Ian Smith ismith

(Context: longer reply to the tweet thread at: https://twitter.com/Lollardfish/status/687807074416234496)

I tend to favor participatory design (your phrasing) and the practical ... in this space, I see product design as fitting into 3-4 levels. (Actually a spectrum; they subdivide further and the boundaries are hard to distinguish. Categorical perception, of a sort.) Gonna talk about this in terms of wheelchair tech, but it applies to other tech, both assistive- and not.

The only barrier is "not on the market". "A wheelchair like my current one, but it should have USB power to charge my phone, the joystick should display the date (in addition to the time it currently has), and its throttle should range from current-minimum to twice current-maximum." This product is not really novel,

	- My 'lab notebook', a la @nelhage's post [1] is markdown-ish, mostly bullet points. One file per day, stored in git
	dropbox; I have bash aliases to cd to the appropriate directory and to create a new day's file. I use vim; other editors
	are fine as long as there's minimal 'weight'; you want to make this notebook as low-friction as possible to encourage use.
	- Contents tend to be what I worked on that day (bugtracker links when appropriate; a one-liner when not
	[like 'investigated foo library for bar project']). 2nd/3rd level bullets expand - thoughts/reactions when doing
	research, hypotheses that did/didn't pan out if debugging [2], details of on-call response if I've been paged. Decisions
	made, whether by me alone ("I'll use this pattern here"), by others ("product says ...") or by a group ("we met today and
	agreed to switch to using [mumble]"). Things I learned today.
	- Some of this content ends up getting duplicated for
	others' consumption elsewhere - outage retrospective, design decisio

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	thq-m-ismit01:redstorm ismith$ redstorm local examples/dsl/hello_world_topology.rb
	launching java -server -Djruby.compat.version=RUBY1_9 -cp "/Users/ismith/Desktop/redstorm/target/classes:/Users/ismith/Desktop/redstorm/target/dependency/storm/default/:/Users/ismith/Desktop/redstorm/target/dependency/topology/default/:/Users/ismith/Desktop/redstorm/examples/dsl/" redstorm.TopologyLauncher local examples/dsl/hello_world_topology.rb
	RedStorm v0.6.6 starting topology HelloWorldTopology/hello_world_topology in local environment
	12116 [main] INFO backtype.storm.zookeeper - Starting inprocess zookeeper at port 2000 and dir /var/folders/zd/yytr2ws571ldlc4g89b8tt9nxqvvb0/T//11a74d89-b33c-4ea7-9f65-341d32390a61
	12346 [main] INFO backtype.storm.daemon.nimbus - Starting Nimbus with conf {"dev.zookeeper.path" "/tmp/dev-storm-zookeeper", "topology.tick.tuple.freq.secs" nil, "topology.builtin.metrics.bucket.size.secs" 60, "topology.fall.back.on.java.serialization" true, "topology.max.error.report.per.interval" 5, "zmq.

	require 'protobuf'

	class SampleEnum < ::Protobuf::Enum
	define :NEGATIVE, -1
	define :ZERO, 0
	define :POSITIVE, 1
	end

	class SampleMessage < ::Protobuf::Message
	required SampleEnum, :my_enum, 1

	thq-m-ismit01:~ ismith$ irb
	1.9.3-p545 :001 > class Foo
	1.9.3-p545 :002?> attr_accessor :bar
	1.9.3-p545 :003?> def get_val(b = @bar) ; b; end
	1.9.3-p545 :004?> end
	=> nil
	1.9.3-p545 :005 > f = Foo.new ; f.bar = 3
	=> 3
	1.9.3-p545 :006 > f.get_val
	=> 3

	require 'stomp'

	max_re = ARGV[0].to_i unless ARGV.empty?
	max_re \|\|= 0

	conf = {:hosts => [:host => 'localhost', :ssl => false]}
	queue = '/queue/some_queue'

	client = Stomp::Client.new(conf)

	From ad7e082902b1a34387f6a0b3dd7eae6c074d5622 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
	From: Ian Smith <[email protected]>
	Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 12:08:14 -0700
	Subject: [PATCH] Stapfen should allow for a dlq.

	---
	lib/stapfen/worker.rb \| 9 ++++++++-
	1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

	diff --git a/lib/stapfen/worker.rb b/lib/stapfen/worker.rb