dbh937 · HackerTrans

hace 14 añosdiscuss

Like you said, they are a decoration. When handwriting something, some people use underlines for different kinds of emphasis. Those people want to make text look a certain way. It's good that HTML5 brought back underlines, just in case someone wants to use them, they at least have the option.

dbh937

hace 14 añosdiscuss

> But today's computing really can't be compared to the experience in the 80s, when you as a kid >could master your CPU and know its complete instruction set, its registers and important >memory locations and feel completely in control. I shudder when I see where general computing >is headed with kids dreaming of owning iPads.

I wish too that computers were like they were in the 80's. Growing up now, I remember when to me the System Preferences on a Mac were a place that you didn't go or else you might mess up the computer. Still, with programming knowledge and all, I always get a little bit frightened when I'm about to do something the tiniest bit dangerous that might it so my computer won't turn on, like using `dd` even though I checked the name of the disk I was trying to write at least ten times. I blame it on my generation and the "magic" about computers today that some other HNers mentioned.

dbh937

hace 14 añosdiscuss

Moderators might take it off.

dbh937

hace 14 añosdiscuss

This is staying as #1 for a while.

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