Some engineered solutions are scalable across diff business models and decisions. Most are intricately dependent upon them.
- Loren Heiny
this reminds me of some sociology of science stuff... how scientists would say "we chose to run experiment X or use technology Y because of hard science fact F" when in fact so many decisions are social and about organizations or rivalries or something entirely more complicated than just THE SCIENCE (or in this case, just THE TECHNOLOGY).
- omar
"In a long post, Spivack calls the effort “almost absurdly ambitious” but concludes that it works, and claims that the engine has the potential to touch our lives as deeply as Google." - hmmm curious about that statement - will be interesting to put the alpha through its paces
- Aydin Senkut
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"FEBRUARY 10--A New Jersey judge has dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed by three women whose photos appeared in the book "Hot Chicks with Douchebags." In an amusing February 6 opinion, Superior Court Judge Menelaos Toskos ruled that author Jay Louis's 2008 book was "replete with obvious attempts at satirical humor," and that the inclusion of the women's photographs were "used for humorous social commentary.""
- Thomas Hawk
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Jim: the douchbags know who they are, and they are proud. they won't ever change. they will just become older douchebags. The hot chicks, on the other hand, already feel the roller coaster is getting very close to the top of the ride, with the rest of their lives centering around how hot they used to be, back in the day. The only job a hot chick has, is to stay hot. If she can do this,...
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- Morgan Haley
Morgan: to me these douchebags appear to fall more on the "hot" side of the male desirability scale than the "rich" side. After all, the guy on the cover is showing off his ridiculously toned abs, not his private jet.
- Jim Norris
...yes, but what if they were referring to actual douchebags...it could have been that time of the month, and women have certain needs, ya know? ;-)
- .LAG liked that
Jim: you make a good point, these guys are more pretty than rich, most likely. But I would submit that such a small percentage of people own or time-share a private jet, and it's probably ok to assume that those people have their shit together - disqualifying them for douchebag designation (in my book). but I digest...the main point of my tirade earlier was to point out the horribly...
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- Morgan Haley
FriendFeed tip of the day: Go to the 'Best of Day' page, click on the 'feed' icon, grab the URL for your 'best of day' feed, then go to your Gmail prefs, click on 'web clips', get rid of all the default subscriptions and add your 'FriendFeed Best of Day' feed. It is most awesome.
great tip. I've always just turned that feature off. Good to be able to make something like that useful. Who get's the credit for this little trick? I'll blog it.
- Rob Thomas
Nice. Why do you get rid of all default subscriptions?
- Amani
Because if I don't then I get maybe one 'best of friendfeed' for every 20 'USA Today top stories' items. You don't have to get rid of the defaults. I just wanted to increase the personal relevance.
- Kevin Fox
Makes sense to me. I think I just learned something new today. Thanks for explaining.
- Amani
Also a good idea for Mac OS X Screen Saver preferences under the RSS Visualizer.
- Mark Trapp
try to switch from RSS reader to friendfeed
- Roman Zolotarev
I am currently reading Friendfeed Best of Day in Google Reader (along with FFHolic Most Discussed). How does this approach compare? Any advantages?
- Sean McBride
Sean, I guess reading through Google Reader means there is a history that you can look back through vs reading directly on FF which is transient. I usually just read via FF. However, I do have a RSS feed off of AideRSS of an OPML of all of my subscriptions. This lets me catch up on the hottest posts quickly.
- Jauder Ho
"The Government should allow every distressed bank to go bankrupt and set up a fresh banking system under temporary state control rather than cripple the country by propping up a corrupt edifice, according to Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize-winning economist."
- Jim Norris
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It would be fun and educational to see Stiglitz, Krugman, Buffett, Roubini and Taleb in the same room debating what we should do about the economy. CNBC, are you listening?
- Private Sanjeev
you mean those people walking around my gym talking to themselves are actually on the phone? liked it better when I thought they were schizophrenic :)
- William Harryman
if you are on a phone while at a gym "working out" you are dead to me. nothing personal.
- Steve C
At least you can ignore both; I have the bigger problem of distinguishing between people talking on headsets and people talking to me!
- Private Sanjeev
Umm.. loser? I love my team (which happens to be the Eagles -- the one he's upset about) but I'll be damned if you caught me crying after they lost to the Cardinals in the NFC championship -- LOSER.
- Shmoe
The soundtrack for the original Muppet Movie is great but really hard to find on CD. I don't think it was issued in the US. I had to by my Canadian copy on ebay. (http://www.amazon.com/Muppet-...). I haven't seen it available in digital form either.
- Joe Beda ()
Tell me about it! Rachel and I used 'Rainbow Connection' for our first dance and it was very hard to find a clean copy that wasn't a cover or one of the later versions they recorded at a much slower tempo. We eventually found what we were looking for, but on a Muppet compilation album rather than the Muppet Movie soundtrack: http://www.amazon.com/gp...
- Kevin Fox
I remember buying this when it came out -- on cassette.
- Stephen Mack
I too had the cassette and played it til it wore out. :( @Kevin - thanks for the link to the compilation! I'll definitely have to pick that up since it has four of my favorite Muppet songs (though I wish they'd included Fozzie's America the Beautiful - "Patriotism swells in the heart of the American bear!").
- Karen
Sadly, it's no longer available on YouTube (maybe WMG should have a chat with the Monty Python peeps). But hey, Chris (and Josh), outstanding taste. The Muppets are simply awesome, and their first movie was absolutely a delight!
- Adam Lasnik
John Stuart Mill's prayer: "Lord, enlighten thou our enemies," prayed nineteenth-century British economist and moral philosopher John Stuart Mill: http://olldownload.libertyfund.org/Texts...: Sharpen their wits, give acuteness to their perceptions, and consecutiveness and clearness to their reasoning powers: we are in danger from their folly, not...
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- Piaw Na
I learned a long time ago to view Anne Coulter as a comedian. A shrill, unfunny one, but a comedian, never the less. I really don't quite understand how anyone with a particle of intelligence could take these fools seriously.
- Kathy
"Am I missing something? Isn't it obvious that there's a bottleneck in the system that prevents scaling to arbitrary size? (This is safe because there's a bottleneck in every system that prevents arbitrary scaling.)"
- Karl Rosaen
Bay, they already added that as [ and ]. I like to see my email after sending it though (don't see the mistakes until after I hit send), so I don't plan to use this new feature :)
- Paul Buchheit