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My Santa Monica colleagues and a local piece on Picasa Web Facial Recognition - Robert Konigsberg via Bookmarklet
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October 1 at 11:34 pm - Link
I stopped after she said "foundationly". - Robert Konigsberg
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October 1 at 2:53 pm - Link
So I looked at their website: http://www.republicansagainst8... and found an interesting FAQ - Robert Konigsberg
Q: How is Proposition 8 bad for business? A: Passing a law that says that some Californians may have their fundamental constitutional freedoms taken away will have a chilling effect on recruiting the most qualified, highly skilled workers to California’s high-tech, and creative industries. - Robert Konigsberg
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That's it. He's not invited to dinner at my house, either. - Robert Konigsberg
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308 - The Pop Vs Soda Map « Strange Maps
September 15 at 4:36 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"When on a hot summer’s day you buy a carbonated beverage to quench your thirst, how do you order it? Do you ask for a soda, a pop or something else? That question lay at the basis of an article in the Journal of English Linguistics (Soda or Pop?, #24, 1996) and of a map, showing the regional variation in American English of the names given to that type of drink." - Robert Konigsberg via Bookmarklet
Soda - Daniel Shaw
It's all always a coke. "I'd like a coke." "What kind?" "Dr Pepper." - Emotion Tad
For me, it's "Soda" which correlates with where I grew up. - Robert Konigsberg
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“Finding out the hard way that GWT 1.4.x doesn't support Java 5 features. *Sigh* One more reason to proselytize for GXP”
September 27 at 5:21 pm - Link
I don't think GWT and GXP really cross paths in that way. What is your issue? - Robert Konigsberg
They're the 2 main options I'm looking at for Java web apps. Most people seem to prefer GWT but I like the simplicity of GXP. The lack of a Java2Javascript compile step is one of the things I really like about GXP. It eliminates the phase where you wait for you wait for Java language features to get supported by the GWT compiler - Adewale Oshineye
Or use GWT 1.5? :) - Dion Almaer
*Definitely* use GWT 1.5. Not only does it have Java 5 support (yay generics!, yay annotations!), the json-overlay mechanism is great, it's faster (method inlining), it has more and better JRE emulation classes (StringBuilder, etc), and much much more. See http://code.google.com/docread... - DeWitt Clinton
Thanks. GWT 1.5 is going on the todo list - Adewale Oshineye
Yeah, I see GWT and GXP as being a one-or-the-other choice since they can go together. But yeah, use GWT 1.5. - Robert Konigsberg
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September 28 at 3:11 pm - Link
An interesting perspective but it's lacking something ineffable that prevents it from seeming practical - Adewale Oshineye
It seems like a document that claims to build a human by building the skeleton. How to become a programmer? Write lots of code. (Simplistic, I admit) - Robert Konigsberg
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September 26 at 11:38 pm - Link
Yeah, I just did not get white spaces. This clears the matter up. - Robert Konigsberg
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September 26 at 11:28 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
It sounds like nothing's being built for at least 4 years, but the Tappan Zee is, of all the New York City area bridges, the most delightful to cross. Partly because of the view, but also because of its flat style. I'd be disappointed if the new bridge lost its style (not to mention the name.) New York, get your advice from whomever it was that did the work on Grand Central Station. - Robert Konigsberg via Bookmarklet
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September 26 at 5:29 pm - Link
This makes me pretty happy. - Robert Konigsberg
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September 26 at 10:43 pm - Link
" I think people really are missing the point about McCain's failure to look at Obama. McCain was afraid of Obama. It was really clear--look at how much McCain blinked in the first half hour. I study monkey behavior--low ranking monkeys don't look at high ranking monkeys. In a physical, instinctive sense, Obama owned McCain tonight and I think the instant polling reflects that. So McCain may have given away his status as a low-ranking monkey. I'd never even considered monkey rank." - Robert Konigsberg
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Sarah 'Miss Teen USA' Palin
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September 25 at 7:57 pm - Link
that clip is so classic. - Mark Foundos
simply awesome - Harjeet Taggar
It didn't land on me how awful Palin's response was until now. - Robert Konigsberg
I was thinking the exact same thing as I watched part II of the Couric interview. The comment about Putin and our airspace is a classic. - Wil Witherspoon
... for the children! - Chris Lamprecht
Ah. Tautology at its very best. - Ginger Makela
Holy cow. Damn. - Jason Shultz via twhirl
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September 22 at 8:07 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"Barack Obama has edited his official website on many issues, including a huge revision on the technology page. Strangely it seems net neutrality is no longer as important as it was a few months ago, and the swaths of detail have been removed and replaced with fairly vague rhetoric. Many technologists were alarmed with the choice of Joe Biden before, and now it appears their fears might have been well founded." - Erica Baker via Bookmarklet
The proof is in the diff http://versionista.com/diff/JA... :( The changes are pretty significant and alarming in my opinion. I became an Obama fan because of his message and stance on tech. I sort of feel like I want my money back now. - Erica Baker
Erica: Thanks for pointing this out, 'cause his previous tech stance was one of the major things I liked about him. - Roger Benningfield
It almost seems like this is "move to the center"... I used to be a big fan of Obama but not anymore... - Bindu Reddy
Disappointing. - Robert Konigsberg
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Advanced Topics in Programming Languages: A Lock-Free...
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August 26 at 9:59 am - Link
1.2B reads / sec from a hash map in a single JVM on a machine with several hundred CPUs. That aggregate throughput is probably a record for any hash table running anywhere on any hardware. - Sanjeev Singh
In case you want the slides, you can find them here http://developers.sun.com/lear... - Shakeel Mahate
I watched this talk when it was first released and by fall last year wondered why Cliff Click's data structure hadn't seen inclusion to the jdk or at least wider adoption. I asked jjb during one of our weekly concurrency meetings and learned that some unexpected problems had crept up in the meantime. - Mustafa K. Isik
I watched this talk twice by video and once live at JavaOne. I still didn't understand one component until speaking with Cliff at the conclusion of his live talk. I'm not surprised it's not yet part of the JDK; I suspect it requires a significant acceptance prior to its inclusion, given that it's so new. Of course, I don't claim to understand JCP, nor have I followed updates to this hash map since J1 '07. - Robert Konigsberg
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September 22 at 2:34 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal judge on Saturday ordered Dick Cheney to preserve a wide range of the records from his time as vice president. The decision by U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly is a setback for the Bush administration in its effort to promote a narrow definition of materials that must be safeguarded under by the Presidential Records Act." - Robert Konigsberg via Bookmarklet
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“Don Rickles won an Emmy? wtf?”
September 21 at 8:04 pm - Link
Seriously? Six months ago I thought he was dead. - Robert Konigsberg
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September 19 at 9:17 pm - Link
Clever idea for making secret questions more powerful. - Robert Konigsberg
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September 18 at 9:52 pm - Link
Good use of a Parameter type for what could have easily become an inheritance or decorator nightmare. - Robert Konigsberg
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September 18 at 9:25 pm - Link
My second-favorite TotT. They managed to be funny and educational at the same time. - Robert Konigsberg
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Matt Damon Rips Sarah Palin
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September 11 at 1:05 pm - Link
Eh. I'm glad he's speaking out but I doubt anyone has changed their mind based on this information. - Robert Konigsberg
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September 10 at 10:13 am - Link
Thanks for that; now I am reassured :) - Andrés David Aparicio via twhirl
Make sure to read the page's javascript: if (!(typeof worldHasEnded == "undefined")) { document.write("YUP."); } else { document.write("NOPE."); } - Robert Konigsberg
And... <!-- if the lhc actually destroys the earth & this page isn't yet updated please email mike@frantic.org to receive a full refund --> - Robert Konigsberg
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We're not candy Singing Pills, This is serious....
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September 13 at 9:52 pm - Link
Commercial from my childhood in New York. - Robert Konigsberg
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September 13 at 4:00 pm - Link
The magic of looking at source code for perf reasons. - Mustafa K. Isik
The author claims he was being sneaky. I don't think he was sneaky. I think he was just uninformed about how subList works. Such seems to be the peril of interface implementations that obey the interface contract, but standard implementations behave in such a standard way that additional behavior is merely implied. Of course, I say this without reviewing the List interface contract. Probably the same thing that got the author in trouble. :) - Robert Konigsberg
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September 13 at 11:59 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
" What Sarah Palin revealed is that she has not been interested enough in world affairs to become minimally conversant with the issues. Many people in our great land might have difficulty defining the "Bush Doctrine" exactly. But not to recognize the name, as obviously was the case for Palin, indicates not a failure of last-minute cramming but a lack of attention to any foreign-policy discussion whatsoever in the last seven years." - Robert Konigsberg via Bookmarklet
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Duncan Riley posted an entry on The Inquisitr
September 11 at 7:35 pm - Link
OMG WTF LOL not! I watched it again just to be sure I hadn't missed anything. Messy, disconnected scripting. One only mildly amusing line about monsters and a firewall ... who writes this stuff! - Kate Foy
Mesh, www.mesh.com. That's what it's all leading to. MS is trying to reconnect with everyone, because everyone thinks they suck. They also want to show how MS can connect with everyone/everything -- through Mesh. - Richard Crocker
Yesh indeed, very messhy. - Kate Foy
So strange! This commercial at least had more direction and correlation than the 1st. - Nicholas Kreidberg
I'm starting to like it for some reason. - Paul Buchheit
It sounds like Jerry Seinfeld wrote it. - Gabe
I am not sure what it has to do with Windows, but I enjoyed watching it. - Bret Taylor
I think someone convinced Microsoft that the Apple ads were successful because they were entertaining. These ads are entertaining, even if they aren't always funny, mostly because it's fun to watch people with so much money who don't mind being extremely silly. - Chris White
This one was much better than the last. Still has me confused as to what it has to do with an operating system but it kept my attention. - Benjamin Golub
For the first ad, see this comment someone (not me!) left on Mary Jo Foley's blog: http://talkback.zdnet.com/5208... - Jordan Hofker
badly acted, edited, so i guess hokey is in the spec somewhere - Gregory Lent
Much better than the last! I liked this one. - Nick Munson
It's not terrible, but it _is_ messy. It almost feels like it was edited by software engineers. :) Is it supposed to be funny? - Robert Konigsberg
weird, i liked the last one about The Conquistador better. This one was too long. I did enjoy the polymorphism bedtime story though. - Lilly Irani
I laughed my head off at the first comment. That is the most funny sentence I have read on FF. :) - Space Cowboy
Liked it alot. The point was that real people use Microsofts products too, not just developers that powershell their way around it.Hence you need to underatand how the average Joe sees things to make a great OS. I really dig the "goldfish with a website" line. - Roberto "Maverick" Bonini
Honestly. Any agency that could get Bill Gates to do The Robot deserves our faith. Purely from a "history of advertising" POV I very much want to see where this goes. And as for humor, I find its benign weirdness a lot more palatable than being told by snarky Apple that, as a PC user, I'm a clueless doughy frump. - Sprague D
There's wasting money and then there's burning money. Microsoft is doing the latter. The theme seems to be connecting. The only connecting going on here is happening between the agency and Microsoft's cash. This creative deserves some kind of award for sucking, you would have to have a carefully detailed plan to suck this bad. The humanity. - Dave Martin
Have to agree with Sprauge D. Apple ads may have Apple fan boys in a tizzy, but these microsoft ads are far more.... dare i say it, human. - Roberto "Maverick" Bonini
I've got to say I didn't hate it as much as the first one; and maybe (bold maybe) this is what the ads are going to be -- a progressive message - JungleG via twhirl
if these ads are good, then the palin/mccain ticket will win - Gregory Lent
These ads are good. :) - torque
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September 9 at 3:42 pm - Link
Let us know... - ⓞnor
I tried this about 15 months ago +-3. It took quite a bit to set up, but seemed to actually work as advertised. It felt a little klunky, so I'm not sure I'm sold that it's practical rather than more than a Frankenstein concoction. I think you _really_ have to love vi to dedicate to this idea. - Robert Konigsberg
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“All roads lead to Rhodes. It's colossal. Ahem.”
September 3 at 5:07 am - Link
There is a pun bucket on my desk. I expect a contribution when you get back ;-) - Allen Hutchison
Oh, I'm hurting a little inside. - Robert Konigsberg
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September 3 at 6:44 pm - Link
Los Angeles-based Republican consultant Mike Murphy calls the choice of Sarah Palin "cynical" and former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan says the neophyte's pick means the "race is over." They had finished speaking more carefully on MSNBC and didn't realize their microphones were still live. The audio is on YouTube; I found it via Top of the Ticket. Murphy has worked for McCain and Mitt Romney, among others. - Robert Konigsberg
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“Eclipse 3.4 was released more than a week ago by the Eclipse foundation, I have used it since then and I think it is faster.”
July 6 at 2:31 pm - Link
The general experience I've had is the opposite, that it's much slower. My colleagues have the same opinion. - Robert Konigsberg
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