Vlado Handziski
Create an account or sign in to get started
Show: Comments - Likes - Both
delicious
Adewale Oshineye bookmarked a page on delicious
August 1 at 2:39 pm - Link
"Smart people generally get very educated, and higher education (in the US at least) teaches only critical thinking. Smart people spend all their formative years getting rewarded for finding problems, for focusing on the negative. They leave school thinking that the way to be useful and show your smarts is to point out why things won’t work, rather than using some of those smart to find a way forward" - Adewale Oshineye
FriendFeed
DeWitt Clinton posted a link
July 31 at 12:22 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
"So here's my first piece of advice: if you care about open source for the cloud, build on services that are designed to be federated rather than centralized. Architecture trumps licensing any time." -Tim O'Reilly. Just one snippet of wisdom included in what may be remembered as one of the most important pieces about the future of the web. Read this post twice. - DeWitt Clinton via Bookmarklet
FriendFeed
RAPatton posted a link
Property: Building the outside in - Telegraph
Property: Building the outside in - Telegraph
July 31 at 9:10 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
"The changeable British weather may stop us from being outside as often as we might like, but it has been a spur to turning our homes into lightfilled spaces that capture a sense of outdoors inside." - RAPatton via Bookmarklet
Very cool approach to modern architecture...I love natural light!! - Susan Beebe
I like this a lot. Our kitchen opens out on to a back deck which extends our living space into the backyard. - Mel "de Silentio" McB
Twitter
Matt Cutts posted a message on Twitter
FriendFeed
Paul Buchheit posted a link
July 27 at 1:16 am - Link
When we looked closely at the dumps, we saw that not only were all the updates on the queue from IMP 50, but they all had one of three sequence numbers (either 8, 40, or 44), and were ordered in the queue as follows: 8, 40, 44, 8, 40, 44, 8, 40, 44, ... Note that by the definition of LATER, 44 is LATER than 40 (44 > 40 and 44 - 40 <= 32), 40 is LATER than 8 (40 > 8 and 40 - 8 <= 32), and 8 is LATER than 44 (8 < 44 and 44 - 8 > 32). Given the presence of three updates from the same IMP with these three sequence numbers, this is what would be expected. Since each update is LATER than one of the others, a cycle is formed which keeps the three updates floating around the network indefinitely. Thus the IMPs spend most of their CPU time and buffer space in processing these updates. - Paul Buchheit
It turns out the real lesson here isn't that you should put error detection on even the most inconsequential protocols, but that you must not allow any one process to take over all the resources on your system. - Gabe
gossip - Peter Dawson
Gabe: Error-detection at every step is not bad either. Hard drives occasionally flip bits. Network errors slip through error-correction algs. When our 1960s IBM mainframe would stop unexpectedly, we'd open up the computer to look for dead insects. It wasn't bad code, just an insect. This carried over into my programming, where I ALWAYS expect bad things at every step. Been hit by lightning twice while on a keyboard. Sh-t happens! We got many awards http://fmsinc.com for extra code-checking. - Mitchell Tsai
"When our 1960s IBM mainframe would stop unexpectedly, we'd open up the computer to look for dead insects. It wasn't bad code, just an insect." yeah thats how bugs' become the phase for s/w flaws :)- - Peter Dawson
People tried to save programming memory & time in the 1960s-70s by not validity-checking (In those days we EQUIVALENCEd memory to reuse it for multiple sets of variables, and programmers used 1-letter variables for compactness), and thus began the endless series of buffer-overflow leaks in unix. Sighh... Like the don't-check-e-mail-source-address issues of TCP/IP routing which allow today's SPAM e-mails, simple decisions can have 40+ yrs of bad consequences. Much worse than the Year 2000 problem. :-( - Mitchell Tsai
Mitchell, you're right. Error detection is important, but that was just the secondary lesson of that story. The primary problem was that it was possible for one process to take over the machine. The bad bits wouldn't have caused as much of a problem if packets kept getting routed as usual. - Gabe
I think you all missed the pun I throw in - "“On Sunday, we saw a large number of servers that were spending almost all of their time gossiping and a disproportionate amount of servers that had failed while gossiping. With a large number of servers gossiping and failing while gossiping, Amazon S3 wasn't able to successfully process many customer " - yeah while every1 keeps "gossipping" when does anything really get done eh ?? :)- - Peter Dawson
Gabe: I'm suffering runaway processes on my new MacBook Pro (usually the Window Server). Used to be sometimes 2-3X day I would have to reboot (with 156% CPU usage and such nonsense - dual-core Intel maybe?). It's much less stable & thrashes more than my 14" iBook (thinking of switching back). The process-takes-over-machine problem is still around today. - Mitchell Tsai
FriendFeed
Ross Miller posted a link
YouTube - The FriendFeed Whiteboard
Play
July 25 at 10:39 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
FriendFeed
Cee Bee posted a link
Esquire to publish "e-ink" cover
July 24 at 2:34 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
The September cover of Esquire is going to be pretty cool. An electronic ink diplay, built on the same technology that E Ink used in the Amazon Kindle, will flash the words "the 21st Century Begins." The logistics of pulling of this feat are a story in globalization: First Esquire had to make a six-figure investment to hire an engineer in China to develop a battery small enough to be inserted in the magazine cover. The batteries and the display case are manufactured and put together in China. They are shipped to Texas and on to Mexico, where the device is inserted by hand into each magazine. The issues will then be shipped via trucks, which will be refrigerated to preserve the batteries, to the magazine's distributor in Glazer, Ky. - Cee Bee via Bookmarklet
omg omg omg omg omgomgomgomgomgomgomgomg DO WANT! - Tad - the Meme Maker
holy chao that's cool!! i remember being all excited about the hologram edition of NatGeo too... wowowowowowowowow. Now we need E-Ink Playboy - Tad - the Meme Maker
that really is cool. i remember reading about e-ink like 10 years ago and seeing some prototype newspapers showing how it would be implemented, but haven't heard much else. i think the fact they could do it for a publication like esquire (for at least for the cover) shows that it may not be too far ahead of us. - Cee Bee
I have to see this in action, and I might even buy it, even though I'm a woman... This could be historic (unless this has already been done in Japan or someplace). - Kamilah Gill
I'm not sure why they couldn't go ahead and store the full magazine in the thing... I don't think these should be too disposable or anything... - Kamilah Gill
Kamilah - it requires electricity to power it... and each e-ink page probably costs 10 times or more as much as regular magazine paper - Tad - the Meme Maker
Tad, I think you're misunderstanding me. Isn't the point of these things to have *one* page, and then flip pages electronically? like the Kindle? - Kamilah Gill
Well, that's the point of the kindle - I think they'd have to have invested in more tech for the interface you're talking about. In it's most basic form it's really just a sheet of paper that you can send electricity through to make "ink" appear. They could do what you're talking about, but then it would have been a lot more expensive. And right now e-ink is only b&w - not nearly as exciting as full colored esquire... but in a few years, yeah - I expect it to be common place. - Tad - the Meme Maker
I really want to get a copy of one of these. - possible248
ironic that Esquire is doing this now, as one of their issues was where I first heard of e-ink. I think was the '02 "Best and Brightest" issue. - Cornelius Toole
Cool! I'm gonna get myself one of these issues just so I can hack out the e-ink panel and experiment. - Dread Pirate PJ via NoiseRiver
that's awesome - definitely a collector's item. - Bruce Williams
Twitter
michael arrington posted a message on Twitter
Twitter
michael arrington posted a message on Twitter
Google Reader
Amund Tveit shared an item on Google Reader
July 12 at 1:54 pm - Link
FriendFeed
Robert Seidman posted a link
Can’t Find a Parking Spot? Check Smartphone - NYTimes.com
July 11 at 8:41 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
"This fall, San Francisco will test 6,000 of its 24,000 metered parking spaces in the nation’s most ambitious trial of a wireless sensor network that will announce which of the spaces are free at any moment." - Robert Seidman via Bookmarklet
what an awesome idea - Marco (aureliusmaximus)
this is great. - Hao Chen
crazy but great - Outsanity
but what about the other 18k? and imo, this is like.. road rage fights waiting to happen lol. thanks for sharing - Mona N.
pls pls pls mr mayor bring this to London. - Zee from WeDoCreative
I think the intent is to limit the fights that already happen over parking spots. Hopefully no pedestrians get run over while people are driving around while looking at their iPhones... - Robert Seidman
Man, this is like a million George Costanzas crying out and suddenly silenced. - Mark Trapp
(starts coding iPhone app that shows free parking spaces AND gives you a coupon for the Red Lobster you just parked in front of) :-) - Karim
LOL Karim, but there are no Red Lobsters in the city of San Francisco. - Robert Seidman
Hey, Robert ... Before I finally manage to turn the computer off tonight (intense threads this week!) ... Just thought I'd remind everyone that Monday's your birthday :) So Happy Birthday in advance old friend! - Charlie Anzman
Robert - so they passed some kind of law in San Francisco that only allows for edible seafood? - Karim
Thanks, Charlie. Karim, not really sure why but there aren't many national chains in the city itself beyond fast food. No Olive Garden, Fridays, Applebees, Chillis, etc. The lone exception I can think of is Chevys. - Robert Seidman
If this smartphone idea comes out the SF's Municipal Transportation Agency & their Department of Parking and Traffic, it will probably be an efficient system. Their intensely organized group has been very quick with getting me my unpaid parking ticket notifications to my doorstep in a timely manner. - Pete Delucchi
For the geeks here on FF, here is some more info on the TSMP protocol from Dust Inc. (provider of the nodes and the low-level networking infrastructure) that makes all this possible: http://tinyurl.com/68to5a - Vlado Handziski
StumbleUpon
Adam Lasnik stumbled upon a site on StumbleUpon
July 11 at 12:11 am - Link
What does an elite school mean? What does it produce? Read this editorial for a sobering, thoughtful, and comprehensive look at elite schools; I guarantee you'll think of them differently afterwards! - Adam Lasnik
FriendFeed
Thomas Brox Røst posted a link
July 11 at 4:36 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
JPL has switched from ADA to C on their spacecraft: "ADA is used largely in military applications, but JPL at any rate has moved away from ADA. Cassini, I believe, would be the last JPL mission that used ADA. And that was largely due to the success of the Mars Pathfinder in the mid-nineties. And as I said, these missions are to a large extent all derived from Mars Pathfinder." - Thomas Brox Røst via Bookmarklet
Blog
July 10 at 7:23 am - Link
Right! Great point about loose coupling. Protocol buffers, or other explicitly modeled binary serialization formats are really only supposed to be used when you control both endpoints. They are most certainly not a replacement for introspectable formats like XML or even JSON, for uncontrolled clients such as are found over the web. And beyond that, protobufs are simply the serialization mechanism, not an RPC framework. Of course we do use them internally for RPC, but that's not all their good for. Serializing data to bigtable is a very common use case for protobufs, for example. - DeWitt Clinton
We haven't really seen a great model for RESTful (http-based) RPC emerge yet. AtomPub is fantastic for doing RESTful interactions with collections and documents, but that's not RPC. In fact, AtomPub breaks down when you start doing RPC, which for lack of a better alternative, people keep trying to do. I eagerly await the day of something like AtomRPC, but that may be socially challenging, as the "atoms" of Atom are the 'feed' and the 'entry', neither of which are appropriate for RPC. - DeWitt Clinton
Of course, the semantics of REST may simply be inappropriate for RPC in the first place... (That's not a dig on REST at all, it is the perfect model for documents and collections, but RPC is not state exchange.) - DeWitt Clinton
I think we should be very careful not to confuse the "portability" (i.e. the API or the interaction pattern that decouples the application code from the protocol stack) with the "interoperability" aspect. RPC is an interaction pattern used to build a distributed service. In almost 90% of the cases it is built on top of the common BSD socket as the application/comm interface. - Vlado Handziski
But just as the defacto standardization on the BSD socket (the API) does not preclude the need to standardize TCP (the protocol) the usage of an higher-level interaction pattern like RPC (portability) is independent from the fact whether one uses a closed binary protocol or not (interoperability). Of course in some cases these two are intertwined but keeping them conceptually separate helps in understanding the influences of the different parts of the puzzle - Vlado Handziski
Blog
July 7 at 11:43 pm - Link
Robert, I just posted this and you Liked it within 9 minutes. It's almost midnight -- get some sleep, my man. :) - Matt Cutts
Robert Scoble does not need sleep. He gains energy from a constant influx of Friendfeed. - Bradley McSpinn
Scoble either uses a Greasemonkey script to 'auto like' or he's omnipresent. You decide. - Eric Schlissel via twhirl
Matt: sleep? Does Google sleep? For those who don't know, Matt Cutts is my favorite Google employee and blogger. - Robert Scoble
Spinn: That almost sounds like Chuck Norris joke. :) - Morton Fox
Now this is the type of stuff I like to read at 1:30 in the morning :) - Devlin Dunsmore via twhirl
Google's documentation claims that Protocol Buffers are 3 to 10 times smaller than comparable XML files and can be parsed 20 to 100 times faster. - Jigar Mehta
FriendFeed
Benjamin Golub posted a link
Official Gmail Blog: Remote sign out and info to help you protect your Gmail account
Show all
July 7 at 2:32 pm - via Bookmarklet - Link
Awesome new security features for Gmail. I can't tell you how many times I'd find a machine in a computer lab with Gmail open and logged in. I'd always log the user out and email them to be let them know it was open...now they can do it on their own. - Benjamin Golub via Bookmarklet
delicious
Adewale Oshineye bookmarked a page on delicious
July 6 at 3:22 pm - Link
Google Reader
Adewale Oshineye shared an item on Google Reader
July 6 at 5:03 pm - Link
"I barely ever read these, and here's why. They only tell me things about the big boys, mostly when money is involved. It hardly matters to me who VCs are investing in, what advertising strategy Facebook is pursuing, or the fact yet another social network for cats has been launched. That's not what I'm in technology for: I want to hear about genuine advance, discovery, code I can read, services I can use, new applications of research. And I want to share with and learn from others in the same ecosphere. Unfortunately, the gatekeepers can have a stifling, negative effect on the industry and community. Our thinking has become dull, and our attitude one of sniping." - Adewale Oshineye
FriendFeed
"Czar" DJ Peterman posted a link
Best Movie Ever?
July 5 at 8:20 am - via Bookmarklet - Link
I don't know if it's the best movie ever but it is severely underappreciated. - Jason Toney
Agreed, Jason. Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman, and Jude Law are all really good in this. - Mark Trapp
agree, definitely underappreciated. - Parth Awasthi
One of my favorite movies. Certainly ranks as one of the most under-appreciated sci-fi movie of all time. - AJ Kohn
Tip: Now you can add FriendFeed to your blog with our new customizable FriendFeed widgets!

Other ways to read this feed:Feed reader