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Congratulations!! - Daniel Dulitz

cong'rats !! Need Pics :)- - Peter Dawson

"I think Farmville is more addictive than it is fun." - Amit Patel from Bookmarklet

@James: there's this group: http://www.facebook.com/group... but I don't know of anyone working on a BRE for Facebook. - Amit Patel

"One unnamed “prominent media executive” leaned toward Auletta at the 2007 Google Zeitgeist Conference and whispered a rhetorical question in his ear: What real value, he wanted to know, was Google producing for society? Wait. What real value? Come now, my prominent executive friend. Have you not glanced at Street View in Google Maps? Have you not relied on the humble aid of the search-box calculator, or checked out Google’s movie showtimes, or marveled at the quick-and-dirtiness of Google Translate? Have you not made interesting recherché 19th-century discoveries in Google Books? Or played with the amazing expando-charts in Google Finance? Have you not designed a strange tall house in Google SketchUp, and did you not make a sudden cry of awed delight the first time you saw the planet begin to turn and loom closer in Google Earth? Are you not signed up for automatic Google News alerts on several topics? I would be very surprised if you are not signed up for a Google alert or two." - j1m from Bookmarklet

"...Have you not searched? Because, let me tell you, I remember the old days, the antegoogluvian era. It was O.K. — it wasn’t horrible by any means. There were cordless telephones, and people wore comfortable sweaters. There was AltaVista, and Ask Jeeves..." - j1m

Cookie Monster looks so happy, how can you not love this? - j1m

Not a clue. I know he took a vacation. He was active for a little while after he got back ... then poof, gone again. Hope he's okay. - Yolanda

love! - Ashwin Bharambe

I didn't like Computer Modern or Times. I used Century Schoolbook for my stuff, I think (\usepackage{newcent}). - Amit Patel

I heard that real-estate prices are going up like crazy in Argleton. A supply/demand issue ;) - Henner Zeller

Are you thinking of moving there? Or just visiting? - Jim Norris

Not me - but my sack person avatar seeks for a home in Little Big Argleton. I wish him good luck - maybe in that universe there are places to live there. - Henner Zeller

really liked the numbers, much better than just saying "registers < memory < disk" - Ertuğ Karamatlı

Interesting stuff. I'm downloading the PDF now... - Tyson Key

I confess I don't understand the "Bayesians against discrimination!" sign. As Ng and Jordan have shown, Bayesians can make good use of both discriminative and generative methods. - Peter Norvig from Bookmarklet

"Support vector machines" is my favorite sign :) - Simon

netflix manipulating demand for blockbusters. clever. - Gregor J. Rothfuss

"So taken is the fashion world by Tavi, who describes herself as 'tiny dork that sits inside all day', that newly relaunched style bible Pop magazine placed her on the cover of their latest issue." - ௸ (k2g) from Bookmarklet

I wonder how she got the name (never heard Tavi as a jewish name). - ta√i

It rejected advice to hire retired generals to curry favor with the agencies and hired young government analysts frustrated by working with slow-footed technology. - Gregor J. Rothfuss

"The new research suggests that the stomach tells the brain when to eat and that establishing a regular schedule of meals will regulate the stomach’s release of ghrelin. “If you eat all the time, ghrelin secretion will not be well controlled,” said Silver, the paper’s lead author and the principal investigator of the study. “It’s a good thing to eat meals at a regularly scheduled time of day.”" - ௸ (k2g) from Bookmarklet

All yellow in front of my house and red if I head your way. - Louis Gray

They started doing this a couple of weeks ago. Very useful in figuring out traffic patterns especially in the PA/Menlo areas where traffic can get intense. - Mark Interrante

And six or so major thoroughfares in DC as well. But their data is still pretty poor, and estimated times between locations need DOUBLING during poor DC rush hour time. - derikp

flash based. who needs desktop apps? - Gregor J. Rothfuss

"Recently Google has been slamming locksmith spam so hard it appears to me that the situation is going to the other extreme." good work guys :) - ௸ (k2g) from Bookmarklet

Where? - Paul Buchheit

Congraulations on new office! - Steve C

@tavi: strawberry gelato - ௸ (k2g) from Bookmarklet

ha, that was not a hint... just a lamentation that I rarely get to Brooklyn. - ta√i

A mini-essay I wrote, for Hacker News. - Michael Nielsen

I have spent nearly 2/3 year to study Walter Rudin's Principles of Mathematical Analysis, and resolved almost all the exercises; but another 1/3 to attack Hungerford's Algebra, where I got stuck since then. I haven't been doing math for long. Seems I shall try it now? Thanks, Michael! - Juvenn Woo

this would allow the setting of negative nominal interest rates. about time some country does this. - Gregor J. Rothfuss

Interesting tidbit: "Nevertheless, the country remains a wholeheartedly cash-based consumer society. Currency in circulation is about 16 per cent of its GDP, compared with the levels of 2 to 3 per cent in most developed countries." - ta√i

Do you remember any of Jim's/Bret's liveblogging rules? - ana

But к2פ was made to write. - moo. bye.

Wowsers - Christopher Chung

what the heck?! This is awesome! - Anamarie