[HN Gopher] Vim rendered on a cube for no reason
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       Vim rendered on a cube for no reason
        
       Author : ohjeez
       Score  : 24 points
       Date   : 2020-03-31 22:12 UTC (47 minutes ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
        
       | Cyberdog wrote:
       | This makes it to the front page? Guess it's a slow day on HN
       | land. Is everyone else waiting for the April job threads too?
        
         | kking50 wrote:
         | I quite appreciate these kinds of posts. Fun and silly, yet
         | make you think about the way computers work outside the box.
        
         | saagarjha wrote:
         | This is great, especially the Q & A.
        
       | thelazydogsback wrote:
       | Funny thing is, I think this is just about as useful as every
       | attempt I've ever seen (real or Hollywood) to add value to GUI by
       | adding 3D gfx...
        
       | nicoburns wrote:
       | The issues are great, but especially
       | https://github.com/oakes/vim_cubed/issues/1
        
       | juped wrote:
       | In the 2000s we used to do this, but with the proverbial Linux
       | Desktop.
        
         | lfowles wrote:
         | Whatever happened to the promise of cube desktops with wobbly
         | windows?
        
         | autojoechen wrote:
         | I remember compiz! https://launchpad.net/compiz. Looks to be
         | still actively maintained
        
           | c9fc42ad wrote:
           | Oh man, compiz-fusion is what got me interested in Linux. I
           | remember seeing videos circa 2007-8 of people's desktops with
           | all sorts of crazy stuff. Cube desktops, wobbly windows, fire
           | trails, etc. I spent forever figuring out how to dual boot
           | Ubuntu 8.04 and Windows and learned a ton so I could setup
           | these effects. Fast forward 12 years and now I only use Linux
           | on servers without a desktop interface at all.
           | 
           | While this stuff may seem silly and pointless, you'll never
           | know who it'll inspire to dive in to a whole new world. I'm
           | glad it's being maintained still
        
       | jsjolen wrote:
       | Now we just need to render Emacs onto a tesseract.
        
         | ashton314 wrote:
         | Is that what the `C-x 4` keybinding is _really_ for?  /s
        
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