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I assume somebody thought this was funny?
by callamdelaney 2y ago
I assume somebody thought this was funny?
- sodapopcan 2y agoI think it’s funny, though didn’t have the attention span to read through all of it.
- ghostly_s 2y agoI guess. It is non-ideal how unintuitive it is to exit vim, but esc-esc-q-! is really not that complicated.
- kristopolous 2y agoA lot of people did, look at the contributors There's this subculture in the computer world, the pinnacle of which is arguably still Eric Raymond's Jargon File (http://catb.org/jargon/html/ http://catb.org/jargon/html/) which I could never connect with it.
- callamdelaney 2y agoThat's kind of what makes it un-funny, there's like 100 repetitions of the same joke. How can that be funny?
- maxbond 2y agoClarification, ESR didn't originate the jargon file. He edited and published an edition of it, but he wasn't the first to do so. "The Story of Mel" and "Sussman Attains Enlightenment" are stories I come back to every so often. There's similar stuff here: http://www.thecodelesscode.com/contents http://www.thecodelesscode.com/contents I sure hope the jargon file isn't the pinnacle. Not because of any problem with it, I just hope we will surpass a collection last majorly edited 30 years ago.
- rajamaka 2y agoI've seen this shared around amongst devs in 3 consecutive jobs I've worked at, so yeah probably a few people.
- chimpansteve 2y agoI love Vim. I use it pretty much exclusively. I found it very funny. So, yes.
- johnnyanmac 2y agoHumor is subjective, but for me it was one of those chuckles that turned into "this is getting too long". And then you realize it goes on for so long with so many technologies that it loops around to being funny again, or simply impressive at what a high effort troll this was.