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Re: Blog Rebuild: A Fresh Start

ozten — Wed, 30 Jul 2014 11:35:12 -0000

Cool project! Maybe things are easier now that Googlebot executes JavaScript, but in the past doing client side rendering is really tough without hiding content from search indexes. I'm looking forward to that aspect of your updates, as I've seen Ember hurt a sites page rank (which was quickly reverted to server side rendering). The official Google "Ajax crawling" workarounds are gnarly.

Re: OS X 10.9.3 Is Toxic

ozten — Fri, 23 May 2014 16:43:51 -0000

We should invest our troubleshooting and debugging time in Ubuntu or other open desktop environments.

Elementary has a more polished "Mac like" UX http://elementaryos.org/

(Respect, to all the Linux work you've already done, of course :)

Re: the Future of Communication Part 1: The Session

ozten — Wed, 16 Oct 2013 09:48:54 -0000

Looking forward to part two!

Re: WordPress.com Connect launches as yet another way to log into third-party websites and apps

ozten — Tue, 13 Aug 2013 16:01:09 -0000

Persona is based on email addresses and works with any provider.

Re: Identity Systems: white labeling is a no-go

ozten — Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:22:32 -0000

pzxc's post lacks comments, so I'll chime in here.

pzxc's tagline "web development predicts the future" is another perfect way to frame the branding argument. Persona *is* an API (and a protocol) and it's meant to be native in the Browser. When that happens, these branding questions go away.

The current popup is a temporary transition step, that *predicts the future* of how people will actually interact with Persona.

Give yourself the design problem of branding this popup. It's quite challenging, as we don't want this to seem to be a Firefox product which would alienate other browser vendors. But as Ben says here, it can't be an invisible brand for UX and security reasons.

So we've created a neutral brand and encouraged other browser vendors to use the name, starting with the web based dialog.

Re: Moving On

ozten — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 16:17:59 -0000

Congratulations Nigel!

Re: Node at scale: What Google, Mozilla, & Yahoo are doing with Node.js | VentureBeat

ozten — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:06:00 -0000

Why does Google lead in the article title and get about 1/6 of the copy, but they are a "no comment"? If the article is about Node at scale, maybe focus on known, deployed systems...

Re: encryption is (mostly) not magic

ozten — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 13:35:12 -0000

Great post!

Another factor to weight is human error by IT professionals. Data is the life-blood of businesses and if removing a single key could accidentally lock services out of their customer data, it could end of life that business. Bam!

System architects have to be careful about where to put this key, disaster recovery, and if encryption is worth the risk feature by feature.

Re: http://breakingtheegg.tumblr.com/post/6835127034

ozten — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:17:49 -0000

Awesome idea! DOES WANT

Re: 3frames

ozten — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:14:27 -0000

Wow.

Re: http://ryansnyder.me/post/656889447

ozten — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 10:09:22 -0000

An instigator of bad judgment... Indeed!

Re: Lifestream Blog Turns 3 Years Old Thanks to You

ozten — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:33:42 -0000

Congrats!
I can't believe I've been reading your posts for 3 years. /jk

Really looking forward to your next post.

Re: Brian’s (Purely) Functional Brain

ozten — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:29:31 -0000

One of the points of Literate Programing is to free you of listing your imports first. You don't have to do that... Mention them when they are useful in your prose and then tangle them into the top of the source file.

Re: E Miller _ Note : jQuery Simple Multi-Select

ozten — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:56:13 -0000

Very cool!

Re: Some Ray Tracing Functions in Haskell

ozten — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:26:06 -0000

What a cool problem domain to learn Haskell in! I see you're deriving Show for your data, you could also add Eq. It's really great how "just deriving Eq" automatically gives you an implementation of equality that is more than just memory pointers. Powerful juju.

Re: Debugging in Haskell

ozten — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 16:05:06 -0000

Jeff, thanks for the post. I'm not a fan of debuggers. I recently learned about trace also:
http://ozten.livejournal.co...
Looking forward to learning Haskell with you.

Re: Reddit, TED and Sir. Ken Robinson

ozten — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:18:15 -0000

Great article! I totally agree with the need for better educational software. I've used Catalyst and another system. Very clunky.

I've never considering a game engine... interesting idea. The web and business applications are tuned for delivering text, while games and 3d environments are less optimized for text. Example: The croquet project is a 3d world which allows you to embed a web browser or a spreadsheet. This is somewhat awkward.

For non-reading/writing activities game engines open up possibilities which aren't currently available, such as surgery, auto-repair, architecture, etc.

I'm looking forward to seeing where you take things.

Re: I+Quit+The%26nbsp%3BiPhone

ozten — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:56:19 -0000

I agree 100%. I'm also going to switch to the Palm Pre sometime this fall. It's not 1 Google App for me, it's the whole SDK + App store.

1) I had to send them court documents from 4 years ago to get my dev license (?!?)
2) Many apps have been denied, after countless hours of design and development

I've finally decided we are giving up too much control to Apple and AT&T.

Imagine if the original Mac OS or Windows 3.1 would only run "approved apps" and required development licenses.

All "app stores" should have a "Unsupported" category which are accept 100% without review. Users are warned as much and no dev license is required to create the apps. This get's us back to the basic freedoms provided by a 20th century software market.

Re: It's hard to like Android. - jerakeen.org

ozten — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:25:38 -0000

Same experience. I was given a G1 dev phone (with OS before cupcake). I played with it for 5 days are decided to pass it onto another dev on our team.

I'm planning on picking up a Palm Pre once I have time for a mobile project.

Re: Rushkoff: "Google's War On The PC"

ozten — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:48:58 -0000

"What Jobs didn't happen to notice was that the computer operating system he witnessed and copied wasn't meant as a way to organize the software and data on a single machine--it was actually a way for computers on a network to share resources."

This is not historically accurate, but I guess it makes for a good story. Although there were systems early on that focused on networked machines (see Engelbert's Mother of all Demos) Xerox PARC's computers featured basically the aspects of desktop computing that a Mac Classic featured. Distributed computing was not a focus of early Smalltalk based systems.

Re: Search for Beatiful Dynamic Visual Lifestream Pages with Spezify

ozten — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:01:36 -0000

Great post Mark. The search engine has a good algorithm for how it mixes up results... makes for nice collages like you said.

On a more practical note, it would be good if it had a "most recent" view so that you could get timely results on a topic.

Re: E Miller _ Note : Ubiquity Click

ozten — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:46:49 -0000

Ethan, nice Ubiquity command! It's pretty speed zip around links like that. I like that it gives you lots of links by partial matches. I noticed I have to get the Case of the link right so to get to News on your site I can type either 'N' or 'e' but not 'n'. I realize this is a prototype, just giving some input.

Clever stuff (as usual!)

Re: Lifestream vs. Socialstream: A Battle of Nomenclature

ozten — Tue, 05 May 2009 01:05:59 -0000

To be fair the term Lifestreaming goes back to the dark ages before the internet... Another term put forward by the DiSo Project is Activity Streams.

I think that 'Socialstreams' are a natural evolution for displaying public, useful bits of Lifestreams. We can have amazing communities of practice instead of lonely silos.

Re: 6 Reasons Why Firefox Dude May Want to Switch to Chrome

ozten — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 15:59:39 -0000

Confirmed Firefox addict. Other than #1 I don't see anything worth switching for. #5 is slicker than Prism, but I've been using Prism to do the same thing for ages. The FF's awesome bar has changed how I browse/bookmark/search.

I think Chrome is an awesome fit for switching out IE users who can't or don't want Firefox (IT policy or something).

Re: Thoughts on Safety and Children in a World of Lifestreaming

ozten — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:07:59 -0000

I have also thought about this issue. As these technologies become mainstream, then it become a viable way to discover new victims. Three features that combat this problem are 1) fuzziness of data in lifestreams, 2) private (or trusted network) Lifestreams, and 3) delayed posting

Geo-location is being built into the next version of the web so that HTML can prompt you for your lat/long. The good implementations let you edit this location or generalize it before submitting. Example: I am within 2 miles of this street corner...

Some lifestreams fuzz your timestamp - Posted around 4 hours ago... or leaving time off all together.

I've thought about not posting my L.A. trip content until I return home, which would be useful if it were automated, but isn't practical to do manually (every tweet, flickr, etc that revels your out of town, gets queued up).

In reality, for today, it's probably still cheaper to identify victims the old fashion way.

For system designers, it's really hard to know which data or metadata is a risk, beyond the obvious cases. The nice thing about fuzziness is the humans can fill in the dots, but it's harder to data-mine. The downside is (legit) mash-ups and syncing become impossible or more buggy.