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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]
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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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		Re: Move Newsgroup to Facebook By: Maarten[1] on Mon, 12 January 2009 00:34
		Re: Move Newsgroup to Facebook By: Robbie on Sun, 11 January 2009 18:13
		Re: Move Newsgroup to Facebook By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Sat, 10 January 2009 05:47
		Re: Move Newsgroup to Facebook By: Mort Canty on Sat, 10 January 2009 03:28
		Re: Move Newsgroup to Facebook By: Brian Larsen on Fri, 09 January 2009 19:21
		Re: Move Newsgroup to Facebook By: T.H. on Fri, 09 January 2009 14:24
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