wise words, well phrased, kudos, being friendly doesn't cost anything

El martes, 9 de octubre de 2012 18:06:00 UTC+2, Isaac Schlueter escribió:
>
> Guys, be nice.  Dennis is unusual, sure, but unusual isn't bad.  We're 
> all unusual in some way.  I don't see anything sociopathic or trollish 
> here, just a lot of excitement about a program he's writing, and 
> perhaps a bit of naivety regarding the best ways to go about 
> recruiting contributors. 
>
>
> Dennis, 
>
> The reason you're getting no traction here is that your "I'm going to 
> be a larger than life superhero because of my code, which I want you 
> to help with, and it'll make you rich, but no, you can't see it" 
> matches a *very* common pattern of "crazy person", which we've all 
> seen before.  It's a lot of talk, and no substance.  It's trying to 
> spend credibility on credit, and that's not how credibility works. 
>
> I'd recommend that you assume that no one will take you seriously, and 
> focus on overcoming that, if your goal is actually to be successful 
> and recruit others to your mission of whatever it is you hope to 
> accomplish with your technology.  Of course, if your goal is to get a 
> little bit of attention, and wave your freak flag, well, then bravo, 
> you're doing a wonderful job, please carry on :) 
>
> FWIW, I agree with most of your politics, and wish you the best of 
> success.  You seem like a nice person.  But if you want to recruit 
> coders, write more code, and fewer words, and share it liberally.  The 
> revolution in software already happened, and that's the new paradigm. 
> You will gain more credibility if you become a part of the OSS 
> community before asking it for favors. 
>
>
> On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 1:10 AM, Joshua Gross 
> <[email protected]<javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
> > Maybe I'll get one, too :) this doesn't seem to be going anywhere 
> though. 
> > 
> > 
> > -- Joshua Gross 
> > Christian / SpanDeX / BA Candidate of Computer Science, UW-Madison 2013 
> > 414-377-1041 / http://www.joshisgross.com 
> > 
> > On Oct 9, 2012, at 12:04 AM, Rick Waldron 
> > <[email protected]<javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
> > 
> > Funny thing, I said much the same as you have here and got a gnarly 
> > chastising. 
> > 
> > -Rick 
> > 
> > On Monday, October 8, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Joshua Gross wrote: 
> > 
> > Dennis, this is a developer forum. If you want to peddle your software 
> and 
> > aren't willing to show something besides videos, you're in the wrong 
> place. 
> > 
> > Also I'm not going to watch a 15 minute video. You're not selling 
> yourself 
> > very well, I kindly advise you to move on so this stops clogging my 
> inbox :) 
> > 
> > -- Joshua Gross 
> > Christian / SpanDeX / BA Candidate of Computer Science, UW-Madison 2013 
> > 414-377-1041 / http://www.joshisgross.com 
> > 
> > On Oct 8, 2012, at 7:12 PM, Dennis Kane <[email protected] <javascript:>> 
> wrote: 
> > 
> > Why do you want the code so bad?  It's not like there's any kind of 
> fancy 
> > algorithms at work.  There are many many open source windowing packages 
> out 
> > there.  It's not exactly rocket science, this.  It's all been done many 
> > times before.  The only difference is that this one is *my* baby! 
>  Besides, 
> > you are welcome to all the code of my desktop prototype on my site at 
> > luvluvluv.info... it's just sitting there on the server for the taking. 
> > 
> > I am mainly using this thing as blackmail to get people to be interested 
> in 
> > being my friend.  I want to do some real world community building, and 
> > something like this will go a long way to get a cooperative business up 
> and 
> > running. 
> > 
> > Furthermore... you do realize that asking another programmer to "just 
> show 
> > me your code" is exactly the same as asking a girl to "just show me your 
> > breasts", right?  I mean, I have nothing against it in principle, but, 
> my 
> > god... I hardly know ye!!! 
> > 
> > My lastest work includes that rubber-band selection feature as well as 
> > dropping icons directly onto folder icons (with that "open folder" hover 
> > trick).  I have also included some basic image file support. 
> > 
> > Latest video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL5r0b7WWvU 
> > 
> > On Friday, October 5, 2012 5:56:26 PM UTC-4, sotonin wrote: 
> > 
> > Code.... post it.... else Zzzz 
> > 
> > On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Dennis Kane <[email protected]> wrote: 
> > 
> > See the newest features here--> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF_2DwueGLM 
> > 
> > The current version of the program now includes drag and drop 
> functionality 
> > of text files from the native desktop straight into the browser desktop 
> or 
> > (any of the subfolders). The difference between my drag and drop and all 
> the 
> > HTML5 demos that you see on the web is that the dropped files 
> immediately 
> > become icons that are integrated into the program. 
> > 
> > I will soon start working on getting multimedia icons/files working, so 
> > you'll be able to drop those directly in too.  Then I will probably do a 
> > very basic kind of image editing demo that will allow you to change 
> > individual pixels or some such nonsense.  But I don't want to get bogged 
> > down in the details of any particular application, because I always want 
> to 
> > stay focused on the big picture of creating a totally powerful and 
> intuitive 
> > way to organize our online lives. 
> > 
> > Anyway, I know I am quite a controversial figure here, but there should 
> be 
> > no controversy that this thing is just about ready for prime time.  I 
> really 
> > do need to start getting interested people on board who would like to 
> help 
> > me push the web forward.  The basic mission statement for the venture 
> will 
> > basically be that the "old web" (HTML4/version 1.0) is dead and gone. 
>  If 
> > anyone calls in search of help on their Flintstone era <html> documents 
> with 
> > all of their <a href> and <div> tags laying about, we'll just point them 
> in 
> > an entirely new direction.  If they still insist on doing things the old 
> > way, we'll just hang up on them…  This thing is all about the future! 
> > 
> > We can easily develop libraries of high-level interface widgets that 
> people 
> > just need to attach event listeners to.  There will be no angle brackets 
> in 
> > sight! <hand><coded><html><markup></is></so></last></millenium>! 
> > 
> > Come one, come all, for the thrill of your lives :) 
> > 
> > 
> > On Tuesday, September 25, 2012 7:36:37 PM UTC-4, Dennis Kane wrote: 
> > 
> > I was thinking of just responding  to this old thread, in which I talk 
> about 
> > the browser based Desktop that I've been working on, but the new thing 
> I've 
> > been doing for the past week is so superior that I thought it deserved a 
> > completely new thead.  By the way, I know this forum is all about server 
> > side Javascript, but there is not really any serious place one can go on 
> the 
> > web that talks about the client side.  Besides, with socket.io & 
> > websockets... I don't really make much of a distinction between client 
> and 
> > server anymore.  I just know that there's no reason to do a 
> > document.getElementById() call in node :) 
> > 
> > This new thing is a totally shocking clone of OS X.  I knew I was going 
> to 
> > have to start over from the ground up, because my previous code base was 
> so 
> > sh*tty, haha!  I have really been concentrating on getting a nice, tight 
> > little API that developers will positively drool over.  I don't want to 
> make 
> > this thing publicly available for many reasons... but you can check out 
> a 
> > youtube vid (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq_W19QokXk) that shows it 
> in 
> > action, and I still have my same old crappy prototype online at 
> > http://luvluvluv.info.  Well, hopefully this is proof that I am able to 
> do 
> > some cool stuff, and hopefully summa yous will want to start being my 
> friend 
> > now, LOL!!! 
> > 
> > And get this... the current, uncompressed js file size is only 54kb! 
> > 
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