Re: [dev] Cataloging of contacts

2016-11-09 Thread Joseph Graham
On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 07:36:22PM +, Thomas Levine wrote: > I want to keep track of some information about people, and I have an > idea of what I want the user interface to be like. Perhaps is there > already something close to what I want? > > I want to record the following information about

Re: [dev] Cataloging of contacts

2016-11-09 Thread Jean Louis
On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 09:25:06PM +0100, hiro wrote: > just sell them to some spam company, then harvest them again later Oh, never, what would a spam company do with my specific contacts, for specific subjects, I am not to harm my people. JL > On 11/9/16, Jean Louis wrote: > > It's good to s

Re: [dev] Cataloging of contacts

2016-11-09 Thread hiro
just sell them to some spam company, then harvest them again later On 11/9/16, Jean Louis wrote: > It's good to start tracking people. I've made this decision long time > ago, today I have 64000+ contacts in the PostgreSQL database, and > making money on it. It is certainly not a suckless approac

Re: [dev] Cataloging of contacts

2016-11-09 Thread Jean Louis
It's good to start tracking people. I've made this decision long time ago, today I have 64000+ contacts in the PostgreSQL database, and making money on it. It is certainly not a suckless approach. As for simple, approach, if you are using directories for contacts, why not use simply files for phon

Re: [dev] Cataloging of contacts

2016-11-09 Thread Evan Gates
On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 11:36 AM, Thomas Levine <_...@thomaslevine.com> wrote: > I want to keep track of some information about people, and I have an > idea of what I want the user interface to be like. Perhaps is there > already something close to what I want? > > I want to record the following inf

Re: [dev] mailto: and customi URIs in surf?

2016-11-09 Thread Geyslan G. Bem
2016-11-09 14:52 GMT-03:00 Evan Gates : > On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 9:49 AM, wrote: >> It's definitely not beautiful, and breaks with the naming conventions >> in order to avoid naming conflicts (uppercase names preceded by underscores >> and so on). > > This is handled with the new headers, e.g. st

Re: [dev] mailto: and customi URIs in surf?

2016-11-09 Thread Geyslan G. Bem
2016-11-09 14:49 GMT-03:00 : >> I would like to know why C11 sucks around here :) Just curiosity. > > It's definitely not beautiful, and breaks with the naming conventions > in order to avoid naming conflicts (uppercase names preceded by underscores > and so on). I see. It's not beautiful indeed.

[dev] Cataloging of contacts

2016-11-09 Thread Thomas Levine
I want to keep track of some information about people, and I have an idea of what I want the user interface to be like. Perhaps is there already something close to what I want? I want to record the following information about each contact. * Name * Phone number * Email address * Postal address I

Re: [dev] mailto: and customi URIs in surf?

2016-11-09 Thread pranomestro
> I would like to know why C11 sucks around here :) Just curiosity. It's definitely not beautiful, and breaks with the naming conventions in order to avoid naming conflicts (uppercase names preceded by underscores and so on). It is afaik not fully supported by the compilers, and also less portabl

Re: [dev] mailto: and customi URIs in surf?

2016-11-09 Thread Evan Gates
On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 9:49 AM, wrote: > It's definitely not beautiful, and breaks with the naming conventions > in order to avoid naming conflicts (uppercase names preceded by underscores > and so on). This is handled with the new headers, e.g. stdalign.h has #define alignas _Alignas etc.

Re: [dev] mailto: and customi URIs in surf?

2016-11-09 Thread Alexander Keller
This has become a C discussion, so I'll toss in here. If you have a background in Python (most people who have coded before seem to), I recently stumbled upon http://www.toves.org/books/cpy/. It's light but covers enough to give you directions to study the language further. I personally would _no

Re: [dev] mailto: and customi URIs in surf?

2016-11-09 Thread Geyslan G. Bem
Hi there, 2016-11-09 12:49 GMT-03:00 Evan Gates : > On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 12:17 AM, Jean Louis wrote: >> Even I always wanted to learn C, in my country we did not have >> documentation, so I did not know where to begin, and don't know it >> even now. >> >> How did you start learning C? > > The b

Re: [dev] mailto: and customi URIs in surf?

2016-11-09 Thread Evan Gates
On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 12:17 AM, Jean Louis wrote: > Even I always wanted to learn C, in my country we did not have > documentation, so I did not know where to begin, and don't know it > even now. > > How did you start learning C? The best bet is still to buy a copy of "The C Programming Language

Re: [dev] mailto: and customi URIs in surf?

2016-11-09 Thread Jean Louis
Thank you. It seems that I have got to read new things, and started already... On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 10:22:36AM +0100, Martin Kühne wrote: > I can really recommend ##c on freenode. It is reputed to be a harsh > place where name-calling and stuff appears to be common, but they come > with a lot o

Re: [dev] mailto: and customi URIs in surf?

2016-11-09 Thread Martin Kühne
I can really recommend ##c on freenode. It is reputed to be a harsh place where name-calling and stuff appears to be common, but they come with a lot of knowledge which they have accumulated in their wiki [0]. It was actually suckless which made me take a closer look at c, as well, but ##c made me

Re: [dev] mailto: and customi URIs in surf?

2016-11-09 Thread Jean Louis
Hello Hiltjo, Thank you for motivation. I am now using Lisp, Scheme, and I was using Perl. And all for my private needs, mostly website revision system, CRM and ERP, by using PostgreSQL and some rapid development tools. When I use Scheme or Lisp, I have some libraries and documentation, I can sta