A high signal to noise ratio makes my screen feel insanely geeky. This is the opposite of that, with random crud scattered around a cramped terminal window. That would make me feel like a poser wannabe geek. Wearing a Superman costume wouldn't make me feel Super either. I guess it's just my poverty of imagination. Bah humbug and stay off my lawn.
That's an interesting point.
Before (approximately) my sophomore year in college, having a tricked-out, signal-noise-ratio-be-damned setup would have seemed like the pinnacle of geekiness to me.
Once I tired of the bling and the low SNR, but still felt a strong need to prove myself and make my mark in the world, I'd be proud to have the ultimate tweaked-for-results environment.
And now, I'm just happy for something that lets me get work done, and then spend time with my family and on my hobbies.
it's just a fun thing. are you like totally in capable of experiencing joy/having fun?
why can't we have moderation of these kinds of comments that are just negative/critical and contribute nothing? they're everywhere on hn lately.
> are you like totally in capable of experience Joy/having fun?
Please pick your words with a little less irony next time. Also bear in mind that just because something isn't positive, that doesn't mean it's a negative worth silencing. An opinion is an opinion, and people are allowed to express them. GP didn't do so in a way that demeans anybody, but you did.
umm how about this from GP?
>This is the opposite of that, with random crud scattered around a cramped terminal window. That would make me feel like a poser wannabe geek.
but re:
>Please pick your words with a little less irony next time.
i think too many people get away with being mean under the guise of being critical when there's actually no value to their criticism (since as i pointed out the particular criticism of use value of this tool was already anticipated by the author). i think it's valuable to point out that these people are simply being mean so that someone that suspects that's the case doesn't doubt themselves.
>Also bear in mind that just because something isn't positive, that doesn't mean it's a negative worth silencing. An opinion is an opinion, and people are allowed to express them
there are many things we're not allowed to express on hn (jokes and etc. for example). GP didn't contribute anything to any discussion. so while some negative claims are valuable ("x thing doesn't have y feature") and shouldn't be dismissed purely because they're not positive GP's is not and should be pruned so as to prevent having threads turn into "negative feedback loops" (note the double quotes and the colloquial use of "negative feedback loop").
I believe I did and was not attempting to be mean. You are being mean in assuming that I was trying to be mean, so nanner nanner.
My non-mean point is that to me geekness is the opposite of pretending and pretension. It means being reality adjacent to the point of social opprobrium. Maybe that definition is too idiosyncratic for you. But consider that if it is true, that sentence is self contradictory.
Does a discussion about what it means to be a geek add nothing? It seems to me that this terminal is an art project worthy of inspiring such a question.
>Does a discussion about what it means to be a geek add nothing?
if that was your intent you should've said that instead of using the language that you did (words like "random crud" and "poser wannabe").
If an artist told me "tell me what you think, but please keep your language moderate because I'm sensitive", I'd think they were doing themselves a disservice. You're clearly willing to not do that disservice to me. Thanks for that. Why shouldn't we give the artist behind this project the same privilege?
> are you like totally in capable of experience Joy/having fun?
If it's actually appropriate to silence such negative comments, the HN's down-vote mechanism can be used for that purpose.
(The stories of someone getting accused of "hacking" just because of opening a command prompt are quite believable.)