Bryan Woods asks if Twitter should sue Identi.ca and Plurk. What do you think? - Louis Gray
What money would they get? Neither are making money right now. And what for? - Jesse Stay
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@louis respectfully, why sue? no one is making money let them compete & increase user choice & experience - agree w @jesse - Scott Moskowitz
If economic conditions deteriorate, suing will become more common ... but I doubt there's a validity in this case (and I really dislike a lot of the existing 'completely baseless' lawsuits in general) - Charlie Anzman
@charlie lobbying is cheap - cheaper than litigation & far cheaper than R&D/ innovation ... inventors & innovators are an American treasure - heavily put-upon by those who should know better - Scott Moskowitz
"But a hard core group of users clings to Identi.ca's mission as an open, developer-friendly alternative to Twitter..." Absolutely. - Kevin
i've basically gone back to twitter ... its where the people are... still - jerobins
You have to have a legal basis to sue someone. Neither Identi.ca nor Plurk (nor any of the others) violate any of Twitter's copyrights and Twitter holds no patents that would be pertinent in a C&D action. IANAL, but it seems to me that they couldn't sue even if they really wanted to. - Toby DiPasquale
Twitter burnout will happen. I can't help but feel that it will go the way of MySpace. - Mike L
I meant hacking in the sense that it's a hack. That's all. - Jonathan Tran
looks like they already "fixed" it; I can't made a search's RSS link into a Blog entry on FF anymore - Toby DiPasquale
seriously? well you can still add them as imaginary friends, which is great. I discovered this all about a month ago. Maybe they listened to me after all, and pushed the change along with their last release. - Jonathan Tran
My first though is, "Someone made a $70 book with several hundred pages talking about event-driven design patterns? How...bloated." It says it include 3 varied and complete case studies though, so it might be worth it just for those. I would love to hear how it panned out. - xero
I own the book and am working my way through it; I was mostly asking to see if anyone else had read it and whether or not they felt it was practically useful or not, tried to implement systems in the manner described, etc. - Toby DiPasquale
I totally agree, especially with the sourceforge part. GitHub is light-years ahead of anything else. God help me if it ever goes away. - Kevin Williams
@Lindsay - The fact that I've watched 27 episodes of Star Trek Voyager within the past 36 hours might have something to do with it. When I started my computer back up after a power failure today, I was making 'log entries' of the startup process! - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)
I donno what's more scary - whether that I made the 'log entries', or that I actually knew what I was saying most of the time, or that I actually liked doing this. I am told that there will be quite a few people who wouldn't want to know me like that at College. - Yuvi (has IRL friends!)
already responded on twitter, but ruby-debug makes debugging pretty straight forward in ruby land. - Steve Eichert
You write tests. Debugging is something you do when you don't have tests to determine what the code is *supposed* to do. I know this comment may sound facetious and/or inflammatory, but it is neither. You need tests regardless of whether your language is static or dynamic, imperative or functional or OO, compiled or interpreted. Once you start testing, you'll find your need for a debugger decreases dramatically. - Toby DiPasquale
