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Re: louisgray.com: Allen Stern, Web 2.0 Tech Blogging Pioneer, Passes Away

James Fuller — Sat, 06 Apr 2013 23:51:34 -0000

I'm deeply saddened by this. He was a genuinely great guy, with a great sense of humor and willingness to discuss things with youths such as myself and Holden.

I wish I had interacted with him much more.

Re: Video Of The Week: The Jack Dorsey Interview

James Fuller — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 06:36:17 -0000

I mean the person who was offering the $1000 bounty for bugs in his code, and wrote his one C functions because he didn't trust the C standard library.

The way he's talking, it doesn't seem to be in reference to himself.

Re: Video Of The Week: The Jack Dorsey Interview

James Fuller — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 06:31:48 -0000

Who is Jack talking about at the beginning of the video? The beginning of the story is cut off.

Re: louisgray.com: The Future of Local Storage Is Practically None At All

James Fuller — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 02:53:53 -0000

Congrats, Louis.

I still remain unconvinced, and will hold onto data archives for years to come. I still buy paper, because I like the feel, though the new Kindle is interesting. I buy DVD's to rip, DVD for size/quality purposes, though I could do just as well with digital downloads that would take longer and the quality isn't necessarily better, as well they have DRM. I can stream, but not without affecting the network speed considerably.

Someday, but for me. I like ownership, not a contract to possess for now. What happens if that service shuts down. Even if they allow you to keep that data, you have to store it somewhere, without local storage, what do you do?

P.S. Glad you at least mentioned us without ubiquitous high-speed internet.

Re: I’m A Fraud: Why You Should Trust Me

James Fuller — Fri, 18 May 2012 19:53:02 -0000

I'm doing alright. Not great, but I'm getting by, and trying to prepare for a rather large change, of moving across the United States, in the imminent future.

I'm only 22, so I don't know if I can give you any advice that will change your past, but if you'd like to talk you can contact me at jimminyfuller @ gmail . com

Re: louisgray.com: Web Data Caps Not Prepared for Pervasive Connectedness

James Fuller — Fri, 18 May 2012 19:34:03 -0000

I am filled with envy, Louis. I upgraded the other day to the only game in town, to what was supposed to be 6Mb, now they're telling me it's 1.5Mb max for where I live, and they're still only providing 768Kbps. And it's physically impossible for me to get near that 250GB/month usage level unless I'm getting the full 768 in the down direction.

I also find Comcasts offering to be a little underwhelming compared to the basic math I did a few months ago for how I feel pricing should be tiered[1]. The $10 for 50GB, I would like to see it be closer to 100GB for that rate, but it is what it is, and they're likely to make a killing on it.

It's so sad at how broken our telecom and media infrastructure is in the country with the government helping to support mono- and duo-polies.

[1]:http://theinnovationist.com...

Re: PSA: Time To Step Out From Under Text-Shadow

James Fuller — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 08:58:32 -0000

Thanks for the link, Josh. Now to get people to implement it if they're going to use text-shadow.

Re: PSA: Time To Step Out From Under Text-Shadow

James Fuller — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 08:57:33 -0000

It's true, my main issue is with highlighting, which could be a browser implementation issue. But even with your examples, it's nice, but adds so little. I don't mind the little flourishes on buttons, but it's not necessary and luckily it isn't content. It simply shouldn't be used on paragraphs of text.

Re: Two Fedoras Giveaway: Dungeon Defenders [Second Chance]

James Fuller — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:45:59 -0000

Alright. Will do.

Re: Two Fedoras Giveaway: Dungeon Defenders [Second Chance]

James Fuller — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:38:59 -0000

Yep, I've checked several times.

Re: Two Fedoras Giveaway: Dungeon Defenders [Second Chance]

James Fuller — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 18:07:47 -0000

Ah, ok, yeah I wasn't following him at the time, so he couldn't actually DM me.

Re: Two Fedoras Giveaway: Dungeon Defenders [Second Chance]

James Fuller — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:56:38 -0000

Geoff,

I'm Jimminy, and never received my code, but I had also already purchased it so if you want you can give it to Mathew.

Re: Two Fedoras Giveaway: Dungeon Defenders [Second Chance]

James Fuller — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:52:30 -0000

Man, wish I would have known, already pre-ordered it as well. (Im)Patiently staring at Steam.

Re: Minecraft server plagued with the Experience Orb Herpes? Here’s a fix.

James Fuller — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 15:21:08 -0000

I had to deal with this, when a server malfunctioned and just spawned a shitload of orbs on the ground around me. So horribly annoying that I haven't bothered to play any Minecraft since.

Re: Something's Happening Here

James Fuller — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 18:25:35 -0000

Thanks Fred. Not just for the welcoming, but also for sharing your insights and fostering such an intelligent and inclusive community here on AVC.

Re: Something's Happening Here

James Fuller — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 23:46:41 -0000

Hi Shana,

Thanks for the welcome. It feels weird as I've lurked over the community for at least a year, and maybe commented elsewhere on AVC, once or twice. I can't slight you for not knowing; after all, it's my own short-coming of being somewhat more passive in my interaction with this and most other sites.

Well thanks again for the welcome, Shana.

Re: Something's Happening Here

James Fuller — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 22:04:26 -0000

Hi Fred, below I've raised my hand as a Stumbleupon user.

I just thought about something that you might be interested in. One of the more frequent sites I've stumbled recently has been SoundCloud. This is one of the sites that get more interaction from me. You might want to ask them about their experience with Stumbleupon referrals.

Generally, video(e.g. TED*, Youtube, and Academic Earth*) and audio(e.g. SoundCloud and 8tracks*) convert into user interaction and less bounciness in my personal usage.

*Discovered these sites because of Stumbleupon.

P.S. I can only see about 9 lines of text, when initially commenting, and can't view what I'm typing past that. Using Firefox 6 on Vista SP2.

Re: Something's Happening Here

James Fuller — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 21:31:20 -0000

Hi Mike,

I'm one of the souls who Stumbles around finding new things. I've been using it since '06, liked ~12k pages and seen about 50k.

I'm sure some of it is coming from the URL shortener, but I've never seen one of those links in the wild, nor used it.

As for conversion, anecdotal evidence from my personal usage. It's true I don't convert on 99% of the sites I've seen. Only about 1% of the sites I've seen I've acted on site(e.g. comment, subscriptions, site-specific actions). Maybe 2-3% I've traversed further into the site. And maybe 2-3% get shared to at least one other network. I like about 24% of the sites I see on SU.

My reason for stumbling is often just because it's a quick laugh or as a quick informational search, that I bounce several times and compile them into a list to check later.

P.S. I didn't come through SU, but Disqus via Fred's Friendfeed.

Re: Productivity Killer: Serial productivity killer Markus Persson strikes again

James Fuller — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:22:05 -0000

That's what I get for spending 2 days watching him. It was pretty impressive to watch him lay everything out and create the artwork only when needed.

I'm pretty sure it's a proven fact that if you get something wrong, you'll get more people willing to correct you, than you would if you had gotten it right up-front. At least on the internet. ;P

Re: Productivity Killer: Serial productivity killer Markus Persson strikes again

James Fuller — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 19:10:54 -0000

Just a clarification. He didn't use any libraries, besides the standard Java provisions no custom libraries, and created all the assets and engine from scratch. Which makes it even more impressive.

Re: Music, To Own or Not to Own

James Fuller — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 12:22:29 -0000

Let me start by mentioning the image and it saying 'Free,' unless someone else were to bring it up. Yes, I was using the free version at the point in time I took the screencap; I've since upgraded and that list is still grayed out.

I'm pretty firmly set in my ways of owning the tracks, which leaves most
web services up to the task of introducing me to new stuff, or as an
on-demand track provider.

I haven't quite figured out if Spotify Premium is worth it for me, yet. I don't have any mobile devices, so the caching of tracks and mobile support is lost on me. The only real feature that's getting paid for is exclusivity. A service with a browser-based client, such as rdio, would probably be a better deal for me.

I've also previously written about my multiple losses to DRM based caches and why I'm not all that interested in the cloud, particularly music in the cloud. http://theinnovationist.com...

Re: Plan D for Pages Are Social - PAS -

James Fuller — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 01:14:56 -0000

James Fuller should write more, and stop using Louis Gray as his main inspiration to write. That's boring.

Re: Plan D for Pages Are Social - PAS -

James Fuller — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 23:08:03 -0000

Was that to me, or to Holden, as an addendum to my comment? I'm assuming the latter. ;)

Re: Plan D for Pages Are Social - PAS -

James Fuller — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 22:57:45 -0000

Lies. Not all of your readers are Louis Gray's followers. I do follow him, but I follow you as well. :P

Re: Final Thoughts On Empire Avenue - PAS -

James Fuller — Tue, 31 May 2011 02:24:50 -0000

You obviously know my stance. I visited for the first time in 2 weeks, via Facebook, earlier tonight. Still boring.

I also completely agree about the spam aspect. It's horrible, that the system is so prone to being gamed, by spamming various services. I hope it dies quickly, or comes up with another way to do it.