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Re:Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday? by tsimionescu on Sunday July 12, 2020 @02:10AM (#23809262)
This is not 'freedom' it is excessive complexity.

`ls` wouldn't be better if I had to pass a flag to see the output as today, and another flag to print one character per line, and another flag to print each character in a different color etc. (even though that would give me 'more freedom').

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Re:Ask HN: What's the worst piece of software you use everyday? by allarm on Sunday July 12, 2020 @12:27PM (#23812498)
I don’t think that git forces you to use all these bells and whistles. Also I am not sure if ls would be better with additional flags, but it won’t be worse because of that, that’s for sure.
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