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Insulting without provocation and needlessly inflammatory? I take it you're from reddit?

• mattsfrey 13y ago
  I'm a Mac user and couldn't agree more with the dude. On the flipside though screwing around with automator is a lot of fun!
• jfb 13y ago
  He's not wrong. On the other hand, everybody works around limitations in their technology. It's the nature of the beast.
  • ygra 13y ago
    It's astonishing how often people don't even notice that they're working around things. After noticing that something doesn't work the way you like and finding a workaround the workaround slowly becomes muscle memory and you stop thinking about it. And then you look over someone's shoulder and wonder why on earth they would do what they're doing the way they're doing and when pointing out to them that there is a better way they just shrug and note that what they did works too. Funnily enough, at least regarding UX, such coping behaviour doesn't seem to register as a nuisance after you have your workaround. That being said, I still prefer getting things right enough that users stumble on the obvious and easiest way first.
    • jfb 13y ago
      In a sense, all technology usage is the child of working around limitations; when the plasticity of thought meets the annoyingly concrete world, something's got to give. The best technologies, then, are the ones that conform to our predispositions and allow us to reuse pre-existing workarounds.
• WayneDB 13y ago
  No, I'm from New Jersey and it wasn't an insult - it was an observation and something that I myself experienced as a Mac user. (I wonder if you're thinking "He's not a Mac user." - Are you? I'm betting that you are because many, many Mac users don't consider one a true user unless they're gushing over the product and company.)