Ask HN: Feasible Alternative to the MacBook Pro?

Re:Ask HN: Feasible Alternative to the MacBook Pro? by dotancohen on Sunday October 20, 2019 @08:41AM (#21303762)

  > Most lawn robots can also sweep patios or shovel
  > snow, so if you move to a different climate you
  > can use the same tools.

I thought that the UNIX was was to one job, well.

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Re:Ask HN: Feasible Alternative to the MacBook Pro? by Jare on Sunday October 20, 2019 @09:55AM (#21304170)

The robot's job is to move back & forth the tool it is holding in its arms as it sweeps across the surface it is on. Give it (pipe) a shovel or a mop or a crass cutting thing and there you go.

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Re:Ask HN: Feasible Alternative to the MacBook Pro? by coldtea on Sunday October 20, 2019 @09:51AM (#21304142)

No, that's some philosophy from 40 years ago regarding the bare-bones UNIX userland (tools like cat, tar, grep, bc, etc).

It never applied to other things, like Emacs, and was never a core tenet for server and GUI applications, or frameworks...

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Re:Ask HN: Feasible Alternative to the MacBook Pro? by laretluval on Sunday October 20, 2019 @02:59PM (#21306272)

That is the official Unix philosophy, but a glance at just about any man page will suggest that it's never been followed.

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Re:Ask HN: Feasible Alternative to the MacBook Pro? by ghettoimp on Sunday October 20, 2019 @05:06PM (#21307143)

Yup. My copy of "sudo" has 23 documented command line switches, 15 documented environment variables that influence various behaviors, plugins(!), and can also use a configuration file for setting up paths, debugging tools, etc. Do one thing well, indeed.

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Re:Ask HN: Feasible Alternative to the MacBook Pro? by jmmcd on Sunday October 20, 2019 @09:57AM (#21304183)

Yes, but the point of Unix is that sweeping leaves and sweeping snow are the same task, when viewed in the right way.

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