if it has any military capability, it is then only looks-like-mobile-missile-launcher -- there is nothing defensive in standing (erected) building... but somehow I am not freaked over pictures. - silpol
That is awesome. I love that interior space between the silos, that's some big glass! - felix
looking over the other offerings on that site... man, what you get in Denver compared to what I'm getting, not even staying in Manhattan, but moving to Williamsburg? Ouch. Sigh. - felix
"Nexting." I like that term. I compulsively next an entire week, then get paralyzingly overwhelmed at the plethora of things I have to do, and wind up only accomplishing 10% of what I planned out. I'm interested to see what strategies work for you over the next few weeks/months. Oh God, did I just next not nexting? - Mark Trapp
I think it is much more healthy to spend time thinking about the future than the past. Myself I am more of an eat whatever is around when I am hungry person like your husband. But my lack of planning means I miss out on activities and later regret the lack of planning. - Brian Sullivan
"I clapped my hands over my ears and chanted, 'NA NA NA NA NA NA,' until I realized I was driving, and turned the radio volume down instead." :D - possible248
Thinking about the future can be dangerous if it takes you away from enjoying the here and now. I sometimes can't relax and enjoy what's going on right this second because of obsessively contemplating what's going on later... - Jason Kaneshiro
Yoda had a lecture about always looking to the future, of course if would have planned ahead a little more we could have avoided that whole Empire thing - RAPatton
Your description of how your husband thinks about eating vs. you is classic. Exactly describes my wife and me. Cereal for dinner? Not a problem! - Hutch Carpenter
I think you're onto something: it's often a lot more relaxing to just stop and breathe and stop thinking about the future. - j1m
I think I'm a NEXT-er and a LAST-er. The future and the past both seem more important than the now usually does. - Wm Scott Rees
@Amit Patel Yeah, he was the mastermind behind blowing up the death stars and runs a terrorist training camp on Dagobah - RAPatton
Isn't thinking about the future what's supposed to get us to drive Priuses and save for retirement? Americans seem to be accused alternately of being short-sighted and of being unable to focus on the moment. Maybe it's all about being smart about what to next and how much. For example, if you did plan your meals (or a default choice) on paper a week ahead of time, it might free you from having to think about it as much. Not that I could bring myself to do that. - ⓞnor
I like the friendfeed comment widget on your blog. - Shakeel Mahate
as my mind is just about ready to explode on some of those issues, thanks for linking it so I can get my mind back! ;) - Nicole Simon
"About 80% of the work in a performance monitoring tool is in the charting component and I’m glad to see that the Google chart API basically rocks." Thanks, Kevin! Be sure to check out the Google Visualization API (http://code.google.com/apis/vi...) as well for your more advanced charting needs. - DeWitt Clinton
"Up until now, the deal between Google Maps and its data providers has been a one-way street. Google licenses the underlying map data that forms the basis for Google Maps. Once it’s up there, anyone on the Web can enhance the maps, correct faulty data, or add their own. But up until now, Tele Atlas did not benefit from those edits. As part of the new pact, Tele Atlas will have access to edits made by the Google Maps community to update the underlying maps." - Bret Taylor via Bookmarklet
We've come a long way since those first deals you negotiated... - ⓞnor
The 10k user-generated correction number that TA quoted is rather interesting... - Jennie Lin
Mustafa, have you played around with the new Jazz platform http://jazz.net COLA plus the Jazz platform would be a killer team environment - Shakeel Mahate
@Shakeel: No, I haven't and probably won't get around to do so until the end of July. I might read up on/fiddle around with Jazz after that. - Mustafa K. Isik
solution looking for a problem. Very few sites have the number of comments you are referring to. As part of a broader package, maybe, but I think this is what NoiseRiver is aiming at, or maybe I read the post wrong (Giovanni has a point) - Duncan Riley
Given the number of Friendfeedsters and ex-Googlers who immediately "liked" this post, something is rotten in the state of Denmark. - Mark Trapp
I don't think anything is rotten, but there's an opportunity. Relatively few blogs have that many comments, but a lot of us read those blogs, and letting us make conversation on our own terms, slicing through noise to tune in the voices we're interested in hearing, could be awesome. - ⓞnor
@Giovanni: Having failed once, I'll probably fail again, but here's what I mean: Just like FriendFeed contains many commenters, but I just see the comments of about 100 people I follow, I'd like to be able to choose who to follow on other blogs. So it's Friendfeed's selection mechanism that I want to let out into the wild. - j1m
+1 Giovanni Slash.dot and many other websites never got me to participate because the noise-level was too high (aka quality-level too low). Being able to tune people in/out (while still hearing people though "friend of friend" or "everyone") is great! - Mitchell Tsai
And wasn't the constant discussion of FriendFeed why j1m unsubscribed from some of us in the first place? Hmmm? :-) - Louis Gray
Agree to a large extent with Friedman, but Iraq IS an issue because it costs WAY too much. Forget the geo-political concerns with Iraq, the US can't afford it ... unless we want to sell China more of our T-Bonds. - AJ Kohn
huh, that's odd, I was under the impression that you were the Senior Executive Vice *Group* Director of VP Coordination & Vision... did you not allocate your synergies properly and get demoted?? - felix
"Senior Executive Vice Director of VP Coordination & Vision" and "Deputy Senior VP of Strategic Synergy" Fantastic! SEVP of VPCP and DSVP of SS... - Mitchell Tsai
Ah! Interesting :) The funniest is that these guys don't even wear shoes at work, and play with thier bicycles in the office - directeur via NoiseRiver
ok pauls title is really wacky - "Sr. Executive Vice Director of VP Coordination & Vision" - like wtf does that mean ? SERIOUSLY !! btw what does "VP" stand for ? - Peter Dawson
Scott Adams (?): "If it's more than two words, it's not a career" - Philipp Lenssen
I want Senior Fetchit Boy reporting the Staff Photographer. - Russellreno
These are beyond fantastic. Can I be your Human Branding Liaison? - Ginger Makela
I know a guy who runs a 600-person company, and walks around the offices barefoot! Not even sandals. My brother works there - Rhythm & Hues Studios - http://rhythm.com - Mitchell Tsai
Another company I helped rented a house at the beach - rather than a traditional office. Lot of fun having meetings there. They took surfing breaks for lunch. - Mitchell Tsai
I think i need to include those in full in all posts from now on - MG Siegler
longest title i've ever seen - you could have thrown in an acronym! - Allen Stern
You need a staff librarian. No, really, you do. I'm available, and like most librarians, I work cheap. - Cecily Walker
Did you guys steal these titles from Yahoo? - Eric Eldon
Is Ana still the "Chief Miscellaneous Officer" or does she go by a different title these days? Also, I'd like to know the other FFers' titles. - April Buchheit
Did you get to make up your own? The coolest title I've seen has been for a Microsoft employee - Professional Geek (before he worked there his title was Amateur Geek) - Craig Thomler
I actually have an outstanding diplomatic relations issue with wyoming. Who would I talk to about that? - J. Phil
So Bret, what's your title ? (This kind of culture is the kind that spawns neat stuff. Always has, always will. Keep it up!) - Charlie Anzman
Mine is "Supreme Allied Commander." I was always jealous of NATO. - Bret Taylor
I'm a little scared that some people don't seem to realize it's a joke. - Alan Cheslow
And here I was soo confused thinking Bret was the CEO! hehehe (ok he really is guys!!) - Susan Beebe
I just noticed Casey has Asian strategy in Wyoming? yo what?! - that's funny! - Susan Beebe
Do you have any Master Squirrel Hearders (project mgrs) yet?? that's my specialty - Susan Beebe
I really want a title too. If I bring all the Mommybloggers over...I better get one dammit - Erin Kotecki Vest
So is Casey's job to reach out to those parts of the world that twitter works? - Nancy Babyak
I got mine this morning: "Kevin Fox - Comptroller Third-Class, Tiger Team V" We are so going to kick Tiger Team III's ass at this year's interoffolympics!!! - Kevin Fox
haha! I wish more work places were like this. - Tsega D
I'd like to be the senior vice associate president of all things that the senior executive vice director of vp coordination and vision doesn't see. - Robert Scoble
Nice job title Paul! Did you try to max out the characters that would fit? :) - Alex B
"One thing I should make clear, given some of the email I’ve gotten this week, is that I’m rooting for Android, big-time. My obsession is with wonderful, thoughtful software and gadgetry. I love the iPhone because it’s fucking amazing, not because it’s from Apple. It’d be fantastic if even one Android-based phone is as good or better than the iPhone. And Android’s “code what you want to code, install what you want to install” openness is a fascinating contrast to Apple’s tightly controlled iPhone software platform." - DeWitt Clinton
Yes Android has a bright future, and a major success already under the belt -- pushing Nokia and Co. to go open source - Vlado Handziski
"Sixty years ago, digital computers made information readable. Twenty years ago, the Internet made it reachable. Ten years ago, the first search engine crawlers made it a single database. Now Google and like-minded companies are sifting through the most measured age in history, treating this massive corpus as a laboratory of the human condition. They are the children of the Petabyte Age." - grant via Bookmarklet
It's going to be all about data mining everything all the time, with ever stronger algorithms -- and the rapid evolution of this supercomputing grid into a global superintelligence. Who gets to control this thing, and access what parts of it, is going to dominate politics. - Sean McBride
And will that sorting and sifting make us any happier, I wonder? - Brent Newhall
All that sorting and sifting will probably make some people wealthier and more powerful. - Sean McBride
we are BORC...resistance is futile. yeah and i like it. individualism is overrated...and a waste of resources.:) - krz9000
"Kilim is a message-passing framwork for Java that provides ultra-lightweight threads and facilities for fast, safe, zero-copy messaging between these threads.
It consists of a bytecode postprocessor (a "weaver"), a run time library with buffered mailboxes (multi-producer, single consumer queues) and a user-level scheduler and a type system that puts certain constraints on pointer aliasing within messages to ensure interference-freedom between threads." - Gary Burd
Do you think it's... good? We could all use something like that, but I'm afraid of overarching frameworks you have to sell your soul to. - ⓞnor
+1 to @e3r and "I'm afraid of overarching frameworks you have to sell your soul to". - DeWitt Clinton
bytecode postprocessor + concurrent programming.. I'm assuming that everyone else is a little scared by debugging stuff running with this, too? - Nick Lothian
The vs Erlang microbenchmarks look impressive (at 25 min point in video) - Nick Lothian
"Django, started nearly five years ago by programmers affiliated with The World Company, now joins a lineup of pervasive computer languages and systems — including Mozilla, Apache and Linux — to be overseen by a nonprofit organization." - DeWitt Clinton
Weird, doesn't seem to work in Fluid. Clicking the link quickly shows the loading circle on the right, then does nothing. Works fine in Safari 3.1, though. - Mark Trapp
Liked just so people see my name when they test it out. - DeWitt Clinton
I notice another change. "You" is the first name listed for all the things I've liked in the past. Even those where I haven't clicked on the expand Likes link. This wasn't previously the case. A bit of work on the Likes sort methodology? - Hutch Carpenter
Noticed that too, Hutch: do you think it's sorting based on order of likes now? Obviously, with "You" always being first and outside the order. - Mark Trapp
Mark - definitely putting "you" out front is a change. I still don't know the basis for ranking the other Likes. Maybe the guys will comment here. Or blog it. - Hutch Carpenter
I like this addition. Clean, intuitive, simple, perfect. - Tsega D
a long list of names isn't too useful; why dont you bold the ones that are my friends? - peter
peter: all your friends are listed first. - Bret Taylor
More recent likes come first, so as new friends "Like" things, you see them. - Bret Taylor
Peter, bolding is a great idea, not just here, but in general. It would be an easy way to find friends that you have not yet subscribed to. - Scott Beale
+1 for bolding names that I'm already subscribed to. - Mike Doeff
I tweaked the sort order to put "you" first, but apparently I forgot to tell Bret. - Jim Norris
Indeed Shey, http://ffapps.com/showlikes/ is no longer required. Seeing a list of people who liked a particular entry is a great way to explore and discover users who share similar interests. - Aviv
چه قدر سریع,ایده اش همین صبح مطرح شد,اسمایلی جیمبووووووووووووووووووو:))ه - shandiz
Expanding shows a lot of Likes up in this post! - Joe Dawson
"If you are curious about how tricked-out custom search engines work, you don't have to look further than the Custom Search API page on Google Code." - DeWitt Clinton
While I love all of our apis equally of course, the Custom Search API holds a special place in my heart. I consider it to be one of the more subtly powerful developer technologies that Google offers -- a way of reshaping, on the fly, a personalized view of the Google crawl, index, and ranking techniques. Combine this with the Ajax search api and the possibilities are endless. - DeWitt Clinton
I love(d) CSE, too, until it broke for me (http://groups.google.com/group...). It seems that this problem is somewhat common, and there doesn't even seem to be a reasonable work-around. - Nick Lothian
@nlothian -- hmm, hadn't heard about that one before. I'll ping the team. - DeWitt Clinton
Team pinged, issue ack'ed. Grab me again in a week if we don't see something. - DeWitt Clinton
Pageview_Limit_Exceeded once you click through. Oops! - Tony Ruscoe
At the end of Marissa's speech she says Google needs to do a better job of listening to/working with developers. It will be interesting to see what they do with that, IMO they could learn a thing or two from FF. - nadim
@tony - Apparently you all liked it, you really really liked it. Getting that fixed as we speak! - DeWitt Clinton
@nadim - I agree, we'll always have tons to learn from developers! Start a thread in the Google Code room (http://friendfeed.com/rooms/go...) with some of your favorite suggestions? - DeWitt Clinton
@dewitt - will do, after giving some thought to what my favorite suggestions are. - nadim
When I click through, it takes me to a login page telling me why I should sign up for Google Sites… - Amit Patel
Meh. That's been happening when users aren't signed in, though it is set as world readable. Let me see if I can stop the login page from popping up. - DeWitt Clinton
Just watched Effective Java by Josh Bloch. Sweet. - Elias Torres
@eliast - Have you picked up the 2nd edition of the book yet? - DeWitt Clinton
Not yet, but I was waiting for it to be out and this video told me is out. - Elias Torres
Best Practices for Spreading Your App without Ruining the User Experience is a win. :) I love this quote: "If you behave
like a disease,
people develop
an immune system" Someone needs to tell that to the app devs on facebook. - Erica Baker
I agree. I found that I started using docs for collaborative editing, like meeting notes and drafts of longer works, but now it has become a general scratch pad for random thoughts and designs as well. This is a place where the cloud+browser is a clear win. - DeWitt Clinton
I've actually switched to Buzzword for my docs now, but I agree that GDocs is fairly excellent - Nathaniel Payne
I generally use vi as my random scratch pad but I need to write a rather long document for work and decided to use Docs for it. - Benjamin Golub
I doubt I'll ever need it in fact... Since I use text content online, and when I want typesetting I use LaTeX... And yes! vi always! - directeur
OMG... I love Google Docs... yes, Ben you're *SLOW* ... =) - Susan Beebe
I actually tried it since the closed beta Writely, but I still think, I'll never need it for real :) - directeur
Speaking of LaTeX, I had need of writing superscript and subscript in a FF post earlier today. Or more generally, a need of writing math markup, a la MathML or similar. File that away for a rainy day. - DeWitt Clinton
I really like Google Docs as well, and was surprised and happy to discover a feature I was unaware of -- a dashboard! Hat tip to Ionut - http://googlesystem.blogspot.c.... Oh, and a random Docs tip: Try using it in meetings realtime! With a table, put the agenda on the lefthand side, and notes in the righthand side. Give it a short name (corp.example.com/meetingtoday) and have all participants load it on their laptops. Give one or more folks write access, and voila! - Adam Lasnik
"Human eggs are produced by follicles, fluid-filled sacs on the side of the ovary, which, around the time of ovulation, produce a reddish protrusion seen in the pictures.
The egg comes from the end of this, surrounded by a jelly-like substance containing cells." - bob
Topics could include "why scaling Twitter is actually a hard problem", "data portability in practice, not catchphrases", "open protocols require more than press releases", "the future of distributed source control", "distributed data storage in the cloud", "the paradigm of visible source vs. java-to-javascript compilation", "syndication vs federation as a means of decentralizing the social graph", "dsl's vs gpl's", etc, etc. - DeWitt Clinton
Some people I'd want to hear from (that I don't work with): Simon Willison, Alex Russell, Brian Aker, Adrian Holovaty, Eran Hammer-Lahav, Miguel de Icaza, Cal Henderson, Ned Batchelder, Charles Nutter, David Eppstein... And plenty that I do work with: Russ Cox, Steve Yegge, Mihai Parparita, Mark Pilgrim, Chris DiBona, Kevin Marks, Cedric Beust, Brad Fitzpatrick, Ian Hickson, Bruce Johnson, Aaron Boodman. And of course, basically the whole FF team. - DeWitt Clinton
This would be absolutely awesome. What do we need to do to make this happen? - Adewale Oshineye
Do it! Just leave some room in the audience for those of us who'd love to watch such an event. - Erica Baker
@ade - Let's get Dion Almaer to moderate it. - DeWitt Clinton
We could also add more non-american technical people to that list. The last.fm guys for instance would be very interesting. As would the team at the Guardian newspaper. Add in some people from the non-anglophone world and we'd have a roundtable equivalent of Software Engineering Radio: http://www.se-radio.net/ but with a lot more reach. - Adewale Oshineye
Dion would be a great moderator and he's already got podcasting experience. Ideally people could write in to suggest topics and panel members for future episodes. For instance I would love to listen to a discussion on Music/Web2.0/music discovery which featured people from last.fm, the guy behind the hype machine: hypem.com and somebody technical from Pandora - Adewale Oshineye
If you do the music thing you've got to get the guy from Sun... Paul Lamere: http://blogs.sun.com/plamere/. But you should start with Twitter - anything to shut people who don't know what they are talking about up. - Nick Lothian
Instead of doing something just about Twitter how about a session on the difficulties of scaling a micro-blogging/messaging system. You would absolutely need to have Yahoo's Eran Hammer-Lahav. His articles on the subject are amongst the few that show any genuine insight into the problem. It would also be interesting to get some of the LShift guys behind RabbitMQ involved. They could talk about low-latency high scalability messaging in the financial world. Then just add Reza Behforooz from the GTalk team. - Adewale Oshineye
"I am getting really, really bored with factorial and Fibonacci algorithms. It is really remarkably infrequent that I implement any code that looks much like either." -Tim Bray. Ah, but they do matter! You can tell a *lot* about how a language works by looking at those simple examples. Does it encourage and/or optimize for tail-recursion? Does th
