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When will clothing be banned on airplanes? AFAIK, the terrorists always wear clothing.

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That would bring my flight excursions to a screaming halt! - Anne Bouey

Then they'd have to throw out those security machines they just started getting that scan through your clothes! - Brian Chang

Leo

Signed up for a membership at vertical world today. Much climbing ahead.

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Paul Buchheit

EtherPad Open Source Release - http://etherpad.com/ep...

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Awesome. - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

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Yay, +1 for Scala - Ray Cromwell

Thanks Google! It's beautiful example for realtime web application. - Hasan Ozgan

Yeah, I noticed all the Scala, too. Nice. - Joel Webber

thanks... now it might only be me but not really clear where I should go and what is it I should do to download the source. - lelapin

To download source you have to get mercurial (similar to git) http://hgbook.red-bean.com/read... then you can run: hg clone https://etherpad.googlecode.com/hg... etherpad - Jeremy Heslop

Android: Steve "Daddy do it!" Lacy

Speedtest.net Speed Test - http://www.androidtapp.com/speedte...

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Just got 1808kbps down / 247kbps up on 3G here in Mountain View. Pretty sweet! Nearly 2Mbps! - Steve "Daddy do it!" Lacy

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BTW, that's *on* *my* *phone*. :) - Steve "Daddy do it!" Lacy

I get around the same here in SE Texas. Gotta be impressed by Verizon's network. - Jason Huebel

Same here. Thereabouts at least. Pages still take forever to load on a G1 though. - Adrian

hopefully I'll be rollin' on Tmobile HSPA 7.2 on my new Nexus One by Jan. 5th ;) - Tim Hoeck

Yeah, that was on T-mo, not Verizon. ;) - Steve "Daddy do it!" Lacy

wes carr

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Gary Burd

Bernanke and the cover curse - Paul Krugman Blog - http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009...

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"you should always short the stock of a company whose CEO is the subject of a glowing cover story in a major magazine." - Gary Burd from Bookmarklet

Haha. Krugman was on the cover of Newsweek: http://www.newsweek.com/id... - Gary Burd

Keith Coleman

Official Gmail Blog: One button to merge all duplicate contacts - http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009...

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This makes Gmail contacts sync (e.g. to phone) work way better. - Keith Coleman from Bookmarklet

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I can't believe how many duplicates I had. At least 80 people with 2-20 duplicates each! - Kevin Fox

Works quick and effortlessly .. - johnpiercy

Worked great - Benjamin Golub

This is super great! Waited for this for long time. - Bryan Tsai

Does work great, however I'm proud of myself that I've kept my contacts so organized! I only have 1 dupe. - Haggis (Sean Loyless)

Been wanting this forever... thanks! (121 dupes found. Merged. Tried again. Found 1 more dupe...) - Dan Hsiao

YES. Thank Og! - Archangel ωαřмaiden

Yes -very much needed - near 1500 dupes here - Jesse Stay

Peter Norvig

Google's Broken Hiring Process - Google - Gawker - http://gawker.com/5392947...

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What do you know? Valleywag got everything wrong. Google is hiring, not laying off. Also, our interview scores actually correlate very well with on-the-job performance. Peter Seibel asked me if there was anything counterintuitive about the process and I said that people who got one low score but were hired anyway did well on-the-job. To me, that means the interview process is doing very well, not that it is broken. It means that we don't let one bad interview blackball a candidate. We'll keep interviewing, keep hiring, and keep analyzing the results to improve the process. And I guess Valleywag will keep doing what they do... - Peter Norvig from Bookmarklet

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Nice shirt! - Jim Norris

That is a nice shirt. - τorƍue

You had at least three rounds of layoffs this year, Peter. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009... - Ryan Tate

Further, while you hired a rare few people who got "1" scores on one their interviews, you rejected 99 percent of those people, and you have no idea how they would have performed. Those you did hire turned out to be top performers. Sounds broken to me. (I am the author of the Valleywag post in question.) - Ryan Tate

Hi Ryan, thanks for commenting. First: we get over 1000 resumes a day. We can't hire all of them. I am painfully aware that a few of the people we don't hire would be as good or better than a few of the people we do. I feel bad for the people we have to reject who are equally qualified, but that is the nature of uncertain decision-making. Now what I said in the Seibel interview: we try... more... - Peter Norvig

It's a great shirt. Google is tops. No system is perfect -- so long as there's a weighting for intangibles and accounting for style differences between interviewer and interviewee, all should be fine. - Christopher Galtenberg

Bump. Maybe Ryan didn't get a chance to see that you'd responded, Peter. - Matt Cutts

Could you recommend any literature on data driven hiring practices? Google seems to use many analogical reasoning questions for screening applicants. It would be interesting if there was a relationship between analogical reasoning and productivity. - Brandon Smietana

Peter, did you ever read Malcolm Gladwell's book Blink? Seems to me the other piece of the hiring process to analyze is the cost-benefit analysis - is it worth doing so many interviews and so much testing if people's first hunch is often the best indicator? (Which isn't exactly what Gladwell said, but partially). - Laura Norvig

I'm very suspicious of relying on the first hunch. If you hired everyone based on your first hunches, you would discover that most of the time you are wrong. I've lost count of the number of times I've interviewed someone (either on-site or as a second phone interview), and learned that the previous interviewer did not ask them to write code, despite the position being one that required... more... - Piaw Na

Yeah! Always go with the _second_ hunch. - Andrew C

Benjamin Golub

Really neat interactive Nikon lens map: http://imaging.nikon.com/product...

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Dudley Carr

The Slideshow Chrome Extension went live today! https://chrome.google.com/extensi... #chrome

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Gary Burd

Inflation adjusted Gold Price Chart - http://www.inflationdata.com/inflati...

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Another gold bubble? - Gary Burd from Bookmarklet

Danny Howard

Church Canceled Due To Lack Of God | The Onion - America's Finest News Source - http://www.theonion.com/content...

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Its funny because its true. - Danny Howard

DeWitt Clinton

Introducing Google Public DNS, for a faster, and safer, internet experience: http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2009...

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Yay! - DeWitt Clinton

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I'm also pleased with the Privacy Policy: http://code.google.com/speed.... Full IP logs are deleted within 24-48 hours. This is a very good thing. - DeWitt Clinton

And Google Public DNS telephone support! http://code.google.com/speed... - Tony Ruscoe

I'll have to do some tests to see if this is any faster than my local ISP DNS. - Benjamin Golub

hmmm... and the reason behind this offer? - MikeAmundsen

They will then know every single domain name that every user is trying to resolve, and how often, etc. - Mistletoe Glen

DeWitt that doesn't mean they aren't copied elsewhere or they will actually follow through with the policy. - Todd Hoff

anyone know what appears when the domain request is invalid? i.e. will i see a google search page w/ ads? - MikeAmundsen

Yay! This is super cool. I'm using it to work around my ISP (Comcast) hijacking DNS requests. - Joe Beda ()

Another cool thing are the vanity IP addresses that were obtained for this: 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4. '8' is a lucky number, you know. - Joe Beda ()

@Todd: Actually, the privacy policy is pretty clear about what's temporary and what's permanent. If temporary logs were "copied elsewhere" as you suggest, it would be a pretty obvious violation of this policy. And I think it's pretty unreasonable to suggest that Google wouldn't "actually follow through" on its own privacy policy. - Joel Webber

Joe, do you know who had 8.8.8.8 prior? - Micah Wittman

Fast, doesn't seem to hijack 404s in any way. But I will have to go over the privacy policy carefully, in the context of Google's broader privacy policy. I wish we knew if the NSA had direct access to Google's traffic like they do for ISPs. This will certainly give Google a lot of data about web use. - LogEx

Joel, it's just a policy. If the NSA or some other agency says Google won't get this slice of spectrum etc then don't be surprised of all that traffic is split off some switch somewhere into total information awareness. - Todd Hoff

@Todd - half the company would quit in protest on the spot if Google even contemplated doing something like that. Including our own founders. But here's a question -- what could a company do that would reduce your fear? Clearly you use the Internet, and DNS, today. What assurances did your ISP make that cause you to trust them? Personally speaking, I find the Google DNS privacy policy a heck of a lot more reassuring than my ISP's. At least Google is promising in writing to do the right thing. - DeWitt Clinton

People don't know DeWitt. All those fat internet pipes hook into switches that have tap lines on them. And are there any examples of people quitting en masse in protest? I've not seen it. There's nothing people can do to reduce my fear because I know too much about it. Those promises don't matter. They can change at anytime and there's no external verification and as I said, the data is... more... - Todd Hoff

I wonder how much this gets traction beyond things like Chrome OS where Google can require the client to use their name servers. DNS is an abstract concept to most people, and for businesses, Google Public DNS doesn't offer the level of control other managed DNS services offer (like OpenDNS, for example). As an IT guy, one thing that I see missing is the ability to manually refresh the cache. I'm also interested to see how Google respects TTLs. - Mark Trapp

BTW, here's the Speakeasy Privacy Policy: http://www.speakeasy.net/tos.... Here is Comcast's: http://www.comcast.net/privacy.... Here is AT&T/SBC's: http://www.att.com/gen.... Guess what? None of them publish a log deletion policy and ALL of them reserve the right to do nearly whatever they want (even sell) your personally identifiable information, including IP addresses. Those ISPs are seeing every bit of traffic from our machines today. - DeWitt Clinton

@Mark - technical details, including TTL policy, can be found here: http://code.google.com/speed... - DeWitt Clinton

DeWitt, I went through that, and I'm still left wondering what Google's caching does. It doesn't explicitly say that Google will always respect the TTL on a record, and I don't see a remedy to resolve an outdated cache (for example, if Google fetches a record with a TTL of 86400 10 minutes before I change that record, if there's no way to force a manual lookup, even changing the TTL to... more... - Mark Trapp

@Mark -- I can't see how to force a manual refresh either, but I'll find out. I agree that it's necessary in some situations. - DeWitt Clinton

Mark, that page DeWitt linked to seems to infer that they respect TTL for prefetches: "The complexity of the name selection problem makes it impossible to solve online, so we have separated the prefetch system into two components: a pipeline component, which runs as an external, offline, periodic process that selects the names to commit to the prefetch system; and a runtime component, that regularly resolves the selected names according to their TTL windows." - Matt Mastracci

@micah Level3 owns 8.0.0.0/8 and Google has 8.8.8.0/24. BTW, 7.7.7.7 is owned by the US Dept. of Defense. - Joe Beda ()

Matt, what concerns me about that is it seems they interpret the TTL as a range of times they're allowed to ask for a new record; that is, if they automatically refresh records faster than the TTL, that's okay, as long as they don't hold onto it for longer than the TTL. A TTL shouldn't be a guideline: if I set a TTL to 86400, unless I manually tell you to fetch it again, you shouldn't... more... - Mark Trapp

Cool, added them to my list of servers that dnsmasq is to use. - Grant Bierman

The RFC does specify TTLs as "a 32 bit unsigned integer that specifies the time interval ... that the resource record *may be* cached before it should be discarded" I don't know if there's ever going to be a rock-solid guarantee that a resolver will cache your records (its cache could always overflow or become corrupted). Jumping TTLs isn't half as annoying as the broken resolvers that cache one of your round-robin DNS responses for all their customers for days, though. ;) - Matt Mastracci

Oh yes, checking too quickly is definitely a better problem than checking too slowly. One of the things we used to deal with was managed DNS that charged by the record lookup; in cases like that, you absolutely want people to respect the TTLs you specify or it can wind up costing you dearly. I don't really know if companies still get away with that (we get managed DNS for free now), but... more... - Mark Trapp

seems pretty good to me so far - Logan Lindquist

http://OpenDNS.com have been doing the same thing for a while if you are worried about Google owing all your data! - John Cooper

OpenDNS FTW - Shey, Jamaican of FF

I'm not happy with this. I feel it is a step too far. They could know and control way too much... from the OS Chrome to DNS/ mweh! And then what about a system fail! Laugh! I'm sure Murphy is working on it. How much of the network could go down with it. #don't-put-all-your-eggs-in-one-basket - DC Crowley

4.3.2.1 - Itachi

@Glenc +1 - Serkan Unsal

Danny Howard

Captain's Log - what do you see in him again? - http://kar3ning.livejournal.com/545639...

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If you are in an abusive relationship, GET THE HELL OUT! If you have a friend needing help to get out of an abusive relationship, lend a hand! Thanks, -danny - Danny Howard

Jeremy Zawodny

Special Delivery - http://thedailywtf.com/Article...

December 1 from delicious - Comment - Like - Share

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ha! that is totally awesome - Jeremy Zawodny

Moishe Lettvin

Just ordered a quad-core i7 iMac. Finally!

November 29 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Am planning on doing the same thing. How much memory did you get? - Steve Lacey

We need one too. - Scott Ludwig

I got 8G. I'll see how it does with RAW photos and maybe go 16 in the future. I'm really looking forward to the display. - Moishe Lettvin from email

Louis Gray

Brian Solis at Bub.blicio.us: Introducing the FriendFeed Team - http://bub.blicio.us/1111126...

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Brian, as always, takes great pictures, even with questionable subjects. The pictures are from tonight's open house. - Louis Gray from Bookmarklet

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Great pic Louis and tell them I love them all, best product on the web right now - Thomas Power

Great photo! - Bret Taylor

Left to right, as if you didn't know already: Dan Hsiao, Casey Muller, Ana Yang, Jim Norris, Tudor Bosman, Bret Taylor, Paul Buchheit (with Camilla), Sanjeev Singh, Kevin Fox. - Tudor Bosman

yes; awesome photo! - Tudor Bosman

(Not pictured: Ben Golub, Gary Burd and Ross Miller) - Louis Gray

Some of our Turkish friends are also there http://ff.im/3mt6T.. Thanks for the pictures - Murat Buyurgan

Great Photo :) - Nimaa

You didn't tell me there was a FriendFeed party this week or I would have come out :-) - Jesse Stay

Tudor SMASH! - dario

Jesse: I haven't been able to make a friendfeed party for a while. We need a calendar! Heheh. - Robert Scoble

اینا هم حلقه دارن. رونوشت به مازیار و مهران اینا - Aly

Rock on, Kevin! - Josh Haley

Great PPs!!加油，Friendfeed！:))) - K.D.

That's why I love today's web : you can talk with the people that build the next web, and see those who build your current web. Congrats guys! - Zackatoustra

FriendFeed Team, I love you !!!! Thanks to you all, I'm very happy everyday!!! - Renchin(Reina)

So that was the TGIFF ("Thank Goodness It's FriendFeed") party? Perhaps slightly off-topic, but if Camiila hasn't been betrothed yet, have I got a grandson for her ;-)) - ianf ⌘

TGIFF was excellent. Great event and great people.Thanks for the invite and hospitality. - AJ Kohn

Louis, thank you and thank you to the FriendFeed team for making a killer product and hosting a great open house! - Brian Solis

I think I spotted Hutch (http://friendfeed.com/bhc3) in an uncaptioned photo wearing a white "San Francisco Classic" shirt: http://www.flickr.com/photos... - Daniel J. Pritchett

Yes, Daniel. That is Hutch. - Louis Gray

Fun party, great food, great hospitality. - Anne Bouey

Anne - great finally meeting you yesterday. - Hutch Carpenter

great photo, good to see the whole team together! - Jeroen De Miranda

oooh i am totally wishing i was there! Robert is right, we need a calendar! :) - Susan Beebe

Hutch: Thanks. I enjoyed chatting with you, too. - Anne Bouey

what's with the guitar? lol - Stuart Evans

(bump) Ana and Casey are now married. Here's a pic of them on the left, between Ross and Jim. Congratulations to Ana and Casey! (per http://friendfeed.com/jessica...) - Louis Gray

علی حجوانی تو روحت، ای واسه چه موقعی‌ه؟ :))) - Mehran

:))))))))) مال بعد از عیده. اواخر فروردین فک کنم - Aly

:))) - Mehran

Leo

Maegan and Leo at Ngorongoro crater rim - http://www.flickr.com/photos...

November 28 from Flickr - Comment - Like - Share

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Gary Burd

A rock.

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Patrick Barry

McSweeney's: YouTube Comment or e. e. cummings? - http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links...

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Joe Ardent

@dhemberg Oh, Omni Magazine! Your tantalizing portraits of never-to-be futures were tinged with just the right amount of subtle smut!

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Moishe Lettvin

My talk at Seattle GTUG - http://moishelettvin.blogspot.com/2009...

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Gary Burd

I switched to Chrome on OS X. It's fast. http://dev.chromium.org/getting...

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agreed but doesn't (yet) do as much as Firefox - Thomas Power

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Been using it for months. It's getting pretty good. - Sean O'Connor

adblock? when it is as good as ff, i am there - Gregory Lent

I tried to switch from FF a couple weeks ago but it still seemed buggy to me. I couldn't get the bookmark manager to run and I couldn't reorder the icons on my bookmark toolbar which in FF is simple drag and drop. - Ed Millard

There are still a few little hitches here and there, but it's really coming together overall. The only reason I open Safari these days is to run Wave (there is still an irritating scroll-hitching bug in Chrome that affects Wave; I'm sure it'll go away soon). Oh, and I'll take fast over adblock any day :) - Joel Webber

I've been running it as my main browser for a few months now. Works great and I wouldn't go back to the others. - Diego Barros 

Moishe Lettvin

Chrome stats: > 40m users, 39x faster js than ie and 19 releases in the last year. #chromeos (via @cdibona)

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