Hey, if you’re going to make a trip out of it, when you’re done with the BBQ, head a few blocks south and take in the German bars on Lincoln Ave. There used to be a cool little Karaoke place at Lincoln and Western, too.
I didn't know Textpattern was still around, much less widely used. I'd used it in college to set up my first blog ages ago and it was a great introduction in the then-new notion of 'content management systems'. Is it still a thing? Wordpress seems to be the first, last, and everything in-between in this space now, it seems.
It's funny how these things linger on, quietly being used because they mostly just work and don't cause the people using them any real problems. I think Daring Fireball and Kottke.org both still use Movable Type, which, having just checked on their web site, does definitely still exist and appears to have been quite regularly updated until at least 2014 (the releases for the last few years appear mostly to be bugfixes and security updates). Movable Type was the hot thing in self-hosted blogging circles in the early 2000s and predates WordPress by a good few years.
There's an added mystique around TextPattern because it was initially written by Dean Allen of Textism/Textile/TextDrive fame, and he has subsequently disappeared from the Internet, taking with him his blog, Textile lost to Markdown, and of course TextDrive famously got co-opted by greedy tech douchebags, eventually turning into Joyent and getting acquired by Samsung. So it's quite remarkable that of all Dean Allen's works, TextPattern is the one that keeps on chugging along with its open-source essence intact.
>But what happened to Txp5, with several blog posts years ago? Is that effort dead? Rolled back into 4.x?
My understanding is the big plans for Textpattern 5 were reined in following discussions with the plugin developer base, among others.
There are significant changes within the 4.x releases, but there's currently still a single-jump upgrade path from the earliest releases to the latest. My understanding is that _very_ old versions (early 4.0.x releases) will no longer be supported in this one-step upgrade, but anecdotally a large majority of sites run 4.6.x or 4.5.x, so it's not a huge concern.
Seeing the rise of Noto as other executives and leaders fall away, are removed, or otherwise leave Twitter makes me wonder how much longer Dorsey can hold on to his job, especially after the embarrassment of the failed acquisition talks. It's like watching Game of Thrones, but in real life.
2 - they think they can be the ones to turn it around (what, execs, big egos? unrealistic expectations? complete faith in their self as savior of mankind? surely you jest.)
And of course if (2) falls down and they can't steer the ship, they can leverage their new position (3) and big bags of money (1) to go move somewhere else.
hero/villain claim: So it's a tautology if you interpret it like this: You are currently A. You will die. If you don't die as A, you will die as !A. But it's not a tautology because there's an intermediate state between hero and villain that is neither A nor !A.
cancer claim: Again, it sounds like a tautology, but you aren't considering statistics. Sure, if nothing else kills you, you die of exploding fingernails. But the intent of that expression is to say that cancer is the default, it's not a bullet you can dodge forever. I'm not sure I agree, because "old age" != "cancer", but that's what it means.
Or was your question purely rhetorical? I tried...
In truth, what can happen is exactly the opposite: constant firing of pain signals can end up recruiting _more_ cells to transmit pain, thereby lowering the threshold need to signal pain, and amplifying the effect overall.
The giant gap between the beautiful photos of beautiful people doing enviable things in beautiful places used in demos such as these (and in Apple ones as well) and the mundane, poorly-focused, washed-out, ill-composed photos and meme reposts that are most likely to appear on your FB feed at any given moment always takes the shine off of products such as these for me, despite how much more useful or technologically advanced they may be from their predecessors. Being reminded my life is not going to be as exciting as the floor model is never a good user experience.
Exactly. How terrible will this be when you're not in the mood to socialize or when something discouraging happens in your social life? This has a good use case for 10% of smartphone users maybe 80% of the time.
I'm going to predict that this will turn people off of facebook more than it creates more engagement.
I think there remains a tremendous unfilled space in the computing world for usable "prosumer" programming, in the spirit of Hypercard.
I would argue that such a thing already exists. If you want to do 'easy', low-hanging, easily-prototyped design and development, the kind of experience you had as a kid with Hypercard, you can still do it, and mostly for free: it's the web.
You can't be serious. Web application development is the antithesis of what the OP is talking about, it's a mess.
A hypercard-inspired tool for creating touch applications is going to be disruptive, and is going to happen. It's a glaring gap left open by Apple. In fact, this is the reason I am personally hesitant to start working on one, it's so glaring that I would be surprised if Apple hasn't been working on one that will be released when it's ready.
I couldn't agree more, and it's why I'm so enthusiastic about the web as the lingua fraca of computing. But as Steve might say: "Not good enough yet; make it again." To put it mildly, I think we can do way, way better.
This helps explain Google’s motivation for Android. Google could, of course, just extend their search advertising to mobile phones, Adsense for mobile devices and build mobile versions of their web applications so anyone can use them. That might make for a fine business, but it’d also be a rather weak position to be in compared to where Google is now. Phone makers could change the default search engine on their phones to something other than Google; mobile devices might change how people find information—they might switch away entirely from using a search engine, and in that case, Google would be dead in the water; or, worse, perhaps mobile devices could move people away from using advertising-supported web applications, and toward primarily using paid-for applications; in that case, Google would really be screwed.
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The thing is, Bing is already the default search on many phones, including Android/Droid phones on Verizon, who is ostensibly Google's partner.
Why do you quote this, what is your point? The article's next sentence continues just like your own: "But how are they going to make money from it? All of those things listed above could or are happening-" and goes on to further discussion.
As far as I know, Bing is the default on the Samsung Fascinate (Galaxy S) on Verizon, but not any other Verizon Android phones. And certainly not on the "Droid" series (which is distinct from Verizon's other Android offerings)...
I think even if they came with Bing as their default search engine, most of the users would switch it to Google. I think at least Google is thinking they would. How many of you chose Bing as your default search engine when you installed Google Chrome?
I think some entrepreneurial mind can write articles on changing the default search engine on different phones, since I believe most of the people who doesn't know how to do it, will search how to change default search Samsung Fascinate
cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tl%C3%B6n,_Uqbar,_Orbis_Tertiu...