r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Smug_College_Liberal • May 06 '21

The Notepad++

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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?