Chris Wetherell

Twitter

“Inbox Zero is a nice goal and all but only the bravest and coolest attempt Account Balance Zero...right?”

17 hours ago - Link

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Hey Chris.. inbox zero.. easy with personal email. But work?? Sheesh. i never have less than 50! - Jez Arnold

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engineering tradeoffs

December 22 at 3:53 am - community.livejournal.com - Link

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Best quote: 'I can realize the thread will be fruitless in that it was read as "should we implement feature A, B, or both?" And the answer to that: both, always'. This reminds me of a quote attributed to Ken Olsen of DEC (paraphrased): 'The best thing we ever did was listen to our customers. The worst thing we did was to do what they asked us to'. - Joel Webber

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“Thinking of Con. Amendments as per the phrase "make amends" - as if the new law is asking for expiation for a previous passage or rider.”

December 20 at 7:43 pm - Link

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“Cinema pro tip: "Advise and Consent" on iTunes. A zinger-filled period pol. drama about a Cabinet confirmation. (1962)”

December 20 at 12:21 am - Link

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“Things that don't mix well: outdoor carpentry, winter weather.”

December 16 at 7:02 pm - Link

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Removing objects in images using seam carving. [An OCaml example]

December 16 at 2:34 pm - eigenclass.org - Link

A fast OCaml seam carver based on the resizing algorithm presented by Avidan and Shamir in their popular video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... - Chris Wetherell

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Cut-Rate Diplomas: How doubts about the government's own "Dr. Laura" exposed a résumé fraud scandal.

December 16 at 12:20 pm - reason.com - Link

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Bizarre. In 2003, the deputy CIO at Homeland Security resigned after it was learned she'd obtained her advanced degrees through a diploma mill operated by three employees of an organization called “The Faith in the Order of Nature Fellowship Church” run out of a refurbished Motel 6 in Wyoming. - Chris Wetherell

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Lake Nyos - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

December 16 at 11:47 am - en.wikipedia.org - Link

Wow. Recently learned about a 1986 disaster in which a lake in Africa emitted a carbon-dioxide cloud killing 1,700 people and 3,500 livestock. Natural horrors are nightmare stuff. - Chris Wetherell

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Backpfeifengesicht - Google Search

December 13 at 5:42 pm - google.com - Link

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Seems like Backpfeifengesicht is a German compound word for a 'face that cries out to be slapped' or 'face that cries out for a fist in it'. - Chris Wetherell

There is a similar phrase in use in Romanian. "cere pumni" translates literally to "asks for fists". - Tudor Bosman

Twitter

“There's ways for popular content apps to help provide revenue for investigative journalism but, um, they need to *hurry*. :)”

December 12 at 6:35 pm - Link

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Genetic Programming: Evolution of Mona Lisa « Roger Alsing Weblog

December 12 at 2:38 pm - rogeralsing.com - Link

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Fun with polygons. - Chris Wetherell

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When you have the star, you can't get hurt.

December 12 at 10:44 am - google.com - Link

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Call it, friendo.

December 10 at 4:14 pm - google.com - Link

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tea hee. - jenna

nice! - James Todd

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“I miss hearing music in my head.”

December 10 at 3:51 pm - Link

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Pegs, an experiment in page layout and interaction.

December 8 at 7:23 pm - massless.org - Link

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Comatose Heiress Sunny von Bülow Dies [And Now She's Dead]

December 6 at 5:38 pm - gawker.com - Link

Good night, Sunny. (Also, "Reversal of Fortune" is my favorite N-entendre'd title. Triple? Quadruple?) - Chris Wetherell

Twitter

“@ weblivz good idea about the url shortening in santas! just added that.”

December 6 at 4:18 pm - Link

Twitter

“Love new Reader. 1) Clean. (Consistent styles!) 2) Collapsing = win. 3) Bundles I'd try more - would love samples w/o having to subscribe.”

December 5 at 12:50 pm - Link

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“oh hai I'm lolchris - trying not to lose anything else in the near future since irreplaceable things really are irreplaceable.”

December 4 at 7:05 pm - Link

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“Since I was asked - using jQuery not Google Doctype since I'm too lazy to fire up svn (mainly on git now) and jQuery is excellent, too.”

December 3 at 7:28 pm - Link

Funny to hear "using Google Doctype" in this context :) - Dion Almaer

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I know! It's weird being on the outside. And I still occasionally say "closure" instead of Doctype and "caribou" instead of Gmail and "reactor" instead of Reader. - Chris Wetherell

Haha yeah :) The longer I am out (which isn't long) it seems to get harder. When first out you know everything that isn't public.... but as time goes by things get released and suddenly you don't remember what is out and what isn't! - Dion Almaer

What always catches me off-guard is when someone mentions something that sounds ludicrous to them like "an orbital satellite being used as a data center" and I say "you mean PuppyBreath" and they look at me and I go "um, crap." - Chris Wetherell

Hahahahahahahah thank god no one can read this conversation so PuppyBreath is safe. - Dion Almaer

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Santas! (A "shibboleth" service.)

December 2 at 6:28 pm - massless.org - Link

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“Ceiling-to-floor prototypes of innovations++ Partly b/c they help 1) make vocab for new ideas 2) sight-smell bits that'll chase users away.”

November 25 at 2:10 pm - Link

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“The Fisher King: "I just wish there were some way I could pay the fine and go home." What happened to LaGravenese that he wrote that line?”

November 24 at 1:02 pm - Link

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Possibly true trivia about U.S. Cabinet positions.

November 22 at 5:06 am - massless.org - Link

Henry C. Wallace and Henry A. Wallace both served as Secretaries of Agriculture and they were actually a father and son Cabinet legacy. Henry A. admired a spiritualist who designed the set for Stravinsky's 'The Rite of Spring' and to whom Wallace claimed he awaited 'the breaking of the New Day' when the people of 'Northern Shambhalla' would create an era of peace and plenty. He then became Vice-President under FDR. Later, editor of The New Republic. Then he created a new breed of chicken. - Chris Wetherell

Twitter

“I actually hate my financial advisor. It's a depth of ill will I'm uncomfortable having.”

November 20 at 3:53 pm - Link

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Almost time to say goodbye to Feeds in the All-New Yahoo! Mail

November 19 at 6:48 pm - ymailblog.com - Link

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uggh....moving in the wrong direction - Adam Kazwell

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I love Reader and my feeds, but the truth is that a lot of people have no clue what an RSS feed is or what the value is in aggregating them via these tools. If they have limited engineering resources, I'd rather have them focus on making the app faster/more reliable or explore solutions to problems that affect a larger user base. That said, no one likes to lose a feature. - Andrew Bonventre

Wow that's disappointing. Still, integrating feed-reading and email is going to be really tough. It'll be extremely rewarding, but I don' think anyone's come close to getting it right yet. - Kevin Fox

Agre with Kevin, it would be great to integrate email and RSS feeds. - Bindu Reddy

RSS Feeds: Because you don't already get enough email. - Jonathan Terleski

Or because you get too much. Last week I made a filter to forward one of my mailing lists into a private room in FriendFeed because I'd rather read it as a feed and I couldn't be happier. - Kevin Fox

Twitter

“Recumbent rest (a recreant release, really) required after recovering remarkable results of rare research.”

November 16 at 9:41 pm - Link

Twitter

“Purple, mixed-size fonts in HTML email wasn't exactly what I was expecting from a private investigator.”

November 15 at 11:56 am - Link

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Maybe it's a disguise. - Keith Pelczarski

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Halp! Mah bucketz is stolen bah smooth crimnalz. [Dancing.]