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Silicon Valley startups are in the same situation. The difference? No Wall Street firms offering $300K/year for top developers. As Pardo says, "There's no shortage of smart, hardworking engineers. There's a shortage of smart, hardworking engineers willing to work for very little money." - Piaw Na

Yeah, the cycling in NYC sucks as much as the cycling inside SF. Neither places are really acceptable for me without huge amounts of compensation. Fortunately, huge amounts of compensation are available within Silicon Valley, so there's no reason to compromise on outdoor life. - Piaw Na

"Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon cover materializing on Primrose Hill, in Regent's Park, London" - Simon from Bookmarklet

Brian, as always, takes great pictures, even with questionable subjects. The pictures are from tonight's open house. - Louis Gray from Bookmarklet

:))))))))) مال بعد از عیده. اواخر فروردین فک کنم - Aly

"Westward expansion has made Washington DC increasingly eccentric" - Doug Beeferman from Bookmarklet

another 200 years and it'll be in Tucson - j1m

Sushi! - DGentry

No, that's the real color of the fish. "The Copper River flows in the state of Alaska. Almost 300 miles in length, this wild rushing river empties into Prince William Sound at the town of Cordova. Salmon that originate in these pristine waters are challenged by its length and its strong, chill rapids. Consequently, Copper River salmon are strong, robust creatures with a healthy store of... more... - Paul Buchheit

Awesome video showing a toy maglev and how it works - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

Wow, impressive technology! It would be cool to somehow apply it to cars... - Ovidiu Predescu

It seems to require more liquid nitrogen every few minutes… - Amit Patel

Which one's which? - Gabe

Nice shot! :) - Ovidiu Predescu

"In fact, Iran is one of the service’s most active countries, and it is the most active region as defined by comments per user per day, according to Taylor. Now you can see why Iran apparently wanted to block it. FriendFeed is great at facilitating conversations around topics. The reason for this is that it’s so quick to post a comment and have it be added to a thread. While this can sometimes lead to an angry mob situation, it also can be extremely effective at having a conversation about an important topic in real-time. Except, of course, when the Iranian government blocks you. The only people getting on to FriendFeed from inside Iran now are apparently doing so through proxies." - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

@Karoli. I'm with you re: results and whether they're the will of the people or the mob (or swarm) mentality in that both candidates have(had) serious issues with the concept of freedom and democratic governance. Since NO ONE becomes a viable candidate in Iran w/o the authorization of the mullahs, I would hazard a guess that the protesters on both sides are merely choosing between the... more... - Molly

Crazy story of a Cuban activist pretending to be a hot chick, ensnaring the son of Fidel Castro. - Nelson Minar

"A cream used to treat the early signs of skin cancer may erase wrinkles and leave behind younger-looking skin, US researchers said on Monday. They said Valeant Pharmaceuticals' cream Efudex, which is used to treat actinic keratoses, a precancerous form of squamous cell carcinoma, improved the appearance of skin, smoothing out rough spots and wrinkles, improving skin color, and erasing brown spots. Sachs said the cream appears to be causing a wound healing response that leads to an increase in collagen production, which is improving the appearance of wrinkles. "The drug has been around for many years," said Dr. Dana Sachs of the University of Michigan, whose study appears in the Archives of Dermatology. Sachs said it has been used for four decades to treat actinic keratoses, which appear as a scaly or crusty bump on the skin. They most commonly appear on sun-exposed areas such as the face, neck, forearms or lips." - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

pretty fascinating. i read about a substance called rose bengal that's currently being tested and supposed to be a possible cancer cure for melanoma, breast cancer as well as work well for some immuno-skin disorders such as psoriasis and eczema: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... & http://www.pvct.com/ - Cee Bee

I'm so behind I hadn't even heard of the Android Scripting Environment. - Andrew C (✓)

Ninjas! - Amit Patel

That was a pretty strange video even without the literal version. - Amit Patel

At some point in the 80s I must have seen this video on MTV, and the combination of ninjas, fencers, football players, flying altar boys and fonzie clones must have seemed perfectly sensible back then! - Doug Beeferman

Amazing Pics!! Looks like it was quite a climb! - Skye Miller

I am impressed you survived, Dad! - Bret Taylor

That's a great mountain! I hope to make it as far up someday. - Brian Johns

"# Thou Shalt Not Simply Trot Out thy Usual Shtick # Thou Shalt Dream a Great Dream, or Show Forth a Wondrous New Thing, Or Share Something Thou Hast Never Shared Before # Thou Shalt Reveal thy Curiosity and Thy Passion # Thou Shalt Tell a Story # Thou Shalt Freely Comment on the Utterances of Other Speakers for the Skae of Blessed Connection and Exquisite Controversy # Thou Shalt Not Flaunt thine Ego. Be Thou Vulnerable. Speak of thy Failure as well as thy Success. # Thou Shalt Not Sell from the Stage: Neither thy Company, thy Goods, thy Writings, nor thy Desparate need for Funding; Lest Thou be Cast Aside into Outer Darkness. # Thou Shalt Remember all the while: Laughter is Good. # Thou Shalt Not Read thy Speech. # Thou Shalt Not Steal the Time of Them that Follow Thee" - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

"This is the moment a goose was caught performing an extraordinary upside-down contortion as it battled to land in heavy winds. The bird was captured by a wildlife photographer flying with its neck twisted 180 degrees and its body seemingly facing the wrong way. The manoeuvre may look painful but it is a known tried and tested way of braking, called whiffling. In amazing twists and turns, birds spill air out of their wings and can slow down rapidly and reduce height. The results, however, are not usually this extreme." - April Buchheit from Bookmarklet

April this rules, great find, and is yet another example of the unlikely ways in which unlikely things just *work* whether or not it makes any sense to us or not. Cheers. - thinfilms

in an aircraft, it's called a "forward slip" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... -- usually performed when you're on final and you realize you need to lose some altitude in a hurry. ironically, the only human to try and forward slip while inverted was Goose from "Top Gun." - Karim

Amen! ;) - April Buchheit from Bookmarklet

The Old Testament God is a bit of a dick. - Rob H.

"Defects in Three out of Five Lines of Code" - Gabe

Yeah, the term 'defect' doesn't mean that it's defective, but it's still pretty bad to have thousands of warnings. - Gabe

“TED has developed a cool new technology that makes it possible to search, caption and translate TED talks. Each talk will now come with an transcript. What's cool is that you can click on any phrase in the transcript and you will jump to that point in the video. […] What this means is that videos will now be Google searchable.” - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

YouTube can do most of this, e.g. skip to a point in a video. My hope is that YT could do similar things, but by starting with an attempt at automatic speech to text. - Matt Cutts

Matt, you mean like Google's Audio Indexing? :) http://labs.google.com/gaudi - Ray Cromwell

"In this tightly cropped image the NASA space shuttle Atlantis and the Hubble Space Telescope are seen in silhouette, side by side during solar transit at 12:17p.m. EDT, Wednesday, May 13, 2009, from west of Vero Beach, Florida. The two spaceships were at an altitude of 600 km and they zipped across the sun in only 0.8 seconds. Photo Credit: (NASA/Thierry Legault)" - April Buchheit from Bookmarklet

article, more pics - http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol... - pb:

PixelJunk 1-4 has great-looking fluid flow simulation of both water and magma, and dynamic creation of new rocks when they meet. What's the object of the game? I'm not sure I care! - Rob Shillingsburg

“Bakon Vodka is a superior quality potato vodka with a savory bacon flavor.” - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

Well, that face detection will come in mighty handy, then. - Anthony Citrano

Yeah, without those batteries it's hard to do my business. :p - Chris Charabaruk

Medicated by lithium, you'll always be ready to give a shit. - Karl Knechtel