Soy, Pipe observations

From	RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>
Newsgroups	comp.misc
Subject	Soy, Pipe observations
Date	2014-03-31 16:26 +0000
Message-ID	<20140331162635.636bc954.rsw@therandymon.com> (permalink)

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Interesting evolution and gradual improvement of both sites that spun
out of the Slashcott.

Over at Soylent, they're continuing to try to figure out how to make
the site run.  There's a "mission statement" of sorts posted 7 March by
a user named Weeds, who seems to be well-versed in what 'management' is
thinking.  http://soylentnews.org/~weeds/journal/  Here's a clip:

//----begin clip
Friday March 07, 14: Mid course correction
12:04 PM Soylent Vision, et al
We went at this backwards. We went after the technology first and then
defining the purpose second. Our attitude has been, "Get the technology
going and then we will figure out how to be managers and exactly what
we are trying to do." Hire a bunch of machinists, give them some
drawings, raw materials, and machinery and start making stuff. Worry
about how to run it, how to fund it, etc. later.

Step one, define our vision, mission province, and charter. If we had
had this from the start, things might not have gone the way they have.
STOP THE TRAIN and do this NOW!
//----end clip

Meanwhile, over at Pipedot, Bryan has enabled selected Unicode, and is
sponsoring a contest with a $300 prize to design a logo.  More here:
http://pipedot.org/story/2014-03-31/logo-contest-and-other-updates
There's also this from a week earlier:
http://pipedot.org/story/2014-03-24/pipedot-status-update

Soylent has the bigger crowd at the moment: articles typically get
10-50 comments, while Pipedot articles usually get fewer than ten.
There's some overlap in articles between the sites (and some overlap
with comp.misc too, of course) which is partially helpful and partially
hurtful and partially unimportant.  It will sort itself out, probably.

One interesting comparison in my opinion is that while Pipedot started
from scratch and is adding features, it's heading quickly to feature
parity and is already more usable than Slashcode in interesting ways,
and it seems to be a cleaner codebase that will permit lots of
experimentation.  The Soybeans have got Slashcode up and running, but I
haven't seen any changes to the site since it came to be.  I think
they're working on load balancing and the like.  On the other hand, I
like Slashcode, so no complaints.

I'm still hitting Hacker News pretty frequently, which has a huge
community and a lot of interesting articles.  But it seems particularly
prone to coder/entrepreneur wankfest articles like "Why I built my
responsibe web app using node.js and not X" which turn out to just be
personal blog rants with a relatively unscientific feel to them.  On
the other hand, it seems the nerdiest news for nerds site out there at
present. 

It's a wealth of riches at the moment.

-- 
RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com>

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Soy, Pipe observations RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-31 16:26 +0000
  Re: Soy, Pipe, HN observations RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-31 16:47 +0000
  Re: Soy, Pipe observations wjwlsn <ibillwilson@gmail.com> - 2014-03-31 16:58 +0000
    Re: Soy, Pipe observations RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-03-31 17:12 +0000
  Re: Soy, Pipe observations "tdk" <forum.tdk@squte.com> - 2014-04-02 15:42 -0600
    Re: Soy, Pipe observations RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-04-03 14:05 +0000

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