@Matt: "Devil's Advocate" or "The Devil's Advocate". The later features Charlize Theron and that's a very good thing!
Yeah I know, I was mostly kidding about the "eliminate all other sites" bit ;-) I'm just so very tired and bored with SO. Tired of having to sift through a hundred+ SO garbage posts to find one or two with links to an external site containing the answer I need. Tired of putting money in their pockets :-( On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 4:14 PM, matt j. sorenson <[email protected]>wrote: > On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 3:05 PM, Mark Deibert <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > @Filippo and a couple others: Are you arguing that it would be acceptable > > to forcibly close and eliminate all other programming communities because > > SO/SE is so absolutely perfect that we don't need any other online > > communities? > > > I am certainly not saying that, no, not at all. Perhaps I came off that > way, I'm told I play the devil's advocate[1] role pretty well ;) > > > > > > If we have someone to set it up and it can be managed by users, I vote > for > > a stand-alone CouchDB community. It can then generate it's own ad income. > > Give that money to the guys busting their butts building CouchDB! > > > > > Yeah, again, I'm not taking a position against taking it in-house. I just > would rather not see it detract from the community's core competency of > improving couchdb. And it doesnt have to... the community will grow and > with it, the pool of talent and ways to contribute will also grow. Hell, > awhile back, I started in on an "aggregator to trump all aggregators" > portal thinger... based around commentary in one of these ML threads. I > didn't stick with it, but the idea still intrigues me. > > [1] Not in the same tier as Lonesome Dove, but also a good movie >
