Around 0:29:10, probably the best explanation I've ever seen. It really just couldn't be made easier. And perhaps neither funnier. Explaining program logic: ‘Oh yes, the plus looks just fine. Ah, but the next thing here is a complicated thing, let's look at that. Oh yes, that's pretty fine too, they're both asterisks. Now… Whoops! My pattern variable! It matches against the three! <…> Ayes. X equals 3 and Y equals X…’
- Anton
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‘ No matter what the spoken language may be, you can read hieroglyphs, a picture of a chair or what have you; makes no difference what you call it, right? You don’t need subvocal speech to register the meaning of hieroglyphs. Learning a hieroglyphic language is excellent practice in the lost art of inner silence. “It would be well, today, if children were taught a good many Chinese...
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- Anton
‘ What keeps you from seeing what is in front of you? Words for what is in front of you, which are not what is there. As Korzybski pointed out: whatever a chair may be, it is not a “chair.” That is, it is not the label “chair.” ’
- Anton
The subvocal speech habit is hard to get rid off. Our thoughts are subvocal speech, and we, unfortunately, think too much (http://www.guardian.co.uk/science...). ¶ I saw people ‘talking to themselves’ while reading Chinese—why? Why do you need to vocalize, when you can go directly from picture to meaning?
- Anton
Quote with little or no relation to general idea of the article. Badly spelled, pointless attempt to explain why have I shared it—usually two or three words such as ‘cool’ or ‘epic’ or ‘lol’.
- Anton
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VOTE: Twitter is well supported on FriendFeed (with replying to and pushing posts to it, etc.) but name one other microblogging service you would like supported in a similar way?
Richard, I'm utterly frustrated I can't complete the Gravity buying process.. :(
- embee
Embee? How come? Worked fine for me, first try and it worked :-)
- Richard A.
I think a lot of people are after identi.ca support.
- Kol Tregaskes
Supporting the Open Micro Blogging spec (despite its flaws) would be a better approach. They'd only have to do it once and all the other microblogs (bloggy, qaiku, jaiku, rejaw, status.net, etc) would be supported
- Adewale Oshineye
Actually I agree. Plurk would be nice to have here :-)
- Richard A.
Google Reader shared items. Yeah, it's a wild deam, but why not dream? And it may appeal to Google as a way to promote its comment feature.
- John E. Bredehoft
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FF is an aggregator of feed. i like all the input, not the output. ok for the reply to (twitter) but the link at FF is useless.
- Felter Roberto
name one? that be email, Blogger, Facebook, Ping.fm, Plurk ...http://helloTxt.com are good guys .. so is http://Identi.ca, http://youAre.com .. check out also http://flokio.com /////////////// now, mouseover box might be customizeable too ..// and, as said before, users should have all feeds listed at the top, or selectable 5, and also, groups should have these all service feeds listed ....
- pb:
Identica, especialy federated instals like twitarmy. Please please
- Christian Burns
I too would like to see proper ping.fm support -by proper I mean that when I have ping post to mutiple services, somehow FF should "know" that I've done this, and not post a zillion items (esp back out to twitter) as they come back in from the various services. Make sense?
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
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I'd also like to see outbound push to Facebook. That would be very cool in my book :)
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
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Identi.ca - it should be easy since it's using the same API with Twitter
- LouCypher
Yes, identi.ca. And please support groups as well and not just hashtags.
- Lennart Olsen
No way would I invest engineering resources in another specific service at this point. Some general functionality to push updates out via webhooks or push to any Twitter compatible API, sure. Another specific service? Nope.
- Ken Sheppardson
Ken, what if the service were as big as Facebook (see guruvan's suggestion). Something that big might justify some expenditure of resources. And what if other, smaller companies paid FriendFeed to implement outbound links to their services?
- John E. Bredehoft
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Identi.ca please! I'd like the same options for Identi.ca in my account settings that we have for Twitter.
- Paul Wade
It would be very cool if laconica based sites were supported, and could be registered with FF easily so there was a minimum of work (after the first one) for FriendFeed staff to support additional sites. Maybe they need to meet a few non-technical criteria, and be manually approved. This would go a long way (IMO) in popularizing Open Source microblogging, and lessen the hold that Twitter currently has. Would be really cool if I could set up to post out to whatever (microblogs) that didn't post in, plus FB
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
Identi.ca. Ping.fm (see Emsquared above) would be nice, too, but is probably not as important as Identi.ca.
- dgw
‘ She is so child-like. You can tell she is so enthusiastic about music, she is an inspiration! Every single person should listen to Bjork's music and her views on things. ’ —lirvana1
- Anton
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http://www.google.com/reader... I'm glad you asked this right now. I just realized that several people are following me and I didn't even know it. I hope it hasn't been this way for long!
- Michael Fidler
Just noticed that Reader now allows grouping of people you follow! Wondering: is Reader going to become a competitor (instead of complement) to FriendFeed?
- Chris Rogers
@rogersdc / Chris, Google Reader is obviously been trying to become more social, but I'd really like to see FF come out with a bookmarklet that makes sub'ing RSS feeds to FF easier/faster. Right now it's a manual process involving either a new Group/Room or Imaginary Friend. Should be 2 clicks tops.. Also see: http://friendfeed.com/alexsch...
- Alex Schleber
Here is mine : http://www.google.fr/reader.... I share (mainly on French sites and blogs) about libraries, literature and arts, human and social sciences, photography :-)
- Nadine Pestourie
LOL here we go again :o) http://www.google.com/reader... I share a lot of blogs and funny stuff that I read, it's neat how I can share and it gets posted all over by friendfeed.
- David Gross
http://www.google.com/reader... - I share items about productivity, gaming, movies, and misc. stuff from the Google "cool" via Recommendations feed. Thanks Kol for starting this thread because I've been trying to cut down on the number of feeds I subscribe to and instead just follow interesting people.
- Dusty Edenfield
Svartling: good point about adding people to groups. I noticed I couldn't comment on items that were shared by some users.
- Dusty Edenfield
I've (we) written a lot of more good tips on how to use Google Reader in Google Reader comments. It's too bad we don't have permalinks in Greader so we can share our notes and comments. Otherwise I could have posted a link here. Here are some on friendfeed: http://friendfeed.com/svartli...
- Svartling
Thanks for posting this Kol. Never paid any attention to my shared items folder before but just did!
- Martha
The conversation is really blowing up (in a good way) on Reader. The most important reminder currently is to set up groups and allow commenting. That is NOT on by default!
- Vince DeGeorge
Thank you all. I think I have subscribed you all now (except those feed in languages I don't understand) Here is mine again: http://www.google.com/reader...
- Svartling
I've started to follow a few of the people here but there's quite a few, so will take me a while :) - My currently fairly bare feed is: http://www.google.com/reader...
- Roy Herrod
There are a few entries here you might like to read to help you. This one: http://ff.im/6CkQj explains about adding people to groups to allow them to comment and why some don't stay in groups. In this one: http://ff.im/6F9pQ I suggest a way to track a large number of shared items using PostRank. This: http://ff.im/6Ci0P and this: http://ff.im/6AM35 has a few tips on using GReader as a lifestreaming service. And this: http://ff.im/6EMT1 gives a few examples of GReader bundles.
- Kol Tregaskes
Those of you above whom I already follow on FF/Twitter/etc., I've subscribed to your feeds. As for the rest of you: if you follow me on GReader, I'll follow you back.
- Dennis Jernberg
I'm sharing some pages now, including a few of my past blog entries.
- Dennis Jernberg
Because I have issues with data duplication, I have merged this list with the google reader shares room feeds. You can view the Google spreadsheet at http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc...
- Rob Diana
There are a bunch of shared feeds that I could not resolve the Google username for because they did not have a named profile set up.
- Rob Diana
tristanhambling, your link didn't work. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
It would be really handy to have all these shared feeds as an opml file. Has anyone added everyone? Care to export an opml of the shared feeds?
- Paul Jacobson
I'm http://www.google.com/reader... Not really comfortable with the custom URL though since it can only be your gmail username. Makes it really easy for spamspiders I think.
- TobiasVerhoog.com
Tobias, possibly but not had any problems myself though Gmail has the best spam filters around so I probably not noticed. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
http://www.google.com/reader... mostly webdev, photography news, music, world news which i get interested. plus half of them may be article in Japanese. sorry. :-p
- browneyes
Andy, Richmond Park and the others around there are the appeal really. Good place to go photographing and cycling while being very close to London I think.
- Kol Tregaskes
Teddington (across the river from Kingston Upon Thames, is where I think I'd like to live. Just 'cos it's cheaper than everywhere else around it. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
I've checked rental prices in the area several times over the last 2 years and Teddington is definitely cheaper. I'm not buying, no way I can afford that. ;-) All a pip-dream anyway, need a steady job and I've not had that for a while. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
anyone use google reader on windows mobile professional? I cant seem to get it to work and when I try to go to the mobile site it takes me to the regular site.
- David Gross
Nope, sorry can't help you there, David.
- Kol Tregaskes
Greetings from the floors, And later moved to go Through your profile The site until this my email address below (Doreen_des@yahoo.com) Doreen you with love & hugssssss (doreen_des@yahoo.com)
- lizzybab4life
+Anton. Also there are some i've downloaded from font-squirrel that I've yet to investigate thoroughly that I like a lot. And I went through a period of being obsessed with the Neutraface family from House Industries. It was a decent deal considering how many weights I got - maybe 30? - but I also felt I wanted to use the hell out of it after paying almost $300 for the whole family - the only way it really came.
- Auntie Buttinsky Botts
There is a castle here in Pacifica. Although, it's not as large as most castles... It's totally just some guy who wanted his house to be a castle, so he built it. Weird... I prefer REAL castles.
- Lisa L. Seifert | FHG™
They're called McMansions now, aren't they?
- Akiva
Hearst Castle is badass, but it's just a tourist destination now. I'm talking about castles where people actually live! And small cities build up around them!
- mike fabio
Maybe there's no suitable nowhere left, to build a cool fortress in the middle of.
- Anton
That one in Arkansas is trying to do that, and the Biltmore was built as an almost castle, but is more of an estate with a fiefdom
- RAPatton
Recently appeared in extension gallery. Seems like the best tool for working with diagrams so far… Try in Wave: https://wave.google.com/wave...
- Anton
‘ #yEd can be used to quickly and effectively generate high-quality drawings of diagrams. Create your diagrams manually or import your external data for analysis and auto-magically arrange even large data sets by just pressing a button. ’ ‘ yEd is freely available and runs on all major platforms: #Windows, #Unix / #Linux, and #Mac OS. ’
- Anton
‘ Back in 1998, Hunter S. Thompson’s most famous piece of Gonzo journalism, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, was brought to the silver screen, with Johnny Depp playing a lead role. From this point forward, Depp and Thompson became fast friends. (Indeed, Depp would end up paying for Thompson’s elaborate funeral, which involved shooting the writer’s ashes out of a cannon to the tune of Norman Greenbaum’s Spirit in the Sky and Bob Dylan’s Mr. Tambourine Man.) Above we feature Johnny reading out loud some letters he received from Hunter. ’
- Anton
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‘ In lack of a fancier solution here's how I solved a problem of knowing who was logged in when an error occurred. I'm building a Intranet like system for a close group of people and if an error occurs I get an email that reminds me to add more tests. So I fix the bugs and upgrade the server. But I often want to know what poor sucker was logged in at the time the exception happened so that I can email them and say something like "Hi! I noticed your stumbled across a bug. My bad. Just wanted to let you know I've fixed that now". So to do this I installed a silly little piece of middleware… ’ (found via http://twitter.com/djangos...)
- Anton
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