jgoerzen

8 ms·

1. 31.▲
   by jgoerzen 14y ago

   At 3, Jacob knew his alphabet and could find keys on the keyboard. He learned enough to remember, by rote or otherwise, that "worm" launched the worm game and "sl" launched steam locomotives, sometimes using a cheat sheet for help. He cou
2. 32.▲
   by jgoerzen 14y ago

   I'm saving that for next week. ;-) (seriously.) It's really very simple for a child. C-x C-s, C-x C-c, and arrow keys. All they really need to do. I thought about vim, but I think it would lead to too many confusing situations. I have a
3. 33.▲
   by jgoerzen 14y ago

   I think it's great that you broke the system so badly. You then got to fix it, and you also learned that you have the ability to fix it even when it's terribly broken. Ultimately, if you don't have the ability to break things, you don't tr
4. 34.▲
   by jgoerzen 14y ago

   This is accurate to some degree. They would have been excited without xmonad, or with gdm instead of startx, because it was something new and involved a mouse. They were super-excited about that part. Part of my point was that we don't ha