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rjleaman: Complete List of Google Wave Gadgets, Robots & Extensions plus The Cheat Sheets http://bit.ly/FDuxB - http://twitter.com/rjleama...
Alex Kapranoff, Brook White, Jorge Gobbi and 3 other people liked this
Twitter releases a “Favorites” widget. Scoble loses his mind. - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
Daniel Rowley, Kenton, Jeunelle Foster and 6 other people liked this
nice...
- ffcode
It's been a long time...i have been using this widget on my blog http://junalontherun.com for last 2 months
- Junal Rahman
awesome thanks Junal, yeah i wasn't sure
- Zee.
oh it got released officially just yesterday said Twitter's lead designer...it's been a hidden feature for a couple of months.
- Zee.
It was always available as an RSS feed, so there's not really anything new here.
- Vezquex
how can you say there's nothing new here when its a new widget?
- Zee.
It's hardly hidden given that Dustin blogged about it in July (http://www.dustindiaz.com/twitter...). I found that via Google when someone was looking for one this summer. Good news all the same.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
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
Aiming To “Make Meaning,” Jaiku Co-Founder Leaves Google - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Michael Koby liked this
Tweetie 2 - iTunes link, looks like it's live! http://j.mp/t2itunes - http://twitter.com/tweetie...
John Wang and Michael Koby liked this
Brian Kernighan is one of my tech heroes. computerworld.au interview via slashdot: http://www.computerworld.com.au/index...
Michael Koby and Angelo liked this
Gowalla vs Foursquare. The winner won't lead due to features alone. I'll be who gets the early adopters to evangelize through events
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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
Tweetie developer calls on Apple to allow iPhone app upgrade pricing - http://thenextweb.com/2009...
Herb Hernandez, Patrick Jordan, Michael Koby and Roberto Bonini liked this
"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
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Prefer to use twitterrific !
- David Foucher
37 Signals Valuation Tops $100 Billion After Bold VC Investment - http://37signals.com/svn...
Marko Đorđevic, Kevin Pruett, Mike Chelen and 17 other people liked this
Win!
- Micah
Is it April 1 yet?
- AJ Batac :)
AJ, They should have launched this on April 0.000000001.
- Micah
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
Wow. The speech that Nixon would have read if the Apollo 11 astronauts had become stranded on the moon: http://gawker.com/5369364...
Sylvain Nadeau, Amy, aldenoneil and 7 other people liked this
Very Interesting. but I'm glad it didn't happen! What you guys think about the one way trip mission to mars, that head Nasa official said
- Fee501st
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
How Google Just Hurt Itself A Whole Lot | Techgeist - http://techgeist.net/2009...
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iPhone Maps Icon: Close to Apple’s Heart - http://theappleblog.com/2009...
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"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
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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, lurking
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
Why The Traditional News Media Is Becoming Less Relevant: They Didn't Adapt - http://techdirt.com/article...
Thomas Power, Zu from AOD, James Williams and 3 other people liked this
Push Gmail - Finally on the iPhone http://frioh.iheartikea.com.my/2009...
Kazuya Yokoyama, ¡amFrancesco!, Charlie Anzman and 6 other people liked this
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
arnaldostream to arnaldostream's feed, All Things Apple, The Apple Room: TNW Apple, All Things Google, TheNextWeb Forum, RWW: The Future of Tech, All Things Mobile
Push Gmail for iPhone and Windows Mobile - http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009...
Mathew A. Koeneker, Michael Koby, Shea and 3 other people liked this
"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."
- arnaldostream
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Zee: Foursquare who? ‘Gowalla’ might just be where it’s at. (Available Worldwide) http://tnw.to/17fX - http://twitter.com/Zee...
Curtis Williams and Michael Koby liked this
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
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Burak Kartal [ Mackrulz ] to Burak's feed, WordPress, ProBlogger Room, All Things Google, Social Media Club
nice :)
Андрей, Arijit Das, NaHi and 61 other people liked this
@mirat++
- Ahmet Alp Balkan
Yuck. Django = Python = FAIL.
- Otto
Python itself is a fail. Whitespace with meaning? Seriously? Uber-fail.
- Otto
Damn right.
- Otto
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 and 3 other people
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
/me is glad I don't have to read Otto's code. ;)
- Steve and 3 other people
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
go php go !
- Furkan Tunalı
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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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
Smashing Pumpkins Reveal New 44 Song LP “Teargarden By Kaleidyscope” - Download as they finish 'em! - http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdai...
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"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
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Swift Makes Best-ever Ultraviolet Portrait of Andromeda Galaxy | 09.16.09 | NASA/JPL: http://www.nasa.gov/mission...
Michael Koby liked this
"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
Live now: FLOSS Weekly 87: Extreme Programming with Kent Beck and Randal Schwartz. http://live.twit.tv. Discuss here....
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Patterns in Architecture (courtesy Patterson in IRC) http://www.amazon.com/gp...
- Leo Laporte
Patterns in Programming (the "Gang of Four" book: http://www.amazon.com/Design-...
- Leo Laporte
Kent's Smalltalk Best Practices: http://www.amazon.com/Smallta...
- Leo Laporte
Kent's Implementation Patterns: http://www.amazon.com/Impleme...
- Leo Laporte
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
Software Engineering
- Chris Heath
See also Systems Engineering - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- 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
Free Libre and Open Source Software
- Ken Sheppardson
Free Libre and Open Source Software
- Leo Laporte
Jinx!
- Leo Laporte
doh
- Ken Sheppardson
It's still creativity so a shared experience could spark more creativity
- Johnny
Cool, never heard of "Free Libre" but Open Source of course.
- John Wright
Talking about re-factoring with your spouse? that's nearly the funniest thing I've ever heard lol
- John Wright
Libre is a Spanish word meaning free as in liberated (as opposed to cost free)
- Leo Laporte
Is "Free Libre" a term used in software? Or just for this show? Just curious
- John Wright
I only know Turbo Pascal.............. :(
- Johnny
seaside http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
- patterson
Errrrrrr........................ That's what she said?
- Johnny
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
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
and failing
- Johnny
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
We need a consumer-grade ZFS appliance... or some sort of distro...
- Ken Sheppardson
What was the book just mentioned again?
- John Wright
I looked away, but I think Randal was holding up the Smalltalk Best Practices book. But Kent Beck has several http://www.amazon.com/Kent-Be...
- Ken Sheppardson
Ok the book was Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns. Thanks Ken! http://www.amazon.com/Smallta...
- 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
LANjackal to LANjackal's feed, Microsoft Talk, TheNextWeb Forum, RWW: The Future of Tech, building43, All Things Google, Twitter, The Facebook Experience
Microsoft’s vision for a “next-gen newspaper” looks like TweetDeck - http://www.niemanlab.org/2009...
Susan Beebe, Joshua Schnell, metalerik and 6 other people liked this
"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
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RT: @rlove: Different when the buck stops at you? Obama seeks renewal of Patriot Act http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...
Michael Koby liked this
Stats: The Internet in Charts - http://www.steverubel.com/stats-t...
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YouTube statistic is very intresting.
- Jacque
40 Android Business Models, Part One | AndroidGuys - http://www.androidguys.com/2009...
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"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
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The shocking disparity between what text messaging costs and what phone companies charge for it: http://www.time.com/time...
Cornelius Toole, Michael Koby and George Tziralis liked this
What's the difference?
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nothing bad about it.
- Eivind
come on! it's a perfect win.
- Bahriye
LOL
- Anika
lol
- Behnam Mirmiran
Chun Ge is so smart
- 我是真砂！
That is logical :)
- Burçak Çubukçu
LMAO!!!
- vijay
haha. good one! :D
- Praveen Vasudev
LOL
- Abhishek
Oh,Chun, I know him!!! XDD He is so great!
- K.D.
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
Micah, yes, it's an old joke. (I think I heard it in the 90s.) And that's a fascinating article, thanks.
- Stephen Mack
richbradshaw: Apple servers are quick! Downloading iPod OS 3.1.1 update and iTunes9 both at 2MB/sec... - http://twitter.com/richbra...
earl wallace and Michael Koby liked this
I'm at 79k per second or so and getting slower
- Andrew Leyden
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
iTunes 9 is RELEASED and available for download: http://mashable.com/2009...
Michael Koby and Daniel Rowley liked this
Louis Gray must be wrong with that sleep thing. Unless he's been factoring in Red Bull. - http://blog.hasmanythrough.com/2009...
Jesper Lind, Michael Koby, Louis Gray and 2 other people liked this
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