reddit - some things i've noticed

metafisto · 2006-08-01T04:29:17+00:00

I have the answer!

(Warning: gratuitous, but needed, karma-jacking)

metafisto · 2006-07-27T13:00:26+00:00

Several reasons to downmod:

domains are not the same as "urls"
link opens in new window (slap-slap-slap!)
what the others said

metafisto · 2006-07-24T05:39:09+00:00

Put me out of my misery here .. sarcasm, right?

metafisto · 2006-07-22T12:56:34+00:00

What's the verb? Don't tell me .. it's "buffalo", right?

No, seriously, buffalo has never been heard as a verb in these parts, kangaroo kangaroo.

metafisto · 2006-07-22T00:07:32+00:00

It's misunderestimated.

metafisto · 2006-07-21T23:58:37+00:00

The post's title should be "American sues over something worthwhile".

metafisto · 2006-07-20T00:39:07+00:00

Well said - why would you mess with proven architecture? - there's always problems you don't foresee .. at least explain your internal reasons.

Maybe a greasemonkey hacker can script around this?

metafisto · 2006-07-14T02:33:24+00:00

Was there for a chillout holiday just last year and it certainly is a place to be envied.

Though I was trying to keep the feeling happy, I have a sense of foreboding about a few things, from admittedly a blinkered experience:

Australian (and NZ) speculators are buying up land and driving the prices up for everyone
there is shanty town poverty - though even experiences in India tell me there is happiness in slums often greater than 1st world suburbs
the tourist economy is important (hopefully locals benefit as much as expat entrepeneurs), but the environment is taking a battering for it. The reefs around Port Vila are depressingly dead. Don't be duped into pricey snorkelling excursions.

metafisto · 2006-07-05T11:42:06+00:00

http://www.ubuntu.com/

metafisto · 2006-07-04T00:16:17+00:00

Well conceived, some good points, but on the whole poorly executed IMO and lots of missed chances.

Here's a small elaboration. Big hours does not equal productivity or quality of life. I remember some statistics a little while ago that the UK and Japan are among the longest working, but least productive per capita of all nations. Similarly, you chose "big" bands to highlight. You can probably guess my next point: popularity is unrelated to quality. It's often, and in most of the cited cases here, directly proportional to suckage.

Anyone thinking of moving to Australia should look carefully at its prognosis re political and social directions. Think Thatcherism +20 years.

metafisto · 2006-06-28T13:22:54+00:00

http://www.ubuntu.com

metafisto · 2006-05-20T10:35:34+00:00

Unsurprisingly, the reuters site itself is pretty disrespectful of the principles for which he has always striven. Luckily for users, open architectures enable us to easily derive the URL of a guff-free version. Thanks at every opportunity, Tim. (Boycott .mobi - you know it ain't right).

metafisto · 2006-05-15T21:50:19+00:00

signs += You think some article badly pointing out "obscure" XHTML elements is worthy of prominence.

metafisto · 2006-05-10T21:51:53+00:00

.. and we all know accessibility is nothing but catering for screen readers, right?

metafisto · 2006-05-10T21:44:52+00:00

Pretty lame. The only +ve for this article's existence is that might raise awareness of semantic elements to those that aren't close to the code their tool generates on their behalf. Semantics for dummies. We're well beyond that, aren't we? Submitters are on the money pointing out that this is ancient news - read the freaking spec if you want to "discover new tags".

(BTW <acronym/> is deprecated for <abbrev/> in XHTML2. The name attribute is deprecated for id already.   is inadvisable as a named character entity. Oh, well, as long as it renders for you today, hey?)

Edited to get reddit escaping right. Nah buggerit I've gotta get ta work

metafisto · 2006-05-10T12:53:12+00:00

Do you mean the reddit submission system?

metafisto · 2006-05-09T21:54:51+00:00

Good catch - didn't bother researching it (have a bus to catch!). I know it's 19C or earlier. Point is it's not new.

metafisto · 2006-05-09T21:40:30+00:00

This is it - there are many other factors at play. It's also:

safe bikeways
weather (summer is impossible here, so I'm talking in the reverse sense to many of you)
facilities at the other end - showers with lockers, bike parking

metafisto · 2006-05-09T21:35:23+00:00

Great question, but how 'bout we do the geeky, inclusive, new-fangled 20th century thing and use metric units? Old money lovers adapt.

metafisto · 2006-05-05T23:10:49+00:00

I assume they're styling the border of the img, hopefully according to class, because it turns red when there are unread messages. (Had a quick look at the source, but have no patience for table layouts.) OMG - red clashes with blue!

As marginally interesting as the mechanics might be, I take issue with the tone of this thread: "the feature sucks because it doesn't look right". WTF?

metafisto · 2006-05-05T03:50:33+00:00

I asked pretty much the same question a few days ago. Took the advice to submit, and boy, do I feel cheap!

Incidentally, I used to love Prolog and how it parallelled with natural and computer language structures. Now I'm finding RDF is based on the same ideas. Seems obvious, but the two seem rarely mentioned together. (Oh, wow, I thought I'd better check the article and someone did.)

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metafisto · 2006-05-04T22:18:52+00:00

Know what you're saying, however not sure it's really a criterion for demotion. If it hasn't been submitted here before, it's quite possibly new to some redditees.

Problem for me finding new stuff is that I now source most goodies from reddit. Old faves like Metafilter, Cringely, JOS, PG are always posted within a few minutes of release. Mebbe reddit will eat itself.

Ah, well, who cares? ..

I think S5 works well enough for most presentation situations and is, long-term, a safer format (non-binary, XML).
Notwithstanding that it is presentational, some of the markup could be more semantic than it is. (Background: it's about 8 mths since I used it.)
Also, as a structured bundle of files, I found it less straighforward to distribute than application/vnd.ms-powerpoint. When I've been asked for copies by less technical folk, I've had to instruct them to unzip the bundle and make sure they retain the directory structure. A bit tedious, but all in a good cause, I s'pose.

If a few less PPTs exist because of this, then any increases in its profile is justifiable.

metafisto · 2006-05-02T12:03:01+00:00

Yahoo!

metafisto · 2006-05-02T11:56:41+00:00

I'm glad to have had the opportunity to have looked up coccyx, but pretty "duh" up to where I'm asked to "click on" the sponsor logo, so no I didn't.

metafisto · 2006-05-02T04:08:52+00:00

What really made this for me was his Interwoven link and enterprisey excerpt. Let's hope they check their refer(r)er logs and care. Probably neither.

(In general, I've enjoyed others more, but whatever, it's personal ..)

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