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Re:Helping my students overcome command-line bullshittery by Kalium on Friday October 10, 2014 @02:52PM (#8439423)
There's the problem. He doesn't understand what the proper bounds of relevance are. He can't see how a given task is relevant, so it's bullshit. That's more a comment on the limits of his thought processes than anything else.

He wants to do novel things. This means going places where not everything is preconfigured for his pleasure. It also means he needs to know how to use his tools, because when he runs off the edge of what point-and-drool does for him he will need them.

He asks for a world where point-and-drool covers everything. All I can say is that what he asks is impossible for what he wants.

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