Is it bad that half the time I was reading I thought this was a sarcastic post and that eventually the author was going to make the opposite point of the one he actually did end up making?
Then I saw he was from NC State, my Alma mater. And everything made sense again.
I don't think I'm quite sure what this is trying to do - can anyone explain? It seems they want to make a distributed DNS system based on the model of BitCoin - P2P keys that identify the nameservers for certain domains? This would avoid the regulation of SOPA.
But there's no way to be certain because I can't make heads or tails of that spec page LoL.
I think the point of the story is not so much the details of the novel content in this RFC - I find it hard to take seriously an RFC with passages such as "I would suggest that Verisign offer [us the .bit and .nmc tlds] as a gesture of good faith so that we can profit all profit from strengthening the original intent of DNS and the potentially criminal monopoloy handed to them by the US Government" - but as pointing out that there is movement in Namecoin and asserting that Namecoin is relevant to the whole SOPA deal.
Next line: "I mean, I don't see any other solution to begin the fair transition into opening name services that keeps them in line with their stated goals." Perhaps a dose of pragmatism would be good at this point.
I think there are 2 camps of users - I'd rather organize my own lists than trust Facebook to do it for me. I honestly don't trust Facebook to do it...
The author of the article hasn't completely thought this through though. He's saying it's shit work which Facebook automates for you but then he goes on to say relationships are complicated and some people are in overlapping "circles."
He shoots himself in the foot right there. Facebook's auto-populated groups can't figure out the complicated nature of our relationships with people. I have many shades of friends and people who have varied interests even within those shades of friends. It's too hard for an algorithm to be able to deduce this very human aspect of relationships.
The question is what happens when the phone has actual hardware buttons and you port the OS to it which has virtual buttons in it...that gets weird I think...
The way he showed the virtual buttons last night made them seem highly customizable by each app for different purposes. So once app creators start making these custom virtual buttons for their apps, they will not have multiple versions of their app for phones with and without hardware buttons...
Isn't the problem with their hack though that it can only work for ONE calendar? Whichever one you set as the default is going to be the one service that Siri can interact with.
So if RTM is set as your default calendar, then all your Siri reminders go into your RTM calendar, which may not be your actual calendar of course.
And getting other services to use this same hack will result in users having to choose one service they prioritize over all others because you can only have one calendar.
Of course I am an Android guy and don't really know how Siri and all this is working - I'm just guessing based on the instructions provided at RTM's site on how to get this to work...
People that do this are NUTS. Ever heard of Evernote, Read It Later, or the plethora of websites that exist for this very reason? Man up and shell out a few bucks...there is NO reason you should have more than 10-12 tabs open on a regular, consistent basis...
There are a lot of different ways to use different tools, because there are a lot of different people who think and organize differently. Yours is not the only way that people manage information in their head, but I'm sure it works great for you.
A couple scenarios for how I get a lot of tabs open:
- <ahem> Hacker News. Scan down the page, and for each interesting article, middle click the article and the comments link. Work your way through the tabs (maybe going back and forth between "work" and HN).
- Search. Middle click the most promising results. Work your way through the tabs, possibly bookmarking something that you know you'll want again.
ReadItLater or any other temporary archive seems like procedural overkill for something you intend to come back to in a few minutes to half an hour.
Bookmarking the same sort of material seems inappropriate since most of what's in those tabs isn't yet determined to be bookmarkworthy.
I didn't dream this up, it's just how I naturally organize my short term browser use. I think "short term" is the important phrase there.
Finally, there's a middle ground between lots of tabs and ReadItLater. Chrome has a nice extension called Session Buddy, that records the tabs in your current session. Hit the button and another tab (ironically) opens, showing your current and recent sessions. Now close as many tabs as you like, get back on task, and gradually work your way through the sites listed on the session buddy tab.
Lots of ways to do everything. I really don't think I'm nuts for doing it this way.
Yup. I tend to do this with Google News. I scan through it, clear everything down to zero, and open any interesting stories in tabs, and then work through them.
I also have tabs open for multiple build servers, internal wiki pages for the work I'm doing, and some reference pages for the actual coding I'm doing.
A few minutes or half an hour are different...this guy has upwards of 500 tabs - you can't come back to that in a few minutes or half an hour...
I said 10-12 tabs consistently - and by that I mean app tabs that remain open. The rest should be opened for research as needed AND THEN CLOSED WHEN FINISHED. For everything else that you need to consistently check updates on, you need to find a way to turn it into an RSS feed or Twitter feed or whatever that feeds into an existing tab for an app you already have open (e.g. Google Reader or your social media aggregator of choice).
This is not "my" way - this is the way of the human brain. You can't do that many things at once and you can't focus on that many things at once. You would be overwhelmed by 500 tabs of information...that's why most of us have 1 site where all our information aggregates and 1 email address where the rest forward and 1 cell phone rather than 5-6, etc. I'm saying that people that do this type of EXTREME tab browsing are inherently disorganized and lack focus and attention to anything they do.
Yeah, downvote it to hell, I really don't mind. If you do this on a regular basis though, I'd love to hear from you and how you feel about whether you are an organized individual and one who adequately focuses on the things that are important to you.
I tend to have about 100 tabs open in my web browser. Of those, 10-15 are for pages that I always have open, ~50 are for pages that are relatively temporary (as in a few weeks), and another ~25 for more temporary (days), and then up to 50 for very temporary (like when I'm browsing through hacker news and so on).
I would say that I am relatively organized, but apparently in another way than you are.
As an example of how I organize my tabs, I have 8 tabs open with minecraftwiki/forum, 5 imdb tabs with bad '50s horror flicks for a movie night I'm planning, 4 tabs with articles about an emacs customization that I'm planning, 10 tabs with doxygen generated documentation for a C++ project I'm doing, 6 tabs have arduino documentation for a hardware project I'm halfway through, a few appdb.winehq pages for games I have problems running, some wiki-pages with books I'm thinking about buying, and a few with articles I'm thinking about sharing with my friends. This is in 3 windows on 2 virtual desktops (on my main machine, I have another 20 tabs open on my laptop).
I don't get "[1]00 tabs of information", I get perhaps 10 different topics that I can choose between, and when I have done that I can just scroll over the group of tabs that make up a topic to get a quick overview. After this, I'm usually synced up with what I was thinking the last time I was working with the project.
Btw, I use 2 rss readers (google reader and akregator), the akregator one for things I shouldn't read while working. I have 2 cell phones. I also have 3 email endpoints, one for studies, one for personal mail and one for work.
There is nothing inherently disorganized about this (IMO), since it gives me a very clear distinction between my different tasks.
I prob dont get up to 100 tabs. but I do like to open different browser instances, one for mail, fb, twitter, etc. one with a bunch of news articles (and of course, for evert hn article, the comments) one for whatever prog language im currently in. which is usually thw biggest, that contains multiple how-tos, searches for commands, at least 10 tabs from the 'official' site, and its this one that needs to stay open for days/weeks as im working on a project and constantly refrencing info i previously knew id need. also, each browaer instance is usuaaly in a doff workspace, to keep work and play seperate.
"This is not "my" way - this is the way of the human brain. You can't do that many things at once and you can't focus on that many things at once."
Exactly. So he offloads that memory into tabs. If the browser will handle it, it's as good as file cabinets, in/out trays, ReadItLater, or tall yellow stacks of National Geographic.
I go offline for days at a time. First, open every webpage and document I think I'll need to finish The Big Project. Then disconnect and work. Stay offline* until the project is done. If projects are overlapping, hitting 300 tabs is easy.
I also have several gigs of saved PDF and HTML files, but one-off information goes in a tab.
What good do your "online utilities" do for someone with inconsistent internet?
* Maybe every three hours I'll connect for a few seconds to check for voice/email.
Right. And who in his right mind would use an ancient emacs setup if you just need to pay a few bugs and get a _really nice IDE_, eh?
Or - why would anyone have a problem storing a huge collection of records/cds if you just need to throw a couple of bucks at Apple to get it on your iOS device?
People are sick. Let's call them out.
(Careful, this post might be mocking and contain a good amount of sarcasm)
I agree, anyone who claims they need so many tabs open is flat out lying, you can't possibly be using them all. Bookmarks exist for a reason, and you can do a lot with them. In Firefox there are keywords you can set up as well as Awesomebar modifiers that allow you to do a lot of powerful things with the bookmarks system all without having to have tons of tabs in memory. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Location_Bar_search#Location_Bar_s...
Seems the guy stole all their donations but yeah, still very unclear as to what has happened. I have lost faith in this team - lots of teen drama it seems...
I am still using the Sprint-skinned version from the Nexus S 4G on my Evo...I love the look of it...I wish they would leave beta already. This is getting to be like Gmail beta status - 2 years and counting. And why are they being so stingy with the theme support if they've obviously coded it into the Sprint-branded NS4G beta? Ugh, I don't understand this company...but I know it makes my phone usable with one hand and I love the new gestures so I use their product all the time :)
