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Stallman doesn't use a web browser
- rms 19y agoGotta love him.
- pius 19y agoThat's why you stole his username? :P
- kirubakaran 19y agoI'm sure you know the story, but for the benefit of the newbies: It is supposedly: 'Rupert Murdoch Sucks'.
- andreyf 19y agoI don't think he needs it... but he'd have something to say about your use of the word "steal".
- alaskamiller 19y agoHe does crank dat while waiting for the wget bar to finish.
- alaskamiller 19y agohttp://www.craigslist.org/about/best/bos/533096562.html http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/bos/533096562.html
- tlrobinson 19y agoAnd I thought it was crazy that he didn't use a cell phone ("personal tracking device"... as he calls it)...
- mattzitzmann 19y agoWhy should we care? I liken Stallman to a fanatical religious person. Although intelligent, they're completely out of touch with reality. Stallman has brainwashed himself with ridiculous beliefs. Don't drink the (un)Kool-Aid too!
- jcromartie 19y agoAnd remember, through all of this emailing-a-server-to-get-the-page-emailed-back ordeal, he doesn't use an on-line email reader either! He downloads new messages in a batch and reads them off-line. He then writes responses that get uploaded and sent off in bulk later. At least, that was the way it worked last time I read about it.
- oddgodd 19y agoI wonder if he's using UUCP?
- tx 19y agoTo all sarcastic commenters: Hey, dudes: he built a bunch of cool and famous software, some of which you are using without paying a dime for, and even making money with. He has no blog. Can't be found on Facebook. Apparently doesn't even like surfing web. But there is a wiki page about him and he gets recognized while walking down the street. His name is Richard Stallman. What is YOUR name? What have YOU built?
- run4yourlives 19y agoAhh the cult of celebrity. No longer confined to the big screen!
- trajan 19y agoWhat, he can't be brilliant and famous while also being a weirdo? This is like Daniel Day-Lewis' cobbler stint.
- gojomo 19y agoIndeed! And I think Stallman comes off OK in the full referenced OpenBSD-related thread, too. He's precise and peculiar, but calm and consistent, while the people responding to him get quite pissy.
- mwerty 19y agoThat's still an ad hominem.
- far33d 19y agoStallman is such a weird dude. I once heard he's afraid of plants.
- Tichy 19y agoAnd Donald Knuth doesn't use email. Maybe there is a lesson here? Hint: timewasters, interruptions, multitasking vs productivity...
- cawel 19y agoThere were 4 rooms for my first C++ class at uni: 3 with brand new Pentium II's and 1 with the old (and slow) 486's. No wonder, nobody wanted to be in that latter room for the exam at the end of the semester. So the teacher had to randomly dispatch people in those 4 rooms. Funny surprise: the results from the 486's room were slightly better (than the results in other rooms). Hypotheses: people in the 486's room were thinking twice before launching the slow compilation (leading to less compilation errors), as opposed to launching it often in other rooms (with probably more compilation errors). Bottom line: increasing the focus reduces waste of time.
- xirium 19y agoThis phenomena is mentioned in The Mythical Man Month. An interactive debug session is three times more productive than batch submissions. However, when access to computational power becomes too easy, people fiddle aimlessly without a directed plan.