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Leif K-Brooks

@LeifKB

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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
12 years
Why do mobile browsers add an ugly 300ms delay to click events? If a polyfill can fix it, surely it isn't necessary.
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
12 years
This is old news now, but I never tweeted it before: Omegle's architecture doesn't suck anymore. #Redis for all state and messaging.
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
12 years
For some reason, Facebook really doesn't like it if you use uppercase in a domain name. Weird.
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Leif K-Brooks
13 years
Added a common interest matching feature on Omegle.
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
17 years
Wishing a non-sucky free object database existed.
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Leif K-Brooks
13 years
Omegle's traffic dip as the east coast hits 2012: http://t.co/8InEeNfd
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Leif K-Brooks
13 years
Ok, I love my users, but if I read another Omegle log where Watson is amazed to discover that Sherlock is still alive, I'm going to die.
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Leif K-Brooks
13 years
Idea: When programming, write down every detail you learn about libraries, OS, customer needs, etc. Knowledge is more valuable than code.
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Leif K-Brooks
13 years
Hacked together a mobile Web version of Omegle. It's live now. We'll see how this goes...
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Leif K-Brooks
15 years
I tried programming in Java, but I had to stop to avoid becoming criminally insane. Omegle BlackBerry app will have to wait. :-/
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Leif K-Brooks
13 years
Seeing a significant uptick in Omegle's traffic after adding spy mode, and most of the feedback is positive. Woo!
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Leif K-Brooks
12 years
... But why does a Mini DisplayPort -> dual link DVI adapter need USB, in this day and age? It should use Thunderbolt.
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
16 years
Decided to give this Twitter thing an actual try. LKBM is using it, apparently, so it must not be totally useless.
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Leif K-Brooks
13 years
Golems ( http://t.co/8XalveqK) are fascinating. I can't help but imagine them as ancient people trying to describe computers.
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Leif K-Brooks
13 years
#RTBecauseImEgotistical @HausHeck Omegle "spy mode" is the most important technological advancement of the century thus far
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Leif K-Brooks
14 years
Holy shit, Omegle just hit 20,000 online users for the first time!
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
15 years
Just procrastinated on homework by doing other homework. :-/
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
13 years
Dear @Adobe : FIX YOUR FUCKING SOFTWARE! http://t.co/Y0XFaLf
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
13 years
Finally brought Omegle's online counter back. Over 20,000 strangers online right now!
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
13 years
I don't think Jimmy Wales thought this through. http://t.co/x1LdImxD
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Leif K-Brooks
12 years
Got a 27" 2650x1440 Korean IPS display. It's as sweet as the Internet says it is. http://t.co/GD7QfvRw
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Leif K-Brooks
14 years
It's hilarious that "high calorie" food is marketing-bad, but "high energy" food is marketing-good.
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
16 years
I'm *finally* able to drive my dad's stick-shift, as in I don't stall out. Now I just have to worry about trivial details like not crashing!
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Leif K-Brooks
13 years
Fucking seriously, Adobe? http://t.co/Kh7ZVkA It's unbelievable that this still hasn't been fixed.
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
13 years
Got a big Amazon box. Cat is afraid of it. #CatFail
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
13 years
Google's getting way too overzealous with its search corrections. :/ http://t.co/mnaBWBt2
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Leif K-Brooks
14 years
Personally, I'm still holding out for 2020-20-20.
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Leif K-Brooks
12 years
http://t.co/j82vD2kO @Comcast support guy, you're an idiot. Comcast's player has issues with two MONITORS. You have two COMPUTERS.
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
14 years
Found a quiz from a Python course left in the classroom. Jesus Christ, they are teaching things that are completely false.
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
16 years
Finally up! That took way too long.
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
16 years
Computer randomly broke. Reinstalled OS X, now it's working again. Lame waste of an afternoon.
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
13 years
@Solidplasma If you have a lot of computers, they compete for your affection.
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
16 years
AP Computer Science AB exam tomorrow. PANIC PANIC PANIC.
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
16 years
It's ~86F. In April. In Vermont. Fuckin' Al Gore!
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Leif K-Brooks
14 years
Experimenting with using Flash sockets on Omegle instead of COMET in supporting browsers. Seems to be working well, and more efficiently.
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
15 years
Kid in my calc class (the professor was explaining why 0.999...=1): "What about the fraction 2/3? Doesn't that stop at 7?" People suck.
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
14 years
If you see someone playing the vuvuzela on Omegle Video, that is quite possibly me.
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Leif K-Brooks
15 years
"font size 12. Save as assign1.txt" Ok, I'll make sure to use the right font size in my PLAIN TEXT FILE. ... This is a CS course. :(
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
15 years
My laptop is all but dead. Hopefully I can hold out until the next generation of MBP comes out.
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
16 years
SAT tomorrow. PANIC PANIC PANIC.
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
16 years
Trying to charge my RAZR by plugging it into my MacBook Pro = hardware failure. Dunno why.
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
15 years
http://www.trueknowledge.com/ is what Wolfram Alpha should've been.
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
13 years
It's interesting watching ChatRoulette's UI evolve. Andrey (and team) iterates fast.
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
13 years
@keysle They produce awesome things, but no one cares because everyone else is producing awesome things too?
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Leif K-Brooks
13 years
@Yuffster Try saying you know node.js. It implies you know JS, but has nicer connotations.
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Leif K-Brooks
16 years
There's a little bit of snow on the ground. First time this year, I believe.
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Leif K-Brooks
13 years
Pressed Cmd+Q in Adium. Dialog asked me to confirm because I had unread messages. Didn't see it. Ended up having to confirm 5 dialogs.
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
16 years
I need to learn handwriting (so I can write at least a quarter as fast as I can type) quickly, before the SAT/AP in May. Ugh.
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Leif K-Brooks
13 years
@Solidplasma Yeah, if two OSes both boot but act weird, it's got to be hardware. I was thinking maybe your bootloader was just broken.
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
14 years
Gmail is playing music whenever I load it. WTF?
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Leif K-Brooks
13 years
@Solidplasma How far does it get in the boot?
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Leif K-Brooks
12 years
@Comcast Of course, once that was explained, he stopped replying. This works fine with @Netflix 's player, which also uses Silverlight.
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Leif K-Brooks
14 years
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
15 years
My mom, telling me not to get an H1N1 vaccine: "The best revenge is a good immune system!"
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
15 years
First person to explain why, in Erlang, "Foo == 1 or Bar == 2" is a syntax error but "(Foo == 1) or (Bar == 2)" is ok wins my undying love.
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
13 years
I'm amused by @AlbaandOmegle 's name after seeing it in a a news article ( http://t.co/AAFUdOO).
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
13 years
@Yuffster Asking "Who the hell is Ron Paul?" is the first step toward accepting Ron Paul into your heart, so I'd be happy about that.
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
16 years
I have plenty of money in my PayPal account, so why can't I buy something for $5 until I 'verify' my account? It's my money. Let me use it!
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
14 years
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
13 years
@MichaelKarpeles Not cool enough. I want a bust of you on Shapeways, and it should randomly play MP3s of you talking . Am I creepy? #drunk
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
14 years
So Google randomly broke Recaptcha, so now Omegle is half-broken too. THANKS GUYS.
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Leif K-Brooks
13 years
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Leif K-Brooks
13 years
@keysle I'm not sure yet. I'd like to write a seriously-modern forum system (forums need more love!), but I probably won't follow through.
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
13 years
@keysle I'd guess they probably store scores for every n-gram, but expire them quickly if the activity is under a certain threshold.
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
15 years
My bank's new online banking system limits passwords to 8 characters. WTF? Glad I was already planning to switch banks.
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Leif K-Brooks
13 years
Church of Scientology ads on Hulu are creepy. ;_;
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Leif K-Brooks
13 years
Google, you're not Facebook. Stop trying to be Facebook, and get back to being Google.
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Leif K-Brooks
13 years
@Yuffster To be fair, I don't think cats are supposed to like hugs (which is kind of sad).
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Leif K-Brooks
13 years
@SenJeffMerkley I hope you will join @RonWyden in opposing Protect IP and SOPA. I'm your constituent, and I own an online small business.
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
14 years
"It's kind of like how CSS is structure, and HTML is just the formatting." Why is everyone at my college utterly incompetent?
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
13 years
HTML 5 image recoloring: http://t.co/8m5vSD6f
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Leif K-Brooks
13 years
Steve Jobs /and/ CmdrTaco? :/ I don't even recognize the tech industry anymore. ;_;
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Leif K-Brooks
13 years
http://t.co/JNgHr1Jo This Chinese Omegle ripoff is making me lol. "Oh, radar was struck by lightning may be damaged!"
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
14 years
The more time I spend on the Internet, the more I realize that no one on the Internet has any idea what they're talking about.
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Leif K-Brooks
14 years
Why can't there be good software?
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
13 years
Don't use gevent's Timeout class with redis-py. It breaks things. Breaks them horribly.
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
14 years
Currently advertising HP Alliance voting on Omegle. You should vote! http://hpaFTW.com #hpaftw
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Leif K-Brooks
15 years
Walked to the bank, then remembered it's a holiday. D'oh.
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Leif K-Brooks
14 years
Playing with Perl 6. Seems to have some neat features.
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Leif K-Brooks
12 years
@aryamanfasciati It didn't need a lot of users to be useful. 1440 users/day = 1 minute avg wait. It hit 100k/day a few days after launch.
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
13 years
I really want a time machine. No, not so I can kill Hitler; I just want to be able to deploy code at off-peak hours without staying up late.
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
15 years
Having a full water bottle makes me feel like I ought to be drinking water, so it becomes empty very quickly. I'm bad at water bottles.
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
15 years
Apparently, the latest meme is to say "sta" on Omegle. Not quite sure if it means anything. Crazy kids.
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
15 years
Someone just threatened to "report [my] site to Internet Explorer". I'm pretty scared.
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
14 years
Fuck Scribd. #fuckscribd
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
15 years
Fuck. I seem to be developing a Minesweeper addiction.
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
14 years
Things Leif Thinks Are Overrated, #381728 : Minecraft.
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
14 years
Oh wow, that was the sneakiest bug ever.
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
13 years
Every time I see the new bar on Google search results ( http://t.co/WSBZUss), I just want to pat Google on the head. "Yes! It's a SEARCH!"
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
13 years
@keysle If I understand you right, the point of a hash algorithm is that you can't do that, except by brute force. But
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
15 years
Pretty sure I'm dying of swine flu. (Or, you know, I have the regular flu. But that'd be boring.)
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
15 years
90F is too damn hot. Too hot, in fact, for me to write a second sentence. Oh wait.
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
15 years
Campus is under attack by seagulls. Trying to find their weak point.
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
13 years
@lkbm When I searched for your destination in a fresh Maps tab, then requested directions from your starting location, it worked. Screwy.
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
13 years
@Yuffster You should poop on the bed. #MySolutionToEveryProblem
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
13 years
@NielsSimenon That's the user count on an individual server. The displayed number is a total across all servers.
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
14 years
Fuck you too, Google. #Goog411
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
13 years
@Yuffster How many MooTools/Node.JS projects are there in existence?
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@LeifKB
Leif K-Brooks
15 years
...and, facepalm. http://tinyurl.com/prkcfd
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