I think it's really sad that most computers today are used for consuming media and nothing else.
Back in the day, user manuals for new computers came with instructions on how to write your own programs.
Users were actually encouraged to learn how their computer works.
Now people are lucky if they don't accidentally install 30 spyware botnets while torrenting that latest hollywood movie, because they really have no idea what they're doing.
And?
>>46728533
You are right
>>46728533
This is really sad too.
I wish my computer came with a manual like that.
>>46728533
>goto
Its almost as if different people use computers for different things
This usually tends to happen as computers become better at doing different things. Funny how that works
>>46728533
you weren't even born back then. you're just as cancerous as those fags who act like they achieved something by being 90s kids.
>>46731462
>:)
>>46730531
underrated post
>>46728533
You don't need to back that much to find stuff with decent manuals, pic related came with a manual that had windows installation instructions, description of hayes commands, configuration options and internal registers for more advanced stuff.
>"The unbridled use of the go to statement has as an immediate consequence that it becomes terribly hard to find a meaningful set of coordinates in which to describe the process progress. ... The go to statement as it stands is just too primitive, it is too much an invitation to make a mess of one's program."
>>46730417
A motherboard still has a manual.
But I see your point, every mecha in Gundam has an operation manual why dont computers.
>>46728533
>it's sad that once people who bought a potato planted it to grow new potatoes, now everyone just eats them and almost everyone has lost the skill of growing potatoes
Welcome to human society, anon, where a certain task is not required for everyone in the population but only for a few who specialise in it, so the rest of humanity has more time to do more important shit. Enjoy your stay!
Normalfags ruin everything.
>>46731750
>do more important shit
like fb and keeping up with what the kardashians are doing.
>>46728533
> 2015
> getting nostalgic over having to reinvent the wheel
autism detected
>>46734580
>> getting nostalgic over having to reinvent the wheel
That and getting nice manuals for things are completely different and you know it.
>>46728533
UNIX and GNU/Linux still do.
God bless man pages.
My home computers are 99% media centers. All of the software I would could want has already been written, so what's the point?
>>46734683
You don't understand that great feeling when you wrote a piece of software that behaves exactly how you want it to.
computers have become so advanced that there is very little technological progress anymore. that's why users don't code as much. nowadays it is all style over substance. hobbiest programmers have moved over to arduinos and discrete electronics as the learning curve to contribute to linux or program fpga's is far beyond what it took to write space invaders for the commodore 64.
Why? Everyone did this when we had television, they just made it harder better faster stronger and on a tiny screen
>>46728533
Just think of all the idiots you can now make money from because they installed a virus.
>>46735974
>the learning curve to contribute to linux or program fpga's is far beyond what it took to write space invaders for the commodore 64
I feel this statement actually. I'd love to help and work on the kernel or driver support, but sometimes I feel it's just way out of reach.
It got casualised for commercialisation, they don't care about that shit it's just a tool to consume dank memes with.
The same thing happened to drones and it will probably happen to spaceflight and sexdroids.
>>46735974
what would be great if more people took the time to understand existing code and write better documentation.
>>46736236
This. There's no good documentation anywhere, except some manpages.
>>46728533
You end up back in the garage anyway, anon. Sorry if you don't get the reference.
>>46731598
goto line 300
what's so hard about that?
>>46733845
Beats implementing the world's 250-millionth bubble sort.
>>46737031
No it doesn't though
And this argument will go nowhere. We are both set permanently, mentally and emotionally on our respective viewpoints.
Bye everyone.
>>46728533
>>46728549
>>46730417
that was because there was rarely a sizable amount of software for these systems on release and even if there was, something as simple as a text editor would set you back $40, and any real applications like word processing/spreadsheeting software $100-$500
computers were also treated differently, they were used for different tasks and the people who were buying computers were usually buying them with the intent of programming them themselves or at least using them for jobs that would require development anyway
now that we have standardized platforms with large software bases (all written in much more complicated languages than BASIC), and if people want to write their own software they can google it
in other words, fuck off back to >>>/b/ 90s kids
>>46734697
>You don't understand that great feeling when you wrote a piece of software that behaves exactly how you want it to.
Why would I need to?
>>46737274
It's a nice thing that everyone should be given the opportunity and encouragement to try. I'm just not seeing how it's any better than the feeling of successfully replacing your brakes, or cooking a multi-course meal, or painting a picture, or visiting a new city and making a new friend. They're all just flavors of self-actualization we use to pretend that we've done something significant before we die.
