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Re: Fred Wilson Dot VC

jtyost2 — Sun, 31 May 2009 22:25:46 -0000

I agree.

Re: The NY Times/Twitter feed (Scripting News)

jtyost2 — Thu, 14 May 2009 02:06:44 -0000

All companies not just Twitter should be publishing content on twitter that isn't just theirs, link everywhere, become the go to resource by providing tons of information.

Re: Spyware Protect 2009 strikes again (Scripting News)

jtyost2 — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:30:37 -0000

Honestly, I don't know. I do also use AdBlock for Firefox, but I would assume you run with that on. I've used both Speakeasy and Speedtest, and I've never had a problem.

The thing that stands out to me is "Both times my machine got infected I was using a speed test site to evaluate the performance of someone else's network", that sounds like the networks you were using or the other computers on the networks are somehow bad and you are getting infected that way.

I know when I lived in the dorms on the college campus, I had to run with anti-virus software because every computer on that network was trying to take over every other computer. Heck, I made a fair amount of money cleaning up computers for that semester.

BTW, I used ClamAV, Ad-Aware and Spybot for protection when I was on the dorm network and I was genuinely happy with the results.

Re: Spyware Protect 2009 strikes again (Scripting News)

jtyost2 — Sun, 29 Mar 2009 14:18:48 -0000

I'm just going to say that on all of my personal computers, that I have the only access to, not ones that I set up for other people mind you, I surf the internet unprotected except for Firefox and Window's Firewall and I have never had a problem.

Re: New Disqus Look And Feel

jtyost2 — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:12:49 -0000

I also agree with the "Never been a big fan of the "mouse over a picture and a profile pops up that you have to close" feature."

Personally I don't much care for the feature, though I understand it's use. But at the very least don't show me that information, unless I want it.

While I like "liking" a comment as opposed to voting for it, with the voting it was very much there and a focus of the system. Now the "liking" has been moved to an almost secondary action and that feels like a poor move. One of the benefits of Disqus is sorting and selecting users who are more popular. Minimizing the number of votes makes the overall system weaker.

Some of the JavaScript in Disqus appears to be doing weird in FF3.5 Beta3, at least for me. That and I would really like it if Disqus became XHTML valid.

Re: The Berkshire Hathaway 2008 Annual Letter

jtyost2 — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 02:07:07 -0000

Thanks for posting your thoughts on this, great as you put it "cliff notes version".

Re: Facebook Marketplace: For Sale AK-47?

jtyost2 — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 12:33:33 -0000

No it was a real live AK-47.

Re: 100,000th Knol Published and No One Cares But Google

jtyost2 — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:32:14 -0000

No, I am not claiming to be a "expert", I am claiming to be somewhat knowledgeable of the subject and the ability to recognize the accurate information from the wrong stuff. Both because of my degree and due to my experience in that particular field. I've also been a part-time web developer for over a year and a half at this point. Also don't we typically consider experts in fields due purely to their degree in the area and sometimes on the time working in the field?

Also the vast majority of Wikipedia is taken from what would be considered qualified sources. I helped edit Wikipedia articles about art and art history, and where I took my information from was the BBC typically.

Re: 100,000th Knol Published and No One Cares But Google

jtyost2 — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 10:12:26 -0000

Well thanks for the comment. My response is first that I myself don't have as you put an ear for mathematics so I can't make a statement one way or the other on the "pleasure" in reading the articles on Mathematics. I do know that I don't want to receive pleasure from an encyclopedia, but rather information.

Do you get as much pleasure from reading the Encyclopedia Britannica sections on Mathematics?

Also, I did not say that one could not use Britannica or other resources. I probably should have stated that I want people to gather from a multitude of sources. However in not all cases is that possible. Where Wikipedia shines is a starting point for research, simply due to the breadth and depth of articles. Whereas Britticina or other research materials are typically slowed by the inability to search and slowness inherent in a print medium. Wikipedia there is a fairly low bar at which an article must meet to stay.

How many other encyclopedias have articles about lightsaber fighting or your local tv stations? There is a lot of value in that.

Also I still have yet to see a professor who spends their lifetime research and specializing in a field of mathematics proclaim that someone is THE expert in a field. Who is THE expert in your field of mathematics that can publish something that no one finds fault with? At least when I go to Wikipedia I realize what I am getting - something written by most likely average people and not always experts.

However I will also say as a Computer Science Major, I find their articles in the areas of CS, complete, through and highly accurate. I have yet to find a mistake in Wikipedia, in that particular area.

Re: tumbléo

jtyost2 — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 23:42:03 -0000

Wow

Re: 100,000th Knol Published and No One Cares But Google

jtyost2 — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 23:38:33 -0000

My response is that in the same way a textbook can be updated and is. Suggestions are sent all the time to both publishers and the author and yet mistakes still occur and no professor has a perfect textbook.

Two examples: my Women's History and Art Appreciation textbook. For Women's History, the professor really liked the older edition but the newer editions used a lot of meaningless essays that served no point. However the professor couldn't use the older editions as they were out of date and had inaccurate information.

Art Appreciation, the professor actually met with the publisher and the author and discussed issues that he had with the book. Next edition some were solved but some aren't. The professor still finds errors in the book, one in which he has a personal relationship with the author and the publisher.

Merely sending a note to someone doesn't correct errors.

Re: 5 Secrets To Ninja Writing : Rob Conery

jtyost2 — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:25:11 -0000

You'll read codinghorror again just to see how closely he follows the script.

Re: louisgray.com: The Time is Right to Kill Google (If They Don’t Kill Themselves First)

jtyost2 — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:29:36 -0000

Two bad services does not mean the end of Google by far, for one Google is much more than any of those individual services. FriendConnect was written in the hope that people love Google enough to form social connections with other Google'ers, they aren't. Facebook, Myspace, etc have the social network market wrapped up currently and that isn't likely to change at least with anything coming out of Google. Also I would say that Feedburner while yes bad, isn't the company: search and advertising is.

Re: Its Okay to Break the Build

jtyost2 — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:15:13 -0000

Is it even needed to do unit testing? http://www.wilshipley.com/blog/2005/09/unit-tes...

Re: Disqus Now Includes Facebook

jtyost2 — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 10:13:30 -0000

How so?

Re: Correspondence Is Making A Comeback

jtyost2 — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:04:30 -0000

We may be getting more writing but are we necessarily getting good writing? Monkeys on the keyboard can write but it's not good writing.

Re: A Visit to 25C3

jtyost2 — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 19:19:29 -0000

Sounds like a great conference, hope I can go sometime.

Re: Why, Texas Tech, Why???

jtyost2 — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 14:21:16 -0000

You gotta call it as it is.

Re: The space between Twitter and FriendFeed (Scripting News)

jtyost2 — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:59:05 -0000

Yeah that was defiantly a problem too.

Re: The space between Twitter and FriendFeed (Scripting News)

jtyost2 — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:47:35 -0000

The reason I use FriendFeed over Facebook, is because Facebook lots more information needs to be revealed to really use it. Also again conversations are a lot harder to start up, FriendFeed makes it easy to start conversing.

Re: The space between Twitter and FriendFeed (Scripting News)

jtyost2 — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:46:07 -0000

Yeah, it was kinda like Pownce, expect Pownce had it's own set of issues and didn't handle threading great or a real time page like FF does. It always felt weird that I would have to go to a particular item to see the conversation around it. Pownce never felt natural, FriendFeed does.

Re: The space between Twitter and FriendFeed (Scripting News)

jtyost2 — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 13:44:03 -0000

Thanks for writing this up, never thought of it that way and it makes a ton of sense.

Re: My Life In a Cube :: So Depressing It's Almost Funny

jtyost2 — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 02:32:23 -0000

Consultant?

Re: This Republican Party Bothers Me | Yostivanich.com

jtyost2 — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:30:29 -0000

Thanks, Surge I appreciate that.

Re: Which bank has the best online UI? (Scripting News)

jtyost2 — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:39:43 -0000

I use ING Direct and couldn't be happier. The web interface is nice, free bill pay, high interest on savings and checking accounts, free first class postal mail of checks, and they are really fast at processing transactions. I've enjoyed their customer service the few times I have had to call them.