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Re: blog.cpinto.net: Eu vou votar... na esplanada.

cpinto — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 12:17:04 -0000

Olá, a citação de Churchill não se aplica porque não sou da opinião que se devia voltar a uma forma de governo já experimentada, para mais no contexto em que o Churchill afirmou isso.

Re: blog.cpinto.net: Eu vou votar... na esplanada.

cpinto — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:56:21 -0000

Boas, como afirmei, a ter de existir alguma identificação que seja como o Cartão de Cidadão mas acho não viria mal algum ao mundo se não houvesse um Bilhete de Identidade.

Re: On AppStores and m-billing

cpinto — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 12:39:27 -0000

Given that the vast majority of applications on AppStores are being developed by small companies I'd argue that it then becomes even more important to put up such an m-payments solution.

Re: blog.cpinto.net: What mobile app should I build?

cpinto — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:43:37 -0000

please do share, you've got my email. I'm actually looking forward to have a peek

Re: blog.cpinto.net: What mobile app should I build?

cpinto — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:16:09 -0000

Yes that looks like a great solution. I've been wanting to fiddle with
yaki for a long long time, I may just as well have a go at putting it
on gae later this week with all that nifty features you have in your
blog.

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Re: blog.cpinto.net: What mobile app should I build?

cpinto — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:03:18 -0000

Also, HTTP won, didn't you get the memo? ;-)

Re: blog.cpinto.net: What mobile app should I build?

cpinto — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 19:00:16 -0000

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Re: blog.cpinto.net: A call to Portuguese startups: I want your schwag!

cpinto — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:24:37 -0000

yes indeed, but maybe the pony version? :-)

Re: Welcome to Handivi!

cpinto — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 14:29:15 -0000

To be honest, I'm not really keen on the way georef is being applied today which is little less than simply tracking people's moves. A useful use for it, though, is to apply context so that if for example you take a series of photos they can be grouped by location so that on your photo album you'd have a "Lisbon" group.

Re: Alcides Fonseca: Handivi

cpinto — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 16:12:11 -0000

hi, thanks for the feedback Alcides. To lmjabreu, when you have a private profile your messages won't end up in the public timeline. Can you please check if you have a private profile?

Re: blog.cpinto.net: No free lunches

cpinto — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:16:05 -0000

Yeah, I've read that too. It's a good thing they support prepaid plans.

I'm also a Vodafone happy customer, have been for many years now, my
only wish is for they to come up with some data-plan for people who are
more interested in data than in voice/sms/mms (specially the latter). If
3G USB dongles aren't overloading their networks, leeching YouTube and
3MB emails, my 3G mobile won't do that either no matter how many 3KB
pages I download.

On this matter, my reasoning if that if they don't, someone will (think
3).

Re: blog.cpinto.net: Barcamp FCT cool down

cpinto — Mon, 26 May 2008 11:51:27 -0000

Hi Bruno,

you presented a strong case, maybe I should have worded my opinions a bit better. It's not that you should not care about uptime, you should. Availability of your service plays a very big role in the whole experience. But that doesn't necessarily mean that if you have a hiccup now and then you'll start losing people left and right to your competitors. But again, that depends a lot on what service you are providing. Yes, if salesforce.com is down you'll get angry mobs with torches and pitchforks knocking down your doors asking for refunds. That's because people depend on salesforce.com to make money, they're not using it for fun. If google.com becomes unavailable you'll go back to another provider but as soon as it's up you'll start using Google again, because the quality of their search results is, so far, unmatched. If Flickr is down, yes a professional user will complaint, possibly take their money elsewhere (smugmug.com for example) but probably just send the pictures via email and sort things out with Flickr.

At the end of the day, it's exactly as you wrote: uptime relevance is proportional to the cost of downtime. The bigger the downtime cost the more you'll care about it. If to that you add up the unavailability of a substitute then downtime cost increases exponentially. Essentially, with salesforce.com there is no immediate substitute, whereas with Google you go use something else and with Flickr you go back to email. (Did that make any sense? I'm not asking if you agree with me, just if it makes any sense hehe)

Re: blog.cpinto.net: One for the Jabber/XMPP community

cpinto — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:50:16 -0000

you are, of course, correct but: will you store pubsub notifications offline? if so, how would you do it if you had a usage spike. if not, how would you show a history of what has been happening to the user?

Re: blog.cpinto.net: One for the Jabber/XMPP community

cpinto — Wed, 07 May 2008 15:47:27 -0000

useless yeah, but utterly fun

Re: blog.cpinto.net: One for the Jabber/XMPP community

cpinto — Tue, 06 May 2008 19:20:02 -0000

I'm just trying to get the ball rolling, most of the questions up there
refer to possible solutions I've heard or read about. My stance is that
I know nothing of Twitter's internals and so prefer not to pass real
judgment, but I have to admit that with the speculation surrounding it,
it makes for a seriously engaging water cooler topic.

With regards to PubSub, I have my reservations that it would survive a
large number of messages published by a very large number of nodes, at
least without proper operations in place. But wouldn't that also solve
it's current outages too?

Re: blog.cpinto.net: One for the Jabber/XMPP community

cpinto — Tue, 06 May 2008 18:28:45 -0000

ok, just clearing up that particular question: how would you scale offline message storage? :-)

Re: blog.cpinto.net

cpinto — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 18:33:02 -0000

Hi Donald,

I haven't used this with compiz, I have an old laptop and compiz really
gets in the way.

If you don't mind, I'd say you should open a couple of bugs in Ubuntu's
Launchpad (http://launchpad.net). Or you can tap into the Ubuntu
community for assistance, at the http://ubuntuforums.org website.

Sorry for not being able to help you further.

Re: 16-02-2008: Frederico Albergaria

cpinto — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 18:17:58 -0000

Este projecto parece-me fantástico. Claramente o Frederico estudou bem o mercado e sabe o potencial que tem, especialmente o potencial internacional. Ainda bem que passou, espero que chegue à final.

Re: blog.cpinto.net: Top 10 Stallman jokes

cpinto — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 06:12:20 -0000

LOL

Re: blog.cpinto.net: Vou chamar a ASAE

cpinto — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 18:43:59 -0000

Bom, segundo o nosso amigo Bill Clinton sim, sexo só quando há penetração. E o dicionário de Princeton tem a seguinte definição para "smoke": "inhale and exhale smoke from cigarettes, cigars, pipes".

Re: The Tao of Mac - MWSF 2008 Rumor Doodles

cpinto — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 14:31:14 -0000

Agreed, OmniGraffle is insanely great (and really cheap too) and it's one of the three apps that make me boot the PowerMac. I also enjoyed OmniPlan a lot, but don't use it much.