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There are still a lot of green leaves left, but we’re definitely in early-autumn mode. Check out these many shades of yellow. These are the little Ricoh at work. Because it was in my pocket when I walked by the leaves. Hard to refute that argument.…

Unthematically grouped! Actual Tabs Track the Canadian Election here. Lauren’s take on that election. Google is exposing their 2001 index. I did a vanity search of course, and turned up a forgotten thirteen-year-old chunk of my past: Tim Bray's Hyperlink Totems (1995). …

I’ve got a touch o’ them old autumnal-financial-meltdown blues, so I’ll post a couple of garden shots as therapy. Our September was mostly bright and pleasing, but the rain’s teeth are now firmly set into the first week of October. The leaves are losing their green; dusk has arrived by the kids’ bedtime and is marching back the clock alarmingly fast. …

young people tend to lean left. Then when I got to work this morning, someone sent me a pointer to Charles Arthur’s What effect will the financial crisis have on the tech sector? in The Guardian; it quotes my Twitter stream, twice. Once again, the spectrum of human communication shifts perceptibly.

users to participate on my website and how hard do I make it for spammers to flood my website. But by delegating authentication to an OpenID provider, your implicitly trusting that provider to do the right thing when authenticating a user. Since, as Tim Bray speculated, there is nothing stopping a provider from “succesfully authenticating” any user URL, you can’t blindly trust any OpenID provider. So depending on the requirements you have for the authentication of your users, you can white-list providers you

are trusting that they are performing some minimum level of user validation to keep spammers and bots out of their service. However there is no requirement that they do that at all nor is there any minimum standard that they have to meet. A year ago, Tim Bray posted an interesting thought experiment where he pointed out that one could create an identity provider that "successfully authenticated" any user URL you provided it with. You can imagine what kind of fun spammers would have with such an identity provider on a site like

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are trusting that they are performing some minimum level of user validation to keep spammers and bots out of their service. However there is no requirement that they do that at all nor is there any minimum standard that they have to meet. A year ago, Tim Bray posted an interesting thought experiment where he pointed out that one could create an identity provider that "successfully authenticated" any user URL you provided it with. You can imagine what kind of fun spammers would have with such an identity provider on a site like

are trusting that they are performing some minimum level of user validation to keep spammers and bots out of their service. However there is no requirement that they do that at all nor is there any minimum standard that they have to meet. A year ago, Tim Bray posted an interesting thought experiment where he pointed out that one could create an identity provider that "successfully authenticated" any user URL you provided it with. You can imagine what kind of fun spammers would have with such an identity provider on a site like

in C, Java, Perl, Python, and Shell, leaving Ruby developers out in the cold. That’s an odd move, considering Ruby is a first-class citizen in the OS X/Cocoa world, Apple’s Podcast Producer software is written in Ruby, and it seems like every Ruby developer in the world is sporting a Macbook these days. I’m working (semi-secretly) with a company on a new education-targeted product based in Rails. I can’t talk much about the focus but I can say that products like Blackboard and Sakai are emphatically

JoCaml优越的并发抽象逻辑所保证的。 这系列并行优化的文章见： http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/09/20/Wide-Finder JoCaml的性能优势： http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2007/10/30/WF-Results 一个被这次优化竞赛的发起人 认可 的性能总&#32

with lots of data with lots of value to many people, available in an open standard? I knew some of the people who worked on it, and I dug in and played a bit, but eventually lost interest. A comment that I left on a Tim Bray ongoing posting titled XBRL News last December showed the high point (or perhaps low point) of my cynicism: XBRL (which has taken over 7 years to achieve the minor level of adoption that you describe) is second only to W3C Schemas in the number of people it's inspired to say "sure