MuddyMo

So, it's just a given the GMail's security SUCKS?

I second that "cool".

Hey, nobody reads my blog: muddymo.blogspot.com (well, a few do) but I will link you on my blogroll. Send me an email when you are ready.

Highly recommended piece from a guy who's been in the trenches.

A little slice of Direct Democracy

This concept clearly has some distance to travel before it gains wide acceptance, but I think it has enormous potential.

The real question: Are they using MySQL?

Updmodded for content and bravery.

I recognize some of my struggles in that piece. People get tired of me saying it, but I don't care:

"Chose your semantics wisely, for they do have consequences."

Ironic that in a discipline which requires such a high degree of precision in the use of its symbols and tokens consistently prescribes obscure and contradictory rules for their usage.

Although not required, success in this field is enhanced if one possesses the ability to mentally manage symbol sets with a fairly agnostic attitude towards their clarity and consistency.

When I was a newbie, I recall more than one veteran C programmer giving me a quizzical look when I asked who the hell thought it was a good idea to use the same symbol to express assignment and equality.

Give 'em credit for making progress, they don't have a "Reboot Computer?" button as the default selection ala: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=86329

Bravo! Bravo! Tour de force! Should be read at least once a month as an antidote to creeping groupthink.

Now I have to stop reading Hacker News and clean up the soda I just spewed all over my keyboard. Thanks alot, jey.

Yes,the Register is shrill to the point of borderline tabloid status. But they do put out a significant amount of original work.

Just to see for myself, I went to the Wiki page for Gary Weiss' bio and saw numerous attempts had been made to add a link to this Register article and all had been undone immediately.

Hopefully, Citizendium (like Wikipedia, but no anonymous editors and there is an editorial board) will be able to gain some traction:

http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Main_Page

If recent news reports are accurate, it appears that Wikipedia may be devolving into a Web 2.0 version of "Lord of the Flies"

The Honeybee strategy sacrifices speed for reliability. Try selling that strategy to a client!

I enjoyed the article. I found it interesting, however, that this is based on work that came out in 2004. Here is the link to Tovey's 2004 article, "The Honeybee Algorithm": http://ormstomorrow.informs.org/archive/fall04/Tovey%20artic...

It really isn't that difficult:

Funny is fine, just skip it when it involves haranguing, smearing or ridiculing specific politicians, ideologies or religions.

Looks like Winer is pretty much in line with many in the YC community: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=75433

Might this be the milestone we look back on and eval: (not (not (= google evil)))

Good piece, but I sure hope Anthony Bourdain doesn't get the idea he can start writing books on software dev.

This caught my eye: "One side effect of this change is that if you're using third-party Gmail extensions, they're likely to stop working."

I assume that means GMail Drive?

I am new to Wolfram's work, so I am at a disadvantage, but I find the idea interesting.

Seems unlikely that the "viral potential" for a given random web app could be gleaned by perusing the code or that there will soon be technology available to simulate a user. And if you were to reduce the randomness by somehow requiring the code or the app to conform to some standard in order to make it easier to automate the perusal, well we already have a whole SEO industry dedicated to gaming the current automated search technology, don't we?

At some point don't you think it is likely that the social networking application model will be co-opted by market testing enterprises who will design ways to entice lots of people to test software applications while having their physiological reactions captured online. With a record of human reactions directly correlated to a specific application, predictive results from automated searching would then be feasible.

Overall everything worked well. However, I did find the navigation in the "Results" page a bit counter-intuitive:

I entered "beer" as the seek term and was taken to the "Results" page and I clicked on the first entry in the results--"Beers" which is a list--and got a new page with a view of the items in that list. But when I clicked on the second entry in the results--"beer" which is an item--I didn't get a new page with a view of the item. Instead I got a preview of the item in the frame on the right-side of the Results page.

After further review, I saw the link to the right of the "beer" entry labeled "view" and was able to view the page for that item. I really don't think labeling the links to the right of each results entry differently--"preview" for a list and "view" for an individual item--will prevent the user from being surprised by this behavior.

Seeklr is a very intriguing site. The presentation is very attractive and implemented nicely. Good job and good luck.

ROFL! Can't wait to see the one for an "iPod brick"

Been trying to access for the last fifteen minutes with no luck.

Dude, check your link.

It hosts tumbleblogs for free. What is a tumbleblog? At http://www.tumblr.com/faqs they say: "If blogs are journals, tumblelogs are scrapbooks [or] slightly more structured blogs that make it easier, faster, and more fun to post and share stuff you find or create.

A different take at this YC.news item: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=72996

Looks great. Any plans to provide a history of successful contracts for a specific area, to give potential users an idea of what the going market price is?

Spot on. It would seem Tools are critical to a software factory, Languages to software innovators.

Noting the the reference to Lazlo: http://www.openlaszlo.org/ "OpenLaszlo is "write once, run everywhere." An OpenLaszlo application developed on one machine will run on all leading Web browsers on all leading desktop operating systems." Heard this before?

Willie Nelson might sing it thus,

"Mothers, don't let your boys grow up to be a Mycologist studying the genetic basis of host response to invasive pulmonary aspergillosis"

Your right, for brevity's sake, I sacrificed clarity. Perhaps "programmers of software driven by large enterprise marketing departments"

In light of this story, perhaps I should amend my quote: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=72655

"You can't shit a feature."