Re:I've been building a Markdown note-taking app for 3 years
by zimpenfish on Friday June 07, 2019 @02:50AM
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> Go ahead and invent some totally unique tool nobody's ever seen before.
I think people invent totally unique tools[1] all the time but, crucially, they'll be commercially sensitive or rarely of interest or use to anyone else.
[1] Of course, it depends how you define this. Decades ago I wrote something to blank out (not strip) comments in C++ source for someone. Is that a 'totally unique tool'?
> And to a certain extent, I don't consider people incapable/unwilling to do this "programmers". Merely typists.
I think people invent totally unique tools[1] all the time but, crucially, they'll be commercially sensitive or rarely of interest or use to anyone else.
[1] Of course, it depends how you define this. Decades ago I wrote something to blank out (not strip) comments in C++ source for someone. Is that a 'totally unique tool'?
> And to a certain extent, I don't consider people incapable/unwilling to do this "programmers". Merely typists.
Yeah, this is elitist nonsense.