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Watch me and Kelly talking about the Photojojo Book this morning on the CBS Early Show! p.s. The book is currently #1 in photography books on Amazon, and #8 on Amazon’s Movers & Shakers list for all books! - http://superamit.tumblr.com/post...

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Matthew Manning

Can't believe how fast my new MBP is while running 10 apps (one of which is VMWare). I don't know how I dealt with that Powerbook so long.

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Garry Tan

Amazon Acquisitions and Investments (infographic) - http://garrysub.posterous.com/amazon-...

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Keith Coleman

Big changes to Gmail labels. - http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009...

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"But in Gmail, labels were stuck in a box below Chat — almost like we were telling people, "you don't want to use these." In testing, we discovered that it worked best to remove the terminology altogether and just place custom labels right under the system labels (e.g. "Inbox")" - Keith Coleman from Bookmarklet

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Sweet. - Paul Buchheit

I don't have it yet though. - Paul Buchheit

Keith, dude, this blog post is too long. I can't figure out what changes you've made (complicated by the fact that I don't have the feature yet)! - Ana

It is seriously wordy. I think the new feature is that they added a red line to the graph ;) - Paul Buchheit

Maybe they A-B tested "label" vs. "move to" and move is about to win Thunderdome style - Daniel J. Pritchett

Here's the "what's new" post: http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2009... The link I posted above is to Michael Leggett's overview of how we got from original Gmail labels to today's labels. It includes the interim changes that we launched a while ago. - Keith Coleman

I'm glad that the settings let me hide them all, even Spam :) - Sam Grover

Great information. Good use of Friend Feed. - Bob DeMarco

I like the changes. It makes adding labels a lot easier. - John (a.k.a. dendroica)

Gary Burd

Why did the market spike up before the close yesterday?

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I found this: http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archive... - Gary Burd

Nice find, Gary. - Louis Gray

heh why did I even try to read that? :) - holly

Joe Beda ()

I send Annie to pre-school with a camera and she comes back with blurry pictures of kids' butts. What are they teaching her?

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That's funny!!! HAH! Were they playing duck duck goose? - Fa La La La Lindsay

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I have no idea what was going on. I only discovered this after going through the pictures after Annie went to bed. Annie claimed there were a "thousand" pictures on the camera but we only found 96. - Joe Beda ()

Don't tell the school. They'll ban the cameras. Or - if you have choices - let the school find out and see how they react. If they do overreact, that would be more of a reflection on the state of the game - MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF

Looks like someone is about to get goosed in the first pic. - Kevykev

I'm not going to tell the school. I just think it is funny. Kids so just don't get it. Hell, I think pictures of butts are funny too. - Joe Beda ()

XD - Tanath

*If they do overreact, that would be more of a reflection on the state of the game* the game... the school just lost it - ed fry

"If they do overreact, that would be more of a reflection on the state of the game -" The game? I have no idea what that means, exactly . . . must have dozed off between 'reflection' and 'game.' Sometimes I fall asleep while my fingers are still moving on the keyboard, and the ends of such sentences are truly bizarre. Anyway, I was trying to say that if you have choices, the school's reaction might tip you off to whether that's the right place for your child. - MaryB, BrandingBroadOfFF

DeWitt Clinton

The time engineers waste fighting their IDE is enough to build a whole new IDE that engineers could waste their time fighting.

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Or you could not use and IDE and save everyone a lot of time (even the people who don't use IDEs have to suffer through the results of IDE code generation) - Bret Taylor

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Over the last 15 years, I've stuck with EMACS and spent my time writing code for Emacs to fit what I need. Now I still prefer EMACS to any IDE. The switching effort just isn't worth it. - Piaw Na

Even though I have to do most of my coding with the Visual Studio compiler, I still find myself doing much of the work in VI rather than the VS editor. - Wizetux

I'm with you Piaw Na; I've been using Emacs for a decade and am actually just now starting to bend Emacs to my way. I'm becoming more and more productive with it. - Travis B. Hartwell

When I started working in 1991 the company I joined all used vi, and I gave up my emacs skills. Big personal mistake. Look, I still like working with Eclipse, but losing all that experience was a waste. - Robert Konigsberg

Funny, I spent years fighting against using an IDE, but once a good one came along (no, MSVC doesn't count), I could never go back without losing what sanity I have left. If I'm writing Javascript, Python, or whatever (even C++ might as well be a dynamic language to the IDE because it's so damned hard to parse because of the preprocessor) -- I still use vim. But with a language that's... more... - Joel Webber

@Bret: You (like many of us) must have had some bad experiences with the mounds of crap that come out of MSVC for things like ATL, MFC, and COM. If people you've worked with are using IDEs to generate (and not clean up by hand) code for Java, C#, etc., then they're just fools. - Joel Webber

I just received a well-timed appreciation from a colleague for bringing "Eclipse to the benighted masses who had theretofore been suffering under the burden of emacs." I don't even know what benighted means, but I hope it doesn't mean "formerly productive". - Robert Konigsberg

I use emacs for script/dynamic languages and IDEs for static typed languages. But I've to say, I waste far more productivity on dynamic languages trying to track down implementations, what files they live in, or which of 10 identically named methods 'foo' is the one I want. Large javascript codebases are particularly irritating to jump through, even with IDE code completion. Nothing can... more... - Ray Cromwell

Switch from Eclipse to IntelliJ and you won't fight anymore. :) - Ray Cromwell

I use Vim for writing code. No IDE unless I need to lay out a GUI dialog. - Morton Fox

vim. I've tried to switch to Emacs several times, but just couldn't make it over the hump. I'll use Eclipse, if forced. - DGentry

Intelli FTW -- hands down best JAVA IDE out there (and now offshoot supports Ruby and a ton of other things) - Grant Gochnauer

For almost 10 years I've been using emacs with vi emulation (viper). Before that I used vi. Been thinking of switching back to vim though since it can probably do everything that I do with emacs, and faster. - Jasmin Patry

I have tried to use eclipse over 10 times in past 4-5 years. But after few days or a week, I switch back to Vim. The glitter of GUI IDEs is hard to resist, but they don't necessarily add to my productivity. Vim on the other had does excellent job in making one task faster - editing. No other editor is as good as Vim when it comes to navigation through source code and extendible macro system. - Jayesh Salvi

Last time I used VIM, it had no ability to understand code for navigation purposes, and was purely a syntax coloring regexp based text editor, although it appears there's some code completion plugins for some languages, surely, you can't be suggesting this come anywhere close to modern IDEs which keep a complete preparsed AST database of all visible code and let you instantly find methods, usages, classes, files out of thousands via a single key press. - Ray Cromwell

That's why I built my own IDE - Dave Winer

Yes, Vim doesn't have code completion functionality (at least that I know of). That's the upside of GUI IDEs like eclipse. (although, cscope and ctag do provide symbol lookup to partially make up for this limitation). In my case, automatic code completion didn't balance my choice of navigation freedom that I get in Vim. ... it's just me (and other vim lovers), others might have different preferences. - Jayesh Salvi

@Jayesh - try ctrl+n next time you're using Vim (6.2 or higher, if memory serves) - it's not code completion like you'll find in Visual Studio (which can infer completions based on context, etc.), but it will complete any string found in any open Vim buffer. It certainly gets the job done well enough for me! - Brett Kelly

Can you explain what you mean by navigation freedom (other than running a regexp). To me, the biggest feature of the editors in these IDEs is the "Go to Definition" feature. I can open a project with 1,000 source files, in which I've never before seen the code, and at any point, I can hit "Ctrl-B" on any symbol and instantly open the file and look at the implementation that symbol... more... - Ray Cromwell

Ray, that turned out not to scale for Google sized code bases, where I had to build gtags: http://code.google.com/p.... That's the thing about emacs --- when I needed something like that, I built it. It's painful to add to Eclipse or IntelliJ. - Piaw Na

@piaw: whoa, really? IntelliJ was dealing with Google3 just fine, as late as 2006. But I agree with your main point, that it's easier to build such things for emacs and vim. - Neil Kandalgaonkar

@RayCromwell: The appeal of vim is not in any one feature but all of them put together. I can use it for just about any text-hacking job known to computing, from anywhere in the world. But Eclipse and IntelliJ have unmatched features for Java, especially refactoring and browsing giant codebases. - Neil Kandalgaonkar

@Piaw TAGS is equivalent to IDE 'Goto Symbol', but it is not the same as the type-inferencing or structural search capability in IntelliJ where I can navigate by type relationship or AST structure. I'm a long time emacs user since '86, but seriously, building features like IntelliJ has for Java is more difficult because building an incremental language compiler with rich indexed type... more... - Ray Cromwell

Tudor Bosman

Bret: "the bug has been fixed". Me: "it's been fixed? it hasn't been fixed!". Casey: "it's been fixed enough."

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"We fixed the glitch." - Kevin Fox

so .. it didn't fix itself? ... is that what you are saying? - Petr Buben

Bradley Horowitz

Names on my mind lately. 100 surnames = 85% of chinese. 70,000 surnames = 90% of americans... http://mobile.nytimes.com/article...

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Paul Buchheit

The new "direct messages" feature on beta.friendfeed.com is very popular, so tomorrow we're going to launch a related feature: "passive aggressive messages"

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:) - edythe

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Hah! - Robert Scoble

Give the users what they demand! - Michael Krigsman

You Rock! - BEX

These guys always know what we want. - Eric @ CSTechcast.com

I thought that was already one of the language options. I mean, my stuff always posts in 'passive aggressive' or upside down. - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

http://www.passiveaggressivenotes.com/ - Jason

hahahaa!! good one! :) - Susan Beebe

a w e s o m e!! - JA Castillo

lmao! hehe :) - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

So is this a messaging service to let those people who aren't subscribed to you know that you want them to subscribe so you can DM them? - Johnny Worthington

Does that mean you are reading these DMs? - coldbrew

I'm guessing we'll be able to message people even if they are not subscribed to us. - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

I think he's kidding. You're kidding, right, Paul? - Helen Sventitsky

Finally! Why did it take you so long to read my mind and see what I want? - Jeanine W.

Nicely played, Jeanine... - MVB (Curmudgeon of FF)

no really, that's fine. it's a great idea. do whatever you want. don't mind me. - Laura Norvig

I mean, it's your service, not mine. why should I have any say in the matter? - Laura Norvig

I might care about this. I might not. No offense intended. - Martha

+1 Laura heh. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

LOL - http://www.hiyoooo.com/ - Bwana ☠

My wife would argue that's the only way I communicate. Not that she listens, mind you. - CAJ, somewhere else

If that's the best you can come up with, I guess that's okay. :) - Stan Scott

twitter beat you to that one. send a message, delete it, it deletes everywhere, even the receipient's stream. recipient deletes, it deletes from sender's stream without permission. passive-aggressive to the max. - Karoli

Amit Gupta

szymon:bathroom signage solution by Aliza Dzik - http://superamit.tumblr.com/post...

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John Lilly

simpsons quotes are sort of like my kryptonite. i always start thinking about the episode they're from.

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Dan Peguine

Amazed that I was sitting at Borders in SF and a high school friend I had not seen for 8 years (Mark King) spotted me (but wasn’t sure it was me) and wrote on my Facebook wall “ r u in San francisco @ Borders?” .. I turn around and see him sitting 3 tables away from me!! - http://danpeguine.com/post...

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Gary Burd

S&P 500 is up 21.6% from the low.

March 23 - Comment - Like - Share

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... and down 47.4% from the high in 2007. - Gary Burd

Dave Winer

Why journalism is dead 3.0: The sources got blogs.

February 28 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Is that all? - david beckwith

Yup. - Bora Zivkovic

Bay Chang

" frakkin' " is in my iPhone dictionary

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David Weekly

New F1 rules explained in amazingly simple CG video - http://www.youtube.com/watch...

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Matthew Manning

Gonna work on my little twitter app side project for a while now.

February 16 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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Christopher Sacca

Pretty sure my wiper blades are trying to hypnotize me.

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Amit Gupta

have i told you how I watch movies with my family over ichat? oh, it’s awesome. I’ve done it 4-5 times. It seems totally geeky, but it’s actually really fun. I get on the phone with my brother (we only do this when he’s home with his macbook with the camera in it) and we go to the video store.. me to my blockbuster and he to his. We walk around... - http://superamit.tumblr.com/post...

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Eric Eldon

who is younger than 30 and really excited about the kindle?

February 9 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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i am. well, possibly, really excited about the idea of reading more - paulm

haha, my mom was telling me how excited she was about it yesterday. you have a point ... - Adam Ostrow

Gabor Cselle

"People with $20000 dollar stereos don't like to listen to new music"

February 9 from Twitter - Comment - Like - Share

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i met this guy who had a macintosh (really really expensive vacuum tube based stereo). i was thankful to get to play my cds. - paulm

Dave Morin

Mad Men: The Carousel (via cleversimon) - http://davemorin.tumblr.com/post...

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Dave Morin

Marketing is not the same as advertising. Advertising is a tiny slice of what marketing is today, and in fact, it’s pretty clear that the marketing has to come before the product, not after. As Jon points out, the Prius was developed after the marketing thinking was done. Jones Soda, too. In fact, just about every successful product or service is... - http://davemorin.tumblr.com/post...

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