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I'm at peace with it.

Oh shut up you sanctimonious prick. You're confirming all of the negative stereotypes about this website. Do you think I, in 20 years of working in the industry, haven't dealt with…

I find your tone dismissive, condescending and snarky. I made a (hedged) statement that turned out to be incorrect, updated the blog post, and moved on. I didn't think it was a sta…

> I continue to believe that corporations and startups, even friendly ones like Honeycomb, are not pleasant places to work at. I have lots of thoughts about the necessity to work a…

I'll make an edit to make this clearer, but I was a full voting member.

That's awesome! Thanks for sharing - it's great to see companies that are willing to embrace more representative governance.

Added a clarification: first non-founder/executive employee to sit on a board. If there's another venture-backed software company in North America who's put a rank and file employe…

Author here, thanks for your comment! Can you elaborate on what you’d hope to see in such a case study? Maybe I can file that away for a future post. I mentioned incident analysis …

Created by two SoundCloud engineers over the weekend at Music Hack Day Stockholm. https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/music-hack-day-stock...

Paul from SoundCloud here. Definitely think about shipping a version that uses a web keyboard. The app is too good not to show off to everyone! Also, got a video of your demo. I'll…

Readmill and Gidsy are also Berlin based. I know of txtr too, but only because they share an office with SoundCloud :-)

A demo of the SoundCloud JavaScript SDK's new ontimedcomments event. Literally "play" a track and collect all the timed comments.

"My Facebook account is an identity first and foremost." Now imagine 5 years ago you said "My Friendster account is an identity first and foremost."

"Sure, every website can implement this flow, and users could could go to every website they've ever logged into and update their email address... assuming it all works properly ev…

I agree that email address != identity, but nothing would stop a site that uses BrowserID from allowing a user to change the email address that they use on that site. It's very sim…

Have you read the spec? https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Identity/VerifiedEmailProtocol That's essentially what this is... with a verification service and web based UI to help bootstr…

Exactly. And the point of standards like OStatus (and it's component specs) is that we don't all have to be using (or contributing to) the same software... instead we can build a m…