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From: Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Man pages for add-ons
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:15:18 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <61BB2336-8262-4E45-B14A-F313CEA50EF1@fastmail.fm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <de247c8854ee62a66e7d65be7d80149e@yyc.orthanc.ca>


On 26 Mar 2010, at 17:34, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX) wrote:

>> in the end everything is easy for those who know
>> how to do it.
>
> And god forbid people actually learn anything.

Oh, yeah, lets all learn about namespaces and the counterintuitive
things they do and don't do, and compiling and everything to do when
it goes wrong, and a billion other things JUST to save devs having to
work out a good solution!

If anything, this attitude is why I stopped using Linux. It's worse
than the ever-growing complexity we ridicule so often on this list.

--
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
  -- Alan Perlis







  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-26 21:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 102+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-25 11:49 tlaronde
2010-03-25 13:37 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-25 15:31   ` tlaronde
2010-03-25 15:36     ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-26  1:07       ` EBo
2010-03-25 16:03     ` Steve Simon
2010-03-25 18:11   ` lucio
2010-03-25 19:05     ` Tim Newsham
2010-03-25 19:36       ` lucio
2010-03-25 19:42         ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-26  0:52   ` EBo
2010-03-26  1:36     ` Jacob Todd
2010-03-26  2:05       ` ron minnich
2010-03-26  5:02       ` EBo
2010-03-26  5:52         ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-03-26 13:33           ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-26  5:59         ` Anthony Sorace
2010-03-26  6:09           ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-03-26  6:12           ` EBo
2010-03-26  6:24             ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-03-26  7:08               ` EBo
2010-03-26 13:24                 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-26 13:09           ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-26 16:45         ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2010-03-26 16:55           ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-26 17:00             ` ron minnich
2010-03-26 17:12               ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-26 17:10             ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2010-03-26 17:13               ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-26 17:15                 ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2010-03-26 17:21                   ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-26 17:31                     ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2010-03-26 17:36                       ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-26 17:56                         ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2010-03-26 18:44                           ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-26 18:57                             ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2010-03-26 21:17                             ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-03-26 21:30                               ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-26 21:49                                 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-03-26 17:31                 ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-03-26 17:34                   ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2010-03-26 21:15                     ` Ethan Grammatikidis [this message]
2010-03-26 21:32                       ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-26 22:37                         ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-03-27  4:32                           ` lucio
2010-03-27 17:39                           ` Tim Newsham
2010-03-27 22:37                       ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2010-03-26 16:56           ` ron minnich
2010-03-26 17:05             ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-26 21:50             ` tlaronde
2010-03-27  4:15               ` lucio
2010-03-27  7:53                 ` Steve Simon
2010-03-27  8:40                   ` lucio
2010-03-27  9:30                     ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-03-27 13:41                       ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-27 13:08                   ` Anthony Sorace
2010-03-27 11:20                 ` tlaronde
2010-03-28 13:17               ` [9fans] Man pages for add-ons: pax? tlaronde
2010-03-28 13:20                 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-28 18:39                 ` hiro
2010-03-26 17:05           ` [9fans] Man pages for add-ons Anthony Sorace
2010-03-26 20:21         ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-03-27 16:46           ` Tim Newsham
2010-03-27 16:54             ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-27 17:58               ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-03-27 18:09                 ` erik quanstrom
     [not found]                   ` <f4d8fa41003271132k7d7e839fk78999c75ddf4b6af@mail.gmail.com>
2010-03-27 18:33                     ` hiro
2010-03-27 23:45               ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2010-03-28  0:39                 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-27 23:56               ` Tim Newsham
2010-03-28  0:45                 ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-28  0:52                   ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2010-03-28  0:55                     ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-28  1:02                       ` Lyndon Nerenberg (VE6BBM/VE7TFX)
2010-03-28 19:06               ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-03-28 19:36                 ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-03-28 20:04                   ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-28 22:59                   ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-03-28 23:28                     ` hiro
2010-03-29  0:59                       ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-03-29  2:11                         ` Iruata Souza
2010-03-29  9:07                           ` Patrick Kelly
2010-03-29 11:29                             ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-03-29 12:14                               ` Patrick Kelly
2010-03-29 12:41                                 ` Connor Lane Smith
2010-03-29 13:05                                   ` Patrick Kelly
2010-03-29 13:23                                     ` Connor Lane Smith
2010-03-29 13:58                                       ` Steve Simon
2010-03-29 19:29                                 ` Georg Lehner
2010-03-29 22:35                                   ` Patrick Kelly
2010-03-29 14:14                               ` blstuart
2010-03-29  1:00                     ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-27 17:49             ` Federico G. Benavento
2010-03-28 18:56             ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-03-28 20:09               ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-28 21:27           ` Jacob Todd
2010-03-25 14:07 ` Steve Simon
2010-03-25 15:48   ` tlaronde
2010-03-26  2:02 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2010-03-26  2:04   ` erik quanstrom
2010-03-29 10:12 Hiro
2010-03-29 12:33 Hiro

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