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> The next step in open and free software will be making coding, forking and deploying apps as easy as editing Wikipedia. Github?
Even better: Github + Heroku Button (or similar but more open) https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2014/8/7/heroku-button
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> While IFTTT’s dream is for all companies to play nicely together via its open platform... A closed-source integration service is not an open platform, and this is especially relevant when it is an integration platform. I am betting (and building something towards the same ends) on more people embracing and promoting open alternatives than at any time before. IFTTT's market is huge. There are millions of programmers…
You mean the programmers with healthy work-life balance that have better things to do than waste their free time staring at a text editor? The implication that these "other programmers" are inferior in some way and require IFTTT to integrate services is quite offensive to me.
> While IFTTT’s dream is for all companies to play nicely together via its open platform... A closed-source integration service is not an open platform, and this is especially relevant when it is an integration platform. I am betting (and building something towards the same ends) on more people embracing and promoting open alternatives than at any time before. IFTTT's market is huge. There are millions of programmers…
Google Now integration
Answer whether I need an umbrella today (will have to know where I work, when I go to work, lunch, home.)
Currently I can only build an alert on whether it'll rain tomorrow. I end up having to check Google Now, and sliding across the hours of the day to make a judgment about whether it's worth it or not to bring an umbrella.
> While IFTTT’s dream is for all companies to play nicely together via its open platform... A closed-source integration service is not an open platform, and this is especially relevant when it is an integration platform. I am betting (and building something towards the same ends) on more people embracing and promoting open alternatives than at any time before. IFTTT's market is huge. There are millions of programmers…
> The next step in open and free software will be making coding, forking and deploying apps as easy as editing Wikipedia. Github?
I believe that Github is exactly what the OP is complaining about.
> While IFTTT’s dream is for all companies to play nicely together via its open platform... A closed-source integration service is not an open platform, and this is especially relevant when it is an integration platform. I am betting (and building something towards the same ends) on more people embracing and promoting open alternatives than at any time before. IFTTT's market is huge. There are millions of programmers…
> There are millions of programmers around the world who'll never write any code outside work, and they vastly outnumber the rest of us. You mean the programmers with healthy work-life balance that have better things to do than waste their free time staring at a text editor? The implication that these "other programmers" are inferior in some way and require IFTTT to integrate services is quite offensive to me.
I would prefer to hire someone who has work/life balance and codes for fun on their own time over someone who's strictly a 9-5 developer.
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> There are millions of programmers around the world who'll never write any code outside work, and they vastly outnumber the rest of us. You mean the programmers with healthy work-life balance that have better things to do than waste their free time staring at a text editor? The implication that these "other programmers" are inferior in some way and require IFTTT to integrate services is quite offensive to me.
"Inferior" is a strong word, but coders who are not given time at work to improve their skills (this is usually the case) and who never code/read about coding outside of work stagnate. I've interviewed many people like this - decades of experience, impressive sounding resume - who couldn't do fizzBuzz. I would prefer to hire someone who has work/life balance and codes for fun on their own time over someone who's stri…