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Re:GuiLite: Small, cute GUI effects you can reuse by jcahill on Saturday March 07, 2020 @02:16PM (#22513400)
That's just your brain on HN misery mode, where all earthly concerns bow in vague allegiance to business logic that may not even exist.

It's also wrong in principle: memorable demos remain the most culturally-significant standalone things associated with tech since the 1960s.

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Re:GuiLite: Small, cute GUI effects you can reuse by akiselev on Sunday March 08, 2020 @01:41AM (#22516675)
Those memorable demos were called things like "The Mother of all Demos" not "Cute things [...]"
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Re:GuiLite: Small, cute GUI effects you can reuse by jcahill on Monday March 09, 2020 @02:32AM (#22523415)
Superficially 'bad' demos also work like this.

Getting people talking about your stuff because they're motivated enough to have a pineapple-on-pizza type of argument over the demo is canny and bigtechs do this deliberately.

"Did anyone notice <demo>? LOL and WTF" is why we're communicating now.

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