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“We’re at the Hello World stage again. It’s like the hobbyist period of personal computing, or MacWrite/MacPaint in 1984, or the early days of the Web when the blink tag was a minor miracle. Same idea.
- Dave Winer

Dive Into OS X has relaunched, now with a wiki. Mark writes:

“The biggest conceptual hurdle of wikis is that there is absolutely no access control. Anyone could, in theory, sabotage the wiki … The only solution for this is community self-policing; thanks to the built-in revision history, deleted material can always be recalled, so [...]

I’ve found myself trying to explain #5 (”Because they are hackers, they are power users, so the interface design ends up too complicated for most people to use.”) too many times over the last few years.

The schedule for The Perl Conference 6 has been announced. And, for me at least, it’s a disappointment.
When the Call For Participation was put out, the theme was announced as “Doing More With Less”. The heavy focus on Perl 6 and Parrot this year seems only to meet this if we take “less” to mean [...]