Re: Hot List
On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 19:56:38 +0100, Dave Higton wrote: would it be practicable to sponsor support of the the RISC OS side of NetSurf under the ROOL sponsorship scheme? I should be glad to contribute if such a scheme were to be implemented. Financial incentives don't appear to have made any difference so far. Quite frankly, unless there was enough money to actually properly employ an engineer, most people are low on time rather than low on motivation. (At least regarding anything a few quid could resolve) D. -- Daniel Silverstone http://www.netsurf-browser.org/ PGP mail accepted and encouraged.Key Id: 3CCE BABE 206C 3B69
Re: Hot List
In article 20150501083236.GF23045@somnambulist.local, Daniel Silverstone dsilv...@netsurf-browser.org wrote: On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 19:56:38 +0100, Dave Higton wrote: would it be practicable to sponsor support of the the RISC OS side of NetSurf under the ROOL sponsorship scheme? I should be glad to contribute if such a scheme were to be implemented. Financial incentives don't appear to have made any difference so far. Quite frankly, unless there was enough money to actually properly employ an engineer, most people are low on time rather than low on motivation. (At least regarding anything a few quid could resolve) Then the ROOL sponsorship scheme is quite pointless, yes??? 8-(
Re: Hot List
On Fri, May 01, 2015 at 11:42:23 +0100, Brian wrote: would it be practicable to sponsor support of the the RISC OS side of NetSurf under the ROOL sponsorship scheme? I should be glad to contribute if such a scheme were to be implemented. Financial incentives don't appear to have made any difference so far. Quite frankly, unless there was enough money to actually properly employ an engineer, most people are low on time rather than low on motivation. (At least regarding anything a few quid could resolve) Then the ROOL sponsorship scheme is quite pointless, yes??? 8-( For the NetSurf core devs -- yes. For others -- who can say? D. -- Daniel Silverstone http://www.netsurf-browser.org/ PGP mail accepted and encouraged.Key Id: 3CCE BABE 206C 3B69
Re: Hot List
In article 0fc224ac3bf.03edd...@davehigton.me.uk, Dave Higton d...@davehigton.me.uk wrote: I've become aware over the years since then that the big difference between children and adults is their attitude. No-one tells children that they can't learn, and so they go through all their childhood years learning at an astonishing rate. Then something happens, and they persuade themselves (or each other) that learning is no longer possible. True. But one thing age does teach you is judgement: it becomes far easier to work out how much hassle the task is going to be, and that the reward is not worth the hassle! So you end up doing something else... I gave up programming becasue it was too much hassle. Long ago (I'm now 71). There are plenty of things I do enjoy learning about: except they tend not to stick in my memory as much as of yore. -- Richard Torrens. http://www.Torrens.org.uk for genealogy, natural history, wild food, walks, cats and more!
