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I believe in the power of user interfaces, and I believe tools should be as easy to use as possible, and I dislike the "I don't like to learn new things" argume
by laughinghan 14y ago
I believe in the power of user interfaces, and I believe tools should be as easy to use as possible, and I dislike the "I don't like to learn new things" argument because actually, yes, your tools should make you learn as little as necessary to use them. But quotes like:
here’s a diagram illustrating the commands a typical developer on a traditional Subversion project needed to know about to get their work done. This is the bread and butter of VCS: checking out a repository, committing changes, and getting updates.
make clear that when this author says they're listing ten things git does wrong as a version control system, but what they're listing is ten ways git isn't Subversion, and I'm sorry, but maybe if instead of writing blog posts about how a tool's user interface wasn't like what you unfairly expected of it, you actually learned how to use the tool, you'd be using it right now to make something awesome.
What I'm saying is, I think I'd rephrase
Number 1-5 are mostly "I don't want to learn new things"
to
Number 1-5 are mostly "I'm going to blame my tool for me refusing to do the bare minimum to learn how to use it"