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Re: Implementing some new RSS ideas in Fargo

Peter Stuifzand — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 16:29:05 -0000

Why not use a domain name or url for the service attribute?

Re: Gratis extra ruimte krijgen op Dropbox

Peter Stuifzand — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 03:07:07 -0000

Ik kreeg 50 GB (voor twee jaar) toen ik mijn Samsung Galaxy S3 koppelde aan Dropbox.

Re: A Guide to Backing Up Pinboard

Peter Stuifzand — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:39:55 -0000

Isn't this (https://[pinboardusername]:[pinboardpassword]@api.pinboard.in/v1/posts/all?format=json) the unique url to the file?

Re: A Guide to Backing Up Pinboard

Peter Stuifzand — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:04:18 -0000

Why don't you download the file directly from the Pinboard url? Security, perhaps?

Re: Scripting News: The year is twenty-twelve

Peter Stuifzand — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 05:57:05 -0000

The strange thing is that in the Netherlands I haven't heard many people say 'twintig tien' (2010). Even though we said 'negentien negenennegentig' (1999) and everything. It just sounds different. In English I don't feel this difference in the sound.

Re: Scripting News: I now see Stallman's logic

Peter Stuifzand — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:53:39 -0000

I was looking through my own Disqus settings and I found something called "Truncate comments". It allows you to set a maximum word count, but I couldn't quickly find out if it worked like you say. But that seems to be a caching (lag) issue. It's under Appearance.

Re: Scripting News: First thoughts about oEmbed

Peter Stuifzand — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 05:44:01 -0000

Why not use a more REST approach and GET the photo page with an Accept header containing "applications/json+oembed", or something similar? Then you don't even need to discover the service. It was there all along.

Re: http://stelabouras.com/post/4000086387

Peter Stuifzand — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 20:07:38 -0000

I found this page: http://code.google.com/p/go.... It says you can use OAuth to connect to the API. Maybe you've seen (and tested) this already. Maybe I'm wrong.

Re: http://stelabouras.com/post/4000086387

Peter Stuifzand — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 06:51:28 -0000

Hi, why do you want me to fill my Google Reader credentials into the username / password form?

Re: Anti-Fragility - Peter Stuifzand weblog

Peter Stuifzand — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:42:38 -0000

Maybe predators aren't Black Swan events, but it's still an example of anti-fragility.

Re: Anti-Fragility - Peter Stuifzand weblog

Peter Stuifzand — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:11:27 -0000

I was hoping to gain some understanding on how to apply anti-fragility to software and to find out if it's at all possible. So, at the moment, I don't care much about the costs, as it is all a mental exercise.

With regards to buildings and earthquakes you could be right, I'm no architect or geologist.

Re: Anti-Fragility - Peter Stuifzand weblog

Peter Stuifzand — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 15:06:36 -0000

An example that I was thinking of is evolution. In this example the predator is a shock and the group becomes stronger. However, what is good for a group is not necessarily good for an individual. Some individuals don't survive, because of the predator. The individuals that do survive are probably stronger and are more resilient to that predator. Because of this the group will survive in the long run. So in a way all species bet on anti-fragility.

Re: Anti-Fragility - Peter Stuifzand weblog

Peter Stuifzand — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:04:36 -0000

Taleb explains a way where there is something better than robustness, called anti-fragility. Can we do better than robustness in software?

Re: Anti-Fragility - Peter Stuifzand weblog

Peter Stuifzand — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 14:02:10 -0000

Apparently you didn't see the video that I linked to. Taleb explains how a package in the mail becomes better from shocks. To use your explanation: a building that becomes stronger when there are earthquakes.

Re: You Are a Product - Blog - thoughts from the red planet

Peter Stuifzand — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 15:45:38 -0000

Hello Nathan, reading this article made me think of Erich Fromm. You should read what he wrote about the marketing orientation (http://webspace.ship.edu/cg..., as it seems to apply to this article.

Re: Anti-Fragility - Peter Stuifzand weblog

Peter Stuifzand — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 16:39:34 -0000

So instead of waiting for the 'world' to create the shocks, you create the shocks yourself. The system as a whole becomes better when the found problems are fixed.

But don't you think this only leads to robustness instead of anti-fragility? You shake the box, open it and see its content in pieces. It becomes better, but only after you fix the problems.

Re: Google's problem - Peter Stuifzand weblog

Peter Stuifzand — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 08:59:56 -0000

That's also a good point. Another place where Google can improve is in the backend. Google needs to download every page that can be found through its interface. The downloading of these pages also takes time. At some point this can only be improved by improving the websites themselves.

Re: Google's problem - Peter Stuifzand weblog

Peter Stuifzand — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 18:21:51 -0000

Yes, among other things. Google has created many technologies to increase the speed of websites they can't otherwise improve.

Re: Peter Stuifzand weblog: Gnome Do plugin for connecting to SSH

Peter Stuifzand — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 15:08:26 -0000

Have you tried looking in Do Preferences > Plugins > Community plugins. Normally it's available there. I'm not sure about Fedora.

Otherwise you should look at the code in the http://launchpad.net/do-plugins where it is also available. You can download the whole repository with bazaar (or bzr), compile and install it.

As a last resort you can use the code from my repository at http://code.peterstuifzand.nl/git/gnome-do-ssh.git/ But this code is about two years old and I'm not sure if it works with the current Gnome Do.

Re: Proposal for handling 403 forbidden - Peter Stuifzand weblog

Peter Stuifzand — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 13:07:44 -0000

I hate it when I mix up my HTTP error codes. Consider it changed.

What do you think about changing the interface of browsers like this? To me it feels like this would make the 401 error code actually useful.

Re: Proposal for handling 403 forbidden - Peter Stuifzand weblog

Peter Stuifzand — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 09:28:43 -0000

Browsers vendors will of course explain to users how this works, for example when it first appears. The web page on which the user gets this message has the opportunity to explain to the user what happens. This new bar will help users move on when they don't want to login, as this isn't a modal dialog.

Re: Peter Stuifzand weblog: Giving URxvt a try again

Peter Stuifzand — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:29:51 -0000

I already use urxvtcd. For as far as I know that will start urxvtd and a new terminal window, right? I will take a look at the 256 color support and PPA. Thanks!

Re: EetTV.nl - Appelperebroodjes

Peter Stuifzand — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 09:00:17 -0000

De appelperenbroodjes zijn heel lekker (al zeg ik het zelf). De video is wel héél slecht gemonteerd.

Re: Peter Stuifzand weblog: jQuery and postJSON

Peter Stuifzand — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 03:24:31 -0000

This is the same as my second example and doesn't work as expected. The value in response is a string version of the JSON object. The last version takes care of that by parsing the JSON string.

Re: Create something every day - Day 23 - Breaddough / Apple + Pear

Peter Stuifzand — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:57:25 -0000

Ja dat is altijd wel mooi om te zien. Dan lijkt het net of het echt werkt.