| Re: Move Newsgroup to Facebook [message #64638] |
Mon, 12 January 2009 00:34  |
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Maarten[1]
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Registered: November 2005
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On Jan 9, 10:03 pm, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> Do you suppose we could breath new life into the ol'
> lady if we moved her over to Facebook?
Wrong posting date, should have been April 1st. But I guess David's
connection would choke on that number of posts on a single day ;-)
Maarten
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| Re: Move Newsgroup to Facebook [message #64656 is a reply to message #64655] |
Fri, 09 January 2009 14:24  |
T.H.
Messages: 13
Registered: December 2008
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On Jan 9, 4:03 pm, David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
> Folks,
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> At a programmer's meeting yesterday I learned that Usenet
> newsgroups are "completely passe, 1970's technology".
> Naturally, I was totally chagrined to learn that I was,
> once again, the last one to know this. :-(
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> Anyway, it offers a possible explanation for why the
> holdouts here think the old IDL was a hell of a lot better
> than the new IDL.
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> Do you suppose we could breath new life into the ol'
> lady if we moved her over to Facebook?
>
> Cheers,
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> David
> --
> David Fanning, Ph.D.
> Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming:http://www.dfanning.com/
> Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")
Since Facebook is "social" networking site, I'd suggest that there
could be many employers out there which block access to it. This
would keep people have getting access to the great discussions that
occur here.
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| Re: Move Newsgroup to Facebook [message #64711 is a reply to message #64655] |
Tue, 13 January 2009 07:41 |
Mike[2]
Messages: 99
Registered: December 2005
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On Jan 9, 10:21 pm, Brian Larsen <balar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Oh, but a move to facebook would certainly revitalize IDL Usenet and
> IDL as a whole. This would lead to the popularizing of IDL in the
> world. Think of the IDLphone, the Chevy ENVI, and best of all IDL
> Vista. People would wear IDL t-shirts around town and instead of the
> constant shunning that normally occurs those people people be revered
> in the community.
Hmmmmm, maybe this shunning is the reason that David's site has been
banned in China...
As for facebook, IDL 7.0 is already five better than web 2.0, making
facebook and its ilk look like archaic relics from the early part of
the 21st century. Perhaps all we need to do to get web 2.0 back up to
the mainstream is extend Zawinski's Law [1] by adding a twitter api to
IDL? Certainly IDL 7.0 + web 2.0 + facebook + twitter will go all the
way to 11.
On a (barely) related note, I saw a post on the risks digest (which is
an actual email digest - but it's ok, I read it via an RSS feed so I'm
not hopelessly 80s) about how numeric keypad text-ing software tends
to replace "cool" with "book". (Numerically both are 2665 and book is
a more commonly used word than cool). So now "book" means "cool" in
some circles. If IDL were mainstream, we'd have to learn to deal even
more people who open, doors and print, papers.
Mike
Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those
programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
—Jamie Zawinski, http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/Z/Zawinskis-Law.html
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