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Me neither, but here it is: "Coders love absurdity Programmers have to worry about things no sane human being ever considers." Read: you are insane for not as
by Piskvorrr 8y ago
Me neither, but here it is:
"Coders love absurdity
Programmers have to worry about things no sane human being ever considers." Read: you are insane for not assuming [A-Z] is enough for a name, because it's enough for me. Müller, L'Oreal, Curie-Skłodowska, the list goes on and on, normal, ordinary names. But noo, that's "absurd" for Antoine Valot: I fit into ASCII, everyone else should! But yeah, let's indulge the paranoid simpletons' fantasies and allow them their unrealistic nonsense ("keep them from derailing the experience with utter lunacy").
The rest of that point are similar concerns, inflated ad absurdum and then dismissed for straw men: "people's names change? Let's mock it with a ridiculously improbable caricature - abracadabra, problem solved!" If grappling with such UX fails were not so common ("Sorry Mrs., we only have someone with a different last name under your account, no can do."), I wouldn't even bother, but, well, from someone extolling flawless UX, that's hoisting oneself by own petard. "Nope, we expect everything to be < 255 characters (arbitrary limit, today); having an address longer than that is obviously the user's fault, and the coders' too, for having mentioned it and spoiling my wonderful design with their insane practical concerns."