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At the time, the users were the programmers.
by zahlman 8mo ago
At the time, the users were the programmers.
- booi 8mo agoarguably if you're using the CLI they still are
- kube-system 8mo agonah, we have long had other disciplines using the CLI who do not write their own software, e.g. sysadmins
- spott 8mo agoYea, they are just much higher level programmers… most programmers don’t know the low level syscall apis.
- spiralcoaster 8mo agoYeah but now they're using npm to install a million packages to do things like tell if a number is greater than 10000. The chances of the programmer wanting to understand the underlying system they are using is essentially nil.
- amelius 8mo agoThis is misleading because you use plural for both and I'm sure most of these UX missteps were _each_ made by a _single_ person, and there were >1 users even at the time.
- Msurrow 8mo agoI think he meant that at that time all users were programmers. Yes, _all_ .
- zahlman 8mo agoIt was a bit of an over-generalization, but yes that's basically what I was going for.
- andoando 8mo agoprogrammers are people too! bash syntax just sucks
- ifh-hn 8mo ago> and there were >1 users even at the time. Are you sure there wasn't >&1 users... Sorry I'll get my coat.
- mjevans 8mo agoI think that's likely to work as a no-op
- worldsavior 8mo agoGet out.
- NooneAtAll3 8mo agodid you mean to write "<1"?