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It's been 13 years of "no, you can't do in the phone's webbrowser the thing you can do in a PC's webbrowser, you need to install a fucking app". People just accepted it. The fuckers accepted it. (hexbear.net)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/technology@hexbear.net
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[–] 17 points 3 years ago (5 children)

An application program is a computer program designed to carry out a specific task

A howitzer is a projectile weapon designed to fire a specific projectile

Rejoice, your paint guns are now all howitzers!

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Thankfully the dictionaries get a little more specific. I do want an artillery capable paint gun though, that sounds rad

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I presented the above as a joke and I had faith that the definition of a howitzer wasn't that vague to begin with. angery

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    The Task Manager in Windows always had an "Applications" tab and a "Processes" tab, going back to Windows 98 at least. "Programs" was always too broad and restricted to being colloquial; the specific word was either application or executable.

    What's worth ranting about is whether people have stopped understanding "App" as short for something.

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