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Re: The Nokia N900 Evolution

Skyler — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:32:26 -0000

Let me know then please when, if ever I can use a bluetooth keyboard, or bluetooth ODBII connection to type out a long email message, or diagnose my car's engine with an iPhone. Kthxbai

Re: The Nokia N900 Evolution

russellbeattie — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:18:27 -0000

"The iPhone is meant to make calls with and post to twitter, very little else. Comparing the two is like comparing a Netbook with a Scientific Calculator."

That's the stupidest fucking statement I've read in a tech blog in a long, long time. You obviously have no idea what the hell you're talking about.

-Russ

Re: A Big Week For The Mobile Web

fredwilson — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:01:14 -0000

i think the wording i used was pretty clear about the fact that i was using
the words incorrectly
"When I use the word "mobile web", I am not referring to the web running in
mobile browsers, although I understand that is what the words have come to
mean."

Re: A Big Week For The Mobile Web

russellbeattie — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:36:45 -0000

Well then, in your personal weblog you're using the wrong terminology, and you might want to correct that to be more technically accurate. Just a suggestion of course... I completely support your freedom to write whatever nonsense you'd like, disregarding completely the thousands of readers who might be influenced by your words.

:-)

-Russ

Re: A Big Week For The Mobile Web

fredwilson — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:16:17 -0000

i am not trying to redefine anything
i am writing on my personal weblog and i am using words in use in my every
day life

and because some people could take them to mean something else, i wanted to
be clear about that

Re: A Big Week For The Mobile Web

russellbeattie — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 12:25:12 -0000

"When I use the word "mobile web", I am not referring to the web running in mobile browsers, "

Please don't do that. You're presuming to redefine a space that's been under contention for the better part of the past decade.

Just say "Mobile Internet Services" - as that's what you mean anyways, it's more accurate (none of your examples have anything specifically to do with http or html, i.e. "web"), and not filled with literally years of baggage from warring factions that even Sir TBL himself has taken part (One Web vs. Mobile XHTML vs. accessing the web via smartphone browsers).

-Russ

Re: Argh! - RussellBeattie.com

russellbeattie — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 12:08:23 -0000

Seriously!?

It's as simple as it comes, really.

1 lb of beef cut into 1 inch squares
1 half a yellow onion
1 handful of chopped celery
1 handful of chopped carrots
2 medium sized potatoes pealed and chopped
Bunch of kosher salt and seasoning stuff to taste

Grab a pan and cook the beef first, and throw in the onions as well and cook until brown. When they're done, dump it and all the other ingredients into a pot and fill up the water line to about 2-3 inches above the top and then put it on a rolling boil for about an hour. At the end it was a little too soupy, so I turned *up* the temp and boiled off some of the water so that it was thicker.

When the potatoes are done, it's done. Easy peasy. (BTW, the above amounts will serve 2 adults or an adult and a finicky 6yo with some leftovers).

Enjoy!

-Russ

Re: Twitter Search tracker in Python - RussellBeattie.com

russellbeattie — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:32:36 -0000

Reading that made me laugh... I crack myself up.

A screenshot though? I log all IM conversations to a text file for posterity, and potential litigation of course.

-Russ

P.S. Sharks! Cake! I'm hysterical.

Re: The iPhone Crapp Store? - RussellBeattie.com

russellbeattie — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:42:12 -0000

I'm glad you're such an avid fan of my blog that you know about the last two jobs I had... Sadly, mentioning them doesn't prove your point however, and generally makes you an asshole for personally attacking me.

Please fuck off now, any more comments you leave will be deleted.

-Russ

Re: The iPhone Crapp Store? - RussellBeattie.com

zacharye — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 11:22:07 -0000

You're absolutely right Russ. It's perfectly responsible to make uneducated blanket statements about people's work as opposed to posting something of substance. How self-righteous and nonsensical of me to think otherwise. After all, there was a question mark in the title.

With all of those handsets Nokia makes, the quality has to be really varied...

Re: The iPhone Crapp Store? - RussellBeattie.com

russellbeattie — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:45:29 -0000

Sure, I'll go test all 450 apps and get back to you with a breakdown of exact crud percentages. Yeah, right.

If I *told* you my opinions were based on descriptions and overall quantity, then I'm being open and clear about it, and thus not "irresponsible." Additionally, the title has a question mark, no? Nor are there any statements like "it's all 100% shit." is there?

I'm always amazed at the sort of self-righteous nonsense people leave in comments.

-Russ

Re: The iPhone Crapp Store? - RussellBeattie.com

russellbeattie — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:49:00 -0000

NICE!!!!

-Russ

Re: I joined Nokia today! - RussellBeattie.com

russellbeattie — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:09:33 -0000

Hey All,

Thanks for the congrats - if you emailed me on my Nokia account, I should have responded.

I just corrected my title... I just noticed I wrote "technical" not "technology".

I got *a bunch* more comments, but for some reason Disqus isn't showing them - I got them via email alerts though. Very strange.

Thanks again!

-Russ

Re: Twitter Search tracker in Python - RussellBeattie.com

russellbeattie — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:34:03 -0000

That's interesting - I actually love libxml2 as that's what PHP's DOM stuff is wrapped around as well, and it works like a charm.

Thanks, I'll have to look at it.

-Russ

Re: Is this a canonical Python HTTP POST with Basic Authentication? - RussellBeattie.com

russellbeattie — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:08:59 -0000

Ooh, nice! I missed the online docs - though it's the same content you get from the help(httplib2) it's nice to see online.

That's a great sample too. Thanks!

-Russ

Re: Is this a canonical Python HTTP POST with Basic Authentication? - RussellBeattie.com

jacobian — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:43:08 -0000

There actually is pretty extensive documentation: http://bitworking.org/projects/httplib2/ref/. It's also basically a single-method library, so it's very easy to get started with.

Here's what post-to-twitter looks like with httplib2: http://dpaste.com/hold/75561/

If you ask me, the fact that this isn't part of the stdlib is simply criminal.

Re: Is this a canonical Python HTTP POST with Basic Authentication? - RussellBeattie.com

russellbeattie — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:10:02 -0000

I've seen that before, but there's barely any documentation, so I'm not sure how it works.

And again, is that canonical? Is that how 90% of Python developers would do it?

-Russ

Re: Twitter Search tracker in Python - RussellBeattie.com

russellbeattie — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:41:13 -0000

ARRRGHHH!

Again, Python tools drive me nuts. ElementTree is almost useless if the doc has namespaces. It took me the past hour to figure this out:

>>> from xml.etree import ElementTree as et
>>> import urllib
>>> url = "http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?rpp=20&q=palin"
>>> xml = urllib.urlopen(url)
>>> tree = et.parse(xml)
>>> print tree.findall('entry')
[]
>>> print tree.findall('{http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry')
[<Element {http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry at 837b4ec>, <Element {http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry at 837b98c>, <Element {http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry at 837becc>, <Element {http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry at 838136c>, <Element {http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry at 838180c>, <Element {http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry at 8381cac>, <Element {http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry at 838616c>, <Element {http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry at 838660c>, <Element {http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry at 8386aac>, <Element {http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry at 8386f4c>, <Element {http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry at 838940c>, <Element {http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry at 83898ac>, <Element {http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry at 8389d4c>, <Element {http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry at 838d20c>, <Element {http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry at 838d6ac>, <Element {http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry at 838db4c>, <Element {http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry at 838dfec>, <Element {http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry at 83904ac>, <Element {http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry at 839094c>, <Element {http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry at 8390dec>]
>>>

And there doesn't seem to be a way to strip out the namespace stuff. Or maybe there is. No idea, the documentation on Python.org barely even mentions namespaces in the first place.

-Russ

Re: Twitter Search tracker in Python - RussellBeattie.com

russellbeattie — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:48:15 -0000

Ahh, thanks! I even had that page opened at one point... Python docs confuse the fuck out of me.

I agree XPaths are usually easier, but there's not a lot to be saved in the above script really.

-Russ

Re: Twitter Search tracker in Python - RussellBeattie.com

russellbeattie — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:31:31 -0000

I looked at ElementTree - but it was a third party, though I read somewhere it was supposed to be in 2.5? It doesn't seem to be.

I do have simplejson installed, but 1) it's buggy still - it barfed on a Twitter stream the other day in unrecoverable ways - and 2) again, it's just one more library I didn't need for something so simple. Twitter Search's JSON API is actually much, much more featured than the Atom XML stream, though so I may have to just bite the bullet and start using it regularly.

Thanks about the no-op stuff... Having the if statement there makes me a little happier, just in terms of clean coding, but it's good to know in the future. I just tried it and you're right, it works without problems.

-Russ

Re: Bill Clinton got it back (Scripting News)

dave — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:30:42 -0000

Thanks!!

Re: Bill Clinton got it back (Scripting News)

russellbeattie — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:25:12 -0000

Youtube has Bill's Speech from CSPAN: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_6IXjUNP84

-Russ

Re: Ten Things I Want On My Mobile Phone

fredwilson — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 06:32:07 -0000

Makes me want to hack it myself

Re: Ten Things I Want On My Mobile Phone

joelaz — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:00:27 -0000

Fred, for the Crunchbase link via SMS, text "cbsms tumblr" OR "cbsms fred wilson" to 41411. The SMS bot will send you a link to the most relevant page on Crunchbase for any search term that follows "cbsms" (Crunchbase SMS)... companies, people, financial institutions, whatever.

Russell, very cool! I'm not a developer, but it took just a few minutes to figure this out on Textmarks. What a great tool.

Re: Ten Things I Want On My Mobile Phone

russellbeattie — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 01:42:57 -0000

You've got a few entries for #3 already, but you should look at Textmarks.com for custom queries via SMS. It's very simple, no programming involved.

For example, I just created a CBASE keyword, and as a response I told it to give me the results of a web page, and gave it the url: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/\1 . The \1 at the end is the first word of the text you write after CBASE (from \1 to \9, \0 is all text, \p is the phone number of the requester, etc.). Then you can fill in a form to return the results between two pieces of text - say "Website" and "Offices", and you're done.

Text "CBASE digg" to 41411 to see what I did (you'll get back their contact info). It doesn't have the link you wanted, but I'm sure it'd be pretty simple to whip up.

Teach a man to fish... ;-)

-Russ