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Re:Time to End the Vi/Emacs Debate on Sunday March 25, 2018 @04:16AM (#16671282)
> To further gauge popularity, I counted 22,582 questions tagged with vim and 15,667 questions tagged with Emacs on Stack Overflow.

well, Emacs has its own Stackexchange site (https://emacs.stackexchange.com/) for a while now, currently with 13,271 questions, that makes 28938 questions together, Emacs wins! ;)

Re:Time to End the Vi/Emacs Debate on Sunday March 25, 2018 @04:10AM (#16671262)
to me as long time emacs user, I see the opposite: emacs is not declining but gaining users and developers
Re:High Sierra macOS freezing and stops on Saturday December 30, 2017 @02:23AM (#16034273)
I hope no year will ever be the year of the Linux desktop. I use Debian and it is awesome, both on the server and desktop. So as long as Linux is a niche, all is well. How awful if it would become mainstream, think viruses etc. So it's a good thing that people like you don't like it. Keep it up!
Re:Firefox is on a slippery slope on Sunday December 17, 2017 @03:29AM (#15944816)
Fennec is actually Mozilla's name for the Android version of Firefox: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec/Android

See also the filename of the latest release: https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mobile/releases/57.0.1/android-x...

Re:Anti idiot actually on Saturday December 16, 2017 @04:39AM (#15938694)
Mr. Estes, instead of taking on Altman's argument, declares it idiotic and proceeds to attack Altman's person on all sides because, frankly, he just has to write something about the whole thing... or so it seems.