Comments for Adventures of an Eternal Optimist

Comment on Certificate Impossible by Pamela

Pamela — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 20:06:29 +0000

I will give that a try.

Comment on Certificate Impossible by Peter Motyka

Peter Motyka — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 07:32:35 +0000

Switch to SSH, does XCode support it for GitHub access?

Comment on Certificate Impossible by Pamela

Pamela — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 17:21:32 +0000

Ok I emailed support @ github. We’ll see if anyone takes me seriously.

Comment on Certificate Impossible by Pamela

Pamela — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:25:18 +0000

I haven’t contacted Github – instead I contacted support at DigiCert. Good point, I should really be approaching this from both directions.

Comment on Certificate Impossible by travislspencer

travislspencer — Thu, 10 Jan 2013 08:01:58 +0000

I would think that Guthub would want to provide their customers with a trustworthy product. Did you contact them? What did they say?

Comment on Google Plus: Minus 1 by Pamela

Pamela — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 17:44:16 +0000

I completely agree. People are treating Google Plus as if it was run by a startup. Startups have to have things like a clear and public vision that is communicated to people like investors. Startups have to care if their users are unhappy and listen to feedback.

This is not a startup, and Google is not required or incented to explain to us their vision. What is patently obvious is that the vision they are *pretending* to sell us is an utter crock, but what is easily as unrealistic is that we actually believe that our opinion matters in this. There must be a massive profit at the other end of this policy, because enforcing it must be costing Google a fortune, both in manpower and good will…

Comment on Google Plus: Minus 1 by rdewald

rdewald — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 02:01:59 +0000

I think everyone is missing the point here, but I also that missing the point is sort of okay with Google. Google’s core business is data mining. They take the logic they’ve developed making sense of the Internet and apply it to making sense of the text in people’s e-mails and in their search history. We let them do this because they’ve cleverly discovered that you don’t have to know someone’s personal identity in order to target ads, i.e., their names and addresses are sort of irrelevant.

So they can grant us the privacy we want while still mining our text strings for information that advertisers pay money for. Google+ is simply their next data mine. They want people to use thier real names because being relatively certain that one user instances equals one human being increases the value of their data.

They aren’t exercising authority, or trying to impose social standards, they are keeping their data as clean as possible.

They fumbled in their horrible underestimation in how important this issue was to users. But they did that because their eye wasn’t on the ball, not because they have any particular interest in people’s actual identity. They have an interest in making sure that one account equals one human being.

Comment on What a Team by travislspencer

travislspencer — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 18:03:34 +0000

We’re gonna have a lot of fun that’s for sure :-)

Comment on This Woman in Tech says: Thank you by susiemorrow

susiemorrow — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 10:35:34 +0000

Hi Pamela, you’re in my top 30.

I am guilty of purposely keeping a low profile in technology. However, I applaud you for poking your head about the parapet. It’s just such a shame that in a world that is becoming increasingly highly fluid in its communciations and in a hghly expanded manner, that women are not taking more of a lead in this area -after all communications is our forte!
Susan Morrow
Head of R&D
Avoco Secure (A nice company to work in if your female)

Comment on This Woman in Tech says: Thank you by docbook.xml

docbook.xml — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 03:24:32 +0000

and oh today, just so happened, was the day when we had do submit our goals for next year. guess what i entered as one of the goals – Work and interact with people who make me smarter every day.

Really that is now my goal….Thanks to your timely blogpost :)