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Best wedding ever - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Brian liked this
Was that on a boat?
- Michael
In which case I sure hope they played http://www.youtube.com/watch... at the reception.
- Michael
No boat, just a crazy beach house with an amazing view. Has to be called the best ever when it is your sister's.
- Jonathan Le Plastrier
from iPhone
Hazard Reduction in Scala Actors – Stiegler - http://samskivert.com/2009...
We've always been at war with Eurasia.
- Michael
How is it ever sane for iTunes to delete apps on your phone? If they're not on my Mac, copy them from the phone, don't delete them. WTFO?
Tip 2: if you pop up a dialog saying "I'm going to delete 6 of your apps" and I click the cancel button. Do not silently delete the apps without confirmation when I try to sync a second time.
- Michael
Thankfully by restoring from a backup and redownloading the apps, I was able to restore the apps and their settings. Had I lost the settings for Peggle and the hundred+ hours I've put into those achievements, I can't be sure that the threat of life in prison would have dissuaded me from ending the life of a member of the iTunes team.
- Michael
Oh for the fucking love of jesus, it deleted all of the songs I'd purchased from my phone as well. At what point did iTunes stop copying things from my phone back to my Mac when I synced it? Where's an Apple engineer when you need someone to strangle?
- Michael
Oh wait, PEBKAC, I'm syncing my phone with the wrong Mac. That's what I get for owning four fucking Macs.
- Michael
May I suggest purchasing a dock - and attaching it to the mac you sync with?
- Robin Barooah
from email
That's a fine idea, and also not leaving the Mac I sync with in the closet because I'm currently in between apartments. :)
- Michael
I have developed a strong dislike for carp, vrrp and a variety of other distasteful acronyms.
Must be the duty phone?
- Jonathan Le Plastrier
One of our vlans just decided to magically stop working today. The other five are fine and nothing AFAIK has changed. It is a mystery of the most annoying sort.
- Michael
Working on Everything is so much fun!
sara and Jonathan Le Plastrier liked this
That's http://apps.facebook.com/everyth... for those of you who want a sneak peek.
- Michael
Tried hard to use Google Docs, just gave up and went back to TeX + subversion.
I know that TeX isn't a general solution, but I do think there's a real value to separating the process of writing content from application/management of layout and style. My current document consumed 4 pages in Google Docs, but is visible in one page in the LaTeX source -- there's something somehow beneficial to having that broader view. (This applies equally well to Word, Pages, etc, of course)
- landonf@bikemonkey.org
Donald Knuth would agree.
- Michael
Much less time futzing with formatting in TeX. But trying to do certain things is nigh impossible until you overcome the learning curve. (Luckily one of those things is using Comic Sans.)
- Andy Carrel
Kindle DX Unboxing - http://gallery.me.com/rbarooa...
Apple-inspired packaging?
- landonf@bikemonkey.org
actually not so much - amazon have been going this way in general
- Robin Barooah
from IM
nice touch was the initial instructions on the screen in eInk
- Robin Barooah
from IM
Nice choice of paper to demonstrate the PDF display capabilities. ;)
- Michael
Ah, I didn't realize the instructions were on-screen -- neat.
- landonf@bikemonkey.org
- yeah - I wasn't sure even with with it in front of me - could easily have been on the plastic film.
- Robin Barooah
from IM
Very cool.
- Jonathan Le Plastrier
Guess you can finish Anathem now
- sara
Yup, and it is indeed much better than on then phone.
- Robin Barooah
from email
How would you say it improves on the phone experience (in addition to the larger screen)?
- landonf@bikemonkey.org
Rather than try to squeeze an answer into a FriendFeed comment, I've written a first-impressions posting here: http://notes.sublime.org/post...
- Robin Barooah
from email
Back in USA - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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Mmm... the in and the out.
- Michael
And potable water.
- Jonathan Le Plastrier
Some pretty dark looking water
- sara
Potable ice cubes?
- Jonathan Le Plastrier
I hope you left a giant propina for the cleaning staff! Giant.
- Michael Muller
Does an enormous bag of explosives count? Turns out the Policia does not like it when you set off fireworks.
- Jonathan Le Plastrier
Stephen Wolfram demonstrates Wolfram|Alpha in detail - http://www.wolframalpha.com/screenc...
Adam Kazwell, Michael, Michael Ehline and Casey Muller liked this
finally completed his wild pig (tag) chase in preparation for his wild pig chase.
Wow, I'm pretty sure less than 500ms elapsed between the time I clicked submit on Twitter's website and the time that the FriendFeed desktop notifier popped my tweet up in a window.
- Michael
Zoom.
- Jonathan Le Plastrier
is making a Night Club simulator. Just implemented MutablePartierModel.
Casey Muller and Jonathan Le Plastrier liked this
does it get shut down by a simulated AlcoholicBeveragesBoard ?
- Robin Barooah
Only if you haven't applied the JWZ patch.
- Jonathan Le Plastrier
Perhaps only if you *have* applied the JWZ patch.
- Michael
Good point. I guess I was being optimistic that he won't actually be shutdown.
- Jonathan Le Plastrier
Get real-time FriendFeed notifications on your desktop - http://blog.friendfeed.com/2009...
Vincent Wright, edythe, Rob and 49 other people liked this
Try it out: http://friendfeed.com/setting...
- Casey Muller
Cool. I'm still digging the web-based pop-out window. But I'll have to check this out.
- Hutch Carpenter
Can't wait to see if I can get this working on my Ubuntu setup at home.
- Steven Perez
Let us know Steven. For Linux you may need to use the manual install process described in the first question here: http://friendfeed.com/about... and 64-bit Linux has some extra challenges: http://kb.adobe.com/selfser...
- Casey Muller
Is this something you'd consider making open source, as an example of what's possible with Air and the API?
- Ken Sheppardson
Interesting idea Ken. We store preferences and other things on our server, but maybe we can strip out those parts and release the rest.
- Casey Muller
Isn't it bad form to ask for password instead of the remote key?
- Daniel Sims
Daniel, we ask all third-party developers to use the remote key, but this is an official FriendFeed tool.
- Casey Muller
This is cool... how easy was it developing for adobe AIR? I haven't looked into it yet
- Chris Lamprecht
I want Growl integration. :)
- Michael
@Michael you can get that by using the IM interface with Adium
- Robin Barooah
from IM
I just noticed it is using 38M of memory according to windows task manager
- Chris Lamprecht
Thanks for the info Chris, we're keeping an eye on memory usage, and we'll make an effort to keep it low. Developing for AIR was pretty good, with the inevitable frustrations.
- Casey Muller
Sounds nifty. Downloading it now.
- Tyson Key
I just did and I like it. Although it can be difficult to follow the threads when comments come up individually, without heading over here.
- Martha
Can I use it for some my FF list?
- Igor Poltavskiy
Just loaded it ... sooooo coooool
- Charlie Anzman
Brazil + Argentina - http://samskivert.com/?p=761
sara and Jonathan Le Plastrier liked this
That is a cool sloped pool.
- Jonathan Le Plastrier
It was quite refreshing in the blazing sun.
- Michael
likes Flower. It's soothing and pretty.
Is that the name of some new hallucinogenic cold medicine?
- Jonathan Le Plastrier
That and a new PS3 downloadable game.
- Michael
Denote is now available on the AppStore for the iPhone and iPod Touch. - http://littleitch.com/denote/
Michael Muller, Casey Muller, sara and 4 other people liked this
Many people use their email inbox to store notes, reminders, or to do lists. Denote makes this simple and easy on the iPhone and iPod Touch. Use Denote to capture a thought that is keeping you awake or save a brilliant brainstorm before it is forgotten. By getting ideas out of your mind and into your inbox as quickly as possible, Denote frees your attention back to the moment at hand.
- Jonathan Le Plastrier
Direct iTunes link : http://itunes.apple.com/WebObje...
- Jonathan Le Plastrier
If you set your "release date" in iTunes Connect to the day it was actually posted (eg, today), then it'll show up at the top of the default "sort by release date" view of the Productivity section. Otherwise it shows up with your submission date as the release date, several pages in.
- landonf@bikemonkey.org
Ah cool, thanks for the tip. Doing so now once they finished rebooting iTunes Connect.
- Jonathan Le Plastrier
It's on my front page, sending all my notes. (That seems less funny without the ur and other grammatical errors.)
- Michael
I'm going to try it right now! wow!
- Adrienne
Please let us all know how Denote is received. I wonder if there is any appropriate marketing approach that will stimulate acceptance, I mean, sales, moola, da green.
- Michael Muller
Please deconstruct the origins of: the logo, the company name, and the pounding pegs slogan!!!! All very clear and direct and memorable. Much better than the monkey chasing his tail or......
- Michael Muller
is abandoning git-svn at work. I'll probably keep using it at home though...
I tried using git, but I'm still pretty unclear on the actual advantages. It mostly seems to be hand waving about disconnected operation and cheap branches, but I already have the former, and don't really want the latter.
- landonf@bikemonkey.org
I warned you about that git-svn flakiness. That aspect of it is totally oversold - and really didn't seem to work very well.
- Robin Barooah
I just found it cumbersome to have to: git add (whatever small change I just made); git commit; git stash (whatever other mods I had); git svn dcommit (to push my commit upstream) and finally git stash pop; when with svn I just: svn commit (whatever small change I just made). Maybe I'm just not using GIT right. I still like the idea of being able to git blame and do incremental commits when I'm disconnected.
- Michael
yeah - well that dance you describe is part of what you pay for using it with svn. One doesn't have to do so much when just using git repos. Admittedly if you want an SVN like workflow, it's still 3 steps - add, commit, and push. Wouldn't SVK do your disconnected thing better?
- Robin Barooah
I've been thinking more about the concept of loosely organized collaboration between independent entities, using cooperatives as points of legal organization/representation. It's something I'd like to try, especially as I have quite a bit more work than I have time.
Robin Barooah liked this
Have you been following what Charles has been up to in that regard? http://www.circus-foundation.org/project...
- Michael
That's pretty neat, dropping him an e-mail
- landonf@bikemonkey.org
As an experiment, doing a 50/50 split with an artist here in SF on a smaller idea he had. He provides all the art + UI, I throw it together into an app. A one-click collaborative agreement would sure be handy.
- landonf@bikemonkey.org
Reading up on the OpenSocial and Facebook APIs. I even logged into Facebook again.
What do you think?
- Robin Barooah
Not sure quite yet. I am intrigued. Just getting started on the minimal library I need to use them
- landonf@bikemonkey.org
I've been doing stuff with the Facebook API recently and crying myself quietly to sleep. Documentation is weak, the PHP and JavaScript example code is terrifying, testing anything is a royal PITA. But some of it looks nice. :)
- Michael
I will note that getting things *out* of Facebook is easier than getting them in. Which is probably good for you.
- Michael
You aren't kidding, the documentation is mindbogglingly bad, not to mention the sample code I've found.
- landonf@bikemonkey.org
Frost/Nixon - http://samskivert.com/?p=708
Been looking forward to seeing this. Thanks for the review. Might I recommend Slumdog Millionaire.
- Jonathan Le Plastrier
Really enjoyed Frost/Nixon too.
- Jonathan Le Plastrier
And Rebecca Hall is smokin' hot. I remember her from Vicky Christina Barcelona.
- Michael
That is also true.
- Jonathan Le Plastrier
Yeah she was nice to look at, too bad her character did abosolutely nothing for the movie
- sara
I agree she felt a bit tacked on. Always puttering in the background or being sensitive to Frost's needs. Maybe Ron Howard is sexist, or maybe the studio forced him to put her in the movie.
- Michael
Playing around with creating a graphics/game framework in Scala. Mmm... Scala.
Jonathan Le Plastrier liked this
It's all happening at svn://samskivert.com/wiggle/trunk if you want to take a peek
- Michael
Dear twittersphere -- where should one submit their iPhone application for review? Where do you follow iPhone app reviews?
I heard an ad for an iPhone app on SF's super commercial hip-hop station. That might be a bit outside your budget though. :)
- Michael
Bottle Rocket - http://www.netflix.com/Movie...
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Kumar! What are you doing in the freezer, man?
- Michael
Git out of my head - http://samskivert.com/?p=696
Glad to see you finally got on the train. Have you tried the interactive add mode where you can add a patch, hunk by hunk? Seems like something you could dig.
- Jonathan Le Plastrier
Haven't played with any fancy bits yet. Getting all 3 gigs of MSOY repository into GIT-land has taken a lot of time. Now I'm learning to love the branch.
- Michael
Don't forget about the stash.
- Jonathan Le Plastrier
Dude, where's my stash? :)
- Michael
Wow - are you seriously considering a switch for MSOY? That would be super-cool (as they say in france).
- Robin Barooah
I don't think we'd ever switch the primary repository (and I don't think it necessarily makes sense for such a non-distributed-project), but I'm experimenting with using git-svn so that I can maintain multiple pending feature branches since I frequently end up working on many things at once.
- Michael
It looks like someone might be working on a Bamboo GIT plugin as well.
- Jonathan Le Plastrier
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