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Re: The Problem With Leaving Twitter

Anton — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:27:30 -0000

For those who like Plurk but don't want to lose his twitter community... May be it would be a compromise solution — to import your Plurk rss feed to twitter via twitterfeed?

Re: SocialWhois » zuko's Public Inbox

Anton — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 14:32:44 -0000

I'm happy it's helpful! =) Screencast would be a better thing, of course, but I haven't found any convenient Windows-compatible tools to make it...

Re: SocialWhois » zuko's Public Inbox

Anton — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:03:50 -0000

Thanks, Jason. Jing is quite useful tool. My next tutorial will be a screencast =)

Re: Relaunch of 50mm.jp site

Anton — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 06:25:06 -0000

excellent photos + necessary navigation - distracting stuff = good photography showcase site = 50mm.jp =)
Just one thing: high JPEG compression level make thumbnails on archive pages look like... err... too bad (http://50mm.jp/browse/1). Maybe it would be an idea to tune that setting. It'll take a bit longer for the page to load though...

Re: On the other hand | Django admin awesomeness

Anton — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 12:46:20 -0000

Thanks for the article, quite useful.

Re: http://ozanonay.com/blog/dry-display-logic-django-objects/

Anton — Sun, 23 May 2010 20:57:47 -0000

Thinking in similar direction, I used to mess with includes before. ‘Rendered’-like method defined on a mixin class looks much more appealing. Thanks for the solution and nice dajax example.

Re: AngularJS

Anton — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 08:32:47 -0000

$inject and $injector seem to be used interchangeably here[0]. I'm only wrapping my head around AngularJS, but I suspect they differ as follows:
• $inject is a property that you could put onto function to explicitly list dependencies, so that they get injected when that function is invoked by AngularJS or by using $injector
• $injector is a function that allows to invoke functions with dependencies injected, and which could be obtained by calling angular.injector()

[0] Update: Apparently there was a typo in examples. Looks like docs have been corrected now.

Re: Jon Atkinson

Anton — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 01:55:36 -0000

Thanks for the instructions, Jon.

Though after following them on OS X Lion (everything seemed to be installed successfully), I get `ImportError: Symbol not found: _PEM_read_bio_SSL_SESSION` when trying to `import M2Crypto`. Full traceback: http://dpaste.org/Ivge9/. Going to try undoing it and pre-installing swig with Homebrew.

Re: AngularJS

Anton — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 01:59:14 -0000

That's what I thought, too. Appears to be fixed now.

Re: Jon Atkinson

Anton — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 02:17:46 -0000

With pre-brew-installed swig I get error trying to `pip install M2Crypto`. Going to try updating Xcode (I have 4.5.2, while 4.6.1 is newest).

Re: AngularJS

Anton — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 02:44:05 -0000

Oh right. Thanks then! Should've done this myself, guessed I might be wrong.

Re: Jon Atkinson

Anton — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:33:46 -0000

I ended up manually removing OpenSSL-installed files from /usr/local/lib/ and /usr/local/bin/ and installing the library with brew.

Then, with SWIG already too brew-installed, from M2Crypto source root I removed `build` and `dist` directories (`setup.py clean` didn't), and ran `python setup.py install build_ext --openssl=/usr/local/opt/openssl`.

After that, it works for me.

Re: Alerts Beta • Sentry

Anton — Tue, 02 Apr 2013 04:26:49 -0000

If I understand the feature correctly, judging by screenshots and new settings, an alert goes off when the number of incoming events (counted regardless of their characteristics) rapidly increases. Aggregates of events that happen to trend at that time get listed under ‘Related Events’. (It wasn't immediately obvious from feature description.)

Re: http://forrstpodcast.com/post/18102685958

Anton — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 13:00:05 -0000

Listening to all the episodes from 2011 that I missed. That was awesome. Maybe guys should just drop “Daily” from the title (and possibly let someone else do the technical audio stuff)—that might would help them find time to return with new episodes. =)

Re: The Creator of Vsauce Wants Us to Stop Underestimating People’s Intelligence

Anton — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 08:04:39 -0000

As some pointed out, as a non-profit NautilusThink should be eligible for Pineapple Fund. Or would that be a drop in the ocean?

Re: Bebo Expands Media Operations, Launches Web Series

cabezas — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:47:28 -0000

It is my core belief that people go onto social networks for a mixture of original and conventional content (Pro Football highlights, Coldplay music videos, etc.). That being said, I believe more and more people are interested in original content, especially when it is someone whom they know directly, or is from their hometown, etc. The novelty of knowing that the content was made by someone like them, is high quality and was not filmed at a professional studio or backlot, is not going to go away anytime soon, it will only grow.

Social networks can benefit by putting the original content in overlapping categories, making it user-friendly to find exactly the type of content one looks for with the click of the 'enter' button. This will expand the time spent online for each social network and will allow companies to sponsor certain categories, such as 'Football', 'Music', 'Martial Arts', etc.

Undoubtedly, the push to get more users to post original material will only help the Social Network to maintain high traffic and attract more people to its site.

I believe as it becomes easier and easier to post animation, video, music, etc. to these sites, the more people will do it, at which point, traditional media will be affected (it already has been).

Re: Why the Mormon-Facebook Rumor Made Sense

cabezas — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:07:46 -0000

LMAO !

Re: Why the Mormon-Facebook Rumor Made Sense

cabezas — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:09:14 -0000

Great post, your logic makes sense. Why not?

Re: Metallica is Suddenly OK With Piracy

cabezas — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:55:12 -0000

Metallica is so tired. Can they please go away? Funny, the way they shut down Napster and submitted info on people who downloaded music, if they were in the hip-hop community, we would not even be talking about them-no one would be.

Maybe if we stop talking about them they will go away. I suddenly feel the urge to download Megadeth tracks.

Re: Metallica is Suddenly OK With Piracy

cabezas — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:12:41 -0000

I think 'Sean P. Aune' mistakenly used the term ROI. The current state of the music industry allows for artists to make much more money from touring than from CD/digital download sales. In terms of ROI, it is difficult to say b/c each artist is different, some artists are bigger internationally-others domestically. This and other variables such as production costs and transportation influence the ROI on touring.

More than likely, with technology advancing and the cost of recording high quality music not expensive at all, it is more than likely that artists would get a better ROI from CD/digital download sales, but there are less CD/digital downloads that are successful in relation to tours that are successful.

Re: Metallica is Suddenly OK With Piracy

cabezas — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:59:51 -0000

Well written, Tiran Dagan. Metallica were beneficiaries of a system tilted towards the producers of music: music labels, artists and publishing companies. As we have experienced the democratization of the music industry, the consumer has become the beneficiary.

It would be interesting to speculate the amount of 'Black' albums that would have been sold if digital downloads were readily available in the early '90s. I remember how the mainstream rock public abhorred Metallica in the mid & late 80's, until the 'Sandman' came out and changed everything.

Most of the millions of people who bought the Metallica 'Black' album did so for one song. One song.

It is sad to see Lars and Co.'s adverse reaction to change, especially a change that would benefit the supposed fans they claim to care so much about. What they have done now, for many, it too little, too late.

I can't understand how someone can support a group who did so much to undermine their fan base, the same fan base they purported to be 'One' with.

Re: Metallica is Suddenly OK With Piracy

cabezas — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:39:04 -0000

I am of the opinion that if you encourage fans to 'bootleg' your music when you are starting out, you really should not be a 'cyber-narc' years later; it is rather hypocritical.

'Bootlegging' recorded music on cassettes was illegal, under the law it was considered stealing.

I grew up in the mid 80's with groups like Metallica, Antrax, Slayer, Overkill, Megadeth, etc. I was at concerts in the Meadowlands, NJ, when Metallica stole the show from Ozzy's headlining show as well as at infamous shows at the now-defunct, temple of heavy metal/nightclub, L'Amour in Brooklyn.

The mainstream rock crowd was not enamored with Metallica in any way. I distinctly remember when people who did not like any thrash groups started getting into Metallica b/c of the MTV airplay of 'One'. That was the end of Metallica for me, as it was for many others. Part of Metallica's allure was that nobody liked them other than the true fans! They were even a group who bad-mouthed most rock/heavy metal groups. Once the rock fans started liking them, it was not the same, the music was not the same and the allure was gone.

In regards to my comment about one song, I was merely stating that many people bought the Black album for one song-in today's marketplace they may not have sold as many records, but rather an insane amount of digital downloads for the song 'Sandman'.

No one can disparage Metallica's success. It is tremendous. I, like many people (but not all people, not all 'millions' of fans), refuse to support a band that has the gall to complain and narc on fans because the paradigm has changed, instead of welcoming it and finding/inventing new revenue streams (which they are now forced to do). When I hear bands like Metallica and Kiss say how much they love their fans, it makes me laugh. They love their fans when they can maximize their profits off of them, yet when they can't any longer b/c of the evolution of technology/markets, they damn the system, damn the universe, and present the names of fans who have spent money on them in the past, to authorities b/c they downloaded some of their music.

It's actually comical-they are actually upset b/c they can't be on a pedestal anymore. Someone needs to tell them that, "...the only constant is change".

So, my apologies, if I disgraced your favorite band. I was just stating my opinion. I just think that either you don't remember Metallica when they started out or you weren't a fan of theirs in the early days b/c their actions against fans in '00 was so anti-Metallica ethos-they had a strong bond with their fans, you have to remember, they spit in the face of the Motley Crue's, the Ratt's, the Quiet Riot's-all those other group where the standard for 'metal'-they were the exact opposite.

They were so hungry, they were so street, as I said, I knew people who would have Metallica bootlegs-I used to buy them in NJ! There were even 'white-label' records! They did not care, they knew they needed it and it was sort of their way of connecting with the fan base and creating more hype for the group. And, boy, did it work. A Metallica fan was much more dedicated than any other fan for the aforementioned groups. They developed a kinship with their fans which was the reason they grew.

Perhaps they should have broken up after the Black album? I mean, The Beatles as a group only stayed together for 10-13 years...maybe there was no place for them to go other than a downward trajectory, since they started so strong, so revolutionary. Again, just an opinion.

Re: Twitter Grader…Um, Who Cares!?

cabezas — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 01:03:47 -0000

LOL....refreshing, could not agree more. A person with 100 followers could get more out of Twitter than one with 6,000-and vice versa. Twitter serves YOUR purpose, whatever that may be-by grading you are comparing to to other Twitters which have nothing to do with your personal Twitter goals/objectives.

Re: Game over

cabezas — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 11:40:08 -0000

Thanks for bringing attention to this matter, most people have no idea the future repercussions of such a drastic move. This whole situation is very sad, many people will be affected by this bailout.

Re: Game over

cabezas — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 12:40:08 -0000

Thanks for bringing attention to this matter, most people have no idea the future repercussions of such a drastic move. This whole situation is very sad, many people will be affected by this bailout.