10 Oct
2011
10 Oct
'11
12:35 p.m.
On 10/10/2011 02:56 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
People used to give Richard Stallman static for
directly using emacs
as his shell as specified in /etc/passwd. Shit, now people want to do
it with a web browser, and nobody seems to get why this is a patently
stupid idea on about a dozen different levels. WTF?
Again with the "twilight zone" theme.
These interfaces are on the
rise, in a roaring way, to a tremendous degree. Google Apps and their
ilk, GWT-based apps, AJAX, "Web 2.0" etc etc etc all fall under this
category. Everything is going that way. It is a huge, bloated,
bandwidth-wasting, cycle-wasting mess.
I imagine that's what they guys that programmed using jumpers said about
Von Neumann architecture.
I imagine that's what the switch flippers said about installing a
monitor ROM or a boot loader.
I imagine that's what the monitor users said about an operating system.
I imagine that's what the operating system users said about using a
compiler instead of coding in assembler.
I imagine that's what the static language guys said about the dynamic
languages.
etc...
It's all meta, meta, meta. How close you and I are to the silicon isn't
the same as how close Joe User wants to be.