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Has anyone ever also noticed how cars are always heavier than the bikes we used when we were children. And how much more air you need and how much longer it tak

Has anyone ever also noticed how cars are always heavier than the bikes we used when we were children. And how much more air you need and how much longer it takes to fill a car tire with a hand pump. Also, remember when none of us was a portuguese author and we used paragraphs rationally and wrote things down without splitting them into 200 letter long strings because we used mediums made for rants and did not need a separate app to wrap it all into something vaguely resembling text? Also has anyone noticed that time passes and things change?

black_puppydog 7y ago
The point of the rant was that in IT, and from a user perspective, they keep changing for the worse rather than the better. Calling this sort of thing out, when the entire industry keeps professing they're "making the world a better place", is valuable IMHO. I happen to agree with a lot of the examples.
ryanianian 7y ago
Your comment is ad-hominem (dismissive) and does not contribute to the conversation. You can dislike with the style/syntax of the article but the point it's making isn't "things change" it's that "things change for the worse" complete with several examples which other commenters here either support or disagree with, but helpful comments mention central points in the article in good-faith conversation.
- brosinante 7y ago
  I prefer to see it as continuing the argument in the same tone as the original - ie not particularly truthful and set in tone and content to support a skewed point of view and appeal to sentiment rather than anything else.
- xpe 7y ago
  I am not confident you are using ad-hominem correctly. From the Merriam Webster online dictionary: “1 : appealing to feelings or prejudices rather than intellect an ad hominem argument 2 : marked by or being an attack on an opponent's character rather than by an answer to the contentions made made an ad hominem personal attack on his rival” (Here on HN, I think that #2 is the most common usage.)

black_puppydog 7y ago

The point of the rant was that in IT, and from a user perspective, they keep changing for the worse rather than the better. Calling this sort of thing out, when the entire industry keeps professing they're "making the world a better place", is valuable IMHO. I happen to agree with a lot of the examples.

ryanianian 7y ago

Your comment is ad-hominem (dismissive) and does not contribute to the conversation. You can dislike with the style/syntax of the article but the point it's making isn't "things change" it's that "things change for the worse" complete with several examples which other commenters here either support or disagree with, but helpful comments mention central points in the article in good-faith conversation.

brosinante 7y ago
I prefer to see it as continuing the argument in the same tone as the original - ie not particularly truthful and set in tone and content to support a skewed point of view and appeal to sentiment rather than anything else.
xpe 7y ago
I am not confident you are using ad-hominem correctly. From the Merriam Webster online dictionary: “1 : appealing to feelings or prejudices rather than intellect an ad hominem argument 2 : marked by or being an attack on an opponent's character rather than by an answer to the contentions made made an ad hominem personal attack on his rival” (Here on HN, I think that #2 is the most common usage.)