Re: Revolution is on Slashdot...

2009-11-28 Thread Bernard Devlin
The main thing about slashdot is that the vast majority of the commenters don't even read any article that forms the basis for the discussion. Slashdotters even have their own acronym for this behaviour. One can't expect them to even look at www.runrev.com. A minority of those commenters

Re: Revolution is on Slashdot...

2009-11-28 Thread viktoras d.
I wish to believe all that brutal publicity on /. is for good, although I doubt if slashdotters are the right target audience for rev or any other revolutionizing IT innovation, anyway :-). When I found Revolution - it was by accident. I was googling for GUI development, programming languages,

RE: Revolution is on Slashdot...

2009-11-28 Thread Lynn Fredricks
I wish to believe all that brutal publicity on /. is for good, although I doubt if slashdotters are the right target audience for rev or any other revolutionizing IT innovation, anyway :-) This sort of thing can get some good attention. I think slashdot would be an appropriate venue - if

Revolution is on Slashdot...

2009-11-27 Thread Andre Garzia
OMG! We reached the mainstream media :-O http://developers.slashdot.org/story/09/11/26/2016255/Dumbing-Down-Programming?art_pos=8 I don't like the focus of the piece let us all comment. Silly editors. -- http://www.andregarzia.com All We Do Is Code.

Re: Revolution is on Slashdot...

2009-11-27 Thread Mikey
/. is from severe tech heads for severe tech heads. RR will never be accepted by this group. This isn't the target audience. ___ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your

Re: Revolution is on Slashdot...

2009-11-27 Thread Kevin Miller
On 27/11/2009 15:39, Mikey mikeyt...@gmail.com wrote: /. is from severe tech heads for severe tech heads. RR will never be accepted by this group. This isn't the target audience. Of course there are going to be plenty of people who are like that. But there will also be plenty of people who

Re: Revolution is on Slashdot...

2009-11-27 Thread Richard Gaskin
Mikey wrote: /. is from severe tech heads for severe tech heads. There seem to be many very smart people there, but they have an unusually high tolerance for one of the more cumbersome UIs ever deployed for presenting a nested-thread discussion. I read only a few dozen of the replies

Re: Revolution is on Slashdot...

2009-11-27 Thread Mark Swindell
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought the forum interface was cumbersome. (I might have chosen a less conciliatory adjective.) A lot a brain on display there, I'm not sure how much wisdom. Mark On Nov 27, 2009, at 7:47 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote: Mikey wrote: /. is from severe tech