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A comment on Gmail: Introducing Actions in the Inbox. Parent comment

Re:Gmail: Introducing Actions in the Inbox by abraininavat on Thursday May 16, 2013 @01:49PM (#5719901)
What happened to it? It's still around. People still write programs that do one thing and do it well. You're welcome to use them.

Are you implying that there ever was a time when all programs did only one thing and did it well? Which era was that?

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Re:Gmail: Introducing Actions in the Inbox by d43594 on Thursday May 16, 2013 @02:48PM (#5720347)
I think you are missing the subtle tones, implications and context within the comment. It was not meant as a blanket statement hence it is a comment against a specific item.
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