Interview with Sun's Chris Melissinos

Interview with Sun's Chris Melissinos

Posted Apr 6, 2007 20:12 UTC (Fri) by pimlott (subscriber, #1535)
Parent article: Interview with Sun's Chris Melissinos

Absolutely. I could put something up, we could each have a different-colored pen to draw on it, in this space in realtime. I can work on a piece of code, pop it up onto the wallpaper, and say: Hey, will you run this application when you come in, in the morning, since we're twelve hours behind each other in timezones, and just post your thoughts? And when I come back in the next day, you've run the application, all your notes are scribbled right there on the whiteboard in this virtual space.

Let's say there's a fourth person we wanted to be in this conversation, but they weren't able to be there. We can actually play back the entire script and they can view it at their leisure later on....

This scenario screams for parody:

Absolutely. I could post something, and it would appear in your mailbox in realtime. I can work on a piece of code, send it to the list, and say: Hey, will you run this application when you come in, and just post your thoughts? And when I come back in the next day, all your notes are in a reply in my mailbox.

Let's say there's a fourth person we wanted to be in this conversation. He can actually read the list archives at his leisure....

Seriously, the concept is cool, and I do hope there will be useful applications, but this isn't one of them.

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