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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

That is fascinating and funny! There is always a Linux guy ready to explain why UX/UI doesn't matter because they can technically solve the problem in 17 complicated steps.

Here's a different perspective.

https://zedshaw.com/blog/2018-03-25-the-billionaires-vs-bran...

What a bitter and unhinged post. To characterise Drew's obvious joke as "retribution" is farcical.

Zed Shaw isn’t especially known for even-keeled rhetoric. He got famous from “rails is a ghetto”.

Sam Altman "joking" at our expense? The resentment is well earned, and the fact HN users keep bringing it up to this day means the 2018 article was not unhinged enough.

Dang also echoes the main points of the article, albeit in a much less combatively cathartic manner:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29175816

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27067281

> He wasn't being a petty nitpicker—he was earnestly trying to help, and you can see in how sweetly he replied to Drew there that he genuinely wanted them to succeed.

> The criticisms he was raising turned out to be a non-issue in hindsight, but were on point in 2007

I recently talked about how I got an old iPod 5.5 off eBay because it fit all my usability needs. Celebrity linux hacker unsarcastically told me I should have built my own MP3 player with ESP32, an audio codec board, and micropython.

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