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Why would cool-retro-term “freak out” IT professionals any more than a typical terminal emulator? Does “freak out” have some additional definition I’m unaware o

Why would cool-retro-term “freak out” IT professionals any more than a typical terminal emulator? Does “freak out” have some additional definition I’m unaware of? Personally I found cool-retro-term lacked support for a few ANSI escape sequences I needed for tmux to work quite how I liked which prevented me using it as my daily $TERM. I’m sure with a bit of effort I could have gotten it working but it was an effort not work making when there’s literally dozens of other ${TERM}s I could use and the only thing in favour of cool-retro-term is novelty. I do really like how cool-retro-term is an expansion of the acronym CRT. Clever project naming.

reaperducer 8y ago
Why would cool-retro-term “freak out” IT professionals any more than a typical terminal emulator? Because a typical terminal emulator doesn't make the brand new monitor they just installed look like it's broken.
- pushpop 8y ago
  Cool-retro-term doesn’t make a brand new monitor look like it’s broken. The effect of CRT isn’t even remotely what an LCD looks like when it fails. So I’m guessing when you say “IT professionals freak out” what you actually mean is “idiot desktop support engineers who think anyone who uses the command line are ‘l33t h4xx0rz’”. In which case they’d have a hernia if they saw the kind of workspace a typical non-poser runs.
  - reaperducer 8y ago
    So I’m guessing when you say “IT professionals freak out” what you actually mean is “idiot desktop support engineers who think anyone who uses the command line are ‘l33t h4xx0rz’”. You guessed wrong, since they're used to seeing me use iTerm all over my other monitors.
    - pushpop 8y ago
      That doesn’t prove my statement wrong. By the way, smooth move using an alternative account to circumvent the HN rule disallowing negative voting on replies. However I suggest next time you do this, you vary your timings a little. You make it obvious when every time my karma goes down is seconds after you comment.
      - dang 8y ago
        We just had to warn you about personal attacks a few days ago. If you continue to cross into incivility on HN, we're going to end up having to ban you. Could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this? Your comment also broke the guideline that asks you not to complain about votes. If you think you see abuse on HN, email us at hn@ycombinator.com instead. I looked at the data on your comments upthread and found no evidence of abuse. Everyone who voted was a long-established user.
        pushpop 8y ago
        I wasn’t making a personal attack against the OP. Just disagreeing with their assessment of “freak out”. Also being a long established user doesn’t invalidate my point about it being an alias account. It can’t be a fresh account because those don’t have the necessary karma to -ve vote
        dang 8y ago
        I don't recall, but I think by "personal attack" I was referring to your baseless accusation of abuse against the GP. Your first comment wasn't a personal attack, but it still broke the site guidelines—for example the one that asks you to "please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize." Arguably also the one against snark. I looked at the vote data, and there's no evidence whatsoever that your comment was downvoted by a voting ring. Far more likely is that it was downvoted for breaking the guidelines. Please don't do that (which btw includes not going on about downvotes).

reaperducer 8y ago

Why would cool-retro-term “freak out” IT professionals any more than a typical terminal emulator? Because a typical terminal emulator doesn't make the brand new monitor they just installed look like it's broken.

pushpop 8y ago
Cool-retro-term doesn’t make a brand new monitor look like it’s broken. The effect of CRT isn’t even remotely what an LCD looks like when it fails. So I’m guessing when you say “IT professionals freak out” what you actually mean is “idiot desktop support engineers who think anyone who uses the command line are ‘l33t h4xx0rz’”. In which case they’d have a hernia if they saw the kind of workspace a typical non-poser runs.
- reaperducer 8y ago
  So I’m guessing when you say “IT professionals freak out” what you actually mean is “idiot desktop support engineers who think anyone who uses the command line are ‘l33t h4xx0rz’”. You guessed wrong, since they're used to seeing me use iTerm all over my other monitors.
  - pushpop 8y ago
    That doesn’t prove my statement wrong. By the way, smooth move using an alternative account to circumvent the HN rule disallowing negative voting on replies. However I suggest next time you do this, you vary your timings a little. You make it obvious when every time my karma goes down is seconds after you comment.
    - dang 8y ago
      We just had to warn you about personal attacks a few days ago. If you continue to cross into incivility on HN, we're going to end up having to ban you. Could you please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and fix this? Your comment also broke the guideline that asks you not to complain about votes. If you think you see abuse on HN, email us at hn@ycombinator.com instead. I looked at the data on your comments upthread and found no evidence of abuse. Everyone who voted was a long-established user.
      - pushpop 8y ago
        I wasn’t making a personal attack against the OP. Just disagreeing with their assessment of “freak out”. Also being a long established user doesn’t invalidate my point about it being an alias account. It can’t be a fresh account because those don’t have the necessary karma to -ve vote
        dang 8y ago
        I don't recall, but I think by "personal attack" I was referring to your baseless accusation of abuse against the GP. Your first comment wasn't a personal attack, but it still broke the site guidelines—for example the one that asks you to "please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize." Arguably also the one against snark. I looked at the vote data, and there's no evidence whatsoever that your comment was downvoted by a voting ring. Far more likely is that it was downvoted for breaking the guidelines. Please don't do that (which btw includes not going on about downvotes).