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Simplicity In the Age Of The GUI

Posted by timothy on from the decluttering dept.

evenprime writes: "Wired is running a story on Mark Hurst's extremely retro GoodEasy computing environment, and how it's old fashioned *nix approach to computing -- flat text, small simple programs that can be chained together -- increases user productivity" It's an interesting, hyper-simple approach, though any user outside of Mark's agency would have to apply some creative adaption. Every few months, I try to re-organize and simplify the documents and programs on my system, this looks like a good experiment for the next time.

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  1. suck my ass by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    bitch

  2. yeah, get hardcore by pecka · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    real guys run UNIX
    everything is for pussyes

  3. Re:Learn to Spell! by pecka · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    i don't care cuz i'm SO harcore

  4. adaption? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Adaption? What the fuck kind of word is adaption?

    Will somebody please look in the dictionary and tell me what 'adaption' means?

    I think it's:
    Adaption - Ad-ap-shun - One who uses big fancy made-up words because he's too fucking stupid to look in the god-damn dictionary.

    How 'bout that?

  5. You dumbass. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Step 1. Get head out of ass.
    Step 2. Go to www.dict.org.
    Step 3. Search for 'adaption'.
    Step 4. Read definition from 1913 Webster's.
    Step 5. Put head back in ass.

    1. Re:You dumbass. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      I took your advice, but I checked the OED instead. Since you are obviously a total fucking illiterate as well, I'll tell you that OED = Oxford English Dictionary.

      Now, where were we? Oh, yes.

      Adaption. Corruption of Adaptation. Commonly used among slack jawed yokels and intellectual wannabes from California.

      Ain't is in the dictionary too, but it doesn't mean you should use it in the newspaper.

  6. cool by pecka · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    others pray to Windows(TM) not to crash their buttholes!

  7. america under attack by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    well, you bastards deserved it

  8. WTC Gone? by GreenJeepMan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How can anyone be remotely interested in anything else right now?

    1. Re:WTC Gone? by mblase · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Because the world hasn't stopped turning, that's why. And cold though it sounds, even the deaths of thousands can't completely halt the lives of millions.

    2. Re:WTC Gone? by Ghoser777 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      We can just think about how horrible this tragedy is for 24/7 and get all bent out of shape (like the terrorists want to), or we can calmly multitask and cover other issues of the day as well as thinking about the World Trade Center being airplane bombed. We can't let them stop our way of life.

      I'm not trying to say that everything will be the same as before, because it won't. It will never be business as usual again. But we also cn't freak about this.

      F-bacher

      --
      James Tiberius Kirk: "Spock, the women on your planet are logical. No other planet in the galaxy can make that claim."
  9. Jihad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Let me be the first to declare jihad on this article.

  10. Re:I guess... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Do you mean Wendy Carlos?

    I guess I gotta put something here about Natalie Portman and hot grits down pants to get this past the "lameness filter".

  11. I hope they learned their lesson by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Or they'll get their hand smacked again, I'm sure. Much worse too.

    1. Re:I hope they learned their lesson by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      If by "hand smacked" you meant "out for revenge and about to slag some motherfucking piece of shit country", then you're damn right wacky ass.

  12. Re:To make your computer efficient, think like one by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Actually, your friends are probably using a "KISS" approach when the IM you. All those capital letters, punctuation, and correct spellings must be too complex for them to understand. The horrible colors don't seem to make sense, though.

  13. Re:I will fight by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    they brought down a couple of airliners with "pussy box knives" - moron.