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If your name is Benjamin Golub and your lawyer's initials are DLA I'd consider finding a new one. She's mistakenly sent me 3 emails w/ personal information about your case. I've contacted her on each occasion and she has apologized but it doesn't seem to stick.
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Wow. That's scary.
- Admiral Anika
Novermber 13 and June 9 were the other dates: http://friendfeed.com/search...
- Benjamin Golub
That happened to me for a while, only the chick (same name) was trying to send sensitive corporate documents to HERSELF. She got her own e-mail address wrong.
- Lo
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- Ayşe E.
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- Archangel ωαřмaiden
@TimCostantino I love it - my new program is that for every new level I get to play on Wii games I have to do 50 crunches or 10 pushups.
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It's never appropriate to use your chain saw at 9am on a Saturday. Plus, seriously, it's mid-December.
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The best blog post of the week, courtesy of Fake Steve Jobs, discussing AT&T: http://www.fakesteve.net/2009...
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Vehicles have several ratings: MPG, emissions, safety, etc. It is in the best interest of the car manufacturer to improve those ratings to get more buyers. I think some estimate of total cost of ownership, specifically repair costs, should be made available. This would force manufacturers to design cars that are reliable and easily serviced.
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I remember replacing the water pump on my old Cavalier was extremely expensive because like half of the engine needed to be removed to get at it so the labor cost was very high.
- Benjamin Golub
TCO is a metric that is available, usually determined by third parties (like MPG, emissions, and safety are). Edmunds and JATO are ones I know that do that. Some vehicle manufacturers do advertise their TCO (or at least relative to others in their class); Lexus and Hyundai come to mind.
- Mark Trapp
Yeah, but it's not on the sticker on the window of the vehicle or on the website and it's usually not known for newer models is it?
- Benjamin Golub
That's true, it's not right there on the sticker. I believe you can get it for newer models; they base it off of standard/recommended maintenance schedules, how much maintenance was for earlier or similar models, dealer prices, etc.
- Mark Trapp
Motortrend does it too, it seems. Here's one for a 2009 Lexus IS250: http://www.motortrend.com/cars...
- Mark Trapp
Yeah, if you know where to look for the information you can certainly find it. But if it were a standard metric then there would be more incentive for it to be improved. I also think most people purchase without thinking about repair costs. But if it were a standard they'd make it part of the purchasing process.
- Benjamin Golub
I don't know if you can make it more simple; the only metric that would work is dollars, since all of the contributing factors to TCO are measured in dollars. You put two prices on a car, people will look only at the higher price. Which is what you want, but given how volatile the auto industry is to market changes, I don't know if you could justify an apparent $7,000-$10,000 increase...
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- Mark Trapp
Yeah that is problematic but I think it can be solved. Here's an idea off the top of my head: It doesn't need to be in terms of dollars. It can be distilled to a scale based on other cars of the same type/class (ie it doesn't make sense to compare the cost of owning a ferrari vs a focus). For example: 6/10 TOC compared to vehicles X, Y, Z over N years. Some people could definitely ignore it (leases especially)
- Benjamin Golub
I'm curious if there's an actual link to performance on metrics and sales? Presumably if that were true those would be featured and competed on.
- Todd Hoff
Todd: MPG and safety ratings are definitely shown in advertisements all the time. I assume they wouldn't bother mentioning those things if it wasn't worth while but I don't have any data on it.
- Benjamin Golub
GM is very bad with their overuse of highway MPG in advertisements to try to say that their cars are more efficient than Toyota and Honda when Toyota and Honda cars routinely get better AVERAGE mile per gallon ratings. False advertising.
- Alex Scoble
I thought MPG was legally required (at least on the sticker), but it should really be GPM. TCO is impossible for a new model or significantly redesigned model.
- LogEx
Yes, GPM is easier for people to understand intuitively, but MPG is still a valid comparator. And yeah, LogEx, Consumer Reports usually doesn't talk about TCO until a specific model version has been out for 3 years.
- Alex Scoble
LogEx: I don't think it's impossible for the manufacturer to figure out the TCO on a new/redesigned model. They can estimate it. In fact I'd be *very* surprised if internally they didn't already estimate it. The point is that it isn't public information so there is no real incentive to improve it.
- Benjamin Golub
They could estimate regular maintenance costs pretty well, but the variation of repair costs/timing on substantially new parts is problematic.
- LogEx
TCO is easily available via fueleconomy.gov for gas. Repair and maintenance costs vary based on the provider, so publishing them wouldn't be very helpful unless you want a price listing for parts
- LANjackal
Anyway I think a lot of you skipped way past my original point and got ahead of ourselves. Yes estimating TCO would be difficult; both to get right and make useful. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't do it :). A great way to improve on something is to measure it first. And an even better way is to measure it and make it public so consumers can cast their vote with real money. If a correlation between TCO and sales doesn't occur then oh well. But if it does you'd probably see more emphasis on improving it.
- Benjamin Golub
Ok, I like watching Brett Favre play football, but I'm pretty sure Al Michaels has a man-crush on the guy.
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My local ISP (Time Warner) DNS server is consistently faster than both Google and OpenDNS. All three are very fast though: ~20ms (local) vs ~30ms (Google and OpenDNS) for google.com, twitter.com, facebook.com, and friendfeed.com. I wonder where the closest Google data center is to me.
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Of the 3 Google is the only one that doesn't hijack though.
- Benjamin Golub
Speed isn't the only concern of course. Reliability and security are important. And I trust Google above the other companies in those departments.
- Benjamin Golub
What do you mean by hijack?
- Chris Heath
and what is your opinion of OpenDNS?
- Chris Heath
also, I didn't know that Google had DNS servers...http://code.google.com/speed... for those interested
- Chris Heath
Chris: Visit something like fdnksalfndkslafnkea.com after setting up OpenDNS. They redirect you to a branded page with ads that earn OpenDNS money. Time Warner does the same thing. Google does not.
- Benjamin Golub
thanks, yeah i should have known... my time warner doesn't do that (that i know) i've been on opendns for about a year
- Chris Heath
guess i'll give google a try... do you know when they started the public dns?? must be new... i just saw a digg.com submission hit their front page pointing to that same google code link
- Chris Heath
So I won't be using Google or OpenDNS instead of my ISP DNS. But I will use Google DNS when I travel. I've found that most wifi hotspots are slow because of DNS and switching to OpenDNS in the past has helped a lot. The only reason I see to use Google instead is the IP address is way easier to remember :)
- Benjamin Golub
Yeah, over the last couple years i've committed the opendns server ips to memory, but the google ips are super duper easy to remember - I assume you're staying with your isp because they're faster, right?
- Chris Heath
Confirmation: 209.18.47.61 is my local DNS http://chart.apis.google.com/chart.... via http://code.google.com/p...
- Benjamin Golub
Well uh, yeah... Your local isp is physically WAY closer and thus able to receive your dns queries and send back a response in less time... Unless the dns server itself is overloaded, or it's implementation of dns is less efficient than google's or opendns- (in which case processing your request might take longer), there is almost NO chance that a more distant dns server will ever resolve queries to common domains like the ones you tried.
- LarchOye
Larch: http://code.google.com/p... tries a lot more than jus those common domains. Anyway the reason I tested this is a lot of people changed to Google or OpenDNS just because it's supposed to be faster. I'll be in SF later this week; I'm guessing it will do much better :)
- Benjamin Golub
Is the Silicon Valley, compared to other places, full of optimism simply because we tend to hear about successes much much more than about failures. We see someone else build a successful product and think that we can do it to. If there was a blog like TC that talked as much about failures as about success would we sill be optimistic and innovativ
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But TC does highlight failures. That said, the quiet failures don't always make news. You have to be somewhat successful in order for your failure to be notable.
- Louis Gray
There was http://www.fuckedcompany.com/ that chronicled failures. Highly entertaining until your company shows up on the list :-) I think in the valley we hear a lot more about the failures because our friends are part of them. Lots of companies nobody knows about go under, but I just think we have a different attitude, as in on to the next opportunity.
- Todd Hoff
Yes TC only highlights big failures and I would even say not that many... When you fail you don't tell anyone. So the chance than anyone knows about it is also very little. Also ppl don't take pleasure in announcing other people's failures either. So overall failures are much less reported than successes. Even in families I hear a lot more "good news" like pregnancies and lot less "bad news" like miscarriages
- Bindu Reddy
Many of what are considered failures in Silicon Valley were just part of the evolution of technology. One thing builds on another, and although some companies might be winners for a time, they leveraged lots of work done at companies that weren't as rewarded in the press and financial markets. (E.g. Xerox Parc, mid-80s Apple, DEC, Sun, NeXT, General Magic, WebTV, Danger, Be, Catapult,...
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- Cristo
Cristo, the answer is yes. And are you saying it is too late for General Magic to make a comeback?
- Louis Gray
Louis, it becomes much harder to make a comeback after you no longer exist: http://news.cnet.com/2100-10... :)
- Cristo
And I disagree with you on the music question. Without that music, you wouldn't have most of the music people listen to today. And I still find music from those eras to often be more pure, genius, and enjoyable to much of the music today.
- Cristo
In case people don't know, iPhone and Android would be very different without General Magic, and quite possibly, wouldn't exist at all.
- Cristo
Oh no! My GMGC stock! Worthless! (cries)
- Louis Gray
LOL. I sold mine at $17, I think.
- Cristo
Agree with you Cristo that failures also contribute to advancing technology forward. So I am not saying failure is all bad. I am saying would the valley be so optimistic and would you see as many start-ups if we heard about all the failures.. big and small
- Bindu Reddy
You're so right Bindu- there's this kind of invisible culture of failures down in SV too. But it's depressing, just like the news not reporting all of the violence/crime, it's not seen as newsworthy.
- anna sauce
I don't find failures depressing. Either they made a contribution to the field of technology, or they didn't. If they did, then their ideas will live on in other products and companies. If they didn't, then it's good to weed out the bad ideas and business plans. What depresses me is when marginal stuff succeeds wildly, and then the early people in those companies suddenly think they are geniuses.
- Cristo
If you work your ass of for 4 years and your company dies, that's depressing. Other people's failures, not so depressing :-)
- Todd Hoff
Todd, I've worked my ass off for years on both projects that succeeded and failed. Once it's over, I generally don't feel depressed, I just move on to the next thing. Failure can be the door that allows you to move on. :)
- Cristo
If failure is what made you move then you probably didn't really move on.
- Todd Hoff
Not sure I understand. Can you clarify?
- Cristo
The decision was made for you. If you would have recognized the failure and made a conscious decision to leave before then you would have learned something by internalizing it and acting. As it stands you could just walk away, which requires a lot less of you. It's the difference between cutting a knot with a sword and untying it for yourself.
- Todd Hoff
Oh, okay. I've usually left a project before the lights were turned out. There was only one (my own) where we had to shut it down ourselves, and even there, it seems to keep popping back up every few years.
- Cristo
The Silicon Valley tends to be optimistic, but I don't think it's because we don't hear about failures. In general, the Valley treats failures as learning opportunities and not as career-ending disasters; we understand that failures are to be expected when on the cutting edge.
- Tudor Bosman
And Tudor, wouldn't you say there's a lot of subjectiveness in classifying failures? E.g. some people think acquisitions are failures compared to IPOs.
- Cristo
the question to ask is - is it newsworthy? how many people does it affect? would people care? a successful business makes more of an impact than a failed business, plus failed businesses are so common you might as well create a classifieds section
- Loc
Even failures like 3DO made some people (those who sold at the right time) wealthy. Sure, wealth isn't the same as success, but keep in mind that not all failures were the same.
- Piaw Na
Cost of Wedding - How much does a wedding cost where you live? - http://www.costofwedding.com/
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Plug in your zip code to see the average. The disparity b/w Palo Alto and say, South San Francisco, is somewhat astounding :)
- Ana
from Bookmarklet
'On average, couples that live in [zip code] spend between $34,575 and $57,624 for their wedding. This does not include cost for a honeymoon or engagement ring.' The first time I looked at this site I almost died.
- joey
Flat nothing where I live - I can't get legally married.
- Sparky
How do they get their data, though? I never told anyone what my wedding cost.
- Stephen Mack
My zip code says between $25,854 and $43,091. I'm not buying that at all.
- Rochelle
Mine was $137, cost of paperwork only.
- Tsali, The Native of FF
In my zip code is says $40,235 and $67,058 DAMN
- Shevonne
$19,735 and $32,892 in a little town outside of Austin. Wow...that is insanity.
- aden
Stephen, just a random guess, but I would assume that they would survey the vendors out there in a certain area and then add it up? The average cost of a caterer in my zip code plus the average cost of a florist plus the average cost of a venue, etc.
- Rochelle
ours was JOP and home-made food. i think we spent less than $600 on the honeymoon.
- Joe Silence
Louisville, KY 40220 spend between $13,922 and $23,203 for their wedding. - Never known anyone who spent that much.
- Tsali, The Native of FF
@Joe plug in your zip code in the link
- Shevonne
Whoa! I was married at my mom's house in Palo Alto. The range there is $66,090 and $110,149!!! We didn't spend that much, and I still thought our wedding was costly!!
- Georgia Diehl
I don't suppose they subtract the value of the cash and gifts given
- LogEx
Rochelle, why don't you buy that?
- joey
@Shevonne: between $16,828 and $28,047. that's insane.
- Joe Silence
we were broke when we moved to the US from NZ and weren't about to go into debt for our wedding. my parents paid for our honeymoon trip as a gift.
- Joe Silence
I definitely see destination wedding if I ever get married
- Shevonne
The answer is too much.
- James Ferguson
Our wedding is a little on the high end...about $20k to $21k for my area. Range is $13,769 and $22,948
- Alex Scoble
the wedding? about 6 grand. since the breakup? $1,550 a month. for 8 long years.
- Morgan Haley
Joey, it just seems like too much. When I was doing my planning and all that, I don't think it would have been that much even if we had paid full price for everything. I guess it really depends on what kind of wedding you have and where you have it. Cake/punch in your church hall is going to obviously be less than plated dinner at a hotel downtown.
- Rochelle
that sucks.. its does not take canadian zipcodes
- Peter Dawson
Morgan, how many children do you have?
- Georgia Diehl
Georgia - Just 1.
- Morgan Haley
Wow! I had no idea child support was that much! Although, I guess I'm just assuming that's what you were referring to!
- Georgia Diehl
Child support? Try 'spousal support' aka alimony. But divorce is expensive because it's worth it.
- Morgan Haley
The site's figures are based on survey results from people who've paid for weddings and not based on polling of vendors according to the site.
- Alex Scoble
the 3 'rings' of relationshits: engagement ring. wedding ring. suffering.
- Morgan Haley
$14,993 and $24,988. Thank you Rochester :)
- Benjamin Golub
Hello 100k for Mill Valley California
- Bill
*gags*. Holy gucamole. In this economy?????
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
We saved a lot, Roberto, that's how.
- Alex Scoble
Well, that's most certainly better than borrowing the bulk of it :)
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
My mom wanted us to have a larger wedding (200 guests), so i told her fine, as long as she was willing to pay for it. She did...
- Georgia Diehl
That's all crazy talk - we spent about $3k-5k on our wedding. $10k+ for a one-time event is ridiculous!
- Jesse Stay
That's more reasonable Jesse. But there is no accounting for taste. :) my parents got married and had the reception in the back yard.
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
Reasonable-shmeasonable...my catering bill alone, including alcohol is like $7500 and frankly, that's reasonable.
- Alex Scoble
Roberto, nothing wrong with that - it's where we had ours. It was still decorated beautifully, people still had fun, and we still got married. We made a lot of our food, and ordered Sams club for the rest - nicely decorated most people don't even notice the difference.
- Jesse Stay
It's like I've said before, once you get in to the traditional wedding industry, there is no cheap.
- Alex Scoble
Exactly what they did. I will probably do that as well. I'd rather spend that big money on the honeymoon.
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
...and don't get us started on the diamond cartel ;)
- LogEx
Roberto, oftentimes you (the groom) have no say in the matter, hehe. If you aren't already in a relationship, choose wisely. :)
- Alex Scoble
This is an interesting site (and again an uncannily timely post) 8^)
- Chieze Okoye
Duly Noted, Alex. Some of my friends are getting married next year and that's what's happened :) Poor guys.
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
That's why I love my wife :-)
- Jesse Stay
Hehe, Jesse...unfortunately, sometimes you fall in love with someone despite the fact that they want a big wedding. C'est la vie. :)
- Alex Scoble
My falling in love was all about the wedding ;-)
- Jesse Stay
Such is life. Indeed. :)
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
ROFL...unfortunately, I fell in love with Cassie because she's intelligent, passionate, caring, cute, delicious, hard working and some other odds and ends as well...only later did I find out that she like Country Music, Christmas, Disneyland and big weddings...You have to take the good with the bad, hehe.
- Alex Scoble
It happens..... :)
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
There was someone here on FF (I don't remember who, but it was a guy?) who said his wedding budget was $100k and his honeymoon budget was $50k and thought that was totally reasonable and realistic. I was O_O
- Rochelle
haha
- Chieze Okoye
<Sheldon Cooper> The horror...... <Sheldon Cooper/>
- Roberto Bonini
from iPhone
Nice .... I'm sure that honeymoon was memorable in more ways than one :)
- fatima
Mine cost zero in 1967 - church wedding, homemade dress, reception at aunt's house. In 2009 dollars that would be...
- m9m, Crone of FriendFeed
Holy shit! In Los Gatos, people spend between $64,866 and $108,109 (!)
- Bret Taylor
What recession? :-)
- Piaw Na
People make lots of money off weddings and funerals. Sometimes it's really sad. In Las Vegas, I contributed $40 for a car wash, when I heard that the reason they were washing cars was to cover the funeral costs for a friend. Elopement maybe?
- Mitchell Tsai
It says $11-18K where I live. I think my wife and I spent around $8K.
- Jason Huebel
Mine cost $16 at the county building. It was still fun.
- Jeremy (on vacation)
I think people *greatly* underestimate the cost of their wedding because they mostly look at recent bills after the event, but so many expenses, like deposits/stationery happen so far in advance. People also tend to not bundle-in related costs, like gifts for the wedding party, etc. If you think about it, if you host your reception at a hall w/ a catered dinner (which is what most people do), the food/beverage costs alone are like $100/person, so it's pretty easy to imagine how the average gets up to +$20k.
- Ana
@Mitchell Be wary of funeral car washes. Frequently those are scams.
- EricaJoy
My brother and his gf have ditched their idea to marry in the UK, instead of £10-13k they can spend £2-3k in Greece and get *everything* paid for. It's no contest, so we all off to Greece in a couple of years. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
$16 around.
- ★ Soner Gönül
Tehran; Around $30k
- Darth Farhad Sama
My home town in Pittsburgh: $46,966 and $78,277 --- Woah Nelly!
- Tim Costantino
Anyone who tells you that something has zero risk is quite obviously really trying to sell you something.
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Using friendfeed has zero risk...as does eating a small bag of carrots!
- Alex Scoble
zero risk? boring!
- Morgan Haley
You could choke on a carrot. You could become addicted to friendfeed. These are both real risks.
- Bren -- feeling merry
from iPhone
+2 photophobe, ;)
- chaz2b
Paging my Googler friends out there: Google Chrome on OS X stores its cache in ~Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Cache. The "OS X approved" location is ~Library/Caches; Time Machine won't backup anything there. Please use it, I was wondering why Time Machine was constantly backing up 200+ MB every hour.
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http://code.google.com/p... to track the bug
- Benjamin Golub
For those that use Time Machine and Chrome: just add ~Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome to the exceptions in the meantime.
- Benjamin Golub
Hmm. I just have ~Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/Cached Theme Images (which is empty). No .../Cache
- Uche Ogbuji
What version? I'm running 4.0.249.4 (now 4.0.249.12 since I restarted Chrome). I know this is a dumb question but are you using Chrome? I'd imagine the cache wouldn't exist if you weren't using it :)
- Benjamin Golub
I'm running 4.0.249.12 and I see the cache in there. Adding a Time Machine exclusion now.
- Matt Mastracci
Uche: apparently this has been fixed but older users will continue to use the old cache, so you must have installed it after the fix landed. Matt: just delete your cache dir and it should start using ~Library/Caches instead.
- Benjamin Golub
I had to delete both "Cache" and "Media Cache" for it to switch over.
- Matt Mastracci
Wait, you have Googler friends? How come and what for?!
- ana
I was really just hoping DeWitt would see this :) (and he did)
- Benjamin Golub
@Ben - I did see it, but it was picked up by the Chrome team even before that.
- DeWitt Clinton
Yeah, I was really happy with how fast they triaged the bug. Great job
- Benjamin Golub
I think @Isaac Hepworth may be the person that made that happen.
- DeWitt Clinton
True, it might have been me who sparked the response. But really kudos goes to the Chrome team for being so on top of things and generally awesome.
- Isaac Hepworth
How Bad Could Obama Screw Up and Still Beat Sarah Palin? - http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009...
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"So, one way to look at this is that Palin gives Obama an approval rating bonus of about 3 points: if Obama can defeat a Generic Republican with an approval rating of X, he can defeat Palin with an approval rating of X-3."
- Benjamin Golub
Who is officially unemployed? - https://news.fidelity.com/news...
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It's sometimes hard to tell who is employed/unemployed/not in the labor force.
- Benjamin Golub
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Living in a browser - http://diveintomark.org/archive...
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The Cupcake Dreamery family - http://www.flickr.com/photos...
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wfh (working from home) « Flickr Blog - http://blog.flickr.net/en...
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Okay that's it. I'm takin' my shoes off. Any of my deskmates got a problem with that, they can talk to Golub.
- Kevin Fox
I approve.
- Benjamin Golub
Also the correct response to a coworker posting "wfh" is "wtf". It happened a lot in the internal FriendFeed group.
- Benjamin Golub
FTW
- Jim Norris
Does that HP in the last pic on the left with the dog in the middle have a blue center mouse like the red button on the IBM Thinkpads?
- Itachi
The wtf in response to wfh is a joke from Google days and a mistake that someone made in their email to the team.
- Ana
Thanks for clearing that up. I just thought it was fun :)
- Benjamin Golub
Great pics! Kitty and PJs :)
- Susan Beebe
Great shot!
- Charlie Anzman
What Startups Are Really Like - http://www.paulgraham.com/really...
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See also: http://www.jwz.org/gruntle...
- matthew john ernisse
Trying to start my first meme: Wearing big headphones meme!
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Optional: what are you listening to? http://www.livephish.com/live-mu...
- Benjamin Golub
Are those Sony MDR-V6es?
- Kevin Fox
Indeed they are Kevin. I think they are 8 years old and still kicking
- Benjamin Golub
I have Sennheiser HD280 Pros, which are pretty gigantor.
- Mick Crawford
Share a photo!
- Benjamin Golub
They look like Sony MDR-7506s too. I have a pair of those, as well as the Senn HD280s, which are definitely much bigger than the Sonys
- G. Sigh
What big ears you have!
- Marci Golub
http://skitch.com/micahwi... (I slipped out of them :)
- Micah Wittman
Aw, I would totally do that! But my big headphones are at work. And I don't have a webcam at work, either. :(
- Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF
(Listening to FFundercarts) - http://friendfeed.com/inkedmn...
- Brett Kelly
Let's see who looks most like the Napster logo.
- Morton Fox
Just posted mine http://friendfeed.com/krynsky...
- Mark Krynsky
Posted: http://ff.im/3Q5lp
- Brian Daniel Eisenberg
Posted ! http://friendfeed.com/mokarga...
- Mo Kargas
Here's mine: http://friendfeed.com/adrianc...
- Adrian
REMIX or should I say... MEMIX?, plus B side "The Canz - Canz U C Me?"
- Adrian
Totally missed this. Must find pic now.
- Josh Haley
Get on it Haley!
- Mo Kargas
OK, OK... here: http://friendfeed.com/joshhal...
- Josh Haley
ARGH. I miss all the cool memes while I'm sleeping! Now I have two to do when I get home.
- Steven Perez
Not a bad turnout http://friendfeed.com/search...
- Benjamin Golub
Bump for good times.
- Mark Krynsky
They're not big. They are slimline in my book.
- Travis Koger
They Might Be Giants – The End of the Tour - http://www.last.fm/music...
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We'll see TMBG at the Fillmore in November! https://friendfeed.com/tudor...
- Tudor Bosman
Rachel put me in the mood to listen to them: http://friendfeed.com/phoenix.... I bet they put on a good show.
- Benjamin Golub
Dear Bank of America: I shouldn't have to read an icon legend to understand my account activity
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Polamalu Won't Need Sugery On Knee (SportingNews.com) - http://us.rd.yahoo.com/sports...
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Good to hear!
- Tim Costantino
I'm going to start recording all Facebook bugs as I see them so I can start fixing them once I get setup at work.
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I like your style.
- joey
Benjamin, are you able to publicly say what your duties are?
- John E. Bredehoft
I'm telling mom!...
- Thom Kennon
and what if the bug is in the leadership?!!
- abdellah
Then I would like to kindly offer up a report of my 'everyone' privacy setting not making status updates available on my public, world viewable profile (even though FB warns me every time that it will).
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
cool you`re in San Mateo now at Facebook!!!!!
- sofarsoShawn
how do you make a profile public?
- mikepk
Mike, in your privacy settings there are options to make profile, status updates, etc. viewable to 'everyone'. The privacy FAQ on FB says setting it to 'everyone' will make those items viewable to the entire internet, even people without a FB account. That is not, however, what is actually happening.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
Benjamin, there is this bug - I can't get "facebook.com/torque" - can you help me?
- τorƍue
Can we report them to you? ;-)
- Jesse Stay
Go Benjamin!
- Mitchell Tsai
You can start with the email notifications! ;) They aint like the FF ones.
- Kreg Steppe
Here's one: when someone sends you a friend request, there's a box you check to say if you want that person to be in your feed. Regardless of whether that box is checked or not, the person will show up in your feed. That is annoying
- Becca
If you seek Zuckerbum....give him a swift kick in the nuts for me...no no, just kidding, tell him hey, from Shawn.
- sofarsoShawn
Benjamin, considering your expertise, I'll take a look at Facebook's mobile interface and see if improvements are warranted.
- John E. Bredehoft
from fftogo
ok, their real time search engine suck. and what they are using bing for web search?!!
- abdellah
One other Ben..when you go to your friends list and check to add them to your SMS list, it doesn't take the first two or three times...Eventually it does but it's very frustrating to have to keep going back and adding friends to your SMS list..
- Bill Heslin
Kick some ass. :)
- Louis Gray
Tina, ah, that was why I asked. I was playing with those settings and tried it from logged out browsers and was like WTH? Does "everyone" mean "everyone on facebook"? Guess so.
- mikepk
+10 for your enthusiasm!
- Winston Teo
Hilarious. sorry. No that I doubt your enthusiasm ONE BIT.
- anna sauce
Ummm... if you get started on this, you may have to set up a cot at work... you won't be going home for a while...
- Paula W
Yes, Paula W. Truth. Get a comfy one for the body. The brain will compensate for sleep deprivation. Eventually.
- Michele Lorito-Chase
Could you start by reverting to the previous version of their UI? No, seriously! So many people I know (myself included) no longer use FB because it's too easy to miss things. The previous timeline view was much easier
- Anthony
superBen is on a mission
- Dobromir Hadzhiev
Awesome. This is one of the most tedious bugs on FB: http://www.facebook.com/help...
- David Schmidt
You, my friend, are pure awesomeness.
- Raphael, Raphael
careful what you wish for, you just might get it. Actually, i wish you were still creating clean code on top of FF clean code
- Robert Higgins
That Many ??????
- johnpiercy
U saying FB is full of bugs ?
- johnpiercy
There seems to be some sort of bug with exporting data outside of Facebook. Thanks for looking into it!
- Matt Cutts
from iPhone
Matt Cutts has the best bug report.
- Amit Patel
hahaha awesome matt
- Ru Viljoen
YAY!! you rock Ben!!
- Susan Beebe
from BuddyFeed
I'm going to start calling you Bug instead of Dude. Nahhh, you'll always be my dude, Dude.
- Marci Golub
Can you fix the annoying "Write a Comment" tooltip? It stays up WHILE you are commenting (sometimes covering your comment text).
- Chris Myles
++ John, Why can't I delete messages from the FB mobile interface?
- Sarah Miller
from iPhone
Not a bug... more a wishlist... I wish oh how I wish for a native Symbian FB app...
- Pandu ● IT Optimizer
Same here Pandu. I'd like a Symbian FriendFeed application more, though
- Tyson Key
Tyson, have you been reading my mind?? xD Although since Ben's talking about FB, I limit my post to FB. And besides, for the time being, http://www.fftogo.com/ is sufficient for my needs :-)
- Pandu ● IT Optimizer
Descriptive message while trying to login to YouTube to favorite a video:
Keith Bourgoin, Nicholas James, Kazutaka Ogaki and 38 other people liked this
I saw the exact same thing yesterday...bizarre.
- Jonas, Leper of FF
Is that an error message, or the title of a video?
- Joel Webber
Error message.
- Benjamin Golub
hhaha that is cute!! Google culture is awesome
- Susan Beebe
I now know over 50 words in Chinese, but still can't pronounce Thank You correctly. Incidentally, 40 of the words are the names of dishes.
Tim Costantino, Benjamin Golub and Rachel Lea Fox liked this
Facebook | Designing the Facebook username land rush - http://www.facebook.com/note...
Iván Abrego, Tim Costantino, Susan Beebe and 8 other people liked this
"Our careful design and planning paid off on launch night and later. In the first three minutes over 200,000 people registered names, with over 1 million allocated in the first hour, and over 50MM in just over a month. Through the entire launch we had no issues handling the additional load and none of our "nuclear options" had to be used at any point. However, two of our memcache nodes went down a few weeks after launch, but our scribe log replay scripts helped us to bring them back up again."
- Benjamin Golub
from Bookmarklet
Just throwing this out there: wedding venue websites are pretty much universally terrible and confusing
NaHi, Daniel Dulitz, April Buchheit and 4 other people liked this
When searching for photographers and car hire, we pretty much crossed off any that didn't have a good website. I know it's no indication of how good their services might be, but you have to narrow down your choices somehow! (Of course, a good website != good service either though...)
- Tony Ruscoe
And why do so many companies not list their prices online? We found that quite annoying too...
- Tony Ruscoe
For getting a Limo I pretty much called every single one in the yellow pages asking for prices. Then I called the one back that was the nicest on the phone and asked them to beat the best price. It worked out very nicely.
- Tim Costantino
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