enginnr
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Comment · 11 years ago
I remember the painful feeling in college of solving problems in reverse. That is to say; when presented with a problem, there are no intrinsic reasons propelling me to solve it with any meaningful gusto. Only extrinsic motivators like getting a paper in on time, or adding another small jigsaw piece to the body of knowledge I must somehow cache in my head until exam time.
An utter waste of time and not relevant to the real world. That is why I dropped out.
Comment · 11 years ago
Schema has the same problems as Microformats where adoption only takes off if the market demands it, or it gains enough momentum that people can't imagine webapps without them.
There are countless other standards this article overlooks which have been implemented very well in recent years in Gmail, so why does it lambast the lack of Schema?
Comment · 11 years ago
SO many problems are being solved on the same plane they were created with. What I love about Ethereum is the direct action approach where rather than simply request that those in power get their act together in any meaningful way, we just create the damn thing ourselves and proceed as normal...
Comment · 11 years ago
Well one way to test is to put honey links into an IM session and see which ones are pinged. Invariably they will be pinged from a co-lo situated in a remote U.S data center.
Comment · 11 years ago
Similar to: http://bioischanged.com/privacy but for Facebook :)
Slightly tangential, but what's to stop me flipping one bit in a JPEG and uploading it again. JPEGs are renowned for being fault tolerant to even the most aggressive mangling of the file structure, as long as the header is intact it will preserve some integrity
Comment · 11 years ago
Aside from addressing potential collisions, what other use cases does this strategy have?
Comment · 11 years ago
I would liken the whole process of 'success' as nothing more than the acquisition of accolades. If you peek beyond the veil of most institutions (financial or otherwise), there is the fabled trophy you must acquire at the end. This trophy can be anything, and the institutions are always careful to suppose "It's not about the trophy", but secretly it is.
Money is a trophy. Marriage is a trophy. Dissolve the trophy and focus on what you need instead of what you want. Most of what a person needs is fairly rudimentary and easy to attain. Be careful with validation (a basic need) because it's usually sought in the most egregious places
Comment · 11 years ago
I've yet to see heart/fave/star/like buttons being context aware. I've heard anything from people using these mechanisms to read articles later, to using them as attention grabbing devices used to steal eyeball hours from distracted phone users, and everything in between. "Like" activity is a misleading metric and could mean anything because it's stripped and devoid of context.
Comment · 11 years ago
> I understand Pages has nothing to do with source control
Slightly disagree. What I always loved about pages is every commit is on record and auditable by the public. This makes coders accountable for their actions if they introduce malicious code to their users. Take for example:
`something.js` being served from RawGit (https://rawgit.com/). In all likelihood the asset can be trusted because we can inspect the repo where the asset resides and audit it.
The same cannot be said for private GH accounts, because it's impossible to view the source. People actually pay Github money to conceal their source code. Gasp
Comment · 11 years ago
Side projects start to bit rot if the creator stops caring for them with a full heart. Like anything, if you're not committed to something, it becomes a second class citizen, and in the worst case simply becomes abandoned.
The only person who can sustain a side project long into the future is the creator. Not the people who support it via donations, or buy an item...You and only you are responsible for its shelf-life.
Comment · 11 years ago
For those who are not clicking, this site just houses a YT video located here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBjXUBMkkE8
> Our family has been priced out! Has the Bay Area gone crazy? Real estate prices have doubled in the last few years, a tent in the backyard can rent for $900/month, foreign investors are driving up prices, evictions and rent hikes are everywhere, people are commuting longer than ever, the middle class is disappearing, empty investment homes are everywhere, and locals are leaving in record numbers.
I run a small business consultancy called Enginn. I work with small companies on their digital strategy. A bit of a generalist. Social Media Guy, Server Guy, Sometimes JavaScript (With a frontend bias).
Practising polymath. Trying many different things, and compounding knowledge and experience.
I maintain a small following here if you like Twitter: https://twitter.com/enginnr But you probably want to read this instead: http://blog.higg.so/social-networks/