Bret Taylor

"Protovis composes custom views of data with simple marks such as bars and dots. Unlike low-level graphics libraries that quickly become tedious for visualization, Protovis defines marks through dynamic properties that encode data, allowing inheritance, scales and layouts to simplify construction." - Bret Taylor

Thank you. I've been looking for an easy way to generate treemaps on the fly. - Kevin Fox

esta bueno no? - ignacio thorres miranda

bret de #yay maya başlamış :D - alperyz

#yay :) - 917

Bret what does "yay" mean? :) - N.Onur ATAHAN

That was cute! - Anika

Happy New Year and congratz on the new baby! - Mary B: #TeamMonique

That sounds so California, makes me homesick! :) - Susan Beebe

EPIC! - Kevin Fox

10 years ago I was also in LA for the Rose Bowl trip. I was in the hotel with the rest of the Stanford band and they were giving us crap about being too noisy... then at five am we had to stop partying to get on the bus to go to the parade start point :) - Shannon Jiménez

Ironically, apparently Toby was able to perform a chop block by himself. Go figure. - Ken Sheppardson

Christopher's comment is on point. Cal also had a terrible bowl showing, and the Pac 10 has been miserable. To next year and more competitive games! - Louis Gray

Is there any way to use Web Sockets on Google App Engine (Python)? - Michael R. Bernstein

1000% easier, huh! - Emre M.

Dead programs don't let you make comments - Ozgur Demir

program and training with #Dwayne_Johnson in six pays per week http://dwaynejohnson-therock.b... - AHMED2020

:)) - Anne Bouey

I felt the same way until my wife made her Grandmother's recipe from Lorraine, which involved... lots of bacon. It's amazing what bacon can do for almost any meal. - Joel Webber

So which ranks ... The FB culinary team or Google's ?? :) - Charlie Anzman

Awesome work, Bret. Thanks for the writeup! - DeWitt Clinton

"Some good things will follow from this. There will be fewer smart Alecs who think they know it all pouring into companies. There has been a bear market in management bullshit since the credit crunch began, but so far this has been on the demand side—managers have been too intent on staying in work to talk much jargon. In 2010 the decline of the MBA will cut off the supply of bullshit at source. Pretentious ideas about business will be in retreat." - Bret Taylor

"Customers have had to do a lot of leg work to compare the costs of a flexible solution based on cloud computing to a more traditional static model... To that end, today we released a pair of white papers and an Amazon EC2 Cost Comparison Calculator spreadsheet as part of our brand new AWS Economics Center." - Bret Taylor

I wish they had a 'personal edition' of s3. The cost of a TB on S3 is ridiculous - Phill Price

Texas didn't deserve that win - they were lucky. - Jesse Stay

No TDs and three interceptions — doesn't sound like a Heisman-worthy performance exactly. - Jim Norris

My guess would be McCoy gets it if Texas wins, but if Texas loses, I would say Gerhart will actually be the frontrunner. Really happy about the result of the SEC championship :) - Bret Taylor

I like the picture with Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins as well as the picture of Christian Bale with the ax and business cards. - April Buchheit

@Steve - thanks. I think I know what you're talking about, though I've never seen that movie. - Andrew C (✔)

Iran! - Marshall Kirkpatrick

@bret, what is the number of friendfeed users in total? - elodeon

I could do that. - Jim Norris

Louis, really? He's been a key component (along with Luck this year and of course, Harbaugh) in one of the biggest turnarounds of an NCAA football team I can recall and he produces yards like nobody's business (got a school high record 2 weeks ago). National name or not, a player that has done that much for a team should definitely be considered seriously. - Chieze Okoye