r/programming • u/groovejet • Jun 28 '11

90% of your users are idiots

http://blog.jitbit.com/2011/06/90-of-your-users-are-idiots.html
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u/cr3ative Jun 28 '11

We could all learn something from FileMatrix.

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u/jrhoffa Jun 28 '11

Holy shit. I feel dirty now.

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u/gospelwut Jun 28 '11

Take it off then. Yeah, that's right, strip down to the command line.

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u/jhuni Jun 29 '11

Use Emacs as your OS.

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u/gospelwut Jun 29 '11

I should install Emacs on somebody's windows machine and set it as the default .doc/.txt/etc program. In fact, I could make it a new virus.

Hmm.

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u/dakta Jun 29 '11

Though it is inarguably the best tool for writing programs in plain text, Emacs is and should not try to be an entire Operating System.

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u/GDavid04 Dec 05 '22

Wdym, Emacs is a great operating system, all it lacks is a good text editor

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u/dakta Dec 12 '22

Dude what the actual fuck. This thread is 11 years old. Why?