On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 8:25 PM, Navkirat Singh wrote:
> Lol you all sound like google's angry birds with their feathers ruffled by a
> comment. You guys should open up another mailing list to extinguish your
> virtually bruised egos. . . .
Google does not produce Angry Birds. There is another ma
Lol you all sound like google's angry birds with their feathers ruffled by a
comment. You guys should open up another mailing list to extinguish your
virtually bruised egos. . . .
On Sep 30, 2011 10:27 PM, "Prasad, Ramit" wrote:
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>I didn't say it would be on-topic. But we don't cease to be well-rounded
>human beings with concerns beyond the narrow world of Python programming
>just because we are writing on a programming forum.
Everything is on topic to programmers! To (mis)quote Sheldon Cooper: "I'm a
[programmer]. I have
Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Steven D'Aprano
> wrote:
>> Westley Martínez wrote:
>>
>>> On this mailing list, we're programmers, nothing else,
>>
>> Speak for yourself.
>>
>
> I don't think he meant that the populace here is exclusively
> programmers, but that *on th
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Steven D'Aprano
wrote:
> Westley Martínez wrote:
>
>> On this mailing list, we're programmers, nothing else,
>
> Speak for yourself.
>
I don't think he meant that the populace here is exclusively
programmers, but that *on this list* we are here because we're
prog
Westley Martínez wrote:
> On this mailing list, we're programmers, nothing else,
Speak for yourself.
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Westley Martínez writes:
> I'm kind of new to the whole mailing list thing, but they seem to be a
> lot more lenient than internet forums about most things.
Note that a mailing list *is* an internet forum: it is a forum for
discussion, conducted on the internet. Mailing lists have been internet
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 2:33 PM, Westley Martínez wrote:
> I'm kind of new to the whole mailing list thing, but they seem to be a
> lot more lenient than internet forums about most things. I've noticed
> that sometimes Off-topic posts can get a little out of hand. I guess
> it's not really a big
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 7:33 AM, Westley Martínez wrote:
> On this mailing list, we're programmers,
> nothing else, and so we shouldn't mingle other things into the list.
> Think of it as using global variables or even a goto. That's
> essentially what OT is.
Not a bad analogy, that... but I acc
