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0 pointsjamesbritt17y ago0 comments

"This guy has written an app for people who are into guns."

How many gun owners do you know? I know a bunch. They're an odd group, insomuch as they are not as simple to peg as some might think.

Sure, some are Dukes of Hazzard beer swilln' hicks, but others are top-grade software developers, teachers, and engineers.

I'm skeptical about selling CLI apps in general, but I don't think it's made any better or worse when targeting gun owners.

(To the original poster: go grab JRuby and Monkeybars and bang out a cross-platform GUI version!)

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xenophanes17y ago· 2 in thread

Quit being offended. If we take "gun owners" to mean "people completely at random" (i.e. no prejudice) then what he said is true. Random people don't like CLIs. Random people are completely different than people who want to write database archiving scripts. Script writers like CLIs better.

jamesbrittOP17y ago

"Quit being offended."

Who was offended? Not me. I'm pointing out a false view of gun owners. If Peter had in fact said "people completely at random" or "but they're not geeks", that would haven fine.

But emphasizing gun ownership as if it were particularly relevant (e.g., they are more likely than people completely at random to have trouble with the CLI) is bogus.

Oh, and quit being touchy. :)

petercooper17y ago

You're right, but to be fair, James read my implication quite well. I was having a tiny dig at gun nuts - not from any realistic experience but mostly because I'm European and I'm culturally supposed to look at gun-toters with disdain ;-)

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