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Re: Starting a High Tech Business: No Cold Hires

windley — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:00:06 -0000

Absolutely true. Anyone can put on a good show for a day. References can help, but they can't be "cold references." They have to come from someone you know, trust, and will tell you the unvarnished truth.

Re: Starting a High Tech Business: No Cold Hires

windley — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:58:52 -0000

Your last sentence is very true and that's frankly a risk. There may be better people for a particular job than those in your network. Even so, the risk of cold hires is huge.

Finding ways to bring new people into the fold in a way that you can "date" them before marriage is a good idea. Hiring someone on a project basis as a 1099 is one way to do that. Frankly I've had more than one person volunteer time for that reason.

Re: Uninstalling Adobe Air on OS X

windley — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 20:09:33 -0000

Yes, or quotes around the whole thing since it's got a space in it.
Thanks.

Re: Unmounting Time Machine Drives

windley — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:54:24 -0000

Nice. Thanks for the solution. Snow Leopard is better about this
than previous versions too.

Re: Why Use the Kynetx Rule Language Instead of Javascript?

windley — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 10:44:25 -0000

yes, that's a good high level description but the overall language is
much more than that. The full language is documented here:

http://wiki.kynetx.com/pages/Report_on_KRL

Re: Gillmor Gang on SideWiki: Building Audience

windley — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:34:01 -0000

And apparently too much credit! :-) Sorry for the mistake.

Re: Gillmor Gang on SideWiki: Building Audience

windley — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 15:33:57 -0000

As I've said, the question of whether this is a good business is separate from the question of whether it's right or wrong.

Re: Claiming My Right to a Purpose-Centric Web: SideWiki

windley — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 11:36:45 -0000

Nice thought Cliff. We're all rewriting something else all the time.

Re: Claiming My Right to a Purpose-Centric Web: SideWiki

windley — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:17:27 -0000

Now that's a good analogy.

Re: Claiming My Right to a Purpose-Centric Web: SideWiki

windley — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:18:07 -0000

Whether 8.2 applies or not depends on whether rending content in your browser is creating a derivative work, I suppose. As far as I know, Google hasn't tried to stop ad blocking browser extensions.

Re: Claiming My Right to a Purpose-Centric Web: SideWiki

windley — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:43:31 -0000

Yeah, point 1 is probably something that is better dealt with elsewhere. I'm not trying to distinguish between user controlled and opt-in, just saying user controlled might be a better, more flexible phrase. Not important to this discussion.

On point 2: No, I don't think the TOS disallows it. Would Google care? Maybe. I think they'd have a tough time suing given their current stance.

I think your idea about combining search results is a great example and one that could easily be done with Kynetx, for example. Google can't "disallow" it. That train has left the station. Might they try and sue? Sure, but I think they'd lose and be badly hurt by the effort.

As for "what if MS did this?" that's taking the example to an extreme edge case where of course there would be a battle.

Re: Claiming My Right to a Purpose-Centric Web: SideWiki

windley — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:54:03 -0000

Point 1: I view opt-in as crucial, although that word may not be the best one. Better idea is user controlled. User control and freedom of choice for the individual is what legitimizes this.

Point 2: I'm not sure I read Google TOS as disallowing this. The user is accessing the site (be it Google or anything else) in exactly the way Google intends. The browser is merely modifying the returned content in a way that better suits the user's needs (see Point 1).

Note that I'm not claiming the right to access the site in ways the site owner does not allow or hacking the site. I'm merely a proponent of my right to render the returned content--legally and lawfully accessed--in a way that's useful to me.

Re: Claiming My Right to a Purpose-Centric Web: SideWiki

windley — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:15:23 -0000

But they're not doing ANYTHING with your data.

And why would the specific architecture of how it works matter to your right to see content rendered the way you want and next to what ever other content you want?

Re: Claiming My Right to a Purpose-Centric Web: SideWiki

windley — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:50:11 -0000

I vehemently disagree. First off--it's not property in the land sense and so that analogy doesn't work. It's not at ALL like the home owners' association. Your site ISN'T a place. Second, if every service that wants to let users modify content to better suit their purpose had to agree, no such services would ever be developed and that's not good for anyone. You're thinking like the RIAA or MPAA here.

Re: Claiming My Right to a Purpose-Centric Web: SideWiki

windley — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:47:24 -0000

As an aside Dave, I agree that this particular service might be a bad idea and Google could very well end up abandoning it. I'm not making an argument for SideWiki per se, just the right of users to do it if they want.

Re: Claiming My Right to a Purpose-Centric Web: SideWiki

windley — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:37:01 -0000

I think your analogy is flawed because it's equating Web sites to land and they're not. No one is writing graffiti on your site. They're writing about your page somewhere else on the Web. The browser just happens to be displaying them together.

Re: Claiming My Right to a Purpose-Centric Web: SideWiki

windley — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:31:22 -0000

Hi Dave.

Actually Arrington used "defacing" and I've provided a link in the article now. I didn't mean to imply you'd said it. Apologies.

I think if you want to have a router that modified my words then more power to you. I don't need to opt-out. If you're going to redistribute it, then we should talk, but if it's for your consumption and you want them modified in a certain way then have at it. No objections from me. I think its your right.

I don't believe I misquoted you. The only time I quote you, I link to the words you said.

As for calling your thinking silly, I didn't say your thinking was silly, only that thinking of Web sites the same way we do land was silly. If that's what you think, then it's silly. :-)

Peace Dave.

Re: Unmounting Time Machine Drives

windley — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:57:02 -0000

You're sure you've got the right disk name? What do you see when you
execute "ls /Volume"

Re: Personal Site of Bryce Roberts

windley — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 23:28:25 -0000

Bryce, congrats! That's a huge accomplishment. You're my hero now! :-)

Re: On Health Care

windley — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 10:21:33 -0000

Many Americans, including me, do not like big government and are distrustful of the government. That may not make sense to you, but it is a fact and any health care plan has to deal with that reality.

Re: A Virtual Printer for OS X

windley — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 10:12:19 -0000

I'd never noticed the "Edit this menu" option. That works great.
Thanks Brian!

Re: My Last Tweet...Powered by Kynetx

windley — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:37:21 -0000

I liked this question enough that I wrote a whole blog post about it
here:

http://www.windley.com/archives/2009/08/why_use...

Re: Why Use the Kynetx Rule Language Instead of Javascript?

windley — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:34:23 -0000

Its a little more than a framework for running scripts because of
KRL. The language provides an abstraction for pulling services
together in a way that's conceptually consistent.

Re: What are People Tweeting About this Site?

windley — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 09:37:46 -0000

Yes, if you'd like to see the complete source send me (contact info on the left) your email and I'll send you an invite to share the source. We're still working on "public" rulesets that anyone can see, but there's nothing secret about this one at all.

Re: Sweetter in Ubiquity

windley — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:50:53 -0000

Yeah, I was thinking of Simon Grice while I was writing that. Fixed it.