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GFS: Evolution on Fast-forward -- A discussion between Kirk McKusick and Sean Quinlan about the origin and evolution of the Google File System @ http://queue.acm.org/detail...
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Papers on PageRank you should read - http://www.scienceforseo.com/ranking...
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Handy--TED Talk links on one Google Spreadsheet http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub... RT @joycevalenza RT @mrsills
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This link must be spread ... thanks a bunch :)
- Shriram R
How do I d'load this spreadsheet ?
- Shriram R
Shriram: Don't know of any way to download it as a spreadsheet, but if your browser allow (or you have a plugin to do it), you could save the page as a PDF. You'd lose the live links, though.
- Mark Traphagen
You can copy and paste the info into a new Google spreadsheet (that you own), though I'd recommend doing this 20-30 lines at a time. A minor pain, but I'm guessing it'd take <10 minutes to do :)
- Adam Lasnik
perfectionism - http://niniane.blogspot.com/2009...
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that michael jackson video is pretty crazy
- bob
FriendFeed... enabling me to make fun of people faster and with greater breadth than ever before.
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:-P
- Richard A.
Are you sure you don't mean 'greater breath'? #sushithursday
- Kevin Fox
I haven't visited Twitter since the new Friendfeed UI came out.
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i have.... if you look at my profile...u see lots of fail whales :o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
Most of this time you couldn't even if you wanted to. This... is... FAIL WHALE!
- Joe Kavanagh
I know what you're saying Leo! I have Tweedeck running in the background just just I need to hear that little alert noise... ;-P
- Walt Ruppar
like someone said.. that fail whale page should be monetised!
- Rob Sellen :o)
how about a screencast of your Beta FF , stream ... any tricks or tips to share ?
- johnpiercy
Been more on twitter since the new friendfeed UI came out.
- Dan van Moll
daniel.. why???
- Rob Sellen :o)
anything special to set up?
- Mark Essel
where mark.. here or there?
- Rob Sellen :o)
it's definitely pretty. now i just need to get all of my buddies to move over to yet *another* service. ugh!
- redboy
show them how you expand on conversations from them other places here ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
Welcome back, Leo :)
- Mona Nomura
It's too bad more people (in my circle of friends) don't use friendfeed. Then again, they don't use Twitter either. Everyone is on Facebook tho :-/
- Doug Jones
Good for you, Leo. Be one of US!
- Josh Haley
I DO agree with you there Leo Laporte.. me either.. and the new Seesmic Desktop client didn't help either.. friendfeed ftw
- Qbat
I haven't visited Twitter since I figured out how to post via IRC.
- Pete Brown
My Twitter activity has dropped as well. What's ironic is that I'm hearing about a lot of Twitter issues since the new FF beta... very strange
- Bwana ☠
Rob: I meant here with the FF beta ui
- Mark Essel
I'm with you all, the FF realtime feed has almost completely replaced twitter.com for me. Wild
- Jeff Carter
I'd bet the Twitter issues are being caused by all the FriendFeeder's dumping their content back into Twitter through the API. Just a guess though.
- The Griff
mark... yeah add filters ;o) use them. :o) if not following bwana follow him... ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
thanks Rob, I suppose there's a better way to get this to update then hitting refresh?
- Mark Essel
it all updates live time now anyway. :o) but yeah use filters ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
I think in a lot of ways Twitter is *too* minimalist. I appreciate at least one level of comment threading that almost every other site supports. Also, sometimes I like to be wordy and don't want to post everything in 160 character chunks.
- Doug Jones
@Rob: I get all interesting posts delivered to Tweetdeck anyway (because ppl crosspost) and always used FF for discussions and not "regular updates".. I'm pretty happy with Facebook, being for close friends, FriendFeed being for discussions and Twitter for everything else (like recently spending time with my friend, the whale) :)
- Dan van Moll
But Leo, you are a Social Media Butterfly. ;)
- Robert Hafer
@Bwana: That's true! Since FF beta release on monday the "whale-rate" increased significant. Twitter recently disabled the "delete" function for tweets -- maybe to ease server load (see elections 2008, where they did this, too).
- Dan van Moll
Am learning how to use FF. Pretty good I think :)
- mahjongmi
@Doug: Same here.. But I'm pretty fine with my "real life friends" being on Facebook and everyone else being on the twitters/friendfeed.. especially since the new Tweetdeck made monitoring Twitter and Facebook so easy.
- Dan van Moll
I wish I could "automatically" have all of my twitter friends' posts show up in ff. I've imported all of my twitter friends who are on ff, into ff, but for those twitter friends who are NOT on ff, is what I'm missing, and forcing me to still watch twitter a bit. Any good solutions to that?
- Dan Nimtz
This is interesting? Will this be the new twitter? I would like some customization too.
- Disney By The Numbers
what i am waiting for Dan.. that way I can stop using twitter full stop :o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
Hmm maybe I should just invest a little more time into "learning friendfeed" (especially lists). In general it has everything Twitter got plus a better visualization of discussions.. do you all use the website or are there tools like Tweetdeck out yet?
- Dan van Moll
use the website dan ;o) how can we all not improve it via feedback if we dont use it ;o) these people ACT on feedback ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
@Rob: Hmm sounds reasonable =)
- Dan van Moll
ok I'm following @bwana, now to find those filters...(got blind sided by 3 articles)
- Mark Essel
Figured out how to see non FF Twitter friends on my feed...may not work for protected updates tho.
- The Griff
Griff.. care to share? i got a room with all my twitter replies going to it.. but really want a stream with ALL my twitter in it, so i just reply from here.
- Rob Sellen :o)
ahh I see there's a beta.friendfeed.com hmmm looks familiar
- Mark Essel
Posted it to my feed. Basically just "Create a Feed", make it private if you want. Then add the twitter service pointing to your (unprotected) friends. Can do one feed per friend to make it clearer or one big feed if you want. Still checking whether it'll work for protected friends...thinking it might since you are already signed into Twitter from FF.
- The Griff
The funny thing is that I read this while listening to the Gillmor Gang from last weekend which was all about Friendfeed.
- Michael K Pate
Leo, do you think that will continue?
- Ed
I'm visiting it a lot less, too.
- Robert Scoble
Leo, are you automatically creating imaginary friends for people that are on Twitter but not on FriendFeed? Anyone know of something automated for that?
- Jason Carter
Same here. Now if only FriendFeed had a native iPhone App. But Nambu is pretty good.
- Adam Nieto
thats what I already do griff.. i dont get the whole twitter stream.. ;o(
- Rob Sellen :o)
I did once... to follow someone who was only on twitter. But this place is home now.
- Aaron
Trying out friendfeed for the first time... seems pretty cool
- Danny Dunn
I think I might just make this my home too!
- Kevin J Hatton
welcome to all you new users. :o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
do you follow all your twitter friends here? I wasn't able to get that rss feed into FF
- Mark Essel
Really glad to have you over here Leo. It really is a superior medium.
- Thomas Hawk
Liking the iPhone UI though a native app will be nice. Tweetie sets the bar for Twitter clients let's hope for something similar on the iPhone. But I would like a desktop app too.
- Ken Knight
I'll visit Twitter just to see if people have replied to me in Twitter.
- John E. Bredehoft
Honnestly, I don't understand. You've just "broadcasted" this message, Leo. Where's your contribution to this discussion? Live, real-time or not... where's the difference (to you)?
- directeur
Griff: Not clear on what you're doing and/or getting out of the feed you made. Rob's question seems to still stand? What the goal is: Have all those that you follow on twitter to be feeding in (as FF friends or as invisible friends) to a single feed which would then represent everything that you would see via the twitter web page. Not necessarily real elegant, but less frustrating that fail whales ;)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
I've looked at Twitter more since Beta came out than the previous 30 days.
- JSNFLMNG
Twitter may be a good place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there.
- Louis Gray
I was forced there as the corporate firewall blocked out friendfeed :S
- Sanne Buurma
++++ louis. ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
Now that I've set up Friend Feed. I'm agreeing with Leo
- Gunny doesn't side-hug™
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Trying to find a groove on using FF, Tweetdeck & all others...
- Judd6149
welcome to you new users... :o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
judd... just use ths ;o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
I can't completely cut the cord from the twitters. Way too many friends there that will NEVER use friendfeed.
- tomit
I initially had one private feed setup for all of my non-FF Twitter friends. I've switched to having a private feed set per non-FF Twitter friend. Each time a friend posts on Twitter it comes into my FF stream. I can then reply and by checking the box send an @ reply back to Twitter. Hope that answers the question @guruvan. The problem with having the single feed is that people become unidentifiable. I'm sure an enhancement could be made to FF to fix that. Think the 1:1 is better though.
- The Griff
that is really awesome!! FF is kicking ass! woo hoo!
- Susan Beebe
The new FF Ui might very well be the perfect excuse to stop visiting twitter.
- Pedro Fonseca
I have, but I started using FriendFeed more after the UI change
- Cristian
I generally like the new UI but, I have to say, I'm getting burned out on the long comment threads here on FriendFeed. I just don't have time for it and I'm getting better information density on Twitter. Less is more for me.
- Mike Doeff
Leo is in the bag :-D
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
It would be nice if FF implemented a Twitter client using the API and automatically made non-FF users imaginary.
- Peter Warnock
How about opening up a method in the API to create imaginary friends and let the community build some tools to automate porting friends from other services?
- Brian Stoner
Then why is it all up and down FF, I see posts from you from Twitter, Leo? Am I missing something?
- Steve Austin
Steve, if you view the Twitter profile and see the source they are from FriendFeed, Tumblr etc ;)
- Nicholas James
So when I see the twitter icon next to one of his posts, that doesn't mean that it was first posted on twitter? I'm not trying to be accusatory or anything, just trying to learn...
- Steve Austin
I second this motion. Tired of recreating friend groups.
- Bryan Griffith
Steve; sometimes posts which receive "likes" and "comments" get bumped in the users feed. Although it does appear that Leo is using Twitter unless FriendFeed is recognizing the imported Tumblr items to Twitter as a source from Twitter. I'm not exactly sure on that.
- Nicholas James
Is Twitter up? ;-)
- zeroinfluencer
It seems as though most people on Twitter INSIST on posting the very same tweets here, too. So what's the point of reading Twitter again?
- Stan Scott
That is the frustration most have. FF consolidates all feeds for all social sites in one location, so redundancy is inevitable.Now if FF incorporated a service like Ping.fm into the site, and build an app to support all mobile phones and appliances you would never have to go anywhere else! ;)
- Aaron Friedman
My reaction is that FriendFeed does not really add value over Twitter and other silos.
- Scott Royall
That's nothing yet! I haven't ate, drank or slept since the beta came out. I'm gonna sue these FF bastards, mark my words. ;)
- Meryn Stol
Scott: really? You clearly have NOT looked very deeply.
- Robert Scoble
Twitter never got me, or i never really "got" twitter. I'm much happier here on FF, not really because its real time, but because i find the content and conversations much more interesting.
- Lasse Johnsen
Oh and i actually FIND the content and conversations here.
- Lasse Johnsen
I have said it before and I'll say it again: How much can you really say in 140 characters anyway?
- Meryn Stol
lol
- Rachael Depp
a few words meryn... :o)
- Rob Sellen :o)
Are you serious? The best part is the simplicity of threading on tweets, and watching quality content in your network rise to the top.
- Kevin Elliott
likewise
- CharlieWhiskey™
I'm unimpresed. Think about it. You have to have an account on every service you want to aggregate. Each of those accounts has to be maintained. If you don't have those sources, you have a very dull FF account.
- Scott Royall
Scott, you can participate on FF without using any external services. Just comment, and post messages (and links) yourself. It's very much like Twitter then. Only way better UI. A UI which is impossible to duplicate on the Twitter platform atm.
- Meryn Stol
You want imaginary accounts that generates imaginary content? Thats totally Web 5.0!
- Lasse Johnsen
Yeah? :-) Good for you :-). I was enjoying your episode on the xserve today.
- Richard A.
What is the goal of Social Networking? To provide a way to interact with people who interest us, right? So why do we keep re-inventing it? Each time we do, we have to rebuild our commnities.
- Scott Royall
Scott: because we keep figuring out new things to do with it. Yelp is a social network for restaurant reviews. Upcoming.org is a social network for events. Friendfeed is needed because Twitter doesn't do enough. I'm sure there'll be others that will come along that will compete with friendfeed, too.
- Robert Scoble
My take: Something like FF ends up accidentally doing the opposite of what it intends by creating yet another refuge for discerning users to flee to.
- Scott Royall
Scott: ff is doing something other social networks have proven incapable of doing so far. First, it's live. Second, it has filtering that Twitter will never be able to match (Twitter doesn't have the metadata that friendfeed has). Third, friendfeed has a much better conversation surface than Twitter does (or facebook). Fourth, friendfeed's rooms (er, feeds) are a place where you can do private business much better than on any other network. Fifth, friendfeed's direct messaging features actually work.
- Robert Scoble
Finally, I just saw my fifth fail whale of the day over on Twitter. Friendfeed hasn't failed for me EVER (it was down for an hour quite a few months ago but is 100 times more reliable than Twitter and faster than Facebook).
- Robert Scoble
I am happy for you. Unfortunately you still cannot get Friendfeed via SMS so when I am at work, I cannot get those updates so I will stick with both.
- Paul L. McCord Jr.
Paul: yup, there's a lot of things that Twitter does that friendfeed doesn't. It's why I stay on both too.
- Robert Scoble
Paul, you can receive FF updates via IM, would that be a viable option?
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Yes Robert, you duplicate effort, which was my point.
- Scott Royall
Scott: there's a tax to pay and I paid it. Yes! :-)
- Robert Scoble
hope you don't mind me using this thread in my blog post today : http://www.techsoomer.com/friendf...
- Kevin Pruett
Robert, social networking is a major part of your life. I think most people just fit it in.
- Scott Royall
Scott: there are more and more people who make this stuff a major part of their lives. You've gotta see the engagement stats for Facebook. Off the charts. My wife is addicted.
- Robert Scoble
Kevin, go for it.
- Scott Royall
@leo et al: I haven't visited FriendFeed since the new TweetDeck came out ;-)
- Jason Goldberg
Jason: are you on http://beta.friendfeed.com ? Tweetdeck is a lot less interesting than it used to be.
- Robert Scoble
I am glad you are accessible to us fans now :) You do amazing work. I am glad your not bound by tech tv any more and can do what ya like ^_^
- Stephen
Same here.. the instant FF released it's new UI. Twitter is acting like Cry baby with Fail Whales http://is.gd/rGcJ
- Sardar Mohkim Khan
It's all Rob's fault that twitter is being ignored by me. Is it coincidence with the new ff ui? They say that things happen in perfect timing, when they're supposed to.
- Myrna
It seems to me there are two sides to social media: personal and professional. Just when I figured Twitter would win the professional side Friendfeed beta comes out. I have to wonder if the beta will cause the services' roles to switch. Then again why would anyone but close friends care about my Netflix queue, etc? Perhaps that's what filtering will help but FF needs some templates.
- The Griff
please pardon me, but new UI is terrible :P I pray God twitter will never change.
- 'Like' robot (frɐnc)
I'm Sick of This Shit - http://github.com/raganwa...
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I'm so entirely grateful that you're thinking about how to solve this.
- Marc Chung
bumptop looks awesome! http://mashable.com/2009... .. sorry mac users! ;-)
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Facebook’s “In-House Sociologist” Shares Stats on Users’ Social Behavior - http://www.insidefacebook.com/2009...
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"In other words, Facebook users comment on stuff from only about 5-7% of their Facebook friends. And as has been shown by many other studies, women communicate with more people in all cases than men. “People who are members of online social networks are not so much ‘networking’ as they are ‘broadcasting their lives to an outer tier of acquaintances who aren’t necessarily inside the Dunbar circle,’” Lee Rainie, the director of the Pew Internet & American Life Project, says."
- Thomas Hawk
from Bookmarklet
then again, I comment on stuff from only about 0% of my Facebook friends, because, well, Facebook is pretty boring.
- Thomas Hawk
likewise.
- Parth Awasthi
@Thomas: +3. The only reason I go there is when one of my High School friends finds me there.
- AJ Kohn
I'm doing something wrong or I'm really unpopular, 120 "friends" or 500 "friends", who are these people?
- Ace
Interesting stats. I do have to work on those 10 friends, I am not quite talkative.
- Carlos Lorenzo
every now and again it sort of freaks me out when I log on to facebook and some random person tries to chat with me. I don't want that. I have AIM and Yahoo Messenger for that.
- Thomas Hawk
Memo to Web sociologists: Dunbar Number is meaningless online. It is a measure of physical interaction in the RW, limited by time and transportation, not mental abilities of humans. Online, we can have multiples of Dunbar numbers simultaneously.
- Bora Zivkovic
That is incorrect: "Dunbar's number was first proposed by British anthropologist Robin Dunbar, who theorized that "this limit is a direct function of relative neocortex size, and that this in turn limits group size ... the limit imposed by neocortical processing capacity is simply on the number of individuals with whom a stable inter-personal relationship can be maintained.""
- coldbrew
Dunbar was dead wrong - the limitations are not cognitive,
- Bora Zivkovic
It was and is a theory, and it didn't ever cite a specific number. Your original statement was that it was based on real world interactions when, in fact, it was based on "neocortical processing capacity."
- coldbrew
The Memo was to sociologists, not to Dunbar himself, because it is them who took it and ran away with it, assigning it a number and not realizing that limitations are physical, not cognitive. They fell in love with the idea, without critically engaging with it. I am glad that I know Communications profs who have realized this and teach about Dunbar Number correctly in the context of the Web.
- Bora Zivkovic
or: "Facebook’s “In-House Sociologist” Shares Stats on Boring People's Behavior" ;)
- Meryn Stol
From the post, it was unclear whether the communications were measured for all time, or just within a particular period (i.e. the last six months). I just joined Facebook Thursday morning, so my comment ratio is pretty high.
- Ontario Emperor
So you could probably handle 300,000 personal relationships because cognition isn't an issue?
- coldbrew
It is to be seen what the cognitive limits are. Online, one can swiftly move from one social circle to another. A lot of it does not even require 1-to-1: I check quickly what everyone is broadcasting, and I hope many of them quickly scan what I am broadcasting. I may get into 1-to-1 with one or several of them in the morning, and a totally different group in the afternoon.
- Bora Zivkovic
About 90% of the people in the world - and this includes the highly mobile USA - are born, live and die in one place, often in the same house, rarely or never traveling more than 100 miles from their birthplace. They build their social network in RL - and that is about 150 people.
- Bora Zivkovic
Online, one can have multiples of social groups. Last week in NYC, I met and had a grand time with my "NYC social circle", all initially discovered online, although I may not be in daily contact with any one of them. One's social groups go in and out of one's attention all the time. We go through phases several times a day.
- Bora Zivkovic
And I do not consider my NYC friends any lesser than friends I have at home where I live. I know some people from online interactions MUCH better, in greater depth and detail of mutual understanding, than my next-door neighbors, in-laws or the person I worked with for a year in 2001.
- Bora Zivkovic
I'm having trouble rectifying two statements you've made: 1) "the limitations are not cognitive" 2) "It is to be seen what the cognitive limits are."
- coldbrew
Dunbar Number, used by sociologists to be around 150 is not the cognitive limit. Cognitive limit will be larger, much larger. It exists, but we did not get there (i.e., determining/measuring it) yet. Ask Scoble - he may be close ;-)
- Bora Zivkovic
"Dunbar's number is a theoretical cognitive limit to the number of people with whom one can maintain stable social relationships...No precise value has been proposed for Dunbar's number, but a commonly cited approximation is 150."
- coldbrew
Another problem is temporal. In the example of the usual people who never travel, their social circle is pretty static throughout their lives. But for people like us, it can be quite dynamic. You engage intensively with a group for a while, then move on, then come back to the same group 20 years later, etc. So, there is now a temporal dynamic on top of spatial and we need to agree on what the definitions are (e.g., time-frame of one's Number).
- Bora Zivkovic
I agree with that, and I believe the number will differ among people substantially; but there will always be an average. I don't think you'll find an argument from anyone that digital communications removes the barriers to interact with greater numbers of people, but one's Dunbar number depends on whether a few simple interactions constitutes a "stable social relationship." [EDIT: removed pronoun for clarity ]
- coldbrew
I agree we need to have a good definition of the terms "stable", "social" and "relationship". I am now brewing a blog post about this - thank you ;-)
- Bora Zivkovic
That sounds like a good idea. This can be quite an academic discussion, and somewhat distant from my formal education (hm, I wonder if you could draw parallels to molecular interactions? Some proteins are comprised of thousands of atoms.). I'll be sure to read your take.
- coldbrew
Social media is really great for increasing one's "loose ties". It doesn't have to be merely broadcast. You can engage with people when they're doing something what interests you.
- Meryn Stol
http://friendfeed.com/e... "What mainly goes up, therefore, is not the core network but the number of casual contacts that people track more passively. This corroborates Dr Marsden’s ideas about core networks, since even those Facebook users with the most friends communicate only with a relatively small...
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- Noah David Simon
I really don't see significant difference here between gender. I would of thought it would be higher. ...no I really do think it would be higher.. these numbers are quite misleading. the intimacy in the contacts are quite different in a number spread between genders. women are more apt to have more semi intimate friends and males are more likely to have more very intimate friends. and...
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- Noah David Simon
tag: Dunbar
- Bora Zivkovic
I think FB missed a bet to turn off user comments on a whole host of things. When users post status updates to their own wall, any of their friends can comment. When anyone else writes on a given user's wall, no one can comment on those posts. Stupid decision.
- Andrew C
Woot, and today I see comments on wall messages are back.
- Andrew C
How FriendFeed uses MySQL to store schema-less data - The San Francisco MySQL Meetup Group (San Francisco, CA) - Meetup.com - http://mysql.meetup.com/30...
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Live and in person :) (now)
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
video feed?
- Capn' One Eye - adrift
I would love to see the slideshow or video if there's any. :)
- Merry Xmas FFeeders - AJ
I'd really love to see this - I'm hitting similar issues trying to track the relationships across social networks on various platforms with SocialToo.
- Jesse Stay
Bret's blog post on the subject is here: http://bret.appspot.com/entry...
- Gary Burd
Is this streaming?
- Ken Sheppardson
Paul, any chance you'll post up this deck? I'm very keen to see it.
- Jordan Willms
We still want the slide deck, though.
- Chris, Taskerrific Guy
This is a link to Bret's blog post on the subject: http://bret.appspot.com/entry... in case someone missed it the first 2 times.
- Mitch
Here are some notes: http://beta.friendfeed.com/ericflo...
- Paul Buchheit
Great presentation, Bret (via Paul, ha) and very cool to meet you. My friends & I had a lively discussion about it afterwards at Kate O'Brien's too. hey if you ever want a foil for implementing with a RDBM etc., hit me up, I'm game. I was kind of surprised that it wasn't more... contentious? argumentative? than the blog comments. Anyways, very neat.
- anna sauce
One reason to hire me that isn't obvious from reading my resume (advertisement) - http://github.com/raganwa...
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One of the subjects I try to discuss with prospective employers is how we could put my non-coding/non-management traits to work. Good people help retain good people. Good people with notoriety attract good people. I have a very small “brand,” but for all that it is very specific and should not be carelessly wasted. I’m looking for the type of company where we can put “The Braithwaite Effect” to work attracting and retaining the very best people.
- Reginald Braithwaite
new blog post: Ruby AST for fun and profit.. with a look behind ruby2lolz: http://www.igvita.com/2008...
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writing Ruby > LOLCODE translator... I've never laughed so hard working on a piece of software. *wipes away tear*
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Zero-Downtime Restarts with HAProxy - http://www.igvita.com/2008...
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CUTE!
- Grant Gochnauer
Language Fail - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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Ouch, that was audible homicide.
- Colby Olson
soo funny I laughed out loud
- amelia arapoff
Double ouch!!
- Sheila Taylor
I have little ability to fix code without refactoring it. The action of rewriting helps me to understand, like notetaking in science...
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I behave similarly. I often find myself refactoring bits of code to be more readable. Poorly written code bothers me just as much as a poorly written book. The problem with the author or programmer is identical: they lack the ability to communicate ideas clearly, resulting in bad organization, poor character development, and unnecessary repetition.
- Marc Chung
wow - I got posted to programming.reddit.com - http://snurl.com/36p2x
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Y Combinator: Startup Ideas We'd Like to Fund - http://ycombinator.com/ideas...
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"So we're trying something new: we're going to list some of the ideas we've been waiting to see, but only describe them in general terms. It may be that recipes for ideas are the most useful form anyway, because imaginative people will take them in directions we didn't anticipate."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
Good ideas, mostly. Of course, as always, the devil is in the details (and to some extent, I think that's the point).
- Paul Buchheit
interesting list, surprised to see photo/video sharing sites on there.
- Adam Kazwell
From pg's comment "Most people who read that one [search engine that concentrates on design] will think "huh?" But if someone reads it and thinks "Damn, how did he hear about what we're working on?" that's someone we'd really love to hear from."
- seman
"More open alternatives to Wikipedia." Wonder whatever happened to Google Knol...
- Philipp Lenssen
They should start FF rooms for each of these. I'd contribute to a few.
- Amir Gharaat
I think most of these are *great* ideas. This post isn't food for thought, it's a banquet :-)
- Karim
Seems a little like bait? Some of the ideas are excellent reading and should be interesting to a few thinking about 'what they can do better'. Some of the other mentions (and wording in particular) leads me to wonder why go public with the list.
- Charlie Anzman
Related problem: Using your inbox as a to-do list. The solution is probably to acknowledge this rather than prevent it. --- :-)
- Kishore Balakrishnan
Jesus, this single page has more original content and ideas than the last 1000 ff and blog posts I read. Inspiring.
- John Murray
AWESOME idea, thanks for sharing Paul... this is going to be fun to watch!
- Susan Beebe
Haha i posted thast too. Although Paul is most more visible on FF, of course.
- Akshay Dodeja
Very interesting, especially #4
- Scott Schnaars
did any of the y combinator startup go big ? perhaps an ignorant question... a couple of them i know of are scribd.com, and a search engine for mechanical parts.. forgot the name.
- Krishna Gade
We're working on #3.
- Ryan Kuder
search engine for mechanical parts: http://octopart.com ?
- Peter Stuifzand
Interesting: "Advertising could be made much better if it tried to please its audience, instead of treating them like victims who deserve x amount of abuse in return for whatever free site they're getting. ... What we have now is basically print and TV advertising translated to the web. " How does TV advertising treat its audience better than web advertising?
- Constantinos Michael
TV advertising is generally more entertaining than web advertising.
- Ajay Kapal
@ Peter yeah... I was talking about octopart thanks for the link.
- Krishna Gade
@ Ryan, what is it ? do you have something outside to try ?
- Krishna Gade
would have liked to see this idea for an iPhone App Builder make Paul's list....seems much for YC-esque: http://joelaz.com/post...
- Adam Kazwell
@ Ryan Kuder, I've been looking into #3 for a while, I'd love to chat if your in the bay area
- Kris
I definitely vote for better email, or better say, better communication tool.
- Jan Horna
What I'm interested in are #5, 6, and 7. :)
- imabonehead
Sorry to say... The "Y Combinator" team is a little ...ahem... short on business expertise.
- Mitchell Tsai
re 13, I wonder if the ESP-game trick can be spun out into an entire educational system.
- j1m
Singapore at night
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Love the food in Singapore!
- Mitchell Tsai
Definitely, mmm Chili Crab
- Casey Muller
I had a great time in Singapore, including the food! Would love to go back there.:-)
- Cathryn Hrudicka
Absolutely beautiful.
- Nicholas Kreidberg
Oh wow, it really looks nice. almost unrea.
- Roshni
Nice pictures! I grew up there and returned several years ago just for the food. http://bit.ly/3rjHX5
- Jauder Ho
How to reveal blocked caller ID info - http://digg.com/securit...
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"This must be the year Linux takes over the desktop! lolololololol"
- Paul
I liked this for the comment :)
- Marc Chung
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