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You can see all of your email settings at http://friendfeed.com/setting... - Bret Taylor

I get these every day. - CW✔

I think I preferred the email sob stories about why I should just give these people my account! *sighs* - Rachel Lea Fox

LOL Ryan! Wow! - Rachel Lea Fox

"Pay attention to when the cart is getting before the horse. Notice when a painful initiation leads to irrational devotion, or when unsatisfying jobs start to seem worthwhile. Remind yourself pledges and promises have power, as do uniforms and parades. Remember in the absence of extrinsic rewards you will seek out or create intrinsic ones. Take into account the higher the price you pay for your decisions the more you value them. See that ambivalence becomes certainty with time. Realize lukewarm feelings become stronger once you commit to a group, club or product. Be wary of the roles you play and the acts you put on, because you tend to fulfill the labels you accept. Above all, remember the more harm you cause, the more hate you feel, and the more kindness you deal into the world the more you come to love the people you help." - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." - Kurt Vonnegut - Clare Dibble

"There is great concern in the world about global warming. Since we have collected a lot of the available high-resolution historical temperature record, we wanted to give you access to this information in graphical form, so that you can look at the data for yourself." - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

Why don't they have data from the 60s? "Funding cuts in the US lead to an almost decade long outage during 1964-1972." :-( - Amit Patel

Congrats! - Joel Kotarski

that's awesome, man. you changed my and many others' life, right here! I personally owe you a lot. - Ahmet Alp Balkan

That would be 1 ? - Just Joe

"If you want a quick and easy way to stream music from your computer or phone to your home stereo and have an old Bluetooth headset lying around, Instructable user dex3844 has a simple guide to hack a stereo jack into it." - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

No no, you mean field programmable gate arrays. They only call them PLDs because Xilinx has FPGAs sewn up. :) Trust me, Altera was BlueArc's first customer. - Louis Gray

F always stands for "Funky". - Otto

"Five years ago I got interested in interactive diagrams and made a few, but then got distracted by other things. I wrote a blog post about why I was interested in them. I've recently become interested in them again." - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

You should add the driver's forward view and draggable cars in adjacent lanes. Most people adjust their mirrors to minimize the number of blind spots (you can get it down to 2), rather than the number of blind spots big enough to fit a car (you can get this down to zero). - Seth

Seth, that's a good idea. Lane markers and cars would help people get a sense of spacing and whether any part of the car is visible. But then I need to add bikes! :) - Amit Patel

"The Kaplan-Meier estimator may not sound as if it is terribly important to most people’s lives. But if you have had a successful treatment for, say, cancer, or for diabetes, or for HIV/AIDS, or for heart disease, or for any one of dozens of other diseases or medical conditions, at any time over roughly the last fifty years, it may be that you owe your life to it and to one of the men who devised it. The statistician Paul Meier died this week. He was 87. It is estimated that his work and his advocacy in medical statistics have been responsible for saving millions of lives." - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

We can only hope one of them will. Even better: The ATT / T-Mobile merger is denied. Apple buys one of them, Google buys the other. The mobile carrier market needs some serious disruption. - Tinfoil 2.0

The first thought that came into my head was "Aircraft Carrier" to use as a Datacenter... - Stuart Woodward

A free online course at Stanford University on artificial intelligence, to be taught this fall by two leading experts from Silicon Valley, has attracted more than 58,000 students around the globe — a class nearly four times the size of Stanford’s entire student body. - Laura Norvig from Bookmarklet

Stephen, he's my brother (that phrase elegantly accommodated two people). - Laura Norvig

"Cell phones have a small aperture, hence a large depth of field. In other words, most of the scene is in focus at once.  However, if you record video while moving the phone slightly, and you add the frames of the video together, you can simulate the large aperture of an SLR. This app lets you do that." - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

I cannot image the information overload for citizens circa 2111 - Shakeel Mahate

"We implemented SSL False Start in Chrome 9, and the results are stunning, yielding a significant decrease in overall SSL connection setup times. SSL False Start reduces the latency of a SSL handshake by 30%1. That is a big number. And reducing the cost of a SSL handshake is critical as more and more content providers move to SSL." - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

As far as I can tell (and I haven't experimented with SPDY at all so I might be mistaken) HTTP runs on top of SPDY sort of like how vi runs on top of screen+ssh. Yes, the data going over TCP is binary but the application is using HTTP, with slight modifications. The SPDY layer gives multiplexing, compression, encryption. I don't know if it'll get adopted. The SSL False Start thing is separate, for standard HTTPS, and it seems like a big win for so little work, and I hope it works out. - Amit Patel

"In one 40-second clip, you can hear how “gaga” turned into “water” over the course of six months. In a video clip, below, you can hear and watch the evolution of "ball."" - Simon from Bookmarklet

"Greplin, the service that indexes and lets you search all of your online social stuff (Gmail, Twitter, Facebook, etc.), has just opened its doors to everyone. Earlier this week we reported on their new financing round from Sequoia Capital, and over the last couple of days they’ve let in everyone on the waitlist. And as of right now, you can use Greplin, too. Why would you want to use Greplin? Because it lets you search across all of your emails, Facebook data and Twitter stuff with one query. And they haven’t stopped there. You can also authorize Google Apps, Dropbox, LinkedIn, Google Calendar, Google Docs, Evernote, Yammer, Salesforce, Box.net, Basecamp, Google Voice, Google Reader, Google Contacts and more. And then find stuff in those apps with a single query." - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

Any idea when Friendfeed will show up as a Greplin source? Have badly needed that three times in the last month. Kudos! - Christopher Galtenberg

Sorta like friendfeed minus the conversation. I hope they would add friendfeed.com as one of the services that it indexes - Shakeel Mahate

"In the early seventies, Vaughan Pratt published an elegant improvement to recursive-descent in his paper Top-down Operator Precedence. Pratt’s algorithm associates semantics with tokens instead of grammar rules, and uses a simple “binding power” mechanism to handle precedence levels. Traditional recursive-descent parsing is then used to handle odd or irregular portions of the syntax." - Amit Patel

Nice, hadn't seen that before. Very clearly written. - DeWitt Clinton

"Compilers don’t warn Jeff Dean. Jeff Dean warns compilers." - Peter Norvig from Bookmarklet

"Jeff Dean wrote a genetic algorithm. It made awesome things amongst which are BigTable and Peter Norvig." http://www.quora.com/What-ar... - Simon

Too late, Google Alerts already told me... - Peter Norvig from email

Revkin suggests that experts give homework assignements and tests to reporters. Not a bad idea. - Peter Norvig from Bookmarklet

Wow. Just, wow. This kind of thing should be required reading for any peer reviewer. Just because you don't understand something doesn't mean it's dumb. Study it until you understand it, so you can make an educated judgement. - Kevin Fox

Awesome. - Paul Buchheit

In case it wasn't clear, these are all fictional rejection letters. - Simon

well, which is more valuable? the land or the bible? there are arguments for both. sounds like Mr. Tutu got a good deal, but one that doesn't pay off until later - like in the next life.... - Morgan

Same is true in Latin America, Hawaii and many other places. Many do gooders ended up doing really well by sticking to the holy book and spreading the good news (my foot). - سيما كيا Sima kia

(removed minor issue) - DGentry

You may be right Philipp. It could serve its purpose even if it never finds commercial success on its own. - Paul Buchheit

"It's taken 41 years, but a previously unseen set of photos of the mighty Niagara Falls reduced to nothing more than a barren cliff-top have finally surfaced. The stark images reveal North America's iconic - and most powerful - waterfall to be almost as dry as a desert. In June 1969, U.S. engineers diverted the flow of the Niagara River away from the American side of the falls for several months." - Paul Buchheit from Bookmarklet

Mark: Apparently ice dams can stop water flow altogether, but it hasn't happened since maybe 1848. What happens is that ice ends up covering the river and the falls (such that you were allowed to walk on it up to about 100 years ago), but the water still flows underneath it. - Gabe

I'm on your side Paul! :) - Oguz Serdar

remember android too wasn't taken seriously by many in its initial stages it was expected to fade away, but then google gave nexus with help from manufacturers, chrome os comes with a hardware it mght be difficult but lets see how laptop companies see it do they bring out chrome os based notebooks? because it ight actually cut costs, a chrome os notebook is expected to be cheaper than usual win or iOS based notebooks even netbooks lets see how asus sees it - testbeta