Re: [racket-users] Slack IRC bridge malfunctioning

2016-02-09 Thread Norman Gray
Matthew (and Neil), hello. (and being conscious of Neil's implied suggestion that this may be drifting off-topic for the list) On 9 Feb 2016, at 1:26, Matthew Butterick wrote: Neil's critique ought not be lightly dismissed. Oh, I certainly didn't intend to _dismiss_ Neil's critique (and

Re: [racket-users] Slack IRC bridge malfunctioning

2016-02-08 Thread Norman Gray
Neil, hello. Separately from the question about the wisdom or not of a Slack/IRC bridge, you mentioned On 7 Feb 2016, at 20:31, Neil Van Dyke wrote: much less bridged to this billion-dollar data-grabbing intermediary Slack dotcom. Is that a thing that Slack do? I've previously been

[racket-users] Slack IRC bridge malfunctioning

2016-02-07 Thread Jack Firth
The Slack channel that mirrors the messages in the IRC hasn't seen any messages in the last few days. I checked the archives and there are a few messages in the Slack channel that didn't make it across the bridge into irc-land either. Would whoever set up the bridge between the two be willing

Re: [racket-users] Slack IRC bridge malfunctioning

2016-02-07 Thread Neil Van Dyke
It's too late now, but an opinion for students who will go on to develop systems over the next few decades... IMHO, it might have been better if the IRC channel had never been logged/archived in the first place, much less bridged to this billion-dollar data-grabbing intermediary Slack dotcom.