| 08:15 | <SteveF> | hixie: correction - another AT user has commented |
| 13:30 | <annevk> | I wonder what https://twitter.com/heydonworks/status/465407727800709121 is based on |
| 16:24 | <Hixie> | anyone have any idea what this is referring to? https://twitter.com/heydonworks/status/465526780011360256 |
| 17:37 | <jgraham> | Hixie: I guess you sorted it out now, but I suppose it's the thread starting at http://www.w3.org/mid/CAJFUXE8YvpaQY+paif+1Dv0kYjOBAekPMdGD=6ndBam+D3SB5Q⊙mgc |
| 17:38 | <Hixie> | last year?? |
| 17:42 | <jgraham> | I don't see why not |
| 17:44 | <Hixie> | well, the thread started cos he said we had a "PR problem" |
| 17:44 | <Hixie> | if it's talking about what someone told him privately a year ago, it seems less serious that he made out |
| 17:48 | <jgraham> | Well I think the whole thing is a bit silly |
| 17:49 | <jgraham> | He seems to be annoyed that hsivonen didn't like his idea and be holding that against the whole WHATWG |
| 17:49 | <Hixie> | seems that way |
| 17:50 | <jgraham> | But OTOH, you're trying to have a serious discussion on twitter, so there's pretty much no hope of actually understanding each other |
| 17:51 | <Hixie> | tell me about it |
| 17:51 | <Hixie> | twitter is so annoying to communicate on |
| 17:51 | <boogyman> | s/twitter/<other social network> |
| 17:51 | <zewt> | it's designed on the premise that nothing that takes more than one breath to say is worth saying |
| 17:52 | <Hixie> | boogyman: there's plenty of communication sites where it's way easier to have a serious discussion. e.g. reddit, g+ |
| 17:52 | <zewt> | though it's pretty severely discriminatory--you can say a lot more on it in JP than western languages |
| 17:58 | <Philip`_> | I'm glad the inventors of IRC were clever enough to realise a message could be automatically wrapped onto multiple lines, instead of forcing users to split their messages manually to fit on 80-column screens |
| 17:58 | <zewt> | actually, lots of clients don't do that and just truncate after the fact |
| 18:00 | <Philip`_> | That's after like 512 characters, not 80 |
| 18:00 | <Philip`_> | so it's usually fine as long as you're not writing essays |
| 18:00 | <zewt> | 80? |
| 18:01 | <Ms2ger> | Oh look, it's a Philip`_ |
| 18:30 | <jgraham> | I sort of have a theory that Twitter might be objectively the worst (popular) communication medium ever invented in terms of empathy / abiliy to change people. |
| 18:30 | <jgraham> | 's minds |
| 18:30 | <jgraham> | I don't have any objective way of testing that of course |
| 19:04 | <zewt> | being forced to strip content out of your message and saying only the bare shell of your argument can't help |