On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Daniel Carrera <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't like Sackoverflow. I kinda hate how it looks actually.
One person's elixir is another person's poison. I actually like the way it looks. > > You can use Gmail as a POP server, and get all your emails in a > standard desktop client like Thunderbird and Claws Mail. Then you can > configure the client to show emails in fixed-width font, so that code > blocks look right. That is, frankly, a ridiculous suggestion as it entails changing a huge part of my major workflow. Email is much more than just the PDL mailing list. Besides, I don't want the entire email to be in fixed-width font (which, by the way, I already have, by forcing a custom css for gmail via Safari's settings). I only want the code blocks to be in fixed width, and I also want them syntax colored. That is what Stackoverflow excels at, along with real time previews. Anyway, just a suggestion -- a Stackoverflow community will be only as good as its members, so if more and more PDL aficionados start hanging out and responding at Stackoverflow, it will become a good community, else, it will die off. I like Stackoverflow's response rate... the size and diversity of the community ensures very rapid response, pretty much no matter what the issue, especially since most programming problems may involve more than one technologies -- I currently use Perl/PDL, SQL (Postgres, SQLite), JavaScript (jQuery), CSS, and HTML and a little bit of C. > > I am currently having to use Gmail directly because for some reason I > can't connect to an SMTP server from here, and I really don't like the > way emails look here. > > > -- > No trees were killed in the generation of this message. A large number > of electrons were, however, severely inconvenienced. > -- Puneet Kishor http://www.punkish.org Carbon Model http://carbonmodel.org Charter Member, Open Source Geospatial Foundation http://www.osgeo.org Science Commons Fellow, http://sciencecommons.org/about/whoweare/kishor Nelson Institute, UW-Madison http://www.nelson.wisc.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Assertions are politics; backing up assertions with evidence is science ======================================================================= _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
