Disqus - Friends of jlam

Re: The BBC, microformats, RDFa and Resig

jeresig — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 12:13:00 -0000

That's great to hear about RDFa working with text/html - that'll be a huge boon if it comes about.

Ian is strongly opinionated when it comes to HTML 5. If I had to imagine his thought process I'd guess that he considers extra metadata properties to be superfluous. I think this is a big reason why there's the addition of the data-* prefix attributes. More information about this can be found here:
http://www.w3.org/html/wg/html5/#custom

Re: The BBC, microformats, RDFa and Resig

jeresig — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:11:33 -0000

Oh! That was you in the comments. Sorry about that, then you're now up-to-date ;-)

Re: Blogger Integration Problem with Custom Domains?

nathos — Sat, 24 May 2008 06:31:22 -0000

I got things working. I believe you're correct; Classic Templates are still being used.

In the 'post-footer' section, I added:

<a class="comment-link" href="<$BlogItemPermalinkURL$>#disqus_thread">View Comments< /a>

Then in the 'comments' div I added the General Disqus Code Snippet

Lastly, the "Number of Comments Code" gets pasted in before the </body> tag.

Re: Blogger Integration Problem with Custom Domains?

nathos — Sat, 24 May 2008 05:27:35 -0000

Ah, my mistake. This still only applies to Blogspot hosted blogs. I'm still having a tricky time getting Disqus properly integrated with a Blogger-powered blog that's updated via FTP/SFTP.

Re: Blogger Integration Problem with Custom Domains?

nathos — Fri, 23 May 2008 21:44:14 -0000

It appears these instructions are pretty specific to a certain template.

The default 'Minima' template doesn't have most of the code snippets you replaced.

Re: Blogger Integration Problem with Custom Domains?

nathos — Fri, 23 May 2008 10:49:38 -0000

Are you referring to the standard auto-editor? If so, that still doesn't support Blogger blogs that are published via FTP/SFTP to one's own web host.

Re: Blogger Integration Problem with Custom Domains?

nathos — Fri, 23 May 2008 05:45:41 -0000

Any tips for manually integrating into the custom domain template?

Re: Facebook knows who you are, and that's worth more than you think

paulbuchheit — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 18:52:41 -0000

I'm pretty sure that Facebook already realizes that identity and relationship information is valuable. This blog post is for everyone else, since most people probably haven't given it much thought and are only valuing the superficial aspects of what they see going on there.

Re: Ideas vs Judgment and Execution: Climbing the Mountain

paulbuchheit — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:54:18 -0000

Patents are a special monopoly granted by the government. They have no value apart from that government granted monopoly. If the law changed and patents were eliminated, then his company would be completely worthless. (so it's safe to conclude that Myhvoid will work very hard to prevent those laws from changing in ways that would reduce the value of his patents)

Re: Is fragmentation bad?

paulbuchheit — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:09:54 -0000

Thanks! I agree that track backs might be the right sort of compromise. We'll probably add something like that soon.

Re: Ultra-immersive, long-form video games from the past or future

paulbuchheit — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 05:33:30 -0000

Yeah, that was a pretty cool movie. It's interesting to consider that our whole lives may be inside the game though, and what that means for any concept of reality.

Re: Should Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail block Facebook?

paulbuchheit — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 05:23:42 -0000

I doubt this is the real Robert Scoble. If it is, please verify your Disqus account, otherwise I'll delete the comment in a bit.

Re: Twas the night before Festivus...

paulbuchheit — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 07:46:05 -0000

Hi Sepehr,

That sounds like a great idea! Unfortunately I don't know Persian, so I'm not able to read the announcement, but please let me know if there's anything we can do to help you out.

thanks

Re: Is there more to life than money?

paulbuchheit — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:15:42 -0000

I'm glad you liked it :)

Re: Is there more to life than money?

paulbuchheit — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:15:09 -0000

Berlin,

There really are huge differences among different organizations. I've worked at 4 big companies and 2 startups. They aren't all the same. Small companies in particular have much more potential to be "human" (though of course they can be awful humans).

Re: Is there more to life than money?

paulbuchheit — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:11:38 -0000

Hi DAR,

I'm not suggesting that everyone can or should start a startup. In fact, this post is more about JOINING a startup than STARTING one. You certainly don't need money to join a startup (at least not one which is funded).

Also, I certainly wouldn't claim that startups are some kind of "utopian meritocracy" -- they're not. What is did say is, "Of course smaller companies can be awful too, but they have a greater potential to be good."

My main point is that those who are in a position to join a startup, should seriously consider it. I completely understand that most people don't have the necessary qualifications or are too tied down by other obligations. However, there are also many who aren't, and that's who this was written for.

Furthermore, even for people not in a position to join a tech startup, it's worth thinking about ways to make work life more enjoyable, and there are many ways to accomplish that.

Re: Is there more to life than money?

paulbuchheit — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:59:05 -0000

It was just an error in the payroll system. I got paid eventually.

Re: Is there more to life than money?

paulbuchheit — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:56:33 -0000

Go ahed. I'm glad you liked it.

Re: Is there more to life than money?

paulbuchheit — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 09:48:23 -0000

I don't know yet. I think part of the problem goes back to schools and education, which often suck all the joy out of learning and doing.

I find video games to be somewhat inspirational though. The amount of time and effort that people put into playing them shows that the potential is there.

Re: Is there more to life than money?

paulbuchheit — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 06:40:47 -0000

Wow, that's a great quote! The funny thing is that I have that book ("Re-Creating the Corporation") sitting literally about a foot from my head, but haven't had a chance to read it yet.

Re: We all have tunnel vision

paulbuchheit — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 05:15:59 -0000

Yeah, I'm doubtful of the number "seven" too, but it's familiar to a lot of people and conveys the point that the capacity of our active mind is quite limited.

Re: Back to blogging again, I hope

paulbuchheit — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 00:50:20 -0000

We need to work on making the FriendFeed embedding features more obvious.

You currently need to go to "My Feed" and then click on the "embedded in a webpage" link at the bottom.

Or, go to http://friendfeed.com/embed?user=paul and replace 'paul' with your friendfeed nickname.