You've clearly not done much in the events industry. Elevators never exist when you're wheeling a big heavy thing into an old venue. And even if it does, it will inevitably be just too small to fit the thing you're carrying in.

Y'all know that twitter automatically "shortens" every URL you put in a tweet, right? For once this isn't @codinghorror's fault...

At least it only deletes one character when you press backspace...

"If I need to read a book on how to use this hammer, the hammer is horribly flawed" is different from "If I need to read a book about building a house, the process of building houses is flawed". For a start, one of them is sensible, and one is insanity.

It's like the original thread about the introduction of Dropbox - tonnes of people saying how it could already be done. Yes, it could already be done, but dropbox makes it easy, and that's why it's better. The same applies here - git is so difficult to start off with, and continues to demonstrate flaw after flaw. Yes, it does work, but it could work in a way that's much more easy to use.

Are people in this thread genuinely trying to say that git is a well rounded, easy to use product?

@lucas1 said in Good article - Dear Developers, the Web Isn't About You:

There was a lot of marxist crap saying market forces were bad. When in fact that they have improved the world for the better in a lot of ways. Market forces drive change. She seems to think we should do lots of things for free for people that aren't are target demographic, and have yet to pay any money.

As @MZH already mentioned, there are lots of places market forces fail, and supporting people with disabilities is one of them (see also the tragedy of the commons, any industry with positive or negative externalities). I guess it depends on your world view, but I don't believe the optimum society is one which requires people with (normally unavoidable) disabilities to pay more for the same level of service as able-bodied folk.

I think you're making an incorrect assumption here. Complaining that a software's UI is rubbish is very different from being unwilling to understand the concepts of it.

Do you think that this error message is useful? Do you think git is well designed and easy to use? Do you think git should be easy to use?

I'm entirely sure this community would laugh if someone proposed the "implement each subcommand as a shell script or perl script" as a design philosophy for a software program.

@rc4 said:

/ns REGISTER password email or if the network is old as fuck/msg nickserv REGISTER password email

Easy enough for me to memorize. How frequently do you join a completely new network?

99% of clients will handle this for you anyway.

The point is, I don't want to remember that shit. Slack / HipChat uses the same log in system that every other system in the world uses - and that means the usability is better.

Can the ZIP file format store stuff case sensitively? What do ZIP unarchivers do when unzipping case sensitive files onto a filesystem where this would result in conflicts?

@rc4 said:

if your apps are written properly.

This is a big if...

Or they could just render a pure css one, requiring no mucking around with images. Heck, isn't SVG support good enough now that they could just generate that?

@lucas1 said in Good article - Dear Developers, the Web Isn't About You:

@charlieda You are talking to a guy that runs his own business. Unless there is a direct demand for this, I don't have the time to do it.

I won't do unless the government will subsidise it or I am likely to get my cash back.

That being said, I try to make sure my sites work well and ARIA compliant.

I think we're all clear that as it won't make you a profit and you're not forced to do it, you won't do it.

If it is imposed everyone will lose out because it create disincentive to anyone just trying to make something. The new data protection acts if they happen will also do this because regulation fucks up innovation.

A counter-example would be the innovation generated by people with disabilities that's only available if companies are forced to cater to their needs. If those with disabilities don't have access to flights / news / scientific literature / technical tools, we could miss out on great advances in science and technology.

There is also the moral argument that it's the right thing to do, and correcting the market through regulation purely for the benefit of others is a good thing. Do you think you'd feel differently if you had a disability?

@lucas1 said in Good article - Dear Developers, the Web Isn't About You:

If a service doesn't support disabled people, someone can always create one that does.

The point is that this isn't profitable to do in a completely free market, so other forces are needed to ensure it happens.

@lucas1 said in Good article - Dear Developers, the Web Isn't About You:

There was a lot of marxist crap saying market forces were bad. When in fact that they have improved the world for the better in a lot of ways. Market forces drive change. She seems to think we should do lots of things for free for people that aren't are target demographic, and have yet to pay any money.

As @MZH already mentioned, there are lots of places market forces fail, and supporting people with disabilities is one of them (see also the tragedy of the commons, any industry with positive or negative externalities). I guess it depends on your world view, but I don't believe the optimum society is one which requires people with (normally unavoidable) disabilities to pay more for the same level of service as able-bodied folk.

Repo both on ios/safari and mac/chrome

I think you and blakey have different definitions of "basic understanding". It's interesting to examine that. Why should I have to lean what git considers a valid object reference, committish or whatever? Why do I care about an error message that only makes sense in the context of git's vocab - why can't it be better?

A good tool is one that requires no (minimal) learning.

@rc4 said:

/ns REGISTER password email or if the network is old as fuck/msg nickserv REGISTER password email

Easy enough for me to memorize. How frequently do you join a completely new network?

99% of clients will handle this for you anyway.

The point is, I don't want to remember that shit. Slack / HipChat uses the same log in system that every other system in the world uses - and that means the usability is better.

@TwelveBaud said:

The desktop client throws an Action Center notification to let you know about the balloon tip it's popping up to tell you about the dialog it's about to show that steals keyboard focus but isn't active.

But other than that it's okay, and the Metro one isn't absolutely terrible. Wish they'd hook into WinPhone land though.

It would also be nice if it had the facility to remember my password

No love for the pythonic None?

How well do you think asking for that dialog to support years, months and days would go down over at meta.d?

@rc4 said:

Most of them handle things properly, i.e. don't abort when malloc() fails.

Sure, it's a most, but only the Sith deal in absolutes.

How does that relate to over committing memory?