Russ Cox Uses This(russ.cox.usesthis.com) |
Russ Cox Uses This(russ.cox.usesthis.com) |
Is this "one of those things" that happens as you get older? To my own surprise, I've drifted into the "can't deal with the boom-boom music on the radio" zone just as my parents did in their 30s.. So will "new shinies are boring" be next? I better start stocking up on Apple gear ;-)
I'd love if macs were not so designed to 'throw away and buy new'. That's just the steve way though.
That might be because I'm getting older, or because the difference from one generation to the next is less impressive than it used to be, or both...
But SSD, yes, that's one development I wouldn't want to be without. The speed up is incredible. I'm thinking of retrofitting my "ancient" laptop with one.
For the longest time I had a crappy K5 based system with 64Mb of RAM running Slackware when all my friends had Pentium 2's and whatever OS ran Quake at the time.
Oh, and I used a pizza box for the "case".
Whatever works for what you're doing.
I will admit though, I lusted over an SGI O2.
Also, even though it doesn't say that Russ uses it, he probably must one way or the other working at Google, I highly recommend another google code project - protobuf.
Anybody here successfully using Acme for coding?
Acme-SAC is built on top of Inferno; the virtual directory structure you're seeing is Inferno's namespace. I find it helps if you know a bit about that first.
[1] http://swtch.com/plan9port/
[2] http://plan9.bell-labs.com/magic/man2html?man=acme§=...
If you mean open a file externally then I suggest you run acme from plan9port, then just run 'plumber' and use the program 'plumb' to send open commands to acme. It is fairly flexible:
$ plumb /path/to/file
$ plumb /path/to/file:35
$ plumb /path/to/file:/NameError
The nice thing is if the file is already open, acme will jump to the right place and highlight what you want.But, being nix-ish, if you want to know something, just man whatever. To start, type 'man intro' someplace. Then shift-click-sweep the cursor over the text to highlight, and alt-click the highlighted text (plumb).
Notice in the article how rsc mentions the three mouse buttons more than once? The missing buttons on the Mac are a big reason Acme SAC doesn't fly for me, no matter how much I'd like it to.
I think it would be really great on a Mac, but would need some tweaking to get there.
2) If you're on a Mac, you can run the plan9port version of Acme, no need for Acme-SAC.