Roll call...this can be great if we all participate. Add yourself to this shared map. I created a placemark on the 2 major intersections near where I live.
- Mark Krynsky
Mo, I'm a newb to the shared maps stuff, but I turned on collaboration and allowed anyone to edit the map. There should be an edit button and then you can add a placemark.
- Mark Krynsky
Robert bought me a new house in the northern suburbs.
- Andrew Trinh
@Bec...nice. You are the first brave female on here.
- Mark Krynsky
Cool idea, Mark! I was thinking something like this would be fun the other day. Duly added myself - or at least the nearest big intersection. ;)
- Jandy
Mousing over the usernames shows your Google profile info...cool.
- Mark Krynsky
I marked a bus stop near my house. But not TOO near. :)
- Nine
If you haven't yet...go add FriendFeed to your Google Profile...it will then auto-discover and allow you to add a ton of other profiles you have.
- Mark Krynsky
Thanks for the profile tip - I hadn't updated it since I moved here!
- Jandy
Thanks guys. This is coming along nicely. It's great to have as a resource to see where everyone is from. Hopefully this can become a standard feature on FF one day.
- Mark Krynsky
Canterbury, Melbourne, Victoria added
- Duncan Riley
Current count: 13 US, 11 Europe, 3 Australia, 1 Middle East. Happy to see many others add themselves overnight. Hoping more will continue this.
- Mark Krynsky
I've read the instruction and still don't see the button thing to add myself. I'm feeling pretty stupid right now.
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@Jill, make sure you are logged into your Google account and then click on the edit button above the list of names already on the map. You will then see the pushpin in the upper left hand side of the map.
- Mark Krynsky
Added. Seems like there are a lot of us in the Bay Area...we must do a get together at some point.
- Neal "thePuck" Jansons
@Neal yea, we really need a FriendFeed meetup. I might be up there for Web 2.0 in March...or we can have one at SXSW if a large number of us are going. Let's plan and get the Upcoming page going.
- Mark Krynsky
@Mark Not gonna make SXSW, but am definitely down for working on an FF get together. March is long enough away to make sure plenty of people have time to plan ahead. I added you on Upcoming so we can start coordinating it. Anyone else interested/want to help set this up?
- Neal "thePuck" Jansons
Maybe we can talk Paul & Bret into letting us invade the FF offices for a meetup in conjunction with Web 2.0? That would be sooooo cool!
- Mark Krynsky
Pinned! sheesh this just cost me 1/2 hour of time as I scrolled thru all the folks :)
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Except for Bret, there are no FriendFeeders on the penninsula between San Jose and San Francisco. So much for Silicon Valley early adopters.
- Ryan Kuder
Cluelessness alert! I'm not seeing how to add my pushpin!
- Hutch Carpenter
For some reason whenever i use google maps in creation-mode, it defaults to some other maps I've used, not the one I'm trying to access - ah, figured it out. Had to de-activate some other collaborative maps
- anna sauce
Added. What a great way to see who's on FF in Austin, TX!
- Carter ♥ HTML5
Breyer's Dulce de Leche ice cream is pure poison. Since I have an exceptionally strong immune and digestive system, I'm willing to do my part to save humanity by eating every last bit of it. Help save the world: buy a package of this ice cream and ship it to me packaged in dry ice. The world thanks you.
I ate so much dule de leche when I was in Argentina it's a wonder I fit in the plane seat on the way back home! I was gratified to learn, though, that the way I make it at home is exactly the way my co-workers grandmothers made it there.
- FFing Enigma
Ooooh!!! I barely spent any time in BA when I was there, so it's my number one travel destination once we're able to afford such a trip. Hopefully I'll get to meet some of our Argentine FriendFeeders when we make our way down =D
- FFing Enigma
It will b gr8 to host u here, BA is so gr8 place to live
- Johni Fisher
Then Johni, I look forward to it =) Most of my time in BA was spent driving from the international to the domestic airport (plus I slept a night in EZE, but that's a different story altogether). But other than that, all my time was in Córdoba.
- FFing Enigma
When u plan to come ? what r u doing ? it was a trip or 4 work ?
- Johni Fisher
Oh, I didn't make the ice cream. Breyer's did all the work there. However, if you mean the dulce de leche itself, that's easy. Buy a couple cans of sweetened condensed milk, take the labels off. Put a pot of water on the stove, put the cans in the water, and bring it to a boil. Boil for 1.5 hours, turn the cans on the other end using tongs, boil another 1.5 hours. Pull out, let cool...
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- FFing Enigma
Johni, I was in Argentina 4 years ago for work: I spent a month helping to train a call center in Córdoba. I don't know when we'll be back, but every 6 months or so we price out what a 10 day trip would cost us. If things go well, we'd like to go about this time next year.
- FFing Enigma
OK I seriously need to try this. My grandmother used to do somthing similar with the left over pie crust for the little ones. The mild would go into it and be all carmelly creme. I might have some cans in the cupboard. *mostly commenting so I can find the recipe again.* Thanks!
- moon_shadow70
How would this go with a couple of homemade chocolate chip cookies? (White sugar, notwithstanding?)
- Derrick
i grew up on dulce de leche. (if you recall, we had this convo in an earlier life Tina) i make it, i consume it, i do things with it that are best left to ones imagination. that said, i hate the ice cream version of it. its not the same in any way on my palate. speaking of pallets, maybe i can arrange a pallet of this junk to be delivered to your home.
- Carlos Ayala
oki we will wait :-)) but if U dont want to wait for the real Dulce de Leche I will be happy to send u some ,send me over here or in Twitter yr email and contacts and you will get the real thing (not ice cream ajjaja but the real Dulce de Leche )
- Johni Fisher
Derrick: dulce de leche goes well with everything, chocolate especially. I use it to make an apple pecan pie and it's evil. And Carlos, I agree that the ice cream isn't the same. But I find it tasty in its own caramel-y right. Johni, I greatly appreciate the offer. Perhaps I'll have to make a batch of my dulce de leche over the next month, and I'll post some pics to see if it's up to standard =)
- FFing Enigma
i wonder if it would work in a slow cooker too
- Imabug
i wouldnt do that Imabug. contents under pressure in that can. placing the can in water and boiling it is the way everyone makes it (at home).
- Carlos Ayala
@FFing Enigma (aka Tina) Who's getting that swap package after you? You say this keeps how long? :-) Where do I get in line? (Seriously I'll just make some.)
- moon_shadow70
Moon_Shadow, the swaps box has already left the gate plus postage might be a bit prohibative. But it really is easy to make, and the boiled cans keep on the shelf for at least 6 months (I've used some after more than a year and it tastes fine, some of the sugars had started to crystallize though).
- FFing Enigma
Ooohh, I haven't had dulce de leche in a long time. I didn't even know there was ice cream with it! Portuguese have something very similar, doce de leite (?) that's made into a candy and is wonderful. Gawd, nearest store is 12 miles away...
- JCunwired
Off topic - I'm not a city person, but if given the opportunity I would live in Buenos Aires in a heartbeat. One of the most incredible places I've ever been to. 99.9% of the people, men and women, are absolutely beautiful, culture, food and wine galore... Love that place. Sorry, I'll leave now :)
- JCunwired
jcunwired: when u live here its not off topic ajajaj
- Johni Fisher
I mentioned that "the collective unconscious of FF" is really hungry tonight and its starting to affect me. I think I'll go find a snack now- before I start thinking about temping The Amber's neighbor's goats to jump the fence.
- moon_shadow70
I would take one of Amber's neighbor's goats and put that joker on the grill.
- Derrick
Derrick, I'm glad I'm not the only one who's willing to gnash on some goat.
- FFing Enigma
my cat does this with BACON...absolute madness under my feet!! soo funny
- Susan Beebe
Our cats do that with anything in a tin because they think it might be tuna. They're always surprised when I'm opening peaches or something and show them that it's not tuna. It's like they're saying, "WTF, tuna comes in a tin and is delicious but you're eating *that* instead?!"
- Rochelle
Rochelle - isn't that peach-can look priceless!! wtf! LOL
- Susan Beebe
Chris, one of our cats is Stella, too. :)
- Rochelle
my car does the same thing, once she hears a can opening. I can open any can, and plunks herselelf around my feet ,a long with all the purring and rubbing herself all over.. and then she gives a nasty look when she smells if itsa can of pineapple juice or something like that.. walks way soon after. Ungrateful creatures !!! :)_
- Peter Dawson
Peter, that's a talented car you've got.
- Rochelle
As an update: Echo snubbed the bit of sausage I gave her. My cats are odd, they don't get all that excited about cans. Echo will eat your cheese while you're not looking. Samson sneaks into my bloody mary's. Summer, however, takes the cake. She'll steal tequila AND has crawled into a bag of Doritos to get a chip.
- FFing Enigma
Rocelle, trust me .Ms.Socks ss very talented.. knows how to get what she wants !...kinda lady :)-
- Peter Dawson
Peter, that's awesome! We didn't realize she liked Doritos until she stole one from my husband and growled when we tried to take it away. The tequila was an accident too: I made tequila lime chicken and left the marinade in the bowl while we ate dinner. 20 minutes later she walked into the room kinda sideways....
- FFing Enigma
My kitten will take a Dorito and lick all the flavor off of it, delicately flip it over and lick the other side clean. Then she'll eat it. It's hilarious. I have yet to find anything she WON'T eat.
- Ladyepiphanybug
In college I left a tuna sandwhich on my bed next to my books to fetch a ringing phone. When I came back my cat had just devoured my entire sandwhich, sans the lettuce and bread - ate ALL the tuna and licked all the mayo right off the bread too! purrrrring loudly, of course
- Susan Beebe
"[...] Guido wrote the original implementation of Python in 1989, and after nearly 20 years of leading the community, has decided to step aside as its Benevolent Dictator For Life. His official title is now Benevolent Dictator Emeritus Vacationing Indefinitely from the Language (BDEVIL). Guido leaves Python in the good hands of its new leader and its vibrant community, in order to train for his lifelong dream of climbing Mount Everest. After unanimous vote of the Python Steering Union (not to be confused with the Python Secret Underground, which emphatically does not exist) at the 2009 Python Conference (PyCon [7] 2009), Guido's successor has been chosen: Barry Warsaw, or as he is affectionately known, Uncle Barry. Uncle Barry's official title is Friendly Language Uncle For Life (FLUFL). [...]"
- ˈpɛbə
from Bookmarklet
"Costanza asked Sussman why MIT had switched away from Scheme for their introductory programming course, 6.001. This was a gem. He said that the reason that happened was because engineering in 1980 was not what it was in the mid-90s or in 2000."
- Berk D. Demir
from Bookmarklet
Microsoft SQL Server, just to be contrary and everyone keeps telling me it's Microsoft's best product whenever I say Exchange is.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Although I'm not a database guy, I like SQL Server.
- Alan Le
I hate SQL but I used to use MySQL because it was easy but then I migrated to Postgresql (probably just to be different). However, now I try to avoid database work whenever I can.
- Akiva
I want to say Access just to be contrary ;-) Dunno, I've dealt with Oracle, MSSQL and MySQL more than Postgre SQL. Of those three, I prefer the interface MSSQL offers, MySQL for size and speed, and Oracle for sheer unadulterated power.
- FFing Enigma
For what purpose? For corporate work like data warehousing I want Oracle. For anything smaller it would be MySql.
- Rob Diana
I really like Oracle, but it's overkill for most stuff. I have a special place in my heart for PostgreSQL, but my workhorse RDBMS is MySQL.
- Mark Trapp
MS SQL is my default. MySQL when I'm going for free or w/ PHP. Oracle if I need a huge cluster and several terabytes, though MSSQL is catching up on that. Access or SQLExpress if I only have one user.
- xero
Do you vote for a specific DB because it's the only one you know, or because you experienced a few and decided this is the best one for you?
- Amit Morson
MySQL & PostgreSQL for web & other critical apps. SQLite for others. It depends of what I need to achieve..
- Thierry R. Andriamirado
from twhirl
Brilliant! For the life of me, I can't understand why websites such as WSJ.com still limit acces to registered readers (even if registration is free). Print media needs to start setting new paradigms for their industry - they're providing news/content - not just newspapers any more. Good stuff -great write up! Thanks!
- faryl
from FriendFeed MT Plugin
Great, great news. Can't wait to see what's created with this. Agree with the sentiment that using standard semantic markup would be great. Was just reading the TOS. Actually very reasonable. My favorite clause: "use the NYT APIs to operate nuclear facilities, life support, or other mission critical application where human life or property may be at stake. You understand that the NYT...
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- graham mudd
from FriendFeed MT Plugin
New York Times is very smart for their API move. Will bring them more traffic and increase global reach. So I wonder how long until someone write a nifty PHP cover for the API.
- Mike Reynolds
NYTimes going open : this is great news !! One more step towards the "websites as webservices" Alex Iskold presented in 2007 in RWW. As for earning money, this will require agility and new skills, something I am confident major newspapers can get if they are willing to. They already made the shift to web writing, to video content, partnerships, CMS / SEO, etc... This will only get the...
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- Amaury de Buchet
from FriendFeed MT Plugin
It feels kind of twitterish, that's not necesssarily a bad thing btw.
- Mathieu Ayel
Actually I really like the box appearing on the right hand side with view/share/like. It unclutters the UI. Also like the fact that the items on the stream are separated by a line. It makes visually easier to digest the bites...
- Mathieu Ayel
"perhaps I should do a post on "20% time" at some point..." Yes. Also an idea, license your blog under Creative Commons.
- Philipp Lenssen
Yeah, it has a lot of problems with high volume posters. I actually had to temporarily unsubscribe from Scoble so that other people would show up as well :). This started off with me wondering if our realtime view (http://friendfeed.com/realtime) could have some kind of threading added in. It doesn't really work in a lot of cases, but by putting the code out there I'm hoping that it will inspire other people to come up with interesting new interfaces (and also show how easy it is to use our API).
- Paul Buchheit
@Peter: A sticky post that remains at the top until I decide otherwise would be fantastic. I'd also like the ability to change the number of items I see per page. @Paul: Kudos on the realtime and for the API.
- AJ Kohn
This API is absolutely simple and easy to use - but the styles interfere with my css and my poor coding is not up to sorting them out so that I can add the FF-UI to one of my pages rather than put it on a separate page. Heaps of fun to use. http://www.chrisloft.com/myFF...
- Chris Loft
not really diggin it to be honest. as an optional or additional way to view ff it could work for those who choose, but i think the one we have currently looks a little better
- Cee Bee
yeah - i prefer this. its instantly recodnisable as FF. the prototype looks more like Twitter.
- Roberto Bonini
I will get used to whatever UI you put on top of FF, so I'm not to worried about what sites it does or doesn't look like. This approaches what I would really like for FF, which is to set a rate of information flow (maybe even have some sort of dial). There are already recommended friends, which would be smarter when I have time to waste than surfing "everyone", but I could dial it way back on busy days. This would also help with discovery because I could add people to my home feed if I like their stuff.
- Clare Dibble
Been checking it out with my own name replacing yours..it's an entirely new perspective on FF. Could be good...not sure yet. Thanks for posting.
- Josh Haley
I just realized that it looks surprisingly like a chi.mp site. I.e. http://sunla.mp/
- jho
It looks a bit like twitter, I think we could utilize a couple different ui designs in "settings"
- Kyle Weller
"First of all, it doesn't really matter if people trust the cloud or not. What matters is whether they use it or not. The average person doesn't trust computers, automobile mechanics or lawyers yet they use them anyway. Given the massive adoption of the Web from search engines and e-commerce sites to Web-based email and social networking services, it is clear that the average computer person trusts the cloud enough to part with their personal information and their money." Nice.
- Paul Buchheit
We don't actually trust horseless carriages: That's why we have insurance, and roadside repair, and so on. The question is whether, in moving to the cloud (which, by and large, we aren't at the moment - at least outside of mainstream geekery) we have enough insurance.
- Ian Betteridge
I think Dare's point is that we may not trust them completely, but we use them and they work well for us. The same as "computers and ... lawyers" from the article.
- Matt Cutts
i expect our data and applications will move to the cloud, then maybe hardware advances will bring the data and applications back to us when capabilities allow and then ultimately out to the cloud because at that point the real time information created by each individual will probably be too much.
- Iggy Mwangi
If its true that alcohol lowers your inhibitions then maybe coding while drinking results in groundbreaking stuff that you may not have had the cojones (for lack of a better word) to do while not drinking.
- EricaJoy
I'm not sure good code is often groundbreaking, though. Mostly it is just mechanical execution over stuff you knew how to do before you started (and do better with practice), and the hardest bits have usually been solved by others before you, so better preparation (research) is 1000x more valuable than inspiration. But +1 to the coffee/wine in any case.
- DeWitt Clinton
Coffee *and* red wine for me. Off-menu item at Starbucks. Ask for a "Pinotcchino".
- Chris Wetherell
I often find that moderate amounts of wine are very conducive to debugging, especially when under a bit of duress. I once had a bunch of servers start crashing constantly while I was in a SF hotel with my wife. At first I was stressed out, cranked up the laptop, and started trying to fix the problem. When my wife fed me a couple of glasses of wine, I calmed down and solved the problem easily.
- Joel Webber
I find that I'm more productive at coding after five or six shots of whiskey. I think it prevents me from overthinking every problem, and it makes it easier to focus for some reason.
- Jim Norris
Wine doesn't work for me anymore. Just makes me snoozey, that is why I quit :)
- Dion Almaer
I drink a lot more water while programming. If I ever stop programming I'll probably be less healthy.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
diet coke, green tea do it for me, I ration the DC.
- susan mernit
mine with coffee, water (preferably pellegrino), music and/or tv...
- Bindu Reddy
Clare and I finally finished watching season 4 (first half) last night, then watched the new one on tv. 4 hours of Battlestar! It was rough, but it was really good. I hope that no one spoils it for you Tudor. Battlestar Galactica is much less suspenseful when you know what is going to happen.
- Robert Felty
why don't you guys mix it all together, finally? one big storage drive (skydrive), which can sync over the internet and is programmable (mesh), and can also be configured to sync locally or over the lan (synctoy, livesync).
- Daniele Muscetta