[ale] Sigh. Another Old White Guy hates and fears computers

[Charles Shapiro]

Steve --

Sometimes it just takes a minute for me to get cranked up.

-- CHS


On Tue, Feb 23, 2016 at 11:29 AM, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 09:49:39 -0500
> Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > What ticks me off about this is the general cluelessness.  It bugs me
> > when people assume that because digital creativity, elegance, and
> > beauty look a little different they are somehow less valid.  Unix is
> > now over 40 years old, and many of us still use the original tools
> > created by Brian Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie, Alfred Aho, and countless
> > others. Those tools are still working on the very latest and
> > spiffiest smartphones. If Mr. Cohen can't be bothered to dig into the
> > stuff he uses every day, that's a failing on his part.
> >
> > I'm not necessarily a techno-utopian, but YouTube now means that even
> > some kid working with his friends in his divorced dad's basement can
> > make a hit TV show. Heck, sites like vine.co and imgur.com mean that
> > it might need to be only a few seconds long. Twitter means that even
> > a shut-in Palestinian woman might-could have access to millions of
> > readers. The time when you need to pass some editor's or TV
> > executive's whim in order to reach an audience is past. Roger Cohen
> > might think that's bad, but I'm excited about it.
> >
> > -- CHS
>
> I wish you'd skipped your first (very offtopic) post and just posted
> the this one. Rather than trying to make associations based on race,
> gender and age, this post recognizes the genius of, I guess I'll call
> it, Unix and POSIX. You know what I mean.
>
> And this post makes it very clear that Unix and POSIX are part of
> something very relevant to society in general.
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
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