throwaway33114

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   by throwaway33114 8y ago

   What I mean by 'intuitive' is that if I show notepad.exe to my mother, she can easily open up the program, start editing text, save, and quit. The cognitive load to assimilate first hand is very low. On vim, to even get started w
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   by throwaway33114 8y ago

   >Vi(m) is a second-class citizen these days because people don't bother actually learning the software they use upfront, but instead expect the software to be intuitive. This isn't a problem, it's just a different approach
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   by throwaway33114 8y ago

   A thing that really annoys me on HN (though it's certainly not specific to this website but more general to any place where the users self style as 'intellectuals' or 'rationally minded' or whatever) is the amount o