Subject: Chat with Andrew Stein
From: Andrew Stein <steinlink@gmail.com>
To: barriticus@gmail.com

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?