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: Search StackOverflow and paste code snippets without leaving the edited file Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2014 03:06:47 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87txdhg8xb.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> References: <871u0ni3nt.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1388974215 14428 80.91.229.3 (6 Jan 2014 02:10:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 02:10:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 06 03:10:23 2014 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 1Vzze2-0004Kp-Iy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Jan 2014 03:10:22 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60220 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vzze2-0007xR-42 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Jan 2014 21:10:22 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!zen.net.uk!dedekind.zen.co.uk!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 45 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: VVbyYd/iFZoeWNmD9i++cQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:Cq4jR5oW9MhK4YFP4Qg8PyM8GG8= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:203005 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:95274 Archived-At: Marcin Borkowski writes: > I'm afraid that you are mistaken here. I guess they > are not "neurotic", but just normal. In other words, > this is how human beings work... And I don't find it > very sad, either, though maybe a bit amusing. If they do too much of those sites, if they are not neurotic, they will be soon enough. What is neurotic about it is that they have (at least) two incorrect assumptions, first there is a "correct" answer and discussion can at most be allowed in the commentator fields. In facts, things can be discussed for ages and that is a fine way to do it. Second, that those sites are "mutually exclusive". This is delirious. There is "ask Ubuntu" - but what is Ubuntu? Ubuntu is Debian, and Debian is Linux, and Linux is Unix, and Unix is software, and software is achieved by programming... it is all interconnected, and at several levels at that. And this "artificial perfection" makes for frustration because reality is never perfect, and when this happens, which is all the time, if you can't decode it for what it is (reality), you'll just be frustrated. And this is why (you might have noticed) that people are very fast at upvoting when some guy is mastering some other guy, telling him his question doesn't make sense, he posted in the "incorrect" site, and so on. That's why I like Usenet much more because here, when you act like a moron, you are simply a moron, because you are human, and you don't need to "recode" it in any other way, claiming some other guy didn't stick to the rules, bubbling about the nature of the site, etc. Just because we do computers, doesn't mean we *are* computers, and we will never be, thank god. -- underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573