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Re: Schism among the Dawoodi Bohras

Aziz Poonawalla — Wed, 12 Mar 2014 08:14:04 -0000

Just leave the same comment on my post as you did on this one - should work identically

if a technical issue arises, email me, i am azizhp at gmail, i'll help you out

Re: Schism among the Dawoodi Bohras

Aziz Poonawalla — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 00:24:42 -0000

well said.

Re: Schism among the Dawoodi Bohras

Aziz Poonawalla — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 00:24:17 -0000

a beautiful response. Please consider cross-posting it to the comment thread on the response post (http://www.patheos.com/blog...

regards

Re: Inclusivity

Aziz Poonawalla — Mon, 24 Sep 2012 12:04:16 -0000

Maybe what we need to do is to throw out the old paradigm of discussion as “post-comment” and instead try to merge those categories. I argue that we should try to move in a direction that blurs the line between a "post" and it's "discussion" and embraces folksonomy as the core principle. See:
http://www.haibane.info/201...

Re: What is an infinite loop?: What is an infinite loop?

Aziz Poonawalla — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 09:02:54 -0000

incidentally, you edited your post due to information from a commentor. Doesn't that make you reconsider this?

http://scripting.com/storie...

Re: Scripting News: State Dept and SOPA

Aziz Poonawalla — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 09:26:11 -0000

we just went to Disney World over the winter break. I wonder if it isn't a good thing in the longer term to have the capitalist overlords clamp down on the web - it would force some innovation beyond this aging platform. Leave the disneyweb to the world and lets have new webs in parallel, built on new technologies. Before the W3 we had USENET and BBSes, why cant we have more diversity now? In a way, there already is a shadw web built around torrents, I expect that to become orders of magnitude easierto use if SOPA gets going.

meanwhile let the masses pay and use the disney web and stay happy. Its the happiest place on earth for a reason. Only we power users are ever really unhappy. I think SOPA will kill comment and forum systems. Why expose yourself to liability by idiot users? (see Tom's Hardware for an example - http://www.tomshardware.com.... But Parislemon already closed his comment systems, and Ars Technica's fullcommunity resources are only available to paiid users. These are all different mechanisms for signal-noise filtering. Killing off usercontent is only necessary when the userbase is essentially random, uncontrolled, hostile (the default state of most user spaces towards their hosts.). But SOPA would kill the anonymous, seething mass of commentary and force everyone into more regulated userbase management. That would suck in some ways but would it kill the web? It arguably would enhance it, just ask parislemon or Tom's.

arguably, increased liabilty from users might even lead to a rebirth of blogging - after all, if you have something to say,better to say it in a space you control rather than someone else's. The first company to offer blog hosting services and security on par with wordpress.com but also allowing the user to retain complete control over the blog on par with a wordpress.org install is going to cause a new revolution. Blork, maybe?

I've expanded on these thoughts over at my geekblog - http://www.haibane.info/?p=...

Re: Scripting News: Enough with the apps already

Aziz Poonawalla — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:41:52 -0000

Why is it that every decade we keep forgetting our Thoreau and compulsively complexify, complexify all over again?

Re: Scripting News: Another example of tech sexism

Aziz Poonawalla — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:08:10 -0000

except that this is not what Trunk was saying at all. She was saying,

"The problem is that people do not need to be told what they should choose. People are pretty good at making choices for themselves. Men can stay home. Women can do startups. The thing is, most don’t want to. And that’s okay."

She never said it was unacceptable for women to do startups. She is arguing for choice and for why the angst about needing more women in tech is misplaced. There are exactly as many women in tech as there need to be. Its because most women don't choose to be in tech.

Her essay is about respecting choice rather than lamenting it.

Re: Scripting News: Why apps are not the future

Aziz Poonawalla — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:01:34 -0000

I wish you'd write a book.

Re: PHOTOS FROM THE WINDOW

Aziz Poonawalla — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 06:56:59 -0000

You guys are amazing. I'm following you and linking to you from Talk Islam and City of Brass. Let me know how I can help promote your work further!

Re: Scripting News: Hooking Google-Plus to my linkblog feed?

Aziz Poonawalla — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 09:51:33 -0000

that's the reason G+ can never be a facebook killer - it's fundamentally more closed than facebook.

I think the real potential value of G+ is Circles - if they can be leveraged as whitelists for email (er, gmail)(http://www.haibane.info/201...

Re: Scripting News: Browsers without address bars?

Aziz Poonawalla — Sun, 22 May 2011 19:08:20 -0000

of course, typing a URL into a search box will almost always result in the URL itself being teh first result of the search - and with google that also provides a sitemap if you've done your webmaster homework.

Not only that, but Chrome actually pre-loads teh first result now as you enter a URL, or preloads teh search results as you type without having to hit enter.

These features would indeed make the browser bar essentially irrelevant -- in fact, thats here Chrome is right now, a single bar which functions on either search or browse capacity depending on input.

Theres not really that much alarming about this.

Re: “Draw Muhammad Day” is a stupid and destructive stunt

Aziz Poonawalla — Fri, 20 May 2011 12:17:36 -0000

one other thing - I too am a free-speech absolutist.

http://blog.beliefnet.com/c...

Re: “Draw Muhammad Day” is a stupid and destructive stunt

Aziz Poonawalla — Fri, 20 May 2011 12:16:09 -0000

"Saying "Aren't Muslims stupid for..." is comparable to "Aren't estate agents crap because..." and not at all on the same level as "The thing about gays, right....""

you've rationalized degrees of bigotry.

Re: “Draw Muhammad Day” is a stupid and destructive stunt

Aziz Poonawalla — Fri, 20 May 2011 12:14:52 -0000

Well said. I've linked your post at Talk Islam in the hope that your words get read by a lot of muslims.

regards
Aziz Poonawalla
http://blog.beliefnet.com/c...
http://talkislam.info

Re: Scripting News: Mysterious tools behind Engadget move?

Aziz Poonawalla — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 09:02:51 -0000

IIRC, SB Nation was actually founded by Marko of Daily Kos fame. He basically toko the dkos site code and reskinned it for sports. Its probably more lucrative than dkos, as a business. Markos is one of those entrepreneurs in tech that never get profiled on techcrunch but really should be.

SBNation probably runs a evolved variant of the original Scoop which Dkos v1 was founded on. Dkos itself was just upgrade to V4 which is light years ahead, but I suspect SBNation will get an upgrade in time. The core elements however are not changed:

"trusted" users
threaded comments
user voting/ranking of comments
user diaries
front page promotion
recommended diaries
groups
messaging

Re: Rumored Specs For The Alienware M11x R3 Pegs The Ultraportable as Ultrapowerful

Aziz Poonawalla — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 09:24:31 -0000

looks like a M14x is also in the works. This may or may not replace teh M15x.

http://www.haibane.info/201...

Re: Alienware M11x R3 specs leaked, brings Sandy Bridge to your next LAN party?

Aziz Poonawalla — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 09:22:40 -0000

Looks like there's also a M14x in the mix.

http://www.haibane.info/201...

Re: Scripting News: Fractional horsepower TwitterFeed? Sure, why not.

Aziz Poonawalla — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 14:22:23 -0000

im willing to solve the problem on wordpress' behalf. But the oath part seems a tough nut to crack. Was hoping for some code reuse :)

Re: Scripting News: Fractional horsepower TwitterFeed? Sure, why not.

Aziz Poonawalla — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 13:29:53 -0000

is this something others could use? I'd love to see the code, i think a plugin for wordpress would be really useful and am willing to do the legwork.

Re: Scripting News: Have we been deprecated by Google?

Aziz Poonawalla — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 10:19:09 -0000

Could your weaker google mojo be due to your permalink format? Your posts have URLS with filenames like haveWeBeenDeprecatedByGoog whereas on wordpress or moveable type it would be have-we-been-deprecated-by-google

google can parse words in your permalink if they are separated by dashes, but one large word is not parseable for juice (the capital letters make it human parseable, but string functions usually dont parse on capital letter boundaries)

hmm. maybe someone should write a string function for parsing on capital letter boundaries...

Re: .tel, .xxx and .mobi are all pointless and idiotic

Aziz Poonawalla — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:23:09 -0000

Well argued. But pray tell, why doesn't the argument extend to .com? Are all .org domains nonprofits? Are all .net domains networks?

in fact you might argue that like "www", any TLD is idiotic and obsolete.

of course we are stuck with them now, but might as well accept this and simply open up the TLD space to arbitrary strings. Why can't I register my name as a domain - namely, http://aziz.poonawalla ?

Re: Scripting News: My iPad arrived

Aziz Poonawalla — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 12:04:18 -0000

true. but theres no handy "Purchased" tab that lists all the apps you actually bought in one place.

Much like Upgrade All, you should be able to get a list of all paid apps that you can then Reinstall All.

Re: Scripting News: My iPad arrived

Aziz Poonawalla — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 12:03:20 -0000

the lack of a "Purchased" tab in iTunes is possibly Apple's most egregious FU to its users.

Re: Scripting News: Twitter posts don't have titles

Aziz Poonawalla — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 17:32:39 -0000

good observation! but of course postname is defined because comments are attached to a post. a generic feed wouldn't have that to inherit.