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Re: A Big Week For The Mobile Web

russellbeattie — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 13:36:45 -0000

Well then, in your personal weblog you're using the wrong terminology, and you might want to correct that to be more technically accurate. Just a suggestion of course... I completely support your freedom to write whatever nonsense you'd like, disregarding completely the thousands of readers who might be influenced by your words.

:-)

-Russ

Re: Twitter Search tracker in Python - RussellBeattie.com

russellbeattie — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 20:32:36 -0000

Reading that made me laugh... I crack myself up.

A screenshot though? I log all IM conversations to a text file for posterity, and potential litigation of course.

-Russ

P.S. Sharks! Cake! I'm hysterical.

Re: The iPhone Crapp Store? - RussellBeattie.com

russellbeattie — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:42:12 -0000

I'm glad you're such an avid fan of my blog that you know about the last two jobs I had... Sadly, mentioning them doesn't prove your point however, and generally makes you an asshole for personally attacking me.

Please fuck off now, any more comments you leave will be deleted.

-Russ

Re: The iPhone Crapp Store? - RussellBeattie.com

russellbeattie — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 10:45:29 -0000

Sure, I'll go test all 450 apps and get back to you with a breakdown of exact crud percentages. Yeah, right.

If I *told* you my opinions were based on descriptions and overall quantity, then I'm being open and clear about it, and thus not "irresponsible." Additionally, the title has a question mark, no? Nor are there any statements like "it's all 100% shit." is there?

I'm always amazed at the sort of self-righteous nonsense people leave in comments.

-Russ

Re: The iPhone Crapp Store? - RussellBeattie.com

russellbeattie — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 02:49:00 -0000

NICE!!!!

-Russ

Re: Twitter Search tracker in Python - RussellBeattie.com

russellbeattie — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 01:34:03 -0000

That's interesting - I actually love libxml2 as that's what PHP's DOM stuff is wrapped around as well, and it works like a charm.

Thanks, I'll have to look at it.

-Russ

Re: Is this a canonical Python HTTP POST with Basic Authentication? - RussellBeattie.com

russellbeattie — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:08:59 -0000

Ooh, nice! I missed the online docs - though it's the same content you get from the help(httplib2) it's nice to see online.

That's a great sample too. Thanks!

-Russ

Re: Is this a canonical Python HTTP POST with Basic Authentication? - RussellBeattie.com

russellbeattie — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 16:10:02 -0000

I've seen that before, but there's barely any documentation, so I'm not sure how it works.

And again, is that canonical? Is that how 90% of Python developers would do it?

-Russ

Re: Twitter Search tracker in Python - RussellBeattie.com

russellbeattie — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:41:13 -0000

ARRRGHHH!

Again, Python tools drive me nuts. ElementTree is almost useless if the doc has namespaces. It took me the past hour to figure this out:

>>> from xml.etree import ElementTree as et
>>> import urllib
>>> url = "http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?rpp=20&q=palin"
>>> xml = urllib.urlopen(url)
>>> tree = et.parse(xml)
>>> print tree.findall('entry')
[]
>>> print tree.findall('{http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry')
[<Element {http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry at 837b4ec>, <Element {http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry at 837b98c>, <Element {http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry at 837becc>, <Element {http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry at 838136c>, <Element {http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry at 838180c>, <Element {http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry at 8381cac>, <Element {http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry at 838616c>, <Element {http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry at 838660c>, <Element {http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry at 8386aac>, <Element {http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry at 8386f4c>, <Element {http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry at 838940c>, <Element {http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry at 83898ac>, <Element {http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry at 8389d4c>, <Element {http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry at 838d20c>, <Element {http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry at 838d6ac>, <Element {http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry at 838db4c>, <Element {http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry at 838dfec>, <Element {http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry at 83904ac>, <Element {http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry at 839094c>, <Element {http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom}entry at 8390dec>]
>>>

And there doesn't seem to be a way to strip out the namespace stuff. Or maybe there is. No idea, the documentation on Python.org barely even mentions namespaces in the first place.

-Russ

Re: Twitter Search tracker in Python - RussellBeattie.com

russellbeattie — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:48:15 -0000

Ahh, thanks! I even had that page opened at one point... Python docs confuse the fuck out of me.

I agree XPaths are usually easier, but there's not a lot to be saved in the above script really.

-Russ

Re: Twitter Search tracker in Python - RussellBeattie.com

russellbeattie — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 22:31:31 -0000

I looked at ElementTree - but it was a third party, though I read somewhere it was supposed to be in 2.5? It doesn't seem to be.

I do have simplejson installed, but 1) it's buggy still - it barfed on a Twitter stream the other day in unrecoverable ways - and 2) again, it's just one more library I didn't need for something so simple. Twitter Search's JSON API is actually much, much more featured than the Atom XML stream, though so I may have to just bite the bullet and start using it regularly.

Thanks about the no-op stuff... Having the if statement there makes me a little happier, just in terms of clean coding, but it's good to know in the future. I just tried it and you're right, it works without problems.

-Russ

Re: NBC has ruined the Olympics - RussellBeattie.com

russellbeattie — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:49:17 -0000

Wow, you're a jackass. And an anonymous troll at that.

"They weren't shown live on the east coast either. They were recorded live... yesterday..." - My god you're a fucking idiot, as well as an asshole.

"Silverlight supports not only full screen, but 5.1 stereo and HD pictures." - Maybe it does, but the NBC player doesn't. You obviously haven't tried it - which makes sense as you're a clueless dickhead.

"swimming and gymnastics ... are quite prominent" - Yes, but not live. Nice job on the reading comprehension.

"we're not a fucking television station" - No, apparently you're all fucking morons.

Tell your wife to blow m... rather, that she's a fucking clueless idiot as well.

-Russ

Re: NBC has ruined the Olympics - RussellBeattie.com

russellbeattie — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:52:04 -0000

I don't blame NBC for focusing on American athletes. But it's *how* they do it which is so annoying - every country is identified by their worst stereotypes, or ignored completely.

-R

Re: NBC has ruined the Olympics - RussellBeattie.com

russellbeattie — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 12:47:55 -0000

Interesting - I haven't seen any streams actually working at the moment - but I'll keep checking.

-R

Re: NBC has ruined the Olympics - RussellBeattie.com

russellbeattie — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 02:41:23 -0000

I've actually caught many of those events as well - but not at any normal viewing time (i.e. prime time with my kid), the commercials are still incessant and nothing is live.

Field Hockey is on USA right now, that's nice. USA only shows coverage during the middle of the night though.

Boxing on CNBC/UHD of course. Has *anyone* cared about boxing since about 1968?!?

-Russ

Re: bjornstar - Roomatic

russellbeattie — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:22:40 -0000

I thought I had! What are you seeing?

-Russ

Re: Olympics - Roomatic

russellbeattie — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:55:08 -0000

I sorta think he's been overhyped... His first leg in the relay, for example, was an American record leg, but compared to the others he came in 3rd or 4th I think, making it so his team had to play catch up. He also tightened up quite a bit last night in one of the heats... It's going to be difficult for him to keep swimming at that level I would imagine.

-Russ

Re: bjornstar - Roomatic

russellbeattie — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:27:45 -0000

Okay, so I uncommented the "most popular" code... It's sort of wonky because I'm not sure exactly how to intercept the Disqus stuff just yet, so instead of pointing out rooms with the most comments, I'm pointing out the "most visited" which isn't really right.

I'll keep tweaking. Thanks for the input!

-Russ

Re: bjornstar - Roomatic

russellbeattie — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:19:06 -0000

Because right now there isn't any traffic. I have some commented out code that will do just that if this gets any traction.

:-)

-Russ

Re: bjornstar - Roomatic

russellbeattie — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:17:41 -0000

Yes, that's pretty much all it is. But 1) I don't know of anywhere else you can do this and 2) it might be enough to be interesting. It's an experiment.

-Russ

Re: Olympics - Roomatic

russellbeattie — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:24:20 -0000

Testing the reply feature... :-)

Re: Where are the electric cars? - RussellBeattie.com

russellbeattie — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 00:17:24 -0000

Do you work for GM or something? What an crazy-ass rant.

-Russ

Re: iPhone Reconciliation - RussellBeattie.com

russellbeattie — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:23:22 -0000

Hey Jeff,

Thanks for stopping by and commenting!

The iPhone has definitely changed the consumer landscape already, there's no question. The best thing about Apple's marketing push is that more people have suddenly become aware of the potential for mobile devices. But I have to say this was the trend already - Apple simply speeded up an evolution that was already under way.

Streaming media has been available and popular for years (MobiTV, for example) and Apple is already late to the party when it comes to syncing with the cloud - Danger (now Microsoft along with Mesh), Blackberry and Nokia's Ovi are already there first.

As for the iPhone's ubiquity being an opportunity, that could be said about any platform, really. Qik, for example has gotten attention and funding with a service that only works on Symbian devices - this wouldn't have worked if there was no Symbian devices available - the fact there's millions of them gave them a market opportunity. I don't see the iPhone's popularity being any different, but in fact, the limitations to the AppStore you praise means that you won't be seeing Qik on an iPhone anytime soon. In other words, ubiquity won't do much good if they're stifling innovation in the process.

As for GPS/LBS stuff - well, I'm on record here about this: http://www.russellbeattie.com/blog/my-thoughts-.... As much as I love some of the cool stuff Marc Davis and company have done at Yahoo!, I stated my thoughts in that post very clearly: Most LBS applications are a black hole of wasted time, effort, money, and opportunity. The fact that the iPhone now has GPS doesn't change this. :-)

The point of the post was simply that for techies who want to hack at the iPhone or for entrepeneurs/businesses who want to build lasting businesses around the iPhone, the lack of openness means that it's really a dead-end, no matter how incredible of a device and platform it may be. Nothing in your comment made me change my mind about that.

-Russ

Re: iPhone Reconciliation - RussellBeattie.com

russellbeattie — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:21:09 -0000

Hey, if your wife left you and you've been a general business failure and are now broke and jobless, you'd be negative too. Comes with the territory.

Oh, and fuck you. [Edit: this was a joke.]

:-)

-Russ

Re: RussellBeattie.com - Personal SMS Business Cards via TextMarks

russellbeattie — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:56:19 -0000

Not that I know of... but enough people think about it and Google the idea so that I get a random request from people looking up my contact info testing the service out every couple weeks since I wrote this.

:-)

-Russ