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> Simple, useful software I came expecting examples of to-do lists, mail clients, clever messaging apps, etc. There are a handful of those. Instead, the major
by doctorpangloss 12y ago
> Simple, useful software
I came expecting examples of to-do lists, mail clients, clever messaging apps, etc. There are a handful of those.
Instead, the majority of apps are described by sentences where literally every word would be unfamiliar to a typical computer user. For example, "Cram is a functional testing framework for command line applications based on Mercurial’s unified test format."
Simple is in the eye of the beholder.
- wtetzner 12y agoSimple doesn't necessarily mean familiar or easy.
- jude- 12y agoI think the "simple" they were going for here is "performs one well-defined, unambiguous task in as direct a way as possible."
- 1tw 12y ago> I came expecting examples of to-do lists, mail clients, clever messaging apps, etc. There are a handful of those. There are hundreds of posts about those sorts of applications in the archives[0], but the focus of the site tends to drift about a lot depending on what I'm up to/interested in at a given time. > Instead, the majority of apps are described by sentences where literally every word would be unfamiliar to a typical computer user. That's definitely a problem, and after chatting with some readers on Twitter recently I'm making more of an effort to 'translate' jargon and buzzwords in software descriptions. [0] See, e.g., http://onethingwell.org/tagged/todo http://onethingwell.org/tagged/todo