On Wed, 15 May 2013 20:18:26 +0200 Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrov...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/14/13, Steven Schveighoffer <schvei...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > BTW, for comparison: > > > > Dconf 2007: 8/25-8/27 2007 > > > > Slides posted: 7/10/2008 > > I wasn't around back then. :) > You must be very young, quite a prodigy, really ;) > On 5/14/13, Steven Schveighoffer <schvei...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Reminds me of Lewis CK's "Everything is amazing, and nobody is > > happy" > > Well there's always going to be a difference in expectations between > the old and new generation. Some things become great, others start to > suck. For example I've got this microwave at home which is more than > 20 years old, and it still works as great as day 1. Whereas I once > bought a (not so cheap) toaster and it broke within a month. Not > everything is amazing these days at all. > Same here. I looked everywhere trying to find a wide-slot toaster that *wasn't* 50's retro, managed to find *one* and it started having problems within just a few months. About 3 years later now, and I still put up with it anyway :) (It's not dangerously bad, the darkness setting just doesn't work unless it's all the way at "light".) > And once you add artificial restrictions to something, people get mad. > And rightfully so! Which sometimes makes me think I'd be better off knowing nothing about computers. Then, just like all the happy people I see, I'd never notice the artificiality of the restrictions ;)
