A friend turned me on to Firefly in early '96. I never got much out of the music recommendation stuff, but there was a thriving 'n happening chat scene going on there. The only one I've ever really spent any time on at all before or since. However about mid 96 the Passport came along and with it a whole new Firefly interface that was a big step down in functionality and ease of use. It pretty much put the kabosh on the fun, and people left in droves. You know how often you only have a limited time from the time you find something good till it gets fucked up? Case in point. The Passport itself? Cheap marketing gimmick. I'm sure its evil potential is what's attracted Micros~1.
Amongst the crap this guy spewed was this gem - describing Microsoft software as "fatware". I say if the shoe fits, wear it - it's Microsoft fatware from now on!
The first programming lesson you learn is how to print "Hello World" on the screen five times. The second lesson you learn is how to use a loop to do it in a three lines of code.
And then you learn more and realize the loop is just baggage and makes it slower.
And then you learn more and realize the compiler figured out the loop was static and unrolled it.
How 'bout a website that at the push of a button just blurbs up a brand new randomly generated identity for easy insertion into the sucking jaws of the identity consumers? Complete with working anon email rotisserie fresh off some free service as well as 'What industry are you in' and 'How did you hear about us' bits for the deep diggers. For amusement purposes only, of course.
Won't the creation of an FSF-free Linux (BSD/Linux or Whatever/Linux) automatically create the need to call the current Linux GNU/Linux due to the need to differentiate the two? So they end up actually creating what they were trying to destroy? Oh, boy, fragmentation - what a contribution.
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The "Microsoft Closing Firefly" article completely discounts the pre-Passport Firefly, the one I fondly remember.
A friend turned me on to Firefly in early '96. I never got much out of the music recommendation stuff, but there was a thriving 'n happening chat scene going on there. The only one I've ever really spent any time on at all before or since. However about mid 96 the Passport came along and with it a whole new Firefly interface that was a big step down in functionality and ease of use. It pretty much put the kabosh on the fun, and people left in droves. You know how often you only have a limited time from the time you find something good till it gets fucked up? Case in point. The Passport itself? Cheap marketing gimmick. I'm sure its evil potential is what's attracted Micros~1.
Amongst the crap this guy spewed was this gem - describing Microsoft software as "fatware". I say if the shoe fits, wear it - it's Microsoft fatware from now on!
Tom
How's your fatware today?
And then you learn more and realize the compiler figured out the loop was static and unrolled it.
Program A
Software person 1: does it in 20k lines
Software person 2: does it in 10k lines
Which is likely the better program & programmer?
Tom
"I would have wrote it shorter, but I did not have the time" - gist of a famous quote
How 'bout a website that at the push of a button just blurbs up a brand new randomly generated identity for easy insertion into the sucking jaws of the identity consumers? Complete with working anon email rotisserie fresh off some free service as well as 'What industry are you in' and 'How did you hear about us' bits for the deep diggers. For amusement purposes only, of course.
Zingvee Byewhiler
Won't the creation of an FSF-free Linux (BSD/Linux or Whatever/Linux) automatically create the need to call the current Linux GNU/Linux due to the need to differentiate the two? So they end up actually creating what they were trying to destroy? Oh, boy, fragmentation - what a contribution.
Tom