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Comment Re:Joe, anyone? (Score 1) 1131

I love joe, but I'm sure I would be fine with vi if I'd learned it (well) first. I use joe because it's small, fast, functional, and easy to use. On that scale,

joe > vi (not easy to use) > pico (not functional) > emacs (not small, fast, or easy to use)

I would have assumed most joe users felt the same. If I don't have joe, I use vi. I'd never dream of installing emacs or pico on a system I couldn't install joe on for some reason.

Comment Re:Wishful Thinking (Score 1) 41

why not just practice at the real thing?
Because you don't want to spend years getting good enough at an instrument. By simplifying it down to button mashing, you can catch the patterns in a matter of days, or weeks if you have other things to do.

Comment please, less science, more fluff (Score 3, Funny) 491

I am getting sick of all these incomprehensibly esoteric articles. I like science, but sometimes the posts on slashdot are just too technical for me. This article on stealing lunches is a case in point. The pages and pages of analyses, the incredibly detailed social models that they used to arrive at their conclusions, the dogs eating lunches... it's a bit much for the layperson to grasp in one sitting. Editors: could we please get something a little lighter next time?

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