jhrobert

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by jhrobert 16y ago
It claims to be 10 x faster than Squeak, wow. OTOH, comparing speed with native Javascript would help too.
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by jhrobert 16y ago
Very nice indeed. In the Resource Timeline, when hovering, it would be nice to have the exact millisecs in addition to the existing proportional colored rectangles. The absolute total time could be added on the black hovering div on the lef
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by jhrobert 16y ago
That's a difficult question. To solve it I "crowd sourced it", i.e. I have a UserVoice feedback buttons with 2 ideas: 1/Stay in Alpha 2/Go Beta. So far... I need to stay in Alpha... :(
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by jhrobert 16y ago
Perseverance. I you hold to your vision long enough you may have some nice surprises along the way, like competitors giving up or pivoting. It happened to me recently when wetpaint decided to pivot out of the market for simple wikis (under
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by jhrobert 16y ago
Why limit that to "support"? I often would be happy to share a window with a friend.
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by jhrobert 16y ago
a wiki! Mine started as a toy to experiment evented programming with nodejs. A year later it's now 26KLOC (in one big file)... :)
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by jhrobert 16y ago
aka Browser as a Service -- This is something I tought about a few years ago. It's becoming a reality with Opera Mini & Skyfire. http://virteal.com/UltraLightBrowser
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by jhrobert 16y ago
I read that post a few weeks ago, while looking for a script loader. Very interesting indeed. I fired my editor and coded my own loader (i'm a wheel designer somehow I guess). I called the result Loadfire http://simpliwiki.com/loadfire.js
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by jhrobert 16y ago
I joined!
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by jhrobert 16y ago
thks! :)
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by jhrobert 16y ago
I too support the idea that "CamelCase WikiLinks rule", Ward is my hero. However I "slightly" extended the definition of what a wiki word is to accomodate: #categories, mail@addr.esses and @jhr twitter names.
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by jhrobert 16y ago
Well, if that one interests you, mine may also :) http://simpliwiki.com -- it's nodejs & open source.
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by jhrobert 16y ago
There must be some interest because I am build a "stripped down" wiki myself too... http://simpliwiki.com I actually think that there is a "Wikification" thing going on, largely unnoticed.
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by jhrobert 16y ago
It's under very active "live" development, so yes, it often does not work, sorry about that, when things stabilize a little I will obviously move to a different development style (without untested updates), but at this point I feel like thi
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by jhrobert 16y ago
That's the quote I was looking for, you have a better memory that I :)
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by jhrobert 16y ago
Are we seeing "The Rise Of the Solo Founder"? Being solo myself, I wonder if we, solo founders, should build a league? "The League of the Solo Founders". As a solo founder, I feel like an "only child", there is always that suspicion that so
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by jhrobert 16y ago
I will get a look at your API. The one feature I will look for is the ability to get the list of the members of a group (so that I can dynamically create a wiki for them). Maybe I can do that using https://convore.com/api/groups/:group_id.
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by jhrobert 16y ago
Is this true? I have a similar issue. So far I too consider that hosting files costs a lot, whereas bandwidth (for text) is reasonably cheap. Am I missing something?
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by jhrobert 16y ago
IM for groups. Cool. Now I need to have this integrated with my other IMs. I just can't have so many windows open at the same time (or can I?). Maybe Google Chrome Destop Notification? Maybe http://imo.im ? just guessing. Nice work.
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by jhrobert 16y ago
I'm 45. I don't feel as efficient as when I was 25. But I still really enjoy programming. Most moderately (in)competent developers stop programming in their mid 30 if not earlier, this is a blessing. Without passion nothing great can be don
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by jhrobert 16y ago
"My team? well... it's me and my computers." "What? they don't count as 'co-founder''? you must be kidding, this is XXI'
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by jhrobert 16y ago
I agree. Navigating a source tree with fulltext search is obviously much simpler. I wonder why it's not "obvious" to most developers, habits maybe.
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by jhrobert 16y ago
Well... If you look at the source code of a Smalltalk program, you'll tons of small functions. You'll probably enjoy that. Problem is, grasping what they means turn to be difficult, it's like wherever you look you just have to look elsewher
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by jhrobert 16y ago
Actually the content of my one big file is made of "sections" (I wrote a tool to extract them, http://simpliwiki.com/sections.html ) "Search" is my friend to move around in my one big file. I think of it like a the same shift introduced by
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by jhrobert 16y ago
So, a lot of small files create inconvenience and then one need a tool to navigate the mess? You don't need that if you put everything in OneBigFile. Mine is 24KLOC. http://simplijs.com/OneBigFileFormat Modern editors can handle big file
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by jhrobert 16y ago
"So you have a lot of facebook friends... but are they all really your friends? " I wonder who want to know the answer.
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by jhrobert 16y ago
To some extend Angular is doing something similar today and it's available, http://angularjs.org It does not synchronize multiple clients yet, but I certainly wish it will ; with Comet becoming increasingly easy to integrate, this may hap
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by jhrobert 16y ago
>in a future version, I hope to sandbox `<script>` to minimize the potential impact I have basically the same issue. If I manage to find a solution for it, I'll keep you posted. See http://simpliwiki.com/simplijs/DoAngularScrip
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by jhrobert 16y ago
Let's face it, designers are helpers. That's why YC wants to provide them to the startup they believe in. Sometimes there are diamonds hidden behind poor graphic designs. They know that. The bad news is that it is not exactly "cheap". Quest
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by jhrobert 16y ago
I'm 45 and I'm starting mine too. It's never too late.

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