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What shits me is that Diaspora shouldn't have started as a software project. It should have started as a bunch of RFCs. I tried to get a student project up a
by singingfish 13y ago
What shits me is that Diaspora shouldn't have started as a software project. It should have started as a bunch of RFCs. I tried to get a student project up a couple of years ago suggesting to produce said RFCs, but I got no bites.
- dasil003 13y agoFresh-faced college kids don't know how to write RFCs. Building something was the only way for them to iterate and learn.
- beagle3 13y agoEvery successful RFC in the past started life as a description of an existing implementation. Starting wih an RFC is the wrong way around
- singingfish 13y agoyeah, but you do a roughish prototype then write an RFC.
- beagle3 13y agoDiaspora after 6-9 months was nothing more than a roughish prototype. (One might claim it still is)
- singingfish 13y agothen they should write down the spec. The correct solution to disparate facebook is the same class of problem as IMAP, SMTP, HTTP, Jabber etc.