FWIW, it's been done multiple times before. http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/30/synacor-ipo-carbyn/
Carbyn was a real startup that had a lot of the features I've seen mentioned here and was very well executed on IMHO, not to mention the upcoming Firefox OS, webOS, and various others in the past. I empathize with your sentiments that you feel you are seeing beyond the curvature of where things are currently headed, but as everyone states here talk is cheap. Familiarize yourself better with your "competitors" and past precedents and outline specifically in what ways you are trailblazing, in what ways you are iterating, and in what ways you are doing things exactly the same way because they worked well for others and you'll find others tuning out a lot less. You've been pretty long-winded here. Strive for brevity and conciseness to be more effective. I wanted to experience the story and vision you are painting, but stopped far short as I lost interest, and I am someone that *wanted* to go along. Also, I completely disagree with your political views, but not your passion and goals with this project. Injecting politics into software isn't new, but I think you're going to make more enemies than allies when you do so. In other words, political zealotry is cheap too. Bringing people together is the real hard work. Best of luck and keep working toward your vision! Cheers, Adam Crabtree On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Mark Hahn <m...@hahnca.com> wrote: > > 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. > 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 > -- Better a little with righteousness than much gain with injustice. 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