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Agreed. But I think advanced users become comfortable with idiosyncratic aspects of computing that could be recognised as deficiencies, and improved. So as well
by aethertron 10y ago
Agreed. But I think advanced users become comfortable with idiosyncratic aspects of computing that could be recognised as deficiencies, and improved. So as well as teaching, there's the matter of raising the standards of software quality.
- blakeyrat 10y agoAn opinion stated to a community that (generally speaking) thinks that Git is a pretty good piece of software. Snarky, I'm sorry, but you're 100% right. I grew up in a world where there was tons of optimism in software development. Programs like HyperCard, FileMaker, Microsoft Access, Visual Basic/WinForms, RealBasic, etc. promised to make (the most common type of) application development accessible to everybody with minimal training. HyperCard's most successful developers didn't come from software development backgrounds-- they were artists, journalists, historians, etc. (See this excellent article: http://www.filfre.net/2016/10/the-manhole/ http://www.filfre.net/2016/10/the-manhole/ ) All that's abandoned now. The optimism is gone. Developers who gave a crap seemed to have disappeared a decade ago. The open source development methodology, who never gave a crap about ease-of-use even when Apple and Microsoft used it as the foundation of their products, have taken over all software development. And I sit at my cubicle, thinking about the now-dead world that was emerging back in the mid-90s, thinking: I could have been a plumber instead.
- aethertron 10y agoMaybe there's hope for a new generation to come to be educated with those old values. And it doesn't need to be an entire generation... just enough people in the right places. I didn't grow up in that age. Thanks for the link!