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0 pointsmkmkmmmmm13y ago0 comments

This kind of reasoning makes the same presupposition as the article's author. But it is ironic that he mentions musicians--a professional musician's tools, like a programmer's are basically high quality versions of the amateur's.

The conjecture about keyboards being suboptimal is verifibly true, but that does not automatically extend to the machine as well. I also suspect coding experiences will be pretty subjective.

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gouranga13y ago

I think the point is the wrong way around.

1. The amateurs tools are a low quality, oversimplified version of the professional's. The same goes if you compare a Korg Trinity to a cheap Casio keyboard (I've owned the earlier of the two for 16 years and play for 2 hours a day at random intervals if that's any help supporting the difference in quality).

2. The machine is definitely suboptimal. I suggest that you read the remainder of the author's blog about sane computing.

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0 pointsmkmkmmmmm13y ago0 comments

The conjecture about keyboards being suboptimal is verifibly true, but that does not automatically extend to the machine as well. I also suspect coding experiences will be pretty subjective.

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gouranga13y ago

I think the point is the wrong way around.

2. The machine is definitely suboptimal. I suggest that you read the remainder of the author's blog about sane computing.

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