It's a fork. ESR's still the "official" maintainer, but no one truly owns hacker culture.

Also, the Web. One of the main reasons Xanadu's in development hell is how it tries to handle broken links. On the Web, the browsers just throw up a 404 error. This is unacceptable for Ted Nelson.

The topic that inspires the most vitriol by far is anything to do with Israel or Palestine. The comments on any YouTube video or nasty even by YouTube comment standards.

Some advice from an old journalism professor of mine: no matter what anyone else says or does, just smile and says "Thanks for letting me know how you feel!" It's a difficult person disarming tactic.

I think every programming language has a preferred way of doing things. Every profession also has a preferred way of doing things. For example, as a professional writer, I can site the AP Stylebook, Strunk & White, the Chicago Manual of Style.

Work doesn't happen in a vacuum, and when you're dealing with other people, some kind of standard is necessary, even if it does seem a little annoying at times.

Reddit is a spiritual successor to Usenet, with all the good and bad that entails.

If only they had heirarchical reddits...

    /r/comp/sys/hp48

... and an archive like DejaNews or Google Groups (back when it used to actually work) to record everything for future reference.

Acme seems to come pretty close to the author's idea, combining both a terminal and an editor.

For anyone wondering: http://acme.cat-v.org

Fun fact: Acme was Dennis Ritchie's editor of choice.

His vision also sounds quite a bit like Emacs, especially the GTK version.

Creative work seems to happen in short bursts. Along with a lot of other writers, I like working in short, intense bursts, especially in the mornings.

Is morning "early in the morning" or "after getting up"?

As C2 puts it, "Do the simplest thing that could possibly work."

http://c2.com/xp/DoTheSimplestThingThatCouldPossiblyWork.htm...

Apple already allows JS (and other) interpreters to be embedded as used in projects such as Titanium and Impact game engine.