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A comment on The Law of Conservation of Complexity. Parent comment

Re:The Law of Conservation of Complexity by harperlee on Thursday February 20, 2020 @01:24PM (#22377264)
Alt+tab is mode change to an extent.
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Re:The Law of Conservation of Complexity by contextfree on Thursday February 20, 2020 @03:14PM (#22378151)
Which is why Jef Raskin in his system and interface designs tried to avoid having the concept of separate applications at all (instead of installing different applications, you'd install commands, which could be used from anywhere in the system): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archy#Commands
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Re:The Law of Conservation of Complexity by agumonkey on Thursday February 20, 2020 @01:45PM (#22377476)
Mode and modeless are both sides of the same coin.
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Re:The Law of Conservation of Complexity by Balooga on Thursday February 20, 2020 @08:45PM (#22380311)
Or the same sides of different coins.
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