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>It's akin to asking on IRC or writing a mail to a mailing list No it isn't. It is akin to shouting at random people on the street "help I don't know what to
by papsosouid 13y ago
>It's akin to asking on IRC or writing a mail to a mailing list
No it isn't. It is akin to shouting at random people on the street "help I don't know what to do!". Asking on IRC on a mailing list is going to a group of people who are there specifically to help people with problems on that subject.
- Xylakant 13y agoIf I had the reasonable expectation to find somebody qualified willing to help on the street with practically no effort I'd go that route as well. It's just very time consuming to do so, so that's why I usually don't.
- papsosouid 13y agoThat's precisely the point though, it isn't a reasonable expectation. The odds of a postgresql expert just happening to follow them on twitter are poor. The odds of multiple postgresql experts being on the postgresql mailing list is quite high.
- Xylakant 13y agoSure, the chances of finding an expert are low, but you'd be surprised how well it works. See, the tweet was posted to HN by someone and the chances of finding a Postgres expert here are significantly higher. More important is that the costs are low, even lower than writing to a ML. So why not try?