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Re:Time.is by icebraining on Sunday March 11, 2012 @12:46PM (#3690619)
What OS do you use? I usually just type 'date' on the terminal.
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Re:Time.is by bbx on Sunday March 11, 2012 @03:26PM (#3691027)
Mainly Win 7. Otherwise Mac OS X. Sometimes Win XP, and very rarely Ubuntu.

But I almost never have a terminal open (and don't have a shortcut for that either) whereas Firefox almost always is. So I'm just 1 click away rather than 4 characters away.

You taught me something though (I highly prefer typing on a keyboard than using a mouse or, worse, a touchpad) and I wish I had to spend more time in a terminal.

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Re:Time.is by sbierwagen on Sunday March 11, 2012 @08:49PM (#3691865)
Why not? I usually have a terminal open for irc / bc -l / git / checking the headers of pages with curl -I, pinging things, WHOIS lookups, wgetting files, etc etc etc.
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Re:Time.is by bbx on Wednesday March 14, 2012 @04:37PM (#3705231)
I'm no developer, so I never have to use the terminal. But now that you mention how you use it, I'll probably give it a try.
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Re:Time.is by drivebyacct2 on Sunday March 11, 2012 @10:22PM (#3692087)
Because he's mainly in Windows? I avoid the command prompt like the devil there too.
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