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"Slide rules to replace your dependence on calculators"

• ska 7y ago
  That analogy doesn't hold well though, because calculators were (at least eventually) better at everything a slide rule could do. This article is predicated on the idea that this doesn't hold for CLI->GUI. You may disagree, but it's not obviously false.
  • scroot 7y ago
    Yes, I caught the drift of the article. I think a better title might have been "Teletype Emulation Strategies to Break Your Dependence on the GUI"
    • deleted 7y ago
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    • ska 7y ago
      If we are going there, why not "Teletype Emulation Strategies to Break Your Dependence on Limited Desktop Metaphor" ?
      • aerique 7y ago
        Or "airplane seat" metaphor as Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. said.