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by rout39574 10y ago
Caveat? ;) I mean, those readers can be scary, but...
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by rout39574 10y ago
If your relationship with your users is purely as a parent, knowing better than they what they do, then your analysis is correct. It is possible that these children might have some useful ideas about how to use their tools, which you did no
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by rout39574 11y ago
So, I'm torn, because there's really something to scratching your itch your way. But there's a saying: A year in the lab saved me hours in the library. It applies to code, too. Make has some profound science and experience
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by rout39574 11y ago
Make has done 'dynamic rules' for a long, long time. http://make.mad-scientist.net/papers/advanced-auto-dependenc...
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by rout39574 11y ago
May be an old-fart prejudice, but my eyes cross to think that 'dash and underline are equivalent' might be a desired thing. Making bash be clever seems like a pile of pitfalls. To each their own.
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by rout39574 11y ago
Because you'd prefer that other people not casually erect their own legal structure where your interests are concerned. The law exists, among other reasons, to save us the N! negotiation of appropriate barriers. In that way, taking so
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by rout39574 11y ago
You should be able to display an existing DU dump; think xdu or xdiskusage. That automatically buys you features like one FS, yes or no counting hard links, soft links, all sorts of exclusion nuances... Your neat feature is a display; don&
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by rout39574 11y ago
A couple points: First, DAPP is 1974; _VISUAL DISPLAY_ was 1983. Critique based on "once, you did something different" seems misplaced. Second, if you read _VISUAL DISPLAY_, you'll see that there's plenty of room for
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by rout39574 11y ago
English is ridiculously colonized by obfuscators already. Think about the Clinton I debates on what the meaning of 'is' is. I think those same obfuscators will be happy to emigrate to any new linguistic country in which their ski
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by rout39574 11y ago
Shell and make are pervasive. If you're not comfortable with them, you will glean great value from becoming so. Your perspective rings to me like "There's plenty of technical literature in Mandarin; learning English just t
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by rout39574 11y ago
How is that different from make?
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by rout39574 12y ago
Needs an Xscreensaver demo. :)
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by rout39574 12y ago
I saw those; what I miss is "This is why I think this new way is better". If it's supposed to be obvious by inspection, well... I guess I'm too unenlightened.
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by rout39574 12y ago
I wish their page included something along the lines of "Why do I care?" Maybe a few examples of "data munging" tasks which the authors view as poor fits for [language X] and how their stuff solves the problem better. Ma
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by rout39574 12y ago
Self-taught some Apple Basic and Integer Basic before and in parallel with some High School courses (this was '80s; I was class of '86 high school). It was a lark then, not serious anything. Started with buy-the-magazine and ty
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by rout39574 12y ago
So evaluate some of the existing 'one more layers' rather than inventing your own one of those. A discussion of new scientific markup that doesn't mention org-mode is, IMO, skipping the background research. Not that org-mode
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by rout39574 13y ago
If you read down the comment threads here, you'll notice something. Many many folks get frustrated with some aspect of Make, and then turn around and say "I can do better myself in [language]". And then they go off and do
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by rout39574 13y ago
No. It looks better initially, but it misses the point. When you move your mouse normal to the axis marked "capacity", all your data points should have the same... capacity. So they should all be 32G, 128G, whatever. If you dec
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by rout39574 13y ago
He doesn't miss it; he outlines it specifically in the linked article. He correctly identifies it as a philosophically different approach to software, and to licensure. He hopes to communicate to those who have that short-sighted vi
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by rout39574 13y ago
Not even RMS holds that position. You should read the thread.
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by rout39574 13y ago
Because if this mode of transfer ever becomes more than a toy, then there will be massive overloading of those values. Can you come up with circumstances in which someone might choose to make successive transactions of the same value? Espe
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by rout39574 13y ago
Amen. Think of 20 years using the grossly identical UI for all those disparate tasks... How much time do you think you lose learning the little quirks of a new app just because you're typing things inside a differently labelled box?
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by rout39574 13y ago
Visualize RMS as like the patron saint of a religion, which is full of schism and sub-sect. He's using his position to influence mindshare, and he doesn't think he's got a handle on the details. He just wants some of his dev
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by rout39574 13y ago
When RMS says he's not familiar with a feature, you can believe him. Org-mode is fantastic, but a very, very recent addition to the Emacs cosmology.
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by rout39574 15y ago
Same here. Reflex meme[tab], and then "What? No guy in elevator story?"