Disqus - Friends of sera

Re: Disqus - New Comments System

justindz — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:48:43 -0000

Snazzy?

Re: Disqus - New Comments System

justindz — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:03:54 -0000

Yeah, the blogger comments are pretty weak. My main issue was that there's no way for people who post on my blog to get updates about what others say back to them in many cases. That's a disincentive to participate in the discussion.

Dustin and I were talking about threaded. It's more complex on the one hand, but simpler on the other. I suppose it pays off more at much higher comment volumes. Reminds me of the old LiveJournal days.

But, I'm definitely sold. I might incorporate Disqus into Chapbook, as I'm not entirely sure I need a proprietary comment system there anyway. It wouldn't be too hard to rip it out.

Re: Disqus - New Comments System

justindz — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:11:55 -0000

Yar, the API looks pretty simple. I read a bit last night. My only concern would be the potential loss of comments if Disqus went away. Not a big issue on my blog, but it would be more so in an application.

Re: Chapbook - Write and Share Poetry

justindz — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:19:44 -0000

This is really short and un-inspiring (test data).

Re: The World's Most Innovative Companies by Region: BusinessWeek

justindz — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:57:55 -0000

Agreed. And, as I often say, at some point risk aversion becomes risky, so you have to actually be averse to risk aversion to avoid risk.

Re: My Next Programming Language?

justindz — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:54:41 -0000

I'm in Marketing and have the luxury of learning things based mostly on interest rather than resume. I happen to dislike Java already, so I'm kind of ruling that out although it might be a bit unfair.

Re: Details Highlights Problem w/ Americans

justindz — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 13:06:46 -0000

Periodic short bursts aren't really extended cardio, but he is like swinging around a giant sack of potatoes. Good call!

Re: RSS Feed for Per Item Comments?

justindz — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 18:56:17 -0000

So if I want to make that available via auto-discovery, how would I do that? I don't have control over the unique ID you assign to each thread, so I suppose I'd need to write some client-side javascript to add the auto-discovery link to the head tag?

Re: Disqus - New Comments System

justindz — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 07:51:22 -0000

Yep, I like the service. I worked it in to Chapbook as well and am using it on Tumblr now too.

Re: My Next Programming Language?

justindz — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:13:22 -0000

Yeah, I looked through there a few times. Dustin recommended it as well. It seems to be a pretty good list. I'm starting to think that I will focus on javascript and Erlang because I'm interested in Rhino, javascript seems practical and Erlang seems to be potentially useful and different enough from procedural to teach me new tricks.

Re: Log users in

justindz — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:04:47 -0000

If you're working with Rails, you may also have to remove forgery protection on your openid related login actions. I've read that this provides marginal security at best, and so this shouldn't be overly concerning. Code looks like this:

class AccountController < ApplicationController
protect_from_forgery :except => [:login, :open_id_authentication]

Re: Button - connection

justindz — Wed, 07 May 2008 21:17:14 -0000

I'm confused in the nonce protection section. I didn't see any instructions on how to modify the script or my form to include a nonce. Is this something that has to happen within the code for the connect button? If not, is this something that goes in my user's account edit page form where the connect button is also housed?

Sounds important, so I want to get this right ;-)

Re: Heroku | Heroku & Redpoint Ventures

justindz — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:48:41 -0000

Well done. Looking forward to the pipeline. I'm having a blast building my app. Heroku is making me want to get back in to software dev :-)

Re: Paul Graham's Wealth and The Gospel of Consumption

justindz — Fri, 09 May 2008 08:01:20 -0000

I buy the argument that you can make wealth without eating from the pie using the restoring a car and curing cancer scenarios. What strikes me as disingenuous is that I think Paul implies 1) that the recognition of the pie fallacy in those cases disqualifies it in all other cases and 2) that none of the startups that he advocates in the rest of the article would eat from the pie.

Re: Caption contest

justindz — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:52:09 -0000

If I rotate my hand, it's called "testicular torsion."

Re: Oh, before I forget -- I'm going to work for Obama

justindz — Fri, 09 May 2008 13:58:22 -0000

This is like Tucker Carlson trying to square off against Jon Stewart as if he were a pundit. There's a reason this is called "Fake Steve."

Re: Hillary drawing new voters into the Democratic party

justindz — Fri, 09 May 2008 18:44:51 -0000

Not sure who Hussen is, but I did want to point out that an elitist is someone who believes in rule by an elite group. What you described is not an elitist. Elitist also doesn't get capitalized at the end of a sentence.

Re: Haha - Stupid CS Joke

justindz — Sat, 10 May 2008 12:22:43 -0000

Oh, I thought the joke was about the first CS student communicating with a human female. Thanks for clearing that up.

Re: Haha - Stupid CS Joke

justindz — Tue, 13 May 2008 07:26:22 -0000

Hah!

Re: Compilers are not Code Quality Enforcers

justindz — Tue, 13 May 2008 08:17:21 -0000

Actually, I think the problem isn't outsourcing so much as it is scale and strategy. If you and one outsourced developer work on an app and both touch each other's code along the way, you're probably better off than if you have five local developers all completely bound to only their portion.

Of course, I have yet to experience outsourcing done correctly so I'm only conjecturing as I haven't researched it thoroughly either. So I'm pretty sure I agree with you in practice.

Re: Compilers are not Code Quality Enforcers

justindz — Wed, 14 May 2008 08:35:02 -0000

I think "done right" means offshoring rather than outsourcing so you
keep the resources and having different locations build services or
APIs or components in SOA sense that they use to collectively build
product. Where people get in trouble is in buying code at low low
prices, letting go of the intelligence behind the code and giving it
to their actual employees to "take over."

Now, if you need to generate more code than you can hire for, I can
see where outsourcing starts to make more sense. However, unless you
retain the resources you again are just increasing the burden on your
already at-capacity in-house resources.

But I haven't had to juggle these decisions, so I'm speculating.

Re: Open Thread - Barack Obama | News from Presidential Candidates, the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the White House

justindz — Wed, 14 May 2008 08:39:00 -0000

I voted early in WV and I've been looking for a local breakdown of results across the state. Any leads?

Best of hard work in the remaining contests. Stay positive!

Re: Open Thread - Barack Obama | News from Presidential Candidates, the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the White House

justindz — Wed, 14 May 2008 10:29:05 -0000

Actually, I managed to find this and it was exactly what I was looking
for. Splits by county, including factors like the presence of
universities, etc. Thanks a bunch. I was born in Jefferson County
and predicted that we'd come closest to a split--that seems to have
been the case.

Re: Disqus

justindz — Tue, 20 May 2008 19:45:18 -0000

I am a user and a fan. There are a few things I don't like, but they're minor and some only apply if you're building your own web app.

Re: 'Spanky's Second Test' @ Chapbook

justindz — Thu, 22 May 2008 21:42:04 -0000

Yah, that's the issue with using Disqus in this way. I'm thinking
about it. I have my own comment system, but it's not as good as
Disqus because that's not the focus of the app. If you use Clickpass,
actually it comes out to be integrated but that's a bad answer.

What did you think of OpenID on the site? Simple? I'm really
dedicated to not proliferating profiles.