Both Sides of the Table
FEBRUARY 17, 2010
I had just returned from living in Japan where I witnessed the hugely successful launch of i-mode by NTT DoCoMo so I knew the potential that the mobile web would ultimately bring, but I saw so many flaws in the launch of WAP. These phones were so over hyped. But the trade-off in terms of flexibility and costs were enormous.
www.kalzumeus.com
FEBRUARY 6, 2013
Rails allows XML documents to include YAML attributes. That decision has caused a bit of head scratching, since it seems like a curious choice for most programmers in the community, but be that as it may this allowed posting XML at Rails apps to be trivially exploited. I was up at 3 AM Japan time applying these patches, twice.
Startup Lessons Learned
FEBRUARY 16, 2009
We repurposed that field to optionally include some XML describing an on-screen dialog box. We tacked on a feature to the IMVU client that worked like this: whenever the client called home to report a data-warehousing event, we used to have a useless return field (the client doesnt care if the event was successfully recorded).
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