What if two programs did this?
The thought experiment “Imagine if this were possible” is helpful in thinking through whether Windows lets you do something or other. (A special case of this is “When people ask for security holes as features.”) If the possibility leads to an obvious contradiction or the violation of general...
Hasnain says:
This was a great lesson.
“This childish game of “Nuh-uh/Yuh-huh!” went on while the user sat there dumbfounded and helpless, watching the icon for their .XYZ files flicker back and forth between the two programs, both of whom egotistically believed they were doing the user a “favor” by insisting on being the program that runs .XYZ files.”
Posted on 2021-10-08T03:42:35+0000