Comments by Bruce Lewis

If Google used some non-Apple library in Picasa that included x86-specific code, then they can't make a universal binary until that library gets ported to the PowerPC. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_binary

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Unfortunately the only Mac I have ready access to is PowerPC. I really want to see if Picasa on the Mac supports picasa: URLs for loading buttons, if the web uploader API works, and if the pages I created that work with Picasa on Windows and Linux also work on a Mac. Can someone please take a few minutes and try it? http://ourdoings.com/

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My app: http://ourdoings.com/

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I appreciate the compliment. I know there's plenty more I could do to make OurDoings easier for the people who put stuff on it.

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Thanks! I feel befriended and fed.

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Hi Paul. Both your probability and Jeff's are way too low. More likely, something like 99% of the time if an English speaker "told you they had two children, and one of them is a girl," the intended meaning is that exactly one of them is a girl. To precisely answer this question you need to determine the percent of people geeky enough to say "one of them is a girl" without necessarily meaning exactly one of them is a girl. Your analysis of choosing algorithms, while correct, is likely in the noise. Additionally, if the person is that geeky, then "I have two children" might not mean they have exactly two children. They might have three or more.

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As an alternative, vote up (er, Like) my suggestion: http://friendfeed.com/e/c5a09856-762d-43ad-9298-b32080b4190a...

Then you, I, or anyone passionate about getting her/his own site easily integrable with FriendFeed can set up a UI to do it from our end.

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Click on the "Account" link (upper right) and look for the section "Email settings". It's the checkbox labeled "Send me my friendfeed every..." with a daily/weekly option.

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Check out FriendFeed's "best of day" or "best of week" feature. Or just have it email you a daily or weekly summary.

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My 2009 resolution is to sell better.

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What I did a few days ago was to create a friendfeed account for my family email list, and set it up to get weekly email summaries. The first summary hasn't arrived yet, or I'd tell you how it's going.

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Some years ago I made a New Years resolution to email my extended family weekly with updates on my nuclear family's doings. Life was so busy I couldn't keep up. I hope you're more successful. I found success since then by implementing http://ourdoings.com/ and encourage anyone who wants to chronicle their doings to try it, regardless of who the audience is.

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I kept MIT manageable by (1) majoring in math and (2) settling for Bs. They keep cramming more material into engineering programs without taking anything out. Math was better in that regard. A lot of MIT students even managed to do extracurriculars without having to drop out.

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Audience-powered editing is a great concept. I don't have an implementation of audience-powered editing for words, but for pictures I have things set up on OurDoings so that by default you let your audience pick which ones are "featured" on your home page and in monthly summaries, and which get buried behind a "more photos" link. There's also an option (off by default) to let your audience rotate photos for you. I've thought about setting up a system where the audience can crop a photo, but requiring approval for the change to go in. That kind of system presents the same sort of challenges your punctuation/grammar system would.

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Selective neglect: My closet is a mess. So is my basement. I spend time with my wife and kids.

Efficiency: I keep my priority list in front of me so I'm always coding the most important things. I use a Lisp dialect so that I can make effective use of short coding sessions. A lot of my progress in the past few years has been during 35-minute train rides.

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