Louisville, KY
Greg is a retired neurologist in Louisville, Kentucky, with a long-standing interest in computers and programming, beginning with Fortran IV in the 1960s. When Linux and open source software came along, it kindled a commitment to learning more, and eventually contributing. He is a member of the Scribus Team.
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Not purely a terminal trick, but I use it from the terminal a lot. Ever notice how much kruft of old little files you have accumulated? Things like test.txt, or testtext.ps or sometimes bizarre names. And so, just in case, you have to go through these and open them to make sure they're not worth keeping.
Here's the trick -- if you are just creating something to try out a process and really don't care about keeping the output, save it to /tmp. You can still use it in the current session on your computer, but whatever you save in the /tmp directory gets wiped out when you reboot -- like having an automatic flush on the commode!
As a whole this is a very abstract talk about design, and even at the end of it I have little sense of what sorts of design she was talking about. There was a lack of any examples of the kind of design(s) she was talking about.
I have experienced this before with people who have identified themselves as designers, complaining about the design of OSS, yet not showing examples of why some particular design is better than some other. Part of being involved with open source is sharing some details about what you know and want to do, and being willing to have someone else disagree with you.