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Re: Origin Protocol Reaches Mainnet

Josh Fraser — Thu, 11 Oct 2018 03:55:21 -0000

It's been a fun year. We're lucky to have you along for the ride!

Re: It Can All Go To Zero

Josh Fraser — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 21:38:21 -0000

But there's also asymmetric risk/reward. Your losses are capped at 100% of your investment. There's no such limit on the other side.

Re: Origin Protocol is building the infrastructure for a new, decentralized, sharing economy

Josh Fraser — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 19:01:38 -0000

Thanks for the great article, Daniel! For anyone interested in learning more about our project, the link to our website is http://www.originprotocol.com and you can join our community Telegram at https://t.me/originprotocol

Re: Pantera Invests $3 Million in Sharing Economy Token Origin - CoinDesk

Josh Fraser — Mon, 25 Dec 2017 02:45:31 -0000

Customer protections like protocols for handling identity, arbitration and insurance are a core feature of what we're building.

Re: Pantera Invests $3 Million in Sharing Economy Token Origin - CoinDesk

Josh Fraser — Mon, 25 Dec 2017 02:43:51 -0000

Legitimate concern, although we expect improvements like Plasma, proof of stake and sharding to improve the situation. Also, less of an issue if you start with low frequency / high value transactions like home-sharing bookings that average $1,000 for example.

Re: Pantera Invests $3 Million in Sharing Economy Token Origin - CoinDesk

Josh Fraser — Mon, 25 Dec 2017 02:38:42 -0000

Ha, pretty sad that's the norm for so many projects these days. But check our Github and you'll see we've actually got a working prototype and are continuing development every day. We're a bit different from a lot of other projects in that we're experienced founders who actually have a track record of shipping products!

Re: Superfeedr Blog - Medium acquires Superfeedr

Josh Fraser — Thu, 02 Jun 2016 17:47:27 -0000

Congrats Julien! Well deserved outcome. Appreciate everything you do to promote the open web.

Re: Auto detect a time zone with JavaScript

Josh Fraser — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 13:49:14 -0000

It gets it from the operating system. It trusts the OS and uses whatever time the OS says it is. When running client side, it uses the visitors clock. When running server side, it uses the server clock.

Re: one: jud@gnip.com is no more

Josh Fraser — Fri, 02 May 2014 18:14:04 -0000

I couldn't be happier for you and it's definitely well-deserved outcome for all of you who worked so hard. As far as your next adventure goes, Lou keeps talking about getting you out here for some mountain biking... :)

Re: You Are Always #2 In Boulder

Josh Fraser — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:05:41 -0000

only 2nd place... more like 200th for me (if I'm lucky!)

Re: Revisiting Median vs. Average With Accelerator Data

Josh Fraser — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:21:39 -0000

It's rare for a single metric to convey the whole story. Doing Torbit has given me a renewed appreciation for histograms. I wish people used them more.

Re: Page speed really does matter

Josh Fraser — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 12:09:20 -0000

There are a lot of issues with using GA for collecting performance data. Like you mentioned, their use of averages leads to a lot of problems. They also heavily sample & only collect timing data from browsers that support Nav Timing. Have you thought about using something like Torbit Insight (http://torbit.com) to get more accurate performance data?

Re: The Mobile Web

Josh Fraser — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:51:33 -0000

Speed is the #1 feature, but when it comes to the mobile web we're failing.

Last week, one of our engineers at Torbit crawled the Alexa 100k with a fake iPhone User Agent to see how many sites are serving up custom content for mobile. Only 6% of sites crawled offered a custom mobile experience.

I believe one of the key pieces of infrastructure we need is a way to make website load faster on a mobile device. Let's face it, one of the biggest reasons the mobile web sucks right now is because it's so slow. Of those 6% of sites with a mobile specific experience, only 8% were using a CDN. A traditional CDN alone won't solve the problem because it's the round trip times that are the biggest killer on mobile. You really need to fix the content and not just the delivery of it. (This is one of the things we're working on at Torbit).

The data we have shows that we're still in the early days on mobile, but it's growing fast. I'm a huge believer in the open web and it's time we step around the gate-keepers and stop giving Apple 30% of everything.

Re: ReadWrite – Google Dares Businesses To Switch To Microsoft's Office 365

Josh Fraser — Sat, 08 Dec 2012 20:44:16 -0000

It's not about the money. I don't have the time to deal with random errors messages and brokenness.

Re: ReadWrite – Google Dares Businesses To Switch To Microsoft's Office 365

Josh Fraser — Fri, 07 Dec 2012 19:58:00 -0000

I decided to check out Office 365 after reading your post. I clicked "Compare Plans" and then the "Free trial" link. I was greeted with the following message:

Sorry! We can't process your request right now.You don’t have permission to access this page or perform this action.Support Information

Correlation ID:scu#c629e1d6-b56b-44d3-b0c2-35b13e742ebe

Error code:0

Right... Back to Google I go.

Re: A Blog Post Written On The Mobile Web

Josh Fraser — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 13:44:19 -0000

The future I see is a world where my phone is my laptop. I walk into my office and my phone connects over something like bluetooth to my monitor, keyboard and mouse. Mobile devices already have enough computing power for just about everything I need & that is only increasing. The CPU in my iPhone is better than the laptop I had 5 years ago. In a couple years it won't make sense to have both a phone and a laptop/desktop anymore. A laptop is just a bulky phone that can't make phone calls. The part about mobile that sucks most is the interface. I don't want to stare at a tiny screen. I don't want to type on a piece of glass. The UI will have to adapt based on the screen site, but we already have everything else we need. Mobile = Desktop. Sometimes I'll be connected to a screen/keyboard. Sometimes I won't be.

Re: App.net And The Need for Social Networking Standards

Josh Fraser — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 19:17:23 -0000

Great post Albert. Having been involved with the PubSubHubbub protocol from the early days, it's exciting to see that app.net are planning to include support for some of these open web protocols. Like Dave Winer, I wish their model was less centralized, but I think this is a great step in the right direction (even PuSH uses central hubs). If app.net continues to see good adoption, it will be far more likely for other products like Twitter or G+ to adopt the same protocols. No matter what happens with app.net, they will likely push the other players towards being more open -- that's a win.

Re: Have A Wake For Failed Startups

Josh Fraser — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 13:07:55 -0000

Andrew Hyde did this for us when we shut down EventVue and it meant the world to us.
http://andrewhy.de/eventvue...

Re: Torbit Insight para analizar la velocidad de su sitio Web

Josh Fraser — Sun, 17 Jun 2012 21:56:35 -0000

Thanks for much for this post!

Re: Monitor Site Speed with Torbit Insight

Josh Fraser — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 02:34:08 -0000

Doug, It's great to hear you're using Torbit Insight and finding it useful. Thanks for the article!

Re: Recruiting Software Developers By Showing Up With Pizza

Josh Fraser — Thu, 03 May 2012 07:19:02 -0000

I love this post. The whole concept of recruiting by paying it forward and building long term relationships has definitely been true for me.

Re: Front End Performance Case Study: GitHub - JP's blog

Josh Fraser — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 18:43:12 -0000

Thanks for including the shout-out for Torbit Insight. JP, you should come stop by the Torbit office sometime. We'd love to meet you.

Re: Open-Sourcing Mobitest

Josh Fraser — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:26:00 -0000

Very cool. Great to see you guys doing this.

Re: Open-Sourcing Mobitest

Josh Fraser — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:26:43 -0000

Very cool. Great to see you guys doing this.

Re: Torbit Releases a “Stop SOPA” Widget

Josh Fraser — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:40:37 -0000

Thanks for your support Andrew. It's been amazing to watch the tech community come together in this fight.