| Move Newsgroup to Facebook [message #64659] |
Fri, 09 January 2009 13:03  |
David Fanning
Messages: 11724
Registered: August 2001
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Folks,
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. :-(
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.
Do you suppose we could breath new life into the ol'
lady if we moved her over to Facebook?
Cheers,
David
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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.")
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| Re: Move Newsgroup to Facebook [message #64703 is a reply to message #64659] |
Tue, 13 January 2009 09:50  |
Michael Galloy
Messages: 1114
Registered: April 2006
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On Jan 13, 8:41 am, Mike <Michael.Mill...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jan 9, 10:21 pm, Brian Larsen <balar...@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> 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...
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> 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.
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> 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
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> 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-La w.html
OK, here's the world's simplest Twitter client:
http://michaelgalloy.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/mg_twitt er.pro
Use it like:
IDL> mg_twitter, 'mgalloy'
I think we get lake effect snow off Waneka Lake.
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Screwed up my back/hip somehow at the end of goaltimate.
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Got in a video podcast yoga session with Brigit before bedtime.
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Who needs math anyway? http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123119236117055127.html
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@dlwilson That's incentive. Maybe I should move the bookcase to
directly behind my chair...
So does this bring IDL into the web 2.0 world?
Mike
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www.michaelgalloy.com
Tech-X Corporation
Associate Research Scientist
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