2010/1/3 Idan Gazit <[email protected]> > Hey, > > On Jan 3, 2010, at 4:00 PM, Ori Peleg wrote: > > > This is such a bikeshed... > > > > Agree. >
I don't. It's a question of etiquette and while most people don't really care one way or another, some care very deeply. Let's say you invite me to an event and you write on the invitation 'dress code: Black Tie' meaning I'll have to rent a tuxedo. Personally, I won't come, but that's probably OK with you as when you decided on the dress code you knew it will turn some people off. Where it doesn't make sense is if you have an event where you're present the latest fisherman pants from Thailand and you require a black tie. > > Also, if you are a web developer in 2009^H^H10 and you don't yet have > a facebook account, you are unprofessional. > > Many hackers don't develop for the web and some web developers use facebook only for dev - as they don't want to support a closed-garden. > I don't like microsoft products, and yet I use IE every day to test > websites because that is how my audience is likely to see my work. > That's a good example - does it make sense to have the hacker news site work only in IE? > I don't have to like facebook to realize that they set *a lot* of > trends in interface design, user expectations, and yes, technological > feats. To deliberately ignore them is to deliberately ignore an > important part of your trade. > I don't think anyone is saying you should ignore facebook, what the fundamentalist hackers say is that facebook is a closed garden and they, or any other hacker, shouldn't help facebook grow. Although I have a facebook account, I fully understand and support the fundamentalist view that a hacker group should be hosted only in an open garden. It's an integral part of the hacker ideology and while personally we might be forced to make some concession to market forces we should't do it as a group. Benny PS - how about a tshirt - "hosting a hacker group on facebook is like fucking for virginity"? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PyWeb-IL" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/pyweb-il?hl=en.
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