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Sigh, if only most of us had worked on a software system that has lasted as long as that.
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> I see no benefit. The first benefit is that it removes clutters from your $HOME. The second benefit is that you can now manage and backup your settings in a sane way. * ~/.config contains config files (should not be lost, but if lost you can recreate them); * ~/.local contains user data files (save them often, never lose them for they are not replaceable); * ~/.cache contains cached information (can be tmpfs mounte…
All of your points are invalid for a simple reason: Almost no software uses this fancy standard. And for the backup-case: Whitelisting is usually a futile idea to begin with. Normally you'd prefer to backup the odd superfluous file rather than miss an important one. Luckily most of the apps used on Linux systems now use it Excuse me? $ find ~ -maxdepth 1 -name ".*" | wc -l 228 $ find ~/.local | wc -l 4 $ uname Linux
$ find ~ -maxdepth 1 -name '.*' | wc -l
354
$ find ~/.local/ -maxdepth 1 | wc -l
3
$ find ~/.local/share -maxdepth 1 | wc -l
66
$ find ~/.config/ -maxdepth 1 | wc -l
108
$ find ~/.cache/ -maxdepth 1 | wc -l
803
$ uname
Linux
$ lsb_release -d
Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTSI really like it that G+ is becoming a "lightweight blogging" platform. There are too many of these around, and folding them into a "social network" seems like a good idea. I wish they would add more features that would make this easier, though, since in general I think it's in everyone's interest and will pull more traffic to the site.
Is this something intrinsic to G+? Is it a function of the author's popularity? The discussions here are normally much more sensible, but I would expect HN's readership to have a fairly similar demographic to that of Rob Pike's G+ subscribers.
Their content is XML. What's wrong with project.xml and classpath.xml?
I really like it that G+ is becoming a "lightweight blogging" platform. There are too many of these around, and folding them into a "social network" seems like a good idea. I wish they would add more features that would make this easier, though, since in general I think it's in everyone's interest and will pull more traffic to the site.
A bit off topic, but is it just me or is the quality of comments on public G+ posts is absolutely terrible? Within a few hours there has been more than 100 replies. Most are inane, rude, of the useless “great post!” type, or just plain old spam. I could only manage to glean about 8 or 9 insightful replies. Is this something intrinsic to G+? Is it a function of the author's popularity? The discussions here are normall…
The main takeaway I think is that the reason we are doing things the way we do them is because that is how we have been doing them, not because of some kind of genius design. And actually the whole thing can start out as a mistake, and then later on basically becomes a religion. Its very funny actually.
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It didn't use to work. I think it was added for XP SP2 or so, probably due to the popularity of manu *nix ports like Emacs.
It always did, at least in NTFS. What did not, and still does not, is to create them via Windows Explorer. You can create them just fine from the command line, or via Windows APIs.
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> I see no benefit. The first benefit is that it removes clutters from your $HOME. The second benefit is that you can now manage and backup your settings in a sane way. * ~/.config contains config files (should not be lost, but if lost you can recreate them); * ~/.local contains user data files (save them often, never lose them for they are not replaceable); * ~/.cache contains cached information (can be tmpfs mounte…
All of your points are invalid for a simple reason: Almost no software uses this fancy standard. And for the backup-case: Whitelisting is usually a futile idea to begin with. Normally you'd prefer to backup the odd superfluous file rather than miss an important one. Luckily most of the apps used on Linux systems now use it Excuse me? $ find ~ -maxdepth 1 -name ".*" | wc -l 228 $ find ~/.local | wc -l 4 $ uname Linux
% uname
Linux
% find ~/.local | wc -l
16824
% find ~ -maxdepth 1 -name ".*" | wc -l
279I really like it that G+ is becoming a "lightweight blogging" platform. There are too many of these around, and folding them into a "social network" seems like a good idea. I wish they would add more features that would make this easier, though, since in general I think it's in everyone's interest and will pull more traffic to the site.
A bit off topic, but is it just me or is the quality of comments on public G+ posts is absolutely terrible? Within a few hours there has been more than 100 replies. Most are inane, rude, of the useless “great post!” type, or just plain old spam. I could only manage to glean about 8 or 9 insightful replies. Is this something intrinsic to G+? Is it a function of the author's popularity? The discussions here are normall…
The main advantage is that it's a large community (10m+ users presently) initially seeded by Googlers (e.g.: tech-savvy people), and including a few notable luminaries such as Rob Pike. And if you've got the right circles, eventually good content finds its way into your stream. Sometimes (content discover/surfacing is something G+ does surprisingly poorly, and is an area at whch HN, Reddit, and StackExchange win hugely).
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All of your points are invalid for a simple reason: Almost no software uses this fancy standard. And for the backup-case: Whitelisting is usually a futile idea to begin with. Normally you'd prefer to backup the odd superfluous file rather than miss an important one. Luckily most of the apps used on Linux systems now use it Excuse me? $ find ~ -maxdepth 1 -name ".*" | wc -l 228 $ find ~/.local | wc -l 4 $ uname Linux
I counter your anecdote with my anecdote: $ find ~ -maxdepth 1 -name '.*' | wc -l 354 $ find ~/.local/ -maxdepth 1 | wc -l 3 $ find ~/.local/share -maxdepth 1 | wc -l 66 $ find ~/.config/ -maxdepth 1 | wc -l 108 $ find ~/.cache/ -maxdepth 1 | wc -l 803 $ uname Linux $ lsb_release -d Description: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
My box is not a desktop, so that's probably the difference. I still find that scheme an atrocity.
When going to that length they could at least have settled for one directory (~/.appdata or whatever). Half-baked is the most polite description I can come up with.