Automatic typing

[Walter Bright]

On 7/1/2013 10:51 AM, deadalnix wrote:
> But if you one very stupid one, I declared in the late 90s that a phone with a
> tactile screen on its whole surface was a stupid idea and that it would never work.
> I you look hard enough, I guess we all said the most stupid thing at some point.
> We got to admit it and not repeat the mistake.

None of us have to look very hard at ourselves to find such, if we're being 
remotely honest.

I don't much care for the popular "gotcha" practice of digging up something 
someone did or said decades ago. It presumes that we are all born wise, and 
offers no hope for learning from our mistakes. Sadly, the internet and the 
surveillance state are going to make life difficult for anyone trying to live 
down something stupid.

Makes me glad I grew up before the internet. Makes me glad that most of the 
drivel I posted to Usenet back in the 80's has been hopefully lost :-)