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GlowDart - http://glowdart.com
GlowDart is a great news and media stream.
- Zachary Poley
"oh yeah"
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"oh yeah"
- Zachary Poley
Wild @ranajune your video has been watched 179,000 times and is #34 most popular YouTube video today http://www.youtube.com/scoblei... Nuts!
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Nice work on creating that video Robert. It's great.
- Zachary Poley
Android's "Flea Market" Needs Urgent Attention - http://mobile.slashdot.org/story...
I just like that he's calling it a "flea market".
- Zachary Poley
We will do more live video from the Apple store line party in Palo Alto later tonight. Gotta setup my new generator. 3600 watts baby!
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Looking forward to it! I knew you weren't gonna have time to read all those books ;)
- Zachary Poley
TEXTp saves YouTube bandwidth, money - http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010...
This is gonna be awesome ;)
- Zachary Poley
A Couple Of Great Videos On iPhone OpenGL ES - http://maniacdev.com/2010...
There are actually a lot of videos aside from OpenGL ES content in here.
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Is Facebook Having Problems Scaling Its Development Platform? - http://www.readwriteweb.com/start...
Thank god people are finally starting to talk about how bad reliability is on Facebook Platform!!!
- Zachary Poley
Preview: Instapaper on iPad - http://blog.instapaper.com/post...
I'm already saving lots of non time critical articles to read in Instapaper on my iPad. This is probably one of the apps I'm most looking forward to.
- Zachary Poley
zpoley on [Offer] Let's have a drawing thread!! - http://www.reddit.com/r...
"My two favorite things are: the requests and artwork, and the fact that the author is trying to stay up waiting for their Pokemans to arrive :) Awesome thread!"
- Zachary Poley
Magic Trackpad - http://parislemon.com/2010...
This is what I would really like too.
- Zachary Poley
DICE Publications Page (and Other Game Company’s) - http://www.realtimerendering.com/blog...
These are some really great links for interesting game dev publications.
- Zachary Poley
The elephants in the room at TED - http://scobleizer.com/2010...
Ashish, Nils Sandin, Cliff Gerrish and 4 other people liked this
Thanks for sharing your experience Robert.
- Zachary Poley
The experience sounded pretty exhilarating, although I have quite a different take on Silverman's approach (of course the purpose for her being there seems to have been accomplished).
- Lit
World's Fastest IPhone Texter - Video - http://digg.com/apple...
"I keep trying but man... I think it takes a lotta practice."
- Zachary Poley
A new personal assistant on your mobile phone - http://www.building43.com/videos...
I tried this out on the iPhone and having it understand simple questions is pretty cool.
- Zachary Poley
Next X-Prize — $10M For a Brain-Computer Interface - http://hardware.slashdot.org/story...
Now this is a great X-Prize.
- Zachary Poley
John Nack: ‘Sympathy for the Devil’ - http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack...
Love it and can't wait.
- Zachary Poley
Microsoft Reaction to iPad - http://technologizer.com/2010...
That's hilarious
- Zachary Poley
In fairness to msft fanboys, it's the Java fanboys that are most easily angered. Maybe the pollution from all their FactoryFactories is causing brain damage? ;)
Bruce Johnson, Tzury Bar Yochay, David Cook and 27 other people liked this
All this "debate" is putting me in a trollish mood :)
- Paul Buchheit
GO PHP! *dodges missiles*
- Mo Kargas
Yeah, I had no idea how awesome PHP really is!
- Paul Buchheit
PERL is pretty simple
- ◄ani625Ξ ಠ_ಠ
Sadly, I am not smart enough for PERL.
- Paul Buchheit
What!?
- Zachary Poley
It's Perl, not PERL ;-)
- Jesse Stay
Just kidding. I dove into the fray looking for a nice soft pine tree.
- Zachary Poley
Like I said, I'm not that smart, but didn't it at least start as an acronym?
- Paul Buchheit
Not 'not', but 'also' http://www.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin...
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{$I}->cant_believe($paul_buchheit, {%could_be={($scared-$off)=>by, perl=>line_noise}});
- Douglas
that doesn't actually parse
- Douglas
Paul, yeah - any way of casing it is correct, depending on who you ask and what time period. I was mostly joking. Some say it stands for Practical Extraction and Reporting Language, Larry Wall jokes it stands for Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister. It actually started out being spelled "Pearl" after the Parable of the Pearl in the Gospel of Matthew.
- Jesse Stay
FWIW I'm not smart enough to know Python. :-)
- Jesse Stay
"Perl looks like line noise to the uninitiated, but to the seasoned Perl programmer, it looks like checksummed line noise with a mission in life."
- ◄ani625Ξ ಠ_ಠ
Python is for perl programmers who get bigger monitors.
- Douglas
Paul, if you ever do decide to check out Perl you'll appreciate Mark Jason Dominus's "Higher Order Perl" - if you like Lisp, it will give you a new perspective on Perl.
- Jesse Stay
ani, indeed! It's poetic to me - somewhat peaceful in many ways. It's like a canvas with many different types of brushes and colors.
- Jesse Stay
Jesse - yes! That's a brilliant book. You can actually write very lisp-ish or java-ish in perl, if you like.
- Douglas
Jesse - Once you're able to see the Matrix..
- ◄ani625Ξ ಠ_ಠ
and you can use perl without a prescription.
- Douglas
Perl's testing libraries are also superior to many other tools I've seen
- Jesse Stay
And then there's cpan.
- Douglas
Douglas, definitely. Re: testing, everyone must read (Perl programmer or not) "Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook" - Perl testing libs work with more than just Perl!
- Jesse Stay
Now wait a minute, why are talking Perl here?
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ani, because you brought it up ;-)
- Jesse Stay
-_-
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I've never read that. Will look for it. We sound like perl fanboys. I'm going to say something nice about Javascript... Javascript is neat.
- Douglas
Douglas, Javascript works with Perl! ;-) (I *am* a Perl fanboy!)
- Jesse Stay
SpiderMonkey!
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Okay, fine - Javascript. Favorite JS Scripting Framework?
- Jesse Stay
Jesse - Of course! IIS? Back to MSFT
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ani, I remember the days when I really thought that PerlScript was going to replace JavaScript some day
- Jesse Stay
SpiderMonkey is great! It's fast! Well, it did just crash my Firefox. But to be fair to the Mozillans, I am running a beta version.
- Douglas
Jesse - well, thare was really a chance at THAT time. Anyway - jQuery.
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ani, jQuery here as well - I love it for the community and simplicity (and the "$" sign!)
- Jesse Stay
Paul: When I read your post and the comments about Java GC issues, I got to say that I felt that you probably are basing that off your age old experience but not anything recent. I have been in the Java field for a while now, I have seen all sorts of issues with thousands of customers who use our software but last I saw a GC issue I cannot remember (not saying they are not there but its not like you are portraying).
- Kiran Patchigolla
Pine Is Not Elm. That is all.
- Louis Gray
Pine FTW!
- Jesse Stay
I used to use nothing else, Redhat 3 or 4 I think
- Jesse Stay
It was that time I invested about $500 into RHAT and quintupled my money in just under a year :-)
- Jesse Stay
Python is for Perl coders who like coming back to their code in a year and being able to understand it. (but in all fairness I have written just as much Perl code as I have Python)
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Louis - It IS e-mail though :)
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Jesse, jQuery $(fanboy).is() right here :)
- Micah
Prototype, mootools also pretty popular
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Micah, wouldn't that be $(this).fanboy.is("here")?
- Jesse Stay
I recently read some of my old perl from the late '90s and I hope no one EVER understands that stuff. I would be very embarrassed.
- Douglas
Or, if you want it prettier: jQuery(this).fanboy.is("here")
- Jesse Stay
I should probably look into this javascript language - I hear the web is becoming really hot next year.
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
Dude! heard Rocketmail is cool..
- ◄ani625Ξ ಠ_ಠ
I shouldn't think anyone would ever want to send mail on a computer.
- Douglas
Those blasphemers
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Coming to python.. Django anyone?
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All joking aside, can somebody explain why Java has FactoryFactories? And why other languages don't?
- Gabe
People writing in Java are paid by the syllable?
- Douglas
The last time I saw "FactoryFactories" was when I was doing OLE coding in the Windows world - it drove me *crazy* with all of the abstraction for the sake of abstraction layers. If Java has it then I am again glad that I've never looked seriously at the language.
- bear (aka Mike Taylor)
probably in accordance with the cuil theory..
- ◄ani625Ξ ಠ_ಠ
Ok... serious but poorly-thought-out and probably wrong answer. I think it's because it's awkward to implement closures in Java. I don't think anonymous inner classes were even possible before Java 2 and so the whole factoryfactoryfactory... idiom became popular because it's sort of a way around that.
- Douglas
They should have called it factoryschmactory so as to prevent semantic satiation.
- Douglas
Douglas, you may be right about that. I've always thought the vast framework mechanisms were all just to get around not having function pointers (or closures, or delegates, or whatever you want to call them).
- Gabe
I think it's rather that there''s just so many more Java or MSFT users. Typically, it's minorities who are more super sensitive to criticism vs the mainstream, but there's so many Java/MSFT users, if you insult them, someone is likely to see it. Python users are so busy making sure their whitespace is correct that they almost never see any insult. Ruby users too are busy trying to...
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- Ray Cromwell
I think it's not so much Ruby as it is Rails that's tricky to scale. But I might have scoffed at PHP too, once. That would be in the pre-Facebook and pre-Wikipedia days.
- Douglas
@Jesse I have a coworker who is one of those mysterious perl monks - he's been recommending "Higher Order Perl" for a while too. Not to put too fine a point on it, but java is the suburban blight of programming languages. ;-) I do keep meaning to take a better look at Python as well
- Jeffrey Canton
Ah, but if Java is the suburban blight, then slow scripting languages are the hulking bloated SUVs of the programming world, like SUVs, they take advancements in engine power (CPU perf/watt), and use it to drag extra weight around. :) Java is like a guy driving a Prius to the suburbs, Ruby is like a guy driving a a Hummer around Manhattan. :)
- Ray Cromwell
Haha, Nice! :-) In all fairness, my comment was about java's ridiculously verbose syntax and comes after using it at work for 5 or 6 years. No prius there, its all earth-hating Hummer powered by leaded gas and puppies! I do like some of the synchronization and garbage-collection tech. in Java though.
- Jeffrey Canton
from Android
True, but you pay the penalty at edit/compile time, the end users don't pay it. If you were buying a car and GM told you "well, the fuel efficiency sucks, but our engineers had fun making the car", it wouldn't be a very persuasive argument. This is really most relevant in mobile where battery life is severely impacted by inefficiencies. Sure, I could develop a game much faster in JS...
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- Ray Cromwell
Don't forget, Ray, that by developing the game faster, the users actually get to play it!
- Gabe
Don't forget, Gabe, that by making it not suck, users might actually *want* to play it :)
- Joel Webber
More seriously, here's the real blight on software development: People who get their panties in a wad over programming languages. You know what? Your favorite programming language sucks. Mine would too, if I had one. All that really matters is getting something good built -- results, not how you got there. I'm using Java and Javascript right now because they're the right tools for the...
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- Joel Webber
Oh, and the real reason everyone hates on Java specifically? Because there is a huge horde of people writing shitty Java code, and unfortunately some of them have been responsible for monstrosities like EJB, that should be taken out behind the shed and shot.
- Joel Webber
Joel: Do you mean that monstrosities like EJB should be taken out back and shot, or that those responsible for them should be taken out back and shot? Either way, you're probably right.
- Gabe
PostgreSQL is a good database, but it's fanboys are the most arrogant, insufferable people.
- Andy Dustman
I think there's a breaking point where all frameworks evolve to the breaking point, kinda like the Peter Principle, but for languages. Invariably, a successful community keeps adding more and more until complexity becomes unmanageable, and then it simplifies again. People initially get excited by small, coherent languages/libraries, then they get mainstreamed, upsized, and people start using them for everything, eventually they become bloated.
- Ray Cromwell
@Gabe: I was referring to the libraries themselves, but both sound good to me :)
- Joel Webber
Your favourite band sucks.
- Nelson Minar
Re: A social media application I would like to have - http://www.disqus.com/people...
"yeah it's something that i run on a monitor that's a number of feet away and it's not something i look at all the time. i just check it out in between doing other things. it's probably something to be careful with, because i suppose it could make some people ill :("
- Zachary Poley
Re: A social media application I would like to have - http://shootingatbubbles.disqus.com/a_socia...
"yeah it's something that i run on a monitor that's a number of feet away and it's not something i look at all the time. i just check it out in between doing other things. it's probably something to be careful with, because i suppose it could make some people ill :("
- Zachary Poley
Re: A social media application I would like to have - http://www.shootingatbubbles.com/index...
"yeah it's something that i run on a monitor that's a number of feet away and it's not something i look at all the time. i just check it out in between doing other things. it's probably something to be careful with, because i suppose it could make some people ill :("
- Zachary Poley
Re: A social media application I would like to have - http://www.shootingatbubbles.com/index...
"This doesn't address all your points, but it's what I've made for myself to address your point about having everything in one place and not refreshing: http://wcons.s3.amazonaws.com/drop.... Things like selecting services and running searches are things I've though about as well, but I'm not sure how many people would be interested in something like this, and as you mention, something like this would also be a great addition to existing feed readers like FeedDemon or NetNewsWire. It would be great if they would implement something like what you're proposing."
- Zachary Poley
Re: A social media application I would like to have - http://shootingatbubbles.disqus.com/a_socia...
"This doesn't address all your points, but it's what I've made for myself to address your point about having everything in one place and not refreshing: http://wcons.s3.amazonaws.com/drop.... Things like selecting services and running searches are things I've though about as well, but I'm not sure how many people would be interested in something like this, and as you mention, something like this would also be a great addition to existing feed readers like FeedDemon or NetNewsWire. It would be great if they would implement something like what you're proposing."
- Zachary Poley
Re: A social media application I would like to have - http://www.disqus.com/people...
"This doesn't address all your points, but it's what I've made for myself to address your point about having everything in one place and not refreshing: http://wcons.s3.amazonaws.com/drop.... Things like selecting services and running searches are things I've though about as well, but I'm not sure how many people would be interested in something like this, and as you mention, something like this would also be a great addition to existing feed readers like FeedDemon or NetNewsWire. It would be great if they would implement something like what you're proposing."
- Zachary Poley
Re: You’re not on Twitter’s suggested user list but you are in good company: - http://www.disqus.com/people...
"Thanks for the great list of interesting people Robert!"
- Zachary Poley
Re: You’re not on Twitter’s suggested user list but you are in good company: - http://scobleizer.disqus.com/you8217...
"Thanks for the great list of interesting people Robert!"
- Zachary Poley
Re: You’re not on Twitter’s suggested user list but you are in good company: - http://scobleizer.com/2009...
"Thanks for the great list of interesting people Robert!"
- Zachary Poley
When viewing company Web sites that have animation or Flash, do you watch the messages, or do you prefer static graphics that don't move?
Adam Singer, LANjackal, Mahendra (SkepticGeek) and 24 other people liked this
Static.
- Heather Solos
Static. If there is an option to close the animation, I'm all over it.
- Yolanda
Static. Actually, with enough typographical strength, graphics are optional. :)
- Micah
Gee. I can't imagine why I keep railing against the use of Flash on Web sites. I'm with everyone else. Flash drives me crazy. I don't mind sites having dynamic content on their home pages, but I want to be able to control how quickly or slowly it changes.
- DAMMIT, MR. NOODLE
Static.
- Zachary Poley
Static
- Jeff (Team マクダジ )
from iPhone
Animation as an option
- Eric - seven eleven
As long as the animation doesn't take a long time I don't mind. If it takes more then a few sec I'm gone.
- Mathew™ aka Youngblood
Static.
- Laura Norvig
All Flash is the worst. Primary info needs to be static and some secondary stuff in Flash is fine for me.
- Kurt Starnes
static
- metalerik
static
- Kate Foy
Static. Anything moving on a page or autoplay sounds, means there's a 99% chance I'll do business with a competitor.
- Anika
Static. Like I said on Twitter, I feel violated when stuff starts moving or making noise without my consent.
- Rahsheen?
Static
- Joe Silence
I just screenshoted this. I'll be sure to show it to any potential clients that want to obsessively use flash. Oh and Static 100%
- Joshua Schnell
If there's a compelling reason to use a dynamic display, I don't mind. For example, sports cars do not lend themselves to static displays. But even if a dynamic display is warranted - and it usually isn't - the dynamic content had better be short AND silent. (And the color saturation should be reasonable.)
- John E. Bredehoft
from fftogo
I'm curious if Louis' question would elicit different results if asked on another platform. FriendFeed tends to skew a little tech. Maybe other audiences find the animation entertaining.
- John E. Bredehoft
from fftogo
i could say something really mean about a certain market segment, but i won't.
- Joe Silence
John, I asked on Twitter and it hit here. But yes, this is good data.
- Louis Gray
Definately static
- Matt G
Static!
- Jeff P. Henderson
Static.
- Jose M Pelaez
Static. If it's a splash page and there's no "Skip" link, I'll often close it. And don't even get me STARTED on pages that start playing sound!
- Ordinarybug Heather
Static. Come to think of it, all of the sites I visit regularly lack excess animations.
- Jemm
static
- cheapsuits
Minimalism is the key. I don't care about ads, as long as they're not annoying and they don't distract me from the main content... Come to think of it, exactly the opposite of what they intend! ;)
- Jordi Soler
Static
- Shey
Static, but I'm a sucker for some slick javascript and helpful unobtrusive video segments.
- Phil Glockner
100% static. If a website starts talking to me or playing music without my consent, I close the tab and never look back.
- Akiva
static and if the animation last more than 5 seconds I'm likely to leave the site
- WoH: Professor MOTHRA
Static
- Bee
flash is disabled and stays that way unless there is some overwhelming need such as youtube
- Mike Chelen
Overwhelming need is a great way to say it- If plenty of valuable content needed presentation in a small space.
- E-Advocate Network
Static. Unless a flash ad is particularly clever or interesting it gets annoying within a matter of seconds.
- Amy
I am really surprised at the almost unanimity of static. I may change my website.
- Alan Morris
Static. No flash and certainly no autoplay.
- Nik
Static. Hell no on autoplay.
- Andrew Leyden
Animated. If I don't see page elements dancing the Macarena, the site is clearly not worth my time.
- Bruce Lewis
from fftogo
static also because if I'm viewing in my phone it doesn't display. The worst are ones that require the flash to get through to the content of the site.
- Sarah
Static. I have Flash off by default.
- Victor Ganata
Static. I *hate* Flash sites with a passion. Also: no music or annoying sounds!
- Shannon Jiménez
Static - DOH
- Susan Beebe
static
- Hutch Carpenter
Static.
- Andrew Perry
from Android
Static.
- Mahendra (SkepticGeek)
Static -- if it moves, it's gone.
- Sean McBride
I can't stand flash sites. It's a pet peeve of mine. I don't mind little pieces being flash, but I don't want anything overly flash or music or autoplay, etc. Ick.
- Araceli
Static for God's sake
- LANjackal
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