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Re: where to put files
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Emanuel Berg |
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Re: where to put files |
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Tue, 26 Mar 2019 03:48:17 +0100 |
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Ralph Seichter wrote:
>> If it isn't a secret, what does it tell
>> *you*?
>
> It tells me that what I learned over the last
> 30+ years is still valid today: When posting
> in a mailing list, never expect applause,
> feedback or gratitude.
Oh, no! I've been doing that for 10+ years!
Well, not really. I never expected applause,
neither gratitude - well, gratitude perhaps in
the sense "you are creative with the software,
that's good, keep it up", but not gratitude in
the sense "thanks for a bunch of great code,
I'll start using it immediately myself!".
Besides, I think my computer personality
doesn't lend itself to that, either (at least
not 2019, perhaps never).
And I never thought my stuff was brilliant -
creative perhaps, but not anything out of the
ordinary in terms of the technology itself.
But *feedback*? Why shouldn't one expect that
on a mailing list/newsgroup about a particular
piece of software, when the posts are exactly
about that?
> The best you can hope for is not to annoy too
> many people, unless that's your
> intended purpose.
Obviously you are right but I don't understand
it one byte or even bit. If 20 or so guys
posted code here every second day or so,
I would be *delighted* (and offer feedback
wherever I could, even applause and gratitude
for that matter if I liked their stuff that
much I'd use it myself).
> Git is available as a command line client,
> various graphical clients, and via web UIs.
> Find a sympathetic person with an
> Internet-capable computer and spend some time
> reading:
>
> https://git-scm.com
> https://gitlab.com
? I have internet - I'm speaking to you right
now! But if by "Internet-capable computer" you
mean JavaScript etc and a monitor with some
computer bum beside me on a couch watching some
nerdy US TV show I'm sorry, never - if it can't
be done all-Emacs-w3m or all-CLI (including the
documentation) I have to recycle a new
computer before I can do it...
But thanks anyway, God willing it will happen.
I have bookmarked those links :)
> Have fun studying the documentation. ;-)
If you think documentation will help you read
it. You better at it.
:)
--
underground experts united
http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573