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Comment on Another Bike Trip by I Bought a New Bike! | KingAnt.net

I Bought a New Bike! | KingAnt.net — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 06:28:02 +0000

[...] biked across North Carolina. From Mountain View to Los Angeles. From Eureka to San Francisco (blog post 1, blog post 2). Crossed the Golden Gate Bridge 7 times. Crossed the Dumbarton Bridge once. Completed [...]

Comment on Using Amazon Mechanical Turk for Translating Computer Software by adam

adam — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 08:58:02 +0000

Thanks for your review, helpful.

Comment on I Bought a New Bike! by Mark Doliner

Mark Doliner — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 08:52:58 +0000

Yeah, mostly weight I guess. I’ve heard that they can make some pretty light steel bikes these days, but I think carbon is still lighter?

I used the Fuji saddle on my old bike up until like a month ago (I guess when I say “riders have a preferred saddle” I don’t include me), when a friend of mine gave/sold me a spare Selle Italia he had (I’d mentioned to him that I thought his saddle was more comfortable than mine). I’ll probably keep the existing saddle on my Trek for a little while to get a feel for it, then swap it out with the Selle Italia.

I have no idea how to evaluate saddles aside from just trying them.

Comment on I Bought a New Bike! by Alex

Alex — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 01:21:16 +0000

I’m curious why carbon over steel, if simplicity and dampening were your driving factors. I assume weight was the deciding factor?

What saddle do you use?

Comment on Bike Trip – Complete! by I Bought a New Bike! | KingAnt.net

I Bought a New Bike! | KingAnt.net — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 05:47:05 +0000

[...] North Carolina. From Mountain View to Los Angeles. From Eureka to San Francisco (blog post 1, blog post 2). Crossed the Golden Gate Bridge 7 times. Crossed the Dumbarton Bridge once. Completed 6 [...]

Comment on March and April We Hardly Knew Ye by I Bought a New Bike! | KingAnt.net

I Bought a New Bike! | KingAnt.net — Mon, 14 Nov 2011 05:46:50 +0000

[...] science classes at NCSU and to the traverse wall. I’ve biked across North Carolina. From Mountain View to Los Angeles. From Eureka to San Francisco (blog post 1, blog post 2). Crossed the Golden Gate Bridge 7 times. [...]

Comment on March and April We Hardly Knew Ye by Another Bike Trip | KingAnt.net

Another Bike Trip | KingAnt.net — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 04:14:04 +0000

[...] 2009 I biked from Mountain View to Los Angeles. Starting this coming weekend I’ll be biking from Eureka, CA to home. I’m expecting 5 [...]

Comment on Tool to View DNS SRV Records for XMPP by Mark Doliner

Mark Doliner — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 07:43:37 +0000

Ok, the warnings should be gone now. Facebook’s DNS SRV response definitely isn’t helpful… I’m not sure whether it’s invalid.

Ideally my page would print a warning that not all XMPP clients will attempt to recursively lookup DNS SRV records for CNAME responses, but the php function I’m using doesn’t seem like it will allow me to do that correctly. I’ll probably just leave it as-is.

Comment on Tool to View DNS SRV Records for XMPP by Mark Doliner

Mark Doliner — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 07:14:12 +0000

Nope! Thanks for pointing that out. I’m looking into it now. Apparently Facebook returns a CNAME record when you query for their SRV records… I wonder if that’s valid? Seems like it wouldn’t be, because SRV responses have port numbers and CNAME responses do not.

Comment on Tool to View DNS SRV Records for XMPP by Elliott

Elliott — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 22:59:51 +0000

I tried chat.facebook.com and got a ton of warnings. I expect those shouldn’t be happening.