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Re: Russ Cox Uses This

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Post by keyle »

petercooper wrote: post #6

I lost interest in having the new shiny a long time ago. [..] At home that means a refurbished Mac Mini from 2006, a used Dell 2001FP 20" LCD from 2004 [..] Is this "one of those things" that happens as you get older? To my own surprise, I've drifted into the "can't deal with the boom-boom music on the radio" zone just as my parents did in their 30s.. So will "new shinies are boring" be next? I better start stocking…

Maybe. I recently gave my 2007 MBP a new life by putting a Corsair SSD in it. This thing is as fast as a new MBP! I saved heaps of money and it rocks. Although, the battery lasts 12 mins from full charge. :)

I'd love if macs were not so designed to 'throw away and buy new'. That's just the steve way though.

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Post by wladimir »

keyle wrote: post #11
petercooper wrote: post #6

I lost interest in having the new shiny a long time ago. [..] At home that means a refurbished Mac Mini from 2006, a used Dell 2001FP 20" LCD from 2004 [..] Is this "one of those things" that happens as you get older? To my own surprise, I've drifted into the "can't deal with the boom-boom music on the radio" zone just as my parents did in their 30s.. So will "new shinies are boring" be next? I better start stocking…

Maybe. I recently gave my 2007 MBP a new life by putting a Corsair SSD in it. This thing is as fast as a new MBP! I saved heaps of money and it rocks. Although, the battery lasts 12 mins from full charge. :) I'd love if macs were not so designed to 'throw away and buy new'. That's just the steve way though.

I'm also getting less enthusiastic about new gadgets. I'm noticing that my desire for hardware updates is getting further and further apart.

That might be because I'm getting older, or because the difference from one generation to the next is less impressive than it used to be, or both...

But SSD, yes, that's one development I wouldn't want to be without. The speed up is incredible. I'm thinking of retrofitting my "ancient" laptop with one.

Re: Russ Cox Uses This

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Post by benkant »

petercooper wrote: post #6

I lost interest in having the new shiny a long time ago. [..] At home that means a refurbished Mac Mini from 2006, a used Dell 2001FP 20" LCD from 2004 [..] Is this "one of those things" that happens as you get older? To my own surprise, I've drifted into the "can't deal with the boom-boom music on the radio" zone just as my parents did in their 30s.. So will "new shinies are boring" be next? I better start stocking…

Yes, it happens. Though I'm probably not the best example- I can't say I ever really had much use for shiny.

For the longest time I had a crappy K5 based system with 64Mb of RAM running Slackware when all my friends had Pentium 2's and whatever OS ran Quake at the time.

Oh, and I used a pizza box for the "case".

Whatever works for what you're doing.

I will admit though, I lusted over an SGI O2.

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Post by art »

m0nastic wrote: post #2

I know this isn't a tech support forum, but in a fit of lunacy I figured I'd give Acme a try last night (the Acme-SAC version) and after using it for an hour of so I can't even figure out how to open a text file (it seems like it has its own virtual directory structure that I can't seem to navigate out of). Anybody here successfully using Acme for coding?

windows acme-sac is my day to day programming environment. the host file system is available at /n/C and /n/D (/n/local on linux and os x).

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Post by knweiss »

"I use Unison to sync files between my various computers. Dropbox seems to be the hot new thing, but I like that Unison doesn't ever store my files on someone else's computers."

Re: Russ Cox Uses This

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Post by ccxvii »

rch wrote: post #4
m0nastic wrote: post #2

I know this isn't a tech support forum, but in a fit of lunacy I figured I'd give Acme a try last night (the Acme-SAC version) and after using it for an hour of so I can't even figure out how to open a text file (it seems like it has its own virtual directory structure that I can't seem to navigate out of). Anybody here successfully using Acme for coding?

For Acme, remember that it's an editor on a shell, with Unix DNA. Also remember that Acme-SAC is based on Inferno. But, being nix-ish, if you want to know something, just man whatever. To start, type 'man intro' someplace. Then shift-click-sweep the cursor over the text to highlight, and alt-click the highlighted text (plumb). Notice in the article how rsc mentions the three mouse buttons more than once? The missing…

1) There still are real 3-button mice for sale: HP DY651A goes for $12. It's a very nice USB optical mouse with 3 buttons and no scroll wheel. Perfect for Acme. If you insist on using a flawed one button apple mouse, you only have yourself to blame.

2) If you're on a Mac, you can run the plan9port version of Acme, no need for Acme-SAC.

Re: Russ Cox Uses This

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Post by adestefan »

petercooper wrote: post #6

I lost interest in having the new shiny a long time ago. [..] At home that means a refurbished Mac Mini from 2006, a used Dell 2001FP 20" LCD from 2004 [..] Is this "one of those things" that happens as you get older? To my own surprise, I've drifted into the "can't deal with the boom-boom music on the radio" zone just as my parents did in their 30s.. So will "new shinies are boring" be next? I better start stocking…

I just don't have the desire or time to tinker anymore. I used to spend days researching the best parts and tinkering with my setup to get it just right. Now I just want something that works and gets out of my way.

Re: Russ Cox Uses This

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Post by edan »

I can vouch for re2 - if you need to run a lot of regexps, or run user-supplied regexps, or run non-trivial regexps on user-supplied arbitrary data, re2 will save your application from certain death if you use pcre. Google "catastrophic backtracking" if you don't believe me.

Also, even though it doesn't say that Russ uses it, he probably must one way or the other working at Google, I highly recommend another google code project - protobuf.

Re: Russ Cox Uses This

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Post by burgerbrain »

benkant wrote: post #13
petercooper wrote: post #6

I lost interest in having the new shiny a long time ago. [..] At home that means a refurbished Mac Mini from 2006, a used Dell 2001FP 20" LCD from 2004 [..] Is this "one of those things" that happens as you get older? To my own surprise, I've drifted into the "can't deal with the boom-boom music on the radio" zone just as my parents did in their 30s.. So will "new shinies are boring" be next? I better start stocking…

Yes, it happens. Though I'm probably not the best example- I can't say I ever really had much use for shiny. For the longest time I had a crappy K5 based system with 64Mb of RAM running Slackware when all my friends had Pentium 2's and whatever OS ran Quake at the time. Oh, and I used a pizza box for the "case". Whatever works for what you're doing. I will admit though, I lusted over an SGI O2.

How did you ventilate the box, aren't pizza boxes designed to insulate?

Re: Russ Cox Uses This

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Post by rch »

ccxvii wrote: post #16
rch wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For Acme, remember that it's an editor on a shell, with Unix DNA. Also remember that Acme-SAC is based on Inferno. But, being nix-ish, if you want to know something, just man whatever. To start, type 'man intro' someplace. Then shift-click-sweep the cursor over the text to highlight, and alt-click the highlighted text (plumb). Notice in the article how rsc mentions the three mouse buttons more than once? The missing…

1) There still are real 3-button mice for sale: HP DY651A goes for $12. It's a very nice USB optical mouse with 3 buttons and no scroll wheel. Perfect for Acme. If you insist on using a flawed one button apple mouse, you only have yourself to blame. 2) If you're on a Mac, you can run the plan9port version of Acme, no need for Acme-SAC.

I'm on a laptop, and just don't bother with a mouse. Some of the tweaking I mentioned would be to deemphasize the mouse and focus on the usual trackpad 2,3,4 finger actions instead. Just for Acme SAC though.
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