Ruby was just slashdotted under "Developers: Searching for the Best Scripting Language."
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Dan Tapp wrote:
Ruby was just slashdotted under "Developers: Searching for the Best Scripting Language."
I've got five mod points to burn if someone wants to add something useful to what I suspect is going to be an otherwise pointless Slashdot thread. 
and we are down for maintenance 
Hope the other community site could resist
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il Sat, 12 Jun 2004 20:39:45 -0700, Dan Tapp <dhtapp@see_sig_line.com> ha scritto::
Ruby was just slashdotted under "Developers: Searching for the Best
Scripting Language."
Dan Tapp wrote:
Ruby was just slashdotted under "Developers: Searching for the Best Scripting Language."
Up to now I thought that 'has been slashdotted' means 'site is down due to severe overload resulting from being listed on slashdot' :->
Josef 'Jupp' Schugt
Hey, at least now we can blame the downtime on /.
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On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 18:13:39 +0900, gabriele renzi <surrender_it@rc1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com> wrote:
il Sat, 12 Jun 2004 20:39:45 -0700, Dan Tapp <dhtapp@see_sig_line.com> > ha scritto::
>Ruby was just slashdotted under "Developers: Searching for the Best
>Scripting Language."and we are down for maintenance
Hope the other community site could resist
That _is_ what it means. The connotation of 'posted about to Slashdot'
is much more recent.
Ian
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On Wed 16 Jun 2004 at 05:26:54 +0900, Josef 'Jupp' Schugt wrote:
Dan Tapp wrote:
>Ruby was just slashdotted under "Developers: Searching for the
>Best Scripting Language."Up to now I thought that 'has been slashdotted' means 'site is down
due to severe overload resulting from being listed on slashdot' :->
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Not to be a pedant, but it means whatever the population wants it to
mean. But I'll agree, the popular meaning has gradually shifted from
"crashed due to big /. traffic" to "will almost certainly crash, it's
been listed on /." to just, "it's been listed on /.".
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On Thu, 17 Jun 2004 15:35:53 +0900, Ian Macdonald <ian@caliban.org> wrote:
On Wed 16 Jun 2004 at 05:26:54 +0900, Josef 'Jupp' Schugt wrote:
> Dan Tapp wrote:
> >Ruby was just slashdotted under "Developers: Searching for the
> >Best Scripting Language."
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> Up to now I thought that 'has been slashdotted' means 'site is down
> due to severe overload resulting from being listed on slashdot' :->That _is_ what it means. The connotation of 'posted about to Slashdot'
is much more recent.Ian
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Michael Campbell wrote:
Not to be a pedant, but it means whatever the population wants it to
mean. But I'll agree, the popular meaning has gradually shifted from
"crashed due to big /. traffic" to "will almost certainly crash, it's
been listed on /." to just, "it's been listed on /.".
Odd. This is the first time I've ever heard it used to mean anything other than "overwhelmed by traffic due to a mention on /."
(Maybe those using the alternative meaning are the same ones who think "begs the question" means "prompts one to ask.")
James
I've found it interesting that other sites (Fark, BoingBoing, etc.)
with large and loyal readership have now started verbing their own
names as a term for the same phenomenon as the original meaning of
/.'ed (which is the only sense in which I use it).
Perhaps some of the semantic shift is just due to the fact that more
and more servers seem to be able to stand up to that kind of traffic,
making the Slashdot-effect less automatic.
Lennon
James Britt wrote:
Odd. This is the first time I've ever heard it used to mean anything other than "overwhelmed by traffic due to a mention on /."
I appreciate the correction on the use of the term. I haven't been a big fan /., and just happened by the site in an idle moment. Having heard the term no more than a handful of times, I obviously misused it.
(Maybe those using the alternative meaning are the same ones who think "begs the question" means "prompts one to ask.")
Or maybe not
James
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Or those who think "loose" is the opposite of "find"?
Gavin
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On Friday, June 18, 2004, 1:57:32 AM, James wrote:
Michael Campbell wrote:
Not to be a pedant, but it means whatever the population wants it to
mean. But I'll agree, the popular meaning has gradually shifted from
"crashed due to big /. traffic" to "will almost certainly crash, it's
been listed on /." to just, "it's been listed on /.".Odd. This is the first time I've ever heard it used to mean anything
other than "overwhelmed by traffic due to a mention on /."
(Maybe those using the alternative meaning are the same ones who think
"begs the question" means "prompts one to ask.")
I think of the "slashdot-EFFECT" as being a server-trashing, and being "slashdotted" as getting a mention in slashdot.
Lennon Day-Reynolds wrote:
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I've found it interesting that other sites (Fark, BoingBoing, etc.)
with large and loyal readership have now started verbing their own
names as a term for the same phenomenon as the original meaning of
/.'ed (which is the only sense in which I use it).Perhaps some of the semantic shift is just due to the fact that more
and more servers seem to be able to stand up to that kind of traffic,
making the Slashdot-effect less automatic.Lennon
I think the change probably makes sense- I think most sites now handle being "slashdotted" without imploding. My buddy's company got a huge spike after being reviewed on slashdot, and his basic server in his basement handled it with aplomb (IIS running VB and VBScripts no less). And they had no expectation of that traffic or being reviewed.
Gavin Sinclair wrote:
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On Friday, June 18, 2004, 1:57:32 AM, James wrote:
Michael Campbell wrote:
Not to be a pedant, but it means whatever the population wants it to
mean. But I'll agree, the popular meaning has gradually shifted from
"crashed due to big /. traffic" to "will almost certainly crash, it's
been listed on /." to just, "it's been listed on /.".Odd. This is the first time I've ever heard it used to mean anything
other than "overwhelmed by traffic due to a mention on /."
(Maybe those using the alternative meaning are the same ones who think
"begs the question" means "prompts one to ask.")
Or those who think "loose" is the opposite of "find"?Gavin
http://slashdot.org/faq/slashmeta.shtml#sm600
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* Tyler Zesiger <mailing-lists@zesiger.com> wrote:
I think of the "slashdot-EFFECT" as being a server-trashing, and being
"slashdotted" as getting a mention in slashdot.