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7 months ago
in Deploying Ruby Apps with Passenger on Ruby Advent 2008
You're showing > and < escaped in your Apache conf -- that's not gonna work if someone cuts and pastes the code sample. :(
1 year ago
in Twitter Faces Serious Problems on Social Times
It's not scaling that's the problem, it's uptime.
Subtle difference, and surely some overlap in Twitter's case, but a common mistake in assessing Twitter's woes.
Subtle difference, and surely some overlap in Twitter's case, but a common mistake in assessing Twitter's woes.
1 year ago
in Facebook Poking Could Create World War III on AllFacebook
As a coworker said a few months ago, "No, I don't want to poke my sister" http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=...
1 year ago
in World of Warcraft 2.4 patcher on the mac on smarticus-blogOddly enough, this thing was still damn slow tonight (the 27th); why haven’t they fixed it?
1 year ago
in 2008/03/14/sarah-lacy/ on Mashable - The Social Media Guide
Why should she be reasonable?
There's no such thing as bad publicity, and this trainwreck has given her a lot more name recognition than she had a week ago.
And guess what? She has a book coming out in two months.
This whole "mess" is a PR coup for Lacy.
There's no such thing as bad publicity, and this trainwreck has given her a lot more name recognition than she had a week ago.
And guess what? She has a book coming out in two months.
This whole "mess" is a PR coup for Lacy.
1 year ago
in Keywords do work! on The Puerto Rican Rails Dude
only attract horny people who will immediately click the Back button once they realize you have no porn
You'd be surprised how many of them leave comments asking "Where's the porn?" and/or click on some ads while they're here.
You'd be surprised how many of them leave comments asking "Where's the porn?" and/or click on some ads while they're here.
1 year ago
in Dear Netflix: Fuck You - RussellBeattie.com on Russell Beattie's Blog Forum
If it's got the Netflix name on it, they need to take responsibility for it.
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1 year ago
in Forced Invites Get Shutdown on AllFacebook
"The whole invite process should be stopped."
Yes! Enough with the spam; let them grow organically, via the news feeds, word of mouth, profiles, directories, blogs, etc.
Yes! Enough with the spam; let them grow organically, via the news feeds, word of mouth, profiles, directories, blogs, etc.
1 year ago
in Beattie's First Rule of Application Development - RussellBeattie.com on Russell Beattie's Blog Forum
Argh. That was supposed to be in response to "Tim".
Speaking of design, the link shouldn't say "reply" if the conversation is not threaded.
Speaking of design, the link shouldn't say "reply" if the conversation is not threaded.
1 year ago
in Beattie's First Rule of Application Development - RussellBeattie.com on Russell Beattie's Blog Forum
Do you own an iPod or an uglier mp3 player with a bigger HD?
1 year ago
in Stumbling in to RSpec and Behavior Driven Development on smarticus-blogEw, Perl. You ought to walk around with a big scarlet “P” on your shirt.
1 year ago
in A Major Difference Between Bebo and OpenSocial on Social Times
Or how about the fact that one exists and the other is still vaporware? That's more important, IMHO.
1 year ago
in First Steps in Twitter on Social Times
So many smart people like it, and there is so little to lose by trying it out, I say "fake it until you make it".
I'd heard about it a good year or so before I used it. By then, I had a half-dozen friends (mostly the techie coworkers at Mindshare/Virilion) on the service.
Now, I have posted 4,598 Tweets in about 7 months.
I'd heard about it a good year or so before I used it. By then, I had a half-dozen friends (mostly the techie coworkers at Mindshare/Virilion) on the service.
Now, I have posted 4,598 Tweets in about 7 months.
1 year ago
in Creating a Mini-Valley in D.C. on Social Times
What am I, chopped liver?
Seriously, I would attend almost every event, if they weren't all on Thursdays. That's my yoga night, and yoga isn't negotiable.
Seriously, I would attend almost every event, if they weren't all on Thursdays. That's my yoga night, and yoga isn't negotiable.
1 year ago
in Why Lane Hartwell is wrong on Mathew's comments
You're asking permission to *quote* someone? Wow, you really are clueless.
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1 year ago
in My Beef With ActiveRecord on Pat Maddox
That seems very limiting.
Maybe a method like @say_hello@ needs a valid object, but ones like @to_s@, @new_record?@ and @destroy@ certainly don't.
Furthermore, @say_hello@ might require that the @name@ attribute be valid, but it probably doesn't require a valid @birthdate@, even if that were part of the class's validation.
Why not just accept the convention that, by default, invalid objects can do everything except @save@ and then call @valid?@ as needed?
Maybe a method like @say_hello@ needs a valid object, but ones like @to_s@, @new_record?@ and @destroy@ certainly don't.
Furthermore, @say_hello@ might require that the @name@ attribute be valid, but it probably doesn't require a valid @birthdate@, even if that were part of the class's validation.
Why not just accept the convention that, by default, invalid objects can do everything except @save@ and then call @valid?@ as needed?
1 year ago
in Bryan Liles is speaking at Acts As Conference on smarticus-blog
Ah, man ... nice. Can you give a presentation at work? I promise good feedback/constructive criticism.
1 year ago
in Facebook Users Won’t Pay on AllFacebook
Nick:
Whatever ... $50/year from 4% of Facebook users is still a lot of revenue -- $100M a year and growing rapidly, if you accept the 50M member estimate.
And that's on top of any ad revenue.
Dan:
I love ABP, but it only works if there is a pattern to the ad filenames. If FB is smart, and cares about the tiny number of people who use FF and ABP, they'll put all their advertising images in http://static.ak.facebook.com/images/ and use random filenames.
Whatever ... $50/year from 4% of Facebook users is still a lot of revenue -- $100M a year and growing rapidly, if you accept the 50M member estimate.
And that's on top of any ad revenue.
Dan:
I love ABP, but it only works if there is a pattern to the ad filenames. If FB is smart, and cares about the tiny number of people who use FF and ABP, they'll put all their advertising images in http://static.ak.facebook.com/images/ and use random filenames.
1 year ago
in Facebook Platform Becomes Pipe Dreams for Some on AllFacebook
"Could you see Google completely opening up access to their massive databases simply so that smaller companies can leverage the information that they have stored."
They have opened it up (albeit not completely so); I remember using the Google API for personal projects, years ago. But the Facebook stuff is only accessible within the context of Facebook.
They have opened it up (albeit not completely so); I remember using the Google API for personal projects, years ago. But the Facebook stuff is only accessible within the context of Facebook.
1 year ago
in It’s not just a web site you know on AllFacebook
I find the "social" aspect eludes many people.
I had a friend pitch an idea to me, where there would be a Facebook app that featured her company logo and information about them.
"Yeah, you can do that. It'd be real easy. Now, why would people add that to their profile?"
Silence.
I had a friend pitch an idea to me, where there would be a Facebook app that featured her company logo and information about them.
"Yeah, you can do that. It'd be real easy. Now, why would people add that to their profile?"
Silence.
1 year ago
in Rumor: Facebook Employees Are Modifying User Profiles on AllFacebook
If (a big "if") the VW rumors and follow-up are substantiated, this is definitely newsworthy: Facebook deleting someone's account for publicly criticizing them.
If they delete your profile for talking about the VW vs. Facebook spat, that is flat-out ridiculous.
If they delete your profile for talking about the VW vs. Facebook spat, that is flat-out ridiculous.
1 year ago
in My Reliance on Facebook is Dangerous on AllFacebook
My brother got booted twice (second one was permanent) for *emailing too often*.
Not spam, mind you, but emails to people he knows.
I am actually glad -- because he needs to look for a job instead of flirting with chicks.
But on the second time he lost all his emails, friends, app history and other info permanently.
Not spam, mind you, but emails to people he knows.
I am actually glad -- because he needs to look for a job instead of flirting with chicks.
But on the second time he lost all his emails, friends, app history and other info permanently.
1 year ago
in Peanut Labs Should Change Their Logo on AllFacebook
I would guess it's intentional -- some combination of humor and subliminal advertising -- or maybe just a disgruntled designer.
"No more rhymes; now I mean it!"
"Anybody want a peanut?"
"No more rhymes; now I mean it!"
"Anybody want a peanut?"
1 year ago
in Twitter’s Most Annoying Feature on Leveraging Ideas
I agree on the RSS; disagree on the Newer/Older.
Think of it as paging through results. The usual UI is to have the "next" page of results (in this case, older tweets) be on the right side.
In Twitter's case, I think that is more relevant than the metaphor of a left-to-right chronology.
But yeah -- that trips me up on Twitter, del.icio.us and other sites where paging *forward* through results means going *back* in time.
Think of it as paging through results. The usual UI is to have the "next" page of results (in this case, older tweets) be on the right side.
In Twitter's case, I think that is more relevant than the metaphor of a left-to-right chronology.
But yeah -- that trips me up on Twitter, del.icio.us and other sites where paging *forward* through results means going *back* in time.
Now find one of those ads, and from there, identify the affiliate in question. All it should take is an affiliate ID of some kind. Go ahead, I'll wait.
Maybe you're smarter than I am and spotted it in seconds, but what I got a loooooooon tribalfusion URL without any easily-identifiable affiliate ID. It also appears that things are set so you don't get the ad more than once a day, as I can't get it to pop back up now to dig more closely.
Now let's say you manage to stomp one out. When you offer $9/signup, my guess is you'll be dealing with a *lot* of people trying that shady pop-up nonsense. How many staff members are you going to dedicate to surfing randomly until they hit pop-up ads?
More realistically, you'd probably wait until someone reported a pop-up, then cancel the appropriate affiliate account (assuming you got enough information to figure out which affiliate it was). Which is exactly what Netflix is doing.
In other words, I'm suggesting that the widespread use of popup Netflix ads may be due to the high payoff ($9!) rather than any tacit endorsement by Netflix.
It's also possible that they make those ad-sized images available inside their affiliate program somehow, and are actually the scheming duplicitous ogres you seem to be assuming. I tend to go with never attributing to malice that which can be so easily explained by stupidity. :-)