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Re: Told or Known

toldorknown — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:25:16 -0000

Scott,

The links you refer to are to Mr. Bourasso's page, which he has
apparently taken down in the more than a year since this post was
made. It's hardley my fault he took his own bio down.

A simple Google for his coined term InvestorTainment will return
numerous other places in which you can read the same copy I quoted
today, as he tends to reuse it a bit.

One final note: My post is not slander for two reasons. Firstly, I
said nothing about anyone. I simply quoted his own bio and provided a
couple annotations. Secondly, and most importantly, slander is spoken.
Libel is the term for printed matter.

Re: Told or Known

toldorknown — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 21:32:28 -0000

Yeah. I've bought it back when shiny plastic discs were reasonable things to own. We were so stupid!

Re: Yep. It's Kari.

toldorknown — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 03:16:21 -0000

Re: The Republicans and the Search Engine Optimizers

toldorknown — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 03:07:40 -0000

My feeling is that the more play Palin and her ilk get, the more likely there will actually be a split of the Republican party.

The Goldwater/William F. Buckley, Jr. political conservatives have to have had their fill of the Faustian bargain that was made with the neo-cons, and now that there's nothing left to lose they may just rescind it.

Re: keithisablog

toldorknown — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 14:41:44 -0000

It's poetry! I posted a dramatic reading of one of mine here.

Re: Told or Known

toldorknown — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:42:34 -0000

Well it was four in the morning. I was up because of allergies and she was (clearly) crashed.

Re: Told or Known - MySQL performance tip: Prefetch using "IN"

toldorknown — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:11:43 -0000

No, this isn't eager loading.

It would be eager loading if the list of posts is generated by a simple query, and we used a JOIN at that point to pull in the user data.

This, as they say on Law & Order, assumes facts not in evidence. Marco doesn't mention how the list of posts came to be, and even if it's the result of a select, perhaps the normal path through the code only needs the list of posts but there are several tables from which we might conditionally want to pull corresponding data. If the frequency of those conditions being met is low, pulling everything in with a JOIN every time is a waste of cpu and network bandwidth.

Most importantly, though, it's traditional when posting a "you're doing it wrong" kind of response to a code posting to include your own code demonstrating what you believe to be the correct approach (feel free to do it anonymously, of course).

Re: Told or Known

toldorknown — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:29:30 -0000

Thanks for the thoughtful response. :-)

I actually don't disagree with anything you said.

Perhaps I'm just a little slow, but it wasn't clear to me from the video that Trade A Favor is centered around being a Facebook Application as opposed to being a standalone web site that also happened to provide some Facebook integration.

A fine distinction, perhaps, but one that makes all the difference. As an adjunct to an existing (and wildly popular) social network, the effort required to join or utilize Trade A Favor is dramatically lowered, and the relatively rare "double coincidence of wants" events can be much more naturally surfaced.

I wish you well, and if I ever find myself with some (currently increasingly elusive) spare time, I'll probably offer up my own skills through the service.

Re: Don't laugh at us | (The official) Tumblr Tumblelog

toldorknown — Fri, 09 May 2008 14:40:42 -0000

Congrats on finally jumping on your own bandwagon. :-)

On a serious note, though, you should still maintain at least a status page somewhere other than Tumblr in the case of (perish the thought) an outage. I've got an incredibly underutilized lifetime Joyent Shared Server account from which I'd gladly carve out a little space for status.tumblr.com if you like.

edit: or some other address that's not already a tumblelog.

Re: jhn brssndn

toldorknown — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:43:47 -0000

Nice. I'll definitely be using that one. :-)

Re: Told or Known - stereotypical tumblr user checklist

toldorknown — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:27:19 -0000

A graphics tablet.

Re: strings of my incoherence

toldorknown — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:33:09 -0000

I got 17, but the fan question didn't say "as you look at it" until the answer, the venetian blind thing isn't standard, and I'm not sure the merry-go-round is either.

Re: Aaron White - Free Idea #3

toldorknown — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:21:23 -0000

Judging by the userscript.org numbers and the number of updates I've done, I'd be surprised if there's more than fifty people using it. I feel like I haven't done an adequate job of describing and/or promoting it. Feel free to spread the word in any way you like. :-)

I have no idea whether anything like it could become part of Tumblr. It'd certainly be easier to do on the server side, I'd think.

Re: Aaron White - Free Idea #3

toldorknown — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:55:29 -0000

I can't help with the general solution, but if you've got Firefox and the Greasemonkey extension, Tumblr Follow Mode will let you follow your Tumblrs in their own context. It provides a link to the next tumblelog you follow that has fresh content. I explained it a little better here (screenshots are for an older version, but the principle remains the same).

Re: sunluvr.com

toldorknown — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:23:01 -0000

I use Jott to add reminders to iwantsandy.com on the fly and find it very useful.

Re: http://aleeshka.com/post/28793446

toldorknown — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:20:41 -0000

I don't have an ounce of skill when it comes to designing the look of a page, but everything on that page is clear to my programmer's mind. Feel free to drop me a line (rod at rodknowlton dot com) with whatever questions you have.

Ulterior motive alert: I write much better when I'm answering a real live person's questions, so I might be able to get an article or two out of this. :-)

Re: everyday observations of regular people

toldorknown — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:20:11 -0000

Constraints rock.

Re: Invalid Feed? - Joe Lazarus

toldorknown — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:15:33 -0000

When I pull that down with curl, all I get is:

<h4>No results</h4>

Re: Told or Known

toldorknown — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 01:57:26 -0000

Nice. Thanks for the link.

Re: Told or Known

toldorknown — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:59:28 -0000

I knew it was a Borg, just wasn't sure which one. Are you sure it's from Voyager?

Thanks for the Serenity reference.

Re: Told or Known

toldorknown — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:55:28 -0000

Okay, you're the second identification of Tyra, so I'll go with that. On the mini-me, what I don't know is where that cartoon version appeared.

I don't think r4c2 is Mao. The hair's not right. It looks a lot like this korean bill, but not an exact match, like the image is from a younger version of the subject.

Re: Tumblr Audio Playlist - Joe Lazarus

toldorknown — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 02:41:10 -0000

One potential problem with this is load time. Fred points out in the linked post that the load time is long if you use ten blogs, and I'm guessing this sort of mashup is going to attract people that follow quite a few more than that. Additionally, while it may not be documented anywhere, Tumblr would prefer to keep api hits below the 1/sec/client mark. This would mean an over two minute load time for me, unless Daryn's player loads the feeds asynchronously, which I don't think it currently does. One potential compromise would be to only pass the blogs showing up on the first page of the "audio only" Dashboard to the player.

Otherwise, though, the Greasemonkey script wouldn't be very hard to write. In fact, the (currently disabled) Follow Mode script already provides an example of grabbing and extracting blog urls from your "following" page, if someone with a little more free time than I (or even more sleep in the last couple days) wants to take a swing at it.

Re: my socks don't fit

toldorknown — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:48:51 -0000

No, just stylish. :-)

Re: Told or Known - Sarcasm

toldorknown — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:46:12 -0000

I'm guessing it's a "regional" thing, with them having different meanings for different sub-communities on the net. I personally use them both as sarcasm, with the wink being slightly more playful (just like offline).

Re: my socks don't fit

toldorknown — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 17:39:31 -0000

Speaking of which, when's your son due?

Our daughter's due 2/27, but we're hoping for 2/29. :-)