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> It calls itself a professional window manager. ...that's in development. Professional things are not allowed to be in development? Do you go around your tow
by wayneftw 5y ago
> It calls itself a professional window manager.
...that's in development. Professional things are not allowed to be in development?
Do you go around your town criticizing people that are in the process of constructing office buildings, because they don't have the wheelchair ramp installed yet?
Perhaps if you care so much, you can lend a helping hand...
- jaywalk 5y agoThis isn't a case of having a wheelchair ramp that hasn't been installed yet. This is more like there's no wheelchair ramp, and while there's room for one out front, they've already done the landscaping there.
- wayneftw 5y agoPffft. Right - because code is not completely mutable at any time during development. Have you considered that the analogy breaks after the obvious bit?
- ziml77 5y agoHow does the analogy break? Do you think you can't tear up landscaping? To add a ramp you have to do work to undo the existing landscaping, install the ramp, and then redo the landscaping in a way that fits with the ramp.
- wayneftw 5y agoThe analogy breaks because code is able to be changed at any time almost as easily as writing new code. There is no such thing as landscaping in code. It's all easy to change.
- jaywalk 5y agoTearing out code that has already been written (which would be required here) is analogous to tearing out landscaping that has already been installed. You either don't understand accessibility, analogies, or both.
- wayneftw 5y agoSorry, but you quite obviously don't understand code. Writing new code can be just as difficult (or easy) as changing existing code. Changing code can also be easier than writing new code. In either case, whether the analogy works or if it doesn't - criticizing something that's under development for something like accessibility, which is commonly added to software as an afterthought in a later version, is getting into Karen territory. Enjoy that!
- jaywalk 5y agoHow hard do you think it is to dig up some flowers? This has become a pointless discussion, and you've obviously got an axe to grind for some inexplicable reason, so I'll leave you to it.
- wayneftw 5y agoHow hard is it to add some a11y attributes? This part of the discussion has definitely been pointless since the beginning, when people came here to complain about that on some guy's side project which they'd most likely never even use. If anyone's got an axe to grind it's quite obviously them and you.
- lucasmullens 5y agoIn any HN thread that has a metaphor, you can always scroll down to find the conversation degrading into a metaphor debate.
- ziml77 5y agoYou seem to think that it's completely free of effort and cost to change code. That is absolutely not the case. Some things can be incredibly difficult to add in to a codebase that wasn't designed to expect that kind of change.
- wayneftw 5y ago> Some things can be incredibly difficult to add in to a codebase that wasn't designed to expect that kind of change. In a 3 week old code base? Please... You can write the entire thing over again in a week and add what you want during that time. The commenters here should do that too! It would probably take less effort than bitching about someone's side project that they'll probably never even use here on HN.
- bakatubas 5y agoAnd then pee on the floor and do jumping jacks, run in circles, then read a magazine, then install an upside-down lectern in the living room only to realize... you forgot the television. God save us all!
- canadianfella 5y agoWhat a terrible analogy.