From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Udyant Wig Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs stackexchange beta site Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 15:34:01 +0530 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: <87y4tdxpbi.fsf@panda.goosenet.in> References: <874mw5q15w.fsf@debian.uxu> <87a95wy73q.fsf@debian.uxu> <8761gkdto0.fsf@panda.goosenet.in> <877g0zcufb.fsf@debian.uxu> <8761gibwwy.fsf@panda.goosenet.in> <87a95utjwi.fsf@debian.uxu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1411293926 19515 80.91.229.3 (21 Sep 2014 10:05:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2014 10:05:26 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 21 12:05:21 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 1XVe1A-00026h-65 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Sep 2014 12:05:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38659 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XVe19-0000jx-H1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Sep 2014 06:05:19 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 55 Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="147f7dbb721f8b05ba4942e13f895d1c"; logging-data="13606"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/2BToG5er1JmXP11wupoTQ" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:0r8lyPVG29JL/Qb+qWNJjyntsKc= sha1:VMQjc38DFzyoW/XsXTq+ef+46GY= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:207815 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:100089 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: | Because this is all public. I enjoy writing this but I | want people to read it as well. If Google want to read | it, they are most welcome :) I should have mentioned this beforehand and included other entities along with Google. Would the fact that many intelligence agencies were monitoring fora affect your perspective? | : | The industry of the latter is indeed great. I get disturbed when the political "wins" over the technical. | Yes. It is in part even automatized moderation. But I | don't believe in moderation - I believe in a community | where people are free to be moronic, and hopefully, in | time, they won't be, even though they can. An admirable sentiment. | The GUI or UI shouldn't matter. A CLI, or otherwise | text-only, is superior to just about any GUI, I | believe. But that shouldn't matter. The material should | just be there, free - if you want to access it through | a GUI I don't have any problem with that, as long as I | can access the same material not using a GUI. Why fight | about it? As I said, the future is the GUI, or so it seems. This is to say that very often the primary and only interface available would be the GUI without alternatives. | : | That always the case. Never do new things. Only do | improvements to old things. This is interesting. I am still trying to think about this. | Yes, that is functional in that sense. But: the most | popular answer isn't by definition the best. Also, it | makes people neurotic and they start thinking in lines | of reputation, instead of thinking in lines "does this | answer make sense?" which is much more creative and | relevant. This I can accept. -- Udyant Wig GitHub: https://github.com/udyant Poetry: http://www.writing.com/main/profile/biography/frosthrone