So many bright people I know are either out of work or are dissatisfied with their current employment. Wish there was some way I could figure out how to weave all of this talent into something where everyone could be happy and fulfilled. There has to be a way; some sort of cosmic pattern we can use to make things into a quilt of awesome or something.
@craigmaloney @clacke I think one possible answer is worker owned co-operatives.
@clacke @craigmaloney I started reading Wingolog in 2003 or so, back when Advogato used to be a thing...
@clacke @craigmaloney I've forgotten that Slashdot is still a thing! 😳
@clacke @craigmaloney How so? :-)
@craigmaloney @clacke I too was a fan. Used to save Slashdot pages for later reading back when I was on dialup!
I've seen Unknown Lamer lamenting the state of Slashdot in IRC. I guess this is yet another case of an ineptly run corporation coming along and ruining things for everyone.
wiki.c2.com
@clacke @craigmaloney The c2 wiki always confused me. I never figured out how to actually use the wisdom shared therein in m day-to-day programming labor.
I'm sure many of the things I do day-to-day are shaped by how c2 shaped me, it very likely even influenced what courses I took. 2000-2006 were very formative years. To this day when I reason with people I sometimes throw them a c2 link for reference, and people still learn new concepts from it.
Liskov, Demeter, cohesion and coupling ... I may have learned Ruby based on a fascination for Smalltalk gained just by reading c2.
@clacke @craigmaloney Well, not being able to make use of c2 wiki is entirely my own fault. I know I'm missing *something* whenever I visit c2 wiki: self-discipline, perhaps.
@clacke @craigmaloney I just found the redesigned c2 wiki at http://c2.fed.wiki.org. This way of navigation makes things a lot better for me.
I think the UI of the fedwiki is still pretty confusing. c2 made a lot of sense to me.
I'm starting to get the hang of the UI and even like it. I should put up a fedwiki node so I can edit my own user page.
Me too. I like the concept of fedwiki (federation of wiki content), but I still don't like the UI. The main reason I haven't set up a node is that I don't want to host something I barely understand (Node.js) on the public Internet.
Example:
I want to find the page for the Blub Paradox, whatever node it ended up on.
ddg.gg/?q=site:wiki.org+blub-paradox
Alright, looks like it's at it's at an address that pretends to be a static page and redirects to http://don.fed.wiki.org/view/blub-paradox . Fair enough.
Oh hey, there's my name in there. What a remarkable coincidence! Oh no, I wasn't ego surfing at all, why do you ask? I click it. It opens a new tweetdeck column to the right with my user page.
The URL is now http://don.fed.wiki.org/view/blub-paradox/view/claes-wallin . If I go there I see my user page on the right, but the left column is blank. Odd.
There's a permalinky thing that ultimately leads to http://don.fed.wiki.org/view/claes-wallin . Ok, so I guess that's the URL of the page so to speak. But look, there's a later fork of the page that fixed the markup. Click that. Now I'm at http://don.fed.wiki.org/view/claes-wallin/sfw.c2.com/claes-wallin . What's the standalone URL of the right-hand page?
Permalinky goes to http://sfw.c2.com/claes-wallin.html , which redirects to ... http://sfw.c2.com/view/welcome-visitors . Wut.
Did someone on sfw fork the don version and then remove it, but don still has the cached revision?
If I search for "blub" or "claes" on sfw or don, there are no hits.
@sajith @clacke Wow, I was not aware of this. Very cool to see this sort of thing. Wonder how hard it would be to replicate.