Comments on: Duell’s Theorem http://illyana.com/2006/08/16/duells-theorem/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:01:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Aidan Kehoe http://illyana.com/2006/08/16/duells-theorem/#comment-143 Thu, 17 Aug 2006 15:09:33 +0000 http://illyana.com/2006/08/16/duells-theorem/#comment-143 <i> That’s right, any idea I may have will happen, and happen soon, and likely happen without me.</i> I find that the ideas I come up with that are outside of the normal problem domain of the internet crowd are not implemented at the same frenetic pace; e.g. <a href="http://www.parhasard.net/xemacs/ipa.el.html" rel="nofollow">this</a> has been possible and useful to its target audience for over a decade, but I do seem to have been the first to implement it. Whereas I mostly implemented <a href="http://www.kyz.uklinux.net/cabextract.php" rel="nofollow">cabextract</a> in C around ~2000, didn't release it because it wasn't quite stable and capable enough, and the linked version had appeared the next time I looked into finishing it. I <i>am</i> really surprised that no-one else seems to have implemented <a href="http://www.parhasard.net/del.icio.us/" rel="nofollow">this</a>, since one imagines the Web-2.0 crowd can see the benefits of REST APIs better than most.
That’s right, any idea I may have will happen, and happen soon, and likely happen without me.

I find that the ideas I come up with that are outside of the normal problem domain of the internet crowd are not implemented at the same frenetic pace; e.g. this has been possible and useful to its target audience for over a decade, but I do seem to have been the first to implement it.

Whereas I mostly implemented cabextract in C around ~2000, didn’t release it because it wasn’t quite stable and capable enough, and the linked version had appeared the next time I looked into finishing it.

I am really surprised that no-one else seems to have implemented this, since one imagines the Web-2.0 crowd can see the benefits of REST APIs better than most.

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