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snap-lorning11:16
rick_h_morning11:17
rick_h_ugh11:17
snap-lThat good, eh?11:53
jjessehappy tuesday13:08
rick_h_yea, that good13:19
snap-lrick_h_: Sorry to hear that. Anything we can do to help out?13:34
rick_h_snap-l: naw, boy got up too early and starting to come down with something so just ugh13:50
snap-lOh, no fun13:50
snap-lHope he feels better soon13:50
rick_h_https://github.com/mitechie/Bookie/pull/191 is freaking cool though :)13:50
rick_h_going to be a busy CHC tomorrow13:51
snap-lrick_h_: That is awesome. :)14:10
jrwrenhttps://github.com/yaronn/wcf.js  <--- lame14:14
rick_h_jrwren: yea, that's just crazy crap14:15
jrwrenits fail on so many levels it makes me sad.14:15
rick_h_but hey, someone needed enough to spend the time writing it14:15
rick_h_I don't have to touch it14:15
jrwrenbut not just sad, angry and upset that this is the state of our industry.14:15
jrwrenits very disappointing14:15
rick_h_:(14:16
jrwrenmaybe i've been living in rainbow and unicorn land for long enough now that I forgot how dumb the world is :)14:17
snap-lUgh, why?14:17
jrwreni'm not sure. I expect more from people I suppose.14:18
snap-ljrwren: It's probably one of these "we haave to support X" things14:19
rick_h_someone working in a MS shop wants to write what he sees the cool HN kids are using :P14:19
rick_h_"It'll be super fast"14:19
jrwrenno no, MS is pushing node.js HARD.14:19
snap-lI'm sure nobody wakes up in the morning and says "y'know what the world needs? WCF in js"14:19
rick_h_jrwren: yea, they did a ton of work with those guys to get it running on windows14:19
jrwrenno no, i'm even OK with taht.14:19
jrwrenwhat bugs me is the person who wrote it is ignorant of soap and not using xml concat.14:20
jrwrenWCF as he wrote it is just MS's soap library.14:20
jrwrenit would be like writing a basic node.js module to talk to apache axis, using only the basics of soap, but being so ignorant of what you are doing that you call it node axis instead of node soap.14:20
rick_h_the article is kind of whatever, but this graph is freaking amazing from the github perspective: http://jakevdp.github.com/figures/author_count.png15:21
rick_h_and this is interesting with the MS store http://goo.gl/RKAOB15:24
rick_h_heh, for snap-l https://twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/25822760492505497615:28
brouschLinux and Android will be the only places where you can install and run the software you want15:34
jcastro_I am glad they're locking it down15:35
jrwrenmore opportunity for someone to take over with freedom15:36
jcastro_actually I was thinking from a quality perspective15:37
jcastro_have you ever seen a laptop from best buy? It's garbage15:37
jcastro_they install all this junk15:37
brouschNow they can make all the junk non-uninstallable15:38
brouschLike apps that come on non-rooted phones15:38
jrwrentrue, crapware is shit.15:38
jrwreni don't see this as solving that.15:38
jrwrendesktop mode can still have endless crapware15:38
rick_h_if you think this is going to stop crapware...well think again15:38
rick_h_they'll just do something like verizon did with their own android app store at first so they could load their android phones with crap15:39
rick_h_grrrr...bigger screens same dippy resolution http://techcrunch.com/2012/10/16/study-average-display-size-climbing-on-all-devices-except-for-mobile-pcs/15:43
rick_h_and with that I'm done with RSS catch up time between code reviews ...15:43
brouschI moved up from 14" 1440x800 to 14" 1600x900 with this laptop15:52
snap-lbrousch: Dear God, Lotus 1-2-3 R5?15:53
snap-lrick_h_: Thanks for that. :) (re: Excel)15:53
brouschyessir15:54
brouschAnd the only thing I have found that can read it, other than itself, is Ms Excel15:54
snap-ljcastro_: They'll just bake in the crap-ware like my phone15:54
brouschSo I have an Excel spreadsheet that links into Lotus, then I can get info out of the Excel spreadsheet into Access15:54
snap-lso they'll have some form of OS spin that adds the shit back15:54
snap-lbrousch: You just hurt my head.15:55
jcastro_snap-l: yeah but MS can control that15:55
jcastro_it's just they preferred the money to the user experience in the past15:55
jcastro_and now people hate that15:55
rick_h_man I hate computers for normal people16:02
rick_h_FIL gets a virus, best buy says $400 to clean it up, jsut spend $600 for a new computer16:02
snap-ljcastro_: And i don't trust Microsoft to keep it that way. They've capitulated in the past to follow the $$16:02
rick_h_gets a new computer (because he has a freaking virus) and it won't get on the wifi16:02
rick_h_best buy says it's a crappy acer, just take it back and get a different computer16:02
rick_h_now he's two new computers in, comcast can't get his 'email working' on the new one and all because he got a dippy virus!!!16:03
* rick_h_ must stay out of it...don't want to drive down there ... ugh16:03
jcastro_wow, he's using comcast email? nice!16:03
rick_h_there's what people hate, forget just some crapware on their pcs, they don't know anything about it tbh16:03
snap-lOr my BIL's wife who hosed up her machine with some dippy coupon program16:04
rick_h_yea, the old 'I can't change my email address because everyone has this one' thing16:04
rick_h_normal people + computers suck16:04
jcastro_hook him up with gmail with the pop slurping16:04
jcastro_oh hey16:04
jcastro_https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/cloudserver-r-framework-charms16:04
jcastro_can you try to supercede this BP?16:05
jcastro_it oopses for me16:05
rick_h_hmm, no option to for me16:05
rick_h_I'm not almighty in LP, have to hit up ops16:05
jrwrenrick_h_: msft's app store is more like apples, not like android. You can't make your own store. So crapware is unlikely in the "Modern" winrt environment.16:27
snap-ljrwren: I'll believe it when I see it16:33
snap-l If MS was really concerned with overall quality, they might have reigned in some of their OEM licenses16:34
jjessethe surface RT will proablly have bloatware preinstalled but i think the store itself will be cleaner16:35
snap-lThis feels more like the Nintendo "Official Seal" methodology as opposed to the Atari 2600 crap-fest16:35
snap-lWhich was sold as some form of platform quality control, but was really about getting Nintendo a cut of every sale16:36
snap-land allowing them censorship capabilities16:37
snap-lGuarantee the moment Cygwin doesn't get approved is the moment when RMS writes a giant "I WAS RIGHT" blogpost16:38
snap-lAnd where Apple would get a quality pass because of their past idiosyncracies with the iPhone store and "overall platform hegenomy", Microsoft will get no such comfort.16:40
snap-ls/hegenomy/hegemony/16:41
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* snap-l wonders what $.32 book I'll buy on my Kobo17:00
greg-grick_h_: congrats on the pull request for bookie rss support :)17:35
rick_h_greg-g: yea, will have to clean it up some but nice to get a good pull request on there17:36
rick_h_especially since I've been a lazy butt on it lately17:36
rick_h_though to be fair I asked about RSS support and I got that no one was really interested in it :P17:36
greg-gheh17:51
jrwrenjjesse: how could surface rt possibly have bloatware?18:01
jjesseMS installs it?18:01
jrwrenah, that is likely18:02
jjessewhy does my phone have bloatware like Golf that i can't uninstall18:02
jrwrenthat is usually the carrier, not google, AFAIK18:02
greg-gright18:04
jcastro_my carrier installs nothing on my phone. :)18:14
brouschWho is your carier?18:15
jcastro_tmo18:16
jcastro_I am being coy though18:16
jcastro_I bring my own device18:16
jcastro_I am sure they ruin the phones they sell directly18:16
greg-gfor jrwren https://plus.google.com/photos/103629448373144540352/albums/5799986305683711425/579998630996038957019:50
jcastro_hah19:51
greg-g:)19:53
brouschDo you get that a lot greg-g?19:53
greg-gbrousch: all the time19:53
snap-lhah19:57
snap-lbrousch: If we had the release party on Saturday, would you be able to make it?19:58
snap-ljcastro_: Same question.19:58
jcastro_I have a commitment at 3pm19:59
jcastro_for about 3 hours or so?19:59
brouschsnap-l: No, I can't do Saturday19:59
snap-ljcastro_: It would be after 6pm20:01
snap-lbrousch: Sunday? :)20:01
brouschUnsure20:01
brouschI'll check20:01
jcastro_snap-l: yeah probably20:04
snap-ljcastro_: OK. So you could make Satrday afer 6pm20:20
jcastro_yeah20:20
brouschsnap-l: I've just signed myself up to give a talk at GRWebDev on Monday. I'm going to have to bug out no matter what the day20:26
snap-lbrousch: Bugger.20:26
snap-lOK, thanks for the update. )20:26
snap-l:)20:26
brouschSorry :(20:35
snap-lNo cookie20:35
brouschI'm hoping for a West MI Ubuntu release party in cooperation with the WMLUG as usual20:36
snap-lThat would be cool.20:37
rick_h_jcastro_: bug report on your blog when I shared teh juju gui link20:37
rick_h_"if you're" on the right sidebar20:37
jcastro_whoa!~20:38
jcastro_thanks, fixed. regenerating and deploying20:40
rick_h_heh20:40
brouschI'm so proud of myself. My first bug report on Python http://bugs.python.org/issue1625523:19
Blazeixbrousch++23:25
brouschOh, and we got Fabric running on Android, with a monkeypatch to work around that bug23:26
rick_h_brousch: awesome!23:42
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