What exactly is hipster culture in this context? The challenge seems like a good way for some people to learn something new. If you are familiar with the UNIX tools you can solve some problems faster than without them.
Re:One month command line challenge
by jjaredsimpson on Sunday February 08, 2015 @02:11PM
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precisely. any good ide has an embedded console/shell interface anyway. falling back to the command line is necessary/useful occasionally. but abstaining from visual interfaces for a month seems pointless.
I literally expect to see people like this writing about how they're experimenting with punch card input any day now.