Let’s Pretend This Never Happened

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This rant is a bit outdated. These days, we don't assume the user is stupid. We think they might be a troll, a botnet, or someone working for a click-farming scam.

Giving users a good experience without trusting them is an interesting UI challenge.

> This rant is a bit outdated. These days, we don't assume the user is stupid.

Quite the opposite. Compare a modern WIMP GUI (say Windows, OS X or a widely used GNU/Linux desktop environment) with a modern smartphone GUI (say Android or iOS).

They still lack open comparability, which the unix shells somewhat have (via the pipe operator). ios's shortcuts app isn't really the same thing, at least yet, and I am guessing the situation on android is similar (but would love a correction if Android has something materially better!!).

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