Disqus - Latest Comments for cdmoyer

Re: Hacking Prejudice in Silicon Valley

Chris Moyer — Tue, 31 Dec 2013 14:46:39 -0000

I would honestly assume that an old school hacker like Paul Graham is working under the jargon file defintion of hacker:

http://www.catb.org/jargon/...

It's not something that has changed in the past decade: "This term seems to have been first adopted as a badge in the 1960s by the hacker culture surrounding TMRC and the MIT AI Lab"

That said, the archetype of the twenty-something-male-hoodie-wearing-ivy-leaque-educated-brogrammer cum hacker is one that needs to be taken out back and shot.

Re: Feature Friday: Mobile Disqus

Chris Moyer — Fri, 01 Nov 2013 08:45:07 -0000

Not a fan, mainly because it's broken in my newsreader app (newsblur). Clicking the view comments button results in losing the article and loading about:blank. I assume this is because it's in a webview. I wonder if other apps will exhibit this or if the newsblur app is buggy.

Edit. Nope, just clicked and avc link in the twitter app and view discussion link resulted in a blank page. (iOS 7.0.2)

Re: Study: Apps Are For Android, Games For the iPhone

Chris Moyer — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 14:39:12 -0000

How does the android ecosystem work (and iOS) when I get a new phone? I have lots of apps on my phone, but rarely add new ones, because I have a set I've been using for 3 years. Whereas I finish games and download new ones. I don't download a new dropbox or evernote... ever. And when I get a new phone, I just sync from iTunes.

Re: Samdroids

Chris Moyer — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 08:23:40 -0000

Something I don't seen talked about is the growing cost of switching. By that I'm referring to the 100+ apps (and probably $200) on my iPhone. Switching to android involves finding and downloading/buying many and finding replacements for others. And then there's things like Dark Horse comics where I have a paid comic collection and no adroid app yet.

Anyways, I honestly think that commercial is hilarious, but as a developer who has done android and iPhone work, it sort of turns me off Samsung. Seems like a low blow... But I'm sure it's probably effective for them. (and in reality, I probably wouldn't be put off a Samsung device if I was at the store and it appealed to me the most. )

Re: Scripting News: Command-line for browser

Chris Moyer — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 14:12:50 -0000

Or make a bookmarklet called "run some code" with this code: javascript:eval(prompt('code?'))

(Also, as other note with webkit browers or firefox with firebug, the console lets you execute arbitrary code.)

Re: Put Tumblr on Your Site via Javascript

Chris Moyer — Fri, 13 May 2011 09:46:32 -0000

There's a regular-body attribute on the posts, so you should be able to do:

$ul.append('<li>'+title+'<div class="body"></div></li>').find('.body').html(p['regular-body']);

or something similar.

Re: Put Tumblr on Your Site via Javascript

Chris Moyer — Fri, 13 May 2011 09:42:35 -0000

I don't think there is a posting api in the javascript. Their is a /api/post, but that requires the password, so you don't want to use that from client-side code.

Re: Put Tumblr on Your Site via Javascript

Chris Moyer — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 09:53:22 -0000

Yeah, you can just target:

#blog ul li a {
  color: yellow;
  font-family: "Times New Roman",Georgia,Serif;
}

Re: Put Tumblr on Your Site via Javascript

Chris Moyer — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 09:51:18 -0000

You need to either include that in an external file, or inside the script tags, add this just after the opening <script> tag:
//<![CDATA[

and this just before the closing </script> tag:
//]]>

Re: Amazon Kindle Now Lets You Loan Your E-Books (Sorta)

Chris Moyer — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 14:16:39 -0000

I don't have a problem with the implementation. 7 days to accept + 14 days seems reasonable, and there's kindle apps available for most platforms.

My issue is that all the hype I'm seeing seems to be over not much at all. I looked at my account, and one out for 44 books are available to load. Maybe publishers have to opt-in, and this will go up over the next couple months, but so far only the O'Reilly book on my account is loanable. (I have books by HarperCollins, Springer, Signet, Penguin, Roc, Viking, Atria, Simon and Schuster, Aspec and Orbit).

Re: A VC: Where Should Mobile Developers Focus?

Chris Moyer — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 10:25:43 -0000

I wonder what those numbers look like if you include non-phone mobile OS devices. (iPod touch, Galaxy tab, palm PDAs, etc)

Re: Death toll in Russian mine blasts hits 32 - CenturyLink™

Chris Moyer — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:43:58 -0000

Sweet.

Re: Death toll in Russian mine blasts hits 32 - CenturyLink™

Chris Moyer — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 17:27:49 -0000

A comment about "Death toll in Russian mine blasts hits 32"

Re: Chavez rockets to No. 1 on Twitter in Venezuela - CenturyLink™

Chris Moyer — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:41:30 -0000

ABCD

Re: Chavez rockets to No. 1 on Twitter in Venezuela - CenturyLink™

Chris Moyer — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 10:37:24 -0000

A comment!

Re: Barrier-breaking jazz star Lena Horne dies at 92 - CenturyLink™

Chris Moyer — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:42:12 -0000

Barrier-breaking jazz star Lena Horne dies at 92

Re: BP starts spraying chemicals on main oil leak - CenturyLink™

Chris Moyer — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:42:04 -0000

BP starts spraying chemicals on main oil leak

Re: Democrats cheer, Republicans cautious on Kagan - CenturyLink™

Chris Moyer — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 21:32:49 -0000

abc

Re: Scripting News: May the source be with you! :-)

Chris Moyer — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:28:52 -0000

"Makes sense, but isn't the way outliners work."

The thing there, is, I don't ever fell like I'm reading an outline when I'm reading your work. So, while you may generate it in an outlining tool, I feel like I'm reading an article, not an outline.

I do love the discussion here, and how different people are reacting. It struck me enough to throw together a quick greasemonkey script to pre-open all of them for me.

http://gist.github.com/raw/...

Re: Scripting News: People don't read, and what I'm doing about it

Chris Moyer — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 23:07:00 -0000

Honestly, it take a lot for me to open a link in an article. My normal behaviour is to read the article, and then if a link caught my eye, I'll go back after I finish and cmd-click them to open in the background and then read the linked articles.

Now, there are times when I'm in "click mode," where an article is very link heavy, or "wikipedia" style and I'll end up clicking constantly as I go through, and read with my hand on the mouse.

You know. I know this a psychological hang up for me. I don't know how others read, but I think what bugs me is that I feel like I have to click all the plusses and read all the sub-text. They feel like they are part of the content, so I'm missing out if I don't open them all, whereas I mentally classify a link as optional.

Oddly, I just read a piece the other day that had mouseovers with sub-context like comments, and I enjoyed it: http://adamcadre.ac/calenda... (note, the subject matter may not suit everyone, it's about the growth of adult content on the internet). It did take me reading through half of it before I realized that dotted line green text had mouseover content, and solid links where for clicking. Related to my previous paragraph, I actually moused over most of the green text once I discovered that, but didn't click any links.

Re: Scripting News: People don't read, and what I'm doing about it

Chris Moyer — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 22:55:31 -0000

In addition to the much-discussed google reader bit, I'll comment that I find the concept a bit off putting, mainly because I actually like to just read. I find it distracting to be reading, and have to:

a) decide whether I want to read a bit of sub-text
b) move my house from my keyboard (on the page down button) and click the very small +

As a pure usability issue, making the + bigger would help. Or, since it's sub-text on the paragraph, perhaps make the whole area to the right of the article clickable.

I even think the option to let a user have a cookie set and have all subtext expanded by default would be very useful.

Re: Disqus Test Page

Chris Moyer — Thu, 20 May 2010 12:40:36 -0000

asdfdasf

Re: http://touchtheweb.tumblr.com/post/523741405

Chris Moyer — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:37:05 -0000

I think this thing is terrible, it doesn't even run windows!

Re: Face to face, Obama urges GOP to work with Dems

Chris Moyer — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:07:19 -0000

I totally like what I said there.

Re: Face to face, Obama urges GOP to work with Dems

Chris Moyer — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:54:48 -0000

I am a test!