Web Singletons? 254
tcmb writes "There are an uncounted number of web mail and picture sharing services, there are more than enough web sites for online bookmark management and friend-finding, but as far as I know there is only one Internet Archive. Which are the true web singletons, services that exist only once in this form?" And does anything approach the singular time-wasting abilities of IMDB or Wikipedia?
What? (Score:4, Insightful)
Slashdot (Score:5, Insightful)
I'd say /. is relatively unique.
Re: "For large values of once" (Score:3, Insightful)
Sorry AC.
You missed http://www.obmoz.com/ [obmoz.com]
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Re:I hope it's unique! (Score:4, Insightful)
Tubgirl, lemonparty, meatspin, 2G1C, etc. The implementation may vary a bit, but goatse certainly isn't the only shock site out there.
Re:What? (Score:3, Insightful)
Patent trolls don't create anything (except pain, suffering and economic hardship for their victims).
Re:What? (Score:3, Insightful)
Well that's the beauty of the singleton design pattern - you can create exactly zero instances if you want. Which in the context of patent trolls is definitely a bad thing, but it still technically fits the misused term.
Re:gnaa (Score:3, Insightful)
There is no shortage of idiots on the web.
The grand-daddy of them all... (Score:5, Insightful)
...is still alive! [badgerbadgerbadger.com]
Snopes (Score:3, Insightful)
TV Tropes (Score:5, Insightful)
And does anything approach the singular time-wasting abilities of IMDB or Wikipedia?
Google for "TV Tropes". No, I'm not giving you a URL. If I had to go find the URL, I might accidentally look at the URL. And then I'd end up clicking some of the links there. But there's no way to read through a Trope page without being curious enough to click on at least two of the links there, and then two of the links on each of those, and then... well, I just put dinner in the oven and I do not want to suddenly snap out of a fascinated reverie an hour from now when the smoke from my kitchen burning down reminds me that I'm starving.
Re:gnaa (Score:4, Insightful)
There is no shortage of idiots.
Fixed that for you.
Re:What? (Score:5, Insightful)
Some day, I'm going to have to introduce you to a new game called 'Bridge', something called 'set theory' or perhaps just to the concept of 'twins'. Then you might learn a few whole new meanings for that word and wonder why you were such an idiot about it before.
Re:What? (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Here's a semi-unique time waster for 'ya ... (Score:5, Insightful)
Singletons are the loneliest objects that I've ever seen...
Factories can be as bad as a Singletons
They're the loneliest objects since the Singleton
False is the saddest value that you'll ever know,
True, it's the saddest value that you'll ever know...
Re:What? (Score:2, Insightful)
The word "singleton" wasn't invented to describe the design pattern, douchebag. It means there is only one of something and is used correctly in TFS.
Lemme guess. Your a singleton (an offspring born alone).
While the term may be used correctly it doesn't address the target audience correctly. For the slashdot community the title is quite misleading. A title of "Web Singletons?" and it's not about the design pattern? Not cool or geeky. Wouldn't "unique web apps?" or something else better describe what the article is about?
I know I was disappointed when I found out the article wasn't (directly) related to coding and by the responses I've seen so far it looks as though I'm not projecting.
Re:What? (Score:5, Insightful)
On the subject of patent trolls, Blackboard fits this, despite being such a horrible piece of crap.
Re:What? (Score:3, Insightful)
A-fucking-men to that chief. Blackboard is, bar none, the single nastiest most unintuitive piece of shit I have every had to deal with. It makes Lotus Notes circa 1995 look like genius. It makes Microsoft Clippy look like a good idea. I hate it. I want it gone. I would rather spend hours photocopying stuff and calculating grades by hand without a calculator than deal with that nasty piece of crap.
RS