I'm afraid that the fellows and gals who actually design and build operating systems may disagree with you. Yeah, the grandparent was indulging in a bit of Typical Slashdot Douchepipery (which I am not above myself), but countering it with the even more typical "Linux is hard and you guys are a bunch of elitist meany-butts" is... uhh... more Typical Slashdot Douchepipery, I suppose.
I spend a good half of my working day using the "cut/grep/sort/wc/test" portion of the unix toolchain. I have no trouble thinking in those terms and can whip out weird ad-hoc reports on nearly anything with text in it. However, when I have to open up a spreadsheet (about once every 3 months) I often find myself reduced to blibbering my lips and asking a secretary (again!) how in the hell to "do one of them one things with the button-push and the drop-down whatsis to get that chart doo-dad again". I really should write it down, but I'm busy you see.
My 4 year old daughter refers to grep as "frog". We use frog to locate mother goose rhymes she likes in Project Gutenberg text files I have stored for her on an old laptop. No she can't type. She can barely read at this point, and yes, she has a much easier time with the mouse and PBS kids, but I honestly can't say which one she enjoys more.
People in general are pretty smart, and pretty impatient. Someone bitching about inconvenience (guilty) before learning something new is too common to comment on. Perhaps if your job didn't involve selling people snake-oil cures for helplessness, you'd have a different attitude.
Monoculturing any living tissue will require antibiotics of some sort. I really doubt that one can have a 100% clean factory environment for these, unless you have robots and robots to fix the robots ad-infinitum.
Like your engine. Searches for Mock Orange, Oxes, Silver Jews returned some very good reccomendations. All three bands have been around for > 10 years.
The engine found no direct match for Silver Jews, but did return Will Oldham. Pretty nice!
*bookity markety*
It's one of those things: I find it completely easy and intuitive. I don't have any trouble switching between python, perl and ksh (which are what I use to get most of my work done). A decent editor (I like vim) will usually take care of auto-indenting.
That's what they said about Barbicane. Sort of puts it all in perspective, doesn't it? I mean, would we have even had the moon bases we have now if it weren't for that "Ego-Boosting Stunt"?
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Excellent summation, sir!
It has been my experience that Colt 45 will work every time. Perhaps a venturi based on the 40oz. bottle neck? http://www.coolwatersprods.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/colt45.jpg
Link please? To full source of unedited video?
I must admit, I was disappointed that you didn't go for the more gerund-y "cunting retard".
Yes. Yes, sir!
It's what your lips do when you smell "cheez".
And here I thought that meant having sex with Tauntauns.
Tell us moa `bout it.
Yes. Yes, please.
/me looks at bottle of tea on desktop and sighs.
''This is nearly 2010 and nobody cares about "your leet hacker skillz"''... ''Life is too short to have to fight with your OS or spend hours in a fricking terminal just to get things to work.''
I'm afraid that the fellows and gals who actually design and build operating systems may disagree with you. Yeah, the grandparent was indulging in a bit of Typical Slashdot Douchepipery (which I am not above myself), but countering it with the even more typical "Linux is hard and you guys are a bunch of elitist meany-butts" is ... uhh ... more Typical Slashdot Douchepipery, I suppose.
I spend a good half of my working day using the "cut/grep/sort/wc/test" portion of the unix toolchain. I have no trouble thinking in those terms and can whip out weird ad-hoc reports on nearly anything with text in it. However, when I have to open up a spreadsheet (about once every 3 months) I often find myself reduced to blibbering my lips and asking a secretary (again!) how in the hell to "do one of them one things with the button-push and the drop-down whatsis to get that chart doo-dad again". I really should write it down, but I'm busy you see.
My 4 year old daughter refers to grep as "frog". We use frog to locate mother goose rhymes she likes in Project Gutenberg text files I have stored for her on an old laptop. No she can't type. She can barely read at this point, and yes, she has a much easier time with the mouse and PBS kids, but I honestly can't say which one she enjoys more.
People in general are pretty smart, and pretty impatient. Someone bitching about inconvenience (guilty) before learning something new is too common to comment on. Perhaps if your job didn't involve selling people snake-oil cures for helplessness, you'd have a different attitude.
So Linus is more Melek Taus than some sort of polydactyl Nephelhim poser-type? I'm comfortable with that. Thanks for the clarification.
Cool, I'll hook a light sail to it and zip out to the galactic router.
A plus to artificially producing human meat for human consumption: one could choose food that has actually consented to be eaten.
"I don't eat anything with a face" could be replaced by "Yes means yes!" (feel free to come up with a catchier slogan, I have to bite my nails.)
I'd like it better if you did a complete clone.
/me makes hannibal_lechter_slurp_noise
Roast suckling human!
Monoculturing any living tissue will require antibiotics of some sort. I really doubt that one can have a 100% clean factory environment for these, unless you have robots and robots to fix the robots ad-infinitum.
I have no qualms about people all over the world eating me.
In fact, I'd like to invite you all to eat me, right now.
Bon Apetit!
Ectoplasmic Crepitation
Like your engine. Searches for Mock Orange, Oxes, Silver Jews returned some very good reccomendations. All three bands have been around for > 10 years. The engine found no direct match for Silver Jews, but did return Will Oldham. Pretty nice! *bookity markety*
I've just finished re-reading Walter Miller's "A Canticle for Leibowitz". Couldn't sleep. "Aw to hell with it. Hmm ... Wonder what's on slashdot?"
Rock me to sleep tonight.
I dunno. My daughter is four, and has a pretty good grasp of the alphabet and can recognise and type her name.
She thought
print "Darby" * 5
was pretty neat.
I'm sure it would bore an older kid ... unless it didn't. Kids are bizzarre, which is nice.
There are several reasons usually cited for using whitespace to define code blocks. Here's a decent intro.
http://www.diveintopython.org/getting_to_know_python/indenting_code.html
It's one of those things: I find it completely easy and intuitive. I don't have any trouble switching between python, perl and ksh (which are what I use to get most of my work done). A decent editor (I like vim) will usually take care of auto-indenting.
Or were you just kvetching?
Is that you Hexslinger? You are the only guy I know perverse enough to create a FORTH in javascript.
... cracken' UR codez.
In one of those universes, this meme is still funny, and I'm not a dipshit.
Probably not.
That's what they said about Barbicane. Sort of puts it all in perspective, doesn't it? I mean, would we have even had the moon bases we have now if it weren't for that "Ego-Boosting Stunt"?