On 29/03/16 07:36, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 3/28/2016 8:00 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> We have
>> better things to deal with than endless Fire and Motion:
>> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000339.html
>

It's 7:40am here, and I just got to work. I stopped reading half way through, because I decided I need to actually work :-)

> That article is right on.
>
> I discovered a long time ago that the secret to getting something done
> is to work on it every day, even if it's just for one minute. It's
> amazing how much gets done with just those minutes every day.

That's my philosophy for learning to play the piano (which I've started about a year ago, at the ripe age of 42). So far, it's been working out great for me.

Shachar

On 03/24/2016 05:50 PM, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
> Using old communication software like NNTP is one example of that. Compare with Rust's Discourse.
> 
	Funny, that's the main reason why I still lurk around the D forums even
though I haven't written a line of D in years, while I don't follow the
Rust forums even though I do most of my experimenting in Rust these days...

		Jerome
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On Thursday, 24 March 2016 at 20:25:29 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>
> I agree that Reddit has its problems, foremost of which it is impractical to visit a thread and look for what's new since you looked at it last time.

Sorry to bump the thread, but I found some options that make this a little more pleasant.

For chrome:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/reddit-new-comments-highl/ajdilinnnkbmpoegibgacadjlblmpjad?hl=en

For firefox (this is buggy, but follow the explanation of how to get it working properly in the reviews):
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cozy-reddit/

If you don't mind paying, reddit gold:
https://www.reddit.com/gold/about/

On Saturday, 26 March 2016 at 19:52:18 UTC, QAston wrote:
> A person who advocates for a more welcoming community and wishes for objective moderation introduces a divisive topic

You need to relax. The topic wasn't divisive. I haven't asked for moderation. I haven't argued in favour of objectivity. What is appropriate and not appropriate in an off-topic social thread like this is entirely cultural. I don't consider politics to be particularly contentious, and have never seen it been made an issue of, outside of very narrow US contexts, in my past _30_ years on the Internet. The overall problem with this mentality is that you aren't supposed to mention politics _in case_ someone gets offended, not because they actually do get offended. Which pretty much makes it very difficult to get a working democracy.

What _is_ a problem in these forums are the level of butt-hurt personal focus, not the occasional social thread. This community would be much better if there were more social threads, actually. A general forum is _usually_ a catch-all forum, so if you guys want to allow socialization, but don't want off-topic threads you probably should consider creating a separate social forum.

Of course, it seems like socialization is not a priority, but then you won't see the formation of strong bonds either (outside of IRC etc). Github doesn't really form strong ties. The basic idea that people will form strong teams based on code alone is not entirely well-founded.

On Monday, 11 April 2016 at 17:12:03 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
> On Saturday, 26 March 2016 at 19:52:18 UTC, QAston wrote:
>> A person who advocates for a more welcoming community and wishes for objective moderation introduces a divisive topic
>
> You need to relax. The topic wasn't divisive. I haven't asked for moderation. I haven't argued in favour of objectivity. What is appropriate and not appropriate in an off-topic social thread like this is entirely cultural. I don't consider politics to be particularly contentious, and have never seen it been made an issue of, outside of very narrow US contexts, in my past _30_ years on the Internet. The overall problem with this mentality is that you aren't supposed to mention politics _in case_ someone gets offended, not because they actually do get offended. Which pretty much makes it very difficult to get a working democracy.
>
> What _is_ a problem in these forums are the level of butt-hurt personal focus, not the occasional social thread. This community would be much better if there were more social threads, actually. A general forum is _usually_ a catch-all forum, so if you guys want to allow socialization, but don't want off-topic threads you probably should consider creating a separate social forum.
>
> Of course, it seems like socialization is not a priority, but then you won't see the formation of strong bonds either (outside of IRC etc). Github doesn't really form strong ties. The basic idea that people will form strong teams based on code alone is not entirely well-founded.
+1

On Tuesday, 12 April 2016 at 14:57:33 UTC, Karabuta wrote:
> On Monday, 11 April 2016 at 17:12:03 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
>> On Saturday, 26 March 2016 at 19:52:18 UTC, QAston wrote:
>>> A person who advocates for a more welcoming community and wishes for objective moderation introduces a divisive topic
>>
>> You need to relax. The topic wasn't divisive. I haven't asked for moderation. I haven't argued in favour of objectivity. What is appropriate and not appropriate in an off-topic social thread like this is entirely cultural. I don't consider politics to be particularly contentious, and have never seen it been made an issue of, outside of very narrow US contexts, in my past _30_ years on the Internet. The overall problem with this mentality is that you aren't supposed to mention politics _in case_ someone gets offended, not because they actually do get offended. Which pretty much makes it very difficult to get a working democracy.
>>
>> What _is_ a problem in these forums are the level of butt-hurt personal focus, not the occasional social thread. This community would be much better if there were more social threads, actually. A general forum is _usually_ a catch-all forum, so if you guys want to allow socialization, but don't want off-topic threads you probably should consider creating a separate social forum.
>>
>> Of course, it seems like socialization is not a priority, but then you won't see the formation of strong bonds either (outside of IRC etc). Github doesn't really form strong ties. The basic idea that people will form strong teams based on code alone is not entirely well-founded.
> +1

Say the 2 guys that contributed no code, what a surprise ! Who could have predicted this ?