paulosman

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by paulosman 4y ago
I'm at peace with it.
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by paulosman 4y ago
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 bad board members? How about a little curiosity i
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by paulosman 4y ago
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 statement of great consequence, certainly nothing to fixat
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by paulosman 4y ago
> 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 and how that can drain a lot of enjoyment out of intellect
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by paulosman 4y ago
I'll make an edit to make this clearer, but I was a full voting member.
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by paulosman 4y ago
That's awesome! Thanks for sharing - it's great to see companies that are willing to embrace more representative governance.
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by paulosman 4y ago
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 employee on their board, I'd love to hear about
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by paulosman 5y ago
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 as one way to put these perspectives to _use_, would a case
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by paulosman 14y ago
Created by two SoundCloud engineers over the weekend at Music Hack Day Stockholm. https://www.hackerleague.org/hackathons/music-hack-day-stock...
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SoundCloud without the stupid CSS files(grobie.github.com)
75 points by paulosman 14y ago|25 comments
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by paulosman 14y ago
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 be posting a blog post on developers.soundcloud.com in the
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by paulosman 14y ago
Readmill and Gidsy are also Berlin based. I know of txtr too, but only because they share an office with SoundCloud :-)
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How to build a SoundCloud powered Children's Toy(developers.soundcloud.com)
7 points by paulosman 14y ago|0 comments
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WaveRaid - Quest for the Timed Comment(waveraid.com)
1 points by paulosman 14y ago|0 comments
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by paulosman 15y ago
"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."
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by paulosman 15y ago
"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 even though they might not have access to the old email addres
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by paulosman 15y ago
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 similar to the countless existing services that rely on email f
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by paulosman 15y ago
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 bootstrap it.
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by paulosman 15y ago
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 myriad of apps that work together.