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dlsspy··on The Future of CouchDB
We use repo (from android) to put stuff together. The "manifest" repo will pull down the whole world and give you a single unified build system:

    https://github.com/membase/manifest
That also gets you pretty well set up to use our code review system for code submission should you want to contribute: http://review.couchbase.org/

Packaging isn't quite as awesome as I'd like, but all the parts are definitely there.

dlsspy··on Photographers: Please Stop Using Flash
> I never go to restaurant sites. I visit yelp instead.

I've tried and I let them know when I do.

When I want the experience, I'll go to the web site. When I just want to know if they have food that fits within my dietary constraints, I'd like to find out easily. That's not necessarily available via yelp (or whatever is awesome this week).

dlsspy··on IFTTT Triggers Loyal, Nerdy Following
I tried out IFTTT (it tells me) three days ago. It's never run any of my tasks, though. I'd really like to see something awesome happen.
dlsspy··on While we have GoDaddy's attention
> Should people just keep quiet and let other customers be defrauded?

No, they should talk the damage SOPA will do and companies that consumers should work with that currently provide positive experience.

Godaddy has had tremendous press over the last few days. All most people know about them now is that they sell domains. Can I buy domains somewhere else? Is there a company better than godaddy? Why is everyone talking about godaddy instead of this other company?

dlsspy··on While we have GoDaddy's attention
...we've lost our focus on the real problem.

This isn't internic. It's just a company in a commodity market whose service and policies people seem to dislike, but are about as far from a monopoly as you can get. They are relevant because we keep talking about them.

dlsspy··on The ugliest C feature: <tgmath.h>
Seriously? man hcreate

Edit: I guess that isn't so ugly as it is completely pointless. There's a difference.

dlsspy··on Packet Radio on 27Mhz (2011)
I wouldn't recommend stopping there, but it's fine for starting. I haven't moved forward since I'm barely using my tech license and have too many hobbies anyway. :)

I'm really pretty interested in learning CW, but haven't been able to dedicate time to it yet. I'm not even quite certain how to pick any up. Most of the time I go looking, I don't hear anything (I've only got 2m/6m/70cm equipment, though).

dlsspy··on Packet Radio on 27Mhz (2011)
aprsdroid is pretty nice. I've used it to test messaging when I'm RF only, and I've gated messages to the internet from my phone using the speaker and an HT. Glad to have it. :)

I didn't know it was written in scala, though. That adds extra awesome to it.

dlsspy··on Packet Radio on 27Mhz (2011)
Get a technician license. Get a radio. Start playing around. I had one for about 10 years before finally just getting motivated to give APRS a shot. It was just slightly to get my radio actually hooked up to a computer via softmodem and xastir and all that, but it feels good having it together.

Of course, I'm not a huge fan of xastir. At this point, I want to build something new that's not GUI based and see if I can get something that's more useful outside of vnc.

dlsspy··on Packet Radio on 27Mhz (2011)
I've recently got a pretty decent APRS setup on 2 meter. There's a decent amount of activity around my house. There's a lot of APRS infrastructure, so things like internet gated messages in and out actually function. It's good to keep this stuff alive.
dlsspy··on Congressional Support for H.R. 3261 (SOPA)
Our confidence in congress has been declining rapidly for years. Last month, a poll reported 9% of the population thought they were doing a good job. They literally don't have 10% to lose. They've learned that they can do anything they want and we won't do anything about it.
dlsspy··on Amazon Kindle Fire vs. iPad 2
I use my iPad most days. This comparison doesn't make the Fire look less appealing to me. If it weren't Christmas...
dlsspy··on Amazon, please don’t hijack the web on Kindle Fire
Interestingly, the few times I've used the android market web site from my web browser, I installed stuff on my phone. I should still be able to do that from a kindle should it be allowed.
dlsspy··on Aakash tablet goes on sale for Rs 2500 online - Yahoo
I wonder how much these are when imported into the US?

(argh, I was in India about a week ago... what poor timing)

dlsspy··on It’s Instant
What about the ones they list? Merchants having to pay a lot to process your money makes things more expensive. That affects you.
dlsspy··on Apps are too much like 1990's CD-ROMs and not enough like the Web
I wish this were true. Those 1990s CD-ROMs were useful when I wasn't connected to a network.

My iPad has 32GB of space (about 50 CD-ROMs), two cores each faster than any computer in the 1990s plenty of RAM, etc... It wants to be used like a thin client web browser thing. What a horrible waste.

dlsspy··on Path Only Works If You Reject Friend Requests
I already figured that out, because when I try to accept a friend request, the Android app tells me I need to login again (goto 10).
dlsspy··on Email banned at 75,000-employee company
A very large percentage of my day is spent reading emails from other employees in my company to figure out if there's anything I should be doing with it.

If I'm on vacation, I'm not online to receive an IM. Anything important that needs work from me would have instead been filed as a bug and can be assigned to me on my return if it hasn't been fixed yet.

dlsspy··on Email banned at 75,000-employee company
"Ban" is probably not the right action, but I'd definitely like some action taken around my office.

I've proposed some form of email tax by recipient. Like, you get 100 recipients per day free or something. Slow down and use them well. The time you try to save by being vague and sending out garbage is time that all your recipients spend trying to figure out what you want from them and whether it's more important than whatever else they're doing.

I see lots of emails floating around where I have to respond, "Please file a bug and move the conversation there before all of this is lost." Then you get the, "I just got a new cat!" email sent to all with hundreds of, "yay!" responses. I'm glad you got a new cat. I'd be happy to "like" your post on yammer. I'm not happy to get an email every time someone else wants to congratulate you on your cat acquisition.

I build up a lot of email debt and every once in a while I manage to get rid of some things. Part of it is tooling (I'd like a sort of "shelf life" for email in my mail reader), but part of it is just how easy it is for humans to do the one thing that amplifies into a time sink for everyone else.

dlsspy··on Indian Railways stations, trains and schedules database in JSON and SQL formats
Yeah, I'm really eager to find a mirror. I like playing with data like this and I'm flying to India tomorrow.
dlsspy··on Carrier IQ Detector is available on the Android Market - find out if you have it
No CIQ on Republic Wireless.

http://republicwireless.com/forum/news-discussions/suggestio...

dlsspy··on Arduino 1.0 now available
This is generally a more friendly way to get people going, but the editor is awful. I tend to use emacs quite a bit.

Note that the Arduino IDE does ship with Makefiles for doing builds and installations via the CLI.

In fact, on debian, there's an "arduino-core" core package that contains all the parts you need without the GUI (or java for that matter). I run it on an ARM-based Linux box I've got.

dlsspy··on Republic Wireless routes through AWS East
My usage has been mostly positive. My only two complaints so far:

* The wifi dialer thing conflicts with google voice (GV will override and dial over the cell network).

* I'd like a faster phone.

Given the overwhelming demand, I'm pretty happy to have left my ATT at home since my new phone came in.

dlsspy··on Republic Wireless routes through AWS East
I'm very excited to be a Republic Wireless customer.
dlsspy··on Apple iMessage and Poor User Experiences
Thing that sucks the most about it is that I can only use this service from my iPad. I SMS mostly from my browser when I'm at my computer. Sometimes my iPad when I'm away, otherwise my phone. I'd like to be able to communicate with more Apple users a bit more freely.
dlsspy··on Printrbot: Your Very Own 3D Printer
I have the ee enclosure problem now. It's getting pretty bad with some of my deployed projects just kind of spread all over the place.

As far as the database full of plans: http://www.thingiverse.com/

dlsspy··on Why Emacs?
magit and org-mode were two of the reasons I started using emacs a couple years ago. magit is still an emacs app I use very heavily. I can do things in it easily that are quite difficult to do without (and I know git very well).
dlsspy··on TSA Puts Off Safety Study of X-ray Body Scanners
I've never gone through one. It's been really inconvenient for me (and them) a few times, but the constant propaganda of "this won't hurt you, but will protect you," seems to work.

It makes no sense to me that people choose to go through the scanners knowing that they don't have anything to hide from the scanner, and anyone who does just wouldn't go through it.

dlsspy··on [dead]
I find this title frustratingly ironic since Microsoft won't support C.
dlsspy··on The Go Programming Language turns two
Wow, my memcached server in go is going to be two years old tomorrow. :)
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