Advice for the Young

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6 points·pkrumins··7 comments

I stopped reading at the heading: "Windows will be dead; Microsoft may or may not Die with it."

Windows has been dead since before Windows existed. (All you fellow old farts: How many prove-able, truly, completely superior alternatives were there to DOS in the old days?). And hasn't Windows, since the 1.0 release, always been inferior to the Mac? Has it not always crashed more, required more re-installs, and basically been a technical let-down in one way or another? This guy acts like he just discovered that Windows is technically inferior to the alternatives. This guy's standing so close to the curve, he thinks it's a flat line.

I'm thinking, as comatose_kid states, maybe this guy's not old enough. He should be taking advice and reading history books, he has no place actually giving advice.

“I'm thinking, as comatose_kid states, maybe this guy's not old enough. He should be taking advice and reading history books, he has no place actually giving advice.”

I think the text should be judged by the content, rather than the credibility of the author. Authorities can be mistaken, after all. Elaborating; if he were eighty years of age, I would still see it proper to judge his words as harshly as anyone else's.

I think that he was referring more to Window's eventual commercial demise, rather than its technological inferiority.

The guy is 31.

31 now, or 31 when he wrote this back in 2005?

He was born in 1977 (according to his bio page).

When hes 31, he knows what he missed or should have done when he was younger. An younger guy maynot realise that. We always realise mistakes or missed oppurtunities in hindsight.

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