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Intelligence can be expected. Hard work should be unnecessary.

• chris_wot 14y ago
  Interesting non sequitur.
  • regularfry 14y ago
    Why do you say that?
    • chris_wot 14y ago
      Because it does not follow that if you are intelligent then you will not have to do any hard work. Edit: appear to have annoyed someone with that comment! But do go on - prove to me how high intelligence means that you don't need to do hard work, which is the proposition of the OP.
      • regularfry 14y ago
        > Because it does not follow that if you are intelligent then you will not have to do any hard work. I don't think anyone's said that, or tried to say it (least of all me), at any point.
        • chris_wot 14y ago
          You seemed to. You said "intelligence can be expected. Hard work should be unnecessary". What did you actually mean? I apologise if I misunderstood what you were saying!
          • regularfry 14y ago
            I'm saying that while it may be valid to assume intelligence on the part of your users, that doesn't make it valid to make them work hard. I'm not saying that intelligence gets you out of hard work, I'm saying that it shouldn't necessarily get you into it - and from where I'm sitting, git requires both where it should only require one.
            • chris_wot 14y ago
              Ah. I'm following you finally. Yes, I agree that unnecessary hard work shouldn't be needed.
      • sirclueless 14y ago
        What on earth are you talking about? Git currently requires intelligence and hard work to learn properly. Regularfry suggests that we shouldn't need hard work to use a version control system. This statement isn't a proposition on the human condition, and doesn't need any proof.
        • chris_wot 14y ago
          Actually, I disagree. It took me no more than about half an hour to understand and use git properly. I don't particularly consider it to have been hard work. As for it not being a proposition on the human condition - I mistook what he was saying, but then after it was clarified I understand what was meant. It was unclear to me what was being said - interestingly enough, that is the entire argument being expressed for the reason why git is "hard work".
      • andrewflnr 14y ago
        I think his point was that software should be designed so that if someone is intelligent, they won't have to work hard (remember, "hard work should be unnecessary", em. mine). But he optimized for pithiness over clarity.
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