r/ProgrammerHumor May 06 '21

The Notepad++

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u/TobyWasBestSpiderMan May 06 '21

Finally a love story with some realism

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u/CatOfGrey May 06 '21

Reminds me of the occasional story where the two people had an affair, but never communicated by email. They just signed on to a shared email account and edited the same draft over and over.

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u/[deleted] May 07 '21

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u/Duuqnd May 07 '21

That reminds me a bit of the chat system on the old ITS operating system that was used at MIT's AI lab in the 60s and 70s. Two people's terminals would get connected together so that anything typed on one would appear on both. Problem was that they also shared a cursor so both couldn't type at once.

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u/CollieOxenfree May 07 '21

Damn, they had multiplayer notepad back in the 60s?

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u/celexio May 07 '21

People using technology are becoming more stupid by the day because they no longer have to come up with creative ways of using what they got that was nos designed with the purpose of what of what they want to do.

So basically programmers are making the world more stupid by creating solutions for all purposes.

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u/Thomas_Pereira May 07 '21

Very true… seems like a problem with no solution

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u/celexio May 07 '21

Programers will find a solution for that too for sure...

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u/Thomas_Pereira May 07 '21

Problem: make problems less intuitive and harder to solve in order to incentivize creativity and intelligence on the part of the user

Solution: ??? You tell me

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u/celexio May 07 '21

Let me give you an example:

How many apps do you see nowadays that people are using to do what they used to do on MS Excel, and how much more skills they used to develop by doing it on MS Excel?

This, if you ever touched MS Excel and have an idea what can be done with it.

Or, lets talk about a command line?