Slashdot submission:

[garote]

Re: In The Beginning Was The Command Line

Unqualified code-monkey Garote submits his annotated version of Neal Stephenson's "In The Beginning Was The Command Line", updated to discuss UI design theory and fill in some of the gaps from the last five years. (And yes, he has been granted permission from Neal to do this.) There's plenty more to cover of course: Will the command-line last only as long as the keyboard? How will desktop search technology change our workflow? What about the 3D interface? Scroll to any random paragraph in the essay and you'll find something worth expounding on. What's ahead for the next five years?

Comments

[thegoodreverend.livejournal.com]

Congrats on getting this posted! Always a treat to read your stuff when linked from a major website =)

[garote]

Thanks. It's quite exciting, yes - though I'm beginning to wonder why I subjected myself to it so readily, because a lot of the commentary is about how much my writing sucks. It's a bit discouraging.

[thegoodreverend.livejournal.com]

That's par for the course on slashdot. When I submitted a story that got accepted, I was blasted a few times just for my writeup (it wasn't even something I'd written).

Most of the comments there are positive and about the larger issues. There's always going to be people who just take shots and the non-issue issues. Do your best to ignroe them.