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Living Room / Re: Discourse in Practice

« Last post by wraith808 on April 03, 2013, 07:03 PM »

I guess its a matter of use-case.

As I said, when I come to DC, I use one of the following links:
https://www.donation...hp?action=unread;all
https://www.donation...ex.php?action=unread
https://www.donation...sdense;sort=creation

The problem with those, is that they're a convenience- not the way the forum is meant to be used.  So therefore, when you go to do something, you have to go to a different view to post.  You have to go to a different view to find the post that you were looking at if it's unread.  And that involves a lot of finding/remembering/inferring in my experience.

Discourse is built around that view, instead of it being a convenience.  It also maintains the other view in the form of categories.

That's the largest thing that I really like about it.

There are other conveniences- the ability to mention someone like in twitter or SO.  The fact that it remembers where you were (the smarter most recent post in thread link, IMO).  The ability to reply as a new thread, helping to reduce derailment with tangential topics.  The fact that links act like they do on SO and expand, so there's not a reason to figure out how to add context to a bare link.

I don't think it's as much of a revolution as they tout- but they're coming out with a product, so they have to have the marketing speak.  But it is an evolution IMO.

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Living Room / Re: Comcast caught hijacking traffic

« Last post by wraith808 on April 03, 2013, 06:56 PM »

And, in the give them an inch department:
ISP Advertisement Injection - CMA Communications


And the big thing I'm worried about, especially with such sucky coders, is a man-in-the-middle attack, courtesy of your ISP.

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Living Room / Re: Comcast caught hijacking traffic

« Last post by wraith808 on April 03, 2013, 03:22 PM »

This is news? I thought all ISPs did this to give you "courtesy" notices about your account.

-Deozaan (April 03, 2013, 02:53 PM)

Even if everyone does it, it's still bad... (and the code really sucks... does the equivalent of a DoS by the number of AJAX requests).

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Living Room / Re: silly humor - post 'em here! [warning some NSFW and adult content]

« Last post by wraith808 on April 03, 2013, 10:13 AM »

Removed image... I thought it was pretty good for a laugh, but I guess not...

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Living Room / Discourse in Practice

« Last post by wraith808 on April 03, 2013, 09:17 AM »

On the site for one of my Guilds, we switched to using Discourse.  I'm a convert now.  It just flows so smoothly, and actually fits how I use DC actually... I never look at the forum look, unless I'm posting, which makes it more involved to post than it needs to be.  I look at things from an unread threads perspective rather than the breakdown that we have here.

Discourse works exactly like that, with the added advantage of the fact that you can just post, and assign it to where it needs to go, without having to go to that area first.  Tags/Categories take the place of the subcategories.

I just know that we'd discussed it, so I just wanted to chime in after practical use.

The site, if you're interested is http://forum.guildm8s.com.

The short of it is, I really dig it now.  Not sure how it is from the admin side, but as the user experience, it works well.

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Community Giveaways / Re: Crusader Kings II and Left 4 dead 2 giveaway (Last updated: 3/30/13 4:32 AM )

« Last post by wraith808 on April 03, 2013, 08:04 AM »

How Ironic.  I forgot to enter 

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Living Room / Comcast caught hijacking traffic

« Last post by wraith808 on April 03, 2013, 08:01 AM »

The code is on github.  The original article is on the guys blog who caught it here.

Discussion on ycombinator.

Not only is it underhanded, it's also sucky code.  I just wish I could get anything but Comcast around here.  I'm not a high bandwidth user, so I wouldn't get it from that.  But I've had it happen before when their stupid account management system didn't record my payment.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Help Wanted: Develop A Beautiful Desktop RSS Reader

« Last post by wraith808 on April 02, 2013, 02:32 PM »

I think that siouxdax posted in the wrong thread... then the whole thread went off on a very different tangent LOL

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Living Room / Re: Defense Distributed Domain Stolen!

« Last post by wraith808 on April 02, 2013, 08:08 AM »

They can be fun in person, but on the Internet? They just don't work. Timezones monkey them up badly.

-Renegade (April 01, 2013, 11:31 PM)

Even in person, timing is important.  And most people don't have a sense of it to that extent.

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Living Room / Re: Defense Distributed Domain Stolen!

« Last post by wraith808 on April 01, 2013, 11:25 PM »

I'm not a big fan of these things when they don't get the timezones right. For that one, sadly, it was pretty believable.

-Renegade (April 01, 2013, 08:47 PM)

I'm not a fan of those period.  I mean, I just don't get April Fool's Day at all.  Most of the jokes aren't funny, and if they are believable enough, can create a lot of chaos.

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Living Room / Re: Defense Distributed Domain Stolen!

« Last post by wraith808 on April 01, 2013, 03:31 PM »

Some news on it:

http://www.copblock....-files-for-firearms/

http://www.dailypaul...-defense-distributed (note the comment about the EXIF data - good catch!)

http://www.freerepub...oggers/3002928/posts (note the note about misspelling... good catch too!)

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Living Room / Re: Defense Distributed Domain Stolen!

« Last post by wraith808 on April 01, 2013, 02:06 PM »

Those first two counts are sketchy indeed.  The last two...well, I'd guess it would be unrelated.  Unless they're talking about donations, which would be really messed up.

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Living Room / Re: Mini Victory for Sanity Against Apple

« Last post by wraith808 on April 01, 2013, 09:52 AM »

But they weren't trying to trademark mini by itself, right?   Just the phrase "iPad Mini" together?  I actually don't see what the problem is, truthfully...

If they were trying to trademark "mini" by itself, then that would be a different story IMO.

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by wraith808 on April 01, 2013, 09:50 AM »

http://cynic.me/2013...bitcoin-hit-100-usd/

It just hit $100 USD.

-Renegade (April 01, 2013, 09:18 AM)

Thanks for the site address in the address bar in the picture... that's a cool site!

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General Software Discussion / Re: MagicRAR Drive Press - worth anything?

« Last post by wraith808 on April 01, 2013, 07:25 AM »

I am really glad to read that this latest round of paranoia has been deflated by other members of the forum before I became aware of it.

-simonking (March 31, 2013, 03:19 PM)

Your quote, not mine.  So, with that in mind.

What I'm getting from you is that its OK for people to very unprofessionally attack MagicRAR under the guise of free speech, but it is not OK for MagicRAR to - let us assume unprofessionally for the sake of argument - try to set the record straight and protect its brand and product against completely baseless and demonstrably false accusations. In other words, DC tolerates attacks on products, but does not tolerate attacks on those attackers of products. Why this asymmetry?

-simonking (April 01, 2013, 03:20 AM)

This seems to be disingenuous.  As Mouser has asked us to wrap it up, it will be my last time posting.  But, all I was trying to do was to give you some advice.  Your pedantic response hasn't endeared you any more to myself, and I'm sure to anyone else.

Sometimes, the best thing to do is to say nothing.  It's hard.  It might have been what I should have done in the face of your post.  But I really wanted to make sure that for the future, you might see your two statements side by side... and perhaps come to the self-realization that though this exercise may have been rewarding in that you were able to give tit-for-tat, it was perhaps pyrrhic at best.

Thanks for your consideration.

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General Software Discussion / Re: MagicRAR Drive Press - worth anything?

« Last post by wraith808 on March 31, 2013, 03:51 PM »

While I understand that you feel/have the need to address this latest round of discussions, I for one would appreciate it if your posts to do so would stay professional and refrain from utilizing pejoratives.

latest round of paranoia

For those brave enough to explore beyond the boundaries of their paranoia

Clearly these individuals are very deluded

None of that was necessary, and indeed, a post without those would have gone a ways towards gaining goodwill.  Instead, like many others when negative criticism is levied, the more base manners of defense come to light, including the losing way of debating of attacking the arguer rather than the argument.  And like those, no matter what truth may be in your post, your tone turns me away from your product and your company, even if I had need.

That's something that you might want to keep in mind in the future (and there is an edit button on the post if you want to correct such), especially when posting on DC.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Mockups ...

« Last post by wraith808 on March 29, 2013, 08:25 AM »

I've been using that one at work... it's very nice.  Also the sharing for viewing is nice.  The only thing I've found so far is that after sharing, when I changed the layout, the shared version didn't change on one page for some reason.

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Community Giveaways / Re: games giveaway

« Last post by wraith808 on March 29, 2013, 08:24 AM »

PM me your steam name, and I'll send an invite.

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Living Room / Re: What are your favorite movies?

« Last post by wraith808 on March 28, 2013, 11:22 AM »

Oh... I love that!  I saw it before some Disney movie I saw with the kids recently.  It's great!

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by wraith808 on March 27, 2013, 10:52 AM »

As long as you can climb upwards and jump off at the right time.

-Renegade (March 27, 2013, 09:56 AM)

And that- as many broke or dead from terminal forces after jumping off a high precipice day traders can attest to- is not as easy as putting those words to the keyboard is. 

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Living Room / Re: Google Reader gone

« Last post by wraith808 on March 27, 2013, 10:42 AM »

I commented out that line and now it works--sort of. Actually, it tells me that I need to use PHP 5.3.0 or newer. I guess I'm still on 5.2.x . . .

-Deozaan (March 27, 2013, 04:23 AM)

Well, that is one of the requirements.  

Heise Media UK recently published a fairly extensive article on their H-Open  blog about replacing GoogleReader functionality with currently available software and hosting solutions. Read it here.

-40hz (March 27, 2013, 06:08 AM)

Until reading that article, I didn't know that NewsBlur was downloadable- I might start looking more closely at that...  Thanks 40!

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Living Room / Re: Newly coined term, "internet fury"? A sad article...

« Last post by wraith808 on March 27, 2013, 10:39 AM »

The other thing to remember is that I've also heard:

No one can offend you...
...you choose to take offense.  
And taking offense is like taking poison...
...and expecting the other person to die.

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Living Room / Re: Show us a picture of your.. CAR!!!

« Last post by wraith808 on March 27, 2013, 12:22 AM »

So, I had the misfortune to have to get a new (used) car recently to replace my totaled one (had planned to pay cash for my next car... sigh).  On the upside, I got a 2010 Mazda6.



And I have my 2001 Volvo S80 T6 - unfortunately, that year was one of the first 5-speed manual automatic transmissions on volvos... so now it's sitting awaiting a new transmission...



And I have my 1997 Ford Explorer XLT... not as many man points as tinman, but surely some?

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by wraith808 on March 26, 2013, 09:33 PM »

Time to call a spade a spade...  

-Renegade (March 26, 2013, 08:41 PM)

And press the express elevator button... down?

And here we survived for 4 pages! LOL

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Living Room / Re: Does anyone here use Bitcoins?

« Last post by wraith808 on March 26, 2013, 06:32 PM »

What I mean is a minimum amount in transactions before you have to register.