The Web of Alexandria

Re:The Web of Alexandria by endergen on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @08:07AM (#9610740)

I'm starting to feel like Bret spends more time saying what's wrong with things than providing solutions. I'm a huge fan, but just saying, hoping to see him ship something representing his ideas.

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Re:The Web of Alexandria by widdershins on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @10:18AM (#9611473)

I don't think that's entirely fair. It's true he hasn't shipped any finished products, but he's shown concrete examples that have inspired a lot of people to do better. One example that comes to mind - livecoding using C++ JIT [1]. The creator of this cited Brett's work as a prime inspiration.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imkVkRg-geI

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Re:The Web of Alexandria by sitkack on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @10:54AM (#9611777)

Why?

Bret ships ideas. To reify them would provide artifacts for others to obsess over.

Bret ships memes.

You ship the implementation.

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Re:The Web of Alexandria by andrewflnr on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @10:48AM (#9611729)

So he's been a normal blogger lately, rather than the developer of inspiring software we've come to expect from him? Give the man a break. :)

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