The Rise of “Worse is Better”
The theory is that a “worse” system, with say 50% of what is wanted, will succed over a “better” because of cost, earlyier release, etc, and fixing the remain 40% will lock people in. Intrestingly Unix and DOS were examples of a “worse” system succeding.
Python.Org Redesign Contest
It has to be ran through Zope2 and be maintianable by Python “champions”. Deadline is Monday, February 21, 2000. It is about time that python.org was Zope-ifed. Hope that all the designs are made avialable for use, even the unselect variety.
“gasmasks.com to file lawsuit against city of Seattle for outlawing the sale and possession of gas masks. President Mark Miclette states, ‘With the FBI warning US citizens about the possibility of biological and chemical terrorism, how dare Seattle not allow it’s citizens to protect themselves! No one has the right to do this. Doesn’t the US Constitution mean anything any longer?'”
Seattle and the state of the occupation
Another Seattle WTO story from a resident.
Favorite Scripting Language Poll Questionaire on Linux.com
My pick was Perl but the results are intresting, PHP has 50%, Perl had 20-25% and Python had 7% (results when checked). I liked seeing Python as high as it was but PHP being over 50% was a shocker. Might have to explore PHP and see why it is soo cool.
NewRules very impressive Manilla site. Not sure what gets me, it is just so striking.
Waiting for Browsers that Parse using the web like newsgroups. Very compelling, a user derived “push” downloading webcontent than parsing and reformating to the user’s preferences.
The First-Cut Manifesto proposing an alternative to XMLing all the text on the internet. Intresting idea that would like to see in a spec.
“Graphite is a script-driven shell, written by mian, of Skinz.Org, eFX and LiteStep fame. That’s kind of what other shells do.. but what Graphite does that’s different, is that it uses standardized scripting langs. You can choose between JScript, or PerlScript. Yes, that’s right, you can customize your Windows desktop environment with Perl. It’s nifty. Go get it right now, find bugs, make themes, be neat.”
[via GeekNews]