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Re: Streamline Workflow with CEOS: Claude Meets EOS

dsifry — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 00:14:10 -0000

This is brilliant, Brad. I am going to try it out! It makes a ton o! sense. And this is also a great way to keep a team of agents all focused on the core goals of driving an agentic business forward. I am going to use this along with metaswarm to see what my agent swarms can frame and build and operate together.

Re: Are You Ok?

dsifry — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 15:16:02 -0000

Sending 🤗 my friend, I know how you feel. After 3.5 years of working on fighting hate online for the ADL during the 2017-2021 period (including Jan 6) I was burnt to a crisp and having PTSD - didn't even want to go to the office to stay in touch. I am so grateful for the time away, and the opportunity it gave me to just wander in liminal space again. It is a luxury so few people get! Just so happy to hear about your health journey, and your revitalization. All the best... - Dave

Re: SXSW PanelPicker®

dsifry — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 19:51:22 -0000

So important and necessary!

Re: SXSW PanelPicker®

dsifry — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 19:50:35 -0000

This sounds so cool! Such a big and ambitious project, really looking forward to this really important work.

Re: Swimming with champion Frederick Bousquet

dsifry — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 20:38:25 -0000

The technical term is called a Flip Turn in the US.

Re: The Perfect Ending to a Epic Swim for Team TI6

dsifry — Tue, 09 Sep 2014 18:49:32 -0000

That's awesome! Congratulations!!!

Re: The Dell Innovators Credit Fund: A $100M Commitment to Entrepreneurs and Startups

dsifry — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 00:52:11 -0000

Congratulations, Ingrid and the entire Dell team!

Re: Huffington Post Hires Andrei Scheinkman to Lead Interactive News Features Team

dsifry — Sun, 29 May 2011 15:18:26 -0000

Congratulations, Andrei! You're a star. Great to see all your success, since the early days at Technorati...

Re: Giving your startup a point of view

dsifry — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 13:37:30 -0000

Yes I understand what it means to have a point of view. What I was wondering was what Joel's company's point of view was.

Re: Giving your startup a point of view

dsifry — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 10:25:59 -0000

So what's your company's point of view? How do you best articulate it for this new company?

Re: Lean Startup for Geeks at Wealthfront: Miško Hevery on the Psychology of Testing

dsifry — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 13:11:14 -0000

Sounds interesting, would love an invite. david AT sifry dot com...

Re: Scripting News: New camera, new eyes

dsifry — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 19:27:50 -0000

Great camera, Dave, and a great choice for a first lens for it. Any of the Canon 50mm lenses are great, and you're right - you do start seeing the world differently. Now you can get the camera out of "Green mode" or "P" mode and into the creative shooting modes like Av (Aperture priority) or Tv (Shutter priority) and really see the difference. Enjoy!

Re: Q: Why No Twitter Board Seat for Kleiner’s John Doerr? A: His Google Board Seat (Plus, Is the Star VC Looking at Spotify and Groupon Next?)

dsifry — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 03:49:02 -0000

4% of Twitter might not be a large enough ownership percentage to justify a board seat...

Re: Why OneRiot Dropped Its Real-Time Search Engine

dsifry — Sat, 20 Nov 2010 01:01:13 -0000

The reality is that it's extremely hard to make money in real-time search - purchase intent just isn't the same as with traditional search engines, and the infrastructure cost of maintaining a working backend is large. Ad networks utilizing real-time capabilities are much more lucrative. Having great relationships with publishers along with a faster way to target relevant ads is a very good combination. Reminds me of a company I know...

Re: Open The Beers And Wait To Be Showered With Job Applications

dsifry — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 13:08:47 -0000

Fantastic idea, guys, great test! Figuring out the 3 steps took me about 20 minutes, mostly because I had to download the latest alpha of Firebug and set up UAControl and the Cookies panel on 4.0b7. Very nicely done - this will certainly stop most applicants who don't understand the basics of the web and HTTP, but not too hard that it made people scratch their heads too much. Congratulations!

BTW, would love to do something together with you and Offbeat Guides: http://www.offbeatguides.com/ - Drop me an email to dave@offbeatguides.com if you're interested - I think we can find a way to work together to give your users a great service together.

I've added in a custom chapter to the travel guide I sent over (It's sent over in the resume portion of the application, heh) that explains a bit about how we might work together too - it's right after the maps.

Either way, thanks for the fun puzzle, and I love your service. Keep up the great work!

Dave
dave@offbeatguides.com
415 846-0232 (mobile)

Re: Calvin Klein Jeans Replaces Racy Billboards with QR Codes

dsifry — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:07:24 -0000

FAIL on Android. It takes you to http://ckj.mobi/pr but then just sits there with a black screen. Nice try CK!

Re: http://dragon-team.tumblr.com/post/580329505

dsifry — Fri, 07 May 2010 23:49:14 -0000

Friggin awesome, folks! Congratulations!!!

Re: When Rails Fails

dsifry — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:36:22 -0000

As a Rails Newbie myself (having done LOTS of programming in many other languages, and web programming for 10 years), I can relate to your issues. There's lots of Rails-isms that made me scratch my head and ask myself, WTF? Fortunately I have a great group of people around me who are willing to give advice and help, and the IRC channel actually does help as well, if you can figure out how to phrase your question in a short, reasonable way. The other thing I find is that by doing constant iteration and testing, I can usually localize the issue fairly quickly. The debugger command in my code, along with mongrel and irb are quite helpful as well.

Overall, it's a reasonable tradeoff - but it would definitely be nice to have a set of more intermediate tutorials or guides for people who are still getting their feet wet with Rails. Another thing I'd love is a really good quick reference guide - e.g. common commands and options for Rake, for script/generate, routing, etc. Perhaps I'll just have to write one...

Re: Wanted: A simple DNS app for Mac or Windows (Scripting News)

dsifry — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 13:49:04 -0000

Dave, have you looked at Webmin? It has a reasonably easy-to-use configurator for BIND, the DNS server that runs on Macs by default (and can run on Windows, too). Here's a screenshot:

http://www.webmin.com/scree...

It's not quite the simple drag-n-drop interface you might be looking for, but it puts the power of BIND in your hands in a reasonably nice web interface.

Re: iStat Menus Now Running with Snow Leopard: Everything You Need to Know and More

dsifry — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 23:19:24 -0000

Not quite everything I need to know. Where can you get the beta? URL please!

Re: Monitoring Twitter's down-ness (Scripting News)

dsifry — Fri, 23 May 2008 21:37:47 -0000

You should check out http://istwitterdown.com/ - very funny application. Short and sweet. Not sure if it is working reliably right now, though. IIRC it was written by Ryan King a while ago...