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Honestly, I think it's a little of column A and a little of column B. While sometimes it can be useful and faster to bust out a one line bash shortcut, I think
by zainny 14y ago
Honestly, I think it's a little of column A and a little of column B. While sometimes it can be useful and faster to bust out a one line bash shortcut, I think the HN community is also a bit guilty of over-romanticizing Unix/Bash/<Insert non-visual & somewhat geeky tool/language>.
- hazov 14y agoAbout non-visual stuff I can simply answer that I am more productive with a shell, R, ggplot2 and python than with excel, just because I know this better. This is my stack along with matlab and mathematica in the bank where I work now, both basically at cli level. The majority of people in my division uses excel. I also think of things in an every unix way in my using of computers largely because of 15 years of using unix like systems, it's the same when I need to code more than a couple of lines and do not have vim, for me the brain became too much used to it, I believe this will be the case for many people in HN.
- zmoney 14y agoWell, it's not romantic if it's actually practical. Bottom line, I think, is if you really get the shell, it is almost infinitely useful.