22 Nov 2013 Hobart   » (Journeyer)

I know that when someone has the temerity to say "Gosh, I wish Emacs could do X", they're generally met instantaneously with howls of derision by a teeming horde of "Ask me about my Aspergers!"-shirt-wearing neckbeards who let them know:

  • Anyone who would want to do such a thing is an idiot.
  • Doing $INSANELY_COMPLICATED_ALTERNATIVE is much better as any idiot knows.
... it's a million times funnier when that person saying "Gosh, I wish..." is Richard M. Stallman.

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-11/msg00515.html

(Relevant: "if you ... think that my kids ... need to have the root password to access some wireless network, or to be able to print out a paper ... please just kill yourself now."
—Linus Benedict Torvalds
https://plus.google.com/+LinusTorvalds/posts/1vyfmNCYpi5

Syndicated 2013-11-21 23:30:08 from jon's blog

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