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by p9idf 14y ago
I'm more interested in ideas themselves than details about how they're marketed. Plan 9 and its novelties are well known and published in detail. The authors of Linux, BSD, OSX, and NT are aware of Plan 9 and decided it wasn't worth imitati
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by p9idf 14y ago
Your point is not clear to me.
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by p9idf 14y ago
>[Plan 9 exists] because the status quo is bad and something must be done . That's a strange way to describe research and experimentation (though not strictly incorrect). >I just wished they focused on making the mainstream bette
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by p9idf 14y ago
I doubt the dispersion is caused by any specific properties of my lenses but rather by how my preferred desk arrangement makes me often look off the lens' axes. I could get contacts, but since reading programs is the only time it bothers me
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by p9idf 14y ago
I prefer no syntax highlighting because I wear glasses, and the resulting chromatic aberration makes it difficult to read.
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by p9idf 14y ago
Does your file system create revisions of the entire tree, or only revisions of individual files within the tree as VMS and RCS do?† Because there are some problems with the latter approach. One problem described by Geoff Collyer (the C New
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by p9idf 14y ago
The little interactive graphics language they were writing the compiler for is Pico: http://spinroot.com/pico/index.html http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/gerard/cnn.mpg http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/who/gerard/pixelface.mpg
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by p9idf 14y ago
The Plan 9 approach is to avoid creating problems for yourself by not using spaces in file names to begin with. The file server initially disallowed spaces in file names just as nulls and slashes are disallowed. That restriction has since b
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by p9idf 14y ago
"So you really need an automatic re-linker of some sort and probably a new binary format that can be re-linked, and some infrastructure to keep track of what binaries exist on the system and what they depend on. Plan 9 never had that." Plan
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by p9idf 14y ago
It is more complicated than that. Customer convenience must be considered. For instance, I and many others like me will not buy data transfer from someone when figuring the cost requires me to account for the time of day and phase of the mo
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by p9idf 15y ago
Here's a multi-player synthesizer: http://synth.media.mit.edu/patchwerk/
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by p9idf 15y ago
Your argument is not clear to me. However allow me to share some of the Go authors' thoughts about generics: http://research.swtch.com/generic http://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2011/12/esmereldas-imagina... I am inclined to agree with t
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by p9idf 15y ago
"The opposition to Iraq would have come quicker [...]" The opposition to the war was pretty quick already, coming at least three months before the invasion began. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/12/11/us/threats-responses-disse... http://que
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by p9idf 15y ago
Ape's execlp() tries first the program name passed to it (be it relative or absolute), and if that fails it prepends "/bin/" and tries again. It ignores environment variables entirely.† Rc's path variable allows you to easily tell rc to che
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by p9idf 15y ago
Axe Cop is similar to this. It's a comic written by a child and illustrated by a grown-up. http://axecop.com/index.php/acepisodes/read/episode_1/
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by p9idf 15y ago
You are conflating UTF with Unicode.
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by p9idf 15y ago
I was able to reproduce the bug. It could be a version thing. ; grep --version GNU grep 2.6.3 ; echo A | LANG=en_US.utf8 grep '[a-z]' A
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by p9idf 15y ago
Of course troff hyphenates. Its job in the pipeline is to hyphenate, compute layouts, and output input for dpost. If your argument is that decoupling hyphenation from layout is difficult, I believe you are wrong. Splitting the hyphenator in
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by p9idf 15y ago
Your point isn't clear to me.
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by p9idf 15y ago
pic challenge-accepted.ms | tbl | eqn | troff -ms
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by p9idf 15y ago
I checked the Plan 9 tools, which are similar to the Unix ones. Though without access to Knuth's program, I can't draw a sensible conclusion from the following data. term% wc /sys/src/cmd/^(tr.c sort.c uniq.c sed.c) 356 998
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by p9idf 15y ago
I did not imply that the default thing is necessarily better than hobby thing, but that someone who knows enough to know what a shell is knows what they want and how to get it. And if they made a poor choice, so what? It's easy to change on
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by p9idf 15y ago
I trust users who know how to use the shell to be able to decide what suits them best and to not be paralyzed by indecision between their system's default terminal emulator and some guy's obscure hobby terminal system.
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by p9idf 15y ago
I'm not feeling immediately enlightened. The existence of a program doesn't inconvenience anyone. No-one has to use it if they don't want to. That wizard needs to chill out and not get so upset about people kicking ideas around.
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by p9idf 15y ago
It's a dating site. The point is to have fun and meet like-minded people.
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by p9idf 15y ago
>thinking the earth is larger than the sun are [is] an indicator of stupidity The question is "which is bigger: the Earth or the Sun?". It doesn't specify how to measure big, so when answering the question I decided to consider angular
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by p9idf 15y ago
On my system, the info documentation for bash 3.1, not including indices, is 53610 words, or 105 pages. The content is identical to that in the manpage. In addition, you have to read it in a clunky, unintuitive, and un-Unixy browser. Far fr
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by p9idf 15y ago
By reducing the needless complexity that it implements. The purpose of a Unix shell is to interpret a simple language wrapping syscalls so the user can easily give instructions to the kernel. There are several such shells whose source code
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by p9idf 15y ago
Many comments seem to be shell- and bash-related. Perhaps the thread exposes how difficult to read the bash manpage is. On my system, the bash 4.1 manpage is 41026 words long, or about 80 pages. Manpages are most useful to me when they are
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by p9idf 15y ago
I had similar problems on my small screen with Google Voice. I found a Greasemonkey script which solves most of them. Once Google starts forcing me to use the new Gmail interface, I'll probably make something similar for Gmail. http://user

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