True, but I would appreciate a little integrity/honesty. He flies all over the world, multiple times in a short time span, and then makes his money "complaining" that we are using fossil fuels, when he could have just as easily been there via a teleconference. I don't mind people that walk the talk, but Al Gore avoids that.
While I agree with the sense I get in general that modern, digital catalogs are better for search than the older, analog catalogs, I feel it has gotten worse for myself, and possibly others like me exist, that were not looking for something specific. I enjoyed the discovery possible by browsing through a card catalog - with lots of information without having to walk and scan through the stacks like I was looking for something specific.
Improvements are always being made, but my memory of the first digital catalogs are that they were highly specific, so other than finding other books by a specifically searched for author, discovery was severely limited. I hated digital catalogs at first. And for many smaller libraries, I find walking through the stacks easier than trying to discover something via the digital catalog.
What's really going to blow your mind is when you realize that everything belongs on both lists - it just depends on your point of view when thinking about that particular list item.
As with many others, "Eeny, meeny ..." was for selection. I remember using the School House Rock lyrics/rhyme for counting by 5 for counting (Who's not ready, holler I) during "Hide and Seek".
My problem with apropos (and man, for that matter) is related to how at least one major distribution handles the man pages. Rather than bundling the man pages with the applications, the man pages for many applications are bundled together in one base package. When this is done regardless of whether or not the application is actually on the system, apropos and man continually return information on applications which are not on the system.
This is one of my favorite desktop distributions, even if it isn't meant for a desktop. It fits most of my minimalist needs. I think it would be my first choice if I could just figure out how to setup full disk encryption.
From the family stories I have heard, my great-grandmother raised rhubarb, so my grandmother had it because my grandfather was used to it. I was encouraged to take a stalk whenever I wanted growing up, which, at times, was twice daily.
As for location, I grew up in Illinois, my grandmother was from Arkansas, and my grandfather and his mother, while being from Illinois, traced their family roots back to Pennsylvania Dutch.
Interesting collection of ideas/graphics, but the first graphic has a person doing 9 hours of stuff between getting off of work at 5:00 p.m. and going to sleep at 11:00 p.m., just 6 hours later. If I could do that, I wouldn't have any time management issues ever.
I don't remember how I came across it, but I remember reading it early in high school - 9th grade, I think - and loving it. While the philosophy was a great read, the ideas of understanding and caring for your equipment influenced my thoughts on all the technology I use, even if I'm not a mechanic.
Agreed. I would want "No lock-in" for IM to be a requirement. I wonder whether or not pure volume - e.g., Facebook Messenger - would be enough, however, to drive people in that direction even without the interoperability with other systems.
(I am not a Facebook user; just recognizing that they do have market share on their side.)
I think part of the problem with getting rid of email is that it has proven itself flexible enough to handle a variety of communication needs, so to replace it, several tasks/apps need to work in combination. For example, an archived text messaging/IM handles part of it, possibly including identity, but something would also need to stand in for the long-format or large file transfer (like Dropbox, Google Docs, etc.).
I don't know if this follows the spirit of the question, but if I consider a 'wonder' as something that had a major affect on the coding world, wouldn't some virus/Trojans be applicable? Like the first, whichever that might technically be, but I'm thinking of the Morris worm [1], though I know it wasn't the first.