Disqus - Latest Comments for rpcutts

Re: What could Ticketmaster have done to avoid the breach?

rpcutts — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 12:25:41 -0000

My wife's credit card details were compromised by this, she was not informed until barclaycard called her to cancelcher card an Ticketmaster are refusing to acknowledge it. If this has been compliant then GDPR is worthless.

Re: Gravel, Adventure Bikes, Endurance-Road… Stop The Madness, They’re All The Same

rpcutts — Sat, 14 Jul 2018 05:07:02 -0000

I agree in that I don't know why anyone would buy one of each. But the very loosely defined categories helped me find the kind of bike I wanted. I spent a while searching Google for "like cyclecross but for touring" or "comfortable cyclecross" without success. Only when finding out the terms adventure and gravel did I find pot load of bikes to consider.

You yourself have to resort to using the name adventure towards the end of the article (despite the use of scare quotes) in order to describe the subtle differences of a bike. So although marketing and PR are always hilarious, I don't think you should be quite as dismissive of the usefulness of this language.

But do I wish the language was better, letting me easily narrow down my search for the right bike for me? Very much so.

Re: Why Twitter must blow by 140

rpcutts — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 04:43:09 -0000

If they do go ahead with this kind of thing, which I agree they should, I would like them to have the long post attached to a 140 char tweet (just like they do with an image) rather than the article be an extension of the article itself.

So, rather than show the first 140 chars of the post with a 'show more' icon, you'd see a tweet introducing / describing the post. Like people do now when they link to a blog post. This way the bite sized 'scannability' (sorry) of my timeline is not damaged.

I value greatly being able to quickly move through tweets which is why I am glad my twitter client defaults to collapsing media like images.

Re: The Bullet Journal: why analog task management doesn’t work

rpcutts — Mon, 06 Jan 2014 03:18:43 -0000

Certainly valid points about expending time and effort on things software can do for you.

I don't know if the bullet journal system will work for me, but I do know that electronic task management don't. I've tried many, and every time they just gather dust.

I hate typing on my phone so there's a huge barrier for me personally, to actually writing stuff down on the go.

Moreover, electronic task management systems tend to play to my laziness by being too clever/efficient. I set them up, add a few tasks here and there, then leave it, it gathers dust, gets ignored.

I honestly don't know what any software could do to stop me doing that. I'm certainly out of ideas.

The advantages for me personally of something like bullet journal:

I find writing, the physical act, enjoyable. That's one thing that bullet journal can do for me, encourage me to actually capture my tasks in a way software just can't.

I find the transcribing to a new sheet of paper very helpful for keeping what I need to do organiser in my head. Many task software packages offer this kind of thing in an automated 'plan your week/day ahead' feature, but again, it's that I enjoy writing that encourages me to keep up with it.

It's a very odd distinction that I can't explain much better but there you are. I understand that software is more efficient, but for me, in this use case, efficiency is the enemy.

Re: kids of today - Blog in isolation

rpcutts — Thu, 05 Sep 2013 15:30:29 -0000

K&R was impenetrable for me when I first started out. A First Book of ANSI C is what got me through my 1st programming module.

Then we started on Java... That's when the drinking really started.

Re: Pint to pint: The Free Trade Inn, Newcastle

rpcutts — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 17:47:53 -0000

Great pub in the most perfect of spots.

Re: COMPETITION - OUR FAVOURITE WEB VIDEOS - PRODUCTION DIARY

rpcutts — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 16:26:01 -0000

I'm a sucker for stop motion / speed videos so I love this Dulux one.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Re: COMPETITION - OUR FAVOURITE WEB VIDEOS - PRODUCTION DIARY

rpcutts — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 15:02:39 -0000

I'm a dog person so I love the Be More Dog video, you can't go wrong with animals.

My suggestion is The Force by Volkswagen.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

It appeals to my inner geek, reminds me a little of childhood, and the kids mannerisms are perfect.... and there's a dog.

Re: Make a Twitter out of RSS

rpcutts — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 11:54:11 -0000

Could pump.io be used in this way?

Re: Making Ember.js Easier

rpcutts — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:16:09 -0000

I can't agree with this more. Especially the point regarding client/server mvc

Re: Why I Won’t Be Using BetaPunch for User Testing

rpcutts — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:43:44 -0000

Unbelievable. PR at its very best.
I'm amazed they weren't much more sheepish after the original incident.

I'm surprised people are being critical of you for documenting the indecent in this way. The more potential customers know about there potential to be arseholes the better.

Re: Nexus Vintage

rpcutts — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:23:55 -0000

I love this but the way android scrolls the wallpaper out of step with the homescreens is just too jarring for me. I'm not sure there's a way to prevent this.

Re: Nexus Vintage

rpcutts — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:23:55 -0000

I love this but the way android scrolls the wallpaper out of step with the homescreens is just too jarring for me. I'm not sure there's a way to prevent this.

Re: Time to draw a line under state sponsorship of football clubs

rpcutts — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 09:06:11 -0000

You didn't mention when Newcastle were sponsored by Northern Rock.

Re: the awkward second post - Blog In Isolation

rpcutts — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 09:37:41 -0000

All systems go.
I do love a good blog migration.

Re: Lee Clark sacked by Huddersfield Town freeing former Newcastle midfielder to discuss move to Leeds United

rpcutts — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:50:43 -0000

How odd.

Re: Google Music - available by 2017 | Blog in isolation

rpcutts — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 07:31:12 -0000

It is, some may say, a bit shit.

Re: TurkishDaughterInLawOfAFriendBuntu - Another Url, Another Planet

rpcutts — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 05:08:18 -0000

Unity working on older hardware didn't make this release. It's planned in for ten years time.

Re: The Many Brawls of Michael Arrington - Technology - The Atlantic Wire

rpcutts — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 11:34:35 -0000

I'm sure there are many like him and worse in that industry but he's certainly a prize tool.

The worst thing about URL shortening services is that sometimes you click a link to what you think is a tech news article but in reality it's a link to a TechCrunch page. I've had to alter my hosts file to prevent future misfortunes of this kind.

http://www.ismikearringtona...

Re: well salt my peanuts

rpcutts — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 03:46:22 -0000

Top tip: If you're partial to spelling mistakes and apostrophe calamities at the best of times. Don't proof read and publish posts after midnight. *sigh*

Re: Moving from Wordpress to Jekyll (and a new design) - Chris Dzombak

rpcutts — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 07:25:17 -0000

I've recently gone through this process myself, out of curiosity more than anything else.

I exported my Wordpress posts to XML too but I converted them manually as I don't have many at all. I couldn't find any scripts to convert to markdown as appose to Textile and it wasn't worth creating one for the number of posts I had (-10 geek points for me).Some of my url did change, by choice. I wanted to tweak some of them for neatness sake and some I realised were a bit wrong. Wasn't an issue for disqus because you just upload a CSV file of: http://old.url, http://new.url
http://old.url, http://new.url
http://old.url, http://new.url

Worked like a charm.

Re: farewell Paul Scholes | Blog in isolation

rpcutts — Tue, 31 May 2011 05:39:11 -0000

I'm especially fond of the story of him being asked who his favourite player of all time was in 2002 and him replying with "Frankie Bunn, scored 6 goals in a league cup tie against Scarborough once."

Re: the joy of Markdown | Blog in isolation

rpcutts — Tue, 17 May 2011 18:51:51 -0000

You had me until emacs.

Re: Budgt 2011: Let's call the 40p rate what it is – the basic rate

rpcutts — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 08:56:17 -0000

"40p is the basic rate."

That is an absurd thing to say.

Re: Human beings aren't very good at listening

rpcutts — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:03:43 -0000

It may be a "fact" that the crime rate has gone down in the UK. Don't make the mistake of confusing crime statistics with actual crime.