My first claim on Jyte
jyte, programming, ruby June 1st, 2007
The first claim I’ve made on Jyte was inspired by my exercise in learning Ruby on Rails.
http://jyte.com/cl/at-some-point-we-have-to-stop-making-new-programming-languages
Oddly enough, it wasn’t a claim that had a lot of backers. :)
It did though unfold into an interesting discussion in the comments area. That discussion shows two things. First: don’t assume terms which have a specific meaning as well as one or more general meanings can be used “cold” in a discussion. This guy used the very specific terms yield and generator which both have several meanings – even in the programming languages context – other than the exact one he intended to convey. Generator for example is a very specific and well known term in Ruby, but that’s not what he was talking about.
In other words – you need to sync up your glossary before you can have a meaningful discussion. I’ve seen tons of disagreements in technology between people talking face to face that turned out to be a difference in what each person was understanding a specific term in their positions means.
Second: I believe this shows the debating cred is not misplaced.
June 1st, 2007 at 8:37 pm
Interesting debate. That Nic dude was kind of a prick though.
June 4th, 2007 at 2:29 pm
Hi Louis,
Thanks for making a claim on Jyte, have you had a chance to check out Pibb(.com), also from JanRain? Its a pretty neat new way to communicate online, we are hoping for some Jyte integration soon…
June 5th, 2007 at 9:59 am
@John, He’s British if that makes a difference… Sort of like that east coast attitude – plus a few thousand miles?
@Kevin, I don’t really get Pibb at first glance. Is it like IRC 2.0? A channel list could be nice. Ah. Very very searchable. Sort of hard to find active conversations… Interesting.