You are insane! But in a good way. Keep up the good work

On Tuesday, September 11, 2012 5:44:18 PM UTC-4, Dennis Kane wrote:
>
> In my opinion, there *still* aren't any "web apps" around, hahaha :)  When 
> I think about an "app", it's gotta look and feel just like a desktop thing. 
>  Yeah, my project is real small right now, but I'm about to put something 
> up that's pretty mindblowing.  It's a kind of realtime, distributed 
> community programming thing.  I want it to be a combination of 
> stackoverflow + github  on steroids.  You'll be able to dynamically update 
> the Javascript that runs the site.  Working code can now be deployed from 
> my local console text editor to the remote clients in a small fraction of a 
> second.  It's all pretty hairy at the moment, but I should be able to 
> smooth things out real nice in the next few days.  I'm really investigating 
> the possibility of an entirely new paradigm of programming...  I must just 
> go nuts in the process, though :P!!
>
> On Monday, September 10, 2012 4:47:43 AM UTC-4, Daniel Sousa wrote:
>>
>> eyeOS used to be great on the 1.x versions, but in 2009 the eyOS Team 
>> abandoned the 1.x series and started developing eyeOS 2.0 almost secretly 
>> and since then eyeOS has been more a commercial software than an open 
>> source project. Currently their website doesn't even mention there's an 
>> open source project.
>>
>> Lucid 2.0 was supposed to be developed on node.js, but there was 
>> basically just one person around it and he hasn't worked on it for a long 
>> time.
>>
>> These desktops were a great idea 5 years ago when there weren't any web 
>> apps and the word "cloud" wasn't even used, now these small projects would 
>> have a hard time competing with Google Docs et al.
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Dennis Kane <dka...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Well, the necessary technology didn't really exist years ago.  I rely 
>>> very heavily on node/socket.io/websockets for the server side and 
>>> Chrome's constantly developing API in the client.  Trying to implement my 
>>> current site with older JS engines and HTTP servers along with AJAX would 
>>> be next to impossible.  So I'm pretty excited about what I'm doing... the 
>>> GUI is pretty intuitive and the websocket connection is lightening quick!
>>>
>>>
>>> On Friday, September 7, 2012 9:35:53 AM UTC-4, Karl Tiedt wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, Lucid started years ago now, and it was very active, not sure 
>>>> what happened with it, but it was pretty amazing at what it did for 
>>>> its time.. If nothing else, it may be good for some ideas, I didnt 
>>>> realize it has fell by the wayside :/ 
>>>>
>>>> -Karl Tiedt 
>>>>
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