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netmute on Oct 14, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why I’m scared of the post-PC era.

You may be 18, but you sound like an ignorant old man. "Back in my day, we wrote our own BASIC programs! That's how we got good!"

There will be new and unexpected ways to create and tinker with technology. Don't give in to the "old man thinking", change is good.

orangecat on Oct 14, 2011 [–]

change is good

Improved technology is good. Companies attempting to dictate how you're allowed to use that technology is bad.

ugh on Oct 15, 2011 | [–]

But they don’t. They clearly don’t. Apple has no monopoly.

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