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		lupire 79 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Just let me select text My company has dedicated years of engineering time to add custom "copy" buttons next to text that they spent months to make non-selectable.

whstl 79 days ago | [–]

That's why we don't have flying cars.

mrandish 79 days ago | | [–]

> text that they spent months to make non-selectable.

Just curious, what was the original reason(s) to make the text non-selectable.

mc3301 79 days ago | [–]

I chuckled. I reflected on the hours having done metaphorically similar in developing apps.

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