What is on Your Mind?

Hey Ravinder,

If you can fully describe the reward / rating system you want to implement, in a way that it can be coded, then I will consider coding it.

Regarding "new technologies" that seems a good idea but my experience is that it is up to users (like you and others) to post want they want to post. Creating tags and sub forums will not change that.

In other words, it is up to the members to post and tag on the tech they want to talk about.

I agree with you that we need people to be more active. UNIX and Linux technology has been around for a long time and so it's not "the latest and greatest" like Javascript, for example. Not sure how we can get folks "excited more" about these very long established technologies when there are so many newer technologies.

Creating new forums with the names of new technologies will not help, I don't think, but I could be wrong.

I have searched for some pretty strange things and although "Stack Overflow" comes up many times, so does UNIX.COM for shell related stuff.
Sure other sites come up but not as often as this one for UNIX related stuff, S.O. is for just about everything SW related not just *NIX.

DON'T LAUGH!
I am an AMIGA fanatic still and was searching for a basic FFT routine for Python 1.4.0 for the AMIGA. I have successfully written one for a seriously expanded A1200 for Python 2.0.1 but was stumped for a stock AMIGA A1200. There are loads for Python 2.6.x to Python 3.6.x but nothing for Python 2.0.1 and certainly NOT Python 1.4.0. (The AMIGA does not have the numpy or scipy modules.)
After literally hours and dropping deeper into Google's archives I came across a Public Domain piece of code that opened my eyes. No it didn't work on Python 1.4.0 but after modifying it is now working from Python 1.4.0 for a stock A1200 up to and incuding the current 3.7.0 on all other platforms - WOOHOO. It is reissued to AMINET as CC0, public Domain too.

From this I am going to see if it is possible using ksh, (and bc if it is needed), to translate this code for this site, (fingers crossed), for the minimum of ksh version we have for OSX 10.13.6.

Wish me luck.

If successful then it will be another search that would bring one here...

Because I have settled in here this is the first place I come to, usually as a guest, after booting up my MBP.

Sorry for being a bit off-topic, but i can't let this one go:

My suggestion is to first do it in Assembler. Doing it in Python (or any other interpreted language, except probably FORTH) is like trying to build a race car - out of Lego. And, second, to do it on a DSP. I am not up to date with the latest DSPs any more, but i suggest to take a look at the C66x series from Texas Instruments or the ADSP-SC57x series from Analog Devices. Both are RT-capable floating-point DSPs and from my personal experience (TI32C80 from TI, i can't remember the name of the AD machine) both manufacturers made great procs. You might also try the still available 56k-series by Motorola. I used these (especially the 56001) a lot back in the days.

I tried to explain the reason why i don't generally hang out in other tech forae (but in person instead) AND i offered (admittedly only by implication) a topic we could maybe expand to: right now we focus on factual questions that have some "exact" answer(s) to them. Something like "how to do X?", for which there may be one or at most a handful of correct answers, but all the possible answers will be either "right" or "wrong". They will either result in "X" or not.

What we don't have (and what other forae, like askubuntu, stack overflow, etc., are lacking too IMHO) is a place for discussions about more strategic topics. I.e. "how to select a fitting DevOps system for a given company/data center)?" or "best practices for being ITIL-compliant?". I admit that such a place would be a lot more difficult to moderate than our "normal" boards because the difference between spam and content might be blurrier. On the other hand it would also set us apart from the crowd if we can find a way to make it work.

I hope i made my point clearer now.

bakunin

Yes, but I still do not understand your point, but I'm sure it's because I'm coding all day and night and not thinking, LOL.

Anyone can post and discuss any of the topics you describe in any of many forums or places on this site. There is nothing to preclude anyone from doing so.

If I want to discuss " best practices for being ITIL-compliant?" (your example), I would simply post in "What Is On Your Mind", which is the catch-all area to post.

If I want to talk about "strategic topics", I just start posting in "What's On Your Mind" or "War Stories" or in any of the many other forums here.

We don't have any rules that say "Only Shell Coding Q&A Is Allowed".

What am I missing here?

In the past, each time someone requested a "new forum" and we added that forum or sub-forum, the same person who requested that forum did not post in that new forum very much, LOL.

We have a lot of "requested forums" which I need to deleted because they were requested by members, rarely used, and now exist as "hidden forums" with just a small handful of posts.

This code is done, and new threads will automatically be tagged based on the the forum, so each new thread will have at least one tag (the forum token tag) plus all tags added by users, mods and admins.

I will try to get a cron going that updates all the old threads as well.

Hello Neo,

Here are some thoughts on improving forums.(but not sure from coding perspective side)

i- This is PRIORITY one for me and I think you will too agree on it. As already discussed let us allow guest posting with maximum level of checks to avoid spams. By this definitely more questions will come by which more users will start visiting the site and then more ideas will come over here.

ii- Let us increase number of levels of members status, currently we have:
1- ADMIN
2- MODs
3- Forums Advisers
We could add some more levels eg-->
4- Beginner(less than 20 posts or so)
5- experience(may be if someone crosses 100 posts)

iii- Let us give certificates for becoming forum adviser, MODs, admin or if any new levels we are creating to show that how valuable our site's awards are.

iv- We could have a dashboard kind of system where let us start award system like:
1- "Monthly/Yearly hero for asking questions"
2- "Monthly/yearly hero for answering"
3- "Monthly/yearly hero for editing/moderating posts."
4- We could take inspiration from SO a bit and could start badge systems for TAGs?(I leave this open for discussion with all here and we could have our own badges NOT copied from some other forums etc but more badges will definitely give KICK to users to involve more, we should take this also as a priority IMHO)

v- One more thought but that is more like question to all members how could we invite experts of new technologies too in here for new TAGS? by which we will definitely attract more visitors as well as we all will do learning too.

vi- Let us have a sub-forum where people share their experience and design may be or thoughts(only technical not like what's your mind) so that new comers can learn about projects, how about this?

vii- We could have meetings on TOLL FREE number or on skype etc? where we all could join monthly once(MODs, Forum advisers, admins) to discuss topics like this related to forums?


On another note: Can we have a NON-PROD environment for this site where if anyone interested could raise hand and try to learn and help you to reduce your over weight May be people could come up with more ideas on enhancement of forums and could apply them in first non-live site or a sub-forum and then could make them LIVE later?


EDIT: On your note of unix and shell technologies, I believe they are EVERGREEN languages may come and go but shell commands, shell scripting will always be there(with enhanced features I believe always) and people will be keep using it too, we need to only tell more and more people that we too have good platform(which many of them know but we have to publicize more now our forums) here where they could contribute on asking or answering questions rest will happen automatically. I tested it on many systems and on many times when ever I was searching for any UNIX related questions around 3 to 4 years back always OUR FORUM's replies it showed on TOP but now it shows on 3rd or 4th number so not sure how it works but if we make google also search our site as first answer then also we may get more visitors and active users IMHO.


Also BTW you yourself is a PHP expert(though I know you are a full busy guy handling alone a great site, but when you get sometime I mean here) how about teaching/guiding(by posting some good stuff on forums etc) us PHP and I know at least 20 people(from my college itself) who could ask thousands of questions on it itself



Thanks,
R. Singh

Hi bakunin...

To take your reply to me off of this thread...
Carrying on here:
Slow FFT in ksh93 and awk.