ref: 00334c0407e27921754d6ccd77d08045c2fa7254
parent: e14d6249749a1101abdad7998e1cd5cdc49e137a
author: stanley lieber <stanley.lieber@gmail.com>
date: Thu Dec 11 09:45:51 EST 2014
fortunes: UX-wise (and generally speaking, for most common uses of a computer these days), Plan9 is, sadly, almost useless.
--- a/lib/rob
+++ b/lib/rob
@@ -257,3 +257,8 @@
That's odd.
Nothing in Go is accidental.
Go was supposed to be a fresh start.
+Ken and I ported Plan 9 to the SPARC in 6 days over one fun Christmas break.
+I told the truth as I saw it.
+Wait, teletypes are finally gone so we need *pseudo* teletypes?
+I started complaining about this long ago and nobody cared then, either.
+It is very unlikely to change.
--- a/lib/rsc
+++ b/lib/rsc
@@ -146,3 +146,7 @@
You can't make everything faster all the time.
Thanks.
Please just wait.
+I haven't logged into a real Plan 9 system in many years
+I did not promise it was going to happen.
+Please don't.
+no.
--- a/lib/theo
+++ b/lib/theo
@@ -403,3 +403,20 @@
Such strong words.
It must be easy to sit in your chair and demand that others meet your expectations.
Didn't you read the manual page?
+I think you are on your own.
+Nope.
+Look there is a disconnect.
+Fundamentally, OpenBSD is a research project.
+Hilarious.
+Your process seems to be "I don't understand the problem, so here is a diff"
+And now let's ask the question which matters.
+Did you think of that?
+You aren't even trying. PLONK.
+Oh just shut up.
+You aren't going to do shit because you don't have any skills.
+Thank you for adding the value of your words.
+This is idle chatter hoping someone supplies some secret sauce that makes a disparate audience with different demands all happy.
+Welcome to the real world.
+Sorry.
+Violates POSIX and C89, which violate best practice in this century.
+Look, this is rather simple.
--- a/lib/troll
+++ b/lib/troll
@@ -186,3 +186,11 @@
Go’s compiler is just so powerful. It takes the best of C++, Java and Python … and then it really tightens everything up.
Does anybody known how to use mouse wheel to scroll acme window?
Why is it not a binary protocol?
+If there was a simple way to port a modern web browser to Plan9, I'd seriously consider switching.
+A Raspberry PI running Plan9 with a spiffy accelerated compositor and plan9ish file-framebuffer-windows would be enough to convince me to dive in and have a play around.
+You need to enable Javascript.
+Subject: [9fans] Do Plan9Port's lib9 and libbio work on Windows?
+I am using p9p version of upas/nedmail and upas/marshal.
+Is there anyway this github repo could be synchronized with the main plan9-labs repo?
+Has anyone used Plan-9 have feedback on running it?
+UX-wise (and generally speaking, for most common uses of a computer these days), Plan9 is, sadly, almost useless.
--- a/sys/games/lib/fortunes
+++ b/sys/games/lib/fortunes
@@ -5098,3 +5098,13 @@
(no plan9 to hand)
Those who can't solder, teach -- usnavi
Ayan Qureshi is now a Microsoft Certified Professional after passing the tech giant's exam when he was just five years old.
+Starting a year ago, Debian/Ubuntu really jumped the shark.
+then I think, "what is the market for Plan9?"
+I've often worried about browsers, even the open source ones.
+Pike seemed to lack an understanding of how to entice users to go through the trouble of actually learning and acclimating to his software. A general lack of marketing savvy, perhaps.
+Ask HN: I've learned a programming language – how do I solve problems with code?
+Warning: You could not be logged out because your session has expired. Please log in again to complete this operation.
+Every joke is a tiny revolution -- George Orwell
+I'm kind of like a designer who writes code; this may become apparent as you read on
+As an interface designer Plan9 have always fascinated me yet I found it incredible hard to find many other designers who were into it's concepts.
+Tandy Leather, which later grew in to the Tandy Corporation, was a family-owned leather goods company based in Fort Worth, Texas.