xkcd: Real Programmers... Use emacs
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A colleague linked to this on Yammer today. It made me chuckle. I used to be an emacs guy - never vi. I have the gnarled pinkies from rapid meta-commanding and [CTRL]'ing my way through code.
John Duprey is a husband, father, and geek. He makes his living from the latter as a software architect for Thomson Reuters Research and Development. However, he lives for the former two - his wife Abby and their daughter Emma. -- Public Profile
A colleague linked to this on Yammer today. It made me chuckle. I used to be an emacs guy - never vi. I have the gnarled pinkies from rapid meta-commanding and [CTRL]'ing my way through code.
Emma asked a great question this week, "Why do boats float?" I said "Great question!" Then I started to ramble about buoyancy and realized I had no coherent explanation myself. So I googled it, then she and I performed experiments. In a nutshell, the way I explained it to her is:
