This is a fundamentally wrong understanding of how reading works. This way may be ideal for close reading but full speed reading needs the whole page and the ability to bounce around visually.
Besides, even if it were "funded by the CIA", that would mean the CIA would be helping ordinary people avoid ending up face down with a boot on their neck. I would have very few problems with that.
No, he's saying Sharp is irrelevant. Change only comes through violence or threat of violence so the Parent apparently meant that uprising is so feared that Sharp's methods are being trumpeted as being effective in the hopes of keeping everyone peaceful and controllable.
I'm one of the cygwin developers. Please feel free to discuss the inclusion of a new package in the cygwin mailing list. If there is an active maintainer for the package and the package works as advertised, then it is possible that it would be voted in.
It would be inordinately useful if you could refrain from name calling during any discussion.
I think akkartik is responding to willlll (who posted "use zsh, problem solved"), not to silverstorm (who posted "zsh does a terrible job at keeping bash history in sync.").