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well if someone else already tried, I guess there's no point. It's not like Apple has ever entered into a market segment already entered by rivals who are doing poorly and shown them how it's done.

Oh wait, they did that with the iPod. And iPhone. And the iPad.

But you're right, there's no way they do make a successful tv if Google and Sony already tried it and it didnt go well </sarcasm>

PHP is great! It's like flypaper, attracting and trapping mediocre devs, keeping them from writing their terrible code in nicer languages

And if your user visits more than one page on your site, you've successfully killed asset caching. More data for your server to send _and_ a slower experience for the user, losses all round

Go and read about what a paragraph is and how you should use it

You're bias is showing when you refer to it as "your" lane. if they're in front of you, in that lane, it's actually _their_ lane.

Wasn't Access a part of office?

The iPhone client handles groups to an extent. You can pick one group to see a status update, but can't pick multiple groups, exclusions or custom on-the-fly groups

I see they're using their 'winning' wave strategy again.

1. launch a social platform, but restrict signups to the point where nobody with access has any contacts on the service

2. keep it locked down until the buzz/hype is all gone

3. open it up to everyone and let them wonder why there was any buzz/hype in the first place

If they dont let early adopters use the platform and give the crucial early feedback, they might as well throw in the towel now.

You're obviously a windows user (and a flash "developer"), because for people on every other platform it's flash that chews up 80%CPU time and runs dog slow. Maybe if adobe hadnt give every other platform such shitty implementations, there mightn't be so many people working towards killing it.

It sounds like a bunch of people who havent experienced the difference first hand, trying to convince themselves that they dont care.

Back in first year uni, when I felt like everything I was supposed to be learning was a bit of a walk in the park I'd program in my free time a whole lot. later in uni when I was swamped with engineering maths and compulsory management subjects I didnt program in my spare time at all (I suck at analog maths and ROTE learning so it sapped my enthusiasm to do anything in general).

when I finished uni and got my first job, I was back in the position of being given boring menial tasks and I programmed in my spare time for fun again. I left that job for something a lot more interesting and was quickly given enough responsibility that at the end of the day I didnt feel like programming so I didnt. After a few years there I'm on top of things at work again and I'm back to coding for fun in my spare time again.

I dont think that not coding in your spare time is a sign that you're a bad developer; it's more a sign that you're getting enough mental stimulation elsewhere. That said, I think if you've never coded for fun it's possibly a sign you're in the wrong career. You should love what you do enough that you'd do it even if you weren't being paid to do it; not necessarily the exact same work, but at least the same domain. No point spending 1/3rd of your waking life doing something you dont enjoy

diaspora came out with a bang? heck? is it even out? if it is, it's "coming out" was more like a wimper

did you ever stop to think what positive impact the deletion of these articles actually makes? I cant come up with any positive contribution you're making, but I can see that if I saw one of these languages mentioned somewhere (hacker news for instance), you've now ensured I have one less place that I can go to to find out about them.

you're a drain on wikipedia, a source of negative knowledge.