Curt Doolittle

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  • EducationWP

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  • Thanks to my friends, particularly Roman, and V for support over the past 90 day

    Thanks to my friends, particularly Roman, and V for support over the past 90 days. Thanks to my staff for all you have done. We are very close now to v1.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-03-28 11:19:00 UTC

  • The business is taking every waking moment. So I can’t spend time writing. But I

    The business is taking every waking moment. So I can’t spend time writing. But I really have to script two videos:

    1) The Final Word On Constraining Artificial Intelligence To Moral Actions

    2) The Central Problem of Political Reasoning: Monopoly, Universalism, and : “one-ness” – and why Paganism in all it’s forms is superior.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-03-11 12:16:00 UTC

  • One. Feature. Left. Just one. And I cannot crack it

    One. Feature. Left. Just one. And I cannot crack it.

    Source date (UTC): 2015-03-09 05:32:00 UTC

  • OVERSING VS ATLASSIAN (JIRA/CONFLUENCE) I’m not sure whether Altassian knows abo

    OVERSING VS ATLASSIAN (JIRA/CONFLUENCE)

    I’m not sure whether Altassian knows about us yet or not, but Oversing makes the Atlassian product stack (Jira/Agile/Confluence) look like, and drive like, your grandfather’s Buick.

    And if they did know, they probably wouldn’t assume that because of our development costs, feature set, and tech stack, that we can sell our product at $10 a user, and produce the same profits as Atlassian does at their combined price of Jira, Agile, Service Desk, and Confluence. Or that Oversing will sell to the entire organization, rather than just a few departments.

    Oversing is designed to serve everything OTHER than internal software development – something we did in no small part to make us compatible with the Atlassian Stack, rather than a direct competitor in their core business.

    They should buy us. Atlassian should buy us. They really should buy us before they go to market. Because if we release during their Quiet Period, it’ll be extremely costly. On the flip side, if they bought us, their dreams of joining the Oracle/Microsoft/SAP club of billions would be half as far away as they imagine it is.

    Curt Doolittle

    Reality By Chanting

    Source date (UTC): 2015-03-04 06:59:00 UTC

  • OVERSING UPDATE You know, we get our inspiration for design from various places.

    OVERSING UPDATE

    You know, we get our inspiration for design from various places. I think that it is starting to become obvious that I took the inspiration for Oversing from the Media business: Scriptwriting with Scrivener and Final Draft, and Video Editing from Final Cut.

    Yes, we are sort of like a modernized version of Jira + Facebook + Project and Portfolio Management + Time, Expenses, Invoicing and Reporting.

    But the UI inspiration is not from any of those tools. It’s from professional writing software.

    Why? Because those tools are much more friendly to work with. Much quicker to think with and forgiving. Much more tolerant of EVOLVING your project.

    It’s pretty awesome.

    You can build everything from a quick list of notes, to an advanced multi-year project just like using an outliner (a writing tool that uses hierarchical indentation, rather than heading sizes like Chapter, heading 1, heading 2, heading 3 etc.)

    But we still cannot get the interface to ‘feel’ quite right. It looks like a wireframe.

    Now, I have thought a bit about taking that to an extreme – a very minimalist, white background with a few light grey lines, and touches of blue. Something that looked like it was from an architect’s office. And I would, of course, (and have investigated) using a ‘hand-drawn’ or “pencil-drawn” look for all the lines, borders and fonts. That would help us with the Creative industry no doubt, and visibly separate us from the hordes of antique (horrible) software from the prior generations. Maybe there is another solution. Maybe I am just biased since I use hand-drawn UI drafting tools, and I find that look most comforting. But I am just not a good enough designer to work with it one way or another.

    Anyway. It has to sell. It has to be readable. And that means it can’t be as illustrative as I want – or as interesting. (I understand illustration, but I am still not a good designer, or photographer, and I never will be. Those are different skills.)

    🙂

    FYI: Josh Brantley

    Source date (UTC): 2015-02-08 07:13:00 UTC

  • NEW PROPERTARIANISM.COM – (SORT OF) I’m really in love with the design still, so

    NEW PROPERTARIANISM.COM – (SORT OF)

    I’m really in love with the design still, so it largely looks the same. But I spent some time this week hand-coding propertarianism.com – reducing the memory footprint by two thirds, and creating a new document type that will allow me to publish propertarianism online more easily.

    In truth the new document type was an experiment since Oversing’s later versions will contain a kind of document authoring that is I think, more in line with the direction of writing tools and online writing in particular, than the wiki model – and far easier to work with. I can’t do everything in wordpress that I want to but at least I think the idea is sound.

    Anyway, I really didn’t want to spend time on this but the server crash at Bluehost last weekend convinced me that the effort to reconstruct the website would be better put to hand coding it.

    STATE OF THE CONTENT

    Oversing takes priority at the moment, but I will incrementally both move work to the web site, and revise the definitions. I have a lot of work to do still, but most of it is just labor now.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-14 03:42:00 UTC

  • I had a bad day yesterday (budgets) but today when I use oversing I see it as so

    I had a bad day yesterday (budgets) but today when I use oversing I see it as something very amazing that we just need a little more time to demonstrate. It has been two years of hard work. But you can start to feel the Facebook experience coming together for the workplace. And I think that if FB does come to the workplace we will still hold the upmarket position. But whether we do or not in that market, we will crush the existing market and I am still thinking we have a 100M product on our hands.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-09 08:29:00 UTC

  • OVERSING UPDATE: ACTIVITY STREAM, CHAT, and MENTIONS Well, now Oversing’s Activi

    OVERSING UPDATE: ACTIVITY STREAM, CHAT, and MENTIONS

    Well, now Oversing’s Activity Stream and Chat are done. It’s a joy to work with. (although I still want the workspace to be at 65% of scale and the chat and activity windows to be We are also including Peer-to-peer Video Chat, but I want to postpone that until after beta.

    Interesting: we wrestled with chats and the context of the chats. So in FB the people are the context, and what people refer to is irrelevant. But in Oversing we want everything in context. So you can open a chat with a context as a participant. But we just can’t get it done for Beta. But afterward, you’ll be able to treat contexts as participants and therefore keep record of communications in context of the work you’re doing.

    I haven’t seen anyone else do that. Not that they haven’t, but I haven’t seen it.

    We have ‘mentions’ (@name) in activity streams and we will shortly have topic mentions (# topic ) and finally we will have context mentions ( @@ context or && context) in them. So then if you go to the page for the topic, you can see the mentions in the activity stream and pull up the conversation just as you pull up a conversation in chat with a person today. We have also put in a chat tab to access your chats on any person or topic. It’s cool.

    I just can’t get it all done by the beta release. (The purpose of a beta is to help us find bugs. It is not an excuse to release a product.)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-12-09 06:11:00 UTC