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Re:Why I'm Done Making Desktop Applications (2009) by ffsm8 on Friday July 12, 2024 @03:09PM (#40948476)
...what? how is 90s not pre 2k? you do know what timeperiod the 90s is, right?

oooh, i see. you edited it out of your initial comment back then and i didn't notice.

I guess you realized how dumb that statement was and couldn't man up to it.

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Re:Why I'm Done Making Desktop Applications (2009) by adastra22 on Sunday July 14, 2024 @05:55AM (#40959946)
Am I taking crazy pills? I never mentioned the 90's! Here's my original post, which is unedited:

> Developers like you and I are a dying breed. We remember writing applications for operating systems that had straightforward APIs, and OS developers that worked hard to ensure any app which used those APIs would not break.

> Most "full-stack" developers I know that write web apps have literally never written a line of C++ in their life, let alone written a rich text editor using an object oriented desktop GUI API.

> They don't know it's not supposed to hurt.

HN doesn't allow editing comments outside of a very short edit window.

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