Comments on: Dave Winer Fires Up a Brick at Yahoo

By: abacab

abacab — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 20:22:01 +0000

Two possible outcomes for Pillai saying something during the presentation: Dave would have verbally abused him later for doing what he basically did to Calacanis last year at Gnomedex, or Dave would have just taken the idea, developed something around it (hey, another cheap script!), and called it his own creation--taking as much credit as possible along the way, of course.

Winer will either stalk you or steal from you. Or, hey, -both-. There's no finer example of human being out there.

By: Bullshit Mancuso

Bullshit Mancuso — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:26:15 +0000

This incident reminds me of Mozilla developer Asa Dotzler panning Dave Winer's presentation at its HQ.

Winer showed up at Dotzler's blog with a snarky response too. Either he can't handle even mild criticism from working coders or he's hoping to whine them into silence.

By: EyeOnWiner

EyeOnWiner — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:51:39 +0000

What's amazing about Dave's comment, is that if Pillai had said that to him during the demo, Dave would've been incensed. Furious. He would've tried to make an example of Pillai.

That's why he doesn't like the comment -- he doesn't get a chance to brow-beat and shout down the author.

By: matt44

matt44 — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:58:25 +0000

Winer’s response is gone. Wonder if he or the photographer deleted his remark.

By: Bullshit Mancuso

Bullshit Mancuso — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:30:29 +0000

FlickrFan is deployed as a set of scripts written in UserTalk that run in the Frontier/Radio/OPML Editor codebase he recycles for each overhyped and underdelivered program he creates.

It's like writing a couple Javascript scripts, zipping them up with Mozilla Firefox, and pretending that all of the functionality was delivered by your scripts.

By: EyeOnWiner

EyeOnWiner — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:48:44 +0000

Yeah, if it were just a script it might be less bloated.

By: Diego

Diego — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:23:54 +0000

The thing it that it’s not a “script”. It’s a product (as Dave like to refer to it). A product which is released. A script!? Ha!

By: A. Simpson

A. Simpson — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 21:06:01 +0000

"I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on them. Give me five bees for a quarter you'd say. Now where were we, oh ya. The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because if the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones."

For some reason I'm reminded of Grampa Simpson's rants about how we did things in the good old days. You know, when we could impress people by writing clever BASIC code.