Encodign issue in Python 3.3.1 (once again)

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Mon May 27 18:18:06 EDT 2013


On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 2:56 AM, Νίκος Γκρ33κ <nikos.gr33k at gmail.com> wrote:
> Τη Δευτέρα, 27 Μαΐου 2013 6:52:32 μ.μ. UTC+3, ο χρήστης Chris Angelico έγραψε:
>
>> Oh, and you may want to hire a typist, too. At the moment, your posts
>> make you appear not to care about the job.
>
> I always make typos when iam typing fast.

Yes, but then you don't go back and correct them before hitting Send,
which is what makes you appear to care very little. Typos in real-time
chat are understandable (though even on MUDs, most people tend to
broadcast less typos than your posts have, because even there there's
time to edit before hitting Enter), but with email, it's very easy to
spend 60 seconds glancing over your post before you send it. You're
using gmail, so chances are all you need to do is use a web browser
with a spellchecker and you'll catch all of the typos; I use Google
Chrome, and it has the now-prevalent red squiggly lines under all
suspected errors. (It's not perfect, of course; quite a few
correctly-spelled words are mistakenly flagged. But it's still pretty
effective at catching typos.)

You're effectively asking people to put in a few minutes' work,
sometimes quite a few minutes, to help you. Is it too much to hope
that you'll spend one more minute on your posts?

This is something that's utterly trivial, yet a window to your mind.
It's like boarding an airliner and finding coffee stains on the
flip-down trays - the plane flies just fine with those stains, yet the
impression they give is that the crew don't care about engine
maintenance either.

ChrisA



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