singpolymaposted, “Need to figure out how to get procmail to autoreply to HTML-only email” @ 2009-097.956Z
singpolymaposted, “@evan conversely, if you need to take vowels out to make a tweet fit, maybe it should be an email or blog post” @ 2009-097.940Z
singpolymaposted, “@evan To me, if your email is shorter than your sig, it’s a sign that maybe the message should not be an email. I keep my sig to 3 + — line” @ 2009-097.940Z
singpolymaposted, “@evan I read some long messages and ignore some short ones. I find a lot of short email should have been a tweet or other. #efail” @ 2009-097.936Z
singpolymaposted, “@evan fair enough. I’m in the middle of some code that assumes 1 val, so uses global, need to make that val change. Should be arguments.” @ 2009-097.605Z
singpolymaposted, “Global variables may seem like a good idea. But they’re not. For reals.” @ 2009-097.599Z
singpolymaposted, “Up to my INBOX in specs. So much talk, so little code.” @ 2009-097.144Z
singpolymaposted, “@stequoianie I replied in the comments, but I believe it’s Tools > Greasemonkey > Manage Userscripts 🙂” @ 2009-097.124Z
singpolymaposted, “You know I take your service marginally seriously when I upload my real avatar.” @ 2009-097.038Z
singpolymaposted, “Friendfeed still needs to either allow anonymous commenting or OpenID on public feeds (ex-rooms)” @ 2009-097.036Z
singpolymaposted, “Crazy topposters. On lists where everyone does it, maybe, but when over half do not, get a clue 😛” @ 2009-097.024Z
singpolymaposted, “@phillip the reply option only exists on the web or in clients anyway, AFAIK, and those both I find to be lesser UX to SMS/IM” @ 2009-096.980Z
singpolymaposted, “@mrinal Qt wraps the API calls from many platforms. Not a standard, but at least more portable than writing to only one toolkit.” @ 2009-095.927Z
singpolymaposted, “@ossguy Qt wraps the API calls from many platforms. Not a standard, but at least more portable than writing to only one toolkit.” @ 2009-095.927Z
singpolymaposted, “@mrinal I certainly say don’t use non-standards for anything that *can* be done with standards 🙂” @ 2009-095.807Z
singpolymaposted, “@mrinal noflash hasn’t actually been launched yet, but you’ll note the apps listed youtube/slideshare both have workarounds, no flash req’d” @ 2009-095.800Z
singpolymaposted, “@mrinal re:aviary if you really want that inside browser you have to use a desktop app infrastructure (ala flash) since it’s a desktop app” @ 2009-095.800Z
singpolymaposted, “@mrinal Really? You like HTML5? Well, at least it’s better than flash. Still, makes me sad.” @ 2009-095.794Z
singpolymaposted, “@mrinal Define "everywhere". Video playback won’t work in dillo. It’ll work on the big 3, which is all flash works on anyway” @ 2009-095.793Z
singpolymaposted, “@mrinal Give you what? Every major browser has HTTP+HTML. Most have CSS+JS+other stds as well” @ 2009-095.788Z
singpolymaposted, “@mrinal there aren’t very many issues, mostly hype. What there is is the result of webdevs ignoring standards” @ 2009-095.787Z
singpolymaposted, “@mrinal depends what you mean "text based". HTTP and HTML are text, yes. Text that describes non-text in standard ways.” @ 2009-095.784Z
singpolymaposted, “@mrinal exactly. Browsers are not the web either: they’re just writted to conform to the protocols/formats that make up the web.” @ 2009-095.783Z
singpolymaposted, “@mrinal Some content embedded in webpages is SWF. Some of it’s JPG, MP3, or MPG as well. Delivering content over HTTP doesn’t make it native” @ 2009-095.781Z
singpolymaposted, “@mrinal Flash has nothing to do with the internet: it’s just a VM like Java or .NET” @ 2009-095.778Z
singpolymaposted, “@mrinal I saw the tweets, but ya, not on your profile page” @ 2009-095.777Z
singpolymaposted, “@mrinal As soon as someone comes up with something worth doing that can’t be done in a standard way… I’ll get involved in a std for it 🙂” @ 2009-095.776Z
singpolymaposted, “@thephysixfan Yeah, I don’t 100% disagree with him, but trolling is not the way” @ 2009-095.770Z
singpolymaposted, “@rushiv @ossguy As always, restrict nonstandard code. "One element needs flash" is no reason to make a SWFblob instead of a webpage.” @ 2009-095.748Z
singpolymaposted, “Stackoverflow hosting is rather unstable. I always have to try loading pages multiple times.” @ 2009-095.745Z
singpolymaposted, “@ossguy I thought that was obvious. SWF is a content type. If put Word Docs on an HTTP server are they "web"? No.” @ 2009-095.704Z
singpolymaposted, “@rushiv ugh. Sounds really ugly. Feel bad for visitors to the site.” @ 2009-095.702Z
singpolymaposted, “@ossguy Flash fanbois tend to be designers who’ve never experienced a real tech” @ 2009-095.702Z
singpolymaposted, “@mrinal There is basically nothing you do on the web that cannot be done better without flash 🙂” @ 2009-095.700Z
singpolymaposted, “@aditya "switch to"? The whole point of the Internet is that it’s non-proprietary. Always has been. That goes for the web too.” @ 2009-095.700Z
On 2009-92
singpolymaposted, “Glad other events that interest me have student rate… and don’t have such rediculous rates for others. Who pays this? http://bit.ly/qLJx” @ 2009-093.549Z
singpolymaposted, “"At some point, open specs needs to be implemented…" yeah… otherwise they’ll never become standards. Goes for so-called "standards" too” @ 2009-093.534Z
singpolymaposted, “Had someone complain that I didn’t top post my email reply to them, so they "couldn’t find it". What has Outlook/Gmail done to the world?” @ 2009-093.532Z
singpolymaposted, “@mlinksva there’s should and does. I believe @evan is doing a string-compare to make sure it’s CC-BY. I’m not blocking anything, identica is” @ 2009-087.751Z
On 2009-85
singpolymaposted, “Adding my avatar to my PGP key.” @ 2009-086.905Z
singpolymaposted, “@mikeboos apparently it’s not normally legal, but he somehow legally signed two 3-years, and somehow the compounded time is legal” @ 2009-086.844Z
singpolymaposted, “Friend’s friend is magically stuck with a *6-year* Bell Mobility contract. That really sucks. Bell really sucks.” @ 2009-086.702Z
singpolymaposted, “Twitter still has the password anti-pattern for addressbook import? #fail” @ 2009-086.700Z
singpolymaposted, “Fire in MC? Srsly? What in this concrete fortress burns?” @ 2009-086.652Z
singpolymaposted, “"Linux guy[s], [are] with me […] trying to stop IE6 can be misinterpreted as trying to damage Microsoft." Linux users don’t care about MS” @ 2009-086.531Z
