mechazoidal

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

Don't forget about Caché Intersystems, who provide a "modern object-oriented" MUMPS implementation. Complete with SQL emulation and a web template language that's almost a direct lift of ColdFusion(down to needing Dreamweaver to edit files stored inside the DB).

mechazoidal

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

Replace 'client that users install' with 'prebuilt targets for all major mobile+desktop platforms', and you've got Zipline's Moai: http://getmoai.com/

mechazoidal

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

Don't forget Ripl, either: https://github.com/cldwalker/ripl

mechazoidal

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

It's not even a reactor as I understand it--it's basically just a sealed neutron source and couldn't go critical.

It's not terribly surprising that they'd have something like that though. Kodak's Rochester plant was basically the chemical version of Hanford Site--lots of government work, little public oversight. My grandfather and several uncles worked there, and all received comprehensive life insurance as a standard benefit.

mechazoidal

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

As jodrellblank says, it's been possible to do this for a long time:

Inferno IE4 plugin: http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/plugin/index.html

Lively Kernel: http://www.lively-kernel.org/

mechazoidal

vor 14 Jahrendiscuss

Confirmed: Nexus S, 4.0.4, and it looks fine: http://imgur.com/N2cLn

mechazoidal

vor 15 Jahrendiscuss

Unless you're on a platform where you can't get gcc >4.0, so RVM is helpless, and you're stuck with just bundler. Then the rake/cron nightmares come..

mechazoidal

vor 15 Jahrendiscuss

SourceTree is a desktop client for DVCSs in general, not a webapp, so I'm not sure of the comparison. It's a pretty sweet piece of kit regardless.

It's also a side-project of Steve Streeting, the founder of OGRE3D: http://www.ogre3d.org/about/team

mechazoidal

vor 15 Jahrendiscuss

If you could get people to write a bunch of temporal expressions(http://martinfowler.com/eaaDev/timeNarrative.html) for the most standard parking signs, you could then start working something out. Right now you can figure out that sign's schedule with Runt, but it's a bit ugly: https://gist.github.com/1199082

mechazoidal

vor 15 Jahrendiscuss

The other post linked from this entry notes that this is based on Dan Kaminsky's DNSSEC presentation. Dan has a pretty interesting line of articles describing doing this kind of stuff in DNSSEC starting here: http://dankaminsky.com/2010/12/13/dnssec-ch1/

mechazoidal

vor 15 Jahrendiscuss

I definitely agree that entrepreneurs are going to take the plunge or not. I'm focused on the support network / employee angle, and harkening back to daveschappell's point that the circles don't really connect. There are communities, yes, but no sense of overall community that you can get a starting point in. It seemed like tribes all the way down: ex-[Amazon | MS | Google], UW clubs, etc. And if you didn't know where to begin, there wasn't an easy way to find someone to ask.

Case in point: if I'd known there were more startups looking for talent, I probably wouldn't have moved out to the eastern part of the state in 2007. At the time, my options after burnout+dismissal seemed to be 'work for another large company'(which I'm still wary of), 'pursue your own idea on your lonesome'(which I didn't have any of at the time) or 'don't work at all'.

(My best classes at WSU were with Hagemeister, Wang(CS460 FTW), and Biker Bob. Contributing to my slight-insecurity as a dev, I was also part of the Benson class that petitioned to have him removed: for tossing us a description of car/cdr and expecting us to build a complete Lisp in SML)

mechazoidal

vor 15 Jahrendiscuss

But do you invite other people, or have some way of introducing others to it? That's kind of what I'm getting at: regardless of the activity, there's a social disconnect for getting people involved if they're not already in a circle of friends--and the few circles I was in didn't intersect at all.

It's not necessarily an insurmountable gap but it's enough to intimidate most people who aren't already outgoing, or who are accustomed to a friendlier town.

I grew up in Redmond, went to college at WSU, and moved into Seattle in 2002. For the longest time after that, when walking into a bar or show, I had to keep persuading myself that people were not going to point and scream at me like Donald Sutherland in the 70's Body Snatchers movie.

mechazoidal

vor 15 Jahrendiscuss

Possibly the Seattle Freeze? http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/pacificnw/2005/0213/cover.h...

In the 5 years after college that I lived in the city proper, the only tech group I managed to hang around was Seattle.RB, and only a few meeting at that.

mechazoidal

vor 15 Jahrendiscuss

Did you work at the same place I do now(small-town paper in the Pacific NW)? Being the sole developer there, I can absolutely confirm this. And since I was hired to write the website CMS, most of my days resemble the assembly line segment from Chaplin's Modern Times.

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