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It's stuff like this that leaves me despondent as a technologist. Are these the people whose lives we've spent decades trying to make easier? I'm starting to su
by madrox 4y ago
It's stuff like this that leaves me despondent as a technologist. Are these the people whose lives we've spent decades trying to make easier? I'm starting to suspect most people don't actually want their lives to be easier.
I've been writing software professionally for twenty years, and the worst thing that ever happened to the internet, in my mind, was making it essential to people's lives. I suspect if it started out as essential in the 90s, the free software movement would never have happened.
- tinco 4y agoNo, for every unhappy black text on greenish background google disliking user there's literally tens of thousands of happy users that have used notepad++ for over a decade. Those are the regular people who are satisfied and don't bother the author with presumptuous emails.