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Let me ask, do you think that the content of my message reduces to "graphical user interfaces are harder to use than CLI"?

• diminoten 7y ago
  Yes, I do!
  • colbyrussell 7y ago
    Please explain how you got there, because I'm at a loss. Both examples involve using the CLI. The GitHub version I ran through actually includes more CLI steps. How could that possibly have been my intention?
    • diminoten 7y ago
      Your references to clicking repeatedly, and the general fact that github.com's innovation is the GUI it puts on top of a git workflow.
      • colbyrussell 7y ago
        I'm mystified about what's going on right now. Both versions involve clicking. Both versions involve command-line steps. The difference is that the GitHub version requires more of both, needlessly. That's the point of what I wrote. That's the only point. I don't understand this context where I'm being forced to defend an argument that's been foisted upon me and that I never made and never even thought of trying to make.
        • diminoten 7y ago
          I'm sorry you don't understand it, but you don't get to ignore the implications that spawn off of your argument just because they're inconvenient.
          • colbyrussell 7y ago
            What? You get to imagine some bad argument that would make it most convenient for you, and then demand that I defend that argument, as if it were one that I wanted to make? This is what I'm responsible for? Dealing with someone who resorts to strawmanning the person/idea at the other end when challenged?
            • diminoten 7y ago
              I'm not imagining it, and that's the problem you're running into. It's a consequence of what you said.
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              • dllthomas 7y ago
                It's not a direct consequence of anything that was said. It's a possible implication - in the conversational sense of implication, not the logical sense - but those get to be disclaimed.
                • diminoten 7y ago
                  His stance is literally that using a GUI is harder. That isn't a consequence, it's his core position.
                  • colbyrussell 7y ago
                    It's literally not my stance. And I've literally said that it's not my stance—in a comment (that should have never been necessary to begin with) meant to remove all doubt. And you know this. To continue saying otherwise (explicitly, even) is a case of outright intellectual dishonesty.
                    • diminoten 7y ago
        • dllthomas 7y ago
          The patch version only involves clicking when sending an email with an attachment involves clicking, right?
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