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On Feb 23, 2016 1:11 PM, "Charles Shapiro" <<a href="mailto:hooterpincher@gmail.com">hooterpincher@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Steve -- <br>
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> Sometimes it just takes a minute for me to get cranked up.</p>
<p dir="ltr">And by then it's too late! :-)<br>
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> -- CHS<br>
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> On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 11:29 AM, Steve Litt <<a href="mailto:slitt@troubleshooters.com">slitt@troubleshooters.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 09:49:39 -0500<br>
>> Charles Shapiro <<a href="mailto:hooterpincher@gmail.com">hooterpincher@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> > What ticks me off about this is the general cluelessness. It bugs me<br>
>> > when people assume that because digital creativity, elegance, and<br>
>> > beauty look a little different they are somehow less valid. Unix is<br>
>> > now over 40 years old, and many of us still use the original tools<br>
>> > created by Brian Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie, Alfred Aho, and countless<br>
>> > others. Those tools are still working on the very latest and<br>
>> > spiffiest smartphones. If Mr. Cohen can't be bothered to dig into the<br>
>> > stuff he uses every day, that's a failing on his part.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > I'm not necessarily a techno-utopian, but YouTube now means that even<br>
>> > some kid working with his friends in his divorced dad's basement can<br>
>> > make a hit TV show. Heck, sites like <a href="http://vine.co">vine.co</a> and <a href="http://imgur.com">imgur.com</a> mean that<br>
>> > it might need to be only a few seconds long. Twitter means that even<br>
>> > a shut-in Palestinian woman might-could have access to millions of<br>
>> > readers. The time when you need to pass some editor's or TV<br>
>> > executive's whim in order to reach an audience is past. Roger Cohen<br>
>> > might think that's bad, but I'm excited about it.<br>
>> ><br>
>> > -- CHS<br>
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>> I wish you'd skipped your first (very offtopic) post and just posted<br>
>> the this one. Rather than trying to make associations based on race,<br>
>> gender and age, this post recognizes the genius of, I guess I'll call<br>
>> it, Unix and POSIX. You know what I mean.<br>
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>> And this post makes it very clear that Unix and POSIX are part of<br>
>> something very relevant to society in general.<br>
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>> SteveT<br>
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