I agree wholeheartedly. I've been using pidgin on all of my computers for the past two years (and I used Gaim intermittently before that) and the developers have seemed totally intransigent on a number of issues. I appreciate the work that they do; they produce a product that I use day in day out. But they seem to have a very negative way of interacting with the userbase at large. For example, they weren't able to just tell people that the developers had no personal interest in video chat (I could convert a lot of friends to pidgin if it had that feature) but inviting others to add the feature, they posted a message ridiculing the feature and leaving the reader with the impression that even if they developed the feature themselves it would never make it into the standard codebase.
Finally, I am one of those people who are swamped by news feeds. Some of the feeds I subscribe to are updated very regularly (the news ones) and I don't need to read everything that appears on them others (personal blogs) are infrequently updated and I want to read everything.
Two things I'd like to see: An offline version; I know it's unlikely to appear (Web 2.0 business model and all that) but I'll never use the online one in the long term.
The ability to upload a bookmarks file filled with rss links. I don't want to have to manually upload all my rss feeds. Also it'd be nice to be able to change the story levels for all of the feeds from the one page (radio buttons and a table?) rather than having to access each feed before setting the story level.
Sounds to me like he's just using his own (made up) linear combination of the answers you give. That is, if you answer yes to question 1 he applies his own weighting to it and sums that with the other questions.
Here's a teaser; some of those telepathic theories involve imparting some kind of imprint onto the object being viewed. I wonder are they using the same instance of the Object, for the chooser and the viewer, in this experiment.
Stupid I know, but I really wish I could do a phd like that:)
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I agree wholeheartedly. I've been using pidgin on all of my computers for the past two years (and I used Gaim intermittently before that) and the developers have seemed totally intransigent on a number of issues. I appreciate the work that they do; they produce a product that I use day in day out. But they seem to have a very negative way of interacting with the userbase at large. For example, they weren't able to just tell people that the developers had no personal interest in video chat (I could convert a lot of friends to pidgin if it had that feature) but inviting others to add the feature, they posted a message ridiculing the feature and leaving the reader with the impression that even if they developed the feature themselves it would never make it into the standard codebase.
It basically is... in the form of the Google pagerank algorithm (instead of editors they use linkers).
Dave.
Finally, I am one of those people who are swamped by news feeds. Some of the feeds I subscribe to are updated very regularly (the news ones) and I don't need to read everything that appears on them others (personal blogs) are infrequently updated and I want to read everything.
Two things I'd like to see:
An offline version; I know it's unlikely to appear (Web 2.0 business model and all that) but I'll never use the online one in the long term.
The ability to upload a bookmarks file filled with rss links. I don't want to have to manually upload all my rss feeds. Also it'd be nice to be able
to change the story levels for all of the feeds from the one page (radio buttons and a table?) rather than having to access each feed before setting the story level.
D.
...is the ejector seat.
Sounds to me like he's just using his own (made up) linear combination of the answers you give. That is, if you answer yes to question 1 he applies his own weighting to it and sums that with the other questions.
Here's a teaser; some of those telepathic theories involve imparting some kind of imprint onto the object being viewed. I wonder are they using the same instance of the Object, for the chooser and the viewer, in this experiment.
:)
Stupid I know, but I really wish I could do a phd like that