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.
Best posts made by charlieda
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RE: Wimbledon uses laptops to run the control room's displays.
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RE: Markdown Drama Part III - The Revenge of the CommonMark
Y'all know that twitter automatically "shortens" every URL you put in a tweet, right? For once this isn't @codinghorror's fault...
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RE: Couldn't enter a carriage return with the Enter key.
At least it only deletes one character when you press backspace...
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RE: More stupid Git errors THIS TIME IN FIRST-PERSON!
"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?
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RE: Good article - Dear Developers, the Web Isn't About You
@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.
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RE: More stupid Git errors THIS TIME IN FIRST-PERSON!
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.
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RE: Idiot thinks you should use IRC instead of Slack
/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. -
RE: More stupid Git errors THIS TIME IN FIRST-PERSON!
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?
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RE: :wtf: How can this be so wrong??? (AKA the Discopocalypse thread)
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?
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RE: What's Out of Place
How well do you think asking for that dialog to support years, months and days would go down over at meta.d?
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RE: Good article - Dear Developers, the Web Isn't About You
@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.