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5 months ago
in Old Look, New Feel on Scattered
Forgot to mention, I did change a few things in that stream since your comment; just an FYI.
5 months ago
in Old Look, New Feel on Scattered
I actually setup a Yahoo Pipe that makes a RSS feed for my Google notes. It's feeding twitter for posts, which seems like the more appropriate place for now. If I started pulling them in as posts I'll think about your code, otherwise I'll create a new pipe and use the feedwordpress plugin.
6 months ago
in Twitter: “Back to Normal” on Scattered
It's easier to blame the architecture than the architect because it's less personal.
In this case it's the only thing to fall back on, from an outsiders perspective, because they definitely have the money to build their app to scale and to add more infrastructure.
So, when you think of it that way it's easy to blame Rails even if Twitter won't admit it because of their loyalty.
Also, there has been plenty of "insider" comments attributed Rails to their problems.
In this case it's the only thing to fall back on, from an outsiders perspective, because they definitely have the money to build their app to scale and to add more infrastructure.
So, when you think of it that way it's easy to blame Rails even if Twitter won't admit it because of their loyalty.
Also, there has been plenty of "insider" comments attributed Rails to their problems.
7 months ago
in AdBlock Plugins are Wrong on Scattered
I updated the post but a commercial skipping law almost passed, it was thrown out of court because ReplayTV gave up and the lawsuit was dropped.
I had deleted a paragraph talking about the issue not being "big enough" because not a lot of people do ad blocking, I took it out because I couldn't express my feeling that --everyone-- counts. It's like a vote, it does count and it does affect the whole.
Pop-up blocking is similar to the adblocking I'm talking about but I'm perfectly fine with blocking pop-ups for three reasons:
1. They're intrusive/interfere. Pop-ups tell my browser to do something I may not want it to, which is different than displaying ads next to the content I'm reading or looking at. Pop-ups can also crash your browser or your computer because websites can throw as many popups and popunders they want by you loading the page.
2. Pop-up blocking apps tell you there's a pop-up you're missing.
3. If site owners want to get around pop-up blockers they can; easily.
Ultimately I've made the decision it's fine for me because of the above reasons amongst others and if anyone disagrees I'm fine with that but I don't think it's contradictory to block one without the other.
Also, pop-up blockers produced some of the most absurd flash and js ads to screw with. I'm sort of worried what adblockers will produce; probably some integrated windows advertising model.
I had deleted a paragraph talking about the issue not being "big enough" because not a lot of people do ad blocking, I took it out because I couldn't express my feeling that --everyone-- counts. It's like a vote, it does count and it does affect the whole.
Pop-up blocking is similar to the adblocking I'm talking about but I'm perfectly fine with blocking pop-ups for three reasons:
1. They're intrusive/interfere. Pop-ups tell my browser to do something I may not want it to, which is different than displaying ads next to the content I'm reading or looking at. Pop-ups can also crash your browser or your computer because websites can throw as many popups and popunders they want by you loading the page.
2. Pop-up blocking apps tell you there's a pop-up you're missing.
3. If site owners want to get around pop-up blockers they can; easily.
Ultimately I've made the decision it's fine for me because of the above reasons amongst others and if anyone disagrees I'm fine with that but I don't think it's contradictory to block one without the other.
Also, pop-up blockers produced some of the most absurd flash and js ads to screw with. I'm sort of worried what adblockers will produce; probably some integrated windows advertising model.
7 months ago
in Parsing the Querystring for dynamic content (and images) on Scattered
Out of 136K visitors in the last week we had a total of 4 with js disabled.
And I'm not worried about standards on this site, it's a train-wreck already.
And I'm not worried about standards on this site, it's a train-wreck already.
7 months ago
in Smash Bros. Brawl on Scattered
I beat you and Christian by button mashing the first 3 games the other day, so it is true.
7 months ago
in Smash Bros. Brawl on Scattered
Any --fighting-- game that allows anyone to win; just by button mashing is not fun unless you only play it 5 times a year with friends. You might as well roll dice or play candyland because whatever skill you have could easily be worthless in a game of brawl.
So, the general public would like that because they don't have to play it a lot to win at least once.
But this is a review for people that buy games, you know the people that like video games enough to pay $50-60 not experts.
So, the general public would like that because they don't have to play it a lot to win at least once.
But this is a review for people that buy games, you know the people that like video games enough to pay $50-60 not experts.
7 months ago
in Finally…flickr does video on Scattered
If you want we can see who's kid is better at bowling, without the ramp. Luckily they'll both do better than Obama.
7 months ago
in Finally…flickr does video on Scattered
I'd probably leave flickr if MS took over.
Because, the only reason I see the flickr team not being able to "get off their ass" was because of the mega corp Yahoo! owning them. Yahoo! seems to strangle their new acquisitions, take del.icio.us for example, they've had a new version ready for almost a 6 months now, if I remember correctly.
I do like Yahoo! but if Yahoo! can make great services stale then MS is going to make them worse; it's their nature.
Because, the only reason I see the flickr team not being able to "get off their ass" was because of the mega corp Yahoo! owning them. Yahoo! seems to strangle their new acquisitions, take del.icio.us for example, they've had a new version ready for almost a 6 months now, if I remember correctly.
I do like Yahoo! but if Yahoo! can make great services stale then MS is going to make them worse; it's their nature.
7 months ago
in Noise: Twitter, Pownce and FriendFeed on Scattered
Originally Pownce was to replace Twitter for my micro-blogging and since both serve two different mediums and crowds twitterfeed is the only way to get my twitter status updated without posting in two places.
I just hate having more then one source for my micro-posts/status updates. It's just annoying that I have to decide what medium to use instead of using Pownce for everything.
So, I'll probably just stop using twitter altogether. Since, I still prefer Pownce over twitter and it has nothing to offer me.
I just hate having more then one source for my micro-posts/status updates. It's just annoying that I have to decide what medium to use instead of using Pownce for everything.
So, I'll probably just stop using twitter altogether. Since, I still prefer Pownce over twitter and it has nothing to offer me.
8 months ago
in Media Temple v2 on Scattered
It's working out great. Haven't had an issue since. They also provide a lot more dedicated RAM then they commit to in their pricing plans.
10 months ago
in Official Google Blog: Yahoo! and the future of the Internet on Scattered
how: "take advantage of a PC software monopoly to unfairly limit the ability of consumers to freely access competitors’"
10 months ago
in iPhone 1.1.3 jailbreak on Scattered
I've dropped off google for those keywords so I'm prepared.
10 months ago
in Cloverfield on Scattered
Cuse quotes:
Originally quoted saying, "100 episodes in 4-5 seasons", that doesn't mean full seasons. Now it's "the most honest answer we can give [is] as long as it's good."
5 Full Seasons equals approx. 120 episodes and if they make up this years 8 missing episodes because of the writers strike we'll see 117.
I don't care how many we see, as long as it's good, but they have swayed from their original goal of a strict 100.
Originally quoted saying, "100 episodes in 4-5 seasons", that doesn't mean full seasons. Now it's "the most honest answer we can give [is] as long as it's good."
5 Full Seasons equals approx. 120 episodes and if they make up this years 8 missing episodes because of the writers strike we'll see 117.
I don't care how many we see, as long as it's good, but they have swayed from their original goal of a strict 100.
10 months ago
in Cloverfield on Scattered
Actually he's right. You and I both know that they wanted to end it earlier than now contracted. Maybe the shorter seasons contributed to the extension but either way it's additional seasons with a few episodes.
Also, I tried to make it clear that sequels would be similar but from a different vantage point,
"Since the movie’s secondary plot was the monster they could easily create another with the monster backdrop".
I say it's not a monster movie because the monster wasn't the plot, it was just one conflict during those characters stories.
Also, I tried to make it clear that sequels would be similar but from a different vantage point,
"Since the movie’s secondary plot was the monster they could easily create another with the monster backdrop".
I say it's not a monster movie because the monster wasn't the plot, it was just one conflict during those characters stories.
10 months ago
in 3G iPhone on Scattered
They didn't but I still think they're going to announce one shortly because in order to get it on the market they have to send it through the FCC whom loves to take a lot of picks and provide info to engadget and other sites. And we both know Apple doesn't like anyone other than themselves announcing future releases.
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