I'm pretty sure everybody but beardy unix-nerd Luddites use a text editor designed to actual modern interface standards, and not some dinosaur out of the seventies.
Do the two saved keystrokes gained from typing "w/" really outweight the disadvantage of all your text looking like it was written by an dyslexic idiot?
I'm pretty sure the guy I was talking to was in fact running Linux when he said "I have yum cron'ed to run nightly, and so far I haven't had the install broken by any new packages since the install (4 or so months ago)."
Science doesn't usually address the pleasure question, because *any* kind of altruism (with or without pleasure) has been scientifically controversial, as it contradicts some popular interpretations of evolution theory.
This is complete nonsense, and suggests you are some kind of christian fundamentalist with only the vaguest idea of what "science" means.
No, the difference between bad and good design is that one of them you need to "get used to", the other one you don't.
People who claim that the only difference between things is what you are used to are mostly people who have never used anything with actual good design.
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I'm pretty sure everybody but beardy unix-nerd Luddites use a text editor designed to actual modern interface standards, and not some dinosaur out of the seventies.
You actually asked Slashdot a question about graphic design?
That's hilarious!
Here, lemme join in: "You should use the GIMP! It almost supports CMYK now, so it's perfect for print work!"
Do the two saved keystrokes gained from typing "w/" really outweight the disadvantage of all your text looking like it was written by an dyslexic idiot?
Tom Bombadil is not an important person -- to the narrative.
- J.R.R. Tolkien
Slashdot "editors" do not "edit" submissions. This makes Slashdot "more real", according to CmdrTaco.
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And can you do it in a double-blind test, or only when you know the answer?
Pathetic teenagers, of which there apparently are a lot.
You will be overrun with pedophiles in short order.
Believe us, we care very deeply about your concerns.
Well I sure got "pwned" that immensely witty comeback, didn't I?
Actually, if the earlier posters were trying to imply that Fark is run by idiots, I think you just served up some solid confirmation of that. GJ!
As the guy said. Vocabulary issues. "Satellite" does not mean "thingy with antennas floating in space", you know.
Believe us, we all care very deeply.
Believe us, we all care very deeply.
Hard to believe people who post as AC.
And it's easier to believe people who post as "Ash-Fox"?
I'm pretty sure the guy I was talking to was in fact running Linux when he said "I have yum cron'ed to run nightly, and so far I haven't had the install broken by any new packages since the install (4 or so months ago)."
Aah, good old Linux and lowered expectations. "Hasn't broken yet! Let's see about tomorrow!"
If it weren't for the dependency-tracking feature of the package manager, dynamic linking may have been a problem.
So because someone created a kludge for the problem, the problem no longer exists?
There is a relevant solution on Windows
Yes, stable APIs. This is a pretty alien concept for Linux.
Science doesn't usually address the pleasure question, because *any* kind of altruism (with or without pleasure) has been scientifically controversial, as it contradicts some popular interpretations of evolution theory.
This is complete nonsense, and suggests you are some kind of christian fundamentalist with only the vaguest idea of what "science" means.
Looks like they're getting jumpy and defensive already.
I think you mean, "What does this say about Objectivists?"
No, not what you would normally refer to as ice.
No, the difference between bad and good design is that one of them you need to "get used to", the other one you don't.
People who claim that the only difference between things is what you are used to are mostly people who have never used anything with actual good design.
Linux users, for instance.
>> Since this discussion has been going on for over three decades with little progress in terms of widespread change...
>Programmers might actually be debugging their own code!
That is some debugging session there.
That is indeed a fine lesson and principle, but it appears nowhere in Illuminatus, where the numerology is apparently taken directly at face value.