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But just like the larger Internet, it all depends on where you go. There's been sort of an IRC revival in development communities and I've found them largely jerk-free.
(Re: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1685161 if you hadn't seen.)
They might actually pull off this web apps store idea.
(The Oracle < $1m answer is a RIOT.)
(I'm almost finished reading your first book and as someone who is very capable with Subversion it has helped me tremendously with grokking Git. Thanks!)
The CRM angle is one I hadn't thought of, though it's kind of an obvious leap (in hindsight of course). I've been thinking more of a CMS plus address book.
Read it Later looks perfect; thanks for the tip. Last I bothered to look, I couldn't find a thing.
Indeed I do. One of these days I'll get around to adding an extension that allows me to queue links without opening them in tabs.
Anyway, I don't understand why Tab Candy is an improvement over simple window management. Since the introduction of tabs, I've grouped tabs by purpose into separate windows, and rather assumed that's how everyone did it. Especially now that you can easily drag tabs from one browser window to another, it's effortless. No new GUI to learn, to expensive extension to install.
Took a few times of finding random text in my code to realize what was happening, and even longer to figure out how.
The blame-shifting approaches subliminal. If you aren't looking for the hidden message, you probably won't see it.
The younger net-native generation is no doubt resistant to paying for a service of this kind. The obvious strategies for making (paid) membership attractive would be discount on games and gear and access to anything exclusive and/or pre-release (beta codes, demos, strategy guides). Making that happen has its own set of challenges, of course...
A social network of this kind would be a natural place to for organized playing groups (clans, guilds, etc.) to form, organize, recruit, schedule and so on. Individuals and groups alike could display their "home" or favorite servers/shards/whatever, affiliations, and so on.
There'd have to be some thought put into the mechanics of managing profiles, as a single player may wish to have several character profiles on the system without publicly linking them (FPS vs. MMO handles), and some games may not have proxy character identities but refer directly to the player instead (Plants vs. Zombies and other casual games).
I think there have been some moves in this general direction by gaming sites that have some kind of community aspect, but nothing that really came close to this more specific concept of users managing a collection of their virtual identities which each may have their own separate network of associated teammates or friends.
I'd swear there wasn't a reply link under your post at the time.
No doubt. I stated that badly. It would have been better stated as "hadn't looked for any attention" or "hasn't looked for glory".
To me he's not just serious, but also very slow.
Some of us are out in the world trying to provide for ourselves and our families while tending to our passions as time allows. To me it has spoken of admirable dedication. =^)
There's the same page with the limit changed from the default of 7 days (May 19) to 30 (April 26).
And of course Google's been caching stuff there for awhile:
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:socknet.net
I know the Socknet guy via some trusted former coworkers and I've watched this project for a year or two. He's earnest and hasn't looked for any attention.
I posted his open letter here because I think he deserves some attention for his hard work, whereas the Diaspora team made a cheeky video and deserve to have their goals questioned (do they really intend to do something progressive or is this about personal reward?)
edit: grammar
Bingo! Facebook is the best available means of keeping up with geographically distributed and loosely connected friends and family, which was the core conflict I faced when I decided I didn't like how I was being treated by Zuckerberg, et al.
I resolved it internally when I realized that they were essentially holding my relationships hostage to get what they want out of me. After that it was easy to leave.
Otherwise I'm using Vim exclusively, and hope to someday be pretty good with it. ;^)
When I was on Windows I used EditPlus and still advocate it for Windows users. Fast, capable, customizable, and the developer was always very responsive to my questions and requests.
If Vim wasn't always available when Nano was, I'd still use it. ;^)
I didn't think much of that until I noticed myself automatically skipping past those entries visually while examining the contents of my wish list. I don't trust that information, so it's ignored.
Not sure if this may have something to do with it, but I'd ordered a few ebooks from them before. Maybe the backlog has to do with setting up new accounts?
Anyway, downvoters, the quotes were an actual answer. It was probably some very minor detail that escaped notice until downstream effects (low price cap) made it evident. Without more information it's a waste of time to try guessing what that minor detail may have been.
Peter: "Oh! Well, this is not a mundane detail, Michael!"
Michael: "Hey, quit getting pissed at me. Alright? This was all your idea, ---hole!"
Peter: "Alright, okay, alright, let's try not to get pissed off at each other. Alright? Let's just calm down, let's try to figure this thing out together."