To try out Atom:
https://gist.github.com/anonymous/9265315
Then visit the resulting link output by curl. You're welcome.
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#652From "The Zen of Programming": ------ Hearing a disturbance, the master programmer went into the novice's cubicle. "Curse these personal computers!" cried the novice in anger, "To make them do anything I must use three or even four editing programs. Sometimes I get so confused that I erase entire files. This is truly intolerable!" The master programmer stared at the novice. "And what would you do to remedy this state…
> Sometimes I get so confused that I erase entire files OT, but just this week my wife did something that really got me thinking about how far computers haven't come in terms of usability. I heard her say "O crap" from behind her macbook, and out of habit I came to assist. For some reason unknown to both of us, she had pasted the text of an email into a document called "thesis.docx", and then saved it. The text was c…
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#653Has anyone got a spare invite? davfuc at gmail dot com
Thanks
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#654Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, no, no. This is why reasoning by analogy can lead you astray. We have enough control over the world of software that the problem described above should not exist. This control does not exist in the real world, but it does in software.
Do we have enough control over software to make it impossible for someone to delete something and make it unrecoverable when they will later realize they should not have done so?
Not impossible, no. But we absolutely have enough control over software to make it highly improbable for someone to accidentally delete something important and make it unrecoverable.
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#655Earlier quoted context omitted.
If the master thinks that the human race has reached the absolute pinnacle of human/machine interfacing for text editing after just a few short decades of trying then he needs to go away and have a little sit down and a think about where he went wrong in life.
Nah man, you're not enlightened. He's not saying don't build a new editor, just that you had better think long and hard before you decide to foist another learning curve on the world, and act like you're doing it a favor. Also, https://xkcd.com/927/
Nobody foists a text editor on anybody, they live or die on their merits as a text editor. And besides, where would the world be know without people trying to make things better? The master's wisdom is weak in this case! I strike him on the side of his head! Slap!
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#656From "The Zen of Programming": ------ Hearing a disturbance, the master programmer went into the novice's cubicle. "Curse these personal computers!" cried the novice in anger, "To make them do anything I must use three or even four editing programs. Sometimes I get so confused that I erase entire files. This is truly intolerable!" The master programmer stared at the novice. "And what would you do to remedy this state…
> Sometimes I get so confused that I erase entire files OT, but just this week my wife did something that really got me thinking about how far computers haven't come in terms of usability. I heard her say "O crap" from behind her macbook, and out of habit I came to assist. For some reason unknown to both of us, she had pasted the text of an email into a document called "thesis.docx", and then saved it. The text was c…
Why wasn't she using versions?
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#657Earlier quoted context omitted.
Indeed - the OS X model fixes (to some extent) the problem in question, not exacerbates it.
As evident from the comments above, one of OS X's biggest weak points is feature discoverability. I love how OS X stays out of your way, but most regular users never get to take advantage of greater complexity. You have to be in the mindset of one of 'us' (reading every update to Apple's PR) to get a handle on everything OS X can do.
Hardly, it was well advertised when Lion came out.
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#658how is this not a blatant ripoff of sublime text??
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#660Earlier quoted context omitted.
Cheaper hardware, Steam (and other games in general), testing on the platform used by a majority of our users, and more customization available than OS X, for starters.
“testing on the platform used by a majority of our users” This.
I think that's also why patio11 doesn't use a Mac, If If Guess Correctly.