From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs developers help wanted for Purdue University's Hack the Anvil Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2015 19:16:58 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87egp41vc5.fsf@debian.uxu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1425492921 9942 80.91.229.3 (4 Mar 2015 18:15:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2015 18:15:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 04 19:15:20 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YTDpH-0004kj-8K for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2015 19:15:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45805 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YTDpG-0003cC-Jv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2015 13:15:18 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.etla.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 37 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: feB02bRejf23rfBm51Mt7Q.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:LJ5nqjZkoQmbEfGJRnxOIx3PSFw= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:210742 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:103019 Archived-At: Joshua Branson writes: > And as I said in my previous email, I have made two > emacs minor modes (one is evil-dvorak, which is > available on melpa), but I'm just not an expert > emacs hacker. And I probably won't become one before > the event. If you want to be an expert, start acting like one right now. To begin with, no expert says he isn't an expert. Others can tell you that, or the equivalent, if you give them reason to. > However, IRC is a bit less than ideal. Asking > questions on IRC is ok, but not great. Every other > sponsor at the event (ie: Apple, Wolfram, pebble, > MS, twilio, among others to name a few) will have a > seasoned developer present. It doesn't really matter what the others have. You must cope with what you have (or can, and will have). Remember, a warrior thinks neither of victory nor defeat. Battle many as you would have one, and the lonesome warrior as you would have an army! > So I would prefer to talk to some emacs developers > via skype (or some alternate program), because skype > is soooo much faster at communicating than IRC. The best way to communicate technology and in particular code is by mail, or, by extention, mailing lists or Usenet/NNTP (which is virtually same as mail, only public). I suppose IRC is the second best way, only that's a wide gap in between. -- underground experts united