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by jlgbecom 16y ago
There are a lot of lessons to be learned from Diaspora, beyond the (brilliant) points made about security. 1. When media hype provides you with $200k, you're still best served by bringing people's expectations down to earth. There was no w
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
I've always thought it would make more sense for CS degrees to be for computer scientists (ie, people who want to do more high-level theoretical work), and that software development was more of a trade school, where you learned the langua
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
The most successful schools in the world are in Finland, Americans need to look at their model, put aside our prejudices, and adopt it's best practices. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120425355065601997.html
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
There's a ton of them, and they're all pretty mature. I'm hoping this does have a windfall effect on the ones that have already proven themselves from a code standpoint, and could use the hype that Diaspora has http://opensource.appleseed
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
My guess is that the startups get VC funding, and then they hire professionals who take it from there. The "wonder boys" that started it are mostly just figureheads at that point.
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
No soil.
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
Using grow lights 100% of the time? No, that's definitely not going to work, unless major gains in efficiency are made. But using led grow lights to supplement passive solar and elongate the grow cycle is what I'm referring to, and design
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
Even asking for $10,000 was major hubris that made me skeptical they were up to the task. But they could have been more honest about their capabilities, timeline, roadmap, etc. in order to put things into perspective and bring the hype dow
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
Vertical farms are kind of a crock, kind of. The idea of indoor agriculture is not, however (just look at Thanet Earth), and there is an advantage of building up a few floors and using grow lights to supplement the loss of passive lighting
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
Momentum can die as fast as it builds, while maturity is lasting. All these projects are in active development, and it'll be very difficult for Diaspora to catch up.
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
And more importantly, if you're going to rewrite, why help Diaspora, and not a more mature option?
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
They could have saved themselves some grief if they didn't over-promise in order to get money for a project before they had a single line of code.
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
At first, I thought those comments were a CYA distancing from Diaspora, since their release has been so abysmal, but then I watched their presentation to Pivotal again, and it really does seem like everyone there knew about as much about Di
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
If anyone thinks that, they would be best served talking to the Joomla or Drupal (or any other popular, large-scale, user-facing, and general purpose open source project out there) and get their perspective on how that actually works out in
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
No matter how many programmers this attracts or momentum the project has, if the underlying software design is bad, people need to either do a rewrite with a better design, or make a patchwork mess of it all until it becomes unmanageable, i
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
When did Facebook release an open source version? And where is it, if they did?
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
I've been really excited about Go, but I've been stuck in one of those dilemmas where I don't really learn a language until I work on a tangible project with it, and I can't seem to come up with anything I need to write in Go. I'm sure so
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
As far as I can tell, there isn't even an admin interface for administrators to remove your account from Diaspora.
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
PHP caught on because it was the right hammer for all the nails people had. It wasn't marketing and hype, but momentum. Open source projects may have to market themselves as well, but that doesn't mean the more savvy amongst us have to get
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
I used to read digg way back when, but someone alerted me to the whole situation and I watched it crumble, and it was... spectacular. It was like a cyberpunk novel. People didn't just move to reddit, they moved to reddit, and then salted
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
Why do they deserve attention? Because they have better, more mature code-bases and more experienced programmers developing them. Other than publicity, what does Diaspora have going for it, and why do they deserve attention just because o
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
Other open source social networking projects: Appleseed ( http://opensource.appleseedproject.org ) Elgg ( http://elgg.com ) OneSocialWeb ( http://onesocialweb.org ) I realize everyone's hyped up about Diaspora, but we have a long haul befor
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
Appleseed and Elgg are both in PHP, if you're looking to help out with an open source social networking project.
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
There are a bunch of open source social networking projects out there. One is Appleseed, which has been in active development since 2004, open source since 2005, and has had four releases in the past 3 months. http://opensource.appleseedp
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
That's the best way to come up with ideas. But at some point you have to implement them, and that's where discipline comes in.
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
I would add that genius is more defined by an extreme tenacity than intelligence.
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
Wow, ESR. Haven't heard from him in a while. Someone should write an updated counter-point to the cathedral and the bazaar. A lot of it's theories seem dated nowadays.
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
Consistency can be an issue, languages which break from standards, or even what you're used to can be difficult. I grew up on C/C++, and it was the first real language I learned, so anything in that realm (Java, PHP, Perl, etc) is like rid
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
It's not usability that has turned people off, it's the change in underlying functionality. It's no longer a community site. People can get used to UI changes, even radical ones. But fundamentally changing the way people interact with a s
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by jlgbecom 16y ago
I feel like there's a lesson for the companies operating within the social web here somewhere. I don't know, something like "if your business model is based on making your users happy, don't make crassly commercial usability shifts that ma

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