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Why should we have to hack around it? This is exactly the sort of defeatism and learned helplessness I was alluding to. We've accepted this crappy universal p
by mattgreenrocks 12y ago
Why should we have to hack around it?
This is exactly the sort of defeatism and learned helplessness I was alluding to.
We've accepted this crappy universal platform because it distributes software well. Despite being in a discipline where we can easily change the tools to work better for us, we just sit here and take it.
- eric_h 12y agoWe've accepted this crappy universal platform because it is universal. Replacing something that is used by literally Billions of people is decidedly non-trivial and takes _decades_.
- sanderjd 12y agoNot to mention that "because it distributes software well" is stated as if it isn't a huge deal. Has anything ever distributed anything so well, so cheaply, and so accessibly as the internet distributes web software?
- jfb 12y agoWe've accepted this crappy universal platform because it distributes software well. Given that until very recently, the overwhelming majority of software consumers were also software producers, one can see how this attitude would be very attractive. It's New Jersey all the way down.