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Anytime anyone wants to change something and they give you one of these reasons, run away! 1) We want to modernize it 2) X is so 1990's 3) It is old fashioned.
by systemvoltage 5y ago
Anytime anyone wants to change something and they give you one of these reasons, run away! 1) We want to modernize it 2) X is so 1990's 3) It is old fashioned.
That means that person is grounded in fashion/trends/what-others-think and not objectivity.
Email didn't come with a date stamped on it - "Hey this technology must be used in 1990-2010 era". For the love of the god people, think from the bottom up. Stop following trends like headless zombies.
Just the other day someone on HN was proposing a better UX/UI for cars without explaining in detail 1) what are the downsides of current steering wheel and 2 or 3 pedals 2) What are the upsides of their idea. Without significant justification for 1) and 2), you ain't changing anything. Stop ruining the world, please.
- slgeorge 5y agoI voted you back up because generally I agree that using weak value judgements (e.g. X is old fashioned) without saying WHY a particular thing needs to be improved is not very useful. In fairness, in the article he does say why all these communications tools are a problem in his opinion.
- sjg007 5y agoEmail has been around since the 1960s and the best part of it was asynchronous world wide cheap communication. Today it is a platform that supports all kinds of various business workflows. You can run a business via email alone. It sucks but you can do it. What's interesting is that these workflows are all in conventions and human protocols and not encoded in email itself. Email can be seen as a big send and store packet which requires human decoding. Anyone has a public address which you can send to etc... Anyway, interesting way to think about it.