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That misses the point. I don’t even want to think about any of that stuff. It’s a single command to install oh-my-zsh. I can fire it off, check Slack, and com

That misses the point. I don’t even want to think about any of that stuff. It’s a single command to install oh-my-zsh. I can fire it off, check Slack, and come back in 5 minutes. If I have to take 5 minutes to setup it up, I’m just not going to do it.

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MeetingsBrowser 10mo ago
Caring enough to read a blog post and comment on hackernews, but not enough to copy/paste the changes from the blog post is a very fine line.
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- SkyPuncher 10mo ago
  Not sure what your point argument is.
  - darkwater 10mo ago
    Their point is that what you complain about as "time consuming" is not time consuming at all and that you consumed more time reading the post and commenting on HN that actually installing starship. In your defense I must say I installed starship ages ago but still not migrated to it from powerline-go because I'm lazy.
- subsection1h 10mo ago
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- happytoexplain 10mo ago
  This is common low-quality internet arguing ("you care enough to come into this thread but..."). You can avoid this by keeping in mind that different things are different things, and analogies have many holes by default.
subsection1h 10mo ago
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- shiredude95 10mo ago
  there's some nuance to this. people might want to spend minimal time hacking on their shell and more time hacking on things they find interesting that are not related to shell setup (and also not webshit). besides even if its webshit, what makes you say shell setup hacking is more or less interesting compared to webshit hacking. the term webshit itself implies you view it as less interesting than shell setup -- fair if thats your pov, but doesnt make it intrinsic.
- SkyPuncher 10mo ago
  It's a tool. Some chefs like to spend hours sharpening their knifes with wet stones. Others are just going to run it through a power sharpener and get on their way. I like to focus my craft in places other than the terminal.
- anhner 10mo ago
  > important webshit to build hackernews: where a large portion of programmers are considered inferior because of the domain they work in (the domain where hackernews also lives)
  - sgarland 10mo ago
    It’s more that tired experience has taught that of the various disciplines, web devs are the most likely to have a shaky-at-best understanding of fundamentals, and thus do silly things like assume network calls will never fail, or store everything in JSON blobs and then wonder why their queries are slow. I’ve also worked with some awesome web devs, to be fair.
- bigstrat2003 10mo ago
  Different strokes I guess. Personally I think any time spent tinkering with the shell is a waste of time: a basic, zero-customization bash is just as good at doing things for me as a shell that I've messed around with the settings on for ages. So I don't waste time on customizing my shell because it provides no value to me, while those who get value can spend the time. We both win.

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MeetingsBrowser 10mo ago

Caring enough to read a blog post and comment on hackernews, but not enough to copy/paste the changes from the blog post is a very fine line.

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SkyPuncher 10mo ago
Not sure what your point argument is.
- darkwater 10mo ago
  Their point is that what you complain about as "time consuming" is not time consuming at all and that you consumed more time reading the post and commenting on HN that actually installing starship. In your defense I must say I installed starship ages ago but still not migrated to it from powerline-go because I'm lazy.
subsection1h 10mo ago
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happytoexplain 10mo ago
This is common low-quality internet arguing ("you care enough to come into this thread but..."). You can avoid this by keeping in mind that different things are different things, and analogies have many holes by default.

subsection1h 10mo ago

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shiredude95 10mo ago
there's some nuance to this. people might want to spend minimal time hacking on their shell and more time hacking on things they find interesting that are not related to shell setup (and also not webshit). besides even if its webshit, what makes you say shell setup hacking is more or less interesting compared to webshit hacking. the term webshit itself implies you view it as less interesting than shell setup -- fair if thats your pov, but doesnt make it intrinsic.
SkyPuncher 10mo ago
It's a tool. Some chefs like to spend hours sharpening their knifes with wet stones. Others are just going to run it through a power sharpener and get on their way. I like to focus my craft in places other than the terminal.
anhner 10mo ago
> important webshit to build hackernews: where a large portion of programmers are considered inferior because of the domain they work in (the domain where hackernews also lives)
- sgarland 10mo ago
  It’s more that tired experience has taught that of the various disciplines, web devs are the most likely to have a shaky-at-best understanding of fundamentals, and thus do silly things like assume network calls will never fail, or store everything in JSON blobs and then wonder why their queries are slow. I’ve also worked with some awesome web devs, to be fair.
bigstrat2003 10mo ago
Different strokes I guess. Personally I think any time spent tinkering with the shell is a waste of time: a basic, zero-customization bash is just as good at doing things for me as a shell that I've messed around with the settings on for ages. So I don't waste time on customizing my shell because it provides no value to me, while those who get value can spend the time. We both win.