Your experience is not atypical, and it's been a struggle to win over ThinkUp contributers who've been around for awhile to the idea of spending time in IRC because of it.
But just like the larger Internet, it all depends on where you go. There's been sort of an IRC revival in development communities and I've found them largely jerk-free.
I would love to give it another chance then. My biggest regret about how things went down is that I missed a lot of the cool, web-based stuff that was going on all these years (I was 15 back in 2000/2001). I was interested in the web, but I was learning more generalized C++, Java, and working with computer animation tools.
I missed that, that is pretty awesome. I'm not a fan of figs, but the significant other and friends are. For me, losing an old tree due to not knowing it's proper care was the bit of a downer.
On a tangential note, if you think The Story of O is about an abusive relationship, I'd say you haven't read the book or watched the movie: (i) O willingly enters the relationship (ordeal may be a better word here) and (ii) it's not your usual S&M or Belle de Jour story either, because she also gains power over her lover, e.g. see the last scene in the movie.
So, the analogy may be more apt than the crude master-slave relationship that people have commented here: many companies willingly choose Oracle, knowing full well its tactics and that they will be locked in.
Bluntly, I assume he's implying it's an appropriate parallel to the relationship between Oracle and its customers, as described in the post. (I may be reading into it too much.)
Interesting - I first thought of The Wonderful O [1], a children's novel. A wholly different kind of evil there -- the villain would certainly also hate Open sOurce sOftware!
Not truly machine-independent. How can you run x86 code on an ARM architecture, and vice-versa? Although if they do have this feature in Chromium it could make a huge difference in performance of web apps.
There is no reason for someone who has read your first book to buy the Guide, correct? This is a reduced and reformatted field guide that contains no information that isn't in the larger Git book?
(I'm almost finished reading your first book and as someone who is very capable with Subversion it has helped me tremendously with grokking Git. Thanks!)
Well, I might be biased, but I think there's a place for both books on a bookshelf. :-)
The first book is aimed at getting your started down Git with little or no previous knowledge, the second book serves the same purpose assuming you have a basic grasp of VCS, but it serves a dual role as a reference.
Check out some of the excerpts that are available on the book's site to get an idea for what it looks like. The idea is that it gives you a quick reference when you're trying to remember how to do a particular task.
I've been pondering how to solve this too. Bought a domain for it recently but haven't decided what form it should take.
The CRM angle is one I hadn't thought of, though it's kind of an obvious leap (in hindsight of course). I've been thinking more of a CMS plus address book.
"Worse, how many of us keep tabs open as reminders of something we want to do or read later?"
Indeed I do. One of these days I'll get around to adding an extension that allows me to queue links without opening them in tabs.
Anyway, I don't understand why Tab Candy is an improvement over simple window management. Since the introduction of tabs, I've grouped tabs by purpose into separate windows, and rather assumed that's how everyone did it. Especially now that you can easily drag tabs from one browser window to another, it's effortless. No new GUI to learn, to expensive extension to install.
I definitely understand the windowing you do.
I, on the other hand, despise multiple windows for firefox. It's hate learned from IE I suppose.
In my case, I use TreeStyle Tabs. The tree function is vital to working.
I think Tab Candy can combine these two concepts somewhat effectively, however, Mozilla should focus on speed, reliability, and accessibility.
It's much more difficult to appease the average browser with hard facts compared to pretty videos and features, I suppose.
> Mozilla should focus on speed, reliability, and accessibility.
You'll be happy to know that our Firefox 4 Vision document contains several pages of plans for speed and stability and usability, and just one line about Tab Candy:
I think Tab Candy can combine these two concepts somewhat effectively, however, Mozilla should focus on speed, reliability, and accessibility. It's much more difficult to appease the average browser with hard facts compared to pretty videos and features, I suppose.
Thats just not what Aza Raskin is working on..
And no, I'm not one of the guys who has switched to chrome for performnace.. Damn I'am.
Uh, I massively dislike working with a fat bunch of windows. How can the title of one Firefox window as tab group can be as expressive as a group of tabs you've persisted in Tab Candy with your own label?
Indeed I do. One of these days I'll get around to adding an extension that allows me to queue links without opening them in tabs.
Among other context splitting, I make regular use of virtual desktops. So there are rarely more than one or two browser windows on one desktop, and anything beyond the primary window has a short lifespan.
Read it Later looks perfect; thanks for the tip. Last I bothered to look, I couldn't find a thing.
Springpad makes a great dumptruck-I can throw a bunch of links in it, and than actually organize them, unlike with something like Instapaper. I can also put books, todos, etc in with the bookmarks. No, I dont work for them, just a recent convert.
But just like the larger Internet, it all depends on where you go. There's been sort of an IRC revival in development communities and I've found them largely jerk-free.