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Living Room / Re: How would you expand the limits of conversational structure further?
« Last post by Paul Keith on June 24, 2010, 11:29 AM »
All credit goes to the video maker.

To be honest, I think I've tried sharing this idea before but it just becomes a big blob of text.

I don't know how he managed to input those points that fast on Compendium though but this is what I've always seen in Compendium over other mindmappers and argument mappers but I just couldn't communicate it until the timing was right with mouser alerting me of the webfind template and that video appearing on youtube and apparently mouser enabled youtube embeds (or was that always there?)

Unfortunately, the problem is still how to narrow it down further to encourage more of a discussion.

I posted this question on Quora and I had to talk with a staff there on how and why this topic is easy to understand and why it should have this tag or that tag while he feels it's difficult and vague but to cut things short, the bottomline is that this is still a confusing question to ask of many people.

If you're interested in what went through, you could check the comments in this link. (Under the post there should be a comment link that drops down the conversation like in FriendFeed. Currently it should say 11 comments)
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General Software Discussion / Re: The Reg guide to Linux, part 1: Picking a distro (The Register)
« Last post by Paul Keith on June 24, 2010, 02:53 AM »
Well...here's to hoping there's a season 2.

I can't believe how many of these guides stop at installations. Doesn't even address some common tricks to easily find support besides the common "Hole here. Head first. Dive in."
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Living Room / Re: I am so very very sick of copyright issues.
« Last post by Paul Keith on June 23, 2010, 10:54 PM »
Thread needs more highlights.
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Living Room / How would you expand the limits of conversational structure further?
« Last post by Paul Keith on June 23, 2010, 02:54 PM »
Hopefully these help to clarify the different contributions made by the three leaders, as well providing a gestalt overview of the most contentious topics (check out all the red challenges links in some topics, such as the economy) and where they were most consensual (check out all the green supports links in the final debate on care for the elderly). A more detailed, reflective analysis would seek to connect claims and assertions to websites with supporting/challenging evidence, other statements made by them, and their manifestos. In addition, we would examine the kinds of arguments made in the text of the nodes, and in the argumentative connections, and possibly explode those into sub-maps, using visual templates of argumentation schemes (see this article on mapping the Iraq debate to how this works).

Note that I started to map from the ITV website’s streaming video, but the connection kept breaking, so I lost contributions, and switched to the TV. But here’s a screenshot showing the opening minutes of the debate, being mapped live, before I switched [zipped QuickTime movie - 10.2Mb].

I constantly talk about Compendium here and I think I made a similar themed topic before but I only recently found out about this video which I felt perfectly highlighted the value of not just supporting the concept but of asking what else can be done to push past the limits of conversational structure?


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Living Room / Re: A software engineer might tell you that the fastest code is...
« Last post by Paul Keith on June 23, 2010, 02:45 PM »
It's not the browser, I didn't know how to format that quote so that DonationCoder would show the correct quote so I just left the text in with the hope that people will visit the source link anyway.
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Living Room / Why do people in Silicon Valley believe they know everything about users?
« Last post by Paul Keith on June 23, 2010, 12:39 AM »
Sorry but because of the way Quora values privacy I don't really know which answers will thread on wrong waters so I'm just going to share this link:

http://www.quora.com...rything-about-users#

Apologies, if this reads like spam. Really I would like to quote several answers but I haven't figured out the best approach yet.

If you doubt my sincerity, please visit this link.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for Foldable Disposable Notepad
« Last post by Paul Keith on June 22, 2010, 11:35 PM »
Nah, all it needs is a gif.

If I know how to make one, I'd probably have.

It's really dead simple. Click on the hotkey, Writemonkey switches to a different colored but blank page and you get the reference page. Click on it again and it switches back.

Imagine if DC would say suddenly switch to the post reply box of a topic with the flick of the keyboard and when you want to re-read the entire thread, press hotkey, switch back.

May not be as convenient as being able to scroll down and quote a post but it would be faster to view two different pages and interact with them.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Looking for Foldable Disposable Notepad
« Last post by Paul Keith on June 22, 2010, 01:09 AM »
No, it's much simpler in that it's just like switching between two tabs. (Assuming you're using a tabbed note editor).

The only difference is that you switch via a hotkey and you only see one text file at a time.

In a way, it's the reverse of track changes. You're encouraging yourself to have two different version and editing two different but identical files.
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General Software Discussion / Re: Quora invite request
« Last post by Paul Keith on June 22, 2010, 01:00 AM »
Thanks! I'm going to try logging in with my fake name and see how far I last.
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Living Room / A software engineer might tell you that the fastest code is...
« Last post by Paul Keith on June 22, 2010, 12:54 AM »
A software engineer might tell you that the fastest code is the code that is never called.   Likewise, the most productive programmer is the one that solves the problem with the fewest commands.    Complexity is the arch-enemy of reliability, and its corollary, predictability.     Think about this:  A system with 50 required parts, each one having 95% reliability, has an overall reliability of .9550, or barely 8%!

Cliche idea but I thought some of you may find the statement worth discussing.


from: LewRockwell.com
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General Software Discussion / Looking for Foldable Disposable Notepad
« Last post by Paul Keith on June 20, 2010, 06:42 AM »
I don't really know what the proper term is for this kind of feature so pardon the vague title.

All I can refer to as an example is with how in WriteMonkey, each page has it's "repository" page.

The way it works is that when you press alt+R, it switches to a "behind the scenes" page.

I don't know how it works but that's the type of feature I'm looking for except a multi-page one.

I know it's probably doable with multiple tabs and personal wikis and even a text comparing program however I feel this is the like a more convenient, more keyboard friendly way of comparing multiple drafts content per content. Paragraph per paragraph.

I also hope it's an application that doesn't require a huge learning step like Emacs or vim.

To narrow down the feature into specifics, here's how it would work:

1. You have a basic notepad (auto-save is nice but not required).

2. You then hit alt+r (or a keyboard shortcut of your own) and type your improved draft in there.

3. At this point it's no different from a notepad or WriteMonkey especially.

4. However, that second page has an extra special save button separate from the default save.

5. Click that and the first draft gets deleted and the second draft becomes the only draft but this time if you click the repository mode keyboard shortcut, it then now produces a repository mode for what was previously contents on the repository mode. (and the previous page is automatically deleted from the system)

6. The important part is that the two pages are instantly switchable via keyboard shortcut. Bonus points if the switch has an option to auto-set the cursor to the closest paragraph line of the previous page.

7. A visual description of this would be to imagine flipping between two pages of a notebook where the back page is where the edited content is. As the back page gets better, you rip out the page in front and then repeat the same method with the third page.
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Living Room / (Old) Creativity is not Design - Taking the Andy Rutledge Test
« Last post by Paul Keith on June 20, 2010, 02:57 AM »
Too often I notice designers and non-designers alike equating creativity with design. I find this assumption disturbing because it is one of the many fallacies that allow unskilled but creative pretenders to consider themselves capable design professionals when they’re nothing of the sort.

Creativity is not design. Creativity has nothing to do with design. Creativity is bound by no laws, rules, or strictures …which is perhaps why it’s so intoxicating (sometimes to the point of delusion). Design, on the other hand, is based entirely on math, psychology, human perception, and a host of rigid rules and laws that can be broken by only a highly skilled few. Those unfamiliar with these laws and rules, and the associated sciences are by no definition designers.

I don't really know design enough to judge the quality of the test however I felt the premise is interesting considering how many people here tend to discuss about Apple and Linux and design in general. Note that, I disagree with many things in the video but I'm not going to prolong my perspective here.


from: Andy Rutledge.com (link to the test)
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Living Room / (Old) How "We" Media Killed the Web
« Last post by Paul Keith on June 20, 2010, 02:38 AM »
People ruin every revolution, this is a very old story. Develop a feeding niche and somebody will come along to abuse it. The more concentrated and centralised useful content discovery is in one service (i.e. Twitter) the worse the problem will become.

We can cry about humanity or we can keep digging because the good stuff doesn’t disappear, it just gets lost in noise. People who produce good stuff aren’t going to quit and suddenly get diverted into pure marketing, because producing good stuff is just too satisfying and pure marketing too… not.

So the good stuff will always be there, it just becomes harder to find and more and more dependent on our judgement in what to follow and what not.

That’s humanity. Our character judgement is so fine-tuned because we’re so good at fucking with each other and parasitising each other’s goals. I bet most people reading this can look at any Twitter page and tell with upwards of 95% accuracy whether the person is a bot, or a marketing droid, or somebody wasting time gabbing, or somebody with a genuine passion for something. It’s actually not hard and it takes an extraordinarily good liar to fool most of us.

This is your skill for navigating this space, use it.

Sorry to superboyac for copying his title from another thread. (Warning: above quote is a comment not the actual article)

How We Killed Social Media
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Living Room / How to Use a School Project to Score Political Points 101
« Last post by Paul Keith on June 19, 2010, 07:43 PM »
Student: But in May of 2009 you voted Yes on a bill that would cut $550 million to the DOE and a lot of that was for CTE.

Huppenthal: Well...the..Tell me a little more about that vote. What committee did it take place in?

Student: I actually have that right here.

(Student hands Huppenthal a record of the vote. Huppenthal is silent, then laughs nervously.)

Student: This bill actually passed, and then it passed again in the House of Representatives, and ended up cutting $550 million.

I don't really know which side is the correct one so I'm posting both.

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Living Room / Interesting Side-Step of Copyright; Also Porn
« Last post by Paul Keith on June 19, 2010, 05:51 PM »
They side-step the copyright by titling it "This Ain't" Avatar XXX. The copyright holder cannot then claim that it uses the same title or that the title may cause confusion with the original work.

Read more: LOL: Hustler to Release Avatar 3D Porn | /Film http://www.slashfilm...-porn/#ixzz0rLGeS4e6


from: Mashable
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Living Room / 10 News Stories Overshadowed by the BP Oil Spill
« Last post by Paul Keith on June 19, 2010, 05:03 PM »
Warning: PrisonPlanet.com article

Friday, Jun 18th, 2010
1. Israeli nuclear submarines positioned close to Iran:
2. Iran war propaganda:
3. The continuing economic slide:
4. FCC ready to restrict the Internet:
5. Obama/Blagojevich story
6. UN small arms treaty
7. Mexicans riot in LA/Land given over to Mexico
8. Obama Plans To Sneak Through Carbon Tax By Stealth
9. Afghanistan Mineral Riches Story Is War Propaganda
10. Free Speech Gag Bill Moving in House

For the most part though I just wanted to share this Atlantic Wire article on the Internet Kill Switch with a section on what could possibly be the political scare used to enable this but I thought some of you guys might be interested in the other topics too.


from: DailyPaul
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Living Room / Florida commissioner risks arrest to clean his own coastline
« Last post by Paul Keith on June 19, 2010, 06:50 AM »
Source/Video

From: TodaysPolitics Twitter Stream
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Living Room / Hacker News - How I "hacked" Dustin Curtis' Posterous (fixed)
« Last post by Paul Keith on June 19, 2010, 06:28 AM »
I logged into my outlook, changed my email address to his email address, and sent the email to [email protected].

Dustin mentioned in his article that he didn't require a password, and I wanted to see if he had used the confirmation skip.

Just wanted to apologise to Dustin about any inconvenience, but I do hope I opened his eyes to security a little!

EDIT: A little bit of backstory.

Dustin seems to think, that I did this because of a comment he made, on how the headers could be forged. I had not read this comment. Infact, I read his article, and using the knowledge that I picked up years ago, that you could change the outgoing email address in Outlook (Although, it was Outlook Express in them days) I changed my email to his email.

I saw his email on his website ([email protected]) and thought, "No, he wouldn't be sending his personal emails from that address, that's silly."

I checked the WHOIS on his domain, and saw another email address there. I changed my email, sent a quick "Apparently..." message, and then changed it back to my original email address. I checked his blog, and it didn't seem to work.

I then went to sign up for my own posterous, to play a bit more, and I saw that you had to authorise your posts. Then I saw how this could be disabled for convenience. A few minutes later and the post showed up.

I am a Web Developer, I have experience with bash scripting, curl, sendmail and everything else you would need to fake headers.

I did not fake headers, I changed one field in Outlook. I didn't do this maliciously, and I just did it to prove a point.

Posterous should not be using email alone to authorise posts, and they should not let you disable submission checking.

Sorry, don't understand anything that's being said except that most webmail aren't affected by this.

This one is worrying though:

Odd, the other Posterous threads are getting buried so quickly. When a new comment is posted in any thread it appears at the top, except for these Posterous threads. Is this damage control on the part of YC?

The only other person so far to comment under the co-founder on this thread (at time of writing) is jseeba, who has had very little activity and one of the few comments he's ever made was in a thread called "Ask YC: Your favorite startups" where he said "Posterous. It just works." So jseeba doesn't do much around here in the 2 or so years he's been a member but made time to chime in for Posterous again.


Hey guys. I'm the cofounder of Posterous.

Yes, someone did figure out how to post to Dustin's site today. This security hole is now fixed.

We had a specific problem with the way we dealt with SPF records. Dustin didn't set any up, and there was a specific way that Robin Duckett's email server responded that caused us to flag it as a false negative for spoofing.

For the vast majority of users who use gmail, hotmail or other services, this was never an issue.

Since our launch on day one, we have taken email spoof detection very seriously. It's one of our core differentiators: to be able to securely post to your blog by emailing a single, easy to remember address. We don't want to do secret addresses or secret words.

Over the past 2 years, we've developed robust spoof detection ip and spend a ton of time trying to stay a step ahead of hackers. Fortunately, we've only had a few very specific, isolated cases where one of our sites was spoofed and each time we have improved our system.

Thanks for bringing this to our attention. We always need to be one step ahead of the hackers/spoofers, and we thank the Hacker News community for keeping us on our toes!

from: Ycombinator
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General Software Discussion / MyBB Warning and Complaint
« Last post by Paul Keith on June 19, 2010, 04:51 AM »
I'm not sure if this falls under a company so I'm making this here.

Also since this is a techie/tech knowledgeable forum, I apologize if this issue feels like a minor if not obvious case that can easily be understood by Googling it but I feel this is a major issue to many consumers. So much so that in her Website Shame video, Laura Roeder needed to clarify that there are two "Wordpress".

Finally this isn't so much as a complaint as I still finally got my answer from MyBB. It's just that even with supportive helpers, a part of me hopes that services further realize this problem so it doesn't feel like I'm being made (pardon the pun) a fool of. I have enough of that problem with people close to me, thank you.

The conversation:

Forum not loading

Sorry if this is the wrong forum.

I'm not only a new MyBB user but I have zero knowledge of maintaining a forum other than registering and creating a free forum. I don't even know what version of MyBB I have.

Anyways, has there been any downtime? I can't seem to spot a topic on it.

Right now both createmybb.com and my forum isn't loading.

Here's the link: http://hikikomori.cr...emybb3.com/index.php

Your website is down.
http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/

That's the thing though. I'm not on a server. I'm using the default hosting.

Does that mean MyBB is down for some reason or something else?

Well, sometimes your hosting can be down temporarily, or it can be ddosed.

Easy if your not on a server.

Wait...isn't the default hosting connected to the actual MyBB service?

Sorry if I'm using the wrong terms. I mean I actually didn't switch anything other than create a MyBB Forum and I know zero things about domain paying and host server changing.

I just clicked those forms and got the forum.

Shouldn't this be a MyBB issue since you guys are...well...kinda providing the service?

MyBB is definetaly not reponsible.

Your forum is not connected in anyway to MyBB.

You have just downloaded their software, it's not like you host on their server.

So we can't do anything here.

I'm sorry I'm confused. I didn't download anything.

In fact, I didn't know how to do that which is why I was specifically looking for a free forum service.

So you're saying there's two MyBBs and unlike with wordpress.com vs. wordpress.org, this CreateMyBB.com site is not affiliated with you?

other user:

No, CreateMyBB is just run by a member here. It is in no way affilliated with MyBB.

Ok, thanks for clarifying that.

First off, I know some knowledgeable user is snorting now laughing and thinking "Haha, that's what you get for going free" or "Wow, what an idiot, he should have read the details on the site and googled the background of the service before he registered."

Look, I'm sorry ok? I try and I know I should try harder but often times, I'm just not good enough to soar the web and read and open up lots of tabs and see what service is what.

Sometimes even after I read some "easily found and obvious" text, I still don't get that say a free forum has no plugins while a paid download server thing has one.

...and I'd also like to apologize if I just don't have cash to support a host and test what all those things mean and compare the two products.

I know I'm a nobody in the grand scheme of things but I hope that one day services will try to differentiate much clearer on their site what's the difference between two services with the same name.

It's already hard enough to grasp which is the best free blog much less the best free forum, it's just near impossible for an idiot like me to test them all out and "get" at first sight what one has that the other hasn't especially with a forum where I can't test how slow or fast a forum can be unless some people actually go there to visit and even then I don't know which forum is prone to attacks and bad support.

I know this is a bunch of excuses but look, I can't even understand something as simple as exporting and importing a forum database so it's not just my own I'm hurting but I'm inconveniencing the few people who have registered and that's still no excuse and I know you're saying I'm going to inconvenience them later anyway because of my lack of knowledge but in this world where publishing is getting easier, can't you guys make it just a wee bit easier more?

Just a wee bit of adopting a multi-site version of the checklist feature comparison like the one on zoho.com? http://challenge.zoho.com/pricing

The web has already made it easier to sync passwords, bookmarks, notes, documents, e-mail, etc. etc. Can't you FSP (Free Service Provider) guys improve on just one more detail?

...and again, I know, I know this is old news and I should probably have wisened up but I just didn't ok?

Sorry for this long post mouser but this issue just bothered me at the wrong time as the forum came down when I was creating a long thread plus combined with real life issues and discovering the speed of free forums being on par with Wordpress.com, it just toppled over. Oh there I go making excuses of others again! Sorry everyone but I just had to let this out.


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DC Gamer Club / Re: Lord of the Rings Online going free..
« Last post by Paul Keith on June 19, 2010, 03:17 AM »
I can't speak for the actual community since I didn't play the game but from the replies I saw LOTRO was unanimously heralded as having a dedicated community who sticks true to the lore of the franchise.

The bigger issue was end-game. That said, I don't know how the Free to Play has affected the community because I didn't even play the game at all but just saying, from the comments around the net, it doesn't have the reputation of WoW.
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Living Room / When Social Media Users Hulk Up!
« Last post by Paul Keith on June 19, 2010, 01:09 AM »
Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff sparked controversy on Twitter yesterday. Mr. Shurtleff tweeted just after midnight last night to inform his followers that he had just given the go-ahead for convicted murderer Lee Gardner’s death by firing squad. While I’ve come across a few tweets (via a search on Twitter) showing support, the overwhelming majority of people are speaking out against what they feel is a “disgusting” use of Twitter.

Normally I'm not one for editing an article's title but since I already did this for a topic in my forum, I felt I already broke that issue.


from: Chris Pirillo
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General Software Discussion / Google Goes FARR... sorta
« Last post by Paul Keith on June 18, 2010, 10:00 PM »
Googlers from the Street View team created the application for their own use, but have now turned GoogleCL over to the general public. It accepts commands to Google Calendar, Google Docs, Google Contacts, Picasa, YouTube, and Blogger. Here’s an example command:

$ google calendar add “Social Media Day SF Party at 7pm”

Haven't tested this and don't plan to since I don't know CLI and can't be bothered to install Python everywhere but it looks interesting. I could even see Google finding a way to popularize this to the masses. (It's not that hard. RTM already did it with the smartbar. It just needs a few cues)



from: Mashable
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General Software Discussion / Re: Quora invite request
« Last post by Paul Keith on June 18, 2010, 04:58 PM »
Damn. That is probably the biggest hurdle for my invitation.

Well I don't have any expertise anyway, I just want to ask, ask and ask.  :P

Could you share some perspective of how good the community of that site is?
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General Software Discussion / Re: Firefox Add-on: SiteDelta
« Last post by Paul Keith on June 18, 2010, 04:46 PM »
I haven't tested this but try comparing it with Page Monitor from Google Chrome.

Both seems to have the exact same features minus the scissors
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The Getting Organized Experiment of 2009 / Re: Request: Please share your prioritization methods here
« Last post by Paul Keith on June 18, 2010, 12:26 AM »
Thanks raybeere. Looking forward to when that day comes.

Have you had a look at either the Form letter Machine or TFdocs?

I still don't get TFDocs and I still used TFLM for a sort of casual user level way of combining questionnaires but part of what made me want to learn TFDocs then was because of the potential of custom checklists/meet questionairres.

That said, I still don't get it and haven't learned it but outside of the scoring system, some of the demos made it look like it was possible to achieve your idea. I wonder if you'll get an easier time of grasping that service even though it's different from a local application.
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