Re: stackoverflow and c.l.py

2011-09-15 Thread Chris Angelico
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 1:05 PM, Westley Martínez wrote: > This is really what I love and hate about the internet.  It's full of > people who argue for the sake of venting their internal frustrations. > How many discussions comparing declarative and imperative programming > languages have you seen

Re: stackoverflow and c.l.py

2011-09-15 Thread john
On Sep 14, 4:58 pm, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > memilanuk wrote: > > On 09/14/2011 05:47 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> The SNR here isn't bad either. Most of the spam gets filtered out, and > >> even stuff like Ranting Rick posts can be of some amusement when it's > >> a slow day... > > > I subscrib

Re: stackoverflow and c.l.py

2011-09-15 Thread Westley Martínez
On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 09:58:32AM +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > memilanuk wrote: > > > On 09/14/2011 05:47 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: > >> The SNR here isn't bad either. Most of the spam gets filtered out, and > >> even stuff like Ranting Rick posts can be of some amusement when it's > >> a slow

Re: stackoverflow and c.l.py

2011-09-14 Thread Steven D'Aprano
memilanuk wrote: > On 09/14/2011 05:47 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: >> The SNR here isn't bad either. Most of the spam gets filtered out, and >> even stuff like Ranting Rick posts can be of some amusement when it's >> a slow day... > > I subscribe to the list via Gmane, and if 'most of the spam' get

Re: stackoverflow and c.l.py

2011-09-14 Thread Rhodri James
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:05:23 +0100, memilanuk wrote: Rick & Xang Li are two examples of what you *don't* see (or at least I don't) @ SO Then you haven't been looking hard enough ;-) -- Rhodri James *-* Wildebeest Herder to the Masses -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: stackoverflow and c.l.py

2011-09-14 Thread Westley Martínez
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 06:05:23AM -0700, memilanuk wrote: > On 09/14/2011 05:47 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: > >The SNR here isn't bad either. Most of the spam gets filtered out, and > >even stuff like Ranting Rick posts can be of some amusement when it's > >a slow day... > > I subscribe to the list

Re: stackoverflow and c.l.py

2011-09-14 Thread Westley Martínez
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 10:47:15PM +1000, Chris Angelico wrote: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 10:33 PM, memilanuk wrote: > > Not saying one is necessarily better than the other, but just subscribing to > > the feed for the [python] tag on SO has a pretty good SNR... > > The SNR here isn't bad either.

Re: stackoverflow and c.l.py

2011-09-14 Thread Thomas Jollans
On 14/09/11 21:00, Duncan Booth wrote: > Roy Smith wrote: > >> In article , >> Duncan Booth wrote: >> >>> If you want an answer to how to get a specific bit of code to work then >>> Stackoverflow is better if only because people can see who has already >>> answered so don't need to waste time

Re: stackoverflow and c.l.py (was: GIL switch interval)

2011-09-14 Thread Duncan Booth
Roy Smith wrote: > In article , > Duncan Booth wrote: > >> If you want an answer to how to get a specific bit of code to work then >> Stackoverflow is better if only because people can see who has already >> answered so don't need to waste time re-answering every trivial little >> question

Re: stackoverflow and c.l.py (was: GIL switch interval)

2011-09-14 Thread Roy Smith
In article , Duncan Booth wrote: > If you want an answer to how to get a specific bit of code to work then > Stackoverflow is better if only because people can see who has already > answered so don't need to waste time re-answering every trivial little > question about syntax. Any halfway de

Re: stackoverflow and c.l.py

2011-09-14 Thread Laszlo Nagy
On 2011-09-14 15:05, memilanuk wrote: Rick & Xang Li are two examples of what you *don't* see (or at least I don't) @ SO I knew Xang's name would come up. :-) Epic. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: stackoverflow and c.l.py

2011-09-14 Thread memilanuk
On 09/14/2011 05:47 AM, Chris Angelico wrote: The SNR here isn't bad either. Most of the spam gets filtered out, and even stuff like Ranting Rick posts can be of some amusement when it's a slow day... I subscribe to the list via Gmane, and if 'most of the spam' gets filtered out, I'd hate to s

Re: stackoverflow and c.l.py

2011-09-14 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 10:33 PM, memilanuk wrote: > Not saying one is necessarily better than the other, but just subscribing to > the feed for the [python] tag on SO has a pretty good SNR... The SNR here isn't bad either. Most of the spam gets filtered out, and even stuff like Ranting Rick post

Re: stackoverflow and c.l.py

2011-09-14 Thread memilanuk
On 09/13/2011 09:12 PM, Stefan Behnel wrote: Matt Joiner, 14.09.2011 04:23: i'm curious as to what can be done with (and handled better) by adjusting sys.setswitchinterval i've opened a question on SO for this, that people might find of interest: http://stackoverflow.com[...] I wonder why peop

Re: stackoverflow and c.l.py (was: GIL switch interval)

2011-09-14 Thread Duncan Booth
Stefan Behnel wrote: > Matt Joiner, 14.09.2011 04:23: >> i'm curious as to what can be done with (and handled better) by >> adjusting sys.setswitchinterval >> i've opened a question on SO for this, that people might find of >> interest: http://stackoverflow.com[...] > > I wonder why people ask t

Re: stackoverflow and c.l.py

2011-09-13 Thread Ethan Furman
Steven D'Aprano wrote: On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 02:12 pm Stefan Behnel wrote: Matt Joiner, 14.09.2011 04:23: i'm curious as to what can be done with (and handled better) by adjusting sys.setswitchinterval i've opened a question on SO for this, that people might find of interest: http://stackoverflo

Re: stackoverflow and c.l.py (was: GIL switch interval)

2011-09-13 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 02:12 pm Stefan Behnel wrote: > Matt Joiner, 14.09.2011 04:23: >> i'm curious as to what can be done with (and handled better) by >> adjusting sys.setswitchinterval >> i've opened a question on SO for this, that people might find of >> interest: http://stackoverflow.com[...] >

stackoverflow and c.l.py (was: GIL switch interval)

2011-09-13 Thread Stefan Behnel
Matt Joiner, 14.09.2011 04:23: i'm curious as to what can be done with (and handled better) by adjusting sys.setswitchinterval i've opened a question on SO for this, that people might find of interest: http://stackoverflow.com[...] I wonder why people ask this kind of question on stackoverflow,