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5 months ago

in tinyrb - macournoyer's blog on macournoyer
$ tinyrb rescursion.rb
55
Segmentation fault

5 months ago

in tinyrb - macournoyer's blog on macournoyer
One question : why ragel/lemon instead of the more common lex/yacc?

5 months ago

in tinyrb - macournoyer's blog on macournoyer
This is so cool!

Also, thank you for using make and not rake or some other crappy build tool :D

5 months ago

in URL Shorteners: Please Resolve on /Message
curl -I
or anything similar.

7 months ago

in Alcides Fonseca: Python Universal GUI revisited on Alcides Fonseca bliki
I love the ideas behind shoes, and would love to see similar things come to other languages.

1) I would love it if the library could be used in any app, unlike shoes, which has it's own environment
2) Have you seen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tk_(framework) ? It's not shoes, but it's very clean in most languages (I've seen the Tcl and Ruby bindings)

7 months ago

in identity on Mike English dot Net
Your root domain is always the best for use as an OpenID.
As long as you link to the blog has rel=me on it, and the blog has a rel=me link back to the root, everything can figure out they're both you.

You might consider making the root page some sort of profilesque thing like I have. Just an idea.

7 months ago

in Episode 19: "Happy Birthday, OpenSocial!" on The Social Web TV
Or links to the viddler pages in the post/feed so that I can go and download/view the FLV or M4V. Not optimal formats, but better than SWF. The viddler group page is giving a 404. Is there a feed for that maybe?

7 months ago

in Episode 19: "Happy Birthday, OpenSocial!" on The Social Web TV
Just a request. If possible, could you guys post links to non-flash (Theora or H.261 preferred) versions of the shows?

7 months ago

in Episode 19: "Happy Birthday, OpenSocial!" on The Social Web TV
Just a request. If possible, could you guys post links to non-flash (Theora or H.261 preferred) versions of the shows?

9 months ago

in Gospelr: Ready for BETA Testers!!! on Human3rror
This is ridiculous. Why clone an existing service and just change the demographic? Will that get you anywhere as a service?

And why would Christians want to hang out in a separate place? Aren't we supposed to be "in the world".

Somehow you got TC to only be sarcastic and not downright mean about your launch though.

10 months ago

in Episode 9: "A Big Week for the Open Stack" on The Social Web TV
XRDS-Simple is about listing the services you use online? I thought it was about services listing the APIs they support...
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Joseph Smarr It's both--it's just a list of typed URIs, which XRDS calls Services. If there are open API standards like PortableContacts, they can refer to those APIs, but there's no reason they can't also advertise "I use flickr", "I use LinkedIn", "I have an hCard here", etc. The point is it's a generic way to tell a site "here's some more info about the things I use and the places I keep my data".

10 months ago

in louisgray.com: BackType Goes Forward With Comment Tracker and Search on louisgray.com
Good! Hitting a URL and getting all of its URLs is nice an easy these days (straight XFN parse is feasible, I do in on my social profile search, SGAPI always a good option/augmentation)

Still thinking about the authenticity problem myself... maybe I'll start PGP signing my comments ;)

10 months ago

in Farewell to the ‘@’ - We Welcome the Meta Revolution on Stay N' Alive
I don't think this in broken - but by design. If you want to be sure someone gets a message (and you don't know their reading habits) txt/dm them or something. @ is good for unambiguous mentions of names, and easy replying (which can be invisibly turned into data, but typing the @ is still a nice UI)

11 months ago

in Episode 5: The Portable Contacts Initiative on The Social Web TV
Some of what you talk about using PortableContacts for is what XFN is for.

Inventing as little as possible? You "modernized" the attribute names from vCard. Sounds like more inventing than necessary to me.
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therealmccrea The goal is to create an approach to "people data" for the Social Web, and that means finding a way to bridge between traditional address books and modern profiles and friends lists. Within that problem space, we have indeed sought to invent as little as possible.

That said, I very much appreciate your jumping in with your thoughts on this!

11 months ago

in Episode 5: The Portable Contacts Initiative on The Social Web TV
Portable Contacts is an open spec - but it's a bit of a stretch to call something a few days old and unimplemented as yet a "standard".

Still pushing for OAuth+vCard/hCard, so maybe I'm just biased ;)
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therealmccrea's picture
therealmccrea Indeed, Portable Contacts at this stage is a draft spec being developed in an open way. It is certainly not a standard yet. If we said otherwise, that would be a slip of the tongue, for sure.

1 year ago

in Discuss tinydb on Discuss tinydb
It would be cool if tinydb would support Accept: text/javascript etc, as well as the existing ?_f= method

1 year ago

in Discuss tinydb on Discuss tinydb
Could you support proper JSONP where the data is passed to the callback instead of sticking it in a variable and then calling the callback with no arguments?
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kortina I just added JSONP callback option, eg: http://tinydb.org/19b?_f=jsonp&_c=Quickerly.tin...
kortina's picture
kortina Sounds like a good idea to me. Does anyone have objections to this?

1 year ago

in Era of blogger’s control is over on Scobleizer
"I’ve found that by being open with my content"

Careful how you use words like "open" - after all, your blog is clearly licensed "All Rights Reserved" under the terms of the Berne Convention and the UCC ;)

1 year ago

in The Twitterfication of Profiles on Social Times
*pimping DiSo* since you're WordPress, you may be interested in wp-diso-actionstream - it's a port of MT Actionstream for WoWordPress.

1 year ago

in The semantic elephant in the room - Google will settle the "top down vs. bottom up" debate for us on Over The Counter Culture
One problem with your argument -- Google supports microformats (hAtom in Blogger, SGAPI) and APP

1 year ago

in Nearly a million users, and no spam or trolls - RussellBeattie.com on Russell Beattie's Blog Forum
Twitter has SPAM, you just don't follow it, so you don't see it.

2 years ago

in GreaseMonkey & Firefox – How To Send a Trackback With Blogger (Part 2) on Andy Beard - Internet Business Systems Discussion
Well, hacking the script the break the spec shouldn't be that hard if you want to look at it :) I've not tested how the data is rendered by different systems. I may even not be sending the data right anymore, but I was at once point. It was only ever tested with Haloscan though, so I'm not sure :)

2 years ago

in GreaseMonkey & Firefox – How To Send a Trackback With Blogger (Part 2) on Andy Beard - Internet Business Systems Discussion
Well, hacking the script the break the spec shouldn't be that hard if you want to look at it :) I've not tested how the data is rendered by different systems. I may even not be sending the data right anymore, but I was at once point. It was only ever tested with Haloscan though, so I'm not sure :)

2 years ago

in GreaseMonkey & Firefox – How To Send a Trackback With Blogger (Part 2) on Andy Beard - Internet Business Systems Discussion
@gautam -- this script should be translatable into Opera userscript if you want and know someone who can do it. I don't know Opera, but I know it should be possible and is definitely allowed!

2 years ago

in GreaseMonkey & Firefox – How To Send a Trackback With Blogger (Part 2) on Andy Beard - Internet Business Systems Discussion
@gautam -- this script should be translatable into Opera userscript if you want and know someone who can do it. I don't know Opera, but I know it should be possible and is definitely allowed!
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