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		sbierwagen on March 12, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Time.is Why not? I usually have a terminal open for irc / bc -l / git / checking the headers of pages with curl -I, pinging things, WHOIS lookups, wgetting files, etc etc etc.

bbx on March 14, 2012 | [–]

I'm no developer, so I never have to use the terminal. But now that you mention how you use it, I'll probably give it a try.

drivebyacct2 on March 12, 2012 | [–]

Because he's mainly in Windows? I avoid the command prompt like the devil there too.

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