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by paul 18y ago
I finally got around to adding that. You can now prefill the configuration and set a "next" url so that FriendFeed can be easily integrated into a configuration flow on your own site. For example, http://friendfeed.com/settings/services/bl
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by paul 18y ago
Nor is Blogger or most other blog services. You can simply add them as "Blog" though. The "featured" services are generally things other than blogs where it's friendlier to ask for their username instead of url (such as YouTube), or that re
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by paul 18y ago
Yes, timing is always an issue. It can actually be a problem in both directions though -- many startups are actually too early for the market/tech. Marc Andreessen has some good stuff to say about this, but I can't find it at the moment. Ge
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by paul 18y ago
I just realized, even your "correct" version, although more precise, is still underspecified and can't be answered. :) Can you spot the problem?
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by paul 18y ago
I'll take that bet. Write the code, but be careful to implement my second algorithm exactly.
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by paul 18y ago
So if I ask all of my friends who have two children to "tell me the gender of one of their children", then you think that after they answer the question, there is a 2/3 chance they have both a boy and a girl? (but before answering the quest
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by paul 18y ago
Nope. Announcing the gender of one child does not magically alter the gender of the other child. It's like a print statement in code. If you don't believe me, try writing some code to simulate this. I will bet you an arbitrary amount of mon
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by paul 18y ago
Yes, the question must be very carefully worded (which is kind of my point, if I have one). In order to get the "unintuitive" outcome, there must be some element of selection (much like the Monty Hall problem has). In your formulation of th
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by paul 18y ago
Also see http://code.google.com/p/simpleupdateprotocol/
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by paul 18y ago
Actually, http://sup.appjet.net was part of an earlier, unfinished project. http://frittr.appjet.net/ is complete and standalone. I just changed sup.appjet.net to redirect to frittr.appjet.net since there's really nothing at sup.appjet.
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by paul 18y ago
Also see http://venturebeat.com/2008/12/18/friendfeed-says-sup-to-a-n...
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FriendFeed Blog: Simple Update Protocol: Update(blog.friendfeed.com)
26 points by paul 18y ago|2 comments
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by paul 18y ago
Why are you focusing on acquisitions? There are profitable companies that remain private, like 37signals (plus ones you never hear about because there's no point in talking about how much money you make) and also IPO, which is rare but pote
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by paul 18y ago
Power switches. There were 4 machines per layer, 80 per rack. BTW, here's a video (taken by someone else): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z19-6tvGSq4
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by paul 18y ago
Unfortunately I didn't get a digital camera until 2002, so I don't have many pictures from early Google. Here's a closeup of a nic on one of the machines: http://friendfeed.com/e/e7bc8124-ee7f-4949-91d2-773e410613d3... I took this picture
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by paul 18y ago
For your amusement :)
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Photo of the racks in the original Google datacenter(friendfeed.com)
68 points by paul 18y ago|19 comments
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Benchmark Capital: Open For Business(abovethecrowd.com)
10 points by paul 18y ago|1 comments
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by paul 18y ago
The followup to http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=372699 , which incorrectly claimed that Gmail was open to cross-site attacks.
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Gmail is safe, as long as you avoid falling for phishing scams(googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com)
16 points by paul 18y ago|6 comments
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by paul 18y ago
I was thinking of the snapshot speed, where most of the data hasn't changed. Do you keep a local cache of block checksums or something to avoid having to check the server? How about an option to not examine the data if the file size and mti
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by paul 18y ago
Looks nice. How fast is it? I wonder if you could make this into a simple off-site backup system for databases. It might require some more complex interaction with the db or os to do it right though (since the data is changing while you are
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by paul 18y ago
Also see http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/friendfeed_nails_im_int... http://venturebeat.com/2008/11/07/friendfeed-goes-where-twit... http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/07/friendfeed-over-im-kill... and http://news.cnet.com/8301-17
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by paul 18y ago
Can you trust whatever random IT guy you hire to manage your exchange server?
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by paul 18y ago
It's sad that even recent history gets badly mangled. This article is written as though she completely created the Google logo, when in fact the logo had already existed for some time and she basically just changed the font (and produced a
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Keeping it real with the FriendFeed Real-time API(blog.friendfeed.com)
4 points by paul 18y ago|0 comments
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You can now use Backtype to import your News.YC comments on FriendFeed(friendfeed.com)
53 points by paul 18y ago|16 comments
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by paul 18y ago
"Speaking truth to power"? More like, flinging feces at productive people.
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by paul 18y ago
Yahoo, although weaker than Google in search, boasts a more diverse business, with revenues from the likes of Internet access partnerships, fantasy sports, and "branded" ads that appear outside of the search property, says Susquehanna's Wo
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by paul 18y ago
Yes, that's the right question to be asking. There's no reason why anything should be taking 7k per url.

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