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Why is this website being tricky about letting me select text? Some invisible overlay it seems. I'll just have Firebug delete a few elements and be happy. >
by J_Darnley 11y ago
Why is this website being tricky about letting me select text? Some invisible overlay it seems. I'll just have Firebug delete a few elements and be happy.
> GNU Make 3.81
My god. What kind of ancient system is that? I didn't even Debian was that outdated.
Why is it a surprise that make is good for controlling file transformations? Other than that it reads like a good introduction to make.
- paxswill 11y agoOS X ships with that version of Make.
- RexRollman 11y agoThe article says it is OS X. Maybe this is because of Apple not wanting to use something licensed under GPL-3?
- adrusi 11y agoA lot of the web development community, especially the section that I get the impression smashingmagazine caters to, doesn't know much about Unix or C programming. If they've heard of make, they probably know it as "that ancient cryptic tool for compiling C++ programs" or "that command that I typed to install that one program on Mac". I hope this doesn't come across as condescending, if they can get by fine without using make then there's no reason they ought to be expected to be familiar with it.
- imsofuture 11y agoUbuntu Trusty ships with 3.81