shelf vs. waiting it out until someone writes a decent one and then its almost too late. You could write your own but then that has its own problems. I've seen programmers try to teach and then teachers who don't program for a living (but who understand) try to teach. Personally from a coordinator's perspective, I think a better programming curriculum should be a team teaching experience with hands on civic engagement..
- Melanie Reed
#1 reason Pascal sucks: no short circuit evaluation in conditionals.
- Cristo
I've had this discussion with one of my my CS- lecturers. Basically it comes down to the fact that developers today have such large memory spaces to work with and such fast processors that we don't need to optimise our code to conform to memory and CPU restrictions. This is both a good thing (makes programming easier etc) and bad (breeds sloppy developers, unless you write games). so yeah its a carryover from the dawn of computing.
- Roberto Bonini
Roberto, people wrote bad code in the 80s too.
- Cristo
Akiva, agreed. It's a hint toward logically related portions of code which typically doesn't get in the way of other hints. And if another programmer's mind thinks differently, it should only be a minor distraction (unless they have a hang-up with this topic, which is their own idiosyncrasy, imho).
- Micah Wittman
I write every program on single line and name variables with shortest possible names, like "a" and "b" and "c". Shouldn't that make the compiled programs smaller? ;)) Seriously about commenting: unit/integration tests are one way of documenting code these days, too.
- Jemm
Haha. Why the sad face? It's suppose to be funny. ;)
- Cristo
Anyway, Mona. I'm sure your crush is just unaware of your awesomeness. Their missed opportunity. Plus they're probably a felon, worried about your googling them.
- Cristo
Hahahha FAR from it but that's ok ;) ...and thanks for your words. Wow. Being complimented by you is HUGE LOL
- Mona Nomura
that is the first Cristo compliment i've seen. holy crap. I am taking a screenshot. (BTW - Mona you rock, it's his loss!)
- Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF)
Mona I can't believe he didn't think you'd Googled him already. Isn't it just assumed now? Luddite. Lose him!
- anna sauce
I know - that's why it's so huge, Jeff! Anna - no no, it was me. *I* was the one who didn't Google until a few days ago!
- Mona Nomura
Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF) has declared this crush unworthy of Mona-ness.
- Jeff (the メガマクダジ of FF)
Oh you guys - I was only half kidding. I was feeling sorry for myself so I Tweeted it out. Damn FriendFeed - Tweets are usually "farts in the wind" but on FriendFeed they stick around and haunt LOL
- Mona Nomura
Responding to Jesse above... I did not ban Jesse from meeting Mona. I had a 1-1 lunch with Drew, and was surprised to see Mona later. Jesse and I were happy to meet Mona at BWE, but we didn't catch up.
- Louis Gray
I would've never met LG, if Drew hadn't texted me! I <3 Drew and I heart LG - actually, we laughed through the entire sitting :)
- Mona Nomura
Were you at the TechSet party? OMG that was insane LOL
- Mona Nomura
Yeah - Louis and I were both there looking for you :-)
- Jesse Stay
Shut up? I was at Brian Solis' table downstairs. And...well... the rest stays in Vegas, but a few VERY well known people were WAY out of control LOL
- Mona Nomura
Mona, we both went back to our rooms and blogged - that's how Louis and I roll :-)
- Jesse Stay
Haha - actually the BWE parties and networking events SUCKED. The music was WAY too loud and the drinks were too expensive. I was extremely fortunate to be invited to the parties w/ open bars.
- Mona Nomura
Confession: I don't know what BWE, TechSet, or Caramel is. :(
- Cristo
BWE = BlogWorldExpo. TechSet was the opening party at Bellagio, and Caramel was the club where an after party by invite only was held. :) But that is neither here nor there. In this thread, we saw the first Chris White compliment EVER 2. a Tweet that was supposed to just...carry on is haunting me and 3. I am still embarrassed.
- Mona Nomura
from iPhone
How many compliments can I give before they become diluted?
- Cristo
Wow, what a coincidence. I googled you too! ;-)
- jcunwired
...wow, I usually google before the first date...
- .LAG liked that
Good lord, why is this still active? LOL
- Mona Nomura
People are fascinated that someone so well known and cute would be crushing on a guy. ;)
- Cristo
And I am so not well known! But I am human, too, you know. Just extremely private about my private life and I NEVER EVER date bloggers / social media megaphoners. ;)
- Mona Nomura
See, Mona, we miss you over here at FriendFeed and still find you endlessly fascinating when you give us those tiny glimpses into your life. :) We live for scraps these days.
- Her Lindsay-ness
So did we ever find out who this crush is? I think your FriendFeed family should be allowed to google him as well, just to make sure we approve. :-)
- Jason Huebel
You guys - he's still just a crush! And you are all like brothers and sisters who would totally scare the poor guy away ;) But if feels good to see you guys care. I love you guys!!!!!
- Mona Nomura
from iPhone
Mona, you're not leveraging your brand equity?
- Andrew C