All Comments From Blogs Administrated By John Metta

Mettadore / Ruby Can't Scale!

Sun, 5 Sep 2010 20:18:39 +0000

John F. - I enjoyed this post... laughed with tears in my eyes. I loved Scott's follow up too! Seriously, I get so sick of geeks making every conversation like some kind of moot (per the obsolete definition). Write products for people who don't give two about your implementation, ya can't sell pedantics (pedantic just became a noun - yup).

Mettadore / Hover: Domain names without the vampires

Thu, 2 Sep 2010 19:05:22 +0000

David Blackledge - Nice for somebody that knows something to say happy things ;] I've been using my name-based web (http://david.blackledge.com) and email for many, many years, but when hover took over netidentity, things got much easier (and cheaper! 1 domain + custom email for my whole family with 2 more to spare is only costing me $60 per year at hover... about $10 less than just me and my wife with netidentity) By the way... save 10% on your Hover.com purchases using coupon DBlackledge or just go to http://hover.com/DBlackledge ;]

Positively Glorious! / Scrivener: The Best Writing Software, Full Stop.

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:27:26 +0000

Amber Case - I agree with you infinitely, until the universe bends back over and becomes...the universe again. Thanks for a great excellent post. I found Scrivener via a bunch of MIT kids who moved to Hollywood. MIT+Hollywood = the most intense people ever. And they all told me they wrote their dissertations on Scrivener. I was eating lunch with them at SXSW at the time, and promptly took out my laptop and installed the software. I sat there entering content into it for the next 7 hours, barely taking a moment to move locations, get coffee, use the restroom, etc. I made them follow me and edit their own writing. And it was awesome. Scrivener FTW a million times over.

Positively Glorious! / The Last Airhead: Christians vs. Buddhists!

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:42:35 +0000

Chase - "Are you seven?" <== Lol. Never saw the movie, but I appreciate the conversation... When trying to talk with christians it's important to remember they, if they are evangelicals at least, are always trying to "win," to convert, to evangelize. This makes it very challenging to have dialogue with this kind of christian. There are many christians who can chat about this stuff on a better wavelength, tho, so it's not a foregone conclusion that you'll be in a contest of smackdowns. Anyways... i'm trying to build up my vocabulary so's i can start writing about my spirituality... i seem to have come full circle, from son of a disfunctional family, to passionate evangelical, to enlightened pentacostal, to proud of my family vaguely mystic careerster... It's a route I really need to talk through and i'm glad of this post to remind me of that. Also, YOU SUCK METTA!! ha h aha... yea, got you pretty good there.

Mettadore / Hover: Domain names without the vampires

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 20:13:47 +0000

Chase - Whoa... sry about that... had to pop over to GoDaddy.com to re-initiate the mind-f*ck so my defenses would go back up; elswise I start speaking gibberish... which is what you just saw, the raw, vulnerable, quivering ribbons of flesh that is who I used to be. That young, vibrant soul was crushed before it could develop, and now I'll never be able to afford enough therapy to reclaim the 'me' in me. Something about the idea of a good domain registrar UI shocked my system... all is well now. Carry on.

Mettadore / Hover: Domain names without the vampires

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:27:09 +0000

Chase - I must to try this will! I domain plurals many has, thus Daddy Goes them pain all over me often! Clean to make peace straight ahead enter submit go? Work to NDs to moneys new internet plus satisfaction!? OGM! Could happy pure life make! Pain suffering feels to look transfer make... time... money expense... But life is mine to make worth every lovely! YES WE CAN! great write up by the way. ;)

Mettadore / Hover: Domain names without the vampires

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:00:43 +0000

Ted - John, I was pointed to Hover by an ad on MacBreak Weekly. Just from the way Leo Laporte talked about it I knew I was in for something different. WOW was I shocked how easy it was to manage stuff on Hover and in much the same way that you registered on a whim your site, mine (cheeseeatingsurrendermonkeys.com) was registered on a phone after watching a World Cup game and talking to my sister (who was in Rome at the time). I was so happy I transferred every domain I own out of GoDaddy as fast as I could. Even that was a pain for one of them since according to my math I was doing it on day 60 after registering a domain and GoDaddy swore that it was only day 58 (the whole ICAAN rules on transferring domains around). Seriously if I never ever see a GoDaddy ad again I will be very happy.

Mettadore / Unparsed aapt and Eclipse's XML Build problem

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:46:38 +0000

Dan - You just saved me a lot of time. Thanks!

Positively Glorious! / Mosques in New York

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 04:56:05 +0000

JuliaC - We should do the right thing, regardless of how we imagine other people will react. In this nation, we have the courage to welcome all religious institutions.

Positively Glorious! / Mosques in New York

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:06:29 +0000

Jon Yates - Prepare to label me bat-shit crazy! Labels are bad, mmm-kay. My opinion isn't as much about sensitivity as it is about what I understand about Islam. I haven't read all of the Qur'an but for the passages I've been looking up to help me understand this issue. It does appear to encourage the building of mosques at the site of jihadic "victory" (a true oxymoron), and ahadith confirm this practice as well. The fact that some bat-shit crazy Muslims attacked our civilians in such an horrific manner seems enough to prohibit the building of a mosque at that particular site, if only to prevent bolstering the morale of members of the same bat-shit crazy Muslim group that hijacked the planes in the first place. What's wrong with building it farther away? There's been a mosque in that area since 1970, why NOW, why THERE? Maybe I don't understand everything there is to know about Islam and being against the building of the Muslim Community Center may seem unfair to moderate Muslims, but they aren't the ones that bother me. I would think that moderate Muslims would want to distance themselves from that location, if for nothing else than to prove distance from the bat-shit crazies. For the record, I don't think a religious anything belongs there, it's the financial district, isn't it? Or, it used to be, until 9/11/2001. By my count, I would fall into Option 1, but apparently my conclusion puts me in Option 2. If the conclusion I've drawn makes me a bat-shit crazy bigot, then I guess I'm a bat-shit crazy bigot. Jon

Mettadore / So you want to hire a ninja, do you?

Tue, 10 Aug 2010 17:55:39 +0000

Tristan Kromer - John, Totally agree re: both ninjas and rockstars. P.S.: Your sexy ninja picture beats my Tony Levin references by a landslide. I will now blatantly steal it and link it back to you. http://blog.startupsquare.com/entrepreneurship/st...

Positively Glorious! / What does an hourly rate mean to you?

Fri, 6 Aug 2010 20:08:31 +0000

Metroknow - Great post John - it really lays it out plainly and without overstating the case. When I converted to contracting, it took about 4 months and $25k to survive that "inbetween" period of getting started, including things like the try and fail and try again at different marketing approaches cycle. I ultimately took a contract that has worked out well for a year and a half. But, we as a family of 4 have barebones medical (that we buy on our own), no dental (my children have never been to the dentist), no vacation days/paid holidays/bonuses/stock options, and I am also a high risk for audit (great point, btw) since I work from home. I'm also at a tremendous risk of burning out since I can't stop working and still get paid. That said, I am tremendously grateful for the work, enjoy the project, and I wouldn't trade my working at home for any other gig right now - I really love it. BUT, the cost is significant in so many ways. I really appreciated the numbers breakdown - gives me a lot to think about as well. I work through an agency which alleviates me of some of the paperwork for federal taxes, but I still do all my own state stuff. Not to mention the agency is taking a LARGE portion of my gross through them (they won't disclose but my estimate is about 50% tacked onto my bill rate), which makes me a constant target for being let go because I'm so "expensive". I'm working on solving that problem now, but it's a stress that keeps me up at night. Thanks again - excellent work as always.

Positively Glorious! / What does an hourly rate mean to you?

Fri, 6 Aug 2010 20:00:09 +0000

Donna - Ok, nice explaination but I'd still take it. I still consider you rich in what you have, a good life, a beautiful wife and a busy and full life.

Mettadore / So you want to hire a ninja, do you?

Tue, 3 Aug 2010 19:02:45 +0000

John Metta - It would make a really funny Ignite presentation. I'd title it "How to Hire a Ninja."

Positively Glorious! / On Genre Names

Tue, 3 Aug 2010 16:25:33 +0000

John Metta - I'd suggest that the "movie magic piece" originated in the written story, and was brought to the screen as a replacement, rather than an origin, for our imagination :)

Positively Glorious! / On Genre Names

Tue, 3 Aug 2010 16:13:37 +0000

@lawduck - Nice one. It captures a certain movie magic piece that seems to be (perhaps I'm cheapening it) the source of some of these tangents from the real.

Mettadore / So you want to hire a ninja, do you?

Mon, 2 Aug 2010 17:50:03 +0000

Metroknow - Please tell me that this is going to be your next ignite presentation. Great stuff, and very true. Programming zombie prima donnas everywhere and the people who hire them, take heed. The guy in the corner with the banjo just squashed all your base.

Mettadore / Stop being stupid about belongs_to!

Tue, 27 Jul 2010 19:29:03 +0000

Dave - Because subject and verb agreement in English says that when the noun is singular, the verb is plural (and vice versa). The cat climbs the tree. The cats climb the tree.

Mettadore / Stop being stupid about belongs_to!

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:29:29 +0000

Don Park - how can belongs_to be singular when the word belongs ends in an 's'? stupid English language.

Mettadore / Secure password generator-as-manager without single-point failure

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 15:06:16 +0000

John Metta - Daniel, Possible of course, although that would significantly limit the security of the algorithm, at least in the way I'm originally envisioning it. The point of it being a device app is that it's easy to use it and generate the passwords from your parameters in a "leave no trace" manner. You can tell the Bash shell to ignore that command in history, easily clear it from the terminal, create a shortcut (Quickbar, LaunchBar, similar for windows) that copies it to the clipboard and exits without showing it, etc. On a phone things are similiar. My thought was that without direct manipulation of the RAM, the password, and parameters that generate the password, would not be stored, and everything would be local and ephemeral. Not so with a web app. An API requires calls, and calls are logged, thrown about on external servers, and mostly sent in plain text. You could make it an SSL or TLS connection, I guess, to encrypt the call, but that seems like a lot of trouble for something that would be easier to secure on the device and seems to gain small benefit from being available as a web app. You'll have to really explore the security aspects of it being a web app, and see if the API approach can be made secure enough.