Re:Wikipedia is fixing one of the Internet’s biggest flaws
by mattkevan on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @04:40AM
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This bit could also apply to most modern tech and the companies that produce it:
"It is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all.
In other words - and this is the rock solid principle on which the whole of the Corporation's Galaxy-wide success is founded - their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws."
Re:Wikipedia is fixing one of the Internet’s biggest flaws
by jmmcd on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @08:15AM
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Don't forget that Douglas Adams always was a huge Apple fan. Bearing this in mind, I read comments like that one as a dig at non-Apple computers of the time.
"It is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all.
In other words - and this is the rock solid principle on which the whole of the Corporation's Galaxy-wide success is founded - their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws."