"Now Bridges, a four-time Oscar nominee, is rooting through a giant stack of cardboard boxes in his garage. After a while, he clutches something and pulls it out.
"Ahhh," he says. "Here it is."It's the Sweater. As in, the beige and brown zigzag cable-knit sweater that the Dude wears through much of Lebowski. For a die-hard fan, it's like seeing Harrison Ford dig out Indiana Jones' fedora." - bob via Bookmarklet
"It involved sleep deprivation, the withholding of medical treatment, stress positions, long-time standing, and beating. Sound familiar?
According to the Bush administration's definition of torture, McCain was therefore not tortured. ... Now the kicker: in the Military Commissions Act, McCain acquiesced to the use of these techniques against terror suspects by the CIA. And so the tortured became the enabler of torture. Someone somewhere cried out in pain for the same reasons McCain once did. And McCain let it continue." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet
Again "like" is a wrong word. Thanks for sharing is the right one. How about offering a reader a choice of words to express the feeling? Well, I guess this comment rather belongs to FF feedback room. - Eugene
Still not sure where I stand on this. I think that there must be a limit to the violence involved in torture. BUT, bad people do bad things, and they are not going to tell us what they are planning if we ask them nicely...even if we say please. - Bob Blunk
They don't tell you what you want to know when you torture them either. There is some kind of myth out there still running around that says torture works. It does not work. - Brad Nickel
Didn't we get some of our worst intelligence (about the non-existent WMDs in Iraq) from someone that we tortured? People will say whatever it takes in order to get it to stop.. even admitting they did something that they did not in fact do.. - Alex Barbara
Having the Shrub as prez since they stole the election in 2001 (with 600,000 fewer votes than Gore got) has been a torture to the entire world. Period. Now that McCain's enlisted Rove and his dirty pranksters, I don't know whether Obama will get voted in or not. - Siddharth Deb
No, the WMD stuff came from a pathological liar. You do get what you want to know by torture if it's performed on the person who has that information. That still doesn't make it right. - Amit Morson
Bob: Isn't it interesting how many murders and other crimes are solved without waterboarding? And by "crimes" I'm not referring to just pickpocketing - we figured out who was responsible for bombing the USS Cole without torture, too. The world isn't an episode of 24. Here's how we did in in WWII: http://bit.ly/4AGA9K - David Worrell
This is a really good article. Puts things in perspective. - Rodrigo Jaroszewski
Torture is an entirely untrustworthy method for acquiring and verifying intelligence, people will in fact say whatever they think the torturer wants to hear, just to get them to stop. Not only is it completely irresponsible military strategy, it's also severely immoral. Anyone that advocates a permissive attitude towards torture should be ashamed of themselves. - Jason Wehmhoener via NoiseRiver
Bob, with "bad people" do you mean e.g. the (according to Wikipedia) "approximately 420" Guantano detainees who "have been released without charge"? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...) Or with "bad people" do you mean e.g. politicians responsible for pre-emptive strikes against another country under false pretenses, who you think should be tortured in order for us to find out more about what their real motives were? - Philipp Lenssen
Torture doesn't work, it destroys the reputation of the torturer, and it is the favorite tool of despots, tyrants and sadistic totalitarian regimes. In American popular culture, torturers used to be portrayed as sinister villains, and with good reason. How far we have fallen. - Sean McBride
The neoconservatives behind the torture policy have repeatedly smeared as "bad people," "terrorists," "traitors," etc. anyone, including mainstream Americans, who disagrees with their extremist program. This is how it always goes with torturers -- they end up torturing anyone who gets in the way of their quest for absolute power. See Stalin and Hitler for two telling examples. - Sean McBride
we must do what is necessary to protect the United States and bring justice to those that harm it. The prisoners at Gitmo have been treated better than what most of them deserve.Remember people, these are terrorists we're talking about. Those are the people responsible for 9/11, for car bombings and much more. - David Ward
Wow, here on Friendfeed no less. Are these guys serious with the absolute faith they put in the military apparatus, and so completely willing to waive the rule of law because someone was indirectly associated with "car bombings and much more"? How can you even have a discussion with someone that has so little respect for human rights? Even during WW2 we didn't torture Nazi war criminals. Are these guys worse than Hitler? Is 9/11 worse than the execution of 3 million Jews? - ⓞnor
I guess I just have to hope that people with a viewpoint like David Ward's ("remember, these dudes are BAD, because someone said so. break out the rack! that'll get us the truth!") are in a fairly small minority and can be overcome through democratic process. - ⓞnor
People like David Ward have managed to take over the American government under the reign of Bush 43 and the neocons. We live in very scary times, in which every sacred principle of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights has been debased. - Sean McBride
David Ward - Bush and neocons have been torturing many people for seven years now. Can you name a single high-level 9/11 conspirator that they've been able to convict in a fair trial on the basis of testimony extracted by torture? If not, why not? - Sean McBride
There are *rules* for dealing with lawbreakers and enemies. And there are far worse things than 9/11. And torture is a moronic way to get information - it's not like we've actually found Osama, for example. But I do like to think that the David Ward-esque medieval viewpoint, while surely near the center of neocon policy, is not the actual will of the American people. - ⓞnor
Sean, if anything it's the democrats that want to take away our rights not the conservatives. All I'm saying is we have to stand up and defend this country by force or whatever means necessary. You don't know the whole truth nor do any of us about what really goes on or how bad/good the prisoners are treated. I will tell you we treat criminals in our state and federal prisons better than anyone would expect. I'm not advocating torture at all and don't consider waterboarding or similar methods torture. - David Ward
David -- how long would it take for you, or I, or anyone here to confess to being the mastermind of 9/11 after being waterboarded? 1 hour? 30 minutes? 5 minutes? I repeat: not a single high-level 9/11 conspirator has been convicted in a fair trial on the basis of testimony extracted by torture. People will say absolutely anything under torture (and waterboarding is indeed a form of torture). - Sean McBride
Sean, I believe we killed many of the high level terrorists. In many cases of so-called torture, we already have evidence. I am all for human rights but my belief is when you kill innocent people you lose many rights you previously had. We're not killing innocent people. - David Ward
David - you still haven't mentioned the name of a single 9/11 conspirator who has been convicted of committing 9/11 on the basis of testimony extracted by torture. Many of those who have been tortured are innocent of any crimes. The Bush 43 administration has refused to *question* (not to mention torture) one of the lead 9/11 conspirators -- the head of Pakistan's ISI, who wired $100,000 to the hijackers just before 9/11. None of this adding up. - Sean McBride
Well, David your opinion that one waives one's human rights if one is a criminal, is not commiserate with the last 200 years or so of Western democratic principles, nor does it pass Constitutional muster; in other words, the rule of law. Are you sure you're living under the appropriate system? Perhaps some Islamic countries would be better suited to your values. Most of the tyrannies that would agree with your position were dissolved when the Berlin Wall fell. - Rick Powell
And btw, the phrase "so-called torture" is Orwellian, at best. The Viet Kong and the Gestapo knew exactly what it was, and so does Cheney. After all, Cheney and John Yoo borrowed the phrase, "enhanced interrogation techniques,' from those war criminals who came before him. - Rick Powell
Sean: Just to hone your last statement a bit: The first and only conviction to come out of Guantanamo was against a taxi driver. The administration has already admitted that most, not just many, but most, of released and current detainees are innocent. Yet, prisoners have died from torture, a euphemism for murder in these cases, under the aegis of an executive power run amok. These events are not in dispute. I really can't understand why more Americans are not angry about this. - Rick Powell
See the last three months of my FriendFeed shares for more information, including this article which I shared four hours before Bucheit's. Read Andrew Sullivan's definitive essay: http://tinyurl.com/5kz74w. Find out where the phrase "enhanced interrogation techniques" came from: http://tinyurl.com/3cjw3t If you're not angry, you're not paying attention. - Rick Powell
"I will tell you we treat criminals in our state and federal prisons better than anyone would expect" David, and that's likely to be one reason for the camp being where it is (Guantanamo): to escape potential restrictions (human rights) imposed by federal prisons. - Philipp Lenssen
Rick - 1. Andrew Sullivan has done a superb job in covering the torture issue. 2. Americans should be enraged that Bush and the neocons are ruining the good name of America with their torture policies. 3. The taxi driver in question received a light sentence and had nothing to do with 9/11. After seven years of torture, the Bush 43 regime has not managed to acquire a single conviction of a high-level 9/11 conspirator. This peculiar situation raises doubts about the entire 9/11 official story. - Sean McBride
@Philipp Lenssen: you obiviously missed my point. I never said anything about supporting the illegal acts of our current administration. They hide behind a curtain of secrecy and fear to carryout illegal and immoral acts, this is true beyond doubt. But the fact remains that there are bad people in this world. It amazes me at how soon we forget about all the people that died on 9/11. But nonetheless, BAD people carried out this attack and if torturing even one person would have prevented it. I AM ALL FOR IT - Bob Blunk
Bob Blunk: 1. The U.S. government tried to block investigations of the 9/11 hijackers before 9/11. 2. The Bush 43 administration has failed to question (not to mention interrogate or torture) the head of the ISI (Pakistani CIA) who wired $100,000 to the hijackers just before 9/11. 3. The U.S. government didn't torture two persons who it claimed were responsible for the 9/11 anthrax attacks: Steven Hatfill and Bruce Ivins. You and most other Americans have been led up the garden path on these issues. - Sean McBride
Bob Blunk: Do you have some formula for determining how much torture is allowed based on how many lives would be saved? Does it take into account the fact that the person being tortured most likely doesn't know anything? - Gabe Schaffer
The whole "ticking time bomb" scenario is one that exists only in the minds of hacks writing for quasi-fascist television shows. - Rick Powell
"I guess what I mean to say is just because SOAP is a disaster, doesn't somehow make REST the answer. Simpler is better, and REST is generally simpler than SOAP. But there is nothing wrong with a plain old POST as an RPC call. If its easy to make all your calls conform to the RESTful verb architecture, then that's good, I guess. But if not, then just use a POST as an RPC call, keep it as simple as possible and be done with it. And don't spend another minute worrying about being RESTful or not." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet
I agree so much. Technical dogma is annoying. - Paul Buchheit
support for intermediaries, distributed caching, payload as document *or* argument collection - as binary *or* text, dynamic typing via MIME, support for portable code-on-demand (ala javascript, applets, flash, etc), out-of-band authentication & authorization - by independent parties ... oh, yeah and PUT/DELETE, too? plus all of this extensible and outlined a decade ago. there may be a lot to "not get", but it's no dogma. it's the stuff that makes FriendFeed so possible. - MikeAmundsen
Mike, it seems that you're arguing that REST==HTTP, but then people write these blog posts saying "X is not RESTful" because they use POST instead of PUT, or some such silliness. I agree that HTTP is good though, in part because it's quite flexible yet relatively simple. - Paul Buchheit
Paul: you're right on it - "X is not RESTful" is dumb. REST is basically the codifying/documentation of how/why HTTP works so well. - MikeAmundsen
I blame the people who invented the REST concept, who waxed all philosophical about, well, representational state transfer, whatever the hell that means. If they had called it something like POHR (Plain Old HTTP Request) instead we would have been so much better off. Well, except that we wouldn't have a cute acronym. - ⓞnor
Roy Fielding had to was lyrical about it, it was his dissertation. That's what it's for. - Michael C. Harris
@paul "Technical dogma is annoying" +1. agree totally. how about trying to accomplish something useful first! - .LAGizmoto
As a winforms developer that does some web development on the side, the whole idea of webservices is overcomplex. The touchstone for any particular implementation of a web serice needs to based around mission critical capabilitie: There is no point using it if it does not work. - Roberto Bonini
With .NET the web services are so easy to develop that some people don't even know about the XML/SOAP/WSDL behind the scenes. They are so well abstracted behind the tools. REST support is getting all the time better, too, though. - Joni Moilanen
SOAP is a disaster and REST zealots are annoying, but something was lost when people started doing custom encodings for every web service, instead of having a standard way to rep structs, lists and various scalar types. we had this solved in 1998 in XML-RPC, the predecessor to SOAP, which is not a disaster, and widely deployed. It shows how powerful the idea is. - Dave Winer
Yes, don't worry about REST, and maybe don't worry about open data and dataportability and service interoperability either. The main reason I'm a REST fan is the fact that it makes service clients easy. You build a client and can use it to query Flickr and YouTube and FriendFeed and BaseCamp with just minor modifications. It's difficult to design RESTful web services, but it's better for everybody in the long run - Dragos Ilinca via twhirl
Dragos, no one here is arguing against standards, and REST isn't even a standard anyway -- it's a design pattern, one that's sometimes useful but often inappropriate. - Paul Buchheit
"Yes, Twitter, the nonprofit web service known widely for its downtime, dropped its disaster-producing shitpile on the world. Why?" Heh. - Jeremy Zawodny
It's a little known fact that Cutting only sleeps three hours per night, and not because he is tired, but rather as an act of mercy for his keyboard. - artemy tregubenko
"Authorities concede that the chemicals found in Deeb's basement lab were no more hazardous than typical household cleaning products. ... Allow me to translate Ms. Wilderman's words into plain English: "Mr. Deeb hasn't actually violated any law or regulation that I can find, but I don't like what he's doing because I'm ignorant and irrationally afraid of chemicals, so I'll abuse my power to steal his property and shut him down."" - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet
"Pamela A. Wilderman, Marlboro’s code enforcement officer, said Mr. Deeb was doing scientific research and development in a residential area, which is a violation of zoning laws." Ok, so anyone found running Folding@Home will be shot? Also this choice quote from her: "There are regulations about how much you’re supposed to have, how it’s detained, how it’s disposed of." Oops, did I say detained? I meant interrogated. No, sorry, waterboarded. Oh bugger, what a giveaway... - Karim
According to a comment by "vmdeeb" on the news story, Mr. Deeb's research as a chemist involved REMOVING "Bisphenol A, Bisphenol F... PVC, phthalates" from the environment. These are chemicals found in plastics that can accumulate in the human body. The metabolites of these chemicals can be found in most people in this country, due to our extensive use of plastics. - Karim
When I bought my house, part of the contract I had to sign said that I would not store any hazardous or flammable chemicals on my property. I asked how I was to keep the fuel in my car, the gas in my grill, or the paint thinner in my basement? The lady said that it was standard verbiage, and I should just sign it. - Gabe Schaffer
I'm sure this is why Jason's parents live so far off the grid. :D - Cyndy
Tragic, but unsurprising when our country is lead by people who hold science in contempt. - Tad - just Tad
According to our Attorney General, not every wrong, or even every violation of the law, is a crime. - Gabe Schaffer
@Gabe: yeah, whadda crock! our AG is a tool. - MikeAmundsen
How we forget that the science of chemistry itself, and all of its modern benefits, we owe to a few curious, if slightly odd, people conducting experiments in their basements. Suspicion and fear of discovery bring about dark ages. - Landon McDowell
Hehe..I just front paged the story on TGM and told the fanbois to digg it. - Candace Holly
I still don't understand why it hasn't reached 200 yet??? SO confused. Come ON FFers! - Mona N.
Looks like a petty tyrant to me. In my opinion he must be a frustrated artist who has to work in a museum to be close to stuff he can't make himself.It would make him cross to see people actually making art! - Pete Gilbert
Pete, did you digg it? The more people hear about this, the more some sort of action will be taken against the "Director of Visitor Relations". It is NOT ok to treat people like that! - Mona N.
If everyone Likes this, more people will see it, so Like away. - Chris White
Pete, now add digg service to your FF, and all is complete. - Pete Delucchi
Service added. I hope this guy Googles his name sometime soon. What a jerk. - Pete Gilbert
What he needs is a reality check. Director of Customer Relations, my left ass cheek. Seriously. - Mona N.
Can I just add, although this guy was a jerk, it's not him we are fighting, but the right to take photographs without being branded as a criminal. - Pete Gilbert
+1 Pete and I agree. I do think Thomas is owed an apology and, I also think the museum needs to make it very clear to *everyone* their policy. He took a great picture in the museum..when is that a bad thing? - Candace Holly
I could've chosen a layover in SF or LA on my way to Denver in October. I'll be having my In-n-Out burger in LA - Stephen Cropp
Yeah, like, how come we can't take pictures in locker rooms or during drug deals? I hate that. Um yeah Stephen, blame a whole city for a particular museum's head of security (which is what he is). BTW, SFO is a much better airport than LAX. - Chris White
Chris White, may I respectfully ask if you read Thomas Hawk's piece? - Mona N.
Yes Mona, you may ask. I also digged the article. My comment was a joke related to the mantra "Photography is not a crime." Because sometimes it is a crime, and other times it's evidence of one. - Chris White
@Chris - I'm not tarring the whole city like this one man. Only that on this is pretty bad PR for the publicly funded/supported museum. As someone from outside the US, PR is everything and this doesn't do well to make me want to spend my money there. SFO may or may not be better. I've only ever been via LAX in the past. Was considering SF given that all flights had at least a half day in either city. Don't intend to stay in the airport the whole time I'm there. - Stephen Cropp
Sigh,more of the same. Seems like I hear more and more of these stories. It is truely sad that in an art museam, someone is stopped while persueing an art form. Photography is art, an expression to the world of the artist perspective. I'd join in with the DSLR day if I lived on your side of the pond. - Roberto Bonini
As a photographer as a hobby, I always carry a copy of the photographer's rights. http://www.krages.com/phoright... Many people are misinformed about the use of personal cameras. The parapazzi are a lot to blame for this attitude however. - Jack Wilson, K4SAC
I'm sorry, and yes, this is bad PR, but this seems a lot of pushing the interpretation due to lack of knowledge of technical terms. As Nathan pointed out in another thread, it did say "handheld" cameras. Of course, everyone will argue that a DSLR is technically a handheld camera if you can hold it in your hand, but unless you're an idiot, you'd interpret that as a point 'n shoot. I don't expect everyone will recognize lenses. Shoot, *I* can't tell the difference and I live way more camera equipment than... - Cyndy
... I will ever understand. Lastly, it smacks of "do you know who I am? I'll BLOG this" which I find offensive. I notice than anyone on Digg who tried to interject with reason or common sense was buried, especially the ones who asked why you'd join a museum just to take pictures in it instead of just experiencing other people's art. - Cyndy
Obviously a brain dead employee that didn't read the new handbook yet - Charlie Anzman
I suggest an email and letter writing campaign. It can't hurt. Also, when this stuff happens, contacting local newspapers and TV might help increase awareness...along with simply refusing to patronize entities that take this approach. There are lots of things to see and do in San Francisco. This museum just made it to my NEVER GOING THERE list. - ScottBourne
Cyndy: There's also the fact that we are totally going by one person's say-so and reporting of the incident. I gather the dude is a fairly well known blogger in photography circles, but it's still amazing how much this is pushing people's buttons and getting their blood to boil with a sense of injustice. It's sort of a scary mob scene. - ⓞnor
Of course, someone could phone the museum and ask them to comment on the situation for the record. It would be in everyone's interest, and, you know, someone here could do it. - j1m
I love how his excuse was that he needed to "protect" his employees -- as if the employees who would be in the photos work for the Director of Visitor Relations, and they need his protection, and not letting somebody use a big camera in their vicinity would somehow protect them from something. - Gabe Schaffer
Cyndy: I guess I'm an idiot, because I interpret "handheld" camera to mean a camera held in one's hand, as opposed to on a tripod. Most museums without absurd photography policies allow visitors to take photos, just not use flashes or camera supports (monopods or tripods). I've never heard of a policy where you can take as many photos as you want as long as they're crappy (because you can't use a good camera). - Gabe Schaffer
Larger issues are: Patriot act, DMCA, public/private rights, IP law. In light of that, I marvel at gregory's efficient 3-word reductionist comment. - Richard Walker
"It takes more intelligence to debug code than to write it. Therefore, if you write the most difficult code you can create, you are not smart enough to debug it." - Jim Norris via Bookmarklet
Wow, interesting. How common is this? Also interesting is the quote about "Other “liquidity events,” like an initial public offering or a purchase of the company itself, are looking unlikely." - DeWitt Clinton
btw, does any one know how facebook is giving stock options to new employees, is it based on 4b or 15b evaluation. - Krishna Gade
4b, from my understanding. but that's 4b common stock. 15b is preferred stock valuation - Eric Eldon
First time I heard that voice in the hallways, I was so confused. I couldn't tell what was going on. Was it an alert? Was someone's dog making a weird noise? Oh man, there are some aspects of Google that I will always miss and this is right up there. - Sacca
i wish i could fav this more than once. :) this is the greatest thing that has ever been. - jenna
This is so clearly a ploy to flush out all the Googlers on FriendFeed. :) - Matt Cutts
I wonder if other teams at Google had as much fun as the Blogger team in imitating Craig's distinctive yet, Muppet-like alert. It got to the point where just the single word imitation would have us in stitches. Good times. - Jason Shellen
I remember the first time I heard Craig's bread-call my first thought was "who's Brad?" - Laurence Gonsalves
With a BS in Plant Physiology & Biochemistry, I'm very excited about this breakthrough. Plants FTW! - Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Those gases are potentially very volatile. They don't really speak about how they've solved the storage of those gases since they don't provide the energy per volume or transportability of petroleum. As they say in the article, they will have years to solve that one. - Ernie Oporto
Paul, is there not a simple way to include images when I share a message? I don't want to mess with mail2ff and I think the bookmarklet only works if an image is on a page. - Matt Cutts
Also there's no way for me to sabotage Matt's message with unrelated images, which is unfortunate - j1m
Good to know. +1 my vote for that on the next fixit day. :) - Matt Cutts
Matt, I have a dirt simple python script I use when I want to attach an image to something that doesn't work with the bookmarklet (about 10-20% of sites I've tried). - DeWitt Clinton
Cool, drop me an email or throw it up somewhere public, DeWitt? - Matt Cutts
"This probably would have been easier to write in Python, but bash is so awkward that it makes for a somewhat more interesting challenge." Hehe. Go with Paul's. : ) - DeWitt Clinton
Yah, this is the first new UI I have liked from a search competitor. I like the photos more than the columns. It is easier to browse for me, but harder to scan. The photos are useful for a lot of searches, though. - Bret Taylor
Agreed. It has a pretty nice UI, and speed is pretty good. The AI bit could do better, but it has promise. Will keep an eye on this. My guess. Google buys it, cause there is value there - Deepak
The results seem pretty bad and the pictures are random. Maybe it's just buggy right now though. Also, I continue to dislike multi-column layouts. - Paul Buchheit
Some queries it does very well on (e.g. protein folding). Others, it's pretty bad. - Deepak
The result isn't that great, but this is only the beginning. Look at the first result of a search for FriendFeed: http://www.cuil.com/search?q=f... - seman
I hope they grow into a true google rival. The big G needs competition - Mo Kargas
The first piece of advice, it's apparently case sensitive "openwetware" and "OpenWetWare" are completely different - Deepak
You'd think with 33 million in funding they'd have bought the cool.com domain? - Mo Kargas
I agree ... why call the company a hard-to-spell word that sounds like "cool.com" when you could have just called it "cool.com"? - Alex Power
I've always disliked search engines ignoring case, punctuation, and spacing. If I search for SAT or LED or RAID, it's more likely that I'm not looking for the noun than the verb. And how about being able to search for C#, $1, A*, <, Folding @Home, <div>? - Amit Patel
Results are pretty spammy, and all of the images in my test searches were random. Hope they work out the bugs. - Allen Hutchison
"Due to overwhelming interest, our Cuil servers are running a bit hot right now. The search engine is momentarily unavailable as we add more capacity." - Mitchell Tsai
It is not massive by any stretch of imagination. Google is "ATLEAST" 10 times bigger. Search for common terms on both and find out - Sidharth Dassani
how do they dare to compare themself to google if the page doesnt even load for me. is that a joke? availability and performance is a major feature of a search engine - krz9000
We didn’t find any results for “krz9000” -> fail - krz9000
i like the non scrolling search results pages. - peter
I noticed last night, that typing in a search resulted in a properly formatted result page with zero results. Yet pressing refresh gave me a full page of results, using the same query. I speculate that they are still working out service problems. - Scott Ludwig
No results because of high load...
Due to excessive load, our servers didn't return results. Please try your search again. So much for the stealth mode - Mihai Tarmure
love the homepage design though. when google first launched everyone thought its madness to feature an empty page with a searchfield. well that proved to be the start of the internet search. and now these guys go... black. extreme - Mihai Tarmure
You should comment: 1. architecture and design (usually in a separate document), 2. public APIs, and 3. tricky / counterintuitive behavior (every program has some of that). Everything else should be self-evident. - Tudor Bosman
"We describe our experience building a fault-tolerant data-base using the Paxos consensus algorithm. Despite the existing literature in the field, building such a database proved to be non-trivial. We describe selected algorithmic and engineering problems encountered, and the solutions we found for them. Our measurements indicate that we have built a competitive system." - Jim Norris via Bookmarklet
I noticed the different usage of the word "fanny" quite quickly, but I just found out today that people here don't picture the same thing as me when reading the word "pasties"... - Simon
What was it that you said last week about "punting" and "pims"? It involved another word that translated to "cakes" -- was that "pasties"? It was completely incomprehensible :) - Paul Buchheit
my friend randy had a bit of a learning curve when introducing himself - gregory lent
I was just about to mention my cousin Randy. Thankfully his mom didn't change his name when she married into the family or he'd be Randy Fox, a difficult name (for a non-pornstar) in the UK. -
