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Re: RethinkDigg.com

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Post by ggchappell »

pteromyscus wrote: post #37
mcantelon wrote: post #19

>What they didn’t mention is that we’re rebuilding it from scratch. In six weeks. Famous last words. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

One measly article does not a law constitute. There ARE counter-examples of successful systems re-built from scratch. The rewrite might have killed Netscape, for example, but without the rewrite from scratch not only would have Netscape died but there wouldn't be a Firefox or Mozilla Foundation now. (And I'd argue that it wasn't the rewrite that killed Netscape: the rewrite was necessary. What killed Netscape, and wo…

> It's ironic that this good enough browser was IE6, which we know view as the worst impediment to web progress.

On the contrary, if any browser killed Netscape, then it would seem to be IE5. (Scary, eh?)

Re: RethinkDigg.com

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Post by brk »

jmduke wrote: post #50
blhack wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not just your phone. I have an iPhone and an iPad (well...and another convertable netbook "tablet" thing that has been sitting in a project box for over a year), and I don't really "do" mobile. Mobile news ? Are people that attention deficient?

My favorite time to read news is my commute. I don't get your point.

Me too. Hopefully they will use a font big enough to see while I'm driving.

Re: RethinkDigg.com

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Post by robryan »

jmduke wrote: post #50
blhack wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not just your phone. I have an iPhone and an iPad (well...and another convertable netbook "tablet" thing that has been sitting in a project box for over a year), and I don't really "do" mobile. Mobile news ? Are people that attention deficient?

My favorite time to read news is my commute. I don't get your point.

Yeah, I am not going to waste 30 minutes of commute time staring at the floor or out the window.

Re: RethinkDigg.com

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Post by te_chris »

jmduke wrote: post #50
blhack wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's not just your phone. I have an iPhone and an iPad (well...and another convertable netbook "tablet" thing that has been sitting in a project box for over a year), and I don't really "do" mobile. Mobile news ? Are people that attention deficient?

My favorite time to read news is my commute. I don't get your point.

I bike. Commuting sounds awful.

Re: RethinkDigg.com

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Post by mark_story »

emehrkay wrote: post #68
whatgoodisaroad wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Digg algorithm was much easier to game than Reddit's.

I totally forgot about the big "gaming digg" scene. Damn its been a long time since I've used digg regularly.

Bury bridgades and Pedobear ascii art are parts of digg we've all partially forgotten about I bet.

Re: RethinkDigg.com

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Post by MartinCron »

RandallBrown wrote: post #79
mcantelon wrote: post #19

>What they didn’t mention is that we’re rebuilding it from scratch. In six weeks. Famous last words. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

The project I'm working on now is at a point where it's either spend a HUGE amount of time refactoring and fixing everything or just start over. We can't just continue adding on features with the state the code is in. The question is, which will be faster? Right now, it's written to run on an old OS, with old versions of old languages. We absolutely HAVE to update this stuff as it's just stupid to continue programmin…

My experience says that for real legacy code (deployed and actually used) it is almost always better to slice it up and re-write and deploy sections of it incrementally. Big-bang transitions with a "point of no return" are just so expensive and risky.

Yes, you lose "conceptual integrity" and your UX may be inconsistent in the transitional time, but those are small prices to pay.

Re: RethinkDigg.com

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Post by MichaelApproved »

blhack wrote: post #31
Zarathust wrote: post #5

Am I the only one without a smartphone? I'm still using some old, beaten up Samsung crap which allows me to talk and sms a little. I spend my whole life in front of a computer, I am still always connected. Clearly, they are taking the "mobile" approach, it just doesn't suit me very well

It's not just your phone. I have an iPhone and an iPad (well...and another convertable netbook "tablet" thing that has been sitting in a project box for over a year), and I don't really "do" mobile. Mobile news ? Are people that attention deficient?

Just because people keep up with the news a different way than you do doesnt mean they have A.D.D.
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