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Glad (/s) to see the MBA-ification of tech companies continues uninterrupted as we enter the second half of the decade.

cyanydeez 7mo ago
I assume there's like a single manager who's job it was was to maintain notepad and force use of AI, so obviously, vibe code needless features because if it's not broke, how can you fix it with AI.
UqWBcuFx6NV4r 7mo ago
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- datenyan 7mo ago
  > "adding rich text editing features to a text editor” Yeah, we already had that. In the form of Wordpad. Which was EOL'd. And now we have Notepad with AI features. Notepad was, and always should have been, a simple & lightweight text box for storing and editing text only files. If you wanted to edit something more complicated, you could use the other tool that was built into Windows specifically for that.
  - eclipxe 7mo ago
    I like having something all in one.
    - ThrowawayTestr 7mo ago
      I liked having a simple plain text editor
      - procone 7mo ago
        I can't believe I'm saying this on hackernews of all places... Markdown *is* plain text.
        drw85 7mo ago
        That's the point. It now gets rendered in Notepad. Before these changes Notepad was just able to edit plain text and not rendered markdown etc.
    - 2muchcoffeeman 7mo ago
      Funny comment because this would have been WordPad.
  - procone 7mo ago
    Wordpad was horrible! Nobody reasonable misses binary encoded .rtf files. They were a nightmare for any other platform other than windows. What are these horrible takes?
    - throw-the-towel 7mo ago
      RTF is not binary encoded though? It's plain text with commands, not unlike TeX.
    - 4k0hz 7mo ago
      The point is that there was basically no reason to totally kill Wordpad in the way that they did. They're different products and the new Notepad is closer to the ideal version of Wordpad than what Notepad is supposed to be, and now there's no Notepad.
    - deleted 7mo ago
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    - sznio 7mo ago
      >Nobody reasonable misses binary encoded .rtf files. then put the markdown support there to supplant rtfs?

I assume there's like a single manager who's job it was was to maintain notepad and force use of AI, so obviously, vibe code needless features because if it's not broke, how can you fix it with AI.

UqWBcuFx6NV4r 7mo ago

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datenyan 7mo ago
> "adding rich text editing features to a text editor” Yeah, we already had that. In the form of Wordpad. Which was EOL'd. And now we have Notepad with AI features. Notepad was, and always should have been, a simple & lightweight text box for storing and editing text only files. If you wanted to edit something more complicated, you could use the other tool that was built into Windows specifically for that.
- eclipxe 7mo ago
  I like having something all in one.
  - ThrowawayTestr 7mo ago
    I liked having a simple plain text editor
    - procone 7mo ago
      I can't believe I'm saying this on hackernews of all places... Markdown *is* plain text.
      - drw85 7mo ago
        That's the point. It now gets rendered in Notepad. Before these changes Notepad was just able to edit plain text and not rendered markdown etc.
  - 2muchcoffeeman 7mo ago
    Funny comment because this would have been WordPad.
- procone 7mo ago
  Wordpad was horrible! Nobody reasonable misses binary encoded .rtf files. They were a nightmare for any other platform other than windows. What are these horrible takes?
  - throw-the-towel 7mo ago
    RTF is not binary encoded though? It's plain text with commands, not unlike TeX.
  - 4k0hz 7mo ago
    The point is that there was basically no reason to totally kill Wordpad in the way that they did. They're different products and the new Notepad is closer to the ideal version of Wordpad than what Notepad is supposed to be, and now there's no Notepad.
  - deleted 7mo ago
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  - sznio 7mo ago
    >Nobody reasonable misses binary encoded .rtf files. then put the markdown support there to supplant rtfs?