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I'll take it as encouraging that I've reached the level of expertise where my questions are more quickly answered on SO--I will grant that "where do I find an U

• gnosis 16y ago
  "I'll take it as encouraging that I've reached the level of expertise where my questions are more quickly answered on SO" This attitude of yours says more about your lack of experience with and appreciation of IRC than it does about its relative merits in respect to SO.
  • khafra 16y ago
    That's not an attitude. That's an appropriate response to assertions you made about the obscurity of questions and unpopularity of platforms that will receive no response on IRC. I realize it was not a humble response, but it was not an attitude. As to inexperience, I'll admit I've only been on Efnet's #help since 1997-ish and Freenode since around 2005, but that's still much longer than I've been on SO.
• alnayyir 16y ago
  >I'll take it as encouraging that I've reached the level of expertise where my questions are more quickly answered on SO You have no idea how devs actually function then. Almost every open source project that is active and of a certain size has an IRC dev channel where they hash stuff out. I've worked at more than one company where dev and ops idled in private IRC channels as well.
  • khafra 16y ago
    My questions are not of the sort "Why hasn't my patch been committed?" I consider this a difference in type of expertise more than a difference in level of expertise.