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2611.
by 4ad 15y ago
Exactly, mouse usage is pretty much required in Sam and Acme (and Plan9).
2612.
by 4ad 15y ago
Ah, no, sorry. It's more GUI because Plan9 terminals allow editing everything on screen. So I can type my text in ed and then use my mouse to position the cursor somewhere up, select text, and make a change. Perhaps I should have phrased it
2613.
by 4ad 15y ago
I agree. I know my view is very unpopular here, but I really don't think an editor that requires that massive block of text to understand is good. I used vi (not vim) for at least 10 years. The power of ed is what makes vi powerful, but if
2614.
by 4ad 15y ago
iPhone 1/2/3/4 are evolutionary devices, better hardware of same kind, same software, same software ecosystem. PS1/2/3 are different hardware architectures, different software and different software ecosystems.
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by 4ad 15y ago
I also don't understand from the website if this is a real filesystem (mounts in the namespace of the OS, works with any program etc) or o userspace utility, something like an explorer/finder plugin. Can anyone shed some light on that? Than
2616.
by 4ad 15y ago
I take your mercurialhub and give you a hghub instead. Ooops, it's actually shorter than hghub. github sounds cooler though, I take that. You can actually pronounce it.
2617.
by 4ad 15y ago
It is the idea of the combustion engine, and the fact that it became technical possible to build them that changed the world. It's not any particular combustion engine, but the combustion engine industry as a whole. Yes, the combustion en
2618.
by 4ad 15y ago
And people buy automobiles, not engines.
2619.
by 4ad 15y ago
Awk makes it trivially easy to parse text. How does Haskell handle this parsing task? I am curious because I've always wanted to learn Haskell, mainly because of its lazy evaluation, but hadn't had the time yet. Hope to do it soon.
2620.
by 4ad 15y ago
I do all the things one might use a spreadsheet for in awk :-). One might say it's slower then a spreadsheet. I don't know. I can type an one liner awk summation/average, faster then it takes OpenOffice to load. This is to me the most commo
2621.
by 4ad 15y ago
No, no, I understood that point of view from the beginning, I just doubt it for the particular example of printers. I have a few reasons. Companies would have no incentive on lowering price on laser technology when most people are encourage
2622.
by 4ad 15y ago
Are you suggesting companies are losing money in the act of selling printers? I believe they are making a net profit out of every printer sold. Edit: Look down for an explanation.
2623.
by 4ad 15y ago
In my country, we have Computer Science and Computer Engineering. CompSci is done in Science or Math faculties, while CompEng is done in engineering faculties. CompSci is about abstract theory. It's more related to math then to engineering.
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by 4ad 15y ago
You assume error happens in RAM. Occurring on the wire seems far more likely. Don't forget that DNS is UDP and DNS servers cache their requests.