Disqus - Latest Comments for iflyhigh

Re: Boing Boing on Rachel Maddow Show: Subverting hate with "Trojan t-shirts"

iflyhigh — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 17:47:09 -0000

I wish the media would get it straight.

There is no such thing as a nazi Skinhead, the proper name is Bonehead. The idea of a nazi skinhead is as ridiculous a thing as the idea of white supremest gangbangers or nazi hip hop.

Skinhead style, music and attitude came from West Indie rude boys. You can't claim the name without claiming the history.

Re: iOS Integration Testing

iflyhigh — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:45:13 -0000

Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.

Re: First All-Automated Hotel Opens in Norway

iflyhigh — Fri, 21 Jan 2011 18:34:07 -0000

Harrah's in Atlantic City has a similar system.

Re: Objective-C Memory Management For Lazy People

iflyhigh — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 12:50:49 -0000

Thanks for the thoughtful reply.

Re: Cyclic graphs. It's called weak references. Why would C retain B if C did not create B? Can you give a more concrete example because this seems like horrible design and I can't think of any other than doubly linked lists or related.

Thanks for your other suggestions, will update.

Re: Introducing makejs

iflyhigh — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 17:55:54 -0000

I just pushed a version with json conf file support, but I think you'll find yourself typing way more with json than you will with yaml, hence the choice to go with yaml.

As for writing it in javascript ... well I don't know a good command line javascript engine that is as ubiquitous as php/ruby/python that supports shelling out, yaml and inotify.

So no, writing it in javascript itself wouldn't be appropriate at all because it increases the number and weight of dependencies.

Re: Bringing Smiles to the Faces of MacOS developers - Miguel de Icaza

iflyhigh — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 15:59:15 -0000

The MonoMac site is timing out.

Re: Kensington KeyFolio rebrands AIDACASE iPad keyboard case, doesn't make it any better

iflyhigh — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 13:56:44 -0000

I have the AidaCase KeyCase. I fixed it by adding velcro to the edge and to the top of the keyboard, so now it's useful in the lap.

For the "Why didn't you just get a netbook?" ... show me a netbook that let's me just take the screen and leave the rest behind? Yeah I didn't think so.

Re: Is This Really The Future of Magazines or Why Didn’t They Just Use HTML 5?

iflyhigh — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:34:14 -0000

Yes, to get the type closer to print in terms of control. But that doesn't mean print designers should be doing it because there is also more there for usability/interaction, other functional areas that go beyond making something look pretty.

Re: NGINX + PHP-FPM + APC = Awesome

iflyhigh — Sun, 31 May 2009 10:51:12 -0000

No, I didn't even know it existed until you pointed it out. Will check it out, thanks for the heads up!

Re: NGINX + PHP-FPM + APC = Awesome

iflyhigh — Sun, 31 May 2009 10:50:08 -0000

This site is actually run on a crappy $10 a month hosting joint.

Check out http://massify.com/ which is what the article is based on.

Re: Slicehost API Notes for the Non-Rails Posse

iflyhigh — Mon, 11 May 2009 18:25:21 -0000

Just committed version 0.01 of the Slicehost management app. You can find
the libs in the /app/lib/slicehost directory if you check the project out.
You can find the project here:

http://github.com/jawngee/S...

Re: NGINX + PHP-FPM + APC = Awesome

iflyhigh — Tue, 05 May 2009 23:57:16 -0000

Give me a few hours, I have the solution for that particular problem.

Re: Bootstrapping Technology For Eight Bucks a Day

iflyhigh — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:21:36 -0000

You're probably right. The pricing I popped in was transfer to S3 for
storage, and then transfer out of CloudFront. Assuming our little user
content generating site did 250gigs a month, what's the more realistic
pricing look like?

Re: Bootstrapping Technology For Eight Bucks a Day

iflyhigh — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:27:21 -0000

I looked at Fusemail, but their web interface was clunky and not as
smooth as GMail, which was the impetus for us to switch over.

Re: Crapify

iflyhigh — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 15:12:13 -0000

Your post is so incorrect, I don't even know where to start.

> Apparently they crowd-sourced an entire movie. Everything
> from the script to the casting was voted on, presumably by
> the same lunkheads who turned Digg into an extension of
> Apple marketing interspersed with unfunny comics and left-wing
> commentary. It’s a process scientifically designed to produce a
> film that’s mediocre for its budget range, which apparently was
> somewhere in between what a student film normally costs and
> my monthly car insurance payment.

First of all, the process you've outlined in your post is *not* the process used on Massify. Massify users voted for the story, not the screenplay. The winner did not direct the movie, he served as a producer and got a small role in the movie. What he did get to do, however, is sit in on the production and participate, work with the screenwriters to flesh out the story, etc.

Furthermore the budget for the film was way beyond the cost of a student film and your monthly insurance car payment combined.

> Don’t get me wrong, it’s neat the way the process worked, but I
> guess I’m unable to see the value in coming up with a novel way
> to produce more cinematic detritus. Hollywood regurgitates this
> crap 10 times a year, except (judging from the trailer) with more
> polish. They don’t need crowd sourcing to add to the dung heap.

It's painfully obvious you've had little to do with film, like ever. Do you really believe most films are the work of a single individual? Movies have been crowd sourcing since before the internet tubes. The only thing Massify changes is who gets let into that particular crowd.

> Don’t get me wrong, it’s neat the way the process worked, but

How can you call the process neat when you haven't the faintest clue how it works?

> I guess I’m unable to see the value in coming up with a novel
> way to produce more cinematic detritus. Hollywood regurgitates

I'm not exactly sure our process is that novel. All we've really done is put a web interface on the same mechanic and opened up who can participate, nothing more and nothing less.

> In fact, the one thing the movie industry has going for it is
> that it’s still much more meritocratic than most of the rest of
> America. A good script is a good script, no matter who wrote it,

Again, you write with authority but it's obvious you aren't a student of film history.

I'd argue your points more, but discourse on the web is futile, specifically when there is a risk that the OP will be shown to be clueless and pedantic.

Re: Feedburner WP Plugin Category Fix

iflyhigh — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:15:14 -0000

I'll take a look at it sometime this week and see if I can get it to
work.

Re: Filthy Dirty

iflyhigh — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 21:00:49 -0000

Absolutely. I would make the same move again, but I am satisfied with the fact I knew I was in a fucked situation. I love those moments of pure clarity.

Re: Filthy Dirty

iflyhigh — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:59:50 -0000

Thanks :)

Re: What’s your most memorable hand?

iflyhigh — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:18:39 -0000

So what the hell happenend??? Don't leave me hanging!

Re: Feedburner WP Plugin Category Fix

iflyhigh — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:01:51 -0000

Send me an email at jon.gilkison at gmail and we'll see if we can get it sorted out.

Re: Feedburner WP Plugin Category Fix

iflyhigh — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:59:01 -0000

Yup that's the way you do it.

You will have to create a new feedburner feed for every category you want to "burn".

Let me know if you run into any issues, there might be some bugs in my patch, I've only used it on this blog and my poker blog.

Re: Feedburner WP Plugin Category Fix

iflyhigh — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:49:30 -0000

Hope you find it useful.

Re: What’s your most memorable hand?

iflyhigh — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:03:32 -0000

Your hand recall is nuts.

I don't remember any one particular hand that opened up the game for me. That last trip to Vegas was a serious epiphany of religious magnitude. For the first time, the game was crystal clear to me and I could easily divorce the random elements from the elements that I could exert influence over to sway the game my way.

Got a long ways to go yet, but, I honestly feel for the first time in the six years I've been playing that my game is hard to approach by others.

Re: Metadata/Attributes in PHP

iflyhigh — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:34:46 -0000

I'm the CTO for massify.com. When I signed on the site was being written in PHP. Unfortunately, it was a hideous wreck so we had to rewrite it, but thought we could use some of the code that had already been written. That wasn't the case however.

Honestly, I don't mind it, there are some benefits to it, but I do miss C# and am sort of kicking myself for not having done the rewrite in Python.

C'est la vie. :)

Re: Flying Solo

iflyhigh — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 02:36:04 -0000

Yeah I was afraid that I was going to end up pushing him out, but you're totally right, I think he was convinced his hand was best and I could have gotten more of his stack. The other thing I considered was that I had laid down two massive busts just an hour prior which I thought might have made him skitish.