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See the Penrose Triangle illusion[1]; what if the operant conditioning makes people who see the gap in the triangle joint find some workaround to jump over it,
by jodrellblank 6y ago
See the Penrose Triangle illusion[1]; what if the operant conditioning makes people who see the gap in the triangle joint find some workaround to jump over it, and maybe that training in some piece of software aligns people to see the whole triangle and not see the gap at all. Is there any research into whether people trained on some software consider it more reliable than people thrown into it?
In the 2018 thread someone writes[2] "but if I sit down with a new user for an hour, they discover all the bugs I knew about and a few I didn’t! But an hour of someone’s time is hard to get"; but the internet is full of people clamouring to give feedback about your code, desperate for someone - anyone - to listen. An hour of someone's time is hard to get, are you kidding me? I've spent hours challenging myself to find hundreds of nitpicks in something, for free, just because they asked. What did they do with it? Ignore it. More zeitgeisty look at the "MS Teams is slow" complaints, thousands of upvotes on UserVoice, one reply "we're working on it". Stuck that way for years.
It's not hard to get feedback, you don't want feedback because you don't have time or interest or spare effort or motivation to fix all the bugs, you have more fun things to do - more interesting, higher priority, more defensible. It's way better to have forum users pass around the Chinese Whispers of their grandfather's command line which he found on a BugZilla comment on an unrelated issue, which came from a mailing list, which came from an unsourced email from an internal chatroom where they found it in a fossil,,, than it is to fix that edge case. Users telling each other to clear the PRAM and run "sfc /scannow" and "chmod 777 -R" and "setenforce 0" costs you nothing.
[1] https://cdn.dribbble.com/users/6205/screenshots/5556008/penrose-triangle.gif https://cdn.dribbble.com/users/6205/screenshots/5556008/penr...
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16866679 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16866679