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There haven't been any fundamentally new concepts in computing for decades
by chimpburger 7y ago
There haven't been any fundamentally new concepts in computing for decades
- AnimalMuppet 7y agoYes and no. Your statement is true about under-the-hood stuff, but false about user interfaces. Your phone interface is not like Windows 95, still less like a green screen terminal talking to a mainframe.
- chimpburger 7y agoLOL. Downvoted? I think most people browsing HackerNews will not be freaked out by minor UI changes 30 years from now. Even a 3 year old child can figure out how to use an iPad.
- kqr 7y agoYou say "even a three-year old" as if three-year olds aren't hyperspecialised learning machines.
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- tasuki 7y agoI'm 34 and already sometimes freaked out by minor UI changes.
- chimpburger 7y agoStop freaking out. It's just a UI.
- throwaway-hn123 7y agoLook, we get that you're an autistic and isolated dick. At this point, perhaps you should just fuck off?
- meerita 7y agoA lot of people spent their entire lives looking at a screen, performing some operations and little else. Above all people from the banking sector, where everything is organized in a hierarchical way. I remember bankers who only had one screen with a summary and that's all they saw before. Today everything has changed, as everything is done through computers, but if your father is an older person, he probably hardly ever used computers.