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Hate to say it, but RMS's "everything should be free" world is gonna come crashing down as donations dwindle and programmers (who had day jobs to support their off-hours programming activities) lose their jobs. Gotta pay the bills. I'm saying this as a serious Linux advocate, community participant, etc. - Ninjitsu Jason Huebel

Ninjitsu, "RMS's world" has been around and growing momentum since before most of us were born. Some little economic depression isn't going to ruin the logic of free software (in many ways it strengthens it). Also, you completely misunderstand what the movement is all about. Anyway, do you want to make a bet about your "crashing down" prediction? - ⓞnor

So far, the commenters on my site _don't_ want Twitter and FriendFeed to go mainstream. Do you want to keep these technologies to yourself? - Louis Gray

hmmm, this bubbled up so I re-read it. man, that was a great old post - Sarah Perez

By old you mean 9 weeks, right Sarah? :-) - Louis Gray

guessing it's not through an official relationship w/ sfgate as their own search is powered by yahoo. - James Miao

google is sure getting clutter and featureitis - i dont want all these gimmicks i just want a good efficient search. Not getting it anymore. - Joelle Nebbe

Probably there are more conditions: 1) the query is navigational (e.g.: [youtube]); 2) the query is popular; 3) there are many query refinements (e.g.: [youtube u2]) - Ionut

It'd be great to have this, because then I can see what people like about me and my thoughts, which will help me avoid things that show off the lamer side of me. - Chris Charabaruk

Mattie, I think Chris means without having to scroll through your whole feed. A link that would display only the posts that received "Likes". Maybe ffholic does this? - Laura Norvig

Laura: Does ffholic do this? I've not played with it (yet). - Chris Charabaruk

Agreed. - Kevin Fox

Bruce, I think that'd be overkill. - Carlo Zottmann

@Carlo It only sounds like overkill. I doubt it would be much to design and implement on FF's side of things. - Chris Charabaruk

awww, how cute!! - Sarah Perez

"In Book VI of The Annals, Tacitus describes how runaway mortgage lending, combined with government meddling with interest rates and loan terms resulted in a credit crunch and an eventual collapse in real estate prices. All of this happened in A.D. 32 during the reign of the Roman Emperor Tiberius. " - Michael Nielsen

Darn. We make widgets! - techPR

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Post by Jesse Stay: http://www.friendfeed.com/jess... (Great interview!) - Louis Gray

Actually, it was interesting to see how they approached it. They know they won't get everything right at first, so they are gathering feedback and possibly changing it. Interesting perspective. - Rob Diana

The fact she agreed to the interview I think is great. Very transparent about how the process works, and what benefit this brings to someone who is a household name without a perfect reputation. - Louis Gray

This is what I get when I click on it: javascript:void((function(){var%20e=document.createElement('script');e.setAttribute('type','text/javascript');e.setAttribute('src','http://friendfeed.com/share/bo...)) and I get no drop-down window. - Marysia

I wanted to see this when it came out... but it didn't stay in the theaters very long. Please report back with whether it was worth renting. - Michael Leggett

apparently it is pants. was absolutely panned by the critics over here. plus i'm still smarting from HCs contribution to the star wars debacle... - Alex Gawley

@Alex, even if HC was the most gifted actor to walk the earth (which he isn't, for the record), nothing could have saved the giant turd that was Episodes 1, 2 and 3. - Ninjitsu Jason Huebel

"How did the citizenship rumor get started? Ironically, it began when the Obama campaign tried to debunk some other conspiracies. After Obama locked up the nomination in early June, low-level talk radio and blog chatter peddled rumors that Obama's real middle name was Muhammad, that his father was not really Barack Obama, and that he was not really born in Hawaii. The campaign released a facsimile of Obama's certificate of live birth. Requested from the state in 2007, the certificate reported that Obama was, indeed, born in Honolulu at 7:24 p.m. on Aug. 4, 1961. The certificate was a bullet that didn't put down the horse." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet

Ha! The sheeple that think Obama was born in America are probably the same ones that think Bush had nothing to do with 9/11, the US landed on the moon, and the government isn't hiding extraterrestrials. - Gabe

I'm at a loss to tell the difference between young earth creationists and "truthers" and the loony Obama conspiracy folks. I guess there has to be room for excessively gullible people in a society. - Jeff Jones

"As for social disruption, Hanauer gave a quick summary of what he meant: —If everyone thinks it’s a great idea, it probably sucks. —If people understand it, you’re too late. —If people don’t like it and don’t understand it, it probably still sucks. So entrepreneurship is a dangerous field, he said. “The difference between being an idiot and being a genius is very, very thin.”" - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet

I found it on Friendfeed. - Jason Wehmhoener

Amazon was the first real real e-commerce business? Really? I get the feeling he doesn't understand why his own product succeeded. Amazon integrated user generated content and community into product recommendations. That's what made them different. There were many large bookstores on the net before Amazon. - todd

again?! - Private Sanjeev

Pickles taste good. - Amit Patel

The advantage of a pickle is that it is preserved. That way it can be eaten well after the harvest. - Gabe

"You can now initiate payments via twitter. For example, tweeting "p @ev $1 because twitter is fun" would send $1 from your Tipjoy account to @ev." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet

@Gregory I couldn't agree more - Ivan Kirigin

Gregory is right on the money. - Sean McBride

Shouldn't that be WTFF? - John Craft

Instead of Like it could be "FTW" and then there could be an "WTF" button too. - Laura Norvig

How about LOL - ROFL - WTF - NSFW - DNL - BBQ - FTW? j/k - AJ Batac (ninJA)

"Watching her take the pistol from her belt, unbutton her jeans and slip into bed I somehow couldn’t quite equate the woman in my arms with the bodies I had seen in the local morgue, their heads shattered by gunshots at close range, murders she confessed to having committed. High on a combination of the heady tropical climate, local rum, grade A cocaine and in the arms of nubile 22-year-old, fantasy and reality became blurred. It felt like I was living in a Quentin Tarantino movie." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet

"“When I killed the first person, I was afraid, I was scared. I killed the first person just to see if I could. But there is an obligation to kill. If you don’t, they kill you. That’s why the first was very hard, because the person I killed was kneeling down begging, crying and saying, ‘Don’t kill me. I have children.’ That’s why it was difficult and sad. But if you don’t kill that person, someone else from the AUC will kill you. After the killing, you keep trembling. You can’t eat or talk to anyone. I was at home, but I kept imagining the person begging not to be killed. I shut myself inside, but with time I forgot everything. The superiors always say, ‘Don’t worry, that was just the first time. When you kill the second one, it will all be OK.’ But you keep trembling. “The second time is only a bit easier, but as they say here, ‘If you can kill one, you can kill many more.’" - bob

You've got to admit, there's really no profession sexier than assassin! - Gabe

"Facebook's 120 million users are being targeted by a virus dubbed "Koobface" that uses the social network's messaging system to infect PCs, then tries to gather sensitive information such as credit card numbers." -Jim Finkle, Reuters - DeWitt Clinton via Bookmarklet

This has been going around for a while. Scary indeed. This raises a whole host of issues about abusing the power of "trust" that people develop inside monocultures. In this case, both the Facebook and Windows monocultures, but it would apply equally elsewhere as well. The very conditions make us feel safe (as users, as developers) within closed systems are also vectors for increased risk. - DeWitt Clinton