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Nearly impossible to single one out. - Jack (a.k.a. Jeber)

William Kamkwamba, the boy who built windmills. http://www.ted.com/talks... - Andrew Leyden

"Twitter makes a search tool available on its own site. But Biz Stone, a Twitter co-founder, said that Google would be better able to provide Tweets that were relevant to a particular user’s questions. “We’re not good at relevancy right now, and they are,” he said. “More people will get more value out of Twitter because we are doing this with Google.”" I think that would be great--easier to search Twitter means more people tweeting. - Matt Cutts from Bookmarklet

Is there any NON-voyeuristic purpose? - Gabe

I just disable the whole thing. Go to the "Security Center" control panel and click "Change the way Security Center notifies me" on the left. Or disable the "Security Center" service (wscsvc). - Gabe

Ali, BlackViper says that you have to do more than just disable the service: http://www.blackviper.com/WinXP... - "If you do not want the Security Center to monitor these functions for you, disabling this service is not enough. After rebooting the system, this service will again be placed into Automatic and started. While the service is in the started state, go... more... - Chris Heath

Yeah, the western hills looked snow covered at 9am. - Paul Buchheit

My brother-in-law is in town visiting for a couple of days and he says he's never been to the Bay Area when it's been this cold (he's coming form upstate NY). - April Buchheit

"The new features will be rolling out in the next few days and will be available globally in English. You can try them out today by visiting http://www.google.com/trends and clicking on a 'hot topic,' which in most cases will bring you to a search results page with the new real-time feature." - Tom Stocky

The number one Hot Topic is "google real time search." - aldenoneil

"Police believe he fled to Canada and then, a few weeks ago, came back across the border to Idaho where he stole a Cessna 182 and flew to Seattle. He crash-landed in a forest clearing and walked away with cuts and bruises. ... Since then he has been accused of stealing other planes for hops around the islands in the Puget Sound, including another Cessna belonging to a disc jockey who vented his frustration on radio, saying: “He still doesn’t know how to land a plane in one piece.” He evaded a police pursuit by crashing a Mercedes-Benz into a roadside gas storage tank, using the explosion as a diversion to escape back into the woods where, he says, he feels like a Native American....Kohler said she was proud her son had stolen the aircraft because he had never had a flying lesson in his life. “I was going to send him to flight school, but I guess I don’t have to,” she said. “I’d tell him the next time he took a plane: wear a parachute and practise your landing. " - bob from Bookmarklet

Awesome. "Kohler said she was proud her son had stolen the aircraft because he had never had a flying lesson in his life" - Paul Buchheit

I smell a Spielberg bio-pic movie in the future. - Ray Cromwell

Awesome. "# We have re-enabled pad creation from the EtherPad home page. # We have begun planning how to open source the code to EtherPad and the underlying AppJet Web Framework. We will continue maintaining new pad creation from the EtherPad home page at least until we have open sourced the code, and work hard to make sure there will be no or minimal service disruption in the future. # We are working with the Google Wave team to get all EtherPad users a chance to try out the Google Wave preview within the next couple of weeks." - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

Etherpad has an import/export feature that will make it very easy to move. You can also download a single zip file of all your archived etherpads. Seems like the transition to a new Etherpad host should be very simple. The only difficult part might be re-initiating the other pad editors. - Mitch

For the longest time I couldn't even upload. Then all of a sudden, it started working again. - Admiral Anika

same prblem still - egza

Congratulations! "We are happy to announce that AppJet Inc. has been acquired by Google. The EtherPad team will continue its work on realtime collaboration by joining the Google Wave team." - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

Andrew: I'm just glad Etherpad (probably following the outcry that their earlier post provoked) made public pads possible again and is to be released as open source for anybody to grab the code and create something out of it. I'm not the slightest concerned about the price at which Etherpad would have been acquired had not Wave existed, it's Google we're talking about here. - lelapin

I love your answers, and I wish I had known informed people like you when I was your age. Obviously, it doesn't get easier fielding the questions when you become vegan, but those are still pretty much the same questions you'll get asked, and you already know your answers! - Becca

Paul: Are you trying to imply that bacon is not a vegetable? - Gabe

What happened? - Paul Buchheit

Ya Jim Norris. Whatever that means sounds about right. ;) - Mona Nomura from iPhone

"Suddenly, after two years of crashing through the underbrush, the Appjets were in the right place the right time: they had cool real-time technology just at the moment when real-time was what everyone was after. So they had a lot of options; investors and acquirers were all over them. The reason they decided to go with Google was that they were literally overwhelmed by Wave: after meeting the Wave guys, they were so impressed that they (a) wanted to work on Wave themselves, and (b) didn't want to compete with it. After watching the Appjets tough it out for the past two years, I knew they weren't simply being cowards. The technology in Wave must be pretty impressive, and we're happy for the Appjets that they not only managed to land safely after so many ups and downs, but that they landed in a place they actually want to be." - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

Great team. Looking forward to working with them again. - Joel Webber

I find that vim in a full-screen terminal window works best. It's best to not worry about formatting when writing. - Paul Buchheit

It's interesting that Apple can get away with this be Microsoft can't. - Paul Buchheit

Heh, once Apple has a monopoly on hardware, then we'll have a case. I think it can be done (running OS X inside a VM) but not without some kludgery, and not without breaking the EULA http://blog.rectalogic.com/2008... - Victor Ganata

"The model appears to rule out anyone suffering from an ASD and a PSD simultaneously, and such co-morbidity does appear to be rare—but is not unknown. However, I know of cases of individuals diagnosed with bipolar disorder who also show unmistakable signs of ASD during their non-manic phases. Indeed, I have research on one individual who suffers from severe gaze-aversion, autistic deficits in a sense of self and social anxiety most of the time, but who becomes comfortable with other people during manic episodes when his sense of self hypertrophies into megalomania with the feeling that he is the returned Jesus Christ! Furthermore, there is evidence of both ASD and PSD in Newton and Beethoven, and incontrovertibly so in the Nobel-prize winning mathematician John Nash. Here the theory predicts that the ASD must come first (typically in childhood) and leave a permanent savant-like basis later built on by hyper-mentalistic tendencies to produce an unusually broadened and dynamically-balanced cognitive configuration: that of true genius." - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

I don't know that we understand any of these disorders well enough to actually make these correlations, at least not well enough to perform an actual experiment to prove some of these things. I think we probably have to wait until molecular neuroanatomy and molecular neurophysiology manage to unify neurology with psychiatry. But I think we'll get there eventually. - Victor Ganata

"There are two goddesses in your heart: the Goddess of Wisdom and the Goddess of Wealth. Everyone thinks that they need to get wealth first, and wisdom will come. So they concern themselves with chasing money. But they have it backwards. You have to give your heart to the Goddess of Wisdom, give her all your love and attention, and the Goddess of Wealth will become jealous, and follow you." - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

<3 - Chris Hofmann

I can spend my life chasing wisdom and never regret a moment, great share. - Mark Essel

Mutual benefit. The response to this post on HN is good: http://news.ycombinator.com/item... - Paul Buchheit

So my question is if Google ends up powering the entire internet is the internet "open" any more or is it all one big API into Google? :-) - Jesse Stay

My weight fluctuates anywhere from 2 to 5 lbs from morning to night. That's not unusual actually, depending on the person. - pea

Wow, you ate 6 pounds of meat? I bow to your carnivorous superiority! - Gabe

"Residents of Palo Alto, Calif., are in mourning. Within the past six months, four students from the same local high school have killed themselves. Now, volunteers — some parents, some not — are maintaining a safety watch, trying to prevent another tragedy. Twice each hour, the same routine takes place at a busy railroad crossing that runs through a residential Palo Alto neighborhood. First the warning bell sounds, as the crossing gates lower to block access to the tracks. Twenty feet away, parents huddled along a chain-link fence freeze, midsentence, and look down the tracks toward the approaching headlights. They watch as the massive silver commuter train bears down and then hurtles through the crossing. And then, just like that, the train is gone. The gates go up again, faces relax, and the adults resume their quiet conversations." - April Buchheit from Bookmarklet

I'll have to see if a local library has that book. Thanks, Ruchira. - Spidra Webster

poor RSSCloud, its almost a rounding error - Mark

Again, I think the main point of the blog post was : real-time feeds (in general) are gaining traction. I will publish more details on how we measure the (raw) numbers in our December status. - Julien

If someone knew how to code, why would they apply to be a personal assistant? Has being a programmer really become so low-paying that even a personal asst. gig pays better? - Spidra Webster

Ben has it right. The whole point of learning to program is so that you don't have to do real work :) - Paul Buchheit

"Google appears to be gaining ground by making knockoffs of Microsoft products and giving them away. [...] The sad truth is that Google and Microsoft care less about making cool products than they do about hurting each other. Their fighting has little to do with helping customers and a lot to do with helping themselves [...] At the end of the day, they both seem like overgrown nerdy schoolboys fighting over each other's toys." - Simon from Bookmarklet

Imran, Microsoft's (traditional) approach has been to commoditize complements in order to suck the profit margins out of adjacent markets (this ensured that the only healthy margins were in markets they dominated), even at the cost of stagnation. Google's approach (generally) leads to growth of the overall market and more competition. That's not a small detail. - Michael R. Bernstein

"Why isn't all of an CS undergrad's education done via open-ended projects? Consider the requirement to take Physics 1 (freshman mechanics). This could easily be replaced by the professor saying "I would like you to build me a simulator for my home pool table." The professor doesn't say what the interface should be or how detailed the simulation must be. It is up to the students, who will organize themselves into groups of 2 or 3, to figure out what is practical to accomplish in a portion of the semester. It will also be up to those students to work through exercises in a standard Physics textbook as a subtask. By the time our CS student completes college, he will have gone through the cycle of "listen, design, discuss, implement, test, refine, and write up" roughly 100 times. He shouldn't have any trouble going through the cycle for the 101st time at his first job." - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

Education isn't the only prerequisite for quality. - Andrew C from Android

"There is no doubt that politics and science make uncomfortable bedfellows. Politicians sell certainty. Science lives off doubt. The creation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to establish a consensus on the science [...] sits uncomfortably with a discipline that advances by disproving accepted theories and overturning orthodoxies." - Simon from Bookmarklet

"This newspaper believes that global warming is a serious threat, and that the world needs to take steps to try to avert it. That is the job of the politicians. But we do not believe that climate change is a certainty. There are no certainties in science. Prevailing theories must be constantly tested against evidence, and refined, and more evidence collected, and the theories tested... more... - Paul Buchheit

"Replicating the clasic Hot Wheels set, Fifth Gear TV attempts to perform a full 360 degree loop in a full size car." - bob from Bookmarklet

Awesome. - Paul Buchheit

Holy Crap!! - Jeff P. Henderson

From the world renowned turkey portraiture. - April Buchheit from email

Make that "turkey portraitiste" - Paul Buchheit

We have one of the foam ones but it's not that great (and weighs a ton). - Paul Buchheit

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Does it smell like sulfur? We had this happen a while back and it was the hot water tank lining. If it breaks there is some harmless bacteria that can get in there. Test this by checking the hot water running and see if it smells/tastes different than the cold only running. - Jason Shellen

The book below cuts through some of the noise. No ebook, but according to google books it is in quite a few libraries down in the valley. http://books.google.com/books... - Tracy

aside from the actual content, I love the photo. - Karoli

Almost, Bruce, but while I've been talked back off the d-word ledge, I think Facebook cares much more about FriendFeed *technology* than the site as a destination. I'll believe they care about it as a stand-alone UX when I hear somebody at Facebook who wasn't a FF employee mention it by name in public. I won't go so far as to ask that they suggest people sign up for the service... just acknowledge that it continues to exist. - Ken Sheppardson

Well, that's certainly an opinion. - Glen Mistletoe

Also I neglected to mention the Laserwriter, which in many ways was just as innovative as the Apple ][, the Mac, and the iPhone. But printers aren't very exciting. - Nelson Minar