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Regarding your "problem with coding blogs": If it's a good read like Coding Horror, I subscribe to the blog and read it daily. But there are coding blogs I don't subscribe to, that I find when I search for a problem I need solved. Doesn't matter to me that the post is a couple years old ... I'm glad it's there if it solves my problem.
Paging NLP geeks...
Am I the only tech geek who also loves celeb gossip!?!?
she won't be there but this could be rocketboom's most watched episode yet. As for the drama the poor guy was fit to bursting for the chance to tell his side of the story but his family and peers have been holding him back for his own sake. It's been pretty ugly though all the dirty linnen that's been aired so far.
Not for everyone, that's for sure.
Eventually the truth comes out, but blogging is so immediate that by then we will have all moved on.
Why don't you buy Anders Helsjberg and Paul Vick a few drinks, then ask them, "Which is better, C# or VB?" After the nervous laughter and the inevitable diplomatic "it depends" answers, go all serious and sincere and say, "No really. Which is better?"
Just make sure you've taken all the beer bottles and sharp objects off the table beforehand.
A language architect on his third Tanqueray and tonic yelling at you and spitting in your face about the mortal danger to the world posed by dynamic typing: now that's drama. Forget about Brad and Angelina. Forget about Amanda and Andrew. We're talking programming languages here. Do you know how much of the world runs on code? This is high drama. This is serious, world-changing stuff. This is stuff Ibsen would have written plays about, only there were no compilers back then, so he had to stick to infidelity and suicide.
"No drama." Sheesh.
Of course everyone thinks everyone else's drama is stupid. Clearly 82% of Planet Earth right now is focused on the outcome of the World Cup, but all I see is a bunch of sweaty guys trying to kick a ball into a net. Someone explain that to me....
It's not that the web needs a drama filter. Drama just means someone is passionate about something. It needs a filter for stupid drama. The problem is that the definition of "stupid" varies per person.
I like the fact that many news portals let me remove the "Sports" news. Maybe it just needs to be a slightly more granular filter, e.g. "I want to see International News, unless it involves the Middle East." See? Now your International News is 92% less stupid. LOL
But I figure it's gotta be someone's job to care about whether the ball makes it into the net, just as it's gotta be someone's job to care passionately about programming languages, or the situation in the Middle East, or Brad and Angelina. Or Amanda and Andrew.
Speaking of which, I just read some coverage of Andrew Baron's talk at CaseCamp. The blog post on Podonomics was interesting; the author spoke very highly of Andrew, said he "doesn't have an evil bone in him," that Andrew had a "child-like innocence," etc. But there was this quote:
He said that Rocketboom was prepared to move the production team to Los Angeles, but that their newly acquired business partner advised them that due to costs, they should stay put in New York.
Ok, to me that sounds like, yes, Andrew DID promise to move the show to LA, then reneged.
Which would make sense given that Amanda is complaining about having moved out of her apartment in preparation for the move to LA.
Maybe the mysterious "newly acquired business partner" realized, "Oh my God, we have to hire UNION people in LA." Members of SAG can't accept non-union work, and maybe Amanda wanted to join SAG...
So then a summary would be:
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AMANDA: I want to move Rocketboom to LA. I've always wanted to move to LA, ever since I was a little girl. My whole life has been leading up to this move to Los Angeles.
ANDREW: Ok, sounds good.
[Rocketboom starts to make money]
ANDREW: We're actually making money now. I don't know about business, so let's hire someone to run the business.
AMANDA: Ok, sounds good.
[time passes]
[Amanda picks out curtains for new LA apartment]
ANDREW: The Business Manager says it would be too expensive to move to LA. Apparently we would have to, like, hire professionals or something, and that would eat into our liquid assets, or something.
AMANDA: But I already picked out curtains.
ANDREW: Sorry, we can't move.
AMANDA: You don't understand, I already have the curtains for my new LA apartment.
ANDREW: I'm sure they're very nice.
AMANDA: I have to go put up the curtains. In LA.
ANDREW: Those curtains would look great in New York.
AMANDA: You think I'm joking? I'm already packed and halfway out the door. I just dropped off my change-of-address forms. And I'm supposed to audition for a role next week.
ANDREW: You know, that's a shame, because the show is in New York.
AMANDA: You promised. You can't back out of the deal like that.
ANDREW: It sounds like you're saying it's curtains.
AMANDA: Yes, Andrew, it's curtains.
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I intentionally left out the cliched part where Amanda asks how the show can go on without her, she's the STAR, and Andrew says she's just a face, she can be replaced, Rocketboom belongs to HIM, etc. because I mean, come on, it's been DONE, people. Euripedes did this stuff 2500 years ago.
Besides, you have to have some really dramatic music behind that, Wagner, John Williams, something.
Will Andrew continue to take the "high road?" Will his new hostess be accepted by Rocketboom viewers? Will Amanda accept Jason's offer? And what about... Naomi? Tune in next week...
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Kevin
1) Raymond Chen
2) Larry Osterman
3) Daily WTF
All drama-filled. Code-drama.
http://wank.wordpress.com
As far as drama filters -- In a sense it was a joke but in reality it is not. There's far more than drama that I would want filtered. The best aggregator I've used, RSS Searchfox, showed me specific articles from my entire feed library based on my reading preferences. If I don't read drama, they didn't automatically show it to me.
just discovered this blog and I love it.
Why not involve the blogosphere? Run a Rocketboom Idol contest! I just sent the idea to Andrew in an email. You can read the email's contents at
http://snipurl.com/rocketboomidol