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Re: Mozilla's new vision

From Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org>
Newsgroups comp.misc
Subject Re: Mozilla's new vision
Date 2024-01-03 16:15 -0300
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> writes:

> Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> writes:
>
>> For instance, learning is very expensive.  Each new program requires you
>> to even learn how to type.  If you give lay users the ability to find
>> their favorite editor wherever they go, they will begin to care about
>> that too --- not just programmers.
>
> The slogan, "Life-long learning" was supposed to be about learning
> *new* stuff after you left school, as you grew older, not about
> learning the same stuff over and over again.
>
> I'm almost 82 and a long-time devotee of life-long learning.  But for
> the last decade or two, as the net gradually became a tool of commerce
> and finance, I have to espend effort to avoid having to learn the same
> stuff over and over again.  Just an example: I'm still using the same
> version of Emacs I compiled in 1999 for my first Linux box.  With
> every upgrade of my Linux system, I get a new Emacs with which I
> struggle for a few hours before reverting to the old version.

``A man after my own heart.''  I'm roughly half your age, but I noticed
that very quickly too --- unless we protect ourselves, we'll spend our
entire lives relearning the same things.  I did choose the GNU EMACS are
my life-long editor, but I also had to freeze it in my own package.
This is also why I chose Windows as a desktop, even though I use it as a
POSIX syste.  (I have a ZIP package of the tools I need and all it takes
for me to recover from a crash is to download it and unpackage it.  Life
is more difficult on UNIX systems because libraries evolve very quickly
without sufficient backward compatibility, an insane objective given the
sheer number of different libraries out there.)

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Mozilla's new vision Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> - 2023-12-30 17:34 +0000
  Re: Mozilla's new vision Anton Shepelev <anton.txt@gmail.moc> - 2023-12-30 21:16 +0300
    Re: Mozilla's new vision Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2023-12-30 19:24 +0000
      Re: Mozilla's new vision not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2023-12-31 07:05 +1000
        Re: Mozilla's new vision Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2023-12-31 09:40 +0000
    Re: Mozilla's new vision Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> - 2023-12-30 22:12 +0000
      Re: Mozilla's new vision kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2023-12-31 00:50 +0000
  Re: Mozilla's new vision Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> - 2023-12-30 17:48 -0300
    Re: Mozilla's new vision not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2023-12-31 07:38 +1000
      Re: Mozilla's new vision Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2023-12-31 09:34 +0000
        Re: Mozilla's new vision not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2024-01-01 07:01 +1000
    Re: Mozilla's new vision yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2023-12-31 03:12 +0042
    Re: Mozilla's new vision yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2023-12-31 03:13 +0042
      Re: Mozilla's new vision Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> - 2023-12-31 00:37 -0300
        Re: Mozilla's new vision immibis <news@immibis.com> - 2024-01-02 00:56 +0100
          Re: Mozilla's new vision Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> - 2024-01-02 01:07 -0300
            Re: Mozilla's new vision immibis <news@immibis.com> - 2024-01-02 18:30 +0100
              Re: Mozilla's new vision Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> - 2024-01-03 03:05 -0300
                Re: Mozilla's new vision yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2024-01-03 09:10 +0042
                Re: Mozilla's new vision Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> - 2024-01-03 16:22 -0300
                Re: Mozilla's new vision yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> - 2024-01-03 21:56 +0042
                Re: Mozilla's new vision immibis <news@immibis.com> - 2024-01-06 04:17 +0100
                Re: Mozilla's new vision Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> - 2024-01-06 01:32 -0300
            Re: Mozilla's new vision Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2024-01-03 01:56 -0400
              Re: Mozilla's new vision Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> - 2024-01-03 16:15 -0300
    Re: Mozilla's new vision Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> - 2023-12-31 10:43 +0100
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        Re: Mozilla's new vision Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-01-01 10:13 +0100
          Re: Mozilla's new vision Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2024-01-01 17:11 -0400
            Re: Mozilla's new vision Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-01-02 08:34 +0100
          Re: Mozilla's new vision Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2024-01-03 12:00 +0000
            Re: Mozilla's new vision Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-01-03 14:43 +0100
              Re: Mozilla's new vision Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2024-01-03 17:48 +0000
                Re: Mozilla's new vision Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-01-03 20:45 +0100
    Re: Mozilla's new vision Blue-Maned_Hawk <bluemanedhawk@invalid.invalid> - 2023-12-31 12:10 +0000
      Re: Mozilla's new vision Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2023-12-31 13:36 +0000
        Re: Mozilla's new vision Blue-Maned_Hawk <bluemanedhawk@invalid.invalid> - 2023-12-31 19:28 +0000
      Re: Mozilla's new vision kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2023-12-31 15:10 +0000
    Re: Mozilla's new vision cr0c0d1le <cr0c0d1le.ewlkg@8shield.net> - 2024-01-01 13:41 -0500
      Re: Mozilla's new vision Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> - 2024-01-02 01:07 -0300
      Re: Mozilla's new vision Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-01-02 08:36 +0100
        Re: Mozilla's new vision candycanearter07 <no@thanks.net> - 2024-01-02 17:35 -0600
          Re: Mozilla's new vision immibis <news@immibis.com> - 2024-01-06 03:47 +0100
    Re: Mozilla's new vision immibis <news@immibis.com> - 2024-01-02 00:48 +0100
      Re: Mozilla's new vision Marco Moock <mm+usenet-es@dorfdsl.de> - 2024-01-02 08:37 +0100
        Re: Mozilla's new vision Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2024-01-02 09:01 +0000
          Re: Mozilla's new vision immibis <news@immibis.com> - 2024-01-02 18:28 +0100
          Re: Mozilla's new vision not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2024-01-03 06:48 +1000
          Re: Mozilla's new vision Andreas Kempe <kempe@lysator.liu.se> - 2024-01-03 01:19 +0000
            Re: Mozilla's new vision Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> - 2024-01-03 03:25 -0300
            Re: Mozilla's new vision immibis <news@immibis.com> - 2024-01-06 04:33 +0100
              Re: Mozilla's new vision Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> - 2024-01-06 01:34 -0300

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