> I said much the same as you have here and got a gnarly chastising. I don't remember exactly what you said, or how I chastised you, but I do remember it was the words used, not the message.
I was on a curmudgeon role that day. I chastised someone for calling another user a "tard". I couldn't believe two people came back and defended his usage. And yes, I'm the nice-police. On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Rick Waldron <waldron.r...@gmail.com>wrote: > Funny thing, I said much the same as you have here and got a gnarly > chastising. > > -Rick > > On Monday, October 8, 2012 at 11:37 PM, Joshua Gross wrote: > > Dennis, this is a developer forum. If you want to peddle your software and > aren't willing to show something besides videos, you're in the wrong place. > > Also I'm not going to watch a 15 minute video. You're not selling yourself > very well, I kindly advise you to move on so this stops clogging my inbox :) > > -- Joshua Gross > Christian / SpanDeX / BA Candidate of Computer Science, UW-Madison 2013 > 414-377-1041 / http://www.joshisgross.com > > On Oct 8, 2012, at 7:12 PM, Dennis Kane <dkan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Why do you want the code so bad? It's not like there's any kind of fancy > algorithms at work. There are many many open source windowing packages out > there. It's not exactly rocket science, this. It's all been done many > times before. The only difference is that this one is *my* baby! Besides, > you are welcome to all the code of my desktop prototype on my site at > luvluvluv.info... it's just sitting there on the server for the taking. > > I am mainly using this thing as blackmail to get people to be interested > in being my friend. I want to do some real world community building, and > something like this will go a long way to get a cooperative business up and > running. > > Furthermore... you do realize that asking another programmer to "just show > me your code" is exactly the same as asking a girl to "just show me your > breasts", right? I mean, I have nothing against it in principle, but, my > god... I hardly know ye!!! > > My lastest work includes that rubber-band selection feature as well as > dropping icons directly onto folder icons (with that "open folder" hover > trick). I have also included some basic image file support. > > Latest video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL5r0b7WWvU > > On Friday, October 5, 2012 5:56:26 PM UTC-4, sotonin wrote: > > Code.... post it.... else Zzzz > > On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Dennis Kane <dka...@gmail.com> wrote: > > See the newest features here--> http://www.youtube.** > com/watch?v=pF_2DwueGLM <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pF_2DwueGLM> > > The current version of the program now includes drag and drop > functionality of text files from the native desktop straight into the > browser desktop or (any of the subfolders). The difference between my drag > and drop and all the HTML5 demos that you see on the web is that the > dropped files immediately become icons that are integrated into the program. > > I will soon start working on getting multimedia icons/files working, so > you'll be able to drop those directly in too. Then I will probably do a > very basic kind of image editing demo that will allow you to change > individual pixels or some such nonsense. But I don't want to get bogged > down in the details of any particular application, because I always want to > stay focused on the big picture of creating a totally powerful and > intuitive way to organize our online lives. > > Anyway, I know I am quite a controversial figure here, but there should be > no controversy that this thing is just about ready for prime time. I > really do need to start getting interested people on board who would like > to help me push the web forward. The basic mission statement for the > venture will basically be that the "old web" (HTML4/version 1.0) is dead > and gone. If anyone calls in search of help on their Flintstone era <html> > documents with all of their <a href> and <div> tags laying about, we'll > just point them in an entirely new direction. If they still insist on > doing things the old way, we'll just hang up on them… This thing is all > about the future! > > We can easily develop libraries of high-level interface widgets that > people just need to attach event listeners to. There will be no angle > brackets in sight! <hand><coded><html><markup></** > is></so></last></millenium>! > > Come one, come all, for the thrill of your lives :) > > > On Tuesday, September 25, 2012 7:36:37 PM UTC-4, Dennis Kane wrote: > > I was thinking of just responding to this old > thread<https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/nodejs/bEhSbsm24Y4>, > in which I talk about the browser based Desktop that I've been working on, > but the new thing I've been doing for the past week is so superior that I > thought it deserved a completely new thead. By the way, I know this forum > is all about server side Javascript, but there is not really any serious > place one can go on the web that talks about the client side. Besides, > with socket.io & websockets... I don't really make much of a distinction > between client and server anymore. I just know that there's no reason to > do a document.getElementById() call in node :) > > This new thing is a totally shocking clone of OS X. I knew I was going to > have to start over from the ground up, because my previous code base was so > sh*tty, haha! I have really been concentrating on getting a nice, tight > little API that developers will positively drool over. I don't want to > make this thing publicly available for many reasons... but you can check > out a youtube vid > (http://www.youtube.com/watch?****v=Tq_W19QokXk<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq_W19QokXk>) > that > shows it in action, and I still have my same old crappy prototype online at > http://luvluvluv.info. Well, hopefully this is proof that I am able to > do some cool stuff, and hopefully summa yous will want to start being my > friend now, LOL!!! > > And get this... the current, uncompressed js file size is only 54kb! > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/**node/wiki/Mailing-List-** > Posting-Guidelines<https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to nod...@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nodejs+un...@**googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/**group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en<http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en> > > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. 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