davewiner

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by davewiner 7y ago
I like this in your profile -- "Important: If you are looking at this profile because you thought something I posted was wrong, dismissive, disrespectful, douchebaggish, what have you, I would really like to hear from you so that I cou
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by davewiner 7y ago
In case anyone is wondering, this is the FAQ on Google and HTTP. http://this.how/googleAndHttp As far as I know they've never responded.
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by davewiner 7y ago
They aren't secure. I had a phone number hijacked a few years ago, and it took a lot of perseverance to retake control of the number. The phone company (AT&T) didn't know how to handle it. What they did understand is how to cl
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by davewiner 8y ago
Are you a good writer?
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by davewiner 8y ago
The solution is do nothing. Leave it the fuck alone.
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by davewiner 8y ago
won't engage in discussion -- it's been a long day, lots of discussion, and most of it repetitive. The fact that so much discussion is needed is a pretty good indication that the open web should not be corporatized. Google shoul
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by davewiner 8y ago
I don't have anything against SSL, and say so in the Google and HTTP piece. My concern is Google presuming to make the rules for the open web. They're guests here, as we all are, and guests don't make the rules.
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by davewiner 8y ago
BTW, you're wrong about your "reflexive" theory. I use far too much Google stuff. I'm on GMail. I use Chrome. I am a Node developer which uses their V8 implementation of JavaScript. I hate it but I mostly use Google for
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by davewiner 8y ago
Thank you, that's a very nice thing to say. Over the years I've come to respect Stallman's way of viewing things more and more. The open web is worth fighting for. And Google is moving into new territory now, by deciding to f
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by davewiner 9y ago
Good issues have as much value as contributed code, maybe more.
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by davewiner 10y ago
This is the best book I've read on positioning. The anecdotes might be a little dated now, but the concepts are solid. https://www.amazon.com/Positioning-Battle-Your-Al-Ries/dp/00...
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by davewiner 10y ago
It goes back to No One Ever Got Fired For Buying IBM. ;-) When I came out of comp sci school in 1978, everyone thought that DEC and Data General had an insurmountable lead and that PCs were toys. Then they thought Macs were toys. Then they
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by davewiner 10y ago
Isn't Ghost a Markdown-based editor? If so, I can't imagine anything more unlike Medium.
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by davewiner 10y ago
This is what I am using in my work -- https://github.com/yabwe/medium-editor Dave
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by davewiner 10y ago
In my experience in tech, that level of bluster comes just before the platform is undermined and then overtaken by an insurgent. Watch out for over-confidence. Even paranoia won't keep you in your seat of power, but bluster is a sure s
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by davewiner 10y ago
There are also sites that were done 10 years ago, and are never going to be updated. I pay to keep them online, and they are authoritative on the events they document. But they are never going to be HTTPS sites. If Google wants to de-index
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by davewiner 10y ago
Thank you. That's pretty much exactly right.
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by davewiner 10y ago
You're just making this up. It's completely wrong.
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by davewiner 10y ago
We don't. And it doesn't.
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by davewiner 10y ago
This post, written with 1999.io, might help explain the context. http://scripting.com/2016/06/08/1311.html Dave
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by davewiner 10y ago
The About page should NOT have required JS. That was a mistake. I'm going to fix it, but not tonight. Here's an example of a blog post written in 1999.io. http://scripting.com/2016/06/08/1311.html Y
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by davewiner 10y ago
The technology is 2016, not 1999.
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by davewiner 10y ago
To edit a blog you have to enable JavaScript because the blogging software is written in JS. It would be possible to create a client that didn't, but that doesn't exist today.
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by davewiner 10y ago
That was the year we did the first browser-based blogging software. It's when Edit This Pager was invented. The first wave of bloggers. The name weblog. It basically came together in 1999.
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by davewiner 11y ago
Also here's a link to the repo.. https://github.com/scripting/river5 Dave
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by davewiner 11y ago
BTW, for people having trouble getting through to my blog (sorry if you are) here's a link to the GitHub repo. https://github.com/scripting/river5 Dave
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by davewiner 11y ago
Maybe your google is broken, but on mine, I get plenty of hits. If you do a view source on the page you'll see why it works, there's a static copy of the full text just for google to index. Try this search: https://www.
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by davewiner 11y ago
Sorry for the trouble, the site is in active development, and I must have broken that recently. Will fix soon as I can.
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by davewiner 11y ago
Thanks for posting that link. It's important background info that apparently the other commenters weren't aware of. They basically have, due to their excellent product, deep pockets, and professional promotion, become the default
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by davewiner 11y ago
And of course Medium didn't pay you to write the post, another difference from magazine publishers.

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