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Weird article. Looks like some kind of hack. Or a strange prank. (or more simply, a test article which has been submitted to the RSS feed when it was not supposed to)

People are wondering who upvoted, I think it's interesting to see that as most people who are upvoting this do it from title. Often people vote from interesting title, then click to read, only after. Title was appealing, expecting some article pointing and explaining what is wrong with "big shot" programmers. And finally, it's not, it's a stupid thing. But it got upvoted, thanks to title. Interesting, really.

Downloading an external webserver or ftp is not a problem for most geeks. But it takes configuring, knowing what you're doing, etc. The goal of Opera Unite is rather to bring this possibility, to another audience, to have easily such services.

And here we have a massive movement from programmers saying "how come ? You are wrong, I communicate well. If you communicate bad, you are bad programmer."

Well, that sounds like healthy putting yourself in question, and healthy communication "You're wrong, because you are".

About me, I don't think I'm an awful programmer, but I see many valid points in this (mostly about the "i explained it to you once, how come you don't get it !" :P).

Quite interesting read, not especially to take as a direct truth, more to lightly smile about it. Obviously, the "better you program", the less you are open to light criticism.

"Mensa approved", or how to advertise more on the "2% of intelligent people" sectarism. "Buy this game, it's dedicated to smart people only!" ... I predict nice success, you know "Mensa level", how to prove yourself smart, playing same games as "the elite"...

Not much more comment needed.

In my humble opinion, this is simply a command line with defined shortcuts. It may look all great when he uses it, normal, he designed it, with his words, his sentences. But honestrly, after trying this ubiquity for a while, i have difficulties finding it "user-friendly".

It's like calling a unix-shell "user-friendly" because with all commands, and pipes, and possibilities to combine them you can do everything. It's possible, sure, but who really can, besides like 1-2% of computer users ?

I get the same feeling from this thing. It's supposed to make you feel like you only ask your computer for something and it comes naturally, but basically, it's only typing a command to make an action. And the main flaw of it, is that words that are obvious to one person, are not to another.

And last point, I know, it's still alpha software, but not everyone does everything with their keyboard. I do, i'm quite a big fan of utilities like Launchy, for example, but most of people prefer to use a mouse for their actions, they want a flow of action, they want drag and drop.

Basically, this ubiquity, it's just a unix command line adapted to a browser, but i can't see that becoming very useful to most people.

How to destroy a concept in a few clicks... Besides the main idea, even, i can't even see who this software is addressed to. I mean, looking at the eye-melting advertisement of the first page, I feel like i'm watching some of these blinking advertisement which are only pushing to close the page. So who would have an interest in that ? Some serious firm ? It looks more dedicated to the casual/unprofessionnal user