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someecards.com | ecards for when you care enough to hit send

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Wait, Herbert Hoover gave his endorsement already? Who'd he pick? - Vincent Ferrari

Was Hoover actually the worst, or did he mainly have bad timing? I don't recall that he started any big wars anything like that. - Paul Buchheit

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I like this one:http://www.someecards.com/uplo... - Gabe Schaffer

if starting wars is the criteria, wouldnt ie korea/vietnam be bigger? - bob

we didn't start the korean war, and we kinda-sorta didn't start vietnam - Jeremy Raines

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H... says "Ranking at the bottom of most polls are Warren G. Harding, Franklin Pierce, and James Buchanan." - ⓞnor

It's nice to see that Pat Buchanan is following in his forefather's footsteps. - Gabe Schaffer

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Dan Udey posted a message on Twitter

“Screw 'focus follows mouse', I want 'focus follows eyes'”

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Does Bush Believe McCain Was Tortured?

August 20 at 2:27 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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"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

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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

Brad++, Jason W++ - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)

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

Somehow it's still Clinton's fault. - Tad - just Tad

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

Paul Buchheit posted a link

Hello World! AppJet Opens Browser-Based JavaScript School

August 14 at 2:37 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

Aaron Iba, patrick collison, Josh, Thomas Brox Røst and 23 other people liked this

"This online school is significant because it offers a very low barrier to entry for novices who are looking to get their feet wet and start programming. ... Conversely, AppJet requires no software, allowing users to edit, debug, and run code through a browser interface. Because of this low barrier, AppJet may well see an influx of new students who they can convert to regular members." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet

http://appjet.com/learn-to-pro... - Paul Buchheit

That is absolutely outstanding. - Kevin D. White

Great idea and great as a teaching aid/resource for high schools. - Peter Simard

Perfect direction for these guys. I always had trouble resolving their product and their target market. It seemed like they were building something that was maybe too simple for advanced users yet too complex for noobs. - Sacca

patrick collison posted a message on Twitter

“Cars should be ticketed for having their alarms go off in error. The cost of their annoyance needs to be pushed back to the owner.”

August 14 at 7:04 pm - Link

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Like if a bicyclist kicks it on the way by? Who determines what is an error? - Chris White

Invest in some ear plugs, or an audio player? - Tanath

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You should have to file a police report to negate the fine. The penalties for filing a false report would presumably prevent people doing so just for the sake of avoiding the fine, though I guess you never know... - patrick collison

Virtually impossible to enforce fairly (sadly) - mattpovey

Is it true that jamming an ice pick through the hood and into the car battery will stop the alarm? Only one way to find out :) - Paul Buchheit

Either that, or getting shocked and burned by acid at the same time. - Chris White

Car batteries are only 12 volts, so no serious shock issues, but the burning acid could be problematic :). Still, if it means one less annoying car alarm... - Paul Buchheit

@paul -- sometimes ice picks can be hard to come by and given the risk of an acid burn, a more practical approach (though equally satisfying) could be to just smash the window, pop the hood and unplug the battery. - Bryan Power

On one street I lived on in Brooklyn, a car alarm going off would be greeted by a neighbor slashing all four tires. Applying this policy repeatedly appeared to reduce the car alarm rate. - Larry Greenfield

Like@Larry - j1m

I hesitate to admit this, but I actually got a ticket for this in the University District in Seattle a long time ago (96?). In my defense, it was a Honda Civic and the half life of a Honda Civic on the streets of Seattle is about 4 weeks. http://www.metrokc.gov/proatty... - Joe Beda

Thermite! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... - Stuart Woodward

Steve Rubel posted a link

success-whale on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

July 29 at 2:35 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link

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Say it with me people: "SUCCESS" - Steve Rubel via Bookmarklet

EPIC FAIL FTW! - Hao Chen

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No, FTW = FTW! - Steve Rubel

After today's performance with the quake pressure, this is a whale-deserved new design! - Kevin Sablan via twhirl

hey this is cool! i like it !! yeah, a happy whale! - Susan Beebe

But the twitterers are dragging it down. - Jody C

Good one, Steve. :) - l0ckergn0me

'o' hehe - videopixil

Win Whale! - Mister Groonk

But will it be success for those poor birds when the whale pulls them under. :-D - JMS

Prevail Whale! lol - Shey

prevail-whale: glad you all enjoyed the tribute to 1. Yiying Lu's beautiful original design, 2. Twitter's success today. Thanks to Steve Rubel et al. for the inspiration (success). - John LeMasney

The power of positive thinking. - Zena Weist

those birds look dead - Noah David Simon

I still wonder why the whale wants to levitate. - Morton Fox

the whale is still asleep though. I've always taken the sleeping whale to represent Twitter being asleep at the wheel. - Duncan Riley

when I look at it, I see a whale flying without wings. Black magic afoot! - Bwana McCall

It looks like it is flying up to whale heaven after the little birds impaled it with 8 poison-tipped spears. - Kevin Bondelli

@Kevin Bondelli i like the cut of your jib. - idnan

http://www.babelnote.com/failw... - Jason Carreira

Ha! I like the pic, Jason. - Kevin Bondelli

Not sure if birds are trying to pull FailWhale back into the water... - Andrew Feinberg

One of the reasons I respect Steve. I get very tired of watching all the critics shout FAIL everytime someone tries to do something new and doesn't get it right the first time. It's much better to encourage those who take the risks that others won't. - Ray Grieselhuber

kill this whale ! - Ryo

I considered opening the eyes, but I thought that would play too much with the original illustration. The tweets are indeed trying to pull down the whale into the water, but the whale is prevailing against the strain. That whale is rising up, like a phoenix, or at least that's what I was trying to convey. ;) Thanks again to Steve for the inspiration. - John LeMasney

w00t!!! Viva da Success Whale - long may he live!!! I'm a diehard Twitter fan - not going anywhere!! ;) - Mari Smith

Definitely like this one! - David Cook

Eric Eldon posted a message on Twitter

“looking at my parent's cat, realizing i can't look at cats anymore without thinking of LOL captions.”

July 9 at 2:18 am - Link

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Icahn haz... - MG Siegler

yes, mg, i also can't look at icahn any more without thinking of lol captions - Eric Eldon

Dan Udey posted a message on Twitter

“@harjeet It just means that we can't tell when you're done baking, so we have to poke you with a thermometer to know when to eat you”

July 7 at 6:39 pm - Link

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Ben Matasar posted a message on Twitter

“For me, vacations seem to be composed of walking, reading, and eating. This is good.”

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Google brings Street View to entire Tour route

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patrickcollison on Common Lisp: Pictures in a SLIME REPL

June 22 at 1:05 pm - Link

"This code was never submitted for inclusion as it stands. From my [post](http://common-lisp.net/piperma...) to the SLIME mailing list: > The code is ugly as sin, but I'm posting it here in case anyone wants to similarly subvert their SLIME installation. If there's any interest in having this be a part of the SLIME distribution, I'm happy to look at cleaning it up... So, agreed, it should certainly not be merged as-is. I do, however, think the *functionality* should become part of SLIME. Here's what Helmut (current maintainer) [had to say](http://common-lisp.net/piperma...): > Well no. I don't think that SLIME needs support for pictures. But I'm willing to add enough hooks so that such features can be implemented (possibly as contrib package) without changing SLIME. If someone reworked this code into a contrib package, I'd be very happy." - patrick collison

patrick collison commented on a story on Reddit

patrickcollison on Common Lisp: Pictures in a SLIME REPL

June 22 at 1:05 pm - Link

"This code was never submitted for inclusion as it stands. From my [post](http://common-lisp.net/piperma...) to the SLIME mailing list: > The code is ugly as sin, but I'm posting it here in case anyone wants to similarly subvert their SLIME installation. If there's any interest in having this be a part of the SLIME distribution, I'm happy to look at cleaning it up... So, agreed, it should certainly not be merged as-is. I do, however, think the *functionality* should become part of SLIME. Here's what Helmut (current maintainer) [had to say](http://common-lisp.net/piperma...): > Well no. I don't think that SLIME needs support for pictures. But I'm willing to add enough hooks so that such features can be implemented (possibly as contrib package) without changing SLIME. If someone reworked this code into a contrib package, I'd be very happy." - patrick collison

patrick collison commented on a story on Reddit

patrickcollison on Common Lisp: Pictures in a SLIME REPL

June 22 at 1:05 pm - Link

"This code was never submitted for inclusion as it stands. From my [post](http://common-lisp.net/piperma...) to the SLIME mailing list: > The code is ugly as sin, but I'm posting it here in case anyone wants to similarly subvert their SLIME installation. If there's any interest in having this be a part of the SLIME distribution, I'm happy to look at cleaning it up... So, agreed, it should certainly not be merged as-is. I do, however, think the *functionality* should become part of SLIME. Here's what Helmut (current maintainer) [had to say](http://common-lisp.net/piperma...): > Well no. I don't think that SLIME needs support for pictures. But I'm willing to add enough hooks so that such features can be implemented (possibly as contrib package) without changing SLIME. If someone reworked this code into a contrib package, I'd be very happy." - patrick collison

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patrickcollison on A counterpoint to "Maglev and the naiivety of the Rails community" from Auctomactic's Patrick Collison.

June 2 at 8:06 pm - Link

"> CL has plain functions, Ruby is message passing all the way down. CL has specialized arrays, type declarations, optimization declarations, inline declarations, functions may be inlined in the same file they are defined, functions defined by the standard mustn't be redefined, arithmetic is not generic, etc. Hardly comparable at all. CL's various declarations and type specifiers help, sure. And yet Ruby has its own restrictions that makes life easier for the implementer -- no multi-dispatch, single inheritance, multiple return values aren't available, much simpler condition/exception handling (no restarts), etc. The bottom line is that both languages are complex beasts, and naive implementations of either will run like treacle. Both can also be implemented in such a way that compiled code is extremely fast -- Allegro, LispWorks, SBCL, etc., in the Lisp world, and GemStone in the Ruby world. The Ruby folks just didn't know up to recently that GemStone was their fast VM :). A few..." - patrick collison

patrick collison commented on a story on Reddit

patrickcollison on A counterpoint to "Maglev and the naiivety of the Rails community" from Auctomactic's Patrick Collison.

June 2 at 8:06 pm - Link

"> CL has plain functions, Ruby is message passing all the way down. CL has specialized arrays, type declarations, optimization declarations, inline declarations, functions may be inlined in the same file they are defined, functions defined by the standard mustn't be redefined, arithmetic is not generic, etc. Hardly comparable at all. CL's various declarations and type specifiers help, sure. And yet Ruby has its own restrictions that makes life easier for the implementer -- no multi-dispatch, single inheritance, multiple return values aren't available, much simpler condition/exception handling (no restarts), etc. Despite this, the languages aren't massively different from an implementer's point-of-view (I've written Lisp compilers, and worked a little on the Squeak VM). The bottom line is that both are complex beasts, and naive implementations of either will run like treacle. Both can also be implemented in such a way that compiled code is extremely fast -- Allegro, LispWorks, SBCL,..." - patrick collison

patrick collison commented on a story on Reddit

patrickcollison on A counterpoint to "Maglev and the naiivety of the Rails community" from Auctomactic's Patrick Collison.

June 2 at 8:06 pm - Link

"> CL has plain functions, Ruby is message passing all the way down. CL has specialized arrays, type declarations, optimization declarations, inline declarations, functions may be inlined in the same file they are defined, functions defined by the standard mustn't be redefined, arithmetic is not generic, etc. Hardly comparable at all. CL's various declarations and type specifiers help, sure. And yet Ruby has its own restrictions that makes life easier for the implementer -- no multi-dispatch, single inheritance, multiple return values aren't available, much simpler condition/exception handling (no restarts), etc. Despite this, the languages aren't massively different from an implementer's point-of-view (I've written Lisp compilers, and worked a little on the Squeak VM). The bottom line is that both are complex beasts, and naive implementations of either will run like treacle. Both can also be implemented in such a way that compiled code is extremely fast -- Allegro, LispWorks, SBCL,..." - patrick collison

patrick collison commented on a story on Reddit

patrickcollison on A counterpoint to "Maglev and the naiivety of the Rails community" from Auctomactic's Patrick Collison.

June 2 at 8:06 pm - Link

"> CL has plain functions, Ruby is message passing all the way down. CL has specialized arrays, type declarations, optimization declarations, inline declarations, functions may be inlined in the same file they are defined, functions defined by the standard mustn't be redefined, arithmetic is not generic, etc. Hardly comparable at all. CL's various declarations and type specifiers help, sure. And yet Ruby has its own restrictions that makes life easier for the implementer -- no multi-dispatch, single inheritance, multiple return values aren't available, much simpler condition/exception handling (no restarts), etc. Despite this, the languages aren't massively different from an implementer's point-of-view (I've written Lisp compilers, and worked a little on the Squeak VM). The bottom line is that both are complex beasts, and naive implementations of either will run like treacle. Both can also be implemented in such a way that compiled code is extremely fast -- Allegro, LispWorks, SBCL,..." - patrick collison

patrick collison commented on a story on Reddit

patrickcollison on A counterpoint to "Maglev and the naiivety of the Rails community" from Auctomactic's Patrick Collison.

June 2 at 12:54 pm - Link

"I didn't say quite that -- in the absence of type declarations, it's pretty unlikely that Ruby implementations can be as fast as CL. I'm just pointing out that dynamic language implementations generally can be orders of magnitude faster than MRI, and a 10x speedup would be quite small relative to these." - patrick collison

patrick collison commented on a story on Reddit

patrickcollison on A counterpoint to "Maglev and the naiivety of the Rails community" from Auctomactic's Patrick Collison.

June 2 at 12:54 pm - Link

"I didn't say quite that -- in the absence of type declarations, it's pretty unlikely that Ruby implementations can be as fast as CL. I'm just pointing out that dynamic language implementations generally can be orders of magnitude faster than MRI, and a 10x speedup would be quite small relative to these." - patrick collison

patrick collison commented on a story on Reddit

patrickcollison on A counterpoint to "Maglev and the naiivety of the Rails community" from Auctomactic's Patrick Collison.

June 2 at 12:54 pm - Link

"I didn't say quite that -- in the absence of type declarations, it's pretty unlikely that Ruby implementations can be as fast as CL. I'm just pointing out that dynamic language implementations generally can be orders of magnitude faster than MRI, and a 10x speedup would be quite small relative to these." - patrick collison

patrick collison commented on a story on Reddit

patrickcollison on A counterpoint to "Maglev and the naiivety of the Rails community" from Auctomactic's Patrick Collison.

June 2 at 12:54 pm - Link

"I didn't say quite that -- In the absence of type declarations, it's pretty unlikely that Ruby implementations can be as fast as CL. I'm just pointing out that dynamic language implementations generally can be orders of magnitude faster than MRI, and a 10x speedup would be quite small relative to these." - patrick collison

patrick collison commented on a story on Reddit

patrickcollison on Lisp Machines

April 28 at 10:10 am - Link

"Cross-posted from news.yc: Agreed that there are risks here. I'd be interested to hear from anyone with specific knowledge of the Symbolics situation -- my email address is patrick#collison#ie. I've tried to contact David Schmidt (the listed contact at symbolics.com) a few times, but without success. Note, though, that Symbolics machines shipped with the source code (I own one, and have been reading and editing bits and pieces for quite a while). Using this emulated version of Genera is pretty much an orthogonal issue: to the extent that reading the Symbolics source causes IP issues, you're just as screwed if you read it legally." - patrick collison

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patrickcollison on Lisp Machines

April 28 at 10:10 am - Link

"Cross-posted from news.yc: Agreed that there are risks here. I'd be interested to hear from anyone with specific knowledge of the Symbolics situation -- my email address is patrick#collison#ie. I've tried to contact David Schmidt (the listed contact at symbolics.com) a few times, but without success. Note, though, that Symbolics machines shipped with the source code (I own one, and have been reading and editing bits and pieces for quite a while). Using this emulated version of Genera is pretty much an orthogonal issue: to the extent that reading the Symbolics source causes IP issues, you're just as screwed if you read it legally." - patrick collison

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patrickcollison on Lisp Machines

April 28 at 10:10 am - Link

"Cross-posted from news.yc: Agreed that there are risks here. I'd be interested to hear from anyone with specific knowledge of the Symbolics situation -- my email address is patrick#collison#ie. I've tried to contact David Schmidt (the listed contact at symbolics.com) a few times, but without success. Note, though, that Symbolics machines shipped with the source code (I own one, and have been reading and editing bits and pieces for quite a while). Using this emulated version of Genera is pretty much an orthogonal issue: to the extent that reading the Symbolics source causes IP issues, you're just as screwed if you read it legally." - patrick collison

Dick posted a message on Twitter

“interesting side effect of twitter and friendfeed. I've stopped using facebook completely.”

March 30 at 9:35 am - Link

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That's a good point. I'd say that I left Facebook lately much in the same way that LinkedIn and MySpace drove me away -- it just wasn't giving me any relevant and current information that I cared about. Having an activity stream of your friends is a little more like actually keeping up with them. - Justin Ward

I think the Facebook newsfeed just fails to tell me anything relevant. Letting me know that someone updated their profile picture is useless to me. That said, I think one of the biggest draws of Friendfeed is that the conversation is happening here. I never used to comment on blogs because I would forget to come back and see if anyone replied. Friendfeed does a great job of updating me on conversations in which I participated. - Sacca

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@sacca i agree that the discussion on friendfeed is great and its even better that i can send to back to twitter where the dick started this - Fred Wilson

Would be great to add all this in blogs, don't you think? - David Álvarez

Facebook is so 2007. :P - Bwana McCall

Fred- The Twitter use case you cite above though doesn't appeal to me. As much as I want to have a conversation with my friends on Twitter, the experience breaks down. Replies often don't make sense because recipients have different notification settings. Also, conversations don't end up in one place and require clicking to separate pages to get the proper context. If I were to create a 140 char version of this comment right now and send it back to Twitter readers of my page would have to work to catch up. - Sacca

I still use facebook so that I have my address book codified somewhere, but FriendFeed has killed any interest FB's newsfeed - patrick collison

DavidAlvarez, see http://disqus.com. (On that url, why do i always see and think “disgust”? Does this happen to anyone else?) - John Lam

Thanks John Lam - David Álvarez

I never really used Facebook and use FF at my main source of tweeting. - Mike Reynolds

My facebook newsfeed is always filled with Chris Sacca twitters. :-) - Todd Jackson

Todd - that may just be proof of my point about useful and relevant information. :) - Sacca

Trend? - Igor Poltavskiy

Yep. I deleted my Facebook account recently. - Jason Kaneshiro

Although my use of FF and Twitter has gone up recently, I am still using Facebook to keep in touch and discover old friends. - Christopher Yeo

I would go with that - a cleaner solution I think, less clutter - Nick Lewis

same here - timepilot

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