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Re: Amazon One Ups Apple: All Music Not Only DRM-Free But Also MP3

dz — Thu, 17 May 2007 00:46:31 -0000

AAC is not Apple's own. Many players other than the iPod are able to play AAC content.

Please get your facts straight.

Re: Site converted to django-friendly: FriendFeed integration - Officially Lucky, a blog by Clint Ecker

dz — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:52:09 -0000

Nice!

Is there a way to post comments _to_ a friendfeed item rather than just pulling comments from it?

Re: http://media.nodnod.net/testing/

dz — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 18:24:52 -0000

Test comment!

Re: Custom Django Settings and Default Values

dz — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:21:00 -0000

In the past, I've done:

try:
from local_settings import *
except ImportError:
pass

That allows you to define whatever you want, but also allows a user to override settings in a local_settings.

Re: Custom Django Settings and Default Values

dz — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 02:16:00 -0000

Oops, you're right. Serves me right for reading blogs, watching TV and eating at the same time.

Re: Another Productivity Tip: Use iTerm and Vim — A Single Programmer's Blog

dz — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 20:57:04 -0000

Why not just use MacVim's fullscreen mode?

Re: Tech Tuesday: The Fiddly Bits

dz — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 11:33:51 -0000

But even in failing, he'll likely have done more than you'll ever do.

Re: 2009-05-20 15:25:56 - My Language Features Are Your Libraries

dz — Thu, 21 May 2009 13:02:00 -0000

There's a difference between features implementated in the standard library and features implemented as part of the language *itself*. The batteries included part of Python, for example, is mostly implemented *as* libaries *using* Python. For example, abstract base classes.

Re: Twitter: 1, Robots: 0

dz — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:44:20 -0000

The enema prank is kind of brilliant. I need to pull that on someone.

re: Twitter, I feel like Twitter is starting to drown in metadata and spam. When searching, nearly a third of the results are either retweets or spam bots.

If Twitter search can massage their results a bit, rather than just spewing out a raw flood of matching terms, I'd find it much easier to use.

When they added conversations to the results, I was excited because it provided much needed context to singular tweets. Now they need to address the signal to noise ratio.

Re: Don’t Stop Supporting IE6

dz — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:55:12 -0000

@meego: "There is no excuse not to upgrade. If IT depts can’t support multiple browsers, they need to do some internal cleansing bc they suck at their jobs."

IT depts sometimes can't help it. I have friends who work at places where *corporate* technological progress is glacially slow. Especially in large companies that exist in non-tech sectors. IT personnel *personally* want to upgrade, don't doubt that. But personal -- or even departmental -- wants and needs don't always align with corporate budget and priorities.

@peter "But with more and more browsers supporting things like canvas and video, and more and more javascript reliance, it’s getting less and less feasible to provide even ‘content support’."

If Facebook, who powers nearly everything with javascript, can offer a relatively content-rich experience for browsers without javascript, you can too. Just like all support, 'content support' has gradations. You don't need to have or present content the same way for everyone.

You're already presenting content different in various accessibility contexts. This is just another view of your content you need to consider. Maybe you decide it's worth it, maybe not. But don't dismiss the possibility out of hand.

And to nitpick on HTML5 video for a second, even without IE6, you'll need to consider support. Since HTML5 (currently and for the foreseeable future) does not specify a container format, the typical site serving HTML5 video will need to encode their content in mp4 *and* ogg *and* probably wmv to maintain comparable compatibility with Flash players.

At that point, creating a flash player fallback that reads H.264 isn't much further down the path.

Re: On Simplicity

dz — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:48:07 -0000

I'm using Disqus (http://disqus.com/) -- as far as I could tell from a brief search, it's the only real way to get comments working with Tumblr.

Re: On Simplicity

dz — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 10:25:33 -0000

Wow, I'd forgotten about that line. Back in the days when I felt more motivated to post.

Re: nodnod

dz — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:51:55 -0000

If Easynews is still worth it, mostly. Piracy: bringing nerds together since 1999.

Re: Knowledge for front-end developers

dz — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 15:28:18 -0000

I really did mean "specificity" :)

See: http://snook.ca/archives/ht...

Re: With friends like these…

dz — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 04:38:42 -0000

Oops, yes. Thanks for the catch!

Re: With friends like these…

dz — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:36:54 -0000

Why are you jecting content and opinion that is not there?

Re: With friends like these…

dz — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 09:37:50 -0000

Yes, thanks for the catch!

Re: With friends like these…

dz — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 10:19:43 -0000

Thanks for the really interesting response.

But many of Adobe's products weren't around when Steve Jobs resigned from Apple in the mid-80s. When Apple and Adobe helped create the digital publishing industry in the late 80s to early 90s (Illustrator was released when Jobs was still at Apple, but Photoshop came after he left, I believe), Jobs was focused on NeXT, which was gaining inroads in other segments like academia and science.

Jobs exerted his influence on Adobe once before: when he convinced them to produce a fully fledged version of Illustrator for NeXT. As a result, Adobe's NeXT port was mature but their Windows port was poor. Ultimately, this cost them quite a bit.

Presumably, Jobs made the exact same plea to his contacts during his time at NeXT: to help him build a bigger, better, richer version of Apple. Adobe helped him the first time to their detriment.

I can't completely blame them for refusing a second time.

Re: With friends like these…

dz — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:13:05 -0000

Actually, no. Many commercial games for the PS3 and 360 use embedded languages and runtimes like Lua. They also use abstraction layers and cross-platform runtimes specifically because it allows them to focus on content and gameplay.

But that's really besides the point. Because I never claimed one way or the other whether or not Apple's recent actions are just or unjust -- at most, I showed support for Gruber's opinion that it makes sense from Apple's perspective.

Re: With friends like these…

dz — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:29:44 -0000

But we're not talking about Flash the technology, we're talking about Adobe the company.

Re: Hotel bar rambling

dz — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 10:28:38 -0000

I'll miss you too :(

Re: DrupalCon 2010

dz — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:42:10 -0000

You should stay in the SF state of mind ;)

Re: Welcome, David Cramer

dz — Mon, 03 May 2010 14:02:23 -0000

Woot! Lots of good SC2 matches sure to come.

Re: http://blog.disqus.com/post/638938313

dz — Fri, 28 May 2010 14:19:06 -0000

Robert, check the blog post above this one :)

Re: Now in testing: Like buttons and a new posting interface

dz — Sat, 29 May 2010 01:13:34 -0000

Improving the experience for IE issues is definitely on the radar. But let us know of any specific issues you see (along with browser version).