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His profound disgust for Terminal.app to me is a case of Princess and the Pea syndrome: I remember typing into actual glass terminals, so—without trying to soun
by edw 16y ago
His profound disgust for Terminal.app to me is a case of Princess and the Pea syndrome: I remember typing into actual glass terminals, so—without trying to sound too much like grandpa here—he sounds a bit spoiled to me.
I knew a lot of people like this guy. I'd be sitting at a SPARCstation in the computer lab running twm and there'd be some dude next to me that was never content with something that just fucking worked and he was constantly trying to optimize everything. As someone else already said, whenever I see people like this, I want to ask, "Better for whom? Better for what?"
And what of this? "I don’t think I need to further argue this sub ject—we all agree open-source is good." Hello?! You're talking to Mac users here, they may not agree to some statement that you find blindingly obvious, given that they're not using a $300 netbook based on Linux.
Yeah, all things considered, maybe I'd prefer to program Unix on a FreeBSD box, but I do more than just program.
- protomyth 16y agoIt is amazing how your opinion of terminal apps gets colored by actually using stuff like the Z19, vt100, or vt220. I do wonder what Plan 9 users think about the whole thing.
- astrodust 16y agoI've done programming on computers that didn't even have a proper backspace key, you had to literally hit CTRL+H, written hundreds of thousands of lines on a system with no windowing system whatsoever, and this guy is complaining because you can't "full screen" or use the mouse in Terminal.app? If you want Linux, install Linux. Not hard. No reason to write an angry post about how OS X isn't X11.
- mturmon 16y agoSo true. As the http://usesthis.com http://usesthis.com interviews have shown, people can be highly productive using highly divergent development setups. Even serious coders in the neckbeard tradition, which seems to be what the OP aspires to.