Re: [fpc-other] How do you keep up with FPC discussions?

2017-05-26 Thread Ralf Quint
On 5/26/2017 6:25 PM, nore...@z505.com wrote: > > Indeed I hate web based programs of all kinds, but, after lots of my > email clients corrupted their databases which were not in plain text > and I lost my emails, I started using web servers and web programs as > email clients for lots of email. T

Re: [fpc-other] How do you keep up with FPC discussions?

2017-05-26 Thread noreply
Forgot about another solution to wasting time on email.. The Donald Knuth solution! Simply do not use email, and demand people write you letters in the mail if they wish to receive a reply... Not sure what Knuth is up to lately or what his software projects are. But although I find this soluti

Re: [fpc-other] How do you keep up with FPC discussions?

2017-05-26 Thread noreply
On 2017-05-25 06:10, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: On 25/05/17 10:20, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2017-05-25 09:02, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:> even if most of the time he> pushes it far harder than many of us enjoy. I’m afraid it’s an occupational habit. My job as a technical consultant and develop

Re: [fpc-other] How do you keep up with FPC discussions?

2017-05-26 Thread noreply
On 2017-05-26 10:27, Ralf Quint wrote: On 5/26/2017 4:36 AM, wkitt...@windstream.net wrote: hahaha... nope... just experienced readers of messages who have learned how to work through them fairly quickly and easily... i will grant that it does take an hour or two... if i'm offering someone some

Re: [fpc-other] How do you keep up with FPC discussions?

2017-05-26 Thread Ralf Quint
On 5/26/2017 4:36 AM, wkitt...@windstream.net wrote: > > hahaha... nope... just experienced readers of messages who have > learned how to work through them fairly quickly and easily... i will > grant that it does take an hour or two... if i'm offering someone some > help and have to go write code,

Re: [fpc-other] How do you keep up with FPC discussions?

2017-05-26 Thread wkitty42
On 05/26/2017 12:51 AM, nore...@z505.com wrote: On 2017-05-25 04:20, wkitt...@windstream.net wrote: while i understand what you are saying, i always get a huge belly laugh when someone says anything about cluttering an inbox... that's just crazy when you have filters that can easily move new mai

Re: [fpc-other] How do you keep up with FPC discussions?

2017-05-25 Thread noreply
On 2017-05-24 08:54, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: Hi, On Wed, 24 May 2017, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: > I'm positive that some of you are just clever A.I. bots posing as > humans.. that's where your super powers come from. You're not actually > humans.. Hahaha, you got that right! That's my

Re: [fpc-other] How do you keep up with FPC discussions?

2017-05-25 Thread noreply
On 2017-05-25 04:20, wkitt...@windstream.net wrote: while i understand what you are saying, i always get a huge belly laugh when someone says anything about cluttering an inbox... that's just crazy when you have filters that can easily move new mail to its own folder for reading... each of the FP

Re: [fpc-other] How do you keep up with FPC discussions?

2017-05-25 Thread noreply
On 2017-05-24 17:55, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2017-05-24 21:28, Marco van de Voort wrote: - preferably anything with "huys" and 'git" :-) Awesome, I made the list. :) Seriously, just be selective, and use a threaded reader that allows you to skip/ignore threads. Agreed. Also agree,

Re: [fpc-other] How do you keep up with FPC discussions?

2017-05-25 Thread noreply
On 2017-05-24 15:28, mar...@stack.nl wrote: In our previous episode, nore...@z505.com said: How in the world do people (you) keep up with reading email lists and not waste the entire day? Avoid the following - long discussions about new features -> design by committee was never successful

Re: [fpc-other] How do you keep up with FPC discussions?

2017-05-25 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2017-05-25 12:09, Bo Berglund wrote: But my observation is that email is not the best way of managing these things even if you *can* create some folder structure. Email clients evolve a lot and suddenly your old store of messages is not readable anymore. I've been working on and off (more of

Re: [fpc-other] How do you keep up with FPC discussions?

2017-05-25 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 25/05/17 10:20, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: On 2017-05-25 09:02, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:> even if most of the time he> pushes it far harder than many of us enjoy. I’m afraid it’s an occupational habit. My job as a technical consultant and developer often requires me to come up with more efficien

Re: [fpc-other] How do you keep up with FPC discussions?

2017-05-25 Thread Bo Berglund
On Thu, 25 May 2017 05:20:11 -0400, wkitt...@windstream.net wrote: >each >of the FPC related mailing lists comes into my thunderbird and is filtered to >its own (sub)folder where the messages are read in threaded mode... it is >faster >and available to me even when i'm offline... plus i have a

Re: [fpc-other] How do you keep up with FPC discussions?

2017-05-25 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2017-05-25 09:02, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote: even if most of the time he pushes it far harder than many of us enjoy. I’m afraid it’s an occupational habit. My job as a technical consultant and developer often requires me to come up with more efficient ways of doing things. Yes, inefficient w

Re: [fpc-other] How do you keep up with FPC discussions?

2017-05-25 Thread wkitty42
On 05/25/2017 03:32 AM, Bo Berglund wrote: On Tue, 23 May 2017 21:07:05 -0500, nore...@z505.com wrote: Maybe I'm a retard and my brain is slow, but how the f**k do you keep up with all these emails and have any time for programming, cooking, working, hiking, possibly a relationship with opposit

Re: [fpc-other] How do you keep up with FPC discussions?

2017-05-25 Thread Lukasz Sokol
On 24/05/17 03:07, nore...@z505.com wrote: > I can't find enough time in the day to read even one single email > list (fpc-pascal), let alone two, or more.. > > How in the world do people (you) keep up with reading email lists and > not waste the entire day? > > It seems some of you have super hu

Re: [fpc-other] How do you keep up with FPC discussions?

2017-05-25 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
On 24/05/17 20:30, Marco van de Voort wrote: In our previous episode, nore...@z505.com said:> > How in the world do people (you) keep up with reading email lists and > not waste the entire day? Some of it's reputation. It's obviously always worth knowing Florian and Jonas's position on even a

Re: [fpc-other] How do you keep up with FPC discussions?

2017-05-25 Thread Bo Berglund
On Tue, 23 May 2017 21:07:05 -0500, nore...@z505.com wrote: >Maybe I'm a retard and my brain is slow, but how the f**k do you keep up >with all these emails and have any time for programming, cooking, >working, hiking, possibly a relationship with opposite sex? > Well, for one thing, skip the e

Re: [fpc-other] How do you keep up with FPC discussions?

2017-05-24 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2017-05-24 21:28, Marco van de Voort wrote: - preferably anything with "huys" and 'git" :-) Awesome, I made the list. :) Seriously, just be selective, and use a threaded reader that allows you to skip/ignore threads. Agreed. And if you are using Mozilla Thunderbird, learn to use the “R

Re: [fpc-other] How do you keep up with FPC discussions?

2017-05-24 Thread Marco van de Voort
In our previous episode, nore...@z505.com said: > > How in the world do people (you) keep up with reading email lists and > not waste the entire day? Avoid the following - long discussions about new features -> design by committee was never successful anyway. - anything with "Schnell" and "u

Re: [fpc-other] How do you keep up with FPC discussions?

2017-05-24 Thread Tomas Hajny
On Wed, May 24, 2017 15:54, Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR) wrote: > On Wed, 24 May 2017, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: > >> > I'm positive that some of you are just clever A.I. bots posing as >> > humans.. that's where your super powers come from. You're not actually >> > humans.. >> Hahaha, you got that rig

Re: [fpc-other] How do you keep up with FPC discussions?

2017-05-24 Thread Karoly Balogh (Charlie/SGR)
Hi, On Wed, 24 May 2017, Nikolay Nikolov wrote: > > I'm positive that some of you are just clever A.I. bots posing as > > humans.. that's where your super powers come from. You're not actually > > humans.. > Hahaha, you got that right! That's my secret! :) For the record, I met him in person alr

Re: [fpc-other] How do you keep up with FPC discussions?

2017-05-24 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2017-05-24 03:07, nore...@z505.com wrote: I'm positive that some of you are just clever A.I. bots posing as humans.. that's where your super powers come from. You're not actually humans.. Or we have a couple of clones - human trials started ages ago in some countries. ;-) Regards, Graem

Re: [fpc-other] How do you keep up with FPC discussions?

2017-05-24 Thread Nikolay Nikolov
On 05/24/2017 05:07 AM, nore...@z505.com wrote: I'm positive that some of you are just clever A.I. bots posing as humans.. that's where your super powers come from. You're not actually humans.. Hahaha, you got that right! That's my secret! :) Nikolay _

Re: [fpc-other] How do you keep up with FPC discussions?

2017-05-24 Thread Graeme Geldenhuys
On 2017-05-24 03:07, nore...@z505.com wrote: How in the world do people (you) keep up with reading email lists and not waste the entire day? I'm between jobs! And all my gardening chores are already done. :-P Regards, Graeme ___ fpc-other maillist

[fpc-other] How do you keep up with FPC discussions?

2017-05-23 Thread noreply
I can't find enough time in the day to read even one single email list (fpc-pascal), let alone two, or more.. How in the world do people (you) keep up with reading email lists and not waste the entire day? It seems some of you have super human powers that I don't have, to be able to both pro