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Bret Taylor
FriendFeed Blog: Ben Darnell joins FriendFeed: Ben++! - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
FriendFeed Blog: Ben Darnell joins FriendFeed: Ben++!
Welcome, Ben! - Kevin Fox
Right on! Congrats, Ben. - Micah
Congrats Ben! Also, congrats to FF you are lucky to have him! - Jason Shellen
Watch out, there's a duck over there! ;) - alieb from iPhone
Data storage and scalability rock. :) - Louis Gray
Congrats, Ben! :-) - Kol Tregaskes
Yeah Ben!!! - Rachel Lea Fox
so i finally get my answer to this :) http://friendfeed.com/chris... - MG Siegler
Yeah, sorry I couldn't respond to that one before. :-) - Kevin Fox
well i be darned .... we now can rejoice, since fast paced additions to already good product are surely fastly coming about off the feedpipe ... it'l be a hectic season of finest upgrades ... I'm sure they'l start with keyboard shortcutze. ... I mean Google Reader rules on that. Intelligent to the extreme. ..Google.com, on the other hand - are we sleeping? .. not even "/" ??.. and that... more... - pb:
Congrats Ben! Totally agree with Jason. Our latest project wouldn't have become feasible without Ben -- I'm just so glad we managed to get a fraction of his time before he left! :) - Simon
Congratulations, Ben! You're joining an awesome team. - Anne Bouey
Woohoo! Another Googler :) - Tim Hoeck
Congrats, you are now a "big company"! ;)))) - K.D.
That's not my picture! They got the picture wrong! In fact, I didn't get the letter of hire either. :( Oh, Hi there, Ben...if that's your real name. ;) - Josh Haley
Good luck Ben! With you our preferred service will go more interesting - Roberto from fftogo
you're building a friendfeed army there :-) - Dobromir Hadzhiev
Congrats - Özkan Altuner
Nice, any former Google Reader-er is a friend of mine. - Mike Reynolds
gratz Ben! - timepilot
Welcome Bret! - Michael_techie
So, Facebook...? - Daniel J. Pritchett
Poor Ben Darnell. The last to enter are always the first to leave in mergers. - beersage
Either that or he scored big time with some accelerated vesting. - Ken Sheppardson
Hiring new staff while in secret acquisition talks, not exactly classy guys. I hope Ben knew what he was getting into - Glenn Slaven
Why on earth does he use the Duck Hunt theme? - Vezquex
I don't know.. but it is awesome! :) - Tim Hoeck
Wow, looks like somebody bumped this! - Kevin Fox
I think there were a bunch of spam comments made to some 2009-era posts by FF employees. For some reason even after the spam is nuked, the post stays bumped. - Stephen Mack
Yes, I blocked a spammer that was bumping old posts about FF themes and what not. - Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
OH HAI! - Eric
Well, let's see this as an opportunity to raise a virtual glass to Ben and FriendFeed-that-was! - Kevin Fox
It probably had something to do with the Tornado 2.2 release. I noticed Ben was the one who posted about the release on HN earlier. Edit: Or it could have just been a spammer. *shrugs* - Jimminy, CoG of FF
I don't think it had anything to do with the tornado release - a spammer bumped a bunch of Bret's old posts today. - Ben Darnell
Bret Taylor
The Secret Behind The Real-Time Web - YouTube - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
The Secret Behind The Real-Time Web - YouTube
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Ross and Dan made this video to illustrate the advanced technology we use behind the scenes at FriendFeed. (Ross and Dan, you are amazing - I can't believe how awesome this thing turned out) - Bret Taylor from Bookmarklet
How very creative. This is very fluid and cool. - Louis Gray
OK, not exactly what I was expecting, but very cool. - Kevin Arth
Anyone have the video somewhere other than Youtube? it's banned here in Turkey and I can't wait until we get home (next month) to watch it!! - Chris Myles
Bret, this video should be titled: A Love Song for FriendFeed ! Great vid (and music) ! - Ahsan Ali
This is awesome! - Christopher Chung
with a community like this - you just can't roll-it into f.b.. keep the dream alive! - michael sean wright
:O - Josh Haley
Amazing, thanks for that! - dkb
According to Ross, they used about 1030 individual pictures in the final version. Stop motion is a lot of work :) - Bret Taylor
Sure, sure--give away all the secrets. (Are those Lego dudes union?) - Kathy Fitch
very creative. wonder how long it took to do that stop-action? - berchman
Ross's best work so far ! great job Ross - goutham
Major props to Ross and Dan. FriendFeed lives on - Shane
That's priceless. Great job, guys. - John Craft
This is superb. I just showed it to my 5 year old son who enjoys Lego and has already taken some great photos, including one or two of his toys. So now he has the seed of the idea that, in time, he could take multiple stills and put them together to make moving pictures. Thank you very much for posting it and giving me and him that opportunity. Maybe, he might use FriendFeed one day too! - John W Lewis
Great project! - Anne Bouey
AWESOME! - Kevin Fox
I think they need to make a full stop-motion version of the Matrix in legos. Now THAT would be awesome. I wonder what bullet-time looks like in LEGO? - Bret Taylor
i'd pay to see the stop animation lego matrix, but not the sequels - patrick
"Equipment Generously Provided By Casey Muller" - hahaha!! THIS IS AWESOMESAUCE!!! I love the creative energy and vibe in this video... LOTS of work went into that one! Thanks guys!! :) - Susan Beebe
Genius, how much time did that all take? - Wayne Hornsey
Chris Myles: if you want ot - DM me an address and I'll mail you a copy. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)
That is so awesome - Glenn Slaven
happy-making! - Felicia Yue
I am more proud than ever for being a FriendFeeder :) - Arvind
Wow!!!!! - Mona Nomura
Excellent!! - Kol Tregaskes
That's great! - Devon Govett
Cool! The friendfeed's manufactury - Benedetto Vacca
неплохо, неплохо! Продолжение будет? - atner
Lots of handshaking I see :) - Nicholas Kreidberg
hahaha very nice stop motion and music! - Alex Huinchucleffy
FULL OF WIN - Jac Falcon
Bret Taylor
FriendFeed Blog: FriendFeed now available in فارسی - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
FriendFeed Blog: FriendFeed now available in فارسی
FriendFeed is now available in Persian! Thanks again to all of our Persian users — it has been extremely exciting for us to see FriendFeed so widely used around the world. You can set your language preference here: http://friendfeed.com/... - Bret Taylor from Bookmarklet
Any way we could auto-translate (or even have a link with the option to?)? It'd be great to really be able to collaborate with the non-English speaking world... - Chris Reichow
Thank you all . - MohammadReza
wow, another language... I can't read it, but that is cool! :) - Susan Beebe
Now if we could only filter out languages other then our own and have the lang:en search filter. - DarknessFalls
You're welcome! We are excited to better support our Persian users. - Bret Taylor
This feels so good to be able to view the pages in a way are eyes used to see Persian writings. Thank you so much! We really appreciate your effort! Thanks again ! :) - انجل
Yay! - Mitchell Tsai
that just looks so beautiful :D - Iphigenie
محشره / غافلگیر شدم - Shandiz
wow! thanks! - Pasparto
Anybody know of good Farsi to English web translation tools? Google Translate doesn't seem to do it. - Ted Gilchrist
蝌蚪文~~~ - junrxu
Great! thanks thanks :) - Mehrdad
Agora precisamos da versão em Português. - Carlos Brefe
thanks ((((((((: - yasin ghasemi
Thanks ممنون ;) - Exir
merci bcp . - Afra
ممنون - mohammad mahdi kazzazi
Good job, Bret... Thanks a lot... - کرگدن
Thanks - Arash
;) It's FriendFeed.. Bravo - این فرندفید است... براوو - امیروفسکی
Great Bret! I remember that in the past some persian people wrote here that whould be nice to have FF interface also in persian, probabilly because their language is very different and english isn't so diffused such in Europe. A welcome to persian friends! :) - Roberto from fftogo
Hebrew please. ^^ - David C. Cooper
تشکر جیگر - سیدیونس
kiss to you honey - جواد
bretçim herkes google plus'a gidiyor ama ben seni bırakmam ^^ - aynebilim
Aynebilim'e katılıyorum Bret. Bir sürü idiotla paylaşsam da burayı, vazgeçemiyorum işte. - Ben bu yüzden hiç kimseden gidemem gitmemmmm.. la la laaa - pippi haşmet
bretçim sana dm atamıyorum..bana abone olur musun ^^ - aynebilim
interesting! but when will FF users have something like googe's http://www.dataliberation.org/ so we can backup our feeds? - ovigia
تیلور دوستت داریم :خز - Diaze.Holmes
میلاد الاغ :)))))) - || بهاره ||
کوفت چرا میخندی؟ :)))))))))) - Diaze.Holmes
روانی :)))))) - || بهاره ||
bu vesileyle mübarek ramazana hoş geldin demek istiyorum..bretçim iftara ne yapayım canım^^ - aynebilim
Have a good day to all of u...... - weerah
your looking good - Chavez Cecilia
ulan bide sitenin sahibisin arada güncelle bir şeyler yap at kafası. - Anıl Çağlar SAKA
lan gundi öyle maaş alıp göt büyüteceğine gel de şu insanların çığlığını duy! bankamatik lolipop.. - iwfx!
Kol Tregaskes
No Matter How Hard You Try, It Is Impossible To Fax A Cat #shareit
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LOL! - Kol Tregaskes
That poor cat looks so confused. - Georgie Bestie
but it's so warm on top of the scanner! - DJF
Time for a cat scan! - Jemm
Iz I the right way up for printing? - Vicky
This is clearly not my cat. If this was my cat he's have one arm shoved down into the printer trying to tear up all the internal whirling bits with his bare claws. - Soup in a TARDIS
LOL, Soup! - Kol Tregaskes
that is one adorable kitten! - Anna Lynn M.
Too Funny! Reminds me of the San Mateo Cat Shelter where one of the cats loves to sleep on top of the laster printer where the paper comes out... - Greg Lato
Kitty!!!! - Janice
keep trying! - Morgan
FEED ME A CAT - tehKenny
Kol, it is NOT impossible. And that's all I'm saying. - Steven Perez
Push harder - Josh Haley
LOL@Jemm - AJ Batac :)
آخی - یک بابک
Hehe, Steven. I won't ask. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
Gosh, just noticed this post has nearly 150 likes! :-D - Kol Tregaskes
1 closer....hilarious! - Jeffrey Marsh
There we go 150 likes. :-D - Kol Tregaskes
I'm in ur faxx masheen -- sendin de faxxez.... - Stephanie Segel
thanks, i needed a laugh - chaz2b
FAXCAT IS NOT AMUSED - Karl Knechtel
iz dat some copycat? - bora "head" basman
LOL, now nearly 200 likes! :-) - Kol Tregaskes
Thats no fax machine, thats my new patented kitty juicer! - Threepwood
Just one more like... please. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
it's over two huuunddreeeed - bora "head" basman
MOAR! - Pat Hawks
I need 9 copies please ! - Faraz Mullick
A cute cat :) - Mohammad Abdurraafay
Haha, Faráz. - Kol Tregaskes
Next target, 250 likes. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
Friendfeed loev faxcat :o - Karl Knechtel
Pussy by fax. What will they think of next? - Mattb4rd
X)) - Neya
OMGosh, next up is the 300 likes mark. Anyone care to join in? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
Honestly, i'm not generally a fan of the Cat memes... But that is classic. - Alistair (alpinefolk)
You know this is the 7th most liked entry on FriendFeed ever: http://beta.friendfeed.com/search... !!! - Kol Tregaskes
Kol, this thread is pure genius. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
But only almost 50 comments.. :) - Simon Wicks
Simon, there's not much to comment regarding the picture :) But meta-comments are more than appropriate! - Ivan Zuzak
Simon, yeah we need 1500+ comments now, who wants to start? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
there we go then for the 1500+!! - Jaap Willem
1600+ to beat the FFundercats live chat thread. I think with this real time now on all threads we're going to see some truly epic comment numbers. - Simon Wicks
Ivan, no the picture speaks for itself. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
OK, now it's the 4th: http://beta.friendfeed.com/search... - it's gonna take a huge effort to break the record of 452+ likes here: http://beta.friendfeed.com/imified... - Kol Tregaskes
OK, now this is the 3rd most liked entry: http://beta.friendfeed.com/search... :-D Crazy! - Kol Tregaskes
Too bad I am fresh out of likes of I would do it again. - Jason (not an Argonaut)
I'm using this photo in the latest chapter of can haz murder - anna sauce
Hehe, Anna. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
One more for 350 likes, LOL. This is mental! :-) - Kol Tregaskes
Come on, 350 cats for a cat getting crushed? You guys are mean. :-P - Richard A.
I'd like again if I could :-) - Dobromir Hadzhiev
bump - Simon Wicks
Richard, LOL! - Kol Tregaskes
Awesomely funny! - Martha
Next target: 400 likes? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
theres one more for you Kol - Toby Graham
Toby, you're very kind. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
Cute *_* - Sybelle
Hehe. - Kol Tregaskes
Just 6 more likes for the 400 then I'll leave you alone. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
can you spare a cat 6 likes? - Jason (not an Argonaut)
sweet - Eric Hofmann
Haha, Jason, wow 406 likes, madness! :-D - Kol Tregaskes
Madness? THIS. IS. FAX CAT. - Mike Nayyar
Well 452 likes is the record, hmm I think that is pushing it. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
Awesome. - Scoble, Alex Scoble
this is underfaksink at its worzt - pb:
Petr, I have no idea what you mean, but thank you. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
@Kol .. :] that, partially, might have been the purpose.... I don't know it exactly either. :] .. was I reflecting on a cat under the fax, and that it is hard to fax that way ... /?:] ... "underfaxing at its worst" .. - pb:
Ah, OK, Petr. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
there ya have me ! :] .... see, to be honest with you, i saw this pic couple days ago, but i let it go, without posting it ..... what does that make me? :] - pb:
OMGosh, just 23 more likes to beat this: http://beta.friendfeed.com/imified... ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
433 Like ! Wow ! - Like
Freemor, yes very cute! :-D - Kol Tregaskes
cute~ - Chan Pen
that's why is called a cat scan and not a cat fax. - Phil Maxwell
oh ... a scan. not fax?! .... it looked to me like she was faxink - pb:
Just 5 more likes needed. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
Fax, Petr. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
even a flat cat... faxes just can't handle the hair. You'd have to shave the cat first, else the hair will burn and stick to the drum... a mess! (I am extrapolating from transparencies, mind, i don't have access to a cat to test) - Iphigenie
Hehe, Joelle. This is now tied for the 'likes' top stop. One more then, hehe. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
Hehe, Greg. Blimey! Erm, is that not far from 500 likes now? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
Bloody marvelous, Kol. Wish I could like it again... too cute (and help u to 500 likes). - Roberto Bonini
I couldn't believe it when I logged on from the morning over posting it and saw it was at something 200 likes! You all have a strange fetish with cats and fax machines, hehe. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
Am I the only one who saw this and their first thought was - My goodness did someone break that cats neck? It still freaks me out a little - SteVe C
Steve, it does look a little out of place, but cats are pretty bendy. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
They fax much better if you flatten them first. What? - The original Kevin
LOL, Kevin. - Kol Tregaskes
i can also imagine the cat going there cause it is snug and warm - Iphigenie
Ey, it would be a tad warm on there, especially after a long working day. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
Caption which needs to be said aloud: Uh Ohz, I'm totally FAXED! - The Real sofarsoShawn
Hehe, Shawn. 10 more for the big 5-0-0. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
Countdown! 8 more now! - Mike Nayyar
bump for more likes - Josh Haley
One more!! :-) - Kol Tregaskes
I took mine away, too much pressure. - SteVe C
Wow, there we go, 500 likes!! Thank you all!! :-D - Kol Tregaskes
I think Fax Kitty deserves a prize for that. - Georgie Bestie
меня, признаться, подзаебал этот кот - Парадокс Смейла
Kendra, absolutely. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
So we can put this post to rest now. :-) 505 likes final count, wow! :-D Good night all! - Kol Tregaskes
did 3 people really un-like this? now at 506. wtf (edit: uh, oh, yeah, me and 2 + 506 others makes 509. dammit, jim, i'm an artist, not a mathematician) - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
wish I could double like! - metalerik
Wish I could just like it at all. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
This is also still on the Best of page. That must be the longest running best of post? :-) - Kol Tregaskes
But it's a cat being crushed... - Richard A.
برای چی این همه لایک خورده؟؟؟؟؟ - نصرآبادی
Hehe, Richard. - Kol Tregaskes
copy cat - gibilix
518 like! most liked post? - Lu Tao
ay yerim yaa çok tatlı kedicikk :)) - Arzu
Lu, yeah but a long way now. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
*bump* - Andre
Blew past 500 likes - LIKE!!!!! - Roberto Bonini
OMGosh, nearly heading to 550!! - Kol Tregaskes
So we know how many people use this site. - Richard A.
So that's what Paws Printing means. - Jack&Cleo
Richard, we getting there. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
Jack, hehe. - Kol Tregaskes
this thread is making history. - vijay
Indeed .. this is a most epic thread - Mattb4rd
Hehe. 9 more for 550! - Kol Tregaskes
7. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
Actually only 5...cuz "You, Earl E Morningwood, yasin ghasemi and... 542 liked this" - The Real sofarsoShawn
Who wants to bet how many likes this thead is going to get??? - Roberto Bonini
Gosh, no idea. - Kol Tregaskes
take some bets then come back in a year to check? - Iphigenie
:) - SokooteDel
Holy smokes .. this pussy cat is approaching 600 likes! - Mattb4rd
552 now, so there are some unlikes going on, hehe, oh well. Still an amazing amount of likes. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
And back down to 559. Hehe. - Kol Tregaskes
And how could anyone not love kitties after seeing this photo? - Susan Beebe
I liked it without reading this discussion - evidentially we have a lot of people who like the idea of faxing a cat! - Rich
Rich, yes, worrying, hehe. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
I think we'll have to recruit more ffeeps before this record will ever be broken - Jason (not an Argonaut)
maybe a good way to clone cats :) - Roberto
Hehe, Roberto. - Kol Tregaskes
This surely couldn't hit 600 likes, could it!? - Kol Tregaskes
It could! Keep bumping it up! - imabonehead
It will :) - Roberto Bonini
Wow, not even 600 Likes? Feh. ;-) - j1m
No yet. Close though. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
Stuck on 581. - Kol Tregaskes
One of the best funny cat pictures I've seen! :-) - John Collis
Kristian, it appears to be. Hehe, John. - Kol Tregaskes
ای بابا این پیشول بی خیال نمی شود، بابا پاشو برو دنبال یه بازی دیگه ، از هفته پیش تا حالا تو فکس ولو شدی حوصله ات سر نرفته، پاشو اقلا بپر رو کیبوردی چیزی - Maryaminaa
11 more to 600. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
داداش كوتاه بيا، مي خواي ركورد بزني!؟ - Exir
هستم بره این کامنتتو ترجمه کنه اکسیر ! :))) داره از فضولی میمیره الان ! :D - Shayan
Hehe, 6 more likes. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
Need 1 more like, by my calculation, to get to 600 - Josh Haley
Another unlike then, back down to 598. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
it's 598+3, at the moment ;-) - Andre
There we go, 601!! Wow, can't believe it. :-D Thanks everyone!! - Kol Tregaskes
3 people un liked :( - Roberto Bonini
I think there have been made unlikes over the last week, oh well. - Kol Tregaskes
too many likes, the kitteh is burning up..stop the madness...;) - Jason (not an Argonaut)
Haha, Jason. - Kol Tregaskes
Whoa! :-) - Kol Tregaskes
man! ..Kol is gaining ... and I saw that pic one day before Kol posted it :X ..and i let it go! :[)] - pb:
Petr, who's he? - Kol Tregaskes
omg, this post passed 600 likes! - imabonehead
@Kol ..well the man .. Mr Photographer .. ok .. let me go there .. - pb:
I see. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
631 likes, amazing stuff. :-D - Kol Tregaskes
Day 11 and this thing's still going! - Phil Maxwell
Why fax yourself when you can get famous via FriendFeed? :-) - Willem (@wim66) ☠
whereas a cat *scan* is totally feasible - Megan Craig
Kol, congratulations, you won the Friendfeed Award for the most likes entry! - Jérôme
Kol is this from your rival: Squashy Cat Photography? - The Real sofarsoShawn
Haha, Shawn. Have you really bumped this one again? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
LOL I was actually looking at best of month and I thought I'm going to be clever :-) - The Real sofarsoShawn
this makes me laugh every darn time I see it - Stephanie•CogSciLibrarian
Who is this NShawnFW? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
kitties do like to find new spots to nap :) - Maryam
LOL, now over 650 likes. - Kol Tregaskes
این هنوز در نیومده از لای این دستگاه؟ - Maryaminaa
Wow. this is good..... pleased, Kol? - Roberto Bonini
Pleased? About the number of likes? I'm happy regardless. :-D - Kol Tregaskes
So do we think it will go to 700 likes? ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
what do you mean by "it" ? say "he" or "she". :) - Maryaminaa
Haha, I was referring to the entry. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
lol - Maryaminaa
I see someone already posted 'Copy Cat' !! LOL Great picture - Kevin J Hatton
O HAI! I IZ WATIN FR COOPONZ, KTHXBYE. - WYRD 101
Neksnapper 3000 Kitten Eradicator - Kills Kittehs Dead - Mattb4rd
Hehe. - Kol Tregaskes
10 more likes for 700! :-) - Kol Tregaskes
7 more by my count! - Bec Rowe @d0tski
Oops, yes you're right, Bec. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
Isn't it illegal to fax a pussy? - aerobroken
It's really only social convention which regards it as inappropriate, same with Xeroxing it, like one does with their b__tocks. Wait are we still talking about cats cats here or... - The Real sofarsoShawn
OMGosh 700+ likes now!! LOL. Thank you all 702 of you. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
Wow, not so bad huh? \u) - Zu from AOD
Before faxing it, you have to flatten it out a bit. You're going at it all wrong! :-) - Rick Cogley
Must try this at home! - Anthony K. Valley ©
Bumping some old great posts. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
Now THAT is a classic! - Allan Besselink
you have to flatten it first!!! ;) - Neda S.
This is very good humor! - TrafficBug
Hey, we've hit the 700-like mark. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
just a couple thousand to go - Jason (not an Argonaut)
LOL - Smeerch
__awesome__ - scotu ._.,
and it got resurrected once again! - Iphigenie
I managed to do it once, but I don't think I'm going to do it again. The results were a little fuzzy. - Seth Greenblatt
Bump. - Kol Tregaskes
ahahahahaha salaaa baaaaaakkkkkk - missipipi
I'm so glad this thread has been revived. The cat in the fax machine never fails to delight. - Michelle Jones
aha! 700 kişi zorla kapağın altına tepilen kediyi beğenmiş - Siminya
I've heard of cheap paper but this is ridiculous!! - Neda S.
Copy the cat - Alyn William
And there I was thinking this was the most liked post on FriendFeed. Darn, just 3rd. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
Just 100 more likes to go. ;-) - Kol Tregaskes
Missed this the first time around. - John (bird whisperer)
Wow, over 700 likes. :-D - Kol Tregaskes
715 likes and counting. - Kol Tregaskes
who revived that one? - Iphigenie
Me, sorry. - Kol Tregaskes
Just 40 more likes. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
all right let's do it... - Iphigenie
Love this one! - Fossil Huntress
April Buchheit
Mexican Monday: Happy Birthday, Jim!!
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what torque said - Jessie
The cake looks good! Happy Birthday! - Anne Bouey
That was really good cake. - April Buchheit
~~~ HAPPY BIRTHDAY JIM!!! ~~~ - Susan Beebe
That does look like some really good cack, I mean cake, CAKE! - The Real sofarsoShawn
お誕生日おめでとう! - Mona Nomura
Happy Birthday, JIMMY!! Yea, I said it ;) - Kelly
what Jessie said torque said. - SteVe C
is that a bacon cake? - Jessie
Don't listen to Jess, Jim! It says: "I like turtles." - Mona Nomura
Happy birthday! And I love La Fiesta. - Hutch Carpenter
I can see that there's a lot of love for La Fiesta, but where's the love for the birthday boy? :( - April Buchheit
@Chris: Yes, but the girls liked this post for the wrong reason. ;) - April Buchheit
Yeah, really, where's the love? - Jim Norris
happy birthday - j1m
happy birthday, jim - Jorgee Parra
Bret Taylor
Very happy FriendFeed stayed up and fast through the WWDC. Good work, everyone at the FriendFeed HQ!
rock solid - Dobromir Hadzhiev
Go FriendFeed!!!! EPIC WIN! - Steve Isaacs
FriendFeed was rock solid throughout. Way to go Bret, Paul, and the rest of the FriendFeed team. - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
I never had any doubts. Nice job, guys. - Louis Gray
Love Ya Friendfeed! - Parth Awasthi from twhirl
Indeed ! that's was very nice! Have you done anything special about this Bret? (Like twitter's folks) - directeur
very nice. anyone could guess Friendfeed would make it. - SolidSmack from twhirl
We did move a few things around, but nothing temporary - the event inspired us to optimize a few things we had been meaning to optimize anyway. - Bret Taylor
yay scalability! - Neha Narula
Bret: Big! Congrats! You've done a very nice job ! :) - directeur
I guess that I will be hanging out with ya'll for the rest of the day. :) - Mathew A. Koeneker
FriendFeed FTW! - mathew ingram
unlike the oh so much stress Twitter will be having FriendFeed will be up and running - Outsanity
I'd like to second this notion: well done Friendfeed, you guys have your shit together and I respect that. - ryangraves
Rob (Radez) actually just said the same thing. Good work, guys! - Gabor Cselle
Even wordpress hosted sites are down! FF is well hosted and manged! - Lakshman Prasad from twhirl
Me think FriendFeed cousin Googawl... - directeur
It rocked... simply the best place for live updates. - Vince DeGeorge
FF rox! - anna sauce
This was great! FF had updates faster than the folks liveblogging the event. - Jennifer Dittrich
ya, man, FriendFeed Rocks! - Ralph Poole from twhirl
Kudos..It was your stress test - Varun Mahajan
nothing beats FF! - Dieter Schwarz
FriendFeed triumphs yet again - Shey
can we have some traffic stats please? - Ivan Pope from twhirl
well done! friendfeed deserves all the hype it can get! - Chris Hofmann
Does it count as hype if it's true? - Amit Patel
pity we cannot say the same for twitter :) - Photo Larry from twhirl
Amit: A wise man once said it isn't bragging if it is true. - Russellreno
brat sana dm atamıyorum! - aynebilim
aynebilim sen bana sor takmaz o seni :P - Gökhan. (Guru fasulye)
:D iyiki layklamışım, gece gece kahkaya boğulurum şimdi. - batuhan icoz
puhahahahhaha - mehmetkose
adam bunlar kim noluyo falan diyodur şimdi, translate'den çeviriyodur falan :D - mehmetkose
aaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh merdaaaa, aaaaaaahhhh mmmmmmerda! - 1Co
hazır tanış yok diye brat'e yazıyorum..hemen doluyorsunuz yahu peşimden:))) brat seviişelim mi? - aynebilim
ayn çok ayıp!!! - gzmozz
filiz'e sorsaydım keşke:( - aynebilim
haha adam ff'i kapaticak sizin yuzunuzden - Gökhan. (Guru fasulye)
hiç peşinden dolarmıyız ayıp sana. - mehmetkose
Stephen Mack
Bow down before the one true Tudor
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Never! I bow only to 4-doors! - Morgan
Oh God. - Tudor Bosman
Precisely. Your cover is blown. - Stephen Mack
Jeanette outed you. - Stephen Mack
Holy shit. This is the best thing ever. - Jeanette Bosman
New profile pic? - Jeanette Bosman
Done. - Tudor Bosman
Dear Supreme Being d' Jour: thanks for everything you have provided. any updates on the 'winning lotto numbers' message I sent you last week? - Morgan
Haha awesome - Rodfather
Louis Gray
April Buchheit
Good night, Camilla!
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Awww~ - Josh Haley
Double Awww~ - Scott (Honey Boo-Boo!)
Sweet dreams! - Anne Bouey
April Buchheit
Sweet dreams, Thomas!
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Love a onsie that says, "Moo!" :D - Josh Haley
Boy, the flash on the iPhone 4 is bright. - April Buchheit
Tudor Bosman
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Oh no! You didn't say the Open House was formal! - Louis Gray
She is so adorable, Tudor. - Anika
Thanks Anika, we're in awe ourselves, we could (and often do) spend hours just looking at her :) - Tudor Bosman
Totally Adorable!! - Rachel Lea Fox
Cutecutecute! - DGentry
Such a princess! - Anne Bouey
Tudor Bosman
The most beautiful baby in the world!
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Sorry for the fourth picture that's slightly out of focus, but I think Violet's smile makes up for it :) - Tudor Bosman
Agreed! - Jeanette Bosman
She is beautiful! - Anne Bouey
I love the first photo - and all that hair! What's your secret? :) - Louis Gray
So Cute!!! Although, I can't agree with you that she's the most beautiful baby in the world... she can tie Penny though :) - Georgia
Atsa lotsa hair! Definitely a cutie! - Mark J
not the cutest - Gracie
my niece is the cutest - Gracie
They're all the cutest :) - Private Sanjeev
Tudor Bosman
Jeanette's working on a new project...
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Expected to ship mid-July, 2010 :) - Tudor Bosman
Congratulations! - joey
Congrats! - Kenton
Nice, congratulations! - Mark Trapp
best project i've ever seen . . . congrats - asli subasi | ☮
Congratulations! - Anika
We've been bursting at the seams waiting to tell :) - Jeanette Bosman
Best wishes on your upcoming call to Fork(). - no name
Congrats, Tudor and Jeanette! - Stephen Mack from iPhone
Oh wow you guys, congratulations!!! - Mona Nomura
Congrats you guys! - AJ Batac :)
Congrats to both of you! - Arvind Sundararajan
Con'grats !! - Peter Dawson
nice work congrats - just ZONED
Congratulatiosn! - Sheila Taylor
Congratulations, Tudor and Jeanette! - Anne Bouey
How is babby formed? - Gabe
congrats! - imabonehead
yeah! congrats! - Rachel Lea Fox
Wow! Congratulations to Tudor and Jeanette! - Louis Gray
Congratulations! - Jessie
Oh hai, babby! - April Buchheit
Congratulations! - Michael Hocter
Congrats! - Derrick
Congratulations! - Ruchira S. Datta
Congrats!!! =D - David Cook
ooooh great jeanette :) - Valentina*
Congratulations, Tudor and Jeanette! You are both certainly invited to use my just-for-fun http://bebepool.com site if you were planning on having friends/family prognosticate about babby's arrival :) Cheers! - Micah
congrats ! - ★ Soner Gönül
congratulations!!! - Marco(aureliusmaximus)
squirrel? - The Real sofarsoShawn
Beautiful code :) - Susan Beebe
From the Master Coder! Awed! - Melanie Reed
Great! Congratulations, I'll be a nice, young grand-pa! - Anton Bosman
CONGRATS (: - Jini
We're MAKING that! I get a huge grin on my face every time I look at the picture :) - Tudor Bosman
Congrats!! - Georgia
Tudor Bosman
Here's an update on Jeanette's project!
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Well, it's a joint project, but she's doing most of the work :) - Tudor Bosman
Good stuff! The baby looks just like its daddy! :) - Louis Gray
Yay! They say the best way is to start with a sketch and add definition. - Kevin Fox
As my husband would say... I did my job, now you get to do yours! Haha... luckily I thought this was very funny :) - Georgia
I think it's amazing that at 18 weeks you can see all the ribs, organs etc. We even got a great view of the baby's foot and watched as the toes wiggled around. Totally cool. - Jeanette Bosman
project baby? - LarchOye
does the baby have a Facebook account yet? - imabonehead
Paul Buchheit
Auto Facial Attractiveness Enhancement Engine - http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tommer...
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This is amazing. I think we should automatically apply it to all profile photos ;) - Paul Buchheit
Facial discrimination? - Jason
Impressive. - j1m
Can I get one for the body as well as the face? - Dion Almaer
Very interesting. Hope they post the download link soon so that we can all play with it. - Brady Brim-DeForest
It seems as if the main problem with most people in the examples shown is their forehead is too short or too narrow. Wonder if there's a subtle clue that big brains are beautiful there! :) - Lindsay
@Jason - that's an interesting concept. Would you be more likely to trust the girl on the left or right? Would you be more likely to talk to either one of them at a party (or more intimidated by either one?). - Lindsay
Right one looks more dumb... - philsmirnov
Notice that for all the women they soften the jaw, while squaring it for men. Everyone also gets a slightly thinner face and upturned almost smiling lips. - FFing Enigma
@SB yeah and the forehead adjustment... almost like there is a triangle with the forehead at the point and they flip it so the chin is the bottom of the triangle... weird. - Lindsay
They are different women! Blame Paul! : ) - Erhan Erdoğan
impressive - accexine
Lindsay: whenever sketching generic faces, the face starts as an inverted triangle and the eyes appear a third of the way down from the top of the forehead; lips and nose appear below and above (respectively) a line 1/3 up from the chin. Looks like these pictures are rearranged to meet that particular school of drawing. - FFing Enigma
That is interesting yet odd. Seems that the faces are slendered with the software. - Jim Goldstein from twhirl
I wonder what would come out of applying their algorithms to face of black or asian person? Different countries have different concepts of beauty. - arty
This technology should be made available in eye glasses, just imagine how much better your work day can be! - Claude Betancourt
Paul - Think you should definitely add the option. "Click here to be beautiful without the expense of plastic surgery! .... and you may even get more 'Likey's" :)" - Charlie Anzman
Some of the stuff coming out of Siggraph this year is really freaky. How about combining this with the automatic video editing stuff? ;) - Joe Beda
without a doubt amazing. It's incredible how subtle the changes are yet massive difference. - Zee.
Huh, that's pretty crazy. Creepy, but cool. :) - felix
I haven't read the paper, but I wonder if it adapts to different notions of "attractive" (that changes from culture to culture ...) - Rui Pires
+1 @Claude I was thinking the same thing! Incorporate this software in wearable monitor glasses, and the whole world would be beautiful! I'll bet we can look for these on the shelves in the U.S. just before November. Social media and reality enhancement software have put Winston Smith out of a job. - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
do i sense another manga-style meme starting? - anna sauce
So, if it turns me into Gilbert Godfried... what does that mean? - Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ
You know, if these guys had gotten together with the realtime video+photo enhancement folks and approached the Beijing Olympic Comittee then that singing girl in the opening ceremonies might not have had to been replaced with a body double. (Yeah, I just brought three of this week's biggest memes together. I'll be here all week.) - Kevin Fox
The artist proportions were laid out by the Greeks as the perfect human, that's not being used here. This beautification engine, I think, builds on top of a previous study where some students tried to mathematically identify attractiveness. They had participants rate the attractiveness of head shots from yearbooks. What they found was there was a high correlation b/w the geometrically "average" face and high attraction. That "average" is based on the proportions of the di - xero
stances between the individual elements of the face and their relative sizes. IIRC the software adjusts elements so they statistically/geometrically complement each other. It's not actually working toward a golden set of proportions, but a set of proportions appropriate for the individual as defined by the masses. I wouldn't think of it as "facial discrimination" so much as "deviation from ones potential". - xero
I'm waiting for the first Facebook application that automatically enhances your profile picture like this. Every social network should run this on the avatars. Beautiful people! - Benedikt Koehler
Can you imagine the controversy if dating sites got a hold of this? - xero
@paul automatically apply it to all profile photos, huh? are you sure you ready for results? check my picture - try to see wonderful cossacks writing infamous letter to Turkish Sultan :) - A. T.
I wonder if they'll turn Mickey Mouse into Mighty Mouse - Dave Q
@Lindsay; A)Maybe/? 1=Left 2=Right 3=N/A - Jason
this will have a lot of practical applications to create a (virtual) world of beautiful (or more acceptable facially) people. - Apostolos Tsompanopoulos
Just a complicated high tech implementation of beer goggles. - Hayes Haugen
Chris' comment is sooo tempting - Charlie Anzman
This is what came up as the top Google hit for paul buchheit friendfeed. - Spidra Webster
I just read the first comment and may I ask why we should apply it automatically to all profile pictures??? Who are we gonna kid that way?! - ambidextrous
it's long gone. - Joe The Sausage
It's down :( - Burcu Dogan
cannot open this link,404 is there~ - 阿石
Jeanette Bosman
I'm craving a Taco Bell chili cheese burrito. I don't know why; I haven't eaten at Taco Bell for at least 8 years, and I don't even know if they still make said chili cheese burritos. Perhaps my memory of them isn't even accurate. Nonetheless, I must have one.
Yum. You must be pregnant, I guess. :) - Louis Gray
Pregnancy cravings are awesome. - EricaJoy
Your memory serves you correct -- they're called chilitos and were particularly delicious with sour cream Sadly, they were discontinued. A tragic day for chilito fans. - Mona Nomura
Just had a cheesy bean and rice burrito the other day and it was pretty good. Apparently, the result of an enthusiastic line chef and the taco sauce bottle. ;) - Melanie Reed
Had Taco Bell last night. It was good. - Josh Haley
never have never will - just ZONED
April Buchheit
Trying out trackyourhappiness.org. (Idea suggested by @siobhanquinn)
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Awesome party decor idea: Gumdrop Topiary
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Yang Sing din sum was awesome! - Clare Dibble
Tudor Bosman
View from our room
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Beautiful! - Jackie Ladner
Very nice! Where are you? :) - JA Castillo
I want to go there - Jesse Stay
You should take another pic for your avatar :) - Private Sanjeev
Needs more snow. - Eivind
Anne Bouey
Dan Hsiao
Yoshi cake!
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Made by Melody :) - Dan Hsiao from iPhone
Happy Birthday, Dan! - Anne Bouey
Oh, I didn't know she had made it herself! Impressive! And tasty! - Jeanette Bosman
happy birthday dhsiao!! - David Kim
It was delicious. Like a giant thin mint... WITH YOSHI! - Brian Chang
Happy Birthday, Dan! :-) - Kol Tregaskes
Yes, Happy Birthday, Dan! The cake looks amazing! - Christine
Wow, that cake looks great! Happy birthday Dan! - fshamsi
dude, that's amazing! mel, good job. happy bday again foo - Christopher Chung
Happy birthday - Josh Haley
Happy Birthday! - ciw
8 years old, huh? - Gabe
No, Gabe, each candle equals 3.625 years. - April Buchheit
Tudor Bosman
Dan is good at this!
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This had nothing to do with Dan's birthday, we just happened to catch him at his regular Saturday night belly dancing gig. - Jeanette Bosman
ahahah but it is not the "real" belly dancing guys, you don't do like this < o > - Bahriye
Also, a cute scene :) - Bahriye
Paul Buchheit
This year's tree hadn't quite reached its peak dryness so it took a while to get started. - April Buchheit
The history of burning tree started with our curiosity on how flamable Christmas trees really are. So shortly after New Year's 2006, we took our Christmas tree out to the backyard and just lit it up. We were delightfully surprised at how quickly and furiously our tree burned. Paul was so impressed with the results that he decided that this was something we should do with all of our subsequent Christmas trees. - April Buchheit
Holy Crap! - Rah-PM 2012
Pine trees have lots of natural oils, their wood and needles burn like woah - Will Higgins™
epic. - Josh Haley
April Buchheit
The proud parents
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Aww, she's got Bret's blankie that our great grandma made! - Shannon Jiménez
What a beautiful family! Karen you look great! Vavooom... - amelia arapoff
These guys are so in love with their baby. I don't blame them, she's pretty darn cute. - April Buchheit
Absolutely beautiful! - Anne Bouey
Great photo, soooo happy :) - Susan Beebe
Paul Buchheit
ha nice! - Wesley Barrow
from '95 - Paul Buchheit
Summer intern? - Mike Doeff
Yeah, Sanjeev was also there that same summer as it turns out. - Paul Buchheit
Crazy. - Eric
oooh look at how young and cute Paul is! :) very cool that you saved this! What was your job title then (intern for ______)? What location did you work at? Does that # mean you were the 39,325 employee hired by M$? - Susan Beebe
I bet I could find mine if I tried, too. - Gabe
I wish I still had my Apple badge. They made me give it back when I left. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins
Do I sense a meme coming? - Chris Lamprecht
Yeah, unfortunately I don't seem to have any pics of my Sun badge, so I can't collect the whole set :( - Paul Buchheit
bummer! collection is busted - Susan Beebe
my work badges are boring white - no logo..nothing - designed for max security I guess - Susan Beebe
Gary, Paul and I both worked in Redmond. Paul worked on Plus! Setup. - Gabe
Oooh I remember Plus! that was really cool and made Win95 rock! - Susan Beebe
Ex-PM in Developer Tools here. Visual J++ for the um, ... - DeWitt Clinton
Maybe it would be more efficient for everyone who didn't work at Microsoft to raise their hand. - DeWitt Clinton
How cute ;) - Bindu Reddy
I worked on Win NT, debugging OLE. It was pretty bad because the NT OLE code was fine; all the bugs were in 16-bit OLE apps. There are few things worse than debugging interactions between two 16-bit apps you don't have the source to! - Gabe
Wow, 16 bit OLE. Why didn't you force everyone to use 32bit Word and Excel? It would've been very Apple of you. - Eric
Yup, Redmond. I think I worked in building 4, which may not exist anymore, and lived across the street at "Timberlawn". I worked on the installer for "Plus Pack for Windows 95". - Paul Buchheit
Eric, it gets worse: one of the first apps I had to look at was Ichitaro, Japan's #1 word processor at the time. It sure would have made things easier if I could have forced everybody to only use 32-bit English apps! - Gabe
Awesome, Paul. - Christopher Sacca
I tried, and I can't remember my ORCL employee number any more! Does that mean I've finally put it all out behind me? - Tudor Bosman
My Intel WWID was 10599476, but I get the feeling that they added at least 10,000,000 to the employee number to generate that value. - Paul Buchheit
I've already forgotten my Google employee number. I think my Yahoo! number was right around 9000... - Kevin Fox
Ok here's a picture of my current ones I mentioned - sorta boring white plan ID badges http://friendfeed.com/e... - Susan Beebe
haha, cool... And I didnt even know that I´m apparently the only person on friendfeed who hasn´t been a summer intern at Microsoft - Peter Efland
At least they gave you a top-30 number at Google :) - Charlie Anzman
Once again proving that you're "kind of a big deal". Nice badge! - Randy Holloway from twhirl
*swoon* - Yuvi
I wonder if it was some kind of foresight to hang on to your old Microsoft badges, but not your diplomas. - Clare Dibble
Nice, a blue badge. I consult for Microsoft and have an Orange badge. - Alan Le
Wow! I was there that same summer interning for "Office Team Manager" I must have started a week or 2 before you as my employee number was 39207. - Joe Beda
I think I returned my badge, so I can't remember what my employee number was. I worked on porting the standard ms installer from windows to the mac. - Private Sanjeev
Sanjeev - a worthy cause for sure! :P - Susan Beebe
It was a piece of code that Ben Slivka wrote to produce cab files :) - Private Sanjeev
#39325 @ Microsoft. #23 @ Google. Do you have an ID at Google? ;) - AJ Batac :)
My MS ID was #38440 @ Microsoft... There were around 17k employees when I joined in 1995. - Steve Lacey
Microsoft badge #36419, joined 6/94 - peter
You seem very happy in this picture. There's still so much hope and optimism in that face. - April Buchheit
Old school. - "Joey"
Bubbling entry to make the Microsoft people (http://friendfeed.com/paul...) feel better (or worse) :) - Paul Buchheit
Bubbling? Is that what the kids are calling it these days? - Gabe
those are nice glasses :) - bob
They are nice glasses, aren't they? Maybe I should switch back. - Paul Buchheit
cute Paul :D - Nimaa
You look not unlike Bill in that photo. - Kevin Fox
Dan Hsiao
Shannon Jiménez
Apparently, just sleeping on the couch is no longer good enough for the king of the castle...
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Awww...hugs to Pirulin! - Skye Miller
Jim Norris
Aughts were a lost decade for U.S. economy, workers - washingtonpost.com - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...
Aughts were a lost decade for U.S. economy, workers - washingtonpost.com
Aughts were a lost decade for U.S. economy, workers - washingtonpost.com
"For most of the past 70 years, the U.S. economy has grown at a steady clip, generating perpetually higher incomes and wealth for American households. But since 2000, the story is starkly different. The past decade was the worst for the U.S. economy in modern times, a sharp reversal from a long period of prosperity that is leading economists and policymakers to fundamentally rethink the underpinnings of the nation's growth." - Jim Norris from Bookmarklet
Stephen Mack
When saving files, the best date format is YYYY-MM-DD so that the files sort chronologically. Today is 2010-01-02, which is a palindrome.
Hmm, but I see that I'm far from the first to make that observation about today. Oh well. It occurred to me in the shower but if I'd been keeping up with FF I would have seen a dozen other people point it out. Happy Palindrome Day anyway! - Stephen Mack
well why didn't you have a device in the shower with you so you could have posted as you thought of it and maybe been the first? - Rachel Lea Fox
Your angle is new for me. Most folks, including me, saw 01-02-2010 as the palindrome. I am going to start using the YYYY-MM-DD format for files. BTW, I decreed today International Tacocat Day. :-> - Kurt Starnes
WTB WATERPROOF IPHONE - Stephen Mack
Kurt: Go hang a lasagna hog! Racecar! Step on no pets! Draw, o coward! Lisa Bonet ate no basil! No sir, away -- a papaya war is on! - Stephen Mack
Stephen, Lisa got a DryCase for her iPhone for sailboat racing - it worked OK for awhile, but eventually developed a leak and wouldn't hold the vacuum seal. http://www.drycase.com/ - Ken Gidley
Thanks Ken but the world does not actually want me posting to FF from the shower, believe me. :) - Stephen Mack
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