x_x i don't even know what to say. part of me thinks it's great to be so irreverent and nod to hip-hop/hipster sensibilities. and part of me thinks "Can't y'all be serious?"
- tiffany
LOL, that is the headline of Asian people everywhere ronin!
- Eric
A read receipt that doesn't have to be set up ahead of time by the sender? That sounds like something that would actually get used. Pure crazy talk!
- Ross Miller
But not really a read-receipt. People could read in private, but this would enable them to give a positive acknowledgement without requiring another message.
- Kevin Fox
maybe gmail will have that soon ?? Fav an email and then a notification swings back to the send and with Fav icon in a different color ??
- Peter Dawson
Sharpie pens, 5x8 writing pads, blank index cards, metal ruler, mini post-its, Swingline 747 stapler (red, if available), mini mirror for monitor.
- caj needs a haircut
When microwaving canned green beans (without the liquid), why do I see bright flaming sparks between pieces that are close to each other? - Quora - http://www.quora.com/When-mi...
Ha... and I was going to ask if they took the beans out of the can before sticking it in the microwave... But it turns out this actually happens. Pretty sure this is the first thing, in the two years I have been microwave-less, that has made me want a microwave :)
- Ross Miller
from Bookmarklet
Somebody made a "funny" on the internet. A meme post somewhere (I forget where) stating "Watching soccer" and subtitled "Wait an eternity for a goal." I was tempted to respond with "Watching American Football. Wait an eternity for a display of skill over brute force." I didn't though.
And in fairness, if they wore plate armour like in the American game of "catch the egg, run 10 yards and stop for an ad break" those that "take a dive" (in the common parlance) in the game of football (as the rest of the world calls it) would be ignored.
- Slippy
"As a devoted FriendFeed user, I have tried to convince all of my friends and family to join the site, but a handful of them never quite got their accounts set up properly. With our new Recommend friends feature, I can fix their FriendFeed experience by recommending subscriptions to them." Try it out at http://friendfeed.com/friends...
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
What am I supposed to get when I click the 'recommend friends' link on someone's pop-up? Currently, the popup just goes away and I don't get directed anywhere else.
- FFing Enigma
Fred: yah, unfortunately, you can only recommend people who you are subscribed you and who are also subscribed back to you.
- Bret Taylor
Mark, I didn't submit a bug report since what is supposed to happen wasn't actually spelled out on the blog post or here; this might be the intended functionality... I hope not, but it's possible.
- FFing Enigma
Tina: it is supposed to pop up a dialog. Sorry for the trouble - we will look into it.
- Bret Taylor
At first I did not understand this, but now that I am checking it out, it is brilliant and addresses much of what we have complained about. NOW what will we complain about?
- Liza + = ?
Just to confirm Bret, the first image in the blog post is what the pop up is supposed to look like, right? Because that's nothing like what the ff.com/recommend page looks like....
- FFing Enigma
I notice that new subscriptions are automatically added to one's home feed. I consider that kind of a bug.
- Meryn Stol
Tina: yes, that is correct. The http://friendfeed.com/friends... page is just a list of people that we think could use some friend recommendations since they have few subscriptions. If you click on any of the "Recommend" links on that page, you will see the same, standard "Recommend friends" dialog.
- Bret Taylor
Where would we find recommendations that others suggest to us?
- Fred Yankowski
@Bret, who receive the recommandation see also who is the recommender?
- Roberto
Fred: You will receive an email as well as a notification on the top of your feed.
- Ross Miller
Roberto: yes, they see who recommended
- Bret Taylor
Bret, if I recommend friends to people who haven't signed in for a long time, will they get email? A lot of my bored friends are not active FF users I think. (quite logical)
- Meryn Stol
Not getting the pop-over when I click 'recommend' on the friendfeed.com/friends/recommend page either... FFox 3.0.12 if it's relevant.
- FFing Enigma
and can I see who has accepted my recommendation?
- Roberto
Roberto: You won't be notified if they accept/deny as the recommender.
- Ross Miller
Ross: Ah, it just appeared on my feed. Cool. (And thanks Meryn)
- Fred Yankowski
Meryn: yes, they will get an email with your recommendations
- Bret Taylor
from email
Bret, I accidently just received an email with previous recommendations. I had already viewed them through the web-interface. But indeed, it's there. Email looks good too, as I expected of course. :)
- Meryn Stol
hey Robert Scoble....I have a trade proposal....you send my name to all your friends...i send your name to all of my friends for the rest of my life....
- Bob DeMarco
I would like that deal, too, Scoble. I like this a lot.
- Ben Hanten
Bob: I charge $1 per friend. :-) just kidding, but the UI makes it so hard to send you to more than a few people.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Bret: You guys rock! This is so much better than FollowFriday, which I recommended just a while back. Now, I'm waiting for some recommendation emails! :)
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
If there’s something about friends and family not having their account set up properly, I’d prefer a way to recommend them the streams they forgot to add. For example, I could tell them “You forgot to add your Digg stream and your fourth and eight blog. Here’s the link.” Then he could just click the recommendation and had it set up easily.
- Natsuki Seika
As I have lots of subscriptions the pop-up window is *really* slow and always has been since the new UI (same thing for amending friends lists). :-( I like the feature though, so I could make a new friends list of my most recommended users and use that each time for each user?
- Kol Tregaskes
How to Ace a Google Interview - WSJ.com: "You are shrunk to the height of a nickel and thrown into a blender. Your mass is reduced so that your density is the same as usual. The blades start moving in 60 seconds. What do you do?" - http://online.wsj.com/article...
I don't know what Google's idea of the correct answer to this question is, but the ACTUAL correct answer is "Die suddenly", which is what would happen if you were shrunk to the size of a nickel, whether you are in a blender or not.
- Slippy
from Bookmarklet
Aww. My density stays the same? You mean I don't get transformed instantaneously into a micro black hole?
- Victor Ganata
Lay down on the center of the blades, and hold on. Lowering your center of gravity on the slowest portion of the blades, and moving with them.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Heh, according to the WSJ, Google interviewers don't find that to be a compelling answer.
- Victor Ganata
If I ever interview at Google, this will be my stock answer: "Please accept that I am able to think on my feet based on my proven track record. I have more than 15 years of industry experience in operations, and I successfully produced creative solutions to problematic issues on a daily basis. This hypothetical question is both absurd and irrelevant to the position I'm applying for."
- Stephen Mack
Since they didn't describe the blender, I am going to assume it is similar to my blender (happens to be the one pictured in the article). The lower blades are shaped in a sort of backwards S shape with the high point of the S connecting to the axle that spins the blade and the low point facing toward the edge of the blender (to mix/blend the chunks on the outer edge of the bottom of the...
more...
- Ross Miller
Actaully nothing. would happend. I would still be a nickle.. while the blender blades rotate over "me".. as da nickle actaully slips and settles at the bottom , below the blender blades..nope I have actaully seen this with nickle in blender !! :)-
- Peter Dawson
Since this is Google Blender, it only works if I use my "real name". Therefore, I can get out safely on my own time.
- Morton Fox
Stephen, I wish actual programming experience mattered that much.
- Todd Hoff
Stephen, I answered similar questions in my Netflix interview and was told I wasn't a good fit. :) Hindsight.. it was the best thing looking at how they are doing and the position would of been wiped out with the Restructure.
- CW✔
Since blenders don't turn on by themselves or have timers, someone has to turn the blender on. I would talk my way out of it.
- <3Heather<3
Maybe your blenders don't turn on by themselves, but these are Google blenders we're talking about! ;)
- Amit Patel
Peter - good answer - you'd have to qualify it by asking the interviewer if you were shrunk to the exact dimensions of a nickel, or so that your height was equal to its diameter. If the latter, you still might not fit below the blades. Of course, you'd already be dead on account of the air molecules being too damned big for you to absorb, as well as from losing 90-something percent of your brain mass.
- Slippy
Jimmi(ny) - mmm, nice way to paste yourself across the inside walls of the blender. :-)
- Slippy
Stumbled across this post on G+. Some of the uses for a cucumber are pretty wild. Either that, or this is the best troll in the universe and a bunch of people are going to end up with cucumber juice all over their house :P - https://plus.google.com/1065565...
"When the two intruders entered the house, one charged at McKinley with a hunting knife. McKinley fired and killed the intruder. The other man fled the scene. McKinley said: “I wouldn’t have done it, but it was my son… It’s not an easy decision to make, but it was either going to be him or my son. And it wasn’t going to be my son. There’s nothing more dangerous than a woman with a child.” Det. Dan Huff of the Blanchard police said that the killing was justified and that McKinley would not face charges. Huff said: “You’re allowed to shoot an unauthorized person that is in your home. The law provides you the remedy, and sanctions the use of deadly force.” According to ABC, McKinley was at home alone on New Year’s Eve because her husband had died of cancer a week earlier on Christmas Day."
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
from Bookmarklet
that's a lot of trauma for the young woman in a short time, best wishes to her
- SteVe C
I don't have any particular issue with the story but that graphic, "Pistol Packing Mama"... oy
- MoTO Bott
It isn't even a pistol!!! (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
- Ross Miller
Ross, the first or second paragraph in the article mentions she picked up a pistol, a 12 gauge shotgun, and her son. I don't know how one exactly accomplishes such a feat but it would be impressive to watch. ;)
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
That would be quite the sight! I wonder if the son was in the pistol hand or the shotgun hand? Maybe he opted for a piggy-back ride?
- Ross Miller
FriendFeed (News feeds from CNN, Breaking, NYT, LATimes, etc.). Public Radio app. NYT app. AP news wire app. Does this mean you're canceling your newspaper subscription?
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
FriendFeed Feeds/Hacker News/TechMeme on a computer. Pulse when i'm mobile.
- Ross Miller
Google Reader, Twitter, and to some extent FriendFeed and G+.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Friendfeed, Twitter, LA Times, SF Chron and random stuff...
- Spidra Webster
Friendfeed, Twitter, sometimes the news apps on my phone if they push alerts. I don't like watching news on TV because I can't avoid stories I don't want to hear about like children being hurt.
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
What, Ron Paul newsletters aren't enough for everyone?
- Micah
My left hand is usually on my chin while my right hand uses the laptop's trackpad.
- John (bird whisperer)
If my left hand's fingers are not on my lips, then my pinky is hovering over the Shift/Ctrl key area and S,D, F for the rest.
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
Somewhere between Shift/A/S/F and CTRL/A/W/F. In and thereabouts that vicinity.
- Akiva
"One day in 1992, as I was riding behind Kim Jong Il at a right-turning path, I noticed that his horse was standing by itself. Kim had fallen off the horse. It had apparently slipped on a bed of pebbles laid over some asphalt being repaired. Kim Jong Il had hit his head and shoulder quite hard and had fallen unconscious. A doctor was called immediately. I'm not sure when he regained consciousness, but the next day we all returned to Pyongyang by his private train. From that day, every evening at 10:00 P.M. for the next month, five or six of his administrative staff members and I would be injected with the same painkiller that Kim Jong Il was taking. He was afraid he would become addicted to it, and didn't want to be the only one."
- Ross Miller
from Bookmarklet
How do I not remember that... I must be getting old :)
- Georgia
I don't think I could go back to that UI. I like the current one.
- Stephen Mack
Mind you, the curent UI is also about 2.5 years old. :-)
- Kevin Fox
I miss the little real-time window that you could have open while you worked on other things. I never understood why they didn't implement that.
- Shevonne
Wait. It's still there. Click on the timestamp in the main feed and then click on the timestamp again in the individual post.
- Akiva
Ha, I remember this! I almost thought this was an old post that got bumped!
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
Where is the timestamp on the main feed?
- Shevonne
Why do I feel like I've been oh-so-subtly rickrolled?
- Victor Ganata
from iPhone
Directly to the left of the 'Comment - Like - Share - Hide'.
- Akiva
I never knew about the little window! Feels like a N00B all over again.
- caj needs a haircut
I still didn't get the window. :( I'm sick so that's my excuse. Haha
- Shevonne
Pop-ups blocked? I clicked the time-stamp in the Main feed, which brought up a window with just the post in it. Clicked on that time-stamp and a wee window popped up. EDIT: I responded from said wee window.
- caj needs a haircut
It might be here at work. They block EVERYTHING cool that can be done.
- Shevonne
Ross: do you have the FriendFeed music video? I think it was to a Coldplay song?
- Benjamin Golub
Shevonne, I think you and Akiva are talking about two different things. You can still have a little window to watch activity on an individual post, but I don't think there's a window for your whole feed. But I could be wrong.
- Laura Norvig
There is a link to the sidebar feed, I can't remember what it is, but I opened it a month or two ago. I think LogEx posted a link. *scours* I'll be back.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
The whole underground infrastructure of the Loop has always fascinated me, too. When I lived in Chicago, Lower Wacker was closed, though.
- Victor Ganata
I almost never go on Upper Wacker, but used to go on Lower quite often.
- Tinfoil 2.0
So are the extra levels below ground or is the third level a skyway?
- Ross Miller
I was using Street View to try and peek a different way to get to a grocery store near here but it seems Google Maps had mapped the underground version of Randolph. I'm not walking underground!
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
Ross, the extra levels are below street level. The city burned down in 1871 ago so new levels were built on top of the ruins. :)
- Zulema ⋅ spicy cocoa tart
Makes sense why there are no images of three level streets in chigago then when I went to google it, lol.
- Ross Miller
Now you're just getting lazy with your scripts!
- Mike Nayyar
Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged. It was popularised in...
more...
- Tinfoil 2.0
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipisicing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
- Tinfoil 2.0
So it's since Tuesday huh? The ultimate thread. How will the thread die then? We must have a limit for that, let's say 24h without one comment.
- Zu from AOD
As a side note, I do have to applaud the endurance and pettiness of those of us on FriendFeed. No one on Facebook gave this status update a second look!
- Mike Nayyar
We pride ourselves in our pettiness and obsessiveness. Um, wait.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Remember. It's not whole Scoble likes. It's who likes Scoble.
- Akiva
According to FriendFeed, that's everyone. And some Twitter marketers and SEO experts.
- Mike Nayyar
Mike will get in the last word. Eventually. Everyone else is an idiot for playing his little game. Me included. :-)
- Robert Scoble
I'm not actually playing. Or, if I am, I'm playing to lose.
- Akiva
HAHA! You see that? Robert Scoble acknowledges I will eventually win! HAHA! FINALLY! For once in my life, I win! :) :) :) :) Unless Logical shows up...
- Mike Nayyar
Only mostly dead. There's a big difference between mostly dead and all dead. Mostly dead is slightly alive. With all dead, well, with all dead there's usually only one thing you can do.
- Tinfoil 2.0
We're testing the limit on the number of comments.
- DGentry
Nah, the FFundercats live chat pushed that one way over the top. We are, however, testing the limits oh how sick people are getting of setting my face.
- Mike Nayyar
This thread has a lot of comments, that must mean Mike is an expert of some kind...or maybe an A-Lister. Must stalk^H^H^H^H^Hinvestigate him...
- Rah-PM 2012
Olympus too? Good thing Logical doesn't know any Japanese mythological figures.
- Mike Nayyar
All right, if you're going to play that way, Raijin AND Ajisukitakahikone are BOTH mad at you. And Raijin was especially unhappy because you interrupted his NOMmage of children's bellybuttons.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Dude, my best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who saw Raijin put down the platter.
- Tinfoil 2.0
We'd be content, of course, if you (Mike) issued a public retraction of the assertion in your post, followed by allowing someone else to post the last comment in the thread ;-)
- Tinfoil 2.0
805 comments!! I'm afraid to click on the more link....
- Jeff P. Henderson
Nicholas, as long as it's not Mike, it's irrelevant.
- Tinfoil 2.0
I'm sad that Logical saw this Facebook status.
- Mike Nayyar
You know at some point, expanding this comment will really put a strain on mortal browsers. It already has a 3 second pause to expand it.
- Mark Philpot
I wonder if at some point we will hit a soft limit and FF won't let it keep going. That or they look at this as a great high-bounds test case for the system.
- Sparky, lurking
Great experiment there, I'm somewhat scared opening the thread here. Funny thing, Even the explosion of words spawned through this, making it a wordle madness. http://www.wordle.net/gallery...
- Zu from AOD
I'm scared to expand the comment thread :)
- Roberto Bonini
There are few computers with the processing power capable of handling the comments in this thread. Except for, you know, quantum computers.
- Mike Nayyar
from iPhone
i'm afraid to click on the link to see all comments. so i'm just typing this so another guy (or gal) can read it and comment to make this comment disappear.
- Alfredo 亜瑠布れっど
If anyone gets these emails in their gmail and got sick and tired of them like me, just press 'm' to mute the conversation (if you have keyboard shortcuts enabled) (haha i got the last word)
- Daniel Morgan
No you just don't know I posted this.
- John D Reasor
cant the person that started this block the comments now? and thereby win.
- Morgan
If you can get buddy buddy with mike and figure out his schedule, you can prevent him from stopping the comments because you'll always be able to get the last word in. We must prevail for great justice!
- Jonathan Hardesty
That would be cheating, and he knows it :)
- Tinfoil 2.0
That's how the FriendFeed Mob rolls. :-D
- Steven Perez
from IM
you didn't disable the comments yet? you could comment and then do it and then you really would get the last word. but then again, that's cheating. and cheaters never prosper.
- Trish Haley
You're not supposed to make sense of it. It exits only as an opaque, monolithic data structure that is constantly being updated and evolving. ;)
- Tyson Key
Attempting to parse it in a manner that is not approved by FriendFeed, Inc may result in disruption of the space-time continuum, and a series of Bad Things(R) occurring.
- Tyson Key
not only does it make julian fries, but it slices and dices in in seconds. ORDER NOW and you'll get this special gift ABSOLUTELY FREE!!!!!!11!!1ONE!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
from email
this is the thread that doesn't end, yes it goes on and on my friend, Mike started it not knowing what it was, and it'll keep on going no matter what just because this is the thread that doesn't end, yes it goes on and on my friend, Mike started it.....
- T-Bone Tsali, FF Cherokee
from IM
welcome back my friends, to the thread that never ends, we're so glad you could attend, step inside, step inside.
- Mike Nencetti
MISSILES FOR ALL! Gun control is for unarmed wussies! Blow away comment limits! Damn the torpedoes! FULL STEAM AHEAD!!!
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
from email
Test conducted to see how long this can last.
- Ashish
it'll never die, with all the wireless cards out there transmitting this, it'll reach alpha centuari in about 300 years.
- T-Bone Tsali, FF Cherokee
from IM
It's not because I'm a person who wants to have the last word, but just because you people keep me reminding that there are others that do want that very badly, that causes me to comment here once again. HI! I'M BETTER THAN MIKE NAYYAR!!!!!!! LOSER! :-)
- Ton Zijp
This IS the time and place to announce a gathering of the societal beginnings of the intrepid adventures of... Wait... sorry, this isn't the place? Oh, okay, I'll go back home then.
- T-Bone Tsali, FF Cherokee
I was able to expand this thread on my Droid incredible, and post this comment at the end. Nice test of Dolphin HD browser.(edit - I use the default FF web page.)
- Mike Nencetti
from Android
If I get the last word in, will I get .LAG's World Series tix???
- Lisa L. Seifert | FHG™
It's been a while, Mr. LastWordThreat. I did some good things these recent months. Care to share some of your insights while you were on that trip? TLDR. 8) (2K+ comments is massive hehe, we're getting to your second b-day)
- Zu from AOD
All I want for Christmas are my two front teef.
- Mike Nayyar
Eventually, you will win. Because you're not married to this thread. But if you ever marry...your trend of always getting the last word will end. Painfully.
- Bubba Botts
This thread must go away!!! What if it kills FF!?
- SAM
this thread could go away right now. but you people keep posting comments...wait....didn't I just do the same thing? OK, nevermind. Long live this Thread!!!!
- Morgan
I heard Nayyar had to get in the The Last Word, always. I talked to the casting director, and Mike Nayyar got the lead in The Last Word.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
this is the last one -------------->>> WORD!
- .LAG liked that
Every middle brings another middle. When the world ends, will this comment be toward the end of the thread, or toward the beginning?
- John E. Bredehoft
You guys!!! This post will forever break FF if we're not careful.
- SAM
Yeah, we should all totally stop bumping this post.
- Slippy
I'm surprised Friendfeed can still expand this thread.
- Morton Fox
OMG, doesn't even want to image what would happen if Nayyar tried to use #fftop20. Actually I kind of do, but I bet it would be slow. Scores would be off the charts though.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
Probably still under 9000, people should try harder.
- Jimminy, CoG of FF
"QUEENSLAND MPs have voted in favour of legalising same-sex civil unions during an historic night in Parliament. After almost four hours of debate Andrew Fraser's private member's bill was passed by a vote of 47 to 40, the Courier-Mail reported. The bill, introduced by Deputy Premier Andrew Fraser, enables same-sex couples to register their union with the Queensland Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages. The bill will grant same-sex couples the right to enter in to legally recognised civil unions. It prompted a strong reaction from gay rights, religious and family groups."
- Johnny
from Bookmarklet
Well at least we know that Australia gets the same ridiculous arguments opposing gay marriage that we do here in the states. So very tired of hearing the same rhetoric over and over and over. Good on QLD for pushing this along! And hello cutie girl with the bullhorn. How YOU doin? :D
- Hookuh Tinypants
Shouldn't this be uncontroversial since they aren't calling it marriage?
- Bruce Lewis
Bruce: The crazy thing here is a large majority actually support gay marriage... in so much that they don't know why this STILL is banned and why don't we just nut up, allow it and move on from a topic that is so much a non-issue "WHY ARE WE TALKING ABOUT THIS STILL??" (Non-issue meaning 'yeah, let them get married. Their life'). There are a few issues to solve first. Since we have...
more...
- Johnny
But 'calling it marriage' I believe is 'kinda' a federal issue. The federal Labor party (in power) is looking to have a vote at their national conference in a few weeks time which should make it country wide.
- Johnny
For a quick second, I thought she had an R2D2 megaphone. Which... would be awesome... now back to your regularly scheduled broadcast.
- Ross Miller
Dress warmly! www.faneuilhallmarketplace.com, Newbury St., and Beacon Hill have nice vibes for walking/shopping. Eat some lobster. The duck tours are fun and give you some of Boston's history. High Rise Bakery (awesome sandwiches!) and L.A. Burdick in Harvard Square, which is a popular area and tourist-friendly.
- Dan Hsiao