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Re: The Bad Old Days

Michael Carnell — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 10:02:18 -0000

Wait, you were running NT on a VM on your Mac? Did it protest? That is just a cruel thing to do to that poor Mac.

Re: I’m not convinced digital licenses are a great idea

Michael Carnell — Fri, 12 Dec 2014 13:47:26 -0000

Exactly. This could be a very crafty way of getting access to a phone that would otherwise be locked. Unlocking the phone to give access to the ID could be construed as consent to access the entire device.

Re: Don’t forget your WordCamp Charleston tickets

Fahad (Eddie) — Tue, 20 May 2014 09:02:35 -0000

Though, Many of you were not in Charleston SC, but you can have a lot of good time by following it on Twitter. WordCamp Charleston 2014 held in the College of Charleston. There were many known names as speakers from WordPress industry like Suzette Franck, David Laietta, Jen Mylo and non other than Andrew Nacin.
http://www.cloudways.com/bl...

Re: Slides from “WordPress at Peak Performance”

Michael Carnell — Mon, 19 May 2014 10:00:35 -0000

Good stuff man. Thanks for a great talk!

Re: The Spaces You Control

Patrick O'Keefe — Thu, 01 May 2014 21:46:38 -0000

Thanks @Jared Smith.

Re: So much iOS 7 frenzy, so little time

Jared Smith — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 13:00:14 -0000

Oh yes, but think of how much money Microsoft pumped into marketing the Windows 95 launch -- I was but a wee lad then, and am not sure how much of that excitement was generated by the behemoth promotional machine that was MSFT at the time or if it was genuine grassroots excitement. I can't imagine Apple's ad spend for iOS 7 is anywhere even close, and yet I see so much passion and excitement around it (and most other operating system launches they do) that seems to be much more organic in nature.

Re: So much iOS 7 frenzy, so little time

James "willia4" Williams — Thu, 19 Sep 2013 12:38:43 -0000

"I will never get over seeing non-geeks get really excited for a new release of an operating system. It wasn’t long ago when similar enthusiasm would draw blank stares and the friend zone."

Nothing will ever beat the Windows 95 launch.

Re: No room for this in our discourse

Patrick O'Keefe — Sun, 07 Jul 2013 14:36:08 -0000

Haha. Thanks man. :)

Re: No room for this in our discourse

Jared Smith — Sun, 07 Jul 2013 12:42:33 -0000

This. All of this. Too bad I don't have more upvotes!

Re: No room for this in our discourse

Patrick O'Keefe — Sun, 07 Jul 2013 12:05:12 -0000

It's all about retweets now. Hard to see a road back. Well moderated online communities are one of, if not the only, place online where civilized discourse exists on a regular basis.

Aside, if you look at his other tweets, you don't see this level of engagement. As I write, his last 4 tweets have 0 retweets. And if you open more of his tweets, you see that replies to him are not any better.

You have to wonder how someone looks at that tweet, given it might be his most "popular" tweet ever. Does he (or, maybe, whoever is advising him on how to use Twitter) see that and say "well, that wasn't well received." Or do they say, "we need to do more of that and get on a wider stage."

Re: No room for this in our discourse

Jared Smith — Sat, 06 Jul 2013 22:15:25 -0000

I don't understand how we let it get this bad, but it is far beyond time for things to change.

Re: No room for this in our discourse

Michael Carnell — Wed, 03 Jul 2013 08:37:26 -0000

Some of these people really amaze me. And make me sad.

Re: TLC: From Public Channel to Honey Boo Boo

James "willia4" Williams — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 14:01:59 -0000

I still miss Junkyard Wars.

Re: Charleston Tech News

Jared Smith — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 21:39:49 -0000

I believe it's Tom Wilson at Jack Russell software.

Re: Charleston Tech News

K Andrews — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 17:20:02 -0000

No connect via Wordpress?

Also, who's behind this tech site? Anyone we know?

Re: …and we’re back.

Jared Smith — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 11:52:13 -0000

The shelf life on third-party services is just too terribly short for good ideas to last.

Re: …and we’re back.

Patrick O'Keefe — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 10:37:32 -0000

Cool. :) Sometimes, when I share thoughts at length on Facebook or Google+, I think "this should really be on my site." But, for whatever reason, I'm not putting it on there... yet. It's a good idea.

Re: …and we’re back.

Jared Smith — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 09:00:43 -0000

Thanks Ad! Glad to be back. Now it's just a matter of making sure I stay there...

Re: …and we’re back.

simonashton — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 08:57:41 -0000

Welcome home

Re: …and we’re back.

Ad Ingle — Wed, 03 Oct 2012 08:17:49 -0000

Welcome back to my Google reader!

Re: WordPress 3.4 is all set

namzuged evetes — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 14:35:26 -0000

oh it is. Thanks for introducing me to WP. I am so glad we switched from Drupal....

Re: Experimenting with LESS

calweb — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 23:21:58 -0000

I've become a big LESS lover over the past year, and truely appreciate how maintainable you can make your CSS.

The LESS.app is great and you're running as soon as you download it. It makes it so easy to listen to a directory and auto compile while you are saving, but I tend to get confused sometimes as to what I'm compiling so I like to manually compile which is probably why I also enjoy the convenience of the ruby gem that also makes it a snap.

> gem install less
> lessc master.less > ../css/styles.css

BOOM, bang, magic ....

I love the fact that you can mix vanilla css with less/javascript and basically compile one less file

### master.less ###
@import "lib/main.less";@import "lib/ui-layout.less";@import "lib/jquery-ui-1.8.15.custom.less";@import "lib/datatables/datatables.less";@import "lib/common.less";@input_width: 210px;@input_width_small: @input_width - 60;@select_input_width: (@input_width + 10);@select_input_width_small: (@select_input_width - 60);@g_white: #FFFFFF;@g_gray_02: #F9F9F9;@g_gray_04: #F5F5F5;@g_gray_2_04: #F6F6F6;@g_gray_05: #F3F3F3;@g_gray_06: #F0F0F0;@g_gray_07: #EEEEEE;@g_gray_11: #E2E2E2;

Re: Gillmor on SOPA: It’s not about piracy

tjgillies — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:57:04 -0000

I don't think its centralization vs decentralization. From my experience building decentralized social networks http://ostatus.org/2010/08/... http://www.victusspiritus.c... its my opinion that a centralized web is actually better.

However, its all about who controls that centralization. With facebook, google+, and twitter, you can choose where you want to centralize your data. If SOPA et al. passes, that choice goes away

Re: SOPA tabled for now

tjgillies — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:20:57 -0000

I'm disappointed, I was kinda looking forwards to watching the inevitable revolution that would ensue

Re: Experimenting with LESS

Jared Smith — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 16:11:47 -0000

Totally. I looked at SASS and think LESS is easier to pick up.