I think defining yourself by a negative is not a good place to start.
But good luck to them.
But good luck to them.
And my wish for them to do well really is sincere.
ps 1. do you know that your comment to my comment is a self-referential? You're using the same mode as me. Which is fair enough in a way :-)
2. I assure you that I am no way representative of HN so your use of that synecdoche is misplaced.
So that's all I'm saying.
I used to do it a lot, so maybe that's why I bother commenting.
Mainframers sneer at Unix. Unix people sneer at Windows. BSD people sneer at Linux. Plan9'ers sneer at Solaris.
It's just so tiresome and negative.
But having spent a few moments clicking around their site, I have literally no idea what the basic idea is, who they are, what they've accomplished, or why it might be interesting to learn more about them.
Home of dwm, dmenu and other quality software with a focus on simplicity, clarity, and frugality.
Read more about our philosophy and join us on the mailing list.
This demonstrates that you did not even visit the suckless.org home page [0]. How do I know?
Because the word "philosophy" in the two sentences preid24 quoted links to the very thing you're asking for. It's even a boring-old anchor-tag-link in almost-traditional hyperlink blue on traditional white that reacts on hover.
> [W]hat the heck is dwm, dmenu?
Also answered by the hyperlinks on the suckless home page.
An abstract philosophy for example, isn't going to leave an impression without some concrete examples of its principles in action.. a screen shot maybe, of the applications mentioned with an explanation of how and why they are better than the alternatives.
N.B. "Take a hike"... this does not seem like a friendly community at all.
That's a pity. You might actually -I don't know- get the answers to your questions.
Whatever. I'm not here to spoon feed you. Take a hike.
Edit: To reply to your edit: http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html (Not that ESR doesn't have his share of quirks.)
Sorry that the tone between us became somewhat combative, since that was never how I felt about things for a moment.
Cheers.
Having said that, even the best of us finds that he has accidentally turned into a time vampire on rare occasion.
Curiously, Linus did consider naming it "Linux" as too egotistical, and chose "Freax" instead. It was a colleague who renamed it when uploading to the FTP server.
I agree with your point, by the way.
I try to keep Rule #1 [0] in mind at all times. I fail to do so pretty frequently, so I guess I still don't quite have it down yet. >:-)
[0] "Stop sucking!"