{"id":627,"date":"2006-12-20T20:34:29","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T01:34:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=627"},"modified":"2006-12-20T21:11:28","modified_gmt":"2006-12-21T02:11:28","slug":"snoozebuttononclickfunctionsettimeoutway_latewakeywakeydave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2006\/12\/20\/snoozebuttononclickfunctionsettimeoutway_latewakeywakeydave\/","title":{"rendered":"setTimeout(WAY_LATE,WakeyWakeyDave)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/simonwillison.net\/2006\/Dec\/20\/json\/\">Simon Willison<\/a>, I see that Dave Winer demonstrates how remarkably far<a href=\"http:\/\/scripting.wordpress.com\/2006\/12\/20\/scripting-news-for-12202006\/\"> out of touch<\/a> he is with the state of internet programming.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/json.org\">JSON<\/a> has been promoted for a couple of years now, and has been visibly gaining traction among the net programming community for at least 18 months.  It&#8217;s quite telling that it has only recently filtered through Dave&#8217;s navel-focused gaze.<\/p>\n<p>And before any analysis, he&#8217;s quick to dismiss and belittle it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nGod bless the re-inventers <\/p>\n<p>Gotta love em, because there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no way they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to stop breaking what works, and fixing what don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t need no fixing.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;and to show us the particular shade of his sunglasses:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI figured, sheez it can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be that hard to parse, so let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s see what it looks like, and damn, IT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122S NOT EVEN XML!<\/p>\n<p>As Dr Phil asks \u00e2\u20ac\u201d What were they thinking?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sheez, Dave, maybe they were thinking &#8220;I don&#8217;t care to use XML&#8221; &#8211; those presumptuous philistines.  Let the XML infidels be slaughtered:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nWho did this travesty? Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s find a tree and string them up. Now.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chief infidel Douglas Crockford&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/scripting.wordpress.com\/2006\/12\/20\/scripting-news-for-12202006\/#comment-26383\">comment<\/a> is worth framing:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI liked the part where Dr Phil said \u00e2\u20ac\u0153What were they thinking?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d I asked the same question when I first saw XML being proposed as a data format. There were obviously better alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>The good thing about reinventing the wheel is that you can get a round one.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dave leaves the best line for last:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSilicon Valley is made up of little boys pulling their puds, constantly making love to each other, pretending the world revolves around them.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8230;the all-too-easy inference of course being that it actually revolves around Dave Winer, chief pud-puller, making love only to himself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Via Simon Willison, I see that Dave Winer demonstrates how remarkably far out of touch he is with the state of internet programming. JSON has been promoted for a couple of years now, and has been visibly gaining traction among the net programming community for at least 18 months. It&#8217;s quite telling that it has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}