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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The relevant aphorism is "make it as simple as possible, but not simpler". You can add functionality to make things easier, same as syntactic sugar in programming languages. You shouldn't turn the person using your system into an object, just accepting what it gives them in response to their magic movements or clicking pictures.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're not from New Jersey I see

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Sorry, didn't get the reference?..