+Anne--Right about the time I forget about this, it shows up again. Too funny.
- Rob Michael (Atmos Trio)
interesting. I've tried a few times to get animated images to work on FF without success.. I guess piping it through twitpic might be the answer!
- veo
veo, yeah Twitpic, RSS (MediaRSS), Delicious, Tumblr all seem to work. There are more than that but those come to mind.
- Josh Haley
Just one question, Josh: are you by chance spinning on 9 different Aeron chairs that were a steal after the first dot-com bubble burst? The future of the internets: you're looking at it =)
- Micah Wittman
could anybody describe how to create such a picture? thx
- Arnaud Fischer
Arnaud, see http://friendfeed.com/mokarga... for tips. And Josh correct me if I'm wrong, he uploaded to Twitpic the same animated GIF 9 times, then created a friendfeed post and attached all 9 images by URL (instead of choosing images from his hard drive). Images coming from twitpic, soup.io, etc will animate, but photos hosted by friendfeed itself won't.
- Micah Wittman
Did not sleep well with all the spinning. :p
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
It's infinitely more amusing when they don't all load at the same time. Spinning chaos!!!
- CAJ, somewhere else
Why the friendfeed limitation on animated .gifs? It seems arbitrary and odd to me. I could see wanting to limit filesize (animated .gifs can get large) but you can upload huge .jpgs without any trouble.
- veo
Mesmerizing like a lava lamp. Hey! You are a 'Lame-o Lamp'! And you might want to call the folks in the makeup department and get that forehead de-sheened. Remember, your forehead is an alternate landing site for the Space Shuttle - And you don't want to blind the crew on their final approach, do you? :-)
- Morgan Haley
Good luck trying to land anything on that while it's moving. :p I can always count on my brother.
- Josh Haley
OMG! That should be the next installment at some fluecy deucy art museum!!! AWESOME. :) It's like whack-a-mole... I keep trying to figure out which one will show your face next and for some reason I'm always wrong.
- Her Lindsay-ness
Thanks, Lindsay! :) I think that's the first time someone described wanting to systematically hit me on the head repeatedly, yet have it come off as a compliment. I would love to take credit like I was Andy Warhol or something, but alas I was just tired and felt like doing something silly. :p
- Josh Haley
from iPhone
yep, what Lindsay said. That was one of the first bona-fide instances I've seen of using Friendfeed as a medium for net art. You could get in the Whitney & stuff. GOOD JOB
- Kamilah Gill
LOL! I actually didn't mean it the way it came out (the hitting you on the head part, the compliment part is ok ;)). But I'm in tears laughing when I read your reply. Whack-a-mole always frustrated the heck out of me... I did a lot more staring than hitting when I tried to play. It was mesmerizing.
- Her Lindsay-ness
you wait - the scary part of this comes when one of these ffoodoo heads stops turning, starts grimmacing and talking to you ..... have you seen one of these heads actually get up off the chair and curse the world??? ... the seeming dissynchronicity, the haphazard discord with which these dollheads turn might drive you ...nuts
- Petr Buben
I will say that I didn't know Dustin Diaz worked at Twitter now, that's pretty cool! I just knew him as a guy with a great frontend web coding blog.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Having used both services I prefer Gowalla, but Foursquare has Dodgeball creators and that's helping make it more popular. Gowalla has a better iPhone app, where it's easier to add locations. Foursquare has a better "game" aspect.
- Michael Koby
"Earlier this week developer Atebits previewed the upcoming second edition of Tweetie, the popular iPhone Twitter client. Despite the app including a number of significant new features the public response wasn’t entirely favourable. The reason? Tweetie 2 won’t be a free upgrade for existing users – they will have to pay again for an entirely new app."
- Martin Bryant
from Bookmarklet
AJ, They should have launched this on April 0.000000001.
- Micah Wittman
CHICAGO—September 24, 2009—37signals is now a $100 billion dollar company, according to a group of investors who have agreed to purchase 0.000000001% of the company in exchange for $1.
- Marko Đorđevic
“When it comes to valuation, making money is a real obstacle. Our profitability has been a real drag on our valuation,” said Mr. Fried. “Once you have profits, it’s impossible to just make stuff up. That’s why we’re switching to a ‘freeconomics’ model. We’ll give away everything for free and let the market speculate about how much money we could make if we wanted to make money. That way, the sky’s the limit!”
- Marko Đorđevic
I'd like to see the speech Nixon would have delivered if we stranded HIM on the Moon.
- George Brickner
George: In a spacesuit? I know the speech if he wasn't in one!
- Fee501st
It's surprisingly (refreshingly?) secular.
- Paul Reynolds
Am I crazy or is Safire missing a possessive at the end of this? "For every human being...will know that there is some corner of another world that is forever mankind." That doesn't make a bit of sense to me.
- aldenoneil
"Apparently, as far as the folks at Apple are concerned, all roads lead to Cupertino. ..An icon that’s certainly worth a moment of your time is the one that Apple created for Maps. Grab your iPhone now and took a good look at it — notice anything familiar? Try looking a little closer"
- Tate DA FF MVP
from Bookmarklet
surprised it has taken someone this long to notice. That, or it's a slow news day ;)
- alphaxion
Yeah - I've known this forever. I noticed it within a week of the v1 launch.
- Sparky Crocker
I wish I lived in silicon valley this could be old news to me... whats interesting to me is how the location has become an extension of Apple's branding.
- Tate DA FF MVP
Configured my iPhone and all works like a charm. Calendars and contacts works great. The best part is that if you setup Google Voice to forward SMS to your email, you also get Google Voice SMS pushed to your inbox. Sweet!!
- Kevin Tee
I already get google voice sms delivered to my iphone via the sms feature.. Im not sure I understand why I'd want it to email me the sms at that point? Unless you don't get unlimited texts I guess then I could see the value.
- Bill Rawlinson
How are you getting your Google Voice SMS - is it using GV Max?
- Kevin Tee
"Two years after Yahoo surprised everyone by launching push Yahoo Mail for iPhone, Google adds push support for Gmail. And it's not limited to iPhone, it also works for Windows Mobile devices. "Push e-mail is used to describe e-mail systems that provide an "always-on" capability, in which new e-mail is instantly and actively transferred (pushed) as it arrives by the mail delivery agent (MDA) (commonly called mail server) to the mail user agent (MUA), also called the e-mail client. E-mail clients include smartphones and, less strictly, IMAP personal computer mail applications," explains Wikipedia. Instead of periodically fetching new messages, mail clients receive notifications as soon as there's a new message. Applications no longer waste bandwidth and you're able to read a message shortly after it was sent."
- Arnaldo M Pereira
from Bookmarklet
I actually prefer Gowalla to Foursquare for the simple fact Gowalla actually uses the GPS to determine where I'm at rather than just by city area. when I search for things in foursquare it lists things 20 miles away and to add a new place I have to know the address. Gowalla is better thought out IMHO, Foursquare is riding Dodgeball coattails and isn't doing a great job at what it's trying to be.
- Michael Koby
from BuddyFeed
PHP and Python are both fine, anything but ASP!
- Mike Chelen
Otto, you sound like me before I actually started programming in Python. It rocks.
- Steve "Daddy do it!" Lacy
Python's the best, I've got to agree with the people who dislike the whitespace thing though (It's still the best).
- Hugh Isaacs II
I tried to use Python, then stopped even bothering when I couldn't find a way to manually define my code blocks. It's a stupid design feature that makes the language unusable for me. Mainly, I don't like using "smart" editors or IDEs for simplistic things, and the whitespace issue makes it more or less mandatory to use one of those. They say Lisp is a language of parentheses... Well, Python is a language of the spacebar.
- Otto
Why would you *not* indent your code that way anyway? Is the ability to format your code badly really a feature worth fighting for? Python forces people to pay attention to formatting, which improves readability and maintainability. Pure win.
- Kevin Shaum
The ability to format my code the way I want to format it instead of sticking to some arbitrary specification that, frankly, makes no sense, is a feature that I will not give up, yes. One size does *NOT* fit all, and there is more than one way to do anything. Making code formatting have *programmatic meaning* is an epic fail, in every sense. I will not now, nor ever, use a language that has this "feature". End of discussion.
- Otto
@Otto It doesn't make it a fail if you don't like it. Besides if that's the only flaw you can find in Python it just demonstrates how much you really know about it. ;) There's a saying in Finnish which translates to English something like: You should try everything once, except folk dancing and incest.
- Tarmo Aidantausta
Tarmo: I disagree entirely. I am the only person that matters! HOORAY EGO! HOORAY BEER!
- Otto
Steve: You'd be surprised. Do you have a car made in the last ten years? Well, there's a better than even chance that some of my code is actually inside your car (and a ~85% chance that my code has affected your car in some manner during manufacture). Have a nice drive home. :-)
- Otto
I don't understand the way you guys are responding to Otto - he doesn't like a key aspect of coding in Python; something that touches every line of code he would write - so why should he continue to mess with it? There are plenty of really good languages out there that he can use and get the job done. he tried it, didn't like it, and moved on. If you like using it great - but his not liking it doesn't reflect on your or the language at all; so why be defensive?
- Bill Rawlinson
Otto: distinguishing between formatting and programmatic logic is subjective. in C for example, a new line character has meaning, so "#include <iostream> void main()" would be different than putting them on separate lines.
- Mike Chelen
Bill: The reason is, virtually every programmer responds the same way the first time they look at Python; but most people who stick with it a few days *completely* reverse their opinions. I went months thinking Python was awful before really digging in, and found out I had been missing out on something really cool.
- Kevin Shaum
Kevin: Why should I stick with it? I've read several code examples of it, I see no inherent advantages to using it (especially since virtually every other modern language offers a very similar feature set), and trying to adhere to its annoying and strange formatting standards drives me straight up the damn wall, so no. The hell with it. Python is the only language I've ever seen where...
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- Otto
While I do agree with Otto of the ridiculousness of whitespace having an effect on program execution, I disagree with Otto's stance on branding Python as a bad language per se. It is a nice language to ease beginners into writing nicely formatted code, although I shudder to think of writing huge apps with it. As was posted, there is no such thing as a one-size-fits-all language. Me? Oh,...
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- Pandu ● IT Optimizer
from fftogo
Otto: my reason for learning python was originally that it was the only language supported by google app engine, which has a certain utility. since they now support java as well, it is more due to seeing some elegant examples in python, and that if from google's point of view any language is somehow comparable to java, there is probably a good reason to learn more about it ;)
- Mike Chelen
Where it published? is there any story with it
- Satya Prakash
"Billy Corgan took to Smashing Pumpkins’ official Website today to reveal that the barely recognizable band has begun work on a massive new 44-song album called Teargarden by Kaleidyscope. You’d figure it’d be a while between now and when you’ll hear the fruits of the Pumpkins’ labors, but Corgan also revealed on an innovative release plan that’ll allow fans to freely download the songs as the band finishes them."
- Kurt Starnes
from Bookmarklet
"In a break from its usual task of searching for distant cosmic explosions, NASA's Swift satellite has acquired the highest-resolution view of a neighboring spiral galaxy ever attained in the ultraviolet. The galaxy, known as M31 in the constellation Andromeda, is the largest and closest spiral galaxy to our own."
- Kurt Starnes
Absolutely, programming is Engineering. All that varies is the scale of the system you're building. Engineering is also both art and science. I worked on the space station at NASA as an engineer, on truck vehicle dynamics at Ford, and software dev for 30 years now, and you could write many volumes on the similarities.
- Ken Sheppardson
Also "Systems Architecting: Creating & Building Complex Systems" by Eberhardt Rectin -- http://www.amazon.com/Systems... which among other things goes into design "heuristics", aka patterns in Systems Architecting
- Ken Sheppardson
Those engineering processes with waterfall diagrams and Work Breakdown Structures, however, were developed to handle MASSIVE systems with hundreds or thousands of engineers. I don't know what the software development equivalent of the Apollo Program would be these days...
- Ken Sheppardson
Paul Graham from that talk: "Sometimes what the hackers do is called "software engineering," but this term is just as misleading. Good software designers are no more engineers than architects are. The border between architecture and engineering is not sharply defined, but it's there. It falls between what and how: architects decide what to do, and engineers figure out how to do it. What...
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- Leo Laporte
One of the big differences between big engineering projects and software development is that on engineering projects you often have participants with significantly different agendas and schedules. The guy who does plumbing might be available on these three days, the electrician has to be out on this day or he charges you 2x, the concrete guy wants to overcharge you, etc. You're not all on the same team. So you have to have a predetermined schedule and budget, clear specifications and deadlines, etc.
- Ken Sheppardson
Hey I just discovered this TWIT show... what does FLOSS stand for?
- John Wright
Errrrrrr........................ That's what she said?
- Johnny Worthington
John: It comes from Richard Stallman's comment: "Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. To understand the concept, you should think of free as in free speech, not as in free beer." -- http://www.gnu.org/philoso...
- Ken Sheppardson
What? So something like this? "If you want to see a list of our guest, click there --> Link"
- Johnny Worthington
No, you turn text into hyperlinks, you don't say "Go here" or "Do this"
- Ken Sheppardson
Just like Justin Timberlake... but different.
- Ken Sheppardson
It's a vote getting thing. People don't understand technology so they want the government to do it for them. The mums and dads don't want to have to learn about filtering (nor do they probably want to monitor their kids) so WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN is a powerful message
- Johnny Worthington
We need a consumer-grade ZFS appliance... or some sort of distro...
- Ken Sheppardson
What was the book just mentioned again?
- John Wright
A programming show would be interesting. I really like how Leo is diving into and getting his hands dirty with many areas in tech, even programming. Keep up the good work Leo!
- John Wright
"The Next-Generation Newspaper is the user’s information hub, aggregating content from different sources and matching it to the user’s profile, preferences, and context (situation). It is accessible from any device, both online and offline, and helps the user to navigate the content universe through search, links, and recommendations. Content and audiences are monetized through pay-for-content and advertising."
- LANjackal
from Bookmarklet
"One challenge with any new platform is figuring out how to make money from it. While some people are working with Android “for the love of the game”, others would like to build a business or augment an existing business."
- imabonehead
from Bookmarklet
Feels like an old joke, but I could be wrong. One thing struck me: I couldn't think of a single Jewish relative friend or acquaintance named Alexander. This cleared some naming tradition history http://ohr.edu/yhiy... (see last three paragraphs). "And that's one to grow on." :)
- Micah Wittman
Micah, yes, it's an old joke. (I think I heard it in the 90s.) And that's a fascinating article, thanks.
- Stephen Mack
That means you will never be able to unlock your iPhone - this fixes the previous hole that enabled that
- Jesse Stay
I think his link is direct from Akami
- Andrew Leyden
I'm definitely not updating until the iPhone dev team comes up with a new tool. Already backed up my ECID via Cydia. A non-jailbroken iPhone is so limited in functionality that it's not worth it, IMO.
- Otto
the new version isn't on software update yet.. itunes itself still thinks 8.2.1 is the latest version
- alphaxion
You have to download direct from the iTunes webpage off of the apple.com site. Not software update.
- Andrew Leyden
The links on the Apple iTunes.com site are Akamai enabled links. Not sure about the update link inside of iTunes (but am pretty sure Apple Software Update is also Akamai.)
- RAD Moose
@andrew I know, I was just stating that you couldn't get it thru their update push system that's all.
- alphaxion