Congratulations, Tudor and Jeanette! You are both certainly invited to use my just-for-fun http://bebepool.com site if you were planning on having friends/family prognosticate about babby's arrival :) Cheers!
- Micah Wittman
Sorry to hear about the trouble, Benjamin.
- Stephen Mack
a few years ago flying to London with US AIrways, half the luggage ended up in Cardiff. Got it the very next day though.
- Ian May
I feel like saying "never again" in reference to banks and airlines only works for awhile. Eventually, they all disappoint you greatly.
- Robert Felty
I think delays are gonna be the norm , during these current security crisis ... I only fly several times a year for vacations ,, but all these delays and baggage hassles has me re-thinking my vacations .. back to driving to places ..
- johnpiercy
I can deal with delays John. And the baggage doesn't bother me either as they are very good at finding lost luggage usually. Our adventure was actually a 2 day delay caused by a flight cancellation. Read more here: http://www.benjamingolub.com/e...
- Benjamin Golub
@Benjamin - the last time I got screwed over by an airline - United BTW - all I got was a $150 discount on my next flight with them. I CC'ed my complaint to the DOT's airline complaints division too, and I vaguely understand it was through the DOT, not their own email, that they even got my complaint letter.
- Andrew C
Yeah, I'm not expecting to get anything back but a refund for the Monday flight that we obviously won't be on :)
- Benjamin Golub
Jonas just recently had a huge problem with them as well. ALWAYS FLY SOUTHWEST.
- Tad
I think we would have been ok with staying 2 more days in paradise if all the hotels had not been booked, and I didn't have to get back to the hospital bright and early Monday morning.
- Megen Vo
This policy significantly reduces your ROC travel options.
- Gary Burd
Yeah it might be unavoidable at times. But in nearly 3 years living Rochester this is only the second time I've flown US Airways.
- Benjamin Golub
The young pick up new things easily largely because - they have a lot of time on their hands and get bored with easily. They have to to constantly try out new stuff to keep them occupied. The biggest issue with us adults is we fill our lives up with largely routine/mundane tasks...
That has something to do with it, but the young are still growing and are primed to learn. That's what their whole body is raring to do when they're young. Adults don't have quite the growth and they certainly don't have the hormones and recuperative powers that help the young.
- Spidra Webster
Good point Spidra, the brain connections are yet to be made when you are young. This actually reminds me of a NY article I just read - http://www.nytimes.com/2010...
- Bindu Reddy
That is one brain connection I have all wrong :) I always reverse ia and ai and ie and ei..... Something wrong with my "corpus callosum" or some such....
- Bindu Reddy
It's like you're born with a relatively empty vessel (your mind) and as life progresses, your mind is poured full of life experience. As you get older you have less need (and less room) for more life experience. When you're young, you're still yearning to fill the empty space. When you're older, you have all those experiences to relive, regret, fear, ponder, be amazed at, and appreciate.
- Cristo
OK, I wish I could get a magic wand that can simply remove some of these brain connections or experiences. I bet it is scientifically possible if someone wants to really figure it out.... Actually it reminds me of the movie - Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind.
- Bindu Reddy
I would definitely like to defrag my mind.
- Spidra Webster
I believe a lot of it has to do with not having history how something is suppose to work.
- Johnny Worthington
I forget stuff within seconds of reading it now. If I read a phone number in a phone book on the left of the keyboard, by the time I reach to the phone on the right of the keyboard the number has slipped away. If I see a popup tip with a bunch of parameters for a script function, when I go to enter the code and the tip vanishes, I can't remember but one or two parameters, to get the...
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- SuezanneC Baskerville
They are relatively stress free than adults.
- ashish
I love how she just kept going with her performance despite the technical difficulties. Just like the song, she just kept dancing and singing and worked the crowd to her advantage. That's talent, imho.
- April Buchheit
Heck, yeah. Given all of the lip-syncing pop stars who can't seem to dance and sing at the same time, you forget what it is like to see someone who can actually perform :)
- Jennifer Dittrich
"I promised these people a 30 minute set.." love.
- Jennifer Dittrich
Yes, in spite of the ridiculous costumes, she does seem pretty talented.
- Gabe
Wow. Color me impressed. I'm gonna have to get over myself and check her out.
- Derrick
This girl can really sing. Like singer/songwriter credentials.
- Eric @ CSTechcast.com
Youtube "stefani germanotta" if you want to see her without the fashion persona.
- Cole Jolley
http://www.youtube.com/watch... FFound that while following Cole's advice... judge (?) at the end says "norah jones watch out" or something to that effect
- Chris Heath
i'm not really a fan of hers but this (and other things like her NYU years) makes me think a lot more of her than i did previously... now if she would just focus on the music instead of the circus i might become a fan... her pr/marketing people have turned me (and a lot of others) away just because of the spectacle that is her persona... do not want
- Chris Heath
but they sure are geniuses for keeping her in the press constantly... i guess
- Chris Heath
I agree: fantastic recovery and amazing live singing!
- Gordon Herd
San Francisco’s smelly sea lions end their 20-year stay
The famous sea lions of San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf have disappeared after 20 years - leaving experts baffled as to why. - http://neilfws.tumblr.com/post...
happy new year Bret! But please, can you kill that pretty f***in' duck? Thank you so much :) I love you
- v per vitzbank
A good idea,relaxing.Let's be fair, and thank Bret .Biraz olumlu olsak bir şey kaybetmeyiz...Bardak doluyken de,boşken de kırılabilir.Önemli olan kırmamaktır.Sevgi-Saygılarımla...
- Dedegi
i dont love your present actually i hate it and i wanna kill it but it doesnt work. İts immortal. So could you please remove your fucking duck? And also its not lovely. By the way, Happy new year Bret, may it be the best for you
- özge gürçay
"Brains in middle age, which, with increased life spans, now stretches from the 40s to late 60s, also get more easily distracted. Start boiling water for pasta, go answer the doorbell and — whoosh — all thoughts of boiling water disappear. Indeed, aging brains, even in the middle years, fall into what’s called the default mode, during which the mind wanders off and begin daydreaming. Given all this, the question arises, can an old brain learn, and then remember what it learns? Put another way, is this a brain that should be in school? As it happens, yes. While it’s tempting to focus on the flaws in older brains, that inducement overlooks how capable they’ve become. Over the past several years, scientists have looked deeper into how brains age and confirmed that they continue to develop through and beyond middle age. Many longheld views, including the one that 40 percent of brain cells are lost, have been overturned. What is stuffed into your head may not have vanished but has simply been squirreled away in the folds of your neurons."
- April Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
"The trick is finding ways to keep brain connections in good condition and to grow more of them. “The brain is plastic and continues to change, not in getting bigger but allowing for greater complexity and deeper understanding,” says Kathleen Taylor, a professor at St. Mary’s College of California, who has studied ways to teach adults effectively. “As adults we may not always learn...
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- April Buchheit
"Teaching new facts should not be the focus of adult education, she says. Instead, continued brain development and a richer form of learning may require that you “bump up against people and ideas” that are different. In a history class, that might mean reading multiple viewpoints, and then prying open brain networks by reflecting on how what was learned has changed your view of the...
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- April Buchheit
I can see the author's point about changing your view of the world. I can see how as one gets older, one gets into a rut doing the same things and exposing themselves only to elements which support one particular paradigm for the rest of their life. I've realized that learning should be a lifelong endeavor. Just because I'm 'x' age and no longer in school does not mean that I should cease to learn and be curious about the world and the perspectives of those around me.
- April Buchheit
I find that this is harder to find for a couple or reasons as I get older. 1) some of my peers are less willing to have conversations outside of the comfort zone. 2) there are fewer built in opportunities to try out something outside your "field", like taking modern dance or pottery as an extra class in an engineering curriculum. Does anyone have any suggestions for building more variety into an "adult" life?
- Clare Dibble
Try learning a new language. Another thing I think works your brain is trying to learn to do activities with your non-dominant hand/foot. Try Meetup.com If your peers aren't willing to have challenging conversations, others are.
- Spidra Webster
I wonder if the brains of people with ADD age differently.
- Ruchira S. Datta
I do to, and I'm sorry to even kid. I'm sure Twitter is being attacked constantly from various directions, from hackers to script kiddies to governments. I'm impressed they hold up as well as they do.
- Kevin Fox
I think we all share Kevin's views. The timing of Ev's share was very unlucky. But nobody wants this kind of trouble. They have been stressed to the limit with growth, which in theory is a good problem to have, and they are maturing. Tonight was a rare exception to recent continued good news.
- Louis Gray
Do the have a huge whale on top of their office?
- Jemm
LOLLLLL Onwards + Upwards to IRIDIUM!!
- Billy Warhol
hmm...maybe I should check that out.
- Evan Williams
Glad you're digging the Sonos.. Last.fm is great... as is pandora. i think 80% of my listening on my Sonos these days is some sort of 'station' like last.fm/pandora/etc.
- Graham Farrar
#10yearsago I was in Los Angeles for Stanford's trip to the Rose Bowl with roommates and friends. We managed to get into the Baywatch cast's New Years party in Hollywood, which was the highlight of the evening.
10 years ago I was also in LA for the Rose Bowl trip. I was in the hotel with the rest of the Stanford band and they were giving us crap about being too noisy... then at five am we had to stop partying to get on the bus to go to the parade start point :)
- Shannon Jiménez
I draw a distinction between functional programming and pure functional programming. Functional programming is a style. Pure functional programming is an anti-style. The article seems to be talking about pure functional programming.
- Bruce Lewis
To be honest, I never really got functional programming. I just assumed it was some sort of masochism. Perhaps I've never gone deep enough -- just projects in school and the lost productivity due to mucking with .emacs on occasion. I've been meaning to dig into clojure, but I don't have the time.
- Joe Beda ()
I've done some programming in Clojure. I find that it's a pleasant experience most of the time, but sometimes it takes me a lot of thought to figure out how to write functional code that is simple and short as what I can do with imperative code.
- Gary Burd
My impression (from working with SML in school) is that writing code turns into solving a puzzle. You have to shift your thinking and get creative on how to make it work in a purely functional way. That can be fun, but it also seems like a lot of work when you just want to get something done.
- Joe Beda ()
emacs lisp is the opposite of functional programming.
- Jim Norris
Learning LISP+functional programming was one of the highlights of my geek career. It opened my eyes.
- Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah
The "make A depend on B" example is poor. IME, FP is a mindset, and once you acquire it (which takes time, longer if you're more experienced) it's no more of a puzzle than IP. The problem with FP isn't that it doesn't work, but that the benefits just aren't worth ghettoizing yourself.
- ⓞnor
from Android
The problem is that humans aren't functional.
- Paul Buchheit
Kris: bah; it's a principled response to a pragmatic question. I think we're all in agreement that purely functional programming is "cleaner" in keeping dependencies explicit (indeed, you don't have a choice), but *in practice* some quick and dirty hacks work very well and save you a lot of trouble. Software engineering is engineering, which means you have to be able to make trade-offs and not always take the high road.
- Tudor Bosman
And Paul, yeah, people are often dysfunctional :)
- Tudor Bosman
Use the best style for the problem at hand. There are times when imperative style gets in the way of expressing a solution, a times when FP does the same. Don't be religious about adhering to rules, this often produces bad code. Consider the OO astronauts who overemphasize "best practices", which lead to tons and tons of labyrinthine boilerplate just to avoid breaking stylistic rules.
- Ray Cromwell
Tudor: I use Scala for most of my work these days, so I appreciate the convenience of having both options. I've just found that almost invariably, the quick and dirty approach comes back to haunt me eventually. The primary difference between software engineering and other disciplines of engineering is that frequently in software (at least with successful projects) the work is *never done* and the cost of the shortcut will have to be paid eventually - with interest.
- kris. nuttycombe
I think that's a quintessential acid test, even personality test for programmers: have you ever been or do you feel you are destined to be bitten by informality in programming practices and languages? I think, unlike Kris, my answer is: no. Hence my personal approach of employing minimal design and rapid-development languages (currently ruby). I simply wouldn't enjoy a more formal approach, nor would I find it worth the overhead.
- Christopher Galtenberg
I think it depends on the size of the project. Even in duck typed languages people fall back on pseudo-formalisms, code style and idiom conventions, to ensure some kind of sanity and readability. I would assert that once a project grows beyond a certain number of programmers and lines of code, degrees of freedom start to become restricted.
- Ray Cromwell
I find there's a survivorship bias. If I look at the projects that are around for a while and ask myself, do I wish they were cleaner from the start, I'd say yes. But lots of my projects don't get that far (my guess is 90% of them die within a few months), and the effort designing those projects for the long term is … wasted.
- Amit Patel
Maybe Dysfunctional Programming would be a better paradigm?
- j1m
Scheme works great for impure functional programming.
- Bruce Lewis
CG, I'm surprised that you don't feel like you've suffered as a result of poor design, given the previous project you were working on. How much time was spent reworking things over and over? How much of that time could have been better spent if the parts of that system had been less tightly coupled?
- kris. nuttycombe
Kris, you make some good arguments, but I think they really hold up in the real world. Yes, functional programming prevents you from using quick and dirty approaches that cause pain later. But that often comes at the expense of making it harder to get the first iteration right. In most real world cases, it's more important to just get *something* done and working, and worry about fixing...
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- Tobias Jungen
Though it was procedural, I sometimes get nostalgic for classic ASP. It was the first platform I learned and the first scripting language I learned was (VBscript). I've done some assembly language but focused more on the ASP and then .NET
- Melanie Reed
Tobias: How does using functional techniques inhibit prototyping? In my applications, at least, the only real difference between the functional and imperative code is that in the functional code it's clear where the side effects with external systems (database, web services, etc.) occur just from the types.
- kris. nuttycombe
Kris, I didn't do much suffering *or* rework :) I mainly built new things, flat-out replaced old/bad stuff with new functionality (which may or may not have been designed substantially better), and most importantly, I found ways to run the existing stuff faster. I've found that old, poorly-designed apps are actually remarkably stable once they stop timing out (the previous app being only one instance of this discovery).
- Christopher Galtenberg
I don't know; maybe it's just that since I work mostly on transaction-oriented systems I don't have as much need for mutable data as others. Since there's other people's money involved, I vastly prefer the safety that purity provides.
- kris. nuttycombe
Kris, as was pointed out earlier in this discussion, humans don't inherently think in a functional way. Our brain is trained to think imperatively, so I don't think it's unreasonable to say that imperative programming comes more naturally. In my experience, every time I have attacked a problem with the functional approach, it took a considerable amount of rethinking and trial-and-error...
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- Tobias Jungen
Do humans think infix, prefix, or postfix? Do we think recursively or iteratively? Deductively or Inductively? I don't think its a matter of naturally thinking a certain way, we learn ways of thinking, and they become our vocabulary for building other things. If you raised a baby on functional thinking, would if find imperative thinking hard?
- Ray Cromwell
Tobias: With respect to the notion that imperative programming "comes more naturally" I think that I need to say "CITATION NEEDED." Programmers have been trained to think imperatively by continuous exposure to imperative languages and as a result of being taught to think of programs as recipes instead of as declarative statements about the problems they're trying to solve. There is, to my knowledge, very little well-controlled psychological research on programming.
- kris. nuttycombe
Ray: You might be interested to talk to Tony Morris - (http://blog.tmorris.net/) as I believe that he has been attempting to raise his children to think functionally. He has claimed that when he showed one of his children the statement "x = x + 1" that the response was "But that doesn't make any sense!"
- kris. nuttycombe
I think Ray's earlier point, essentially that you should use the right tool for the job, is the most important lesson here. A functional approach works best for some things, an imperative approach for others. You probably want to avoid mutable state for transactional systems, but it sure is useful for simulations and UI code. What you want to avoid like the plague is any approach that prefers "purity" to utility -- I spell that "r e l i g i o n" and it mixes poorly with my goal of getting shit done :)
- Joel Webber
from BuddyFeed
Kris: With all due respect, maybe the fact that imperative languages have remained the dominant force in programming is evidence that humans prefer that style of thinking. I'll concede that there is little, if any empirical study on this topic, so debating it further is pointless. Regardless of which style "comes naturally", as I have so poorly phrased, the reality is that most...
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- Tobias Jungen
Tobias: Certainly. Can we also agree that imperative techniques are very often applied where very trivial functional approaches are strictly better? The most significant example I can think of is the way that operations on collections are usually handled in Java and C++ - and I take Google Collections, Python & Erlang's list comprehensions, and Ruby's Enumerable as evidence for my position. Iteration just sucks.
- kris. nuttycombe
I agree that one should avoid religion, use the correct tools for a job and do what's practical. My frustration with functional programming is that some problems are more difficult to solve using functional programming. A FIFO queue is an example of one of these problems. The imperative implementation is easy for me while the functional version takes some thought and more lines of code. I am finding that the frustration is sometimes not worth the benefit of fp.
- Gary Burd
One response would be: Who builds things like FIFO queues from scratch? In Haskell (for example) you'd just use Data.Sequence, which among other things supports efficient push/pop from both ends, using some spiffy data structure ("2-3 finger trees") internally. Another response might be: Pointer network mutation algorithms seem natural to you and I, but people raised differently report finding functional algorithms more natural and comprehensible -- for them, it's pointer whacking that hurts their brain.
- ⓞnor
The first response supports my point. Haskell uses spiffy data structures to solve what is a simple problem in imperative programming. Your second response mentions what I think is the heart of the problem. Imperative programmers have an extra tool in their belt: the ability to whack memory cells with new values.
- Gary Burd
Well, clearly you trade off "capability" for "comprehensibility", just as you do when choosing Java over assembly language. The question is whether it's worth it, and that's not a question that can be resolved in a point-by-point debate, and programmer productivity studies never seem to be quite conclusive. Personally, I think community ghettoization is a much, much bigger deal than any technical feature of the language itself -- but that's just my extremely subjective conclusion.
- ⓞnor
I agree that community ghettoization is a big deal. Clojure mitigates the problem by allowing easy calling to and from Java. As nice as Erlang is (except the syntax), I would not choose Erlang for a project because the community is small.
- Gary Burd
The thing is, Haskell's solution to the FIFO queue problem solves *more* problems than does its imperative equivalent, because it's inherently threadsafe and has universally predictable behavior. The same cannot be said of a queue based upon a mutable data structure. The functional solution is future-proof whereas its imperative counterpart is not.
- kris. nuttycombe
Kris: Absolutely. Basic collections operations are almost always handled better in a functional way. It's no coincidence that mapreduce as a framework is rising in popularity. In the end, walking the middle ground is the best path - and that's why I enjoy languages that allow both paradigms (as you seem to as well, given your enthusiasm for scala).
- Tobias Jungen
There are some concepts more succinctly expressed vs internal iteration (each/map/etc) and some for which external iteration is simpler (multipass loops over multiple collections), this is why I think religious purity is a bad thing, since it leads people to choose more complex solutions for purely religious reasons. However, I do like the conceptual simplicity of pure functions and...
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- Ray Cromwell
Nice but the suggested careers for my ENTP profile don't really help me: "entrepreneurs, lawyers, psychologists, photographers, consultants, sales represenatives, actors, engineers, scientists, inventors, marketers, computer programmers, comedians, computer analysts, credit investigators, journalists, psychiatrists, public relations, designers, writers, artists, musicians, politicians".
- Jérôme Flipo
I got INTJ. I've sometimes gotten INTP or INTX in the past. "Scientists, engineers, professors, teachers, medical doctors, dentists, corporate strategists, organization founders, business administrators, managers, military, lawyers, judges, computer programmers, system analysts, computer specialists, psychologists, photographers, research department managers, researchers, university instructors, chess players." Maybe it's time to try my hand at dentistry...
- Ruchira S. Datta
I got an INFJ, but it doesn't match up in the career choices. Engineer and entrepreneur weren't on the list, but clergy and councilor were. :)
- Cristo
For all the INFJs, being a coder is not unusual, I am INFJ as well (though earlier in life I tested INTJ). Every type brings something new to the table. I like to think I'm more empathic than my former INTJ self.
- G. Sigh
I am an IFMS (I forgot my score) may have been INFP....
- Mike Nencetti
I don't know why I always retake this. I score the same every time. ENFP.
- tinypants - Hagitha of FF
I would have guessed you're an extrovert. I took a similar test with Steve that rated personality and compatibility. The results were that he was a "mastermind," and I was an "accountant," but we were 100% compatible. At least this time, I got other options besides accountant. :)
- Daisy
I'm another INTP, software developer, music and sports afficionado and overall übergeek. I hope I'm not bragging when I say I love myself. :-)
- Nenad Nikolic
A friend was going into the University of Hyderabad by cab, and there were protesters at the gate to the university trying to keep the gate closed. There were about 20 protesters. An old man got out of one of the cabs and talked to them, and then the protesters let them all through. Me, I haven't left my hotel since it started, because, well, everything is closed anyway.
- j1m
But the times of India does report some violence -- a single stone-throwing attack, and a single cab-tire-deflation being the worst of it.
- j1m
Be safe! When are you scheduled to return? What are your plans?
- ⓞnor
Original plan was to fly back the night of the 2nd. If there are no further reports of trouble (there have only been a couple of articles here detailing actual trouble outside, both written around sun-up this morning), and if things start being open again, we'll do that. We could also fly back tonight, perhaps. We're in a hotel that appears to be well out of the way of any trouble.
- j1m
That was not one of my predictions. :)
- Louis Gray
"Google did lose share in the middle of the year, though it gained it back. And to my mind, any lose [sic] of share is significant.". Ooooh. Good save. Almost thought he could be (gasp!) wrong for a second there.
- Aaron D'Souza
So a company loses a bit of share in response to a massive marketing campaign, then gains it back quickly, without commensurate marketing, and that's a bad thing for said company? Sounds like evidence of quality to me :)
- Joel Webber
from BuddyFeed
Interesting to notice that I have over 57% as many subscribers on FriendFeed as I do on Twitter. Especially since there are hardly any bots or spam accounts on FriendFeed. Audience engagement here is still better, too.
Since July I've gotten 14,000 new followers on Twitter and 7,000 new ones here. Not sure why you aren't getting your fair share of Twitter followers. :-) But I think you are better engaged here than on Twitter, which brings you love in return, as Louis demonstrates.
- Robert Scoble
Aww, shucks, all. @Robert - I already have plenty of subscribers*, thanks. I'd much rather the current situation -- highly engaged people to chat with, many of whom have a gazillion subscribers themselves and can filter for me in the off chance I say something interesting -- than end up on something like the SUL with millions of people who couldn't care less being bombarded with my inanity.
- DeWitt Clinton
*Call me old school, but isn't "subscribers" just such a better word than "followers"?
- DeWitt Clinton
My first thought is that "subscribers" sounds so passive, one-directional. Like the recipients of a magazine. "Followers" doesn't sound any better, to be honest. I don't know if "followers" sounds passive, or like a stalker. "Trackers" sounds very disturbing. Is there a phrase that has a bi-directional quality, doesn't sound passive, and yet isn't creepy.
- Carl Setzer
By the way, I've never been on the SUL and if added would ask them to remove me. I agree it's a bad thing. Lists are a lot more interesting, because that's how you find an audience that actually cares what you have to say http://listorious.com
- Robert Scoble
April: I just looked for an SUL on Cliqset and can't find one. Do you have a URL for it?
- Robert Scoble
I don't have a URL for it, but you are on the short SUL they show you when setting up a new account. Could make a new one just for the purpose of seeing who they suggest. ;-)
- April Russo (app103)
April: hmm, I didn't see that. So that's why I am getting added by a few people. Thanks for letting me know.
- Robert Scoble
Of course you wouldn't have seen it when you signed up, as you didn't have an account there yet and couldn't be on that list...lol. But if you were to make a new account now, you'd see that.
- April Russo (app103)
Re: subscribers vs followers... Meh. Now "minions," _that_ is a term I could endorse.
- DGentry
I have 384 subscribers on FF vs. 200 on Twitter. There's very little profound/useful stuff I can say in 140 or less, sorry
- LANjackal
it's good to see a lot of great people not great people but people with good content coming back to friendfeed again
- testbeta
LANjackal: that comment was 123 characters =D
- Mike Chelen
Hence the "very little" part of what I said, hahaha. That rarely happens. I don't consider most of what I tweet to be "profound", though it may be entertaining. It's certainly not informati- WHY IS THE CLOUD IN THE BACKGROUND MOVING ON THIS PAGE #shortattentionspan
- LANjackal
Can you recommend a good FriendFeed client? Would love something like TweetDeck for FF.
- Michael Brown
If you use the FriendFeed Facebook application make sure you've configured it properly. We are switching to a new method of publishing in the not too distant future. If you see this message at http://apps.facebook.com/friendf... just click on the link to provide the proper permissions. (via http://friendfeed.com/bgolub...)
A little late on the info as I deleted this link last week at I was told I was pushing all of my FF to FB people were not happy.
- Ed Mason
I took mine off as well, Ed. Aside from the excess amount of FF content on my FB wall, I also didn't want my IRL friends to pry TOO MUCH into the rest of my online.life. :D
- Helen Sventitsky
why do you not post the link comments from friendfeed to the wall? just the links loses 80% of the value.
- Gregor J. Rothfuss
I'm tired the FriendFeed Facebook app. keeps asking me to fix "the problem" so it can post to my wall. I don't want it to post to my wall! Contacts on Facebook and FriendFeed are different types for me. On Facebook it's about being friends in real life, on FriendFeed it is about interests. At least that is how I use FF and FB. My Facebook friends would probably feel I was spamming uninteresting stuff if my FF posts where copied to FB (well, at least if I used FF so intensive as I want to:-))...
- Stig Nygaard
Please let us select what to publish on FB from FF? I'd rather have tweets not appear on FB, particularly as I post from Ping.fm to FB and Twitter.
- Kol Tregaskes
New publishing method? I hope nothing will change for those FF users who don't use Facebook. (am I alone here?)
- Olivia Lovag
from twhirl
I agree with Gregor ... By not having the comment sent with the link, it's just plain and boring and I'd rather just post directly to Facebook. Unfortunately, however, this would negate the very useful benefit of using the "Share on FriendFeed" bookmarklet.
- Dewade Fowler
Get some colour and come graphics in there. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Does that case come with the Kindle? Looks nice.
- Benjamin Golub
Pure pleather-like goodness: http://www.amazon.com/Amazon-.... The case has a clever little hook mechanism that makes it easy to pop the Kindle in and out, but you can definitely use the Kindle with the case on. Feels and looks more like a book with the case on, plus it protects the screen. They say it is real leather, which is a shame, as it feels like pleather and frankly I'd rather it was fake.
- DeWitt Clinton
Can you please check if it shows UTF-8 characters? Like my name?
- Vinay | विनय
I am starting to get pretty excited about those... was pretty skeptical at first, but that is going to be a game changer.
- Susan Beebe
@Michael - I had never heard of it. But I'll admit that, off all the things I wished my Kindle could do, fold in half was not one of them. And this may sound like heresy, but I'm not sure the high-level OS stack is the limiting factor in of ebook readers. Give me more surface area (Kindle DX size), a thinner bezel, higher resolution and maybe color, ditch the keyboard (okay, so maybe an touchscreen IME would help), a brushed aluminum body, and keep the thickness and weight constant, and you have an upgrade.
- DeWitt Clinton
Ugh. It's like 1993 all over again. Whoever can figure out how to make high resolution, eInk screens in color, not necessarily with a rapid refresh rate, will pretty much own this device space for a while.
- Bill Strathearn
"A Sturgis woman had a blood-alcohol level of .708 percent, possibly a state record, when she was found earlier this month behind the wheel of a stolen vehicle parked on Interstate 90, according to Meade County State’s Attorney Jesse Sondreal. A South Dakota Highway Patrol trooper discovered Marguerite Engle, 45, on Dec. 1 passed out behind the wheel of a delivery truck reported stolen in Rapid City. Her blood-alcohol level was almost nine times South Dakota’s legal limit of .08 percent. Checks with local and state labs where blood-alcohol levels are tested suggest Engle’s reading may be the highest ever recorded in South Dakota, Sondreal said. Sondreal said a state chemist recalled a sample that tested .53, but nothing higher, in his more than 30 years on the job. Dr. Robert Looyenga, who recently retired from the Rapid City Police Department’s forensic laboratory, told Sondreal that the highest blood-alcohol sample he tested measured .56 percent. Sondreal’s research indicates that a blood-alcohol level of .40 is considered a lethal dose for about 50 percent of the population."
- bob
from Bookmarklet
Rachel sees values above .5 all the time in the Seattle Harborview ER. It is amazing what the human body can adapt to. These people have enough alcohol on board to kill normal people and are still up and "walking".
- Joe Beda ()
from iPhone
What freaks me out is that these people will go into withdrawal and DTs at alcohol levels that are toxic to the average person.
- Victor Ganata
Rachel says the highest she has seen is .760 (5'1" woman who ended up getting tubed). She has seen .600+ up and walking. The Harborview record is .979. His blood was almost 1% alcohol -- 2 proof.
- Joe Beda ()
from iPhone
I wonder how long it would actually take to get that out of their system, particularly if their livers are already fried.
- Victor Ganata
"Fastflow is a parallel programming framework for multi-core platforms based upon non-blocking lock-free/fence-free synchronization mechanisms. The framework is composed of a stack of layers that progressively abstracts out the programming of shared-memory parallel applications. The goal of the stack is twofold: to ease the development of applications and make them very fast and scalable. Fastflow is particularly targeted to the development of streaming applications."
- Jim Norris
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How does this compare to OpenCL or CUDA?
- Ray Cromwell
Haven't tried it yet, the details elude me this late at night. "Fastflow is specifically designed for cache-coherent multiprocessors, and in particular commodity homogenous multi-core (e.g. Intel core, AMD K10, …). It supports multiprocessors exploiting any memory consistency, including very weak consistency models. As we shall see, Fastflow implementation is always lock-free, and for...
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- Jim Norris