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Re: My web site is my space (Scripting News)

dave — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:25:17 -0000

Read the piece again Ken, it's all there.

Re: My web site is my space (Scripting News)

kshep — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:20:13 -0000

I read your piece, Dave.

So your criteria is simply that the comments must only be visible to "a small group of people"?

Re: My web site is my space (Scripting News)

dave — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:12:25 -0000

I said where the line was near the end of the piece. Please reflect
that in your comments.

One of the problems of the "conversational web" is that you get
boilerplate positions in a comment threads from people who don't even
read the pieces they're commenting on.

If the comments get prominence then we can never get beyond the
mindlessness of comment threads and cable TV "news" which I stopped
watching because the script is so mindlessly predictable.

Re: My web site is my space (Scripting News)

kshep — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 13:07:40 -0000

Where's the line, Dave? Do you object to people commenting on your posts on FriendFeed? What about comments on the entries from your RSS feed in Google Reader? What about a Firefox plugin that aggregated all the FriendFeed and Google Reader comments related to this post and displayed them in a sidebar in my browser? Is that permitted? By the way, Diigo's been allowing users to comment on your site for some time now... those comments are only visible to users who have the Diigo browser extension installed. Are you objecting to the technology, or is this really rooted in fear of Google?

Re: Google, open communities, patents (Scripting News)

kshep — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:58:14 -0000

"Any person at any time may file a request for reexamination by the Office of any claim of a patent on the basis of any prior art cited under the provisions of section 301 of this title. The request must be in writing and must be accompanied by payment of a reexamination fee established by the Director pursuant to the provisions of section 41 of this title. The request must set forth the pertinency and manner of applying cited prior art to every claim for which reexamination is requested. Unless the requesting person is the owner of the patent, the Director promptly will send a copy of the request to the owner of record of the patent." -- United States Patent and Trademark Office - 35 U.S.C. 302 Request for reexamination - http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/docum...

Re: The technology behind Tornado, FriendFeed's web server - Bret Taylor's blog

dlsspy — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 01:42:41 -0000

I've done a first pass implementation of tornado's web framework on top of twisted:

http://github.com/dustin/tornado

10 files changed, 92 insertions(+), 1389 deletions(-)

Re: The technology behind Tornado, FriendFeed's web server - Bret Taylor's blog

igorgue — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:54:49 -0000

I second that, I'd like to see twisted.web in that chart

Re: The technology behind Tornado, FriendFeed's web server - Bret Taylor's blog

btaylor — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:50:36 -0000

When we started, we did use Twisted. In practice, I found Twisted tedious. The deferred abstraction works, but I didn't love it in practice. Likewise, the HTTP/web support in Twisted is very chaotic (see http://twistedmatrix.com/trac/wiki/WebDevelopme... - even they acknowledge this). In general, it seems like Twisted is full of demo-quality stuff, but most of the protocols have tons of bugs.

Given all those factors, it didn't seem to provide a lot of value. Our core I/O loop is actually pretty small and simple, and I think resulted in fewer bugs than would have come up if we had used Twisted.

Re: The technology behind Tornado, FriendFeed's web server - Bret Taylor's blog

kshep — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:46:52 -0000

Nice! Thank you, Bret and crew. I'm a little curious... when you were getting started, did you consider Twisted at all? I'd be interested to hear your opinion of that framework, if you have one.

Re: Tennessee Senator’s aide caught sending racist Obama e-mail

Kim_LaCapria — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:56:35 -0000

Thank you Ken, I corrected it. :)

Re: Tennessee Senator’s aide caught sending racist Obama e-mail

kshep — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:48:53 -0000

Diane Black is a State Senator, she's not "Sen. Diane Black (R-TN)". That's the convention for indicating someone is a U.S. Senator. I was simply providing factual clarification to something in the article that may have been misinterpreted.

Re: Tennessee Senator’s aide caught sending racist Obama e-mail

dan — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 11:27:02 -0000

RE: Ken Sheppardson's comment....
You have GOT to be kidding!!!!!! this womans racist act is ENTIRELY alright because she works for the state government and NOT the federal??? Well that makes it all better i guess.........

Re: Tennessee Senator’s aide caught sending racist Obama e-mail

kshep — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:44:03 -0000

Just to clarify, Diane Black serves in the Tennessee State Senate. That is, she's part of the government of the state of Tennessee. She represents the 18th Senatorial District in Tennessee, which includes most of Sumner County and all of Robertson County. This body is independent of the U.S. Senate. Lamar Alexander and Bob Corker are Tennesee's two representatives in the U.S. Senate.

Re: http://blog.louisgray.com/2009/05/latest-twitter-bug-hides-use-of-third.html

kshep — Sun, 31 May 2009 17:35:42 -0000

If it's a "feature", surely they would've notified client authors before rolling it out, right? We would've seen some discussion. Twitter wouldn't just do this unilaterally. That'd be crazy. Why in the world would they want to alienate third party developers like that?

Re: Perhaps it's time to abandon Twitter

coldacid — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:04:22 -0000

Well, even if another open standard for microblogging was created, the same would apply to it. The trick really is to get the services to accept and use an open standard for microblogging, in whatever form it takes. It's just easier to do that with OMB since it already exists.

Re: Perhaps it's time to abandon Twitter

kshep — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:38:27 -0000

The first step in that process is building a concensus that OMB is the right approach. I'm not sure I believe that's been accomplished yet.

Re: Microblogging Aggregation

kshep — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 16:05:40 -0000

I commented over on the FriendFeed entry this post generated, and I'm curious to see if it appears here on your site via Disqus <-> FriendFeed integration.

Meanwhile, if I comment here on your site via Disqus... what happens? Does this appear as a new entry in *my* feed, or as a comment associated with the entry your post already generated?

For me, these routing and sychronization rules are the key.

Re: Who Else Is Disappointed in FriendFeed And Other Twitter Swagger Jackers?

kshep — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 14:28:00 -0000

Looks like you're view of Twitter has threaded convos, ala FriendFeed. Is that native Twitter functionality, or a 3rd party plugin? Do you consider that Twitter swag?

Re: Why I Didn’t Get to See FriendFeed’s Redesign

sarahintampa — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:44:32 -0000

Oh yes, cheese was eaten! :)

Re: Why I Didn’t Get to See FriendFeed’s Redesign

kshep — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 12:39:07 -0000

If you watch Robert's video, Sarah, you'll see everything there was to see on Friday. There was some standing around eating cheese and little round things, but I'm sure you got that at Web 2.0, right?

Re: The Skypesaurus Story

kshep — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 14:20:35 -0000

When you mentioned on-air the other day that you were converting the boxes over to fanless units with an external power brick, it occured to me that they're now pretty similar to the Ultra-Small Form Factor (USFF) Dell Optiplex units. The USFF boxes have the external power brick and everything. These and lots of other Optiplex models are available in bulk... most likely off-lease from call centers, etc.. on eBay for <$200 each.

Yes, you're starting off with used hardware with the associated wear and tear, but if you take into account the value of your time to assemble these sorts of low-end, commodity systems to be used in a cluster, you can often pick up a hot spare or two and still end up saving time and money.

Re: Is it too early for “cloud standards”?

kshep — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:57:05 -0000

A draft of the doc is now on Scribd: http://www.scribd.com/doc/13710927/Open-Cloud-M...

Re: Half a percent of Facebook users hate the new redesign — Facebook should (mostly) ignore them

kshep — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:04:39 -0000

Well now that I have my "sample size" point out of the way ;-) I'll admit that I agree with your premise that it doesn't really matter. Given the growth rates (i.e. new users who don't know what the site used to look like), network effects (if my friends use it, I'll put up with a poor design even if I "don't like" it), and the ambiguous/unknown definition of "active user", I really doubt there'll be any drop in the numbers that you could point to and say "see that... that's because of the redesign."

Re: Half a percent of Facebook users hate the new redesign — Facebook should (mostly) ignore them

eldon — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:54:25 -0000

I understand your point, Ken. The reason I made the conclusion I did is because of the similar fraction of users who have responded negatively to past redesigns -- redesigns that have been even more severe.

If the poll, on the other hand, is correct, then surely we'll see the results manifested through somewhere closer to 190 million users users joining protest groups, voting no on polls -- and subsequently using Facebook less. I have yet to see evidence of protests on that scale.

Re: Half a percent of Facebook users hate the new redesign — Facebook should (mostly) ignore them

kshep — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:47:05 -0000

If this were a truly scientific poll and you had population of 200,000,000 users with a random sample size of 800,000, your margin of error (like you hear them mention on the news when they're talking about political polls) would be down around 0.1%. That is, if the poll results show that 95% percent of the respondents don't like it, you could infer that between 94.9 and 95.1% of the general population didn't like it.

There's obviously some self selection going on here--that is, it's probably more likely that users who don't like the new design will respond to this poll than users who do--but to conclude that 750K respondents are simply a "vocal minority" and dismiss them is way, way off base.