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Well, if an app provides just a few functionalities but works flawlessly it is a good app indeed. On the other hand it may have all the functions in the world but if it causes massive amounts of swearing, threats to the phone and so on then it is not. It is mainly the philosophy behind the standard microtools of Unix, like grep, sort, uniq... they do 1 thing and they do it well.
Geek code v 3.12
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Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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It's all great if your app can do everything the user needs to do, but if a user can't find which buttons to press to make it work the app is as useful as a bucket full of lemurs on the Eiffel tower (yes, that's not very useful indeed).
My blog[ ^]
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
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Sander Rossel wrote: a bucket full of lemurs on the Eiffel tower
I don't know. If I was up high enough and could see below me, I might find quite a few uses for a bucket full of lemurs up there.
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/ravi
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Nah. Not the same issue.
Usability seems to be the last concern of a great many developers, and it's apparent in the absolute crap they produce.
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It is very easy to fix...
On the first presentation remind the audience that the UX design by the best designer studio (name one distant)...In my experience that improves the feedback a hundred times...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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All too sadly true. The 'expert' from another city is always much more clever than your own developers. 
TTFN - Kent
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I did a demo on a new application I developed a while back.
The customer needed to use it in an environment where mouse and keyboard are available, but not very practical (due to dirty work/dirty hands) and so the entire application was build for a touch screen, big buttons, big textboxes, everything big to support a dirty- and fat-fingered, touch, factory environment.
I gave the demo in a room where I didn't have a touch screen.
The user hated it, said the application looked as if we went 10 years back in time!
Of course I wasn't thrilled to hear that! So this is kind of how the conversation went.
Customer: "I don't like how this application looks. Everything works with touch nowadays, phones and tables, and you're still using a mouse, its as if we go back 10 years in time!"
Me: "But you'll have a touch screen in production environment..."
Customer: "And will that work?"
Me: "Yes."
Customer: "In that case it looks very nice, I was just afraid I had to use a mouse!"
Apparently the big UI (which looked like other applications they were already using) didn't ring a bell. Also, using a mouse is so 2004...
Users...
My blog[ ^]
public class SanderRossel : Lazy<Person>
{
public void DoWork()
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throw new NotSupportedException();
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My situation exactly - in food manifacturing plants you must have resistive touchscreen to cope with gloves, and BIG buttons to accept gloves designed for industrial freezers. Also we must account for daltonism so the choice of colours is reduced. Furthermore, due to the first designs dating 1996 we are stuck, for stock compatibility, to 1024x768 pixel.
Hellish, but every customer praise us for the ease of use - much less for the setup which is almost arcane 
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Microsoft will share more about the Windows 10 'consumer experience' at an event on January 21 in Redmond. Oh, I'm so excited, what Rolling Stones song will they use this time?
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I don't know but seeing the mess with Win8 I'd steer to Slayer - Raining Blood, just to be sure.
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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The company is using hundreds of computers in Asia to execute what’s known as a denial of service attack on sites where its pilfered data is available, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter. "It takes a thief to catch a thief"
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So how did NASA's engineers make this old technology work for them in the rigors of space? Testing. That's what users are for.
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Testing? BS.
From building to testing, the current computers cost more than $1 million each.
Tax payer dollars, tax payer dollars, tax payer dollars!
Yeah, I could put together a bullet proof piece of software for $3 million too. 
Marc
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Marc Clifton wrote: I could put together a bullet proof piece of software for $3 million too
Some "giv me codezzz, plzzz" would do it for $3 million as well 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Project Maelstrom is BitTorrent’s take on the web browser: doing away with centralised servers, web content is instead shared through torrents on a distributed network. P2P FTW?
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A lot of the software on which the world relies a great deal can be terrible — riddled with poor design decisions if not outright and undeniable bugs. "Only the good die young"
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So so true. The developers focus more on the concept of functionality, processes and money but leave the very thing that was meant to fill the gap between users and workforce...and that is usability. The UI/UX (User Interface/User Experience) is just so poor, so buggy and hindering many users out there to do more with apps and softwares. It's time we redefined this industry before we hit the ground so hard we won't be able stand up again. Users are crying out there everyday about bad designs and how hard it is to view different typographical implementations, tools they use and even color graphics in systems and softwares built not by machines but by humans.
It's time we do something about this, it's time we rebuild the vision that was before everything became so crappy as of this generation.
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Primarily because the software cannot be seen (or understood) by people who have a stake in it - the C- level managers and the end users. It is this intangibility that prevents anyone except developers having a "quality" conversation.
Of course, managers need to have a quality conversation because the source code is a very significant part of the developer's working environment and massively impacts both their productivity and their job satisfaction.
Companies can go to the wall if their big ball of mud becomes too failed* to recover. You could argue that this constitutes negligence on the side of the board of directors....
*KSS substitution
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Fundamentally, clean, well-tested, well-documented, and instantly-comprehensible code only matters to developers.
And THAT is exactly the wrong-think that continues to support the crappy code everywhere I look.
For example, just yesterday, I got a prioritized task list back from my client. Eight items. Where was documentation?
AT THE ELEPHANTING BOTTOM OF THE LIST!!!
Fortunately, because I am consultant and not an employee, I can do what I damn well please, and they have been informed that documentation has been bumped to the top.
And geez, the doc that I want to write is bare-bones on how to configure the URL's and connection strings for the five moving parts of this system (a WPF app, three web services, and a web app, the latter 3 connecting to 2 different databases) so that I can set up, say, a VM that runs all this on one system.
In the long run, it'll save me time (my primary motivation) and it'll save them money (my secondary motivation.) But noooo, documentation was put at the bottom of the list.
Marc
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Wix# (WixSharp) is a deployment authoring framework targeting Windows Installer (MSI). Wix# allows building complete MSI setups from a deployment specification expressed with C# syntax. Because the world needed another installer builder (no, seriously, it did)
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A French group of publishers, including top names such as Microsoft and Google, are planning to sue developers of ad-blocking software because of the impact that their solutions have on their web-based solutions. "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
modified 10-Dec-14 13:32pm.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
Alas, few ever get past the first step with me.
When they do, they always get stuck on step 2.
Ah well, it's easier that way. 
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How about "AdBlock" - The most popular Chrome extension, with over 40 million users! Blocks ads all over the web.
Google allowed this one and not Adblock Plus. This is simply crazy 
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Message Closed
modified 21-Nov-20 21:01pm.
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