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  XEmacs is Dead. Long Live XEmacs!

  Posted: April 27th, 2008, 10:01pm MDT by Steve Yegge

   "We're going to get lynched, aren't we?" — PhouchgAnd you thought I'd given up on controversial blogs. Hah!PreambleThis must be said: Jamie Zawinski is a hero. A living legend. A major powerhouse programmer who, among his many other accomplishments, wrote the original Netscape Navigator and the original XEmacs. A guy who can use the term "downward funargs" and then glare at you just daring
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  Settling the OS/X focus-follows-mouse debate

  Posted: April 24th, 2008, 11:59am MDT by Steve Yegge

  I recently switched to using OS X full-time for all my client-side computing. Still using Linux on the backends, of course, at home and at work, but I now use Macs for my client machines.I'm not a Mac fanboy. I'm sort of a wannabe Mac fanboy, but I'm not familiar enough with the OS yet (either as a user or as a programmer) to really rave about it. I will say this: it was kinda fun turning off