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The web lets you reach a large audience in a way nothing else can. You have to get over yourself about the tools not being elegant, and make sure the thing you'
by idlewords 10y ago
The web lets you reach a large audience in a way nothing else can. You have to get over yourself about the tools not being elegant, and make sure the thing you're using the flawed tools for is worth the aggravation.
- wvenable 10y agoThat's why it's so successful. There has to be a reason something so terrible could possibly be this successful and you hit the nail on the head.
- emodendroket 10y agohttps://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
- johncolanduoni 10y agoThat doesn't mean it isn't terrible to work with and couldn't be much better. Unless you think the tool flaws are inescapable aspects of reaching a large audience?
- axlprose 10y ago> You have to get over yourself about the tools not being elegant https://www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/07/11/a-bad-workman-blames-his-tools/ https://www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/07/11/a-bad-workman-blam... Jokes aside, the history of mathematics is a pretty worthwhile subject to study to truly appreciate the importance and implications of tools (or mathematical discoveries in this case). There's a reason why it took humans 2000 years after Euclid first wrote his 'Elements' to discover non-euclidean geometry...
- dordoka 10y agoThe fact that you can reach a massive audience doesn't make any less true that the tooling sucks. If that first fact wasn't true, we would not be commenting on this issue...
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