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> I wish people would stop this "we" business where they purport to speak for everyone. Saying that we are all used to consuming content in a web browser is ha
by tasn 2y ago
> I wish people would stop this "we" business where they purport to speak for everyone.
Saying that we are all used to consuming content in a web browser is hardly a controversial comment, especially when posting on HN which is accessed using a web browser. You most likely read my comment on a web browser and wrote it on a web browser.
Additionally, you said yourself the sentence before the one I quoted that you are used to reading documents on the web, so it seems like this "we" also applies to you. So I'm just baffled by both this and the sibling comment.
- milesrout 2y agoIn full context, it was implicitly "as opposed to anywhere else". I look at many documents every day. 90% of them are PDFs and most were Word docs before that. Pages on the web are incredibly unreliable. In the programming world random websites are more commonly used but I don't think they are actually much more reliable. A lot of online resources are just some guy's blog post. Sometimes they're great. Sometimes not.
- tasn 2y agoNo, I wasn't implying "as opposed to anywhere else". I spend much more time a day in the terminal than the browser (todos are in vim, knowledge in vimwiki, code in vim etc), but I realize not everyone is this way and the web is the much more common medium.