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I am not talking about the gateways. I am talking about the identity providers. If your identity provider goes out of business, revokes your access, or any number of other things, …

I know that it's not necessarily tied to Gmail. My point was that now my site is dependent on their relationship to whatever they authenticated against. It might be gmail, it might…

I keep digging (since the site isn't breaking, yay!) but it just keeps not looking good. On the github, in the last month, a total of four people have committed code eleven times. …

Sent some feelers out to devs I respect. Verdict is mostly negative on Persona. Seems like Mozilla is merely providing bare bones support for Persona these days, and has stopped fu…

I'll look into Persona. It probably won't be today as I'm trying to be extra attentive to the site while I'm drumming up traffic, but it's on my list now. In theory you could build…

Yes, you have to log in to create a deck. You're the second person I've seen suggest being able to make decks without being logged in. There's too many potential headaches as far a…

I can't now because it was years ago I was having problems. I'm starting to think that it was a different Lisp and not Common Lisp I was looking at, too. Too long ago to remember f…

So I just looked up Common Lisp string handling and none of it looks familiar. It's possible what I was trying to use before wasn't Common Lisp. It's also possible I was trying to …

That's quite interesting! I tried to learn Lisp a while back and found the string handling to be horrible, and it's such a huge part of modern development. It sounds like there's s…

Okay, I'll get more explicit. > I think Twitter is defined by the fact that it's about broadcast. Writing on a blog with comments off is 100% broadcast with no built-in solution fo…

Eh. I'm definitely a part of several communities on Twitter. It's just that they're micro-communities that are fluid in size and shape. If I'm talking business stuff I'll @shazow u…

Yup, and that site is showing half of the quoted amount of traffic. It also doesn't say where it gets its data, so I'm unsure...

It's not just early adopters vs late adopters. And nobody is saying to disregard all of IE, only very old versions. We're talking about dropping support for a browser that is mostl…

Does that 20% come from your own stats or a third party? Most of the third parties look at worldwide market share. IE8 is disproportionately represented in third-world countries wh…

In theory, I'm right in your target market. I've been considering a good way to keep my handful of users up to date with small changes that aren't big enough to be immediately visi…

It could be a regional thing, or it's possible that I am unusual myself, but I've never thought twice about metered electricity, but that's largely because I've never been hit with…

I don't think it's fair to say that consumers overall like either one more than the other, it depends on what we're paying FOR. Why are consumers okay with paying a metered fee for…

Arbitration clauses may not be legal everywhere. Another shitty( ) reality is that companies love putting clauses in contracts that won't hold up in court because MANY people just …

I honestly haven't had anyone needing to reset their password yet. In my particular case it's not really the end of the world if someone gets locked out, but I should probably thin…

For my own site, I have four form fields on the signup page. Username, Password x2 and an optional email. That, IMO, is actually easier than the twitter flow. With the twitter flow…

I'm likely a fuddy-duddy, but I agree with mijndert. I detest the idea of using Site A to authenticate with Site B. For only the tiniest benefit to me (I guess it's marginally fast…

1.7% for me. It seems to show constructive criticism as "hate," though I bet that's very hard to get perfect. I like the little time waster videos and whatnot that show when it's t…

You only "need" to upgrade your deck if you want to play competitively. The vast majority of Magic players (according to Wizards' own research) play casually with no format restric…

That... makes me very sad. I remember the old ESR. Knew that I hadn't heard of him in a long time, did not know he went a bit nutty...