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“Is anybody reading this? I've only gotten one like and no commentsin the past six days. Feeling a little burned out on FriendFeed now. Also,my blog and GoodReads aren't updating.”

August 20 at 11:25 am - Link

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we are here. - Robert Scoble

I saw this. - Morton Fox

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I read lots of your stuff Mitch - just don't always comment. - Tad - just Tad

I see you there! Also go refresh your feed manually in FF for your blog and GR. Edit the service in your settings and click on the "Refresh feed" - Haggis (Sean)

I've been a bit of a fair-weather friendfeeder - neither commenting, liking or sharing - the honeymoon's over I fear - Noah Carter

You blog feed is valid, so I'm not sure why it's not updating. But we see you. :-) - Chris Baskind

I am here. Be not discouraged. :D - Nate Pilling via twhirl

I see you too! :) I'm not subscribed though. But, I can easily fix that. - Yolanda

I think everyone is starting to feel burned out, I've noticed that comments and likes are saved for only the a-listers these days :( - Jennifer Van Grove

This brings up a good point. Does commenting on other people's posts help bring in comments to what you are doing? - Nate Pilling via twhirl

I try and comment and like where I can, added you as a friend just in case you need a hug! - Joe Dawson

@Nate, not in my experience. - asiriusgeek

If you refresh GoodReads it should start updating again. - Aram Zucker-Scharff via twhirl

I see you, Mitch. - Cyndy

....is there anybody ---out ----there... - Kim

is there anyone home. +1 Kim! - Yolanda

"Here." - Mark Rodriguez

♫ see me / feel me / touch me / heal me ♫ :-D - Karim

@Mitch, I posted something similar here: http://friendfeed.com/e/b2f287... How much time do you need to spend commenting on everyone else's feeds to have them find what your contributing interesting? Are comments and likes like currency? - Adam Helweh

ping - Christian Anderson

Refresh doesn't seem to work. Adam, I don't like to use the word "currency" wrt to social media -- but I do think commenting and liking other people's posts will get you attention in return. People are more likely to recognize your name when it floats by in the big FriendFeed crowd. - Mitch Wagner

If you are not very active in Commenting and Like'ing and your feed is not above average in quality and quantity, it's quite possible you will fade into the noise. Like Mitch says, if you are active, people will start to recognize your name and want to see what you're posting. - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)

You know what bugs me most? I see these "inactive" (but A+ List) FriendFeeders who have extreme activity on their account -- BUT THEY DON'T EVEN CARE! They don't check, they don't log in, nada. They signed up to FF to claim their name and added a few services, and people subscribe to them and comment. EVERY DAY. Grr. Sorry. I had to get it out. And I can totally relate, Mitch. - Tamar Weinberg

Tamar: I hear ya - I had to do a little "A-List pruning" myself... (http://friendfeed.com/e/cfe50e...) - Steve Isaacs

I agree, Tamar. Some even start the convo and just randomly walk off...never to be seen again. That's not discussion... - Rahsheen(isSoAwesome)

Hello from another Mitch. I just subscribed to you today because you popped up in my "Best of" tab. Apologies if you commented/liked things and I didn't notice. Some days there are 500+ likes and 200+ comments on my stuff, and I'm swamped. 400 new followers that I haven't had time to visit. Who knows what life is like for A-list people like Robert Scoble, Veronica Belmont, etc...? I'm amazed that Robert has the energy to interact as much as he does! - Mitchell Tsai

I'm there, er here... - Jeff P. Henderson

hardly anyone's been liking or commenting on my stuff for a while either - Nathan Rein

Akiva Moskovitz posted a message on Twitter

“There are some surprises you do not want to ever receive at work. Ever. Such as: 'Your next project will have to be written in VB.' Crying.”

August 18 at 9:00 am - Link

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There's no crying in programming! - Yolanda

Sigh. I feelt good when you heard that :) - Yuvi

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At least you still get paid regardless. - Sparky

What version of VB? And is there a "why"? - Tad - just Tad

Oh yes, if it's anything less than v8, then the sadness is justified. - Yuvi

And is this at the same place? If so, then there is more reason to feel happy! - Yuvi

ouch man. - Alan Le

oh no!!! my condolences! - Lindsay Donaghe

Yuvi, I knew you'd like it. Tad, I'm assuming the latest and grea... well, the latest. The 'why' is that I'm going to be adding code to some base classes that are all written in VB because someone here is a sadist. - Akiva Moskovitz

Outsource it and take the next three months off. :D - Hao Chen

Also, +1 Yolanda - Akiva Moskovitz

Sigh. I wonder what all the anti-VB sentiments is about - VB7+ is a language as real as real could get, and VB9 actually has some unique features, y'know.. - Yuvi

Yuvi - It's still too verbose. ;) (I use VB every day and even like it; but I'd rather use C#. It just feels better.) - [self setNick:@"willia4"]

Yuvi, it's just not my language. I barely know it (I can decipher the code but I've never had to write anything in it). I don't think VB is a 'baby language' just because it has the word 'basic' in it by any means; it's just not the tool I would ever choose for any job ever. - Akiva Moskovitz

@James - I donno, I find C# too verbose (semicolons, braces (yes, I omit braces after func calls with no args in VB), casts (yes, I program with Option Strict off)) - Yuvi

@Yuvi - VB is too wordy. I used to be a VB programmer but I like my brackets now. Plus it's super easy to flip back and forth between javascript and C# syntax now... one less translation my brain has to deal with. - Lindsay Donaghe

@Lindsay - the JS/C# flip is a good reason tho. But since I flip between VB and Python.... ;) - Yuvi

You know I was told "Your next project will be in *VB 6*". Yes VB6.0 I consider you to be lucky ;) - Sudar

Sudar, my heart goes out to you. If they had told me it was going to be VB 6, I would've said my that my two-weeks notice will be written in English. - Akiva Moskovitz

As someone who was once asked to *make some minor modifications* to a VB6 'app' with 112 forms (named form1, form2, form3...) with half a billion controls on them (named textbox1, textbox2, commandbutton1...), functions simulated with copy+paste, irregular indenting, comments used only to comment out code (a copy of which lives somewhere else), a backend Access DB with 14 tables and 51 *data environmens* and an unreasonably large number of *data reports*, I can feel the VB6 pain. - Yuvi

Programmers are a weird beast. If you don't like what you are being asked to do that much then find another job. Short of that buck up and do it - it's why they pay you. Lord knows I do a lot of crummy things I don't like with tools I hate, but I'm paid so I consider it a net gain. <puts on flame suit /> - Sparky

<flame person='sparky' level='irrational' /> - Yuvi

Yuvi - it would be like a ditch digger complaining because they have to dig ditches. Or a doctor complaining because he had to look at a patient he thought was ugly, or smelled bad. I understand that if someone asks you to use a crappy technology it sucks, but then leave and go get another job if you really care about it. So long as you work for a company you are that companies bitch - end of story, they can tell you what to do, when to do it, how to do it, and with what tools to use. - Sparky

(and someday when I'm rich and own my own company I'll tell people how to do their job just like people tell me how to do my job today) - Sparky

*lol* do you get additional compensation for the pain? ;) - Nicole Simon

Guess what, I told the same thing. But the notice period here is two months not two weeks :( - Sudar

Sparky, you're flat-out wrong here. Asking me to write VB code is like asking a translator who only knows English and French to start translating Italian. It is not my job to code in languages I don't know. It IS, however, my job to point out to management that trying to make me do so would incur great risk and negatively affect project deadlines which is exactly what I'm doing. I would expect you'd want smart developers working for you rather than unproductive drones always on the verge of quitting. - Akiva Moskovitz

Akiva - pre .NET I would agree with you, but these days knowing the .NET framework inside and out is 80% of the work. Picking a language is a trivial difference - heck you could use tools to translate the VB into C# and then back into VB when you are done if you don't mind the worlds ugliest code. I'm willing to bet you could learn enough VB.NET to get by in less than a day given your expertise with the framework. - Sparky

There's no crying in Basic! - Mark Trapp

Sparky, spoken like a true non-programmer. - Akiva Moskovitz

I want to meet the person who, in a day, can learn an entirely new syntax and semantic structure for any language in a manner that lets them complete a project for which people are paying that person money. Because that person is Programming Jesus, or more topically, Programming Phelps. - Mark Trapp

+1 Akiva - Lindsay Donaghe

Akiva - I got out of programming for a reason ;) - Sparky

I guess I shouldn't point out that these things don't happen in non-MS shops ;) - Jason Carreira

Jason - what do you mean that these don't happen in non-MS shops? I've heard of plenty of instances where a Java developer was asked to work on a C++ project or something similar... - Sparky

I've seen it happen, too, outside of MS-shops. 'Hey, I know you're writing Ruby scripts for us but can you look at these old Perl scripts the last guy wrote? Oh, and, after that, can you see what's up with the Javascript on our home page? Something's not right...' - Akiva Moskovitz

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Debian Turns 15 Years Old

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xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe

August 14 at 9:19 am - via Bookmarklet - Link

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I think I dated this guy. - Nine (9)

I think I married that guy. - Meredith Farkas

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I think I am that guy - Josh Haley

I dumped this guy. Mostly bc I was in the room while he was watching that chick ;) - WarMaiden

You date lots of winners, WarMaiden. - RAPatton

*snicker* I know it. Now I just dont date at all, makes it much easier. - WarMaiden

ya know warmaiden, different time, different circumstances, I would have loved to had the chance to disappoint you :P - Grizzled Librarian

Grizzled Librarian FTW! - Meredith Farkas

strange - have a bunch of Linux hardcore geeks around, and can't say they have _any_ issues in private life, I would say rather opposite :) probably comic has been drawn by secret Apple fanboy :D - silpol

@Grizzled - aw :) Maybe in another life/temporal dimension! - WarMaiden

I know better than to be that guy. (Documentation is a surefire turn-off because it takes too long.) - Julian

LOL!!!! - JMS

Oldie but goodie :) - Yuvi

Awesome - Nicholas Kreidberg

Didn't somebody actually code a mouse jiggler tool like this? - Harvey Simmons

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xkcd - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe

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awww...little bit true :( - Anna Haro

xkcd rarely disappoints, another good one! - Nicholas Kreidberg

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Good thing the angels sang when I met my guy. And I felt the earth move under my feet. - JMS

But did you feel teh sky tumblin' down, tumblin down? - WarMaiden

I did! :-) - JMS

+WarMaiden - Anna Haro

ROFL - Michael W. May (Joffi)

I heard the angelic choir and the earth moved under my feet and I moved more than 1000 miles across the country to be with her and she broke up with me. THEN, a few years later I found the right person. Angelic choir and earth moving not needed - it was just obvious. - Tad - just Tad

Been there,the other person did that... - Kamath

Maybe that's what it was. I don't know. I was in love. - JMS

++Tad...that's a wonderfully sweet story. :) - Anna Haro

pretty funny - anna

@anna--I still get confused every time I see your name. :/ - Anna Haro

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Chandler was ahead of times when they released it first. But it was buggy and development was slow. Hopefully, things have improved now. But, in this era of cloud computing and with apps like Zimbra, chandler's attempt appears to be redundant. - Krishnan Hussein Subraman

I haven't tried Zimbra but maybe I should give it a try. - Hassan Ibraheem

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Anatomy of the Linux kernel

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The Linux® kernel is the core of a large and complex operating system, and while it's huge, it is well organized in terms of subsystems and layers. In this article, you explore the general structure of the Linux kernel and get to know its major subsystems and core interfaces. Where possible, you get links to other IBM articles to help you dig deeper. - cybertux(amin) via Bookmarklet

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Comics and Editorial Cartoons: Pearls Before Swine on Yahoo! News

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Feedly is a Firefox Version of Google Reader

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with the recent addition of the river view it becomes much more useful to the more intense reader of feeds- including the ability to comment articles directly into friendfeed or sending it out as a tweet, blah blah blah - Nathan Eckenrode

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CocoaTrek is a version of the classic Star Trek text game given a facelift for Mac OS X.

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BSOD in Olympic opening ceremony :)

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Is your gmail down? Try going here instead.

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It won't let you use GTalk, but the HTML-only version of Gmail is still working fine for most. - Kevin Fox

That workaround didn't fully work here -- it lets me read mails though. (Performing actions or composing something started throwing actions...) - Philipp Lenssen

Hey, this is better than nothing. After a little testing, it also works with Google for Domains. Just add "?ui=html" to the end of your normal url. Thanks for the tip! - Cyrus Lendvay

Gmail's back for me now. - Alex Mendes da Costa

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Linux Users: Why So Serious?

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Why Ubuntu just might succeed

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Lightweight GNOME alternative emerges

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IBM To Linux Desktop Developers: 'Stop Copying Windows'

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Slow Motion Lightning Video is Mindblowing, Will Sell a Thousand Slo-Mo Cameras

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From Gizmodo: "Well, this is just about the most amazing thing I've ever seen. It's a lightning bolt that's shooting down from the sky, shot in slow motion. I'm not sure exactly how fast this camera is, but it's got to be shooting at a speed faster than the Casio EX-F1 can shoot at, at least at a resolution this high." [There's a video, you non click-throughers, you.] - Mark Trapp via Bookmarklet

that is just awesome! - Brian Daniel Eisenberg

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Very cool. Lightning actually jumps from ground to sky; I think you can even see that in the big strike at about 5 seconds. - Neil Saunders

another feed to subscribe to... http://www.todaysbigthing.com - Tim Hoeck

Lightning often looks like tree branch - Igor Poltavskiy

Tree branches often look lime Lightning :) - Yuvi

i often look lime lightning - Nick

mmmm...limes. - Trent Olson

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Web Application Integration With OAuth - Regular Geek

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Here's... possible248! posted a message on identi.ca

“Yeah! I came up with an idea for a cool website, and found some open-source code that does most of the work for me! Yay!”

August 7 at 2:36 pm - Link

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and so like, no competitive advantage or barriers to entry? - Jon Price

I'm not really competing, so competitive advantage does not concern me. There are some small barriers to entry for somebody attempting to clone my idea, as I'll be doing some customization of the open-source code. - Here's... possible248!

Roger Kondrat posted an entry on TechWinter

Profy integrates FriendFeed in a way no one has seen - check them out

August 7 at 2:12 pm - Link

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This is not unseen. I've seen it several times already now. - Tanath

how easy is this to do with wordpress? - Zee at WeDoCreative

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@Tanath can you send a couple links as I will add them to my site as an update for sure... Sorry for the inaccuracy. I didn't 'research' it I just look at loads of sites and had not seen it. - Roger Kondrat

@Zee according to Svetlana it took a developer a month but I imagine it wasn't done full time so yeah its not easy but possibly not that hard either. Hopefully she will drop by and leave a comment. That being said she did mention in a comment on Profy that they would look at releasing the code in some form. I hope so personally :) - Roger Kondrat

Cheers Roger. Let's hope so - Zee at WeDoCreative

@Tanath: I would also like to see a link or two as I have researched myself before making the developers start coding - it would have made a perfect sense to use available solutions. And we only started coding after we made sure nothing like that existed already. - Svetlana Gladkova

@Zee @Roger It's not that easy to do and it tool almost full-time month. But it was not for FriendFeed only - it also included deep integration of various avatar services for comments so probably making the FF-only integration could take much less time. But we are going to finalize this as a plugin to make it available to other bloggers, I only hope it won't take too long. - Svetlana Gladkova

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Coding Horror: Quantity Always Trumps Quality

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