Comments on: minimalism

By: Maybe not so much with the "optimization" | Igniting Startups - nPost

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:18:49 +0000

[...] at this incredible display of affection IHumanable has for his computer: This is one of the reasons I love my new iMac, it’s just a beautiful magic floating screen [...]

By: Maybe not so much with the "optimization" : Credit Debt Banking News | CDBN

Mon, 05 Apr 2010 20:36:05 +0000

[...] during this implausible arrangement of adore IHumanable has for his computer: This is a single of a reasons you adore my brand new iMac, it’s usually a pleasing sorcery [...]

By: erica

erica — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:16:09 +0000

The same window-producing code in REBOL:

view/new layout [label "Hello, world!"]

(Requires the 800K (not M) rebol script interpreter to make it work).

Now, that is simplicity!

By: goals | ihumanable

goals | ihumanable — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 17:08:37 +0000

[...] yesterday’s article you may have noticed that I ragged on Disqus as being bloated and ugly. Daniel Ha from Disqus was nice enough to drop a comment on that post and we had a very pleasant email [...]

By: mh

mh — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 16:02:07 +0000

A bonsai is maintained with a careful eye, but no one would dare to make the claim it is not minimalist.

By: Michael Laccetti

Michael Laccetti — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:08:02 +0000

Regarding your win32 API vs. Qt example – isn’t that an apples to oranges comparison? win32 programming has been deprecated for years now, by things like MFC (shudder) and .NET – you could easily build a UI with a smaller, easier to read block of code if you really wanted to.

By: Daniel Ha

Daniel Ha — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:50:55 +0000

Hey, it’s Daniel from Disqus. I feel you on keeping things balanced between feature-ful and bloated.

So, just wondering, what would be the major things you’d like from Disqus, or any comment system, if you didn’t feel they were bloated?

By: ihumanable

ihumanable — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:59:15 +0000

I would like to clear up a misconception, I am not against fixing bugs, this is why I didn’t mention anything about it. Atwood’s desire to fix bugs is fine by me. The thing is that fixing bugs does not require a 5 year long open source effort, it requires a couple of patches.

When Atwood says that there should be an open source effort to move forward and mature Markdown, it would start with bugfixes but no way is it going to end with them.

By: Scott Watermasysk

Scott Watermasysk — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:53:17 +0000

I am somewhat in the middle on the Markdown topic.

However, I do think your assertions are a bit off.

There is a big difference in fixing bugs and adding features. Most of what Atwood is asking for is to address the bugs and usability issues.

Look at your Apple remote example. That was not the first version of the Apple remote. Sure the first one worked, but it had some inherent usability problems which were addressed in later versions.

Of course, unlike Apple, Gruber isn’t selling anything which is why I am kind of in the middle. I love Markdown and would love to see it blossom, so I am in the end very biased towards progress.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:47:44 +0000

Perhaps Atwood does want a lot of new features to be added, but he plainly lists some obvious issues that should be fixed. The idea that you think fixing bugs equates to making Markdown fat and bloated is foolish too.