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acme could be seen as a word processor in the unix model. It's easy to pipe text to composable commands.
I can put the Levenshtein perl one-liner in the blue bar and middle click it to get the distance of two highlighted words.
firefox has an extension that does similar https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pinpointer/ discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17556805
I think I could replace bash with xonsh[0] as my default shell if coconut's pipe syntax were available!
[0] https://xon.sh/ [1] https://github.com/xonsh/xonsh/issues/1336
It'd be nice if there were also a metric for number of lives improved. Like meals consumed, beds slept in, etc
https://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_abou...
What does opera use for link navigation? I just see link step/cycling in the opera documentation [1]. Is there a better paradigm than link hitting [2]? Opera always seems to have impressive hidden tricks.
[1] http://www.opera.com/browser/tutorials/nomouse/ [2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgAWfqwzxck#t=9m15s
"....On these computers was information about all of the casework I have done on behalf of political dissidents and human rights activists around the world."
Does science collaboration/espionage endanger people's lives?
Independence from capital-driven data-mining freedom-subverting services is relevant, but hosting the manifesto of sorts on google is a bit ironic.
As with any preference, the illusion of choice is usually necessary. If you feel you have to be doing it, it's not going to be all that much fun, at least starting out.
To enjoy it, you also need to tie the effort put in to significantly rewarding output. You have emphasized the design, interface, and user. It doesn't take much to see the code as important to these things in a direct and easily manipulable way. For instance, the implementation of AJAX-y stuff on a previously static page has huge implications to the user. A few lines of jQuery can bump the feel of the page by a decade.
Devotion of resource arguments are detrimental to the spirit of liberty in OSS. I think of these works more like exploration than some effort ultimately asymptotic to a goal. Exploration is hardly ever an unrewarding pursuit. And it has beneficial externalities. In this case more than most even!
From http://www.winehq.org/site/acknowledgement: "Wine is at the heart of ReactOS' Win32 support. Initial work improved Wine's portability by cleaning things up so MinGW could compile it. From there, a considerable amount of effort was spent improving Wine's shell32 infrastructure and various controls. The ReactOS team is also responsible for the regedit and task manager utilities." More details are in http://www.reactos.org/wiki/WINE
slide 116 "bash-like" key mapping means emacs-like (right?)