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| Re: Hi, My Name is David. And I'm a Lurker [message #23432 is a reply to message #23427] |
Sat, 27 January 2001 06:52   |
Chris Bull
Messages: 7
Registered: January 2001
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UK based lurking alert
"David Fanning" <davidf@dfanning.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.14dabaddb4dbb4be989d39@news.frii.com...
> Folks,
>
> Craig's wonderful parody the other day of what most
> of the regulars would say to a recent question, and
> today's talk of lurkers has got me thinking. Are there
> really only 10 of us paying any attention to this
> newsgroup?
>
> It occurs to me that if that really was the case
> that you guys ought to be getting tired of the
> same lame jokes I use all the time. :-)
>
> And if my wife is right and I really don't have
> the "huge following" I often profess to her when
> I am trying to justify no income after 10 hours
> parked in front of a computer, then I might even
> be encouraged to go get a real life.
>
> So I propose a new thread for lurkers only.
>
> Here's the deal. You don't even have to ask an
> IDL question. Just give us your first name and
> tell us where you live. Throw in the name of your
> dog if you feel like really living dangerously.
> Just a note to let us know you are out there.
>
> There will be two enormous benefits from this
> thread. Those of us who do spend quite a bit
> of time answering questions here can take
> great satisfaction and three bucks and get
> a latte at Starbucks. And people who hit that
> SEND button will discover that your fingers
> don't fall off, nor are you electrocuted when
> you do it. So a big Win/Win for everyone. :-)
>
> What do you say? Anyone out there? Only people
> who have never posted, or posted no more than
> once in the past 3 months, please.
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
> --
> David Fanning, Ph.D.
> Fanning Software Consulting
> Phone: 970-221-0438 E-Mail: davidf@dfanning.com
> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
> Toll-Free IDL Book Orders: 1-888-461-0155
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| Re: Hi, My Name is David. And I'm a Lurker [message #23433 is a reply to message #23432] |
Fri, 26 January 2001 16:20 |
Steve Ready
Messages: 6
Registered: July 2000
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OK, so i peruse this newsgroup daily. From my experience, this and
sci.image.processing are two of the 0.01% of newgroups worthwhile reading.
I've been using IDL for ~8 years now. It has prevented me from (having
to)learning more of C and C++ (other than writing externals).
You can see my dogs and all the other critters at:
http://www.oberhasli.org/redtailridge
Steve Ready
Xerox PARC
"David Fanning" <davidf@dfanning.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.14dabaddb4dbb4be989d39@news.frii.com...
> Folks,
>
> Craig's wonderful parody the other day of what most
> of the regulars would say to a recent question, and
> today's talk of lurkers has got me thinking. Are there
> really only 10 of us paying any attention to this
> newsgroup?
>
> It occurs to me that if that really was the case
> that you guys ought to be getting tired of the
> same lame jokes I use all the time. :-)
>
> And if my wife is right and I really don't have
> the "huge following" I often profess to her when
> I am trying to justify no income after 10 hours
> parked in front of a computer, then I might even
> be encouraged to go get a real life.
>
> So I propose a new thread for lurkers only.
>
> Here's the deal. You don't even have to ask an
> IDL question. Just give us your first name and
> tell us where you live. Throw in the name of your
> dog if you feel like really living dangerously.
> Just a note to let us know you are out there.
>
> There will be two enormous benefits from this
> thread. Those of us who do spend quite a bit
> of time answering questions here can take
> great satisfaction and three bucks and get
> a latte at Starbucks. And people who hit that
> SEND button will discover that your fingers
> don't fall off, nor are you electrocuted when
> you do it. So a big Win/Win for everyone. :-)
>
> What do you say? Anyone out there? Only people
> who have never posted, or posted no more than
> once in the past 3 months, please.
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
> --
> David Fanning, Ph.D.
> Fanning Software Consulting
> Phone: 970-221-0438 E-Mail: davidf@dfanning.com
> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
> Toll-Free IDL Book Orders: 1-888-461-0155
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| Re: Hi, My Name is David. And I'm a Lurker [message #23458 is a reply to message #23457] |
Fri, 26 January 2001 09:38 |
Paul Woodford
Messages: 43
Registered: June 2000
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A post with two purposes:
1) I usually lurk, with some rare posts thrown in.
2) In article <3A713F5E.3385C876@SPAM.ethz.ch>, Niclas H M Tylli
<niclas.tylli.ZERO@SPAM.ethz.ch> wrote:
> Is there really any reason to use IDL instead of, for
> instance, Matlab? I like IDL, but that is only because I happened to
> begin using IDL.
We migrated from Matlab to IDL because IDL handles arrays with more than
two dimensions better, has better support for different data types, and
supports the Macintosh.
--
Paul Woodford, Ph.D.
Essex Corporation
For faster email response, replace us dot net with essexcorp dot com
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| Re: Hi, My Name is David. And I'm a Lurker [message #23482 is a reply to message #23481] |
Fri, 26 January 2001 01:11 |
Niclas H M Tylli
Messages: 2
Registered: January 2001
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Make that thirteen. However, to put it the other way around, the amount of
traffic on a group probably reflects the number people concerned with the topic.
Perhaps there really aren't that many IDL users out there... A thought which
leads me to the question: Is there really any reason to use IDL instead of, for
instance, Matlab? I like IDL, but that is only because I happened to begin using
IDL.
niclas
> |>>What do you say? Anyone out there? Only people
> |>>who have never posted, or posted no more than
> |>>once in the past 3 months, please.
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> |>Don't worry, Dave, there are at least 11 people reading this NG:-)
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> Maybe there are twelve, if you count me too. I have no dog, so his name
> is missing here.
>
> Michael Plugge
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| Re: Hi, My Name is David. And I'm a Lurker [message #23483 is a reply to message #23482] |
Thu, 25 January 2001 23:32 |
plugge
Messages: 17
Registered: May 1995
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In article <5B8c6.133$x3.2384@uchinews>, meron@cars3.uchicago.edu writes:
|>In article <MPG.14dabaddb4dbb4be989d39@news.frii.com>, davidf@dfanning.com
|>(David Fanning) writes:
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|>>What do you say? Anyone out there? Only people
|>>who have never posted, or posted no more than
|>>once in the past 3 months, please.
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|>Don't worry, Dave, there are at least 11 people reading this NG:-)
Maybe there are twelve, if you count me too. I have no dog, so his name
is missing here.
Michael Plugge
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| Re: Hi, My Name is David. And I'm a Lurker [message #23635 is a reply to message #23433] |
Wed, 07 February 2001 12:54 |
Phillip David
Messages: 36
Registered: April 1999
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I guess I'm not even a very good lurker, because I missed the original
message. I finally got back to catching up on the newsgroup today,
though, and appreciated seeing the whole message in Steve's reply.
I post occasionally, but not recently because I haven't been doing much
IDL work recently.
Phillip
Steve Ready wrote:
>
> OK, so i peruse this newsgroup daily. From my experience, this and
> sci.image.processing are two of the 0.01% of newgroups worthwhile reading.
> I've been using IDL for ~8 years now. It has prevented me from (having
> to)learning more of C and C++ (other than writing externals).
>
> You can see my dogs and all the other critters at:
> http://www.oberhasli.org/redtailridge
>
> Steve Ready
> Xerox PARC
>
> "David Fanning" <davidf@dfanning.com> wrote in message
> news:MPG.14dabaddb4dbb4be989d39@news.frii.com...
>> Folks,
>>
>> Craig's wonderful parody the other day of what most
>> of the regulars would say to a recent question, and
>> today's talk of lurkers has got me thinking. Are there
>> really only 10 of us paying any attention to this
>> newsgroup?
>>
>> It occurs to me that if that really was the case
>> that you guys ought to be getting tired of the
>> same lame jokes I use all the time. :-)
>>
>> And if my wife is right and I really don't have
>> the "huge following" I often profess to her when
>> I am trying to justify no income after 10 hours
>> parked in front of a computer, then I might even
>> be encouraged to go get a real life.
>>
>> So I propose a new thread for lurkers only.
>>
>> Here's the deal. You don't even have to ask an
>> IDL question. Just give us your first name and
>> tell us where you live. Throw in the name of your
>> dog if you feel like really living dangerously.
>> Just a note to let us know you are out there.
>>
>> There will be two enormous benefits from this
>> thread. Those of us who do spend quite a bit
>> of time answering questions here can take
>> great satisfaction and three bucks and get
>> a latte at Starbucks. And people who hit that
>> SEND button will discover that your fingers
>> don't fall off, nor are you electrocuted when
>> you do it. So a big Win/Win for everyone. :-)
>>
>> What do you say? Anyone out there? Only people
>> who have never posted, or posted no more than
>> once in the past 3 months, please.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> David
>>
>> --
>> David Fanning, Ph.D.
>> Fanning Software Consulting
>> Phone: 970-221-0438 E-Mail: davidf@dfanning.com
>> Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
>> Toll-Free IDL Book Orders: 1-888-461-0155
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| Re: Hi, My Name is David. And I'm a Lurker [message #23680 is a reply to message #23453] |
Sun, 11 February 2001 16:42 |
Martin Downing
Messages: 136
Registered: September 1998
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Hi David and co,
I've been trying to quit but have relapsed and am lurking again. I've been
programming in IDL for 6 years now. Long time ago (no not 18 years!) I
posted a very poor emacs hack for wave-mode, which has happily been
superseded by people who understand lisp! I now use Windows which ain't soo
bad except I miss version control - as does anyone who reads my code! (since
like David I suffer from diving in and "improving" stuff on a moments
inspiration.)
Martin
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Martin Downing,
Clinical Research Physicist,
Orthopaedic RSA Research Centre,
Woodend Hospital,
Aberdeen, AB15 6LS.
m.downing@abdn.ac.uk
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"Robert S. Hill" <bhill@virgil.gsfc.nasa.gov> wrote in message
news:Pine.GSO.4.21.0101261244180.10177-100000@virgil.gsfc.na sa.gov...
> Hi,
>
> I mostly lurk. I have posted sparingly from time to time, but don't
> believe I have done so in the last three months.
>
> This is a real good newsgroup, both for tone and for content. The
> discussion of details by the regular essayists is illuminating, and this
> is also the place to keep being reminded about all the stuff one can
> download from the Websites of generous programmers.
>
> -- Bob
>
> --
> Robert S. Hill bhill@virgil.gsfc.nasa.gov 301-286-3624
> Raytheon ITSS Code 681, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD 20771
>
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| Re: Hi, My Name is David. And I'm a Lurker [message #23681 is a reply to message #23580] |
Sun, 11 February 2001 16:08 |
George Constantinides
Messages: 16
Registered: July 2000
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I have posted a couple of times in the last year but I read this
newsgroup regularly. I suppose that makes me a lurker.
I have made direct use of tips from Mark Hadfield, David Fanning, Greg
Markwardt so thanks guys.
Other people's input has also influenced my programming habits (for the
better) indirectly.
I don't have a dog.
I want to add a family picture to this post but it contravenes newgroup
regulations.
--
George Constantinides
Manly Hydraulics Laboratory
110b King Street Manly Vale NSW
URL http://www.mhl.nsw.gov.au
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