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Darren New wrote:
> Invisible wrote:
>> Unfortunately for me, these things happen, like, once every few
>> months. The rest of my life I heardly *speak* to another living human
>> being. (Posting stuff on the Internet isn't the same.)
>
> This is not that unusual, unless you're saying you don't even talk to
> (say) people at work or in your house.
Basically... yes.
I work in my office, which is a little 6' x 6' cube. Nobody ever comes
in. (Unless something is broken anyway.) I have *tried* to get to know
the folks there, but they basically don't like me for whatever reason.
I'm not sure if it's because I'm not female or because I'm 10 years
younger or what...
As for the people in my house... damnit, nobody *wants* to talk to my
mum! o_O
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Darren New wrote:
> You insist on living in a place where there aren't enough people to find
> good friends, for one thing.
Wuh?
> You can't be friends with everyone.
This I can handle.
> Thus, you need a wide selection of
> acquaintances to choose friends from.
This is where I fail.
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Orchid XP v8 escreveu:
> nemesis wrote:
>> Mike Raiford escreveu:
>>>> 1. What's RSS?
>>
>> I think his Lynx web browser doesn't support it. ;)
>
> I'm fairly sure Firefox *supports* it, but I still don't know what it
> *is*. :-P
Firefox calls it Live Bookmarks. Whenever you see in a website some
link with a cool little orange icon (courtesy of Mozilla and adopted by
Microsoft) named "RSS feed", you can "subscribe" to it and have all new
article and blog entries fed automatically to your browser. It's kinda
like NNTP for the web, except it's a one way communication link.
>> It was revoked long ago when he showed he didn't know who Stallman or
>> Jobs was, nor Valve software. ;)
>
> Are you kidding? *All* of the games I play are from Valve! :-P
>
> It was... actually no, I don't remember which developer it was, but the
> guys behind WoW or some other huge-name game like that.
Ah, yes, Blizzard.
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nemesis wrote:
> It's kinda like NNTP for the web, except it's a one way communication link.
Not really. You're just polling a special web page with summaries of
what's on other web pages. Not really like NNTP at all. Just periodic
checks of whether a page has changed.
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Invisible wrote:
> Heh. If there's one thing I've learned, it has to be this: Nobody gives
> a **** about Haskell. Seriously. Nobody cares.
I was reading about it yesterday (a tutorial). Didn't get too far. Just
because I couldn't be bothered, and it didn't look too interesting; not
because I didn't get it.
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Mike Raiford wrote:
>> 2. What actually *is* Slashdot? I keep hearing about it, but I'm still
>> unclear on what it's supposed to "be".
>
> That tears it! Your geek license is officially revoked. :P
Frankly, I don't blame him. It took me quite a while to figure out how
to *use* it.
Not that it's hard to use. It's just hard to tell what the purpose of
the site is.
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Invisible wrote:
> Two questions:
>
> 1. What's RSS?
It's that technology that's insanely simple to use, and one that makes
me wonder why many/most people (including tech-savvy ones) don't use it.
If you ever go to any Web site with regularity to see if there are
updates, then you'll likely benefit from Atom/RSS feeds. Just go to
those web sites, subscribe to their feeds (Google Reader, RSSOwl, or
whatever other software you want to use - Firefox sucks for this). Then
just simply check Google Reader periodically, rather than checking 10+
different sites for updated content.
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>>>>>>mue### [at] nawazorg<<<<<<
anl
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Invisible wrote:
> Heh. If there's one thing I've learned, it has to be this: Nobody gives
> a **** about Haskell. Seriously. Nobody cares.
*Especially* at universities.
Wait - where was GHC developed again? And what does the creator do for
a living?
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>>>>>>mue### [at] nawazorg<<<<<<
anl
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Mueen Nawaz wrote:
> just simply check Google Reader periodically, rather than checking 10+
> different sites for updated content.
I don't know if web browsers still do this, but it wasn't that many
years ago you could configure Mozilla to put a little star next to each
of your bookmarks that had been updated since last you looked at it.
RSS is the same thing, only just a bit less bandwidth.
--
Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)
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Mueen Nawaz <m.n### [at] ieeeorg> wrote:
> Mike Raiford wrote:
> >> 2. What actually *is* Slashdot? I keep hearing about it, but I'm still
> >> unclear on what it's supposed to "be".
> >
> > That tears it! Your geek license is officially revoked. :P
>
> Frankly, I don't blame him. It took me quite a while to figure out how
> to *use* it.
>
> Not that it's hard to use. It's just hard to tell what the purpose of
> the site is.
Ok, while you guys dutifully newsread for all these years, something called
blogs appeared on the web and allowed people to read articles and comment.
Some more advanced tech news blogs, like Slashdot, even came up with a way to
let readers moderate other reader comments and the moderations to be moderated
themselves.
I guess that's about it.
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