Andrew: barty Andrew: oyu there? me: yep Andrew: bugger all Andrew: did you see diaspora? me: yeah Andrew: im a little pissed Andrew: but not intimidated Andrew: those guys are idiots Andrew: they go to nycjs Andrew: they are retards, and their sprints are ludicrously optimistic Andrew: but they made lots of money Andrew: so im pissed me: doesn't matter, because your software will be introduced by way of a superior schematic and with better collateral, and also we're not relegating ourselves to whining about facebook Andrew: no, i dont plan to mention facebook Andrew: regardless Andrew: it sucks to see someone else get credit for an idea we had 10 months ago Andrew: but we actually have code to back it up Andrew: they will enver finish their project Andrew: but theyve probably inspired other good programmers to try me: the important parts are still not yet replicated, we're fine Andrew: their model isnt as fleshed out as mine Andrew: they havent solved search, addressing, platform Andrew: and their 'implementation' specs are laughable Andrew: stuff that tooks me months to write they bill as 2-3 day jobs in their schedule Andrew: http://www.andrewsteinhome.com/ me: they're really not competing with us entirely anyway Andrew: they are exactly competing with us Andrew: thats my exact idea Andrew: down to the wordpress business model and xmpp backend Andrew: like, exactly Andrew: granted, anyone who approached the problem would likely come to similar tech Andrew: but still Andrew: its race time me: well, hurry the fuck up them me: and me: again Andrew: im working on it Andrew: i have a job too, ya know me: this gives you a reason to further identify the core software with our more esoteric goals me: make it about the end result me: not whether it's also XMPP Andrew: rather not - i dont want to politicize the software Andrew: may hamper adoption Andrew: platform first, content second for me Andrew: has to be that way me: it's not being politicized by that association me: this is not perceived as political because it is not me: it is technocratic and has been regarded as such by observers so far me: again me: identify your software as the seed for next-generation collaboration me: and meanwhile I will promote it in conjunction with my various info-theories Andrew: i dont want to promote vaporware Andrew: let me get to a beta Andrew: we're grinding hard Andrew: i found two guys to potentially help, we're meeting up tomorrow to talk about it Andrew: lead dev at the company josh got rejected to Andrew: and another good dev i know from a previous job Andrew: did oyu see that website?