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Re:One month command line challenge by slaction on Sunday February 08, 2015 @01:40PM (#9018044)
This is the perfect example of the whole hipster culture making it's way into web and software development.

I literally expect to see people like this writing about how they're experimenting with punch card input any day now.

Re:One month command line challenge by boomlinde on Sunday February 08, 2015 @05:40PM (#9018889)
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 (#9018148)
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.