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Militaries are good at making horrible UI. :-) I used to work at early warning radar, that should notify our tops about incoming ICBMs. When there's a target, c
by thunderplot 9y ago
Militaries are good at making horrible UI. :-) I used to work at early warning radar, that should notify our tops about incoming ICBMs. When there's a target, classified as "suspicious" or "something that's going to fall onto {our, neighbour} territory", the following happens:
- very loud sine 1200Hz tone starts sounding
- the only output device, "fast-printing device", starts dumping hexdumps of internal structures to long 10cm wide paper (like toilet paper).
- the whole chain of command start yelling to each other (downwards), demanding data and info about the target.
So as the last person in that food chain, you're in the middle of panic, 1200Hz are drilling into your brain, damned thing prints hexdumps, and you need to apply binary shifts and ANDs, convert from floating point hex to decimals and pray that there's enough paper in damned FPD.
I could never imagine worse UI, it's strange that we didn't start WW3 in those conditions.
- wmeredith 9y ago"Militaries are good at making horrible UI." This is extremely applicable: https://hackernoon.com/why-the-dmv-website-sucks-2f27a367baa9 https://hackernoon.com/why-the-dmv-website-sucks-2f27a367baa... Disclaimer: it's an article I wrote about why government software contractors suck at their jobs.