OH NO!!! Now I will have to the Charlie Brown Christmas head bob. Anytime I watch the dance sequence I do the bob. Hmm, that reminds me I should see if the Scrubs take of Charlie Brown Christmas is still up on Youtube..
- Mol, Time Warping
An early birthday present: The Gmail Javascript compiler was just open-sourced! http://code.google.com/closure... (it compiles JS into smaller, faster JS)
Unfortunately it looks like the internationalization features may be missing. I wonder why those were removed? (or if I'm just not seeing it)
- Paul Buchheit
@Paul the Closure project has three components: compiler, library, and template language. Looks like the Closure/library might be competing with jQuery.
- Shakeel Mahate
I think jQuery does a lot of stuff that might confuse the compiler, e.g. iterating over an array of string function names and creating new function wrappers (look at the way the parent/child/next/prev/etc functions get installed) The Closure library is also full of type annotations that help the compiler make better optimization choices, so you're likely to get a better compiled outcome using Closure than jQuery + fixes + compiler
- Ray Cromwell
@paul -- I know you've been wanting this opensourced for a long time. sorry it took such a long time. Nick Santos and the jscompiler team has finally done it! Cheers!
- Jing Lim
Congratulations to the team (and @Paul & Jing) -- I know everyone's been waiting a long time for this. For anyone considering whether to use jQuery vs Closure, consider that they're meant for largely different purposes. jQuery's good for enhancing static web pages; Closure's much better at building large apps. And as Ray points out above, Closure the library is going to get much better results from Closure the compiler than an arbitrary js library would, because of all the type annotations.
- Joel Webber
Paul Buchheit has been at the top of my best of pages all month. Rock on, Paul.
- Donald C. Lindsay
Hey HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAUL !!! Cool present!! <insert CAKE> :D
- Susan Beebe
That writeup is trolling for traffic IMHO. Nit picking 50 lines out of 200+ thousand (written for readability, which get compiled and optimized), providing no benchmarks for claims, and spending half the time bashing Java, it just seems to be struggling to find something wrong with Closure.
- Ray Cromwell
Sachin: he seems to be commenting on Closure the JS library, not Closure the JS compiler (that Paul's post was about). And he may be a douchebag, but I haven't seen anything I disagree with.
- Gabe
That is awesome! I love Indiana - and not just b/c she resembles another little gray cat we know.
- Katy S
Spidra, me too! She is yawning but she almost looks like she is yelling or something odd. Suezanne, she is real, she is a very odd little cat, but very real. Katy, totally! I would say that Plum and Indiana should meet someday but Indy has a bit of a stick up her but about other cats (it even takes her some time to adjust to the kittens). They are both such cool cats though!!
- Rachel Lea Fox
Maybe, but Virginia thinks Rachel is adorable!
- Ladybug Heather
Thanks Heather. Wait, all of Virginia thinks I'm adorable? I mean I know they did when I was 2 yo and lived there, but now? Goodness, that is a lot of people for Kevin to fight off. Well, all of Indiana will have to stare them down! ;)
- Rachel Lea Fox
Well, I am sure Indiana finds that it isn't as exciting as pillaging tombs, raiding lost artifacts or fighting Nazi's
- RAPatton
RAPatton, actually I think this is her "I haven't had an adventure in a long time, can't someone lose an important artifact to the Nazi's please" look. I'm sure I'll find her hunting Nazi's in the rafters in just a few days. ;)
- Rachel Lea Fox
I'm with Suezanne. Have the Cat hold today's paper.
- Mark Krynsky
I don't have today's paper Mark. But I'll find something later. In other news Indiana takes good care of me and brought me my slippers. She always tries to make sure I keep my feet warm and don't catch a cold! :)
- Rachel Lea Fox
"Open Bar -->", if you want to keep your costs down point the arrow in the wrong direction, if you want a real party point it in the right direction.
- Ed Millard
Our bar isn't exactly open hehe
- Alex Scoble
from IM
One (two? three?) ring(s) to bind them both! (loved the "INCONCEIVABLE!" response, btw)
- MiniMage, sheeple of FF
Tim, you need to delete your signature when you are posting from email to FF (see above). ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
A bit of a overkill?...lol ... Actually its not a true signature ... Its a program I use called AutoText from Jitbit. I type in 1 or 2 letters on my keyboard and it displays whatever I set it to. So its actually part of the original message body. But nonetheless if it is annoying to the readers or members, I can shorten it with just my profile link, would that be ok ?
- Tim Tunnicliff
No need for sigs on comments, just remove it. We've got your name after the comment anyhow. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Kol, next to the message in the shoutbox, next to the date/time, there's an X....you should be able to delete them one by one. Tedious as hell. I agree they need to work on spam control.
- Ⓐ ☠ slayerboy ☠ Ⓐ
Thank you, I didn't see that. Deleted them. Yep, need spam facilities.
- Kol Tregaskes
"We test a lot of software around here, on the web, on our desktop and on our phones. It's a great job to have, but only so much of what we test really sticks and becomes a part of our daily routines. Every once in awhile we like to compare lists in our team chat room and then share them with you. Here are the latest tools and services we've come to love, maybe you'd like to give them a try too."
- Kol Tregaskes
from Bookmarklet
Have always liked Seesmic Web. Not too many bells and whistles you don't need.
- rowlikeagirl
The Seesmic interface looks appealing. What I am going to need is a way to group people whom I follow on twitter based on how often they tweet, not based on userids.
- TrafficBug
Seesmic Web is good but I prefer Seesmic Desktop (to Matthew's distaste ;-)).
- Kol Tregaskes
My dad was 21 and my mother 20 when I was born; he was stationed at Phu Bai, and didn't find out for 3 days that I was born. There was no internet, and the fighting was very intense. At one point they burned all the paper and had the base ready to be evacuted
- RAPatton
I wish I had pictures of my Dad in the military to show you guys. I don't even think my parents have any. My Dad was in the Air Force for 24 years, and served in Vietnam as well.
- A. (Girl Entropy)
What a fabulous collection of pictures and items from that time! Happy Veterans Day to your dad!
- Katie: Witch Of The West
I'll see if I have some pics of my dad while he served in Vietnam. Happy Veterans Day.
- Derrick
So... your pappy must be pretty close to my age. I turned 18 in 1972 and registered for the draft. They had instituted the draft lottery by then, so everything depended on my lottery number, based on my date of birth. I remember being in college and wondering whether I was going to be drafted, and then they announced the draft number for October 19th... it was 365. Phew! But I also had...
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- Mark Jepsen
I seem to be constantly struggling with Text and HTML formatting and editing issues :(( Be it Gmail, Blogger or Google Docs. After all these fancy technological advances why can't I get a kick-ass editor...
Unfortunately that is right... it kicks your ass... still ranting randomly in the vain hope that maybe in a year or so some of this will be fixed.
- Bindu Reddy
As far as I can tell, the rich text editors used by so many sites are at their heart using a browser feature. So it might be worth trying out several browsers to see if there's any variation.
- Amit Patel
What actor do you think is the best at playing both good guys AND bad guys? For the purpose of discussion, "good" guy can mean "funny" as well, as long as it's a definite foil to the evil parts they've played.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I find it interesting that everyone we've named had been male.
- Katy S
Doh, I forgot Christopher Walken!!! Katy, he was on my original list when I first had this conversation 10 years ago... Oh, and I figured all males was because of the verbiage 'actor'. I'd have to mull it over for actresses (they don't always get as great a range of roles =/ )
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I know - women don't get the same range. I figure the word actor had something to do with people's choices, too.
- Katy S
A lot of good mentions here. Rickman would have been the first to spring to mind for me. Oldman is fantastic, though. He's absolutely protean. Kathy Bates has played both good and bad well.
- Spidra Webster
Someone might have to fact check for me (as I'm not really a film/TV buff): did Joan Collins ever play nice/funny? Did she do it worth a damn? If so I'd say she's up there!
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Hugh Jackman. If you've never seen "The Prestige", DO EET.
- Spidra Webster
Tim Roth, He's got the rough love good guy and the downright nasty bad guy in him.
- Rasmus Lauridsen
John Lithgow. He's brilliant as both the funny man and the villain.
- ‘-.-’ Tutivillus Grift
DAMN! I forgot the reason I had this train of thought in the first place: I saw Tim Curry in a Rocky Horror clip on TV and he's on my list.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Where have you seen Jimmy Stewart as a bad guy?
- Spidra Webster
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a famous example of Stewart as a bad guy. Vertigo is a great example of him as a twisted character - he's extremely sadistic at times.
- Sarah is Novembery
I can see that, MVB. Not to mention she went from streetwise trollop to naive rube one show right after the other.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Denzel Washington. He doesn't play bad guys enough, though.
- cecily
It's been a while since I saw Liberty Valance. Guess I forgot. I'm not as big a fan of his westerns as I am of his other work. Early in his career, Stewart was actually cast as the male ingenue. He even sings in "Born to Dance". The studio didn't know what to do with him yet.
- Spidra Webster
Alan Rickman, Glenn Close, Amanda Peet, James Stewart, Kevin Spacey, Alec Baldwin
- Helen Sventitsky
Tough call but Anthony Hopkins because you have to clarify the definition of evil and whether it is done out of wickedness or weakness. For instance, take the role Macbeth. He clearly does evil but it is out of a tragic flaw, he's aware that its wrong but can't seem to stop himself, even at the end. But you pity him because he knows and its eating him away from the inside out. But the...
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- Melanie Reed
And yet Anthony played C. S. Lewis in "The Shadowlands" a man of God and Christian apologist so far removed from Hannibel as to be in heaven away from hell. The love he showed for God and his wife as he cared for her during terminal cancer till her death was the full spectrum of the human experience of love and joy in the midst of grief
- Melanie Reed
When Hopkins plays good characters there always seems to be something lacking there. Why? His eyes: they're too smart to reflect only pure goodness. Whereas Spacey, oh my, he can play devil or saint as he chooses, although he likes to walk the line between both. Take his defining role for instance: Keyser Söze. He has you fooled right til the end into believing he's the kindest character of all. Then, suddenly, the hint of a smile...
- Jordi Soler
Jordi, I like that you caught that! There is a moment in the film "Shadowlands" where Joy has just learned that she has cancer and its incurable and she looks up at him after leaning the truth from him and says:"You're looking properly at me now. You never looked properly at me before." And its true. Hopkins does an amazing job just with his eyes at that moment.
- Melanie Reed
:) How did I know that you were going to pick "The Sting" Matthew. I can almost here Joplin's "Solace" in the background. But are you sure about "Quint" ?! *squints*
- Melanie Reed
@Melanie: I'll have to rewatch "Shadowlands". Must confess that I found it quite boring the first time I saw it (long time ago). But seriously, Hopkins has some issues when trying to portray ambivalent characters (take "Human Stain", for instance). On the other hand, he is perfect when he has to play evil masterminds as the one in "Fracture".
- Jordi Soler
Jordi, I recall the Human Stain and chalked that up to wanting to pay some bills or an agent somewhere. Anthony is a bit of a conundrum in the roles he takes but then again, its a business. He does seem to excel in roles calling upon his ability to play the divided soul: Magic, Guilty Conscience. And I think it is this soulful ambidexterity that allows him to go either way or in the...
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- Melanie Reed
If you want to see Hopkins as a truly likable and sympathetic character, watch "The Fastest Indian". You root for him the whole time.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Tina, I have been wanting to see that and several things kept getting in the way. (my dvd drive died) Now that I have a DVD drive back in a laptop I can reserve it from our library. Thanks for reminding me! :)
- Melanie Reed
Cary Grant is my number one. In a close second is Brad Pitt. Johnny Depp is good, too. I also like Guy Pearce for this. Kathy Bates and Hugh Jackman are good mentions. Robin Williams is also a good pull (he's played some really disturbing bad guys).
- Curtiss Grymala
Agree, Alan Rickman, Anthony Hopkins......and most definitely Gene Hackman!
- Bonnie Foster
Robin Williams has played a villain in "Insomnia" (the American remake of a Norwegian film) and "One Hour Photo"
- Spidra Webster
I would say Deniro, but I think even his "good guy" characters are still kind of frightening and intense.
- Curtiss Grymala
from iPhone
Ian McShane. Have a look at his portrayal as "swedgin" in Deadwood.
- Terry O'Fee
Tim Curry was the first that came to mind. Many other good ones mentioned, Alan Rickman is high on my list. It's also interesting how many of these people are attractive, moral ambiguity must be a turn-on... weird.
- Angsty Lo is Angsty
what about Johnny Depp and John Travolta? so mainstream but pretty diverse catalogs...
- Robyn Hawk
I said Johnny Depp, and quite a few people mentioned John Travolta.
- Curtiss Grymala
from iPhone
"Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us."
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from Bookmarklet
Mine is always up, but I never use it, because I actually tend to use IM more for work-ish stuff, and none of my coworkers ever bother to log on. Defeats the purpose, I think.
- DJF
Yes, because what could possibly be more antisocial than carrying on a conversation about your IM client status on Friendfeed? Oh, right. Not doing that. :-P
- Greg Schwartz
Bren - I got Plum at the animal shelter. I'm sure she's mixed breed, but she does have a lot of Russian Blue characteristics. Her eyes are more yellow-green, though, and she has some ghost striping here and there - mostly on her tail.
- Katy S
Lawlz! Well, I gotta side with Mattel in the sense that it's clearly for the adult collector market. Of course, there are other dolls adult collectors would probably want to collect that you'll never seen. Like the Joyce Wildenstein Barbie.
- Spidra Webster
A Mattel spokesperson claims the $81.99 doll got his name because his dog is named "Sugar," and he is its "Daddy."
- Tudor Bosman
"I went through a McDonald’s drive thru and said “I can has cheeseburger?” There was a pause before I heard “Nom Nom Nom” on the other end. IMMD" - http://origin.reddit.com/r...
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- ems
I am a librarian. More specifically I am the head of access & delivery services at North Carolina State University's Libraries. I travel mostly to give presentations at conferences.
- Mary Carmen
What's a merging service point? Computer interface?
- SAM
My department used to have several service desks (where patrons could get assistance with a variety of library services). We merged two units and took on an additional lending service. I am presenting about the merger process: the prep, the training, the reality, lessons learned, and future plans.
- Mary Carmen
Last week I presented at a conference in Missouri on how to deal with personnel and performance issues. I tend to write and speak about several different topics.
- Mary Carmen
I pitch the topic and they select. I manage a dept of 34 people so.....I have some experience with performance management. ;-)
- Mary Carmen
Cool and there is this library circuit awaiting good content?
- SAM
yeah, i like to think so. I thought last week's preso went extraordinarily well, but maybe people who were there can speak to it, as I may be baised ;-)
- Mary Carmen
Had me some Negro Modelo this evening... what's your flavor?
- SAM
Well I love Belgian beer. My fave is Westveleteren. Tonight I drank Terrapin's Big Hoppy Monster. I also love Bell's Two Hearted Ale, Terrapin's Wake & Bake and Victory's Golden Monkey.
- Mary Carmen
Good names... not familiar with most but "Big Hoppy Monster" sounds awesome... my beer making gear has been in storage while we're under construction, but I'll put you at top of the list for a "care package" next fall when we pull out the gear.
- SAM