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How can you not test on windows before release? It's still the most popular operating system?

by UK-AL 11y ago

wodenokoto 11y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if iOS or Abdroid is the most popular OS for medium visitors. But yeah, I'm surprised too they didn't test on Windows.
igravious 11y ago
Do not take this as snark. Not meant as such. Just observation, begrudging admiration is as negative as it gets :) My guess is that trendy internet start-ups have a Mac culture. I'm not sure, I'm not in trendy internet start-up land. The same is true in academia though, which is my land. Go to an academic conference and we're talking predominantly Mac. I love the way they spin the "did not test on Windows, the most popular desktop OS" fail to "isn't System so cool and retor, isn't it awesome?". That takes a fair amount of chutzpah and a serious inability for stuff like this to faze you. Which is probably a great character quality for a dev team whose software touches millions.
- sagichmal 11y ago
  > I love the way they spin the "did not test on Windows, the most popular desktop OS" fail to "isn't System so cool and retor, isn't it awesome?". That takes a fair amount of chutzpah and a serious inability for stuff like this to faze you. I don't understand. Why should this faze anyone? The website still worked, no harm was done. It barely registers as a bug!
  - davegardner 11y ago
    In this case it certainly wasn't a serious bug. However it suggests that they did no testing at all on Windows, so in the future they may not be quite as lucky.
sneak 11y ago
In many subcultures, including the one I would guess the Medium people are in, Macs are by far the most popular and have been for over five years. It could be that they simply forgot that rich white people in California and New York are a minority on the web. It happens to rich white people in California and New York a lot.
- coldpie 11y ago
  What does race have to do with this?
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  - ForHackernews 11y ago
    For a variety of complex historical reasons, race and class are tightly correlated in the United States.
    - to3m 11y ago
      I took the "rich white people" term to refer to people instinctively unaware of their privileged position, to the extent that they don't see that things might be different for others. (For full rhetorical effect, to my mind, this requires both riches and whiteness, since one without the other doesn't have quite the same implication of breezy unthinking carelessness.) Obviously having a Mac and working in San Francisco and treating Windows users like they don't really exist is not quite the same as being rich and white and never thinking of people who are poor and black (or whatever). But the parallels seemed pretty obvious to me. I hope the poster doesn't get banned for their flagged post. It's good to see people fighting for social justice by calling out oppression where they see it - but I really didn't see it there myself.

How can you not test on windows before release? It's still the most popular operating system?

by UK-AL 11y ago

How can you not test on windows before release? It's still the most popular operating system?

I wouldn't be surprised if iOS or Abdroid is the most popular OS for medium visitors. But yeah, I'm surprised too they didn't test on Windows.

igravious 11y ago

Do not take this as snark. Not meant as such. Just observation, begrudging admiration is as negative as it gets :) My guess is that trendy internet start-ups have a Mac culture. I'm not sure, I'm not in trendy internet start-up land. The same is true in academia though, which is my land. Go to an academic conference and we're talking predominantly Mac. I love the way they spin the "did not test on Windows, the most popular desktop OS" fail to "isn't System so cool and retor, isn't it awesome?". That takes a fair amount of chutzpah and a serious inability for stuff like this to faze you. Which is probably a great character quality for a dev team whose software touches millions.

sagichmal 11y ago
> I love the way they spin the "did not test on Windows, the most popular desktop OS" fail to "isn't System so cool and retor, isn't it awesome?". That takes a fair amount of chutzpah and a serious inability for stuff like this to faze you. I don't understand. Why should this faze anyone? The website still worked, no harm was done. It barely registers as a bug!
- davegardner 11y ago
  In this case it certainly wasn't a serious bug. However it suggests that they did no testing at all on Windows, so in the future they may not be quite as lucky.

sneak 11y ago

In many subcultures, including the one I would guess the Medium people are in, Macs are by far the most popular and have been for over five years. It could be that they simply forgot that rich white people in California and New York are a minority on the web. It happens to rich white people in California and New York a lot.

coldpie 11y ago
What does race have to do with this?
- deleted 11y ago
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- ForHackernews 11y ago
  For a variety of complex historical reasons, race and class are tightly correlated in the United States.
  - to3m 11y ago
    I took the "rich white people" term to refer to people instinctively unaware of their privileged position, to the extent that they don't see that things might be different for others. (For full rhetorical effect, to my mind, this requires both riches and whiteness, since one without the other doesn't have quite the same implication of breezy unthinking carelessness.) Obviously having a Mac and working in San Francisco and treating Windows users like they don't really exist is not quite the same as being rich and white and never thinking of people who are poor and black (or whatever). But the parallels seemed pretty obvious to me. I hope the poster doesn't get banned for their flagged post. It's good to see people fighting for social justice by calling out oppression where they see it - but I really didn't see it there myself.