mmatants

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by mmatants 15y ago
I think future Web standards should take out the Gecko/Chrome/IE layout+parsing engine and make it a separate library. Standardize a minimalistic (but powerful) GL-style presentation API. Why are standards committees dictating developer wor
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by mmatants 15y ago
As a developer, it's fantastic to read your perspective on this: I am glad there are entrepreneurs out there who don't buy into the cargo-cult of startup geek burnout. If anything, I'd be wary of someone who is too into their craft - they
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by mmatants 15y ago
They seem to be oversimplifying "US Patent 7406501 System and method for instant messaging using an e-mail protocol". It's not "just" instant messaging: the actual useful bit is the "reply to email to send instant message internally" functi
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by mmatants 15y ago
It's interesting how the obscurity is a self-selection filter for quality contributors. Making quality contributions requires more effort . Having the front-page content as a "honeypot" of sorts weeds out those individuals who are primaril
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by mmatants 15y ago
Some interesting ideas, for sure. I agree with the concept of streamlining things. But I strongly oppose the requirement of real-names-only. It should be possible to use FB for authentication/etc, but still maintain anonymity within the "ma
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by mmatants 15y ago
It's unacceptable to transmit in plain-text a password that the user specified. But if it's a randomly-generated new nonce, seems OK as a pragmatic middle-ground. Folks like us, who care, will log in and change it.
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by mmatants 15y ago
Indeed. Contrast that with the "cleverness above all else" geek ego push, commonly found on discussion sites such as this. Abandoning appreciation for "programming skill" has helped me be much happier and more efficient in just getting thin
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by mmatants 15y ago
http://medialize.github.com/URI.js/docs.html#normalize-searc... So the current behaviour is to turn "?&foo=bar&&foo=bar" into "?foo=bar". I've coded a few client-side scripts where removal of unneeded ampersands was useful, bu
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by mmatants 15y ago
I actually interpreted the title as having the exact opposite emotion - the frustration that there are only three oligarchs in this entire business now.
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by mmatants 15y ago
I suppose the expectation is that unless you are escaping imminent danger (refugee status) or joining a loved one (marriage), your decision to change your home is a calculated move - and the gov't gives a similarly calculated go-ahead. In o
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by mmatants 15y ago
Just to add to the over-thinking: I find myself marking things as read when I've gleaned their meaning from the subject, without instructing the app to display the entire message body. "Mark as Read" should be "Mark as Understood".
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by mmatants 15y ago
True, in fact, having played World of Warcraft and having observed other players, I think the satisfaction "pay-off moments" can be interleaved with huge stretches of monotonous activity (essentially waiting) - people show surprising reserv
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by mmatants 15y ago
Interesting, I think they mis-characterize Steve Yegge's rant. Steve did not give Google+ a glowing opinion, but the "pathetic afterthought" part was aimed only at the API part of it, not the entire product.
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by mmatants 15y ago
And I am so glad they did. I remember feeling unsettled by JS's lack of formal classes... and then I was enlightened.
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by mmatants 15y ago
The web needs a standard API for displaying content. 95% of the client-side headaches out there are due to browser DOM rendering and event model quirks and incompatibilities.
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by mmatants 15y ago
I have seen this feature "chart" pasted into HN posts before. Didn't folks slam the original iPhone the same way? Not to say that the Fire is a guaranteed hit, but I think that as a consumption device aimed at consumers it needs very little
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by mmatants 15y ago
I, for one, thought that he was going to argue against the overall hierarchical FS metaphor. Personally, I wonder what things would be like if the OS provided a key-value store (or some such NoSQL-ish API) as a core service instead.
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by mmatants 15y ago
Isn't WebOS basically like that already? From what I understand, it uses most of the same tooling as regular HTML apps, just with some OS hooks. But then I don't know much. If that's the case, then it's the closest to what you describe out
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by mmatants 15y ago
Agree re: cash grab. The counterpart "safe" TLD is part of a much bigger content curation problem that is evolving in the Internet. Some parents out there are not at all OK with Disney content, even, some will want to leave boobs in but hea
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by mmatants 15y ago
I don't think your app would be considered over-designed - check their "police scanner codes" example. Your app still uses normal buttons, and even the "tabs" are close to Apple's toggle-button-array design. Your search field is exactly lik
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by mmatants 15y ago
I am 100% agreeing with the article, with one caveat. Database engines are not just for storing - each is basically a "utility knife" of data retrieval - indexing, sorting and filtering are available via (relatively) simple SQL constructs.
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by mmatants 15y ago
This. Files and folders are not an optimal paradigm for this stuff. Partly because even real files/folders are not a "civilian" thing, especially now. Plus, there's typically just one level of folder nesting in the real world. The actual us
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by mmatants 15y ago
Devil's advocate: there are some conclusions to be made from someone's level of personal grooming, etc. Grooming = sign of mindfulness. If you're willing to make that - token, mind you - investment, folks get a message that you are intere
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by mmatants 15y ago
You described the requirements for a medium of exchange, and they make sense. But I don't think that that means "value" necessarily. Value is bread when I am hungry. Or gold when I need to make microchip contacts - but that usage is nowhere
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by mmatants 15y ago
Yeah right. Every game triggers OC tendencies and desires in people like me. I've regretted binging on both Minecraft and World of Warcraft. The real reason for tension seems to be this: game designers see Zynga et al achieve the same level
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by mmatants 15y ago
So the server stores a keypair for the given account, and the keypair is encrypted with the account password. The keypair itself, once "unlocked" on the client-side, is then used to encrypt/decrypt a nonce at login time. The inherent trait
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by mmatants 15y ago
The big question is what kind of problem is being solved? Truth is, nobody is giving up good old passwords just yet. Two-factor helps when necessary, but the password is still there. The actual issue, IMO, is avoiding recovery of the plaint
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by mmatants 15y ago
I now see why my post got downvotes. I was unaware that JtP as a specific situation was about mistaken self-interest (originally I thought it was solely about generic blue-collar appeal for McCain/Palin).
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by mmatants 15y ago
I would like to point out that I have no political allegiance to Joe the Plumber myself, and found that whole stunt quite pointless and populist. My criticism is towards the parent's specific argument. I saw a strawman, and felt that it was
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by mmatants 15y ago
I generally agree with the sentiment, but it seems like the author never really shed the dependence on having an arbitrary material goal. I think a more Zen-like direction is to just apply the "friend in a pub" test - if you can describe yo

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