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Jan. 29th, 2007 | 05:48 pm
Just back from linux.conf.au 2007 and first week of working at Canonical, makers of fine software. Working on Bazaar / Launchpad integration, which promises to be a lot of fun.
Two crazy ideas I had while in Sydney. I'm posting them here because I think they are worth discussing and there's pretty much no other way I can act on them.
1. A Google Maps-style app which showed real estate / rental prices as contours / altitudes / colour.
2. A OLPC application designed to let children make up their own games with their own rules and play those games with other OLPC-laptop owners. No clue how to do this.
What do you think?
Two crazy ideas I had while in Sydney. I'm posting them here because I think they are worth discussing and there's pretty much no other way I can act on them.
1. A Google Maps-style app which showed real estate / rental prices as contours / altitudes / colour.
2. A OLPC application designed to let children make up their own games with their own rules and play those games with other OLPC-laptop owners. No clue how to do this.
What do you think?
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date: Jan. 29th, 2007 07:02 am (UTC)
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date: Jan. 29th, 2007 07:05 am (UTC)
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date: Jan. 29th, 2007 08:37 am (UTC)
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date: Jan. 29th, 2007 08:41 am (UTC)
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puzzlement
date: Jan. 29th, 2007 08:43 am (UTC)
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Not quite the same idea, it's just location of all properties. But programmatically yours is a relatively obvious extension (although coming up with it in the first place... ;) )
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It's not meant to be a flame...
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teknico_net
date: Jan. 29th, 2007 09:06 am (UTC)
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> Working on Bazaar / Launchpad integration
I sincerely believe that Canonical would make better use of some resources by dropping Bazaar altogether and switching to Mercurial.
I realize the social repercussions of such a move, so it's impractical already.
But are there any *technical* reasons why this would not be a net gain, given that Mercurial is smaller, faster, cleaner, largely compatible, maintained, and written in Python too?
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Re: It's not meant to be a flame...
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blackjml
date: Jan. 29th, 2007 09:11 am (UTC)
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However, I think that http://bazaar-vcs.org/RcsComparisons and http://bazaar-vcs.org/BzrFeatures may go some way to answering your question.
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