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"Google and XMPP have recently added a draft extension to the protocol called Jingle, which enables voice over IP and video conferencing."

The use of 'recently' made me do a bit of double take.

http://slashdot.org/story/05/12/16/070245/google-jabber-and-...

I find it interesting how Tumblr can frame a reply as a post, a different highlighting of the fractal flow of conversation, though ain't nobody got time for that, imo. I'll stick with plain ol' threaded HN/Reddit (though I think I remember finding a parent post for deep links to HN annoyingly unintuitive).

edit; ah, it has that - http://try.discourse.org/t/yo-dawg-heard-you-like-replies-so....

I like the new UX ideas. I'm wondering if instances will be able to federate, and the 'front page term[/hashtag](s)' for the discussion area of a certain website on a topic could be framed differently.

Some topics are going to get to crazy posting speed. Watching Reddit posts with new set on isn't that fun. An IRC/Jabber MUC format would be good for times, and Facebook autoupdates its newsfeed anyway. An IM system with text (and at least url) post and their replies upvoted, and maybe filtered in some tiling window like fashion?

There's my half-baked idea for the evening!

Glad I could help some, and thanks for creating the site. Any chance of a basic blog or Twitter for notification of changes?

misc quick random thoughts

I loved the intro. I've seen the Epic Win framing, but a friend I found who was using it ended up not turning it on to see all the things they were not epically winning at. This made me think of The Diamond Age.

I thought I'd gotten it wrong and that instead of my name, I was supposed to have entered a habit, think I misunderstood the text.

How do I undo task completion? Things got slightly confusing after entering three habits. I didn't realise I'd started one, then refreshed and completed it accidentally. The rotating green circle showing Done is nice, but erk, I am not worthy yet! Maybe similar and other-colour to show something is in progress?

(edit; I guess that Done Today relates to the growing of the plant? Apologies, I'm slightly confused. I'll leave it open and come back later.)

(edit2; got it started but not green now)

Even though it says done, I can't start another task. I check the first task, almost forgetting that I need to mouseover the figure and click (having to wait to mouseover to get the advice doesn't help, someone might not try that) to enter the task options. I can pause it there, then change. Doing that from the clock page would be one less hidden away click. Also, a transition to get into the task zone could help? If that stalk is going to grow as time goes by, make it pulse glow or something to gain intrigue?

One can enter items for future years. I see now I then choose to 'Set as Active Future Self'. I like that idea of context switching, the "future as existence in progress", but the UX/IA is not entirely intuitive yet. A way to jump between myselves from the panelled screen would be quicker.

How far might you looking to use the metaphors? "Story Mode" for the younger at heart? Golden thread and such could be worth using. Or a pool of suggested habits? Or questions that can be answered to help gain insight (and track past selves later on)? Or Oblique Strategies? Or an anonymously networked Half Bakery like spiders web that can be visited and interacted with.. And/or a dream diary?

Could a length of time be involved for some types of habit that require it? "'Do something for 35 minutes related to your _project work_!', suggests the Habbit to your Second Future Self, as you both stroll along the banks of time.."

Somehow suggest to users to bookmark and maybe pin the tab?

The factoid I learnt in my childhood of an inch being 2.539954cm is now wrong?

Whoops, horizontal scrollbar on 1024*768.

I'm still seeing the old site after demoing the new and switching back as there's no user script to scrobble to Last.fm yet. Fingers crossed that sticks for a while, I like being able to track my listening habbits!

I really like how https://lobste.rs/ uses tags for easy topic filtering.

I'd love to see a system that does automatic topic/trend clustering, along side the manual social bookmarking bits. That would be a killer app for attention economy management. Then give the topic or trend or whatever tags (insightful, humour, etc?) dash/wiki pages of their own with Linked Data additions. Or do the automatic clustering after a page reaches a certain number of upvotes or saves.. 2p anyway..

In case you're about to jump into your IRC client to join, note that it's ##hackernews not #hackernews.

It's an 'interesting[1]' and.. 'silly[2]' narrative.

[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/4chan/comments/zacju/9gag_repost_mac...

[2] http://i.imgur.com/hOWaD.jpg

Something I find handy; I have the 'Hacker News Infinite Scrolling' and 'Hacker News Sorter' extensions. If I've been away from HN for a while, scrolling open several pages worth of links then clicking the "Sort" button gives the best of the last day or two - http://i.imgur.com/EQ0o3.png

If per chance anyone has a free invite, it would be greatly appreciated!

For 2) you can use tabs in Vim to provide different workspaces, with each workspace having a certain layout of windows.

I've just found out that dwm.vim doesn't work well with tabs just yet though - it copies all buffer windows to the current tab on Ctrl-f (make active window the master focus).

done. as noted there, Ctrl-w | Ctrl-w _ to fullscreen does leave the other windows crushed at the edge, but i guess there might be a better method?

Wonderful, ta, I'll check them out soon! Links for the lazy yet interested; https://github.com/kien/ctrlp.vim http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=1338

awesome wm, urxvt, ssh, tmux, vim, dwm.vim http://i.imgur.com/fC556.png

nerdtree <cr> opens things in the active window, nerdtree i opens a split in the master window, and a dwm.vim focus tidies things up. no fullscreen mode is unhandy though (i've not learnt how to unmaximise from Ctrl-w _ and Ctrl-w | yet).

edit; silly me, doing Ctrl-f now unmaximises the window.

I got into Awesome Window Manager a couple of months ago and have been getting to know how to manage remote Vim split windows with the help of NERDTree. A remote in-Vim managed tiling aproach would be cool though. Googling around, there's also https://github.com/fabi1cazenave/suckless.vim which emulates wmii and has "[s]tacked, [d]ivided, [f]ullscreen" modes. I need to learn tabs also. Things can get busy on 1024*768!

Ah, bingo, got it, thanks.

Looks interesting, but I don't get the profiles in the latest Chromium nightly, 22.0.1195.0 (145429).

Please can you make it scale to for a 1024*768 resolution? Thanks. I found it great fun dog fighting with another when it's a bit quieter. Annoyances were someone hacking the controls and setting a ship to move across the screen shooting a great number of shots directly left and right that moved in a wave straight up and down the screen, wiping out all players in its path. Trying to move ahead of this often didn't help due apparently due to lag. I managed to shoot the bugger, but then they respawned with movement reset and the whole screen was speckled with shots, yet another killing field. Later it was doing similar movements to before but shooting out in a spiral at a rate unmatchable with the space bar. Thanks for building this!

Edit: A hide-able chat msg system would be cool. I just wanted to hit t and say "good fight!" after an opponent and I managed to take out each other at the same moment.

I'm finding it somewhat ironic that the website isn't responsive and gives me a horizontal scrollbar on a 1024*768 screen.

My techy pseudoreddit url; http://www.reddit.com/r/technology+webdev+web_design+netsec+...

http://metareddit.com is also handy

Slight pipedream aside; a tiling window manager with multiple real and virtual desktops plus gesture control would be nice. Anon or authed zeroconf wireless networking and would allow one to place/dock a mobile device to the side of your desktop/tv/other mobile and drag/sync apps and/or items between the two. Anyone know of a system or so that could do the likes of that?

Webfinger - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webfinger - was created for e-mail-as-OpenID-login. I don't know why it hasn't taken off though.

Amazon's monopsony in the e-book market scares me.

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/11/cutting-...

I have always been bothered about cpanel passwords coming through in plain text. To confirm, is this the same storage system with mail passwords also?

Shell passwords - they're hashed, but are they salted? If not, can they be in future?

Thanks for your time.

"...and that the contractors in the OSM case just happened to be working in the same office."

Does anyone know how big this office is?

Heh, could use that newer site history exploit hack to show users which sites they have visited (by regularity?) via GoDaddy?

Thanks, I missed the X before I saw your comment, but still, nothing comes through for me when searching in Chromium 17.0.950.0. Firefox nightly works.