>> "These guys are some of the best real-time web programmers in the world."
WHAT? Come on. Do you not think other programmers do real-time web things, and have been for years? sigh
WHAT? Come on. Do you not think other programmers do real-time web things, and have been for years? sigh
In particular, they probably are the best people to join the Wave team because not only have they been doing real-time, they've been doing a real-time app that is very similar to wave, since they're both essentially documents (though wave is a little more like a series of sometimes-nested documents, but it's all the basically the same).
1. "Real-time" is nothing new
2. There are people who have been working in 'real time' web apps for yearsSaying that real-time/comet/AJAX/[technology name] isn't hard is meaningless. I can easily say, for example, that "programming in C" isn't hard. I just don't see what your point is.
I hate this trend of coming up with fantastic buzz words and making people believe they're something new/hard/fantastic.
2. because people have been doing it for a long time means it isnt hard? there isnt any way to read that that makes any sense, brain surgeons have been around a while, its still pretty hard.
like most people who complain about buzzwords you are actually putting more emphasis on the 'buzzwords' than the actual point.
I find the recent trends in the industry to be extremely depressing.