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xkcd #1172: Workflow
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Title text: There are probably children out there holding down spacebar to stay warm in the winter! YOUR UPDATE MURDERS CHILDREN.
Transcript
[Changelog for version 10.17 of a piece of software.]
One change listed: "The CPU no longer overheats when you hold down the spacebar"
Comments: LongtimeUser4 writes: This update broke my workflow! My control key is hard to reach, so I hold spacebar instead, and I configured Emacs to interpret a rapid temperature rise as "control".
Admin writes: That's horrifying.
LongtimeUser4 writes: Look, my setup works for me. Just add an option to reenable spacebar heating.
Every change breaks someone's workflow.
The user's always right
Not in my experience. The three most dangerous things in the world are:
"So I've been thinking..."
"Well that's dangerous!"
Haha as a programmer who has worked on a handful of soldering projects this is so true.
I should put down the soldering iron I guess
would make my electronics projects less horrible
What about the designer... Can they program
No. Usually not really
This is why most open source projects are ugly
One sentence horror story:
Full-stack developer.
What if I'm a bit of both?
I recently had a user claim the upgrade from office 2019 to 365 broke her laptop screen.
That, truly, is indictive of every user complaint ever, therefore no complaint has merit.