Hi Mladen (does that mean "junior" or similar?)
> > "It's dead, Jim!"
I have to say that I am *_RELUCTANTLY_* forced to agree with Peter Schneider.
I have seen and read your posts on this forum over the
years and have respect for you and your technical abilities.
Here in Dublin I was even able to take your book out of the
local library when I was thinking of going with PHP (I've since
moved on to different stuff).
> No, it isn't. It just smells funny. Be aware, this is the only completely
> uncensored forum in which you can speak out your mind completely freely.
And why do you feel that stackexchange isn't a place where you can
do this? Apart from not being able to eff and blind (you can say
things like "your solution is sub-optimal" rather than "only a total
cretin would do it that way"), but it's free and open from a technical
point of view.
Even the Oracle forums are fairly free - I've used the eff word on it, and
criticised Oracle and not been censured.
The problem now is that not only is the signal to noise very low, signal
in absolute terms is now also low. On stackexchange and/or Oracle, there
is virtually no noise but the quality of many of the replies is top-notch
and into the bargain, signal in absolute terms is very high.
You appear to feel that they are not "free". The problem with the "freedom"
of this forum is that it has degenerated into the tragedy of the commons,
i.e. by being abused it has become (nearly) useless. I only have a finite
amount of time, and I get much more bang for my buck on stackexchange and/or
Oracle forums.
Any thoughts?
