simanyay

Our current goal is to make positive impact on TC39 (the only group working on the spec) and not to create an alternative.

However, your comment is applicable to the whole ES.Next and I share it as well.

I used to have this problem, now I just wait until the missing semicolon costs someone a day of debugging or a broken deploy.

Facebook does only talent acquisitions. They never buy products.

You don't need to log in to post anonymously. Sites, however, can disable anonymous posting if they wish to do so.

You can export your data whenever you want and the process is as easy as clicking one button: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/447925/Screenshots/ao8k.png

Nothing changes when you comment on a website using Disqus—your comment is published on someone's website and becomes their data. That said, if a comment was not originally anonymous, you have an option to anonymize it so that it is not associated with your profile and name anymore. We are and will always be on commenters' side.

This is what I can authoritatively say as a Disqus engineer. If you want more information, email to hello@disqus.com and folks here will be happy to answer all your questions.

Anton

Things like HackerNews, Reddit, GitHub and Disqus are more useful to everyone using them when they are provided as a hosted service and not a deployable software.

We give site owners a hassle-free discussion platform that can be integrated into their websites with additional perks such as moderation tools, analytics, spam filters (trained on the whole network of websites and not just one) and others.

And people leaving comments on different websites are now able to manage and control their comments across the web, and use their Twitter/Facebook/Google accounts knowing that Disqus will never abuse their trust. Boxed software installed on different sites managed by different people would likely never be able to provide neither the integration nor the trust.

But don't get me wrong, we absolutely love open source. Check out our Code page[1] or our public account on GitHub[2]. We released many different projects, some of which are adored by the Python/Django community (e.g. Django Sentry). I think Disqus as a product is better when it is a service and not a boxed software.

Anton

[1] — http://code.disqus.com/code/ [2] — https://github.com/disqus/

Engineer from Disqus here, I work on the front-end side of our product.

Disqus doesn't slow down page load times because we use a non-blocking technique to load required files. We work hard to make sure that we don't add any performance regressions to sites using Disqus.

We are also working on making comments made via our product indexable by search engines.

As for the open source version of Disqus, I am not sure what you mean by that since Disqus is a service and not a program that you can download and install. People prefer Disqus because they don't want to spend time implementing and hosting discussion platforms for their websites just like people using GitHub don't want to spend time implementing and hosting developer collaboration software.

Anton

P.S. If you are having problems with Disqus slowing down your page, email me at anton@disqus.com and I will check it out.

Indeed, JSHint is designed to catch those kind of mistakes. Here is the offending code and its JSHint report: http://www.jshint.com/reports/57010

Why do you need to make it at the same time as the I/O?

If you want just to comment you don't need to create a Disqus account (this behavior was from day one). You can go to any website that has Disqus enabled and comment with just your OpenID account.

However, if you want to install our widget on your own sites or become a moderator you will have to create a Disqus account. Mainly because we need to verify those accounts via email.

Hope that helps.

(SW Engineer from Disqus here)

Could you elaborate on OpenID issues you are having?

Yes, Artlebedev studio ends most of its products with generic latin name sufix.

I disagree about JSLint. I can argue that things like failing with fatal error when you don't move all your variable declaration to the top of the function is a bad idea. In the end, all lint programs are just tools to make your life easier. And you should never blindly rely on any of them.

Disclaimer: I am maintainer of JSHint, a fork of JSLint.

The default is 50 but you can tweak this value with maxerr option. So, to increase the number of errors before it stops up to a thousand do this:

  /*jshint maxerr:1000 */

I should probably add it to the docs on jshint.com.

Since it is a fork, we can't just change the original license. If there is somebody who is willing to explain if I legally can change the original license, I would be happy to do it. We consulted a couple of people and all of them suggested to keep the original in place. :(

Yes. If I understand that correctly, if a user activates a phone with Google that means manufacturer opted into the paid Google Experience package.

While I agree with your concerns, I don't see how your P.S. adds any value to the message.

Well, it is not for every comment thread for every page load for every user. For anonymous page views we cache the output so unless there is a new comment (or other changes to a thread) we serve cached (previously generated) javascript file.

Can't wait for Apple banning apps because their developers use GMail.

A situation where everybody is able to watch everybody else is an utopia (or dystopia, depends on your point of view). I don't really think it is possible and I am not sure I would like it if it is.

Also let me clarify that I am not saying that Google has an evil plan to become a Big Brother and the aforementioned quote is not about that. My questions are (feel free to replace Google with any other company that collects information or even the government): A. How many googlers have access to my information? B. Am I sure that all those who have access are trustworthy? C. Am I sure that some ex-googler will not leak a big chunk of data just to get back at the company? And answers are always: A. I don't know; B. No; C No.

Because you can't implicitly trust system/people who are watching you. Quis custodiet custodes ipsos?

I think the accelerometer data is very useful to detect devices.

myTouches should be on 1.6 already. T-Mobile was pushing the update in October (November?).

I am not a fan of conspiracy theories.

What stops anybody from deleting their web history data and disabling Web History thing altogether?

Oh, according to http://www.indeed.com/jobs?q=title:(Programmer,+Python)&... these stats for Python programmers came from four job postings with five postings total (I guess the fifth one is without salary).

Not too impressive.

Wait, what? Cobol in San Francisco?

It depends on the application. I would install Google Voice no matter whether it has been approved or rejected by Apple.

This once again shows us that Obama has an insanely great public relations team.

Yes. Plus, you can install any application without using the Store at all.