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@nateritter economists call it social capital.

using my supreme powers of logic, I have solved the chicken and egg problem.
only 1 error in my code (so far): I created a chicken and egg problem. this is annoying.
@adora let me know when somebody creates an API to search 12s video, then I'll care.
@docwho76 my biggest concern is the database calls. i could end up filling it with trash even if the code runs.
@deansher exactly the theory behind this endeavour!
@astral with Koreans?
@egradman happy birthday, you bastard!
@jshufelt it's very tasty. so tasty I can tell I'm going to suffer.
the sysadmin day cake says, "SYSADMINS ARE EPIC", but all the sysadmins left before the cake arrived.
spent the last 2 days writing code. haven't run any of it once. very unusual 4 me. if it executes flawlessly, I can claim HW eng awesomeness
@joannejacobs it's Friday, why would you ever leave the pub from the night before?
OH: "War is just people being assholes."
met the guy who wrote the People You May Know feature for Dopplr. went all fan boy on him. he told me the algorithm. soo simple
heading to Moo street party
@gebl both it seems. tho, yes, they should've just warned you off potential robot spammers and let you block them yourself. they dont get it
somebody snitched to my mom about video iChat. do I suggest IM instead? I can't believe I've managed to avoid this conversation for so long.
@madrox but it's not necessary to bash on them. So they didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition, but who does?
@madrox I'm not attributing it to malice, surely. :)
@madrox to quote Paul Graham: "You grow big by being nice, but you can stay big by being mean." where s/being mean/letting your users suffer