<div dir="ltr">Steve -- <div><br></div><div>Sometimes it just takes a minute for me to get cranked up.</div><div><br></div><div>-- CHS</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 11:29 AM, Steve Litt <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:slitt@troubleshooters.com" target="_blank">slitt@troubleshooters.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 09:49:39 -0500<br>
Charles Shapiro <<a href="mailto:hooterpincher@gmail.com">hooterpincher@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> 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" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">vine.co</a> and <a href="http://imgur.com" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">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>
<br>
</span>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>
<br>
And this post makes it very clear that Unix and POSIX are part of<br>
something very relevant to society in general.<br>
<span class="im HOEnZb"><br>
SteveT<br>
<br>
Steve Litt<br>
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