Re: "Yellow Pages"

What we maybe tend to forget is that we are writing for posterity, not just for the moment.

If you're writing for posterity, you most likely need to not publish that junk, its probably off topic.

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Re^2: "Yellow Pages" by jdporter (Paladin) on Jun 07, 2012 at 17:52 UTC
The objective reality is that each author chooses his/her audience, whether consciously or not. Clearly, some nodes are written to be timeless. (Alas, most of the authors of such nodes seem to have moved on to happier hunting grounds.) But most content is clearly ephemeral, and not expected to be otherwise. I think it's a strength of this site that it supports and encourages both (and other) modes of discourse. I reckon we are the only monastery ever to have a dungeon stuffed with 16,000 zombies.	[reply]
Re^3: "Yellow Pages" by Anonymous Monk on Jun 07, 2012 at 19:14 UTC
The objective reality is that each author chooses his/her audience ... The truth of the truism is self evident in the obviousness of its self evidentness. sigh yeah, I guess you're going to have to make me come out and say it again. When someone posts in SOPW asking a question, with code and data and everything, they want help with their problem, not a snowjob-meditation for posterity -- point in case Re: Sorting Hashes of hashes. Stop trolling people trying to write code, Meditations is that way.	[reply]